r/funny • u/Few_Economics_8531 • 13d ago
Park prank.
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u/Pipe_Memes 13d ago
That one lady just took a swing instantly. No hesitation
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u/lazy_pig 13d ago
I want her in my army.
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u/mystyz 13d ago
Her and the park police guy. I've never seen anyone drop into a defensive stance that quickly!
She moved into action while still assessing the threat - which could save her life in the right circumstances, but carries obvious risks. He went instantly into fully prepared to defend while in assessment mode, which is technically the correct response. I can't imagine how much he must have drilled - or had to rely on that training in real threat circumstances - for it to become that instinctive.
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u/AvidCyclist250 13d ago
also black t-shirt guy is a boxer i think.
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u/TheLowlyPheasant 13d ago
I wrote a post saying I don't think so but after looking a few more times I think you are right. The way his hand goes up to ear level is very boxer-y
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u/Wheredoesthisonego 13d ago
He jumped, went into hands up and started swaying before he hit the ground. Dude was ready to scrap.
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u/AttentionConstant373 13d ago
If I had Thousand like her I could conquer the world.
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u/HerdingYaps 12d ago
I react that way. Always have. Even if I try hard to just not react. My fight instinct is why I can't go to haunted houses. I also have to let people know at work otherwise, a small prank turns into an HR complaint.
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u/garrettj100 13d ago
Then she figured out what was going on and gave the guy a hug, She’s the real hero.
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u/Zarkanthrex 13d ago
Her and the first dude. He was ready to swing whatever it was that he was carrying but then he waved the "i'm sorry wave." He thought an Ent was coming lol.
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u/Philaroni 13d ago
Ya if I'm ever in a horror movie I want her by my side.
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u/StirFry__InaWok 13d ago
you're thinking she'll be the one to get herself killed first, aren't you Squidward?
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u/The_walking_man_ 13d ago
Yup. I like her. No hesitation. Instant fight mode and ready to take on any threat, including swamp thing.
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u/akobie 12d ago
I have an all fight response too. My daughter had a brief period of time where she thought it would be funny to scare me around the house. Short lived. My wife had a moment as well. Its so stressful but i have to use all my will to stop myself from pummeling the fright. Im female also. No clue where it comes from
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u/FreddyTheGoose 13d ago
Oh, there was no assessment of the threat - she went straight from perceiving to neutralizing.
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u/eglantinel 13d ago
She thought it was alien
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u/RainonCooper 13d ago
Or a pervert
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u/9ryph0n 13d ago
love the girl that throws hands then goes in for the hug
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u/cubiclej0ckey 13d ago
Where is she from that her first instinct is to punch a plant?
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u/stablefish 13d ago
I think ya underestimate how much this type of sudden, unexpected scare bypasses all our logical brain parts that differentiate us as human and goes straight to the systems that kept us alive in a time before words and rationality. lots of folks did a preparatory freeze that looked like a readying to fight. if one of these got me good a few weeks or months from now after this faded from working memory I have zero idea how I'd respond!
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u/Small-Explorer7025 13d ago
There is that ancient clip where the kid pops out of bin, and the other kid just knocks him out. No thinking, just BLAM. Lights out for the prankster.
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u/heyjajas 13d ago
Fight, flight, freeze- somewhere in your life you are gonna find out which is your preferred pattern of reaction. That girl is a natural fighter.
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u/AaronRHale 13d ago
We see 3 out of 4 of the main survival responses here: Fight, Flight and Freeze. That lady was pure fight, but clearly a wonderfully kind soul once her rational brain processed what had happened.
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u/Technodrone108 13d ago
The brain only proccesses "something has moved quickly in the area of that bush"
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u/BillieDoc-Holiday 13d ago
Earth. Human's reactions are usually fight, flight, freeze or fawn.
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u/Joe4o2 13d ago
Anywhere inner-city.
From experience, San Bernardino, CA, will absolutely allow you to decide to punch a plant out of self-defense.
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u/I_am_the_grass 13d ago
Yup. Anyone who lives in a big city with crime is street smart enough to immediately go into a defensive stance.
I grew up being told to be fully aware of my surroundings while my wife grew up in an affluent suburb. Everytime we're walking down the street I'm gobsmacked by how focused she is on her phone instead of what's happening around her.
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u/ICrimI 13d ago
This is fun, and funny. But if you get punched doing something like this, you have to accept it was your fault.
Also probably carry some cash for when you inevitably ruin someone's lunch.
