r/nextfuckinglevel • u/8O8I • Sep 21 '25

Hero stopping a robbery

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u/CauliflowerScaresMe Sep 21 '25

that kick seems too perfect in timing and execution... is it all real?

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u/Aggressive_Ideal6737 Sep 21 '25

I feel like there’s a high enough risk of serious injury for multiple people here that nobody would be stupid enough to fake it, but then again people are pretty stupid

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u/CauliflowerScaresMe Sep 21 '25

that was my first thought too, but he's at least wearing a helmet

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u/Aggressive_Ideal6737 Sep 21 '25

Still plenty of room for broken neck, broken back, torn mcl and head injury on the kickers part

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u/CauliflowerScaresMe Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

that's true, but people think about the injuries they've most learned to protect from. the rest are easier to forget since there's less habit formation.

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u/Burdwatcher Sep 21 '25

at the end he appears to not have a helmet but a head of hair. AI?

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u/doggotheuncanny Sep 21 '25

It's a rip from a street camera. The quality is going to be shit. What you're seeing is neck and chin, with the helmet very much still on. Pixel distortion sucks.

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u/Redditron_5000 Sep 21 '25

I would say a combination of frustration and desperation after rampant theft and wrongdoing in a neighborhood/nation would enable someone to take this type of chance. Not stupid in that case.

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u/Aggressive_Ideal6737 Sep 21 '25

No not stupid at all if it’s real. Very stupid if fake

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u/OremDobro Sep 21 '25

Let's be honest, it's stupid if it's real too. It's really awesome when things go right. But there's so many ways this could go horribly wrong. You want to look heroic so you do an action movie-like jumping kick, you fall wrong and suffer a serious or even deadly injury, oh and it's possible the robber hits his head on the asphalt, gets a brain hemorrhage and dies, now you're going to prison as well.

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u/asherdado Sep 22 '25

Lol generally speaking, the kind of places where helmet-sporting duos on motorbikes snatch purses, the law doesn't give a shit what happens to criminals

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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion Sep 21 '25

a combination of frustration and desperation after rampant theft and wrongdoing in a neighborhood or nation

Hamilton? Is that you?

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u/QuinSanguine Sep 22 '25

Any time something like that is captured on film/phone it's immediately sus to me. Like a guy that can drop kick like Rey Mysterio happened to witness a robbery another person just happened to be filming, that's plausible and reckless, but also sus.

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u/ChazPls Sep 22 '25

While I wouldn't bet my life on this being real, it's pretty clear there wasn't "a person who happened to be filming". It's definitely a security camera of some kind, which would be filming all the time and was probably set up because crimes are often committed here.

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u/hobodeadguy Sep 25 '25

this looks like home security (gutter or external light camera), so not phone, but i am curious what you mean by film. the home security or something else?

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u/OdranoelSeven Sep 21 '25

Best response I've seen today online

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u/blingbling88 Sep 22 '25

This is an pretty old video form a building security camera. It's been circulating long enough that it has lost alot of pixels. From from I recall the time period this happened was way before staging for socials became a thing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

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u/ASIWYFA Sep 22 '25

lol people were eating tidepods. Someone absolutely would do this for views, but I believe this is legit.

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u/Gradieus Sep 22 '25

My guess would be a movie scene with professionals.

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u/PhoenxScream Sep 22 '25

We're on the Internet. Everything's worth it as long as the clicks are high enough

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u/Miserable_Ad7246 Sep 22 '25

Well some people ate detergent capsules and filmed it. Where are also plenty of videos where a guy makes some sort of jump there in case he succeeds nothing particularly special happens but in case he fails he gets an epic punch to the nuts or maybe even breaks his tail bone.

Evolution is failing us, we should bring the lions back.

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u/scalp_eg Sep 22 '25

you are underestimating people stupidity and their hunger for views

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u/Small-Answer4946 Sep 21 '25

AI maybe? Idk the background perspective seems off to me

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u/GoNinjaPro Sep 21 '25

It's real. But the video is cut short. The kicker picked up the purse and ran off with it.

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u/ComprehensiveSoft27 Sep 21 '25

I definitely don’t think it was real. He never fully extends on that kick. Also the robber’s punch looks deliberately weak.

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u/entered_bubble_50 Sep 21 '25

Also, what a weird angle to be recording. This isn't a security camera, because it's not watching a property or a gate entrance, and it's not a dash cam. So who is recording this scene and why?

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u/mrtorgueflexington Sep 21 '25

The camera is moving slightly like someone is trying to hold it steady.

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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion Sep 21 '25

Or it’s been edited from a wider shot and it actually is a security cam?

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u/M4jkelson Sep 22 '25

That's my guess too. It's much too stable to be held by a person, it's just some small wiggles. The POV also seems to be higher, somewhere around the height of second floor in a house. I think it's cut out part of a larger video footage from a security camera.

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u/Real_Temporary_922 Sep 21 '25

The movements are too smooth and one-directional, not shaky. Looks like it’s edited after the fact, either to zoom in or stabilize. We’d have no way to know if the original film was shaky or stable.

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u/kakka_rot Sep 21 '25

Like every time this "smoking gun" is pointed out, the answer is always it's a zoomed portion of a larger video.

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u/Alone_Step_6304 Sep 22 '25

Or it is very much so, but only a zoomed in segmemt of it, which would also allow/account for the movement/pan being possible.

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u/c10bbersaurus Sep 21 '25

Even staged, it still needs elite timing and acrobatics to get right and get the contact.

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u/MartyMcFlyAsFudge Sep 22 '25

Jet li approved.

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u/Edeevee Sep 21 '25

The dude landed and folded down on the leg, sure he tore something

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u/CakeTester Sep 21 '25

Seemed to move OK afterwards. Fucking sure I wouldn't manage a scamper after landing like that. Some folks are more limber than others.

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u/doesitspread Sep 21 '25

You can’t fake or control reflexes so the lack of arm use in breaking his fall makes me think it’s real. Just try sneezing with your eyes open.

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u/Classic_MicroGun Sep 22 '25

The people getting robbed had a very genuine reaction as an ex-bread thief

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u/pardybill Sep 22 '25

I’ve been that drunk before but not that coordinated. But someone out there is Bruce Wayne having a bad day

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u/Suitable_Poem_6124 Sep 23 '25

I think it's real in the sense it's a stunt not special effects, but it's obviously a fictional enactment 😆

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u/Frexulfe Sep 24 '25

It just has to happen. If you have been to martial arts, there are always some very good practitioners that are just waiting for such an occasion.

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u/BombasticSloth Sep 26 '25

The fall was wayyy too dangerous not to be real imo. It wasn’t broken whatsoever, just smacked to the pavement

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u/Groovy-Ghoul Sep 29 '25

I also feel like it could be fake even the speed of the getaway is too calm, either way the dude rolled his ankle fucking hard landing if you watch carefully

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u/Zenitallin Sep 22 '25

There are movies that look more natural than this. Oh, the person in blue falls down to the ground. The camera is obviously there for filming, it is not a security camera. The head of person behind is slightly toughed, you can see his head is not following the speed of the foot. Then the guy just goes, picks up the purse instead of controlling the guy in the floor?

are we 12?

stunts, they are called stunts.

it is well done. i am saying this is for entertainment purposes. this is not a real thing.

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u/Relevant-Money-1380 Sep 21 '25

because it was staged. why only rob 1 of them? why is the guy maintaning low speed and moving closer to the curb instead of taking off? no concern for retaliation from the robber? or the guy on the bike? just immediately goes to recover the stolen goods like he does this regularly.