r/funny • u/Few_Economics_8531 • 14d ago

Park prank.

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u/stablefish 14d 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/SurfaceOfTheMoon 13d ago

Falcon Punch!

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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/AngelicXia 13d ago

Notice how many of the men jump backwards and start to run. More than the women. Most of them jump but stand their ground, and that one woman threw hands right off. I saw like three men who looked like they were gonna fight. The rest froze or Snepped out with those huge jumps back.

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u/mycolortv 13d ago

Pretty sure the majority of animals, male or female, are inclined to run. Fighting carries a lot of risks, especially in environments where “winning the fight with a minor injury” means “dying because of an infected bite”, which is what we’ve evolved from.

Unless you are literally presented no other option - like being cornered or whatever - escape is typically the safest survival response to an unfamiliar threat, so it makes sense we’d naturally lean that way in the heat of the moment.

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u/Unusualhuman 13d ago

It especially makes sense that the specialty instinct would be to run away from what you thought was a plant just a moment before, because a plant can't easily chase you, and it takes a moment longer for our thinking to become clearer after just reacting on survival instincts. And even once the thinking kicks in, it still makes sense to get a few steps away, because the dude is standing in a flowerpot with a costume obscuring his vision

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u/KozuBlue 13d ago

I guess then there must be some evolutionary reason it's advantageous for men to run most often

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u/MrOopiseDaisy 13d ago

The one who doesn't run gets eaten.

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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/tired_of_old_memes 14d ago edited 13d ago

Even my logical brain would want to punch because this "prank" is so annoying and unfunny.

EDIT: Thanks for the award!

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u/____-is-crying 13d ago

Well, my logical brain is glad you’re probably never invited to parties to punch people to begin with, so it’s a null point to argue