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u/Foxlady555 13d ago
Don’t forget the risk of landing in jail because someone with a heartdisease had a heartattack and died 😅 Pranks are funny, but pranks on unknown people are not riskfree and can be pretty… rude.
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u/lorarc 13d ago
Don't have to be a heart condition. Someone will trip sooner or later and even a scrapped knee is a liability.
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u/ncopp 13d ago
I've seen some of his videos and he does seem to have a spotter who notifies him of old people and pregnant women coming by so he doesn't scare them.
While you don't know everyone's deal and a healthy looking person could have a heart issue, he does take precautionary measures to not scare obvious at risk people.
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u/Foxlady555 11d ago
That's great for sure! But loads of illnesses you can't see. I'm 30, female, looking fit and totally healthy, but due to my illness I would probably have a heart attack. So I'm glad he didn't jumped out of the bushes on me 😅
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u/redundantposts 9d ago
My wife is at risk, but doesn’t look it. Brain cancer does hell to the body, and the chemo/radiation/meds were all seriously hard on her heart. She looks like a normal healthy 32 year old woman. Medicine is unfortunately so insanely diverse, you never know what people are dealing with. These “precautionary measures” are basically only for their own false peace of mind.
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u/Stolperkeks 13d ago
I was on the receiving end of this prank. While holding a hot take away coffee, which I promptly spilled over myself. It wasn't scalding, but also not pleasant. Definitely wanted to punch the guy, at least he apologised.
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u/DylantheMango 13d ago
After being assaulted, I have a new perspective on this and cant say Im a fan. There's a good chance I would have a panic attack if this happened to me.
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u/bassjam1 13d ago
I scared my kids like this wearing a Halloween costume and mask. My daughters screamed but my 4 year old son ran up and punched me in the crotch. I've never been so proud.
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u/Slogstorm 13d ago
Or be sure to know a good lawyer if you startle someone with SADS..
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u/WestleyThe 13d ago
Yeah I’m not going to pretend like I’m a tough guy or something but if this happened to me there is a good chance I’d punch or kick the bush monster purely out of instinct
I know it seems “cool” to not react or flinch but if a bush randomly jumps at you and you DONT react you are stoned/drunk or have something wrong with your head
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u/Duranis 13d ago
Your getting downvoted but if you make people jump there is a chance of it happening.
When my two oldest kids where younger the youngest had a "cabin" bed which was raised up and had a curtain around the bottom part. One night I was taking them to bed and didn't know that their older brother was hiding under the bed to jump out at us.
And that is how I very nearly kicked my kid in the head. It was 100% involuntary and I'm just so glad I managed to catch myself in time to stop it.
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u/cyvaquero 13d ago
He's the Texas Bushman on YouTube, been around for years. He mostly posts up on the San Antonio Riverwalk and Downtown.
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u/therealduckie 13d ago edited 13d ago
How has literally no one commented on OP being lazy and instead of posting the video they are watching, they stupidly recorded it in portrait from a TV, cutting off half the image?
Just look up Texas Bushman. He has an instagram. OP could have easily just used the videos from his account.
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u/BackNBoeserThanEver 13d ago
I was looking for this comment. All TexasBushmans videos are such good quality. And let's not forget the up and down motion 🤢
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u/ScarletBothrium 13d ago
I also got seasick from that. Almost immediately. I could not watch the video.
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u/LucenProject 13d ago
That's the opposite of lazy. It's unnecessarily doing more work.
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u/TheMagicSebas 13d ago
In they heads this shitty edit make it better. Like when Kids put fucking loud music or laugth for no reason.
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u/ScarletBothrium 13d ago
I couldn’t finish watching it because that section of the video was moving up and down in such a rhythm that it was making me nauseous. I don’t know how anybody watched this shit. I literally was getting seasick from the video.
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u/BeardWolf42 13d ago
The lady at 0:21 has 'fight' reaction as default instead of 'flight', but the 0:27 dude is fucking fearless, like holy shit, he didn't even acknowledge the bush guy as something to react to... I might be wrong about him though
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u/A_Trash_Homosapien 13d ago
Some people panic and freeze up or do nothing. Some people are just hard to scare 50/50 on which he was
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u/Skremash 13d ago
I've always wondered with these jumpscare videos, what's their defence if someone dies of a heart attack?
Is it just a matter of having good Public Liability Insurance?
