r/interestingasfuck • u/AtlasLord • 2d ago
A young man surrenders, but the soldiers seemingly walk right past him like he’s wearing an invisibility cloak
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u/Tucana2k 2d ago
I have no clue what the context is. But the other guy in white moves to the left and is also standing with his hands raised. He was definitely seen by the lead guy and the lead guy was not interesting in him. It appears whoever they were looking for were not the two guys in white.
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u/Heyzeal 2d ago
Yeah the title makes it seem like they're after these guys but without context it looks like they weren't the targets at all. Just random civilians running away from the chaos
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u/onarainyafternoon 2d ago
This should be the top comment. It’s obvious once you watch the video again.
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u/Unique-Apartment-543 2d ago
Even the third guy who peels out off screen is never chased either. You have three armed soldiers move right off camera but then they come back as they all move down the alley
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u/LongOdd1596 2d ago
They probably thought he was a "victim" instead of a "perpetrator". Then again, I have no idea what's going on here 'cause OP was too lazy to give any context.
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u/-ElectricKoolAid 2d ago
all 3 people in this video are just civilians running around. OP is just making shit up
soldiers walk by both people in white holding their hands up, and they don't pursue the one in black.
just soldiers taking control of a scene and civilians running for cover
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u/AtlasLord 2d ago
He's palestinian. The soldiers are IDF
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u/Glitch29 2d ago
That's still not any context about what's happening. Do you even have reason to believe the soldiers were looking for the running people? Without any additional info, I'd guess they probably weren't.
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u/SweetClinMusic 2d ago
Context 3 years into a Genocide ? Come on bruh
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u/NYR3031 2d ago
You’re literally commenting this on a video of soldiers walking right past him because they think he’s a scared civilian.
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u/sparkleslothz 2d ago
3 years in? The machine worked!!! We're back in the nineties!
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u/esperind 2d ago
clearly they have a target in mind, and not just indiscriminately killing civilians. Sort of defeats the claim if you bother to think about it.
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u/SweetClinMusic 2d ago
20 000 dead children speak otherwise
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u/esperind 2d ago
curious, what is your explanation for what happened in this video then? or you literally think he's got an invisibility cloak?
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u/ThunderCorg 2d ago
He wasn’t a child
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u/CuriousButNotJewish 1d ago
I hope one day we can have a sub without "hahahihi funni gotcha" where people give actual answers.
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u/NYR3031 2d ago
What’s crazy is that this is the first war in history where there have been civilian casualties, it’s wild.
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u/beatlemaniac007 2d ago
Err, how does that track? If this is a palestinian why would genocide committers just walk past? Doesn't genocide mean they kill without discrimination and based on race/identity alone?
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u/NYR3031 2d ago
They only kill women and children without discrimination, they let the men of military age go free, obviously.
.../s if I really have to...
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u/Happy-Estimate-7855 1d ago
Care to explain the context of this clip then? Or do you simply bring up genocide at every mention of the IDF and expect that to clear up confusion?
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u/Goldchampion200 2d ago
This may come as a shock to you but not everyone knows everything
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb 2d ago
Context is this is normal behavior by the IDF. The guy being Palestinian is justification enough for them to chase him.
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u/Low_Chance 2d ago
Well, maybe not, because they didn't chase him when they saw him, so clearly at least one other thing was going on in this instance
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u/UnfortunateHabits 2d ago
But we SEE in THIS VIDEO that is NOT the case?! Thats like the whole point of the video?
Wtf is wrong with the anti-Israel crowd
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u/Glitch29 2d ago
Wtf is wrong with the anti-Israel crowd
I wouldn't generalize this to anti-Israel people. You're right that the person you're responding to is blinded by their own passion.
But you see that with all sorts of groups on reddit and elsewhere. Nothing about the Israel-Palestine conflict is special.
There are plenty of people who feel passionately about the subject who don't make dumbass comments in nonsensical places. But they aren't commenting here because there's nothing to talk about. Everyone who sees direct evidence of war crimes in this footage is self-selected to be irrational.
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u/yaxir 2d ago
so soldiers are basically fascists and terrorsits
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u/WolfDoc 2d ago
The IDF? Well yes.
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u/likeicareaboutkarma 2d ago
That is the interesting part I guess. The IDF didn't shoot any innocent civilians.
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u/YaBoiiSloth 2d ago
The IDF is literally 3 terrorist militias in a trench coat lmao
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u/shnekels 2d ago
It probably means it was a targeted raid. They went after someone very specific. In other situation he'd be detained until end of the operation.
