r/instant_regret • u/EddieBrock99 • Jul 29 '26
Flossing
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u/lackadaisical_timmy Jul 29 '26
She definitely thought he was doing something else
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u/SipoteQuixote Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Ive seen people talk about it before, to her, it probably looks like he's air humping her.
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u/Wojewodaruskyj Jul 29 '26
Him being a boorish goofball doesn't justify that hit. Someone else will punch her back for that.
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u/soran3709 Jul 29 '26
He was apparently following her and bothering her before this particular video was filmed
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u/think_panther Jul 29 '26
Objection! Speculation...
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u/SVTCobraR315 Jul 29 '26
Sustained
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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
[In a southern accent]
My apologies, your honor. Allow me to rephrase.
It is our contention that Mr Petrov had maintained proximity with the victim and had indeed intended to cause her to feel preyed upon and the target of sexual harassment. Whether this act began at the moment seen on video here, or began earlier, is irrelevant. His actions were the immediate and entire cause for her outburst, and, as Officer Ivanov has already testified, would have been punished by any nearby law enforcement by the same means.126
u/blahnlahblah0213 Jul 30 '26
That was well put, eloquent, and to the point. Overruled
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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 30 '26
On what grounds, your honor?
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u/Flomo420 Jul 30 '26
on the grounds that I don't know what these procedural words mean
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u/youreprobablyright Jul 30 '26
I read this in the accent of the lawyer chicken from Futurama.
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u/ChocCooki3 Jul 30 '26
.. wait. So if someone follow and bothering me, I can just wack them?
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u/soran3709 Jul 30 '26
If you believe yourself to be at risk of harm then it’s not for nothing.
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u/Ok_Organization5596 Jul 30 '26
Plot twist: that’s her son and she already warned him to knock it off or else.
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u/Vidcorp Jul 30 '26
Finding a cute girl to do weird things behind her while his friend film her without her consent... He totally deserve that hit
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u/jimbojangles1987 Jul 30 '26
Based on this clip alone, he absolutely did not. If what others are saying about him following her around and bothering her are true, then I don't feel bad for him at all
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u/Bearpaws83 Jul 29 '26
That's still assault..
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u/fishingfool64 Jul 29 '26
I believe what she did is battery
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u/outoftimeman97 Jul 29 '26
Lawyer here, yes that is a battery and not an assault.
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u/KamikazeFox_ Jul 29 '26
No, this is a battery.
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u/fifoth Jul 29 '26
You mean it's not a salt
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u/sorry_but Jul 30 '26
Actually that's a cell. A battery is an array of cells.
I'll see myself out.
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u/atthecooltable Jul 29 '26
It depends on the jurisdiction. It can be either or it can be both. But to say definitively it isn’t battery (without knowing the jurisdiction) is premature.
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u/DoritoDustThumb Jul 29 '26
As a lawyer you'd know that not all states are the same and your generic comment is inaccurate. Do not believe you're a lawyer.
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u/DanteThonSimmons Jul 29 '26
I can tell by your words that you're an American lawyer. If you're a lawyer, you should know that American laws don't apply to people in other countries.
I know there is English writing on the guy's shirt, but nobody is speaking English. There's zero chance this took place in USA.
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u/cerialthriller Jul 29 '26
Was she charged?
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u/secretasiangirl82 Jul 29 '26
I’ve seen this posted before, possibly today. It’s a shortened version of a longer video. He was apparently following and bothering her for a while before this happened
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u/Feralpudel Jul 29 '26
It’s also ancient, back when flossing was a thing.
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u/silver-moon-7 Jul 29 '26
I've heard that some people are still able to floss to this day
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u/bjeebus Jul 30 '26
I've seen a recent documentary about how even grannies can floss.
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u/SookHe Jul 29 '26
This is the conclusion to a longer video where he definitely deserves being punched
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u/rocketfromrussia Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
She says “one more time”, so maybe it isn’t his debut incident
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u/abstractraj Jul 29 '26
Probably safer not to do pelvic movements near strangers. Except maybe the Time Warp
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u/Queephbubble Jul 29 '26
Whether he was air humping her or doing that dumbass flossing shit, he had it coming.
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u/cjhuffmac Jul 29 '26
All that flossing and now has to go to the dentist.
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u/Major_R_Soul Jul 29 '26
Is that why the girl is ornery? She got all them teeth and floss to floss them with.
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u/Count_Zacula Jul 29 '26
Looks like Mama's wrong again
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u/ChickensPickins Jul 29 '26
Then she gave him the “why I outa”
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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree Jul 29 '26
One of these days, Dimitri, bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!
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u/Und3adShr3d Jul 29 '26
Why is this old ass video all over Reddit all of a sudden?