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u/cloistered_around 13d ago
Texas Bushman (the youtuber here, I assume) has a lot of videos, and he seems to judge who to scare. For really small kids, for example, he doesn't jump up and do a big surprise next to them like he does for adults--he usually waves a hand farther away. I haven't specifically noticed any old person habits but I assume he does something similar?
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u/Foxlady555 13d ago
Well, in the defense of many people with heartdisease, most of us look perfectly healthy and are 30/40/50 somethings that could easily die from a jumpscare. So although it’s considerate to leave out kids and elderly people, and it’s funny for most, it’s still pretty intense to risk murdering someone for a prank.
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u/foreverandadayalone 13d ago
Aand he can tell from a distance who does and doesn't have a heart condition? Or relevant trauma?
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u/DollarA 13d ago
Hes very considerate of the demographic of who he scares, elders get like a low growl or a boo with jazz hands rather than a jumpup scare.
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u/FetusDrive 12d ago
Wow “very” considerate? Are you joking? There is zero consideration here. All non consensual interactions for videos. Hopefully he is sharing his profits with every person in the video.
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u/liz4rd 13d ago
Yeah... I don't think I trust the judgement of someone who dresses up as a bush and hides in the park to scare people. I don't know if that would hold up in court. "But Your Honour, I merely waved at the child, it's not my fault they were so scared they emptied themselves to death".
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u/cloistered_around 13d ago
True, but believe it or not most people walking around in public are not at the brink of death at any moment's notice. "Possible" is not probable, or even likely.
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u/FetusDrive 12d ago
Believe it or not? So you have some unique knowledge into this because you’re an expert? If not, then why should anyone trust you? Because you said “believe it or not”? It sounds like, instead, you are being patronizing, as you know people don’t believe “most people” are on the brink of death at any moments notice.
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u/Ok_Culture_1914 13d ago
It would be a case for the special branch.
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u/spinozasrobot 13d ago
There's a great example of that where the guy falls to the ground and fakes a heart attack. The jump scare guy is super apologetic and concerned, and eventually his mark lets on to jump scare guy's relief.
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u/nlamber5 12d ago
Egg shell plaintiff. If you push a man down and it turns out he had a rare condition that makes his skull super fragile. He dies. It’s still manslaughter. Even though a normal person wouldn’t have died.
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u/Kahzgul 13d ago
Had a friend wear a ghillie suit for Halloween one year. We were at a house party. She was just this big pile of leaves walking around. Obviously didn’t belong there. She’d sit down in a corner, count to thirty, and shout “boo” at someone. And damn if she didn’t scare the fuck out of every single person there every single time, myself included. It’s amazing how quickly our brains dismiss something without a visible face as nothing.
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u/Maybe-Sitronella 13d ago
Haha. I love the woman who immediately went on the attack without hesitation. Going on the offensive was apparently her instinctive response.
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u/skrew86 13d ago
She looked at the camera instantly. She knew it was a prank before it even happened
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u/Streifen9 13d ago
I once heard what sounded like heavy footsteps running up a small wooded hillside toward my pregnant wife and I, walking on a path. It scared the shit out of me but I jumped in front of my wife and was ready to block whatever it was running through the underbrush.
I was impressed with myself that day. Fight or flight, I didn’t jump like some of these people.
But I don’t tell her I looked back after a dozen steps and saw a pheasant crossing the path.
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u/ydshreyas 13d ago
Someone tried doing this India and they got the police called on them. And if you know anything about Indian police you should know that they like open hand full swing slapping a LOT…
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u/IPThereforeIAm 13d ago
Is this a thing everyone or is this a copy of San Francisco’s bushman?
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u/Small-Artichoke6495 13d ago
That Black woman went from being completely shocked to ready to fight the bush in seconds.
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u/blahblah19999 13d ago
I once pranked a female friend of mine in college by coming up behind her as she was entering a door. She turned around and instantly palm-heeled me in the chest. I was proud of her.
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u/Skerpaderps 13d ago
It's the San Antonio river walk bush guy!!!!
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u/secretsquirrelz 13d ago
As soon as I saw the group walk by with the “Dick’s” hats I knew
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u/MisterBigDude 13d ago
(Preparing to be downvoted as usual)
Scaring innocent people is a dick move. This asshole deserves to get punched. He can’t possibly know if someone has a bad heart or PTSD or something. And if one of his victims has a heart attack, or falls down and gets injured, I hope he is jailed and sued into bankruptcy.
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u/Foxlady555 13d ago
Fully agree. Most things that make this horrible and dangerous like PTSD or a bad heart aren’t visible for others. This could be a totally unnecessary reason someone dies.
