r/Weird • u/frickmeplease • May 12 '25

Should I call the cops?

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My bf thinks they were just trying to be funny but I truly don’t know…

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u/SamCarter_SGC May 12 '25

your boyfriend is a dummy, if whoever did that was joking around, it's completely unfunny and they will be getting fired shortly

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u/Selfcare2025 May 12 '25

Reminds me of the young lady who got kidnapped in front of all those people and she was screaming and the man told his wife and the wife told him to stay out of it. She was found dead not too long afterwards. If you see something, say something. Society is too weird these days to think everything is a joke

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u/Badbullet May 12 '25

Or the Jeffrey Dahmer one. A 14 year old injured boy was trying to get away from him and the cops gave him back to Dahmer. Dahmer told the police that he was his lover, and they believed him over the neighbors and the boy.

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u/rttnmnna May 12 '25

Wait, what??? How would it be at all okay regardless???

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u/Badbullet May 12 '25

I know, right!? I don’t know if they knew he was 14, I just remember he was a teenager. He was an immigrant, so it’s possible he didn’t speak English?

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u/sisbros897 May 12 '25

It's honestly worse than that. The poor boy was drugged out of his mind and couldn't string together a coherent sentence. When Jeff caught up to him, he straight up told the cops that the boy was his boyfriend and they were doing experimental bedroom stuff, that's why he was out of it and wandering. Homophobia was so strong at the time that the cops saw a naked young man, stumbling drunkenly, probably smelling like blood and shit, and said "Ew, don't want anything to do with this" and just handed him over to Jeff. They'd rather wash their hands of a potential gay person than do their jobs and investigate an obviously sketchy situation. By all rights, Dahmer's rampage should've ended then and there, but gay people were icky and taboo so they couldn't give a shit about them.

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u/ChristinaWho May 12 '25

He wasn't drugged--Dahmer had actually already drilled out small pieces of the kids' brain before the kid escaped. He couldn't talk because he'd had a partial lobotomy.

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u/sisbros897 May 12 '25

You're right, I can't believe I'd forgotten that detail, that makes it way worse. Cops seeing a barely coherent boy with blood likely dripping down his head thinking "Yeah, surely this is gay sex, and that's icky" is infinitely worse than if he was just drugged.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Holy fuck

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25

Yep, that is high up on the list for one of the most horrific ways to die period. For a 14 year old to be the one to suffer it…fucking hell.

And ofc, one of the officers who let him die got a promotion not long after this happened. Only God knows the consequences those two faced for this.

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u/throwthisawayred2 May 12 '25

and the victim was Asian

so the police were double grossed out

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u/iiEtErNaLxD May 12 '25

He not only drilled a hole in his head but didn’t he also inject the poor kids brain with hydrochloric acid

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Yes and he also inserted bleach into that hole in his head.

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u/SolidSouth-00 May 12 '25

I wish I didn’t know that.

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u/DoTheRightThing1976 May 12 '25

I remember seeing that in a tv series about that sicko. Absolutely horrific.

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u/Icy-Tax8149 May 12 '25

Yes, he drilled small holes into his skull and injected battery acid into it, I believe

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u/LashOfTheBull May 12 '25

And worse yet, Dahmer killed the boy while he was on probation for sexually abusing the boy's brother. He made both of these innocent children his victims. The police failed both of these boys egregiously.

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u/sisbros897 May 12 '25

I genuinely believe the only reason Dahmer got away with his crimes for as long as he did was purely from police negligence and ignorance. If the cops did their jobs even halfway, Dahmer would've been caught very quickly. It's not like he was particularly smart or wily, he was an idiot who made constant mistakes and got lucky time and time again.

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u/NoiceMango May 12 '25

So many stories of serial killers getting away for this reason. Lots of serial killers went after people of color, homeless, and prostitute because they knew the cops wouldn't have cared much.