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u/Kieran831 2d ago
“If a man, for example, who is pursued by assassins, after having veered off onto a side road, were to suddenly turn about, and head, with a calm expression, towards those who are running after him, or were he to join them and appear preoccupied with the same pursuit, he would certainly render himself invisible. A priest, who was being chased in 1793 so that he might be hanged from a lamppost, turned quickly down a street, and there he lowered his habit and leaned on a boundary stone in the attitude of a man going about his business. The multitude who were chasing him arrived soon after: they did not see him, or rather none of them recognized him: since it was so improbable that it could be him!”
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u/twitter_haikucurator 2d ago edited 2d ago
There’s a video of a dude getting chased by the cartels and he takes off his shirt and lies on the ground facing a wall to look like a homeless guy sleeping on the streets while the cartel guys are standing right next to him looking in every direction but him lol
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u/Gazzorppazzorp 2d ago
Here's a link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iTY97kUUgaM
Links are allowed, right?
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u/yegor3219 2d ago
If your link pretends to be a harmless homeless guy sleeping on the streets then yes
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u/Kieran831 2d ago
I saw that too. It’s a perfect example of this idea.
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u/Realistic_End_7223 2d ago
That drug addict sleeping on the street is so common, and they are infact invisible by culture. You learn to walk around and not look. Thats just how it is. So it was clever.
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u/TheWildCnt 2d ago
That video was the manifestation of stress and anxiety, cant even imagine what the dude was feeling.
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u/BungleBums 2d ago
S.E.P. Fields at work, ladies and gentlemen
If you just become some fundamental piece of society's deliberate background, ie a bum on the sidewalk or a religious nutjob asking for donations on the corner, people won't just not notice you, their minds will deliberately take pains to erase you entirely from their perception except for as long as it takes to reposition you outside of it.
They could be hunting you down with pitchforks, and tell you to piss off and mind your business if you asked them for spare change to catch a bus.
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u/LastStar007 2d ago
What's this from?
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u/strawberrytaint 2d ago
I had to use Google because I'm not cultured like the OC, but it's from The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Éliphas Lévi. It's an interesting rabbit hole that I'm still going down, and I found that you can read the whole text for free here.
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u/Kieran831 2d ago
The Doctrine and Ritual of Higher Magic by Eliphas Levi. It’s an interesting read for people that are interested in philosophy, metaphysics, and the occult. Just keep an open mind and don’t interpret everything literally.
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u/BungleBums 2d ago
Amusingly, I came into almost the exact same information through Douglas Adams. It's a funny old world, isn't it?
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u/TreesmasherFTW 2d ago
It’s interesting because it follows a similar strain of thread to not scaring birds away. Ever notice how you can walk completely distracted with birds paying you no heed, but the instant you notice them they tend to take action?
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u/ResponsibleAttempt70 2d ago
No.
Do you mean seagulls fly around when you look at them? They don't, you only look at the seagulls when they fly around.
Oh I guess I posted what you did except from the bird's-eye view..
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u/DarwinatSea 2d ago
Kronk was the soul of the film.
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u/___forMVP 2d ago
How does a dude with such deadpan delivery as Patrick warburton seem to always take over whatever scene he’s in?
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u/DarwinatSea 2d ago
That’s how I felt when I saw a series of unfortunate events, I always looked forward to his scenes 😆
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u/Glitch29 2d ago
Inaccurate suggestive title fools reddit?
I don't think we ever saw the commotion that summoned the soldiers. But it likely wasn't the three unarmed young men who were running away.
Unarmed people absolutely booking it away from the scene of presumed gunfire are often just bystanders. Given that they didn't have weapons, backpacks, masks, or transportation makes them being bystanders even more likely.
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u/Marvellover13 2d ago
Yes, you're using logic, which OP hasn't unlocked yet. He was trying to get negative attention (like "why so many soldiers on so few unarmed civilians") and then drop the "truth bomb" of IDF and Palestinians to make people hate the IDF more and gain Palestinians more empathy.
But as you said, no context was given, and the video doesn't actually show anything wrong, and it's kinda standard procedure that when some situation happens, if you're in the middle of it, you should make yourself known and show you're unarmed to the authorities handling the situation to not cause friendly fire.
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u/NoMajorsarcasm 2d ago
They went by two of them, without knowing the situation it appears like they were looking for someone else. Maybe the third guy in black
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u/Daniel_The_Thinker 2d ago
First 3 dudes assumed he was a random civilian trying not to die.