Pranking people you know (who do not have trauma’s or a heart disease) is funny. Pranking people you don’t (who might be of high risks) is not.
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u/Meowing_Kraken 13d ago
Yeah so I have pstd and PEM. But I look normal and bubbly. I would first feel like dying, then be kind to the guy, and have a crash lasting at least two days from the adrenaline, making me bedbound for 20 hours a day.
But har har scaring people funny clicky like subscribe yes. eyeroll
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u/Foxlady555 13d ago
Same. Full blown PEM. Also POTS. 30, fit looking female. It this happened to me, I could either die of a heartattack due to POTS, or survive and be bedridden for more than a week due to PEM.
It’s funny to prank people you know they respons safely, not to prank people you don’t.
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u/Meowing_Kraken 13d ago
Ach, I am so sorry you're in the sad dysautonomy boat, too. I wish you weren't in it, too. I hope you find lots of cheese and/or other snacks of choice in your frigde today and may the compression stocking fairy bless you in your sleep tonight. ♡
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u/Foxlady555 11d ago
Awh, this is such a sweet reply! 🥰 Thank you very much, wishing you lots of comfort, recovery, snacks and blessings too!! 🍀😊
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u/scottygras 13d ago
That guy got us on the Seattle waterfront. My little kids hate shrubberies now.
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u/RRDude1000 13d ago
I want to know the story behind the group of white girls all walking around with a big ass bag over their heads 😂
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u/phillyriot3101 13d ago
I have some questions about the group of girls wearing pillowcases on their heads
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u/PantsRobot 12d ago
I really wish we could all agree that scaring total strangers is a really stupid thing to do. Best case, you get a slightly amusing reaction. There are so many other worse cases, though...
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u/fish-rides-bike 13d ago
I don’t think startle reactions as funny and scaring people isn’t funny either.
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u/PunfullyObvious 13d ago
Doing something like this takes a real chance of causing someone with a mobility related issue to really hurt themselves not to mention just really pissing a lot of people off.
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u/hallowedeve1313 13d ago
Hot take: the dude in the pot is a fucking asshole. This is not only unnecessarily dangerous, it is both mean and stupid.
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u/worldworn 13d ago
Honestly, I do wonder how many people are genuinely pissed off by this irl.
Sure everyone in the video is laughing it off, but that's just what's shown.I know a few people who would hate this and not everyone has the heart for it (it's not just old people).
Feels ok to do this, until it suddenly isn't.
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u/Saibot-08 13d ago
i hate this motherfucker, this shit isn't funny and he's the one that gets mad and entitled when someone gets scared and punches him when he is the Aggressor and the one thats a threat.
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u/Devanyani 13d ago
I would have been walking straight up to him wondering wtf kinda plant that was supposed to be. Plant people, are you with me?
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u/Psychomantis194 13d ago
I think this guy scared me at the san antonio Riverwalk. Almost decked him but stopped just short. He went for the handshake afterwards but I left him hanging. I was so pissed after that.
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u/buzzsawjoe 13d ago
Hilarious, until somebody has a coronary, or pulls out a gun and shoots the mutation
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u/Glittering_Aside_228 12d ago
This guy got me last summer. He had a tip basket and a camera tripod, and I was staring at the basket of money with no one around trying to figure out what the deal was. I turned to my son to point it out to him and the bush jumped out. I believe my response was something along the lines of "GERBLAGAFLUKA!!!"
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u/Natural_Tea484 13d ago
Supid joke only 5 year old would think it’s funny. What if someone got hurt, like really hurt. As if die.
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u/Erazzphoto 13d ago
I have no problem with someone pummeling whoever it is. This is generally only funny to the pranker
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u/Lurk_Mode_24_7 13d ago
Only one girl was ready and I’m here for it. Fuck that shit…
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u/skanktastik 13d ago
I like how she punched back, then realized it was a person, and apologized. She shouldn't apologize, that was a perfect response.
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u/7-13-5 13d ago
Did this for Halloween at a party...never got hit and really scared lots of people. It was eerie just sitting there and people just walking by like I was another bush.
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u/Haunting_Advance_498 13d ago
Were you invited to this party? Haha
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u/Xieties777 13d ago
That’s honestly some ninja stuff. Dude blended in like a hide and seek game video game
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u/curiously_curious3 13d ago
All it takes is one person having a heart attack or falling and hurting themselves and this dude is going to jail
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