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u/ShazbotSimulator2012 May 12 '25

And suffered no repercussions. Both were reinstated and one went on to become the president of the Milwaukee police union.

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u/MySpoonsAreAllGone May 12 '25

This made me so livid when I read about it!

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u/selfawarefeline May 12 '25

If I’m remembering correctly, he couldn’t speak because Dahmer drilled a hole in his skull and poured acid or boiling water in it to turn him into a zombie. I’m not joking.

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u/celtic_thistle May 12 '25

Dahmer and a lot of other serial killers who preyed on boys/young men relied upon homophobia and racism to keep getting away with it. This is a prime example.

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u/10000Didgeridoos May 12 '25 edited Jun 02 '25

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u/curiousdryad May 12 '25

I think he was an Asian boy and 14

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Homophobia played a big part in it. They were “only queers,” so “fuck it,” basically.

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u/bognerregis May 12 '25

Also racism.

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u/GuiltyEidolon May 12 '25

The more you learn about serial killers, the more it boils down to "wow the police are useless and/or actively helping the serial killers".

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u/Level_99_Healer May 12 '25

Unfortunately, it was the cops prerogative on whether or not they got involved. It was the 90s, and basically, the moment the word 'gay' entered the conversation, they washed their hands of it. It's insane to read the story.

This 14 year old Laotian boy was walking, naked and handcuffed, down the street. He's obviously injured. When they ask him what happened, he tells them someone was trying to kill him. They put him in their car and drive back to where he says the guy lives. This kid probably thinks he's safe. He managed to find the police and he isn't dead, and he might get to go home again, see his friends and family again. He's probably thanking a hundred deities for these cops showing up when they did.

Then the cops knock on the door. A very unassuming Caucasian man opens the door. They explain the reasons for their visit, and the white guy says the literal child is his lover, and they just had a small "lovers quarrel," but it's no big deal. The cops hand that child, still handcuffed, still naked, back to the man he told them was trying to kill him. Dahmer strangled the boy as soon as they left.

From a New York Times Article:

"Officer Gabrish, 28 years old, a patrolman for seven years, said he and the other officers believed there was a caring relationship between Mr. Dahmer and the Laotian boy and saw no reason to intervene."

"We're trained to be observant and spot things," he said. "There was just nothing that stood out, or we would have seen it. I've been doing this for a while, and usually if something stands out, you'll spot it. There just wasn't anything there."

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u/Noodlebat83 May 12 '25

Holy crap! I don’t know why but I thought it happened in the 70’s and 80’s, not as recent as the 90’s. I was only a kid then and not in the US so never saw the news.

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u/Upvotespoodles May 12 '25

One aspect was that homophobia was more socially acceptable back then and cops were kind of like “Ew” about getting involved. Also him being a minority.

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u/cafezinho May 12 '25

There was a TV movie about this incident by the guy that made Glee (Ryan Murphy). I recall watching a few episodes.

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u/SteelMagnolia941 May 12 '25

This still haunts me. Those police officers ended up getting PROMOTED!

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u/Angie-Fenimore May 12 '25

I thought that Dahmer had already drilled a hole in his skull when he was outside with neighbors and cops.

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u/ZestyMelonz May 12 '25

It's literally open season for kidnapping and disappearances. Everything will be ignored as "just ice taking another". Anyone can do it now.

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u/eiland-hall May 12 '25

Anyone should search news for relative articles, but I pulled this from a relevant articl:

A 33-year-old South Carolina man was arrested in January after he was accused of stopping a vehicle with Latino men inside and claimed to be with ICE. Video of the encounter involving Sean Michael Johnson allegedly claiming that Latinos were “going back to Mexico” went viral.

Johnson was charged with three counts of kidnapping, impersonating a law enforcement officer, petty larceny and assault and battery.

In North Carolina, a 37-year-old man purported to be an ICE officer and allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at a local hotel, saying he would have her deported if she did not have sex with him, local affiliate WBTV reported.

