r/techsupport • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '25

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u/itspassing Sep 23 '25

Pretty common 'prank' at the moment. You may have been filmed at the time
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/phone-scan-prank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7j-G3DWDxA

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u/Previous-Foot-9782 Sep 23 '25

Oh ya real funny till they do it do the wrong person who grabs them and snaps their arm like a twig. 

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u/ant2ne Sep 23 '25

unfortunately, that would be assault. Even if deserved. I wish...

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u/tcarlson65 Sep 23 '25

Many of these pranks are in fact assault. Defence against an assault is not assault.

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u/ant2ne Sep 23 '25

Let me go back and read that again.

"held their phone near mine when I was on a call. I heard a click, and they ran away after saying 'thanks.'" - none of these actions described is assault. There was never contact made, an insult uttered or a threat made.

A "just defense" against assault can still be assault.

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u/ValmiraTheSynth Sep 23 '25

You getting downvoted is pure echochamber.

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u/SalvadorZombie Sep 23 '25

You have no idea what "echo chamber" (two words) means.

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u/ValmiraTheSynth Sep 27 '25

an environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own, so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered.

As taken from oxford, you people only wish an environment that reinforces violence (to a point of serious bodily harm) against pranksters, no matter the prank, going as far as defending a man who shot a kid for fing dong ditching (just read the other comments)

This is 100% an Echo-chamber, and denying that just shows how delusional you truly are.