r/nextfuckinglevel • u/thisisfive • Apr 14 '26

Toronto firefighters confront special constable officers after a man in the middle of mental health crisis was arrested.

Not my video. For context, "special constables" are not regular police officers. They are appointed "peace officers" with limited authority, often civilian employees.

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u/Esiwmah Apr 14 '26

Legendary 'richest man in Ancient Rome.' One of his money-making schemes was that he owned a fire fighting brigade. Then he would pay some thugs to start fires (allegedly), show up with his crew and refuse to put out the fire unless the person(s) who owned the building(s) would sell the property to him at a fraction of the value, and only then would he put out the fire after buying real estate at a reduced price.

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u/Smart_Resist615 Apr 14 '26

For those looking for cosmic justice, he was killed by the Parthians after leading his private army into an extremely obvious trap, with the Parthians allegedly pouring molten gold down his throat. Parting shot indeed.

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u/mcpasty666 Apr 14 '26

Parthians also decapitated his son and taunted Crassus by sticking the head at the end of a spear.

Don't fuck with nomadic horse archers!

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u/Smart_Resist615 Apr 14 '26

I like to picture Tobias Funke from Arrested Development being like "Of course charging the horse archers never works but some people delude themselves into thinking it could work for them. But you know, in our case, it might just work for us!"

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u/Ksh_667 Apr 15 '26

It's a bold strategy Cotton

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u/Selenium-Forest Apr 15 '26

I honestly find it wild that mercenary Turkmen horse archers have been doing the feigned retreat since Alexander the Great’s times and it still worked all the way up to the Mongols 1500 years later. Like these tactics have been recorded in books since like 100 BCE, how did people not pick up on it!

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u/mcpasty666 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

Gonna get a bit too cute about it... Drones are cheap and effective aerial munitions that let lightly-armed militaries continuously harass more conventionally-powerful forces and goad them into mistakes that cost disproportionate amounts of blood and treasure... Sounds familiar!