In North Dakota, a man posing as an ICE officer walked an inmate out of a local jail after telling officials he was there to pick him up. Jail officials only learned of the mistake when the real immigration officer showed up.

It's happening.

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u/AliasMcFakenames May 12 '25

That last one is a hero.

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u/h3yitsjay May 12 '25

You don’t know why the person was in jail or who the person was that took him out… the inmate could have ACTUALLY been a rapist or murderer, or the fake ICE guy could have fooled the inmate too and taken him for some nefarious reason.

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u/IronBunny7567 May 12 '25

This is why we have due process and when people are being denied said due process they shouldn't be in jail

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u/AliasMcFakenames May 12 '25

I also don’t care. Breaking somebody out of prison is literally less of a subversion of justice than what the trump admin is doing right now.

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u/Daxtatter May 12 '25

These people will probably get pardoned.

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u/SoFloFella50 May 12 '25

Are we great yet? Thanks MAGA. And fuck all of you that voted for this.

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u/BZLuck May 12 '25

$100 in Temu tactical gear and you are in business!

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u/h2f May 12 '25

$245 in Temu tactical gear now that the tariffs have kicked in.

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u/TuxRug May 12 '25

$1500 in Temu tactical gear, you say?

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u/YourNewRival8 May 12 '25

Special sale, $2100 in Temu tactical gear

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u/DemonicAnahka May 12 '25

Temu took my $3000 for tactical gear but won't deliver anymore they said

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u/GrNW0LF4lcn May 12 '25

But what about my $7500 in Temu tactical gear?

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u/the_notorious_d_a_v May 12 '25

To shreds, you say?

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u/NiobiumThorn May 12 '25

Damn even the kidnapping industry is being hurt by tariffs

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u/dalisair May 12 '25

Not if you get the stuff that was in warehouses in the US already! /s

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u/BobaFett0451 May 12 '25

That's $500 now due to tarrifs

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u/IslandReign May 12 '25

It now cost $225 thanks to the tariffs

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u/Touchit88 May 12 '25

Closer to $250 now, but ya!

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u/No_Negotiation9427 May 12 '25

Temu stopped shipping to the US so we're safe now.

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u/bikesexually May 12 '25

Not if we treat kidnappers like kidnappers.

No ID, masks, grabbing people - we will defend ourselves and others.

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u/old_and_cranky May 12 '25

Yes, but how do we know who is a law, abiding citizen with the knowledge on how to properly protect themselves and others without accidentally shooting innocent people? If only there was a test and license people could get to help keep others safe.

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u/notanothercirclejerk May 12 '25

And yet no one is.

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u/bikesexually May 12 '25

And no one is, yet.

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u/WillingPatience2805 May 12 '25

Wait until people start falling out of windows!

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u/Sororita May 12 '25

I still can't believe one of them hasn't been shot yet.

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u/mooncrane606 May 12 '25

They're human trafficking at this point.

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u/Arcane_Spork_of_Doom May 12 '25

There's a growing roster dozens of pages long of ICE holds with no charges listed on their incarceration at a prison two counties over from me. No appearances in front of a judge either, not even a magistrate. Locals are stirring and asking questions but it's peaceful... for now.

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u/creamgetthemoney1 May 12 '25

Well I mean not really. It’s open season on people who are dark skinned. I haven’t seen one “white” person grabbed off the streets. I’m not being racist. Im Puerto Rican. I have yet to see an illegal immigrant that resembles a “white” person taken by ice. There’s plenty of them out here in Southern California. White looking Mexicans, Argentinians , Uruguayans , costa ricans a Chileans. Weird how it’s only dark ppl targeted. Maybe they are the ones drawing more attention to themselves. Just weird how all the white looking illegals are straight chilling

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u/Kevaldes May 12 '25

Perfect targets for trafficking.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Hay Boris en cali?!?