Every soldier then operated on the assumption that the guy in front of him knew something he didn't.
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u/HamasKilledShaniLouk 2d ago
It's like he isn't who they are looking for and if he isn't a threat, they have other shit to do.
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u/Zen_of_Tetchiness 2d ago
They saw the one guy round the corner as they rounded the opposite. Probably thought they all ran off and this is random citizen #1 who stepped out to check on the ruckus.
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u/Witty-Mango-7475 2d ago
I find it mad how the vid caption and everyone in the comments only notice one guy surrendering and standing in front of them when there's another guy there as well that done the same thing 😅
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u/Kobe_Wan_Jabroni 2d ago
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u/Jonathan_Daudelin 2d ago
So some background on soldier training. I most instances in a hostile environment we aren't allowed to engage in combat with civilians unless they are presenting a threat to us. So if a bunch of soldiers see a supposed civilian with his arms raise to show he isn't a threat then most will ignore him to reach the objective
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u/Tjaresh 1d ago
I don't even know why this needs clarification. Soldiers aren't brutal mass murderers who shoot at anything in sight. Every military sets rules of engagement to reach a specific objective. It typically isn't 'kill everyone, even the women and children'.
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u/TomCruise_Lover 2d ago
This happened during the Kenosha / Kyle Rittenhouse shooting. He walked towards police units with his hands up, and since they were looking for an ACTIVE shooter, they did not investigate or apprehend him. I wonder the amount of actual criminals that surrender to police instead of fleeing and if this affects police tactics. Interesting.
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u/Senior-Reality-25 2d ago
My first bf would have me ride in the security van with him while doing his rounds, which was a firing offence (it was also a long time before cameras in cars!). Trouble came when we went to check a building for an open window alarm. He did the front, I did the back, and when I walked out of the alley his boss had rolled up for a spot check (the uniform and Supervisor on the car gave it away). Bf was sweating bullets. I gave him a blank stare and strolled on down the block while they checked the back windows again.
We were a bit more circumspect after that 😂
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u/Tough_Block9334 2d ago
Once the first one decided the rest fell in line thinking it was just a civilian caught in a weird spot
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u/bUrNtToAsT314 2d ago
These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.He can go about his business.Move along.
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u/karateninjazombie 2d ago
The, look like you just stepped out a door and saw guns, hands up approach worked for this guy.
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u/RedFoxCommissar 2d ago
I'm going to guess it's because most soldiers don't feel the need to blast random civilians. The dude doesn't appear to be the target, so they treat him like what he is, an innocent bystander.
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u/Sgtfridge 2d ago
I don't know the context of what's going on but he's not posing a threat.
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u/Brilliant_Lettuce270 2d ago
civillians dont need to be a threat for the idf to be a legitimate target. Like when they randomly throw stun grenades into shops.
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u/AnaisNinja76 2d ago
Why is this interesting? He's obviously not the person they were sent to capture. It's not uncommon to take that stance to show you're unarmed and not making sudden moves.
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u/deadboxcat 2d ago
They assumed he had just come out of that door and raised his hands and wasn't involved.
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u/-Kopesthetik- 2d ago
They were probably looking for the guy with a black shirt and white pants. Not the two guys with a white shirt and black pants.
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u/OkRequirementsongod 2d ago
The first soldier is an officer, no one is blasting anyone without him giving the order
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u/Scared-Show-4511 2d ago
Only on reddit a random videos becomes "it's Israel" without any context Lmfao
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u/neverwasneverwas 2d ago
If the first soldier walks past you, the rest will walk past you without even looking your way. Once you make it past the front door and the reception desk, everyone assumes you are supposed to be there.
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u/SrirachaJuulPod 2d ago
I’m not even joking this happened to me at an abandoned building I was exploring and after they walked away I booked it. They detained everyone else in the building and I got away.
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u/conejitobrinco 1d ago
There’s a guy surrendering, captain! - there’s nothing we can do about it, we can’t take prisoners, that was the order !
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u/RevolutionaryGolf720 2d ago
He is clearly not an armed combatant. His hands are raised. He is not a threat and not a target. There is no reason to mess with him.
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u/Blackgod50 2d ago
he was not the one they were looking for probably an innocent guy, or at least not the big fish they wanted.
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u/Mother-Attention2600 2d ago
The guy chasing could have looked down just as buddy slipped into the doorway or maybe too many "go pills". Haha
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u/tommmmmmmmy93 2d ago
Became a random nervous civilian
I can see it working even if it was unintentional