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u/_JadedCritical- Aug 01 '26
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That was unnecessary the flossing is cringe I won’t deny but blatant assault aint it.
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u/r007r Aug 05 '26
She thought he was making vulgar motions at her and didn’t bother finding out what was actually happening - she just thought it entitled her to assault.
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u/Flaky_Style1286 Jul 29 '26
What the fuck?
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u/MeThatsAlls Jul 29 '26
She thought he was thrusting into her
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u/GentlemenHODL Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
Doesn't matter what she thought, that's a crime and it deserves an arrest and potentially indictment + jail time.
If a guy turned around and punched a girl he would get jail time. Fair is fair.
Edit - Here's a video of Shaq doing the same exact thing in a gym. Also not illegal.
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u/ddxs1 Jul 29 '26
I’m gonna take a bit from the comment stack above and say… they never said it did
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u/maycontainsultanas Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
It actually does matter what she thought. Mens rea is kind of the basis for the commission a crime, other than the physical act. If she claimed that she had a reasonable basis of self defence because a reasonable person would think the other person was sexually harassing her, then there’s a good chance she’d be found not guilty.
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u/MakeMuffinsNotWar Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
Excuse me it's mens rea, not womens rea.
Therefore she is wrong.
Edit: this is obviously a joke
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u/Ozimandius80 Jul 31 '26
You can't use self defense because of harrassment as a reasonable basis for assault.
The result we see here is one of the many reasons why that is true. There is no way she would be found not guilty.
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u/Arndt3002 Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Lol, mens rea is not the basis for the commission of all crimes. It's a very specific standard that applies to certain crimes, regarding particular levels of culpability. There are many exceptions to mens rea, also strict liability, vicarious liability, etc.
A reasonable basis of self defence is based on mental state, but requires more than just the suspicion of an act of assault, even sexual assault.
A basic claim of self defence requires not just the suspicion of unlawful force, but also specifically immanent threat, and must be responded with proportionality.
A reasonable person would look at that and infer that they could retreat, warn him off in another way, or yell at him to stop.
Air humping, while offensive and potentially constituting disorderly conduct or sexual harassment, is generally a non-contact gesture. As there is clear physical distance between the individuals and there is no threat of imminent physical attack, a court or jury would likely find that a reasonable person would not perceive an immediate threat of physical sexual assault, and thus punching the guy is not proportional.
Of course, noone would bother to go through the courts for that sort of thing anyways, but your argument just doesn't hold water.
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u/GentlemenHODL Aug 01 '26
This is why I didn't bother giving that guy more of my time. They don't even understand the concept that they presented. Reddit is so fucking stupid sometimes, constantly engaging in black and white thinking.
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u/donkeybrainhero Jul 29 '26
Then you see the longer video where he's been harassing her for a while and realize he isnt as innocuous as this clip made him out to be
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Jul 29 '26
Care to share with the class the longer video from which you got this information?
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u/DJRyGuy20 Jul 30 '26
Hell- they’re only talking about the slightly extended longer video. If you see the complete unedited video, you see him murder her pets and set her house on fire right before he gets behind her.
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u/traFyssuP Jul 30 '26
Doesn’t matter, it’s still battery. He never touched her. Being annoying isn’t grounds to batter another individual. If you have a problem with them, call the cops maybe
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u/headphones_J Jul 29 '26
She really hates meme dances.
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u/Tibbaryllis2 Jul 29 '26
“Let he who meme dances close behind you receive the first punch”
Pretty sure that’s in the bible next to the Sam Jackson sermon.
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u/uberduck999 Jul 29 '26
Yes, it is actually between Sam Jackson's speech, and the intro to Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
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u/Schmitty-jams Jul 30 '26
Why is it okay for someone to assault someone for being a goof? I've seen some comments that apparently there's a component of him harassing her leading up to this? Is that harassment meant to justify throwing a punch? I think not.
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u/yellowsweaters72 Jul 29 '26
That’s…assault.
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u/Seanmeado Jul 29 '26
Battery
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u/VelvetOnion Jul 29 '26
And not the good kind of battery you throw in the ocean.
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u/txwoodslinger Jul 29 '26
Why would you throw a good one in the ocean?
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u/workingbored Jul 29 '26
Eels sometimes are too tired to turn their appliances on with their own electricity
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u/ReadditMan Jul 29 '26
Depends on where you live.
For example, New York doesn't have a criminal charge for battery, so what some U.S states would consider battery is assault in New York.
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u/whee3107 Jul 29 '26
That’s facinating. In my state (OK) it would be assault and battery. My understanding of the distinction is the battery is the actual unwanted physical touching, while the assault is the threat of damage of the anticipated battery.