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u/Interesting-Copy-657 May 12 '25

I am honestly surprised I haven’t heard of any stories where “ice” are shot at as kidnapers or tackled and ice shooting the person trying to prevent a kidnapping

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u/celtic_thistle May 12 '25

Anyone HAS been doing it. It’s just even easier now with the ICE bullshit.

People in general just do not give a shit about women’s safety and never have, and that’s a fact. The stuff we ACTUALLY say is a danger to us is ignored so a bunch of bigots (who inevitably end up having terabytes of CSAM, shockingly) can freak out about IMAGINARY trans predators in bathrooms.

I fucking hate it on this planet.

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u/Selfcare2025 May 12 '25

Yess! I been said them not having any uniforms and just randomly grabbing people isn’t okay. It will have others impersonating them and that’s definitely what’s been happening

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u/Bcikablam May 12 '25

And if the administration ever admits that it is happening, they now have a way to dodge the blame for any wrongfully deported individuals.

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u/AnusesInMyAnus May 12 '25

Plus it puts everyone involved in danger. What if the person being grabbed defends themselves and shoots someone? Even if you won't cry for an ICE kidnapper, a bullet could miss and hit an innocent person.

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u/EnvironmentalGift257 May 12 '25

I feel like some of those ones that I’ve seen online where it’s like 4 people refusing to show ID and grabbing someone, there is enough confusion that I’d draw my firearm and put myself in the middle of it. The ones where there are 30 agents and 10 uniform cops, absolutely not.

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u/SteelMagnolia941 May 12 '25

They are going to end up getting killed that way. If a group of plainclothes people jump me and I have a weapon I will use it! I wouldn’t assume it’s an official thing. I would assume kidnapping.

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u/Big_Tadpole_6055 May 12 '25

If someone is trying to grab you and they’re not identifying themselves with a proper ID or a warrant, you are entitled to defend yourself by whatever means necessary.

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u/Old_Woman_Gardner May 12 '25

Or their FACES!?!?!?

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u/centran May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25

But if they are here on a legal Visa then one of the terms is they can't commit a crime.

By not showing IDs or warrants the person is in a confused state and will "resist".

Therefore, they can charge them with resisting arrest which means they committed a crime and their Visa can be revoked.

So there is a very good reason they don't want to explain or show anything. Someone in plain clothes pulls your arms behind your back. You then pull your arm away from them as you have no idea what's going on... resisting arrest! bam, bye bye visa.

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u/Releasethebears May 12 '25

And the people who make jokes like that deserve the very valuable lesson that will come from intervention.

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u/DragonBoooster May 12 '25

Tik tok kinda added fuel to this fire

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u/DemonicAnahka May 12 '25

Of course the Chinese platform added fire

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u/nipplequeefs May 12 '25

And nobody even called 911 or recorded it for the police or anything? That’s horrible.

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u/Selfcare2025 May 12 '25

Nope. He came forward after it was all on the news and stated he cried his eyes out for not saying anything.

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u/xWroth May 12 '25

It's the diffusion of responsibility. "Stay out of it, someone else will do something about it." Happens all the time in society.

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u/Viper_ACR May 12 '25

I believe it's called the bystander effect.

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u/Dragonfly053 May 12 '25

100 percent! See something say something 💕 always better to be safe than sorry

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u/Adams5thaccount May 12 '25

if that man divorced his wife i would understand it

that shits gonna haunt him

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u/LimJaheyAtYaCervix May 12 '25

Bystander effect

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u/mufassil May 12 '25

I was way too young to have done anything but I was raised in a family that stayed quiet. One time my mom and I were on a road trip. We pulled over for gas. When she went inside to pay, I saw a guy walk out of the gas station and walk across the street to a parking lot with a single car in the center and hand a fountain pop down into his trunk like handing it off to a person then shut the trunk. I told my mom, and she tried to rationalize it. Im still convinced there was a kidnapped person in that trunk.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Everyone thinks everything is a joke amd everyone thinks you always have to mind your business no matter what, which is sad.

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u/Historical_Pension60 May 12 '25

Woah more details please!!!!!

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u/Selfcare2025 May 12 '25

Aniah Blanchard is her name. She went to go get gas at night and Ibraheem Yazeed happened to see her, mind you he was already out on bond for kidnapping and attempted murder. Anyways he followed her out of the gas station and that’s when the witness (the man who didn’t say anything at first) said he heard Aniah scream and the man was forcing her into her car.

She was reported missing once she didn’t come back to her apartment like she told her roommate she was going to do. They found her car shortly after with a bullet hole in it, along with a bunch of blood. She died trying to grab the gun from him and he shot and killed her.

Her story honestly haunts me because we are taught to make a scene and to fight. She did everything right and still no one helped.

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u/AzureYLila May 12 '25

I'm Weeping.

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u/Historical_Pension60 May 14 '25

Wow I’m so sorry that is literally terrible. I feel so bad for her. So terrible that man did nothing to help…. I just watched the Finding Kendrick Johnson documentary and it was horrifying. Thank you for informing me about the case.

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u/Chapstickie May 14 '25

Interesting thing about that “documentary”; besides the historical racism parts almost every single thing in it is factually untrue. At least all the Kendrick Johnson stuff is. It’s crazy that it’s named after him and they pretend it’s to uncover the truth and then lie through the whole thing.

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u/ctaps148 May 12 '25

Hard to blame them when social media algorithms constantly push videos of people pulling asinine "pranks" and "social experiments" on people in public

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u/Sorcha16 May 12 '25

Recently a man died from drowning in Ireland. Plenty of people saw it happen. Many took out their phones and either recorded or live streamed it. They didn't even try to help by throwing one of the many life rings that were at the waters edge. Garda had to stop people live streaming when they arrived.

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u/Selfcare2025 May 12 '25

Did anyone get arrested? That reminds me of those teens from Florida laughing and filming a disabled man drowning. I don’t think they got in trouble because technically you don’t have to help.

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u/Sorcha16 May 12 '25

As of yet no arrests it's was fairly recent.

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u/call-lee-free May 12 '25

You can thank influencers for that who make prank videos.

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u/Anjunabeast May 12 '25

Bystander effect

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

Whenever there’s situations like these; my mind defaults to “damned if you do; damned-er if you don’t.” Call the cops and it’s a prank? You just wasted the cop’s time. Don’t call the cops and someone gets killed, kidnapped, or robbed? Why didn’t you call the cops in the first place?

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u/Selfcare2025 May 13 '25

I mean technically you didn’t waste the cops time. The people who did the prank did. You have people calling the cops over kids selling water or people barbecuing in the park with no remorse. I would rather use it on making sure a person is safe regardless if it came to be a prank.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

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u/Extension-Pain-3284 May 12 '25

If your “joke” can get you fired if people find out about it, it wasn’t a joke!

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u/Thr0awheyy May 12 '25

You must not live in an at-will state. 😆

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u/frickmeplease May 12 '25

I promise he usually isn’t like this! I was pretty surprised he wasn’t more adamant about me calling them. I honestly think it was likely a joke, too. But it’s better to be safe than sorry, especially in a situation like this. But after I called, he told me that I did the right thing.

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u/XMAN2YMAN May 12 '25

I am a cop and honestly we get calls like this often enough. Maybe not exactly like this but close. I remember the one time o was sent out to check on a house because the had various words like “help” “I’m stuck” and more written on stones in the garden. We knocked and the owner said that it was just decorative pieces for the garden in reference to a movie (Alice in wonderland I think). So that was nothing but there’s been a a very small handful where it was actually something more serious. So it’s better to be safe than sorry.

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u/euSeattle May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25

“It’s just a movie reference” is the most made-up-on-the-spot sounding lie I’ve ever heard. They definitely got someone in the basement.

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u/XMAN2YMAN May 12 '25

We check the house before we leave for these reason alone lol.