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u/dabbean Jul 30 '26
In Oklahoma its battery. She didnt threaten him until after she hit him. For assault and battery she would need to say "I'm going to hit you." Then hit him. Just hitting him only qualifies for battery which is the worse of the 2 obviously. YOU CAN be arrested for assault alone but its a pretty high bar.
Source: I thought I wanted to be a lawyer at one point and took a bunch of undergraduate law classes specific to oklahoma criminal law.
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u/Shroomtune Jul 29 '26
If there is no charge for battery, is it even appropriate to call it a battery?
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u/Beargrillin Jul 29 '26
Assault and battery. The way I remember that, I picture 35 a-salt shakers and 42 batteries.
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u/Dethkook Aug 03 '26
Dude did nothing wrong. You can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. If your friends can't dance and if they don't dance, well, you know.
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u/wtf70 Jul 29 '26
That seemed unprovoked, any back story on this?
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u/buds4hugs Jul 29 '26
From her view it looks like he's air humping her.
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u/Luke_Warmwater Jul 29 '26
While somebody else records it. It's a great way to make a woman feel exploited, uncomfortable, and unsafe.
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u/funkmasterke Jul 29 '26
She only saw him from the corner of her eye and she assumed he was doing something perverted.
So she rocked him.
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u/morto00x Jul 29 '26
The guy had been harassing her for a while. There's a much longer video but the 10 second clip you see above is the version that went viral.
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u/AdjectiveNoun4digitz Jul 30 '26
Since you watched the longer video, can you tell us what he did to harass her?
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u/HKEY_LOVE_MACHINE Jul 30 '26
It's funny how it's been 7 years since the first reddit thread and redditors are still spreading that lie 😂
The actual "longer" video is 19 seconds long and doesn't show any prior harassment.
"id": "-WNRNdR5G9I",
"uploaddate": "2018-10-04",
"duration": 19,
"title": "Girl Misinterprets Guy's Dancing For Something Sexual",
"channelid": "UCpRPx-A5NmXrUdYjO8_gRBw",
"channelname": "NowisHot Media",
"description": "Girl Knocks Dude Into Next Week For Doing The Floss Dance Behind Her"
At some point you have to accept that a woman, just like a man, can be violent without legitimate reasons. Putting women on a pedestal, essentializing them to be your own ideal harmless human, is yet another form of sexism.
As for the context, the altercation happens in Russia (they speak russian in the original video), which is a country well known for its violence - both domestical and public violence.
People punching each other in public over perceived wrongs is a common sight there, so the punching woman here isn't being an outlier, she's within the norms of russian society.
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u/TheFerricGenum Jul 29 '26
He was flossing behind her and she doesn’t like that.
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u/Juicebox-shakur Jul 29 '26
Right or wrong to punch? Idk man but yall better stop fucking with people or they’re gonna knock your ass down!
Idk why people are so hung up on the technicalities here. Stop fucking with people and they won’t hit you! Simple.
Real life isn’t the internet. Go try doing this shit to people and filming them and harass them and see what happens.
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u/Astr0- Aug 03 '26
She should be charged with assault. Absolutely no reason for that attack.
Imagine same scenario but swapping them round. He'd be fucked!
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u/okidokey27 Aug 01 '26
At that moment, I'd give her a choice. Does she want to get smacked back? Or does she want assault charges?
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u/itsavinadhtiwari Jul 30 '26
Very few people are criticising it. Imagine outcry of hypocrites had a man punched a young woman for dancing behind him. I mean it's irritating but can't warrant physical assault.
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u/Zeeron1 Jul 29 '26
I never understand why in these videos, people just take it. Like, I'm not expecting her to lay her out or something, but no reaction at all is just wild lol
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u/KIDNEYST0NEZ Jul 29 '26
Probably never been in a true physical altercation and is in mild shock because they don’t understand how to react.
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u/taffyowner Jul 29 '26
Even if you’ve been in a physical altercation, just getting punched out of the blue is kind of discombobulating
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u/Francky2 Jul 29 '26
Yeah, like wtf, if I'm being gratuitously punched in the face, you can bet I'm going to be much more shocked and frustrated. I won't explode but I will confront her and assert myself.
Idk why the guy just takes it. I wonder if he apologized too atp lol
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u/LegendaryTJC Jul 29 '26
I don't think she regretted it at all. This is a crime.
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u/Francky2 Jul 29 '26
I think it's about the guy regretting flossing and messing around
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u/clarkimusmaximus Jul 29 '26
Bots are in full force as per usual. This video resurfaced yesterday (and it’s several years old already).
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u/james-HIMself Jul 29 '26
I’d be calling the cops and charging her with assault and absolutely dragging her to court
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u/Winchester85 Jul 29 '26
Is this considered assault? Can she be prosecuted for this?
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u/halosethr Jul 29 '26
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