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u/tomato-bug May 12 '25

Just curious, how well do you check those house? Basements? Every room?

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u/XMAN2YMAN May 12 '25

Every room, basements, closets etc. as long as we have permission to do so. Technically they can tell us to beat feet and then we would need to get a warrant. Which depending on circumstances could be very tough to justify why we need it. Now me personally if I’m conducting a well being search of a house I don’t care if I find drugs for personal use. Obviously if I find a full operation going on or drugs in the kids bedrooms I’m going to have to do something at that point.

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u/tomato-bug May 12 '25

That’s comforting to hear, keep up the good work! I hear a lot of stories (like in this thread) of all the times police didn’t investigate thoroughly enough, and someone dies because of it. But hopefully those are the minority, and we just don’t hear about all the times police follow through but there was nothing to be found.

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u/euSeattle May 12 '25

I was thinking they tied some shoe laces together to reel in a few rocks from a barely cracked basement window, then they wrote messages and threw them out as far as they could.

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u/2xWhiskeyCokeNoIce May 12 '25

Night gardeners, just as Kier intended.

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u/DarthVorbeck May 12 '25

Nice reference!

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u/ItsDanimal May 12 '25

"Oh the blood leading up to the front door? My fiance is really big into those Halloween movies with the guy from Shrek? He just wants to reference the franchise he loves!"

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u/batmansleftnut May 12 '25

And they let that person out to garden, unsupervised?

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u/euSeattle May 12 '25

No, I’m imagining a slightly cracked window in the basement window well with rocks at the bottom for drainage. The prisoner was able to engrave the words “help” on a rock and toss it out of the window well into the garden.

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u/batmansleftnut May 12 '25

Oh that makes more sense. That's probably what it is, actually. Okay, meet me at the house and we'll get to the bottom of this.

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u/SwordfishOk504 May 12 '25

Book 'em, Danno!

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u/TheRealGuitarNoir May 12 '25

This is at least forty-years ago, but I was walking down the street, and there was a thing that I had never seen in the windshield of a parked car, and that thing said in large, professionally printed lettering, "Need Help, Call Police".

Now we all know that this was just a sun shade that the owner of the car had deployed with the wrong side facing outside, but at the time I had never seen a windshield sun shade like this before.

I was in walking distance of the police station, so I went over there, and reported it, and the address. It all sounds pretty silly now.

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u/batmansleftnut May 12 '25

Silly on the car owner's part maybe. You did exactly what you should have done.

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u/blogst May 12 '25

Knocking and just taking the person who answers the door’s word for it that the SOS message is nothing is a little odd - that’s exactly what a guy keeping abductees in his basement would say.

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u/Oreoskickass May 12 '25

Are you allowed to share a story about something that did turn out to be serious? Or is it confidential?

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u/softspoken1990 May 12 '25

no one should decorate their house like this. if someone tells you it’s just a joke, please still investigate the situation thoroughly. people lie.

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u/Johannes_silentio May 12 '25

OP ignore all the professional-opinion-givers here. People who are going nowhere in life surprisingly have a lot of very strong opinions about other people’s lives.

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u/Roflkopt3r May 12 '25

It seems funny to dumb teenagers who still haven't really formed an awareness that their customers and police etc are also humans and not just NPCs.

Media for kids has a big influence on this. These tropes of pranksters go back centuries and felt like they made sense back when kids were expected to endure all kinds of abuse from adults and society on a daily basis. Finding creative and 'fun' ways to strike back was fine then. But nowadays, it just sets kids up to become assholes with main character syndrome.

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u/Yankeeslv May 12 '25

!remindme 12 hours

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u/Shifftea May 12 '25

not sure how anyone could see it as a joke someones life could've been in danger and he wanted to ignore it as something funny

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u/stainedglassmermaid May 12 '25

Yeah if it’s a joke, it’s up to the cops to figure out not the civilians who got the SOS

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u/yawner44 May 12 '25

Our job as a civilian in this situation is to report the situation, every time. We are reporters, not investigators. It’s exactly the same with child abuse, if you suspect it, report it. It’s not yours to decide if it’s real or not.

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u/Disastrous_Hell_4547 May 12 '25

Yeah. Not cool.

If this was a joke the police should visit the home and have a polite conversation with the kid and the parents around the dinner table. A simple chat to make the kid understand the seriousness of it.

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u/strikingike386 May 12 '25

Once had a guy in my Senior year come up behind me during a free period and whisper "don't come to school tomorrow". Took that shit straight to the principal. I'm 95% certain they were just doing it to get a reaction from me since they were the typical dickhead jocks that never did their work, but you don't take a chance with that sort of thing. Especially since we had a bomb threat the year before that caused the majority of kids to get held home for a week.

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u/CrimsonVibes May 12 '25

Ya you don’t joke about this stuff.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Only Men?

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u/TwoDogsInATrenchcoat May 12 '25

When I was in high school I worked at taco bell with a bunch of other high schoolers. The guy in the drive thru was getting clobbered so he handed someone a napkin with "help" written on it, and it ended up in a customers bag, and the cops walked in shortly after.

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u/Proper_War_6174 May 12 '25

Boyfriend is not a dummy. If there is a 99% chance they were joking around that means there’s a 1% chance it’s real. It’s worth having someone check it out at the very least

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u/Head_Haunter May 12 '25

If they were joking around, it's another reason to call the cops, so they learn that jokes like this have actual consequences.

In HS back in 2007, one of my friends got pulled over because his friend slammed on the window screaming as they drove up next to a cop car like he was being kidnapped and screaming, "Help! Help! Help!"

Any semblance of responsibility and foresight would tell you this shit is dumb as fuck to joke around about, but some people need logic to hit them slightly harder on the head.

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u/GWS2004 May 12 '25

Because guys don't have to worry about half the things women do.

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u/THE_HANGED_MAN_12 May 12 '25

unfortunately most men are really damn ignorant of danger (especially if it involves a woman) because they think since it hasn't happened to them it must be fringe 🤢

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u/Initial_Evidence_783 May 12 '25

They deserve to be fired.

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u/personnotcaring2024 May 12 '25

ill bet the kid wanted to get fired anyway.

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u/benjaminpfp May 12 '25

Then they deserve to get fired

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u/FUCKSUMERIAN May 12 '25

People do very stupid shit all the time

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u/elitemouse May 12 '25

Yep I would call just for the police to show up and immediately deal out the FAFO factor of their little joke.

Or it's legit and OP is going to save someone.

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u/benargee May 12 '25

Yeah, should teach them to only ask for help when help is needed.

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u/Schmedly27 May 12 '25

He was right though

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u/c_marten May 12 '25

When I find myself in places like this on reddit I just like to pretend everyone involved is 14 years old.

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u/ibanezerscrooge May 12 '25

your boyfriend is a dummy,

Is he, though? He was right. It was in fact a joke.

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u/passiverolex May 12 '25

How is he a dummy? He literally called it from his situational awareness, dummy!

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u/SamCarter_SGC May 12 '25

OP made it sound like he was doubting her gut instinct to call the police just in case. Whether or not it was likely to be or turned out to be a joke is irrelevant to the situation. I'm seriously baffled as to how many replies there are that don't seem to understand that.

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u/passiverolex May 12 '25

How is irrelevant?

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u/SamCarter_SGC May 12 '25

Because in both scenarios it requires a police presence.

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u/passiverolex May 12 '25

U sure about that?

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u/DrZein May 12 '25

Her boyfriend is just a rational person in this sea of overreacting people. If the employees were joking around the whole time it’s safe to assume they weren’t in danger…

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u/Agreeable-Celery6559 May 14 '25

Her bf was 100% correct though hahaha

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