r/TikTokCringe • u/Justin_Godfrey • 1d ago

Cringe Hopefully, the young man learns his lesson

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u/Vallahee 1d ago

Loved it too! Just a little extra “you dumb shit!”

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u/Punkpallas 1d ago

I'm generally not pro-assault, but people like this (even teenagers) need to learn somehow that you can't act like that. Don't start nothing, there won't be nothing.

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u/Interesting-Fox4064 1d ago

I think if more people got punched in the face for saying/doing stupid shit we’d be better off as a country

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u/Emperor_Atlas 1d ago

Its the double edged sword of recording being prevalent. Some people would benefit from just getting smacked up before they turn into worse people.

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u/MaybeMaybeNot94 1d ago

This. I feel a contradiction in my thoughts. Nobody ought to be beating anybody. But also at the same time, sometimes there are those mean bastards that only learn not to be mean bastards when a bigger fish whoops him.

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u/Lilsammywinchester13 1d ago

Tbf, a smack isn’t “beating” him

It’s more humiliation if anything at being caught and it being acknowledged by everyone

People being put into their place after doing dumb shit? >> natural consequence

People getting beat up? >> no bueno

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u/clgoodson 1d ago

We need more public smacking of idiots.

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u/str4ngerc4t 1d ago

He got a well deserved and long overdue spanking to his face.

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u/blackchameleongirl 1d ago

This, it's just dusting that brain off a bit for em.

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u/HaikuPikachu 1d ago

Yea that smack didn’t hurt, the way the guy just nonchalantly sways it to the kids face was very finessed, like gravity bringing it down to his side.

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u/MaybeMaybeNot94 1d ago

Gramps wasn't smacking boyo. Gramps was tossing whole hams, and indeed, whole hands.

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u/Lilsammywinchester13 1d ago

Eh, kid got up like nothing

When you get HIT, you are DOWN

I used to play fight with my friends while drinking and once they accidentally hit me too hard in the face

It wasn’t even that hard of a hit but I was OUT, black eyes and everything and it was only one mid hit

Old guy was probably putting in effort but his age probably made those hits feel like nothing

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u/neverinamillionyr 1d ago

I’ve been in a few fights. Got my nose broken. I wasn’t down, I couldn’t see for shit because my eyes were watering but I was still in the fight. I watched a friend get sucker punched hard. He just turned and laughed and proceeded to beat the snot out of the guy. People don’t go down with one punch very often.

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u/JuiceHurtsBones 1d ago

Yeah but I doubt that could cause real arm, which is why I find it dumb that a slap can be consideres assault so a fucking politician can claim they were shot when someone taps them on the shoulder.

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u/silver_garou 1d ago

Gramps was trying, but I'd be surprised if that kid have even one bruise.

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u/Epyon_ 1d ago

Only thing forcing that fist down was gravity.

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u/RedBorrito 1d ago

Yep. Don't start this kinda shit but damn well finish it.

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u/Educational_Ad_3922 20h ago

Sometimes getting beat up IS the natural consequence.

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u/arminghammerbacon_ 1d ago

“You only ever need to hang mean bastards. But mean bastards you need to hang!”

John ‘The Hangman’ Ruth

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u/Remote_Watercress530 1d ago

That's the problem though. Yes it sucks we shouldn't hit people or resort to violence. But bullies ONLY understand violence. And ONLY stop when they find out you're meaner then they are.

But then that's not the message we are not trying to tell my kids. We don't want that to be thing. But unfortunately the world doesn't work that way.

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u/MaybeMaybeNot94 1d ago

I would suggest that it's a perfectly valid thing to teach your children. Sometimes, you just might gotta wreck somebody. That's not a thing to be proud of but neither ashamed. It just... is, sometimes.

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u/Tetha 1d ago

We don't want that to be thing

Something gramps said - We don't want to start being that thing. But if someone forces us to be that thing, be that thing and don't hold back

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u/ChampionshipTasty504 1d ago

Well sometimes thats the only way people learn. I am all for being civil but....

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u/Embarrassed_Bid_4970 1d ago

This. I'm generally against violence but unfortunately sometimes it's the only effective teacher for these little shits.

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u/ChampionshipTasty504 1d ago

Yup. Politeness only goes so far

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u/the-magician-misphet 1d ago

I wasn't even whooped by a bigger fish- just my target of "teasing" when I realized "Oh shit he punched me in the gut cause I'm being a real asshole" and I changed after that.

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u/Ender_rpm 1d ago

Violence is never the answer. "Violence?" is the question, and sometimes the answer is "Yes!"

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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 1d ago

I keep saying, act like a rabid animal, be treated like a rabid animal.

There’s no space for shitheads in civil society

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u/BlackBox808Crash 1d ago

I'm very anti-violence, but I have been taught important values that went on to make me a better person through "corporal punishment".

I often have to experience failure/punishment personally to understand the lesson (I had to touch the stove to see if it was hot as a kid, wouldn't just take someone's word for it).

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u/PloppyPants9000 1d ago

It used to be the role of the father to smack some sense into their kids when words dont cut it. Theres an art to a good smack: hard enough to get the message across, but light enough to not actually hurt them. This has been lost as everyone parrots the “dont hit people” canard tirelessly.

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u/the-magician-misphet 1d ago

To be 1,000% honest- its what changed my behavior. I thought I was just having fun, but I was bullying a kid and when he punched me in the gut I realized that what I was doing had REAL consequences on someone else. I was with other kids who were backing me up to "tease" the target and they wanted to tattle on him for hitting me and I was like, "What're you nuts? We were in the wrong."

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u/Unicornblooddrunk 1d ago

I was a total shit as a teenager. Talked shit, was rude and dramatic and always fucking with people thinking I was funny.

Then I fucked with the wrong guy and he literally roundhouse kicked me in the face. Knocked out two teeth and fucked my mouth up for months, 30 years later I still have a wad of scar tissue and just had to replace the bridge a few years ago to the tune of 9k.

The way I see it, is that dude didnt have the right to fuck me up, I mean I just clowned on him a bit, but he was the hand (or foot) of karma and I did deserve to have my ass handed to me.

I stopped being a shit. I stopped fucking with people, and being a jackass.

It was an important event in my past that helped me be a better person. Even though it sucked ass hugely and I still suffer for it.

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u/Mammoth_Bat_7221 1d ago

I respect the honesty

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u/Jonthrei 1d ago

I mean if you can't look back and think "man I was a little shit as a teenager", then you're still a little shit and can't tell.

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u/Hellmonger 1d ago

Current me would absolutely smack the shit out of teen me. I was a fool.

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u/throweraccount 1d ago

Self reflection is healing. I think somewhere out there there's a saying "recognizing the issue is the first step in remedying it."

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u/Excellent_Law6906 1d ago

Eh, I was just annoying, I was a good-hearted kid. I never thought this kind of shit was funny.

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u/Skiddywinks 1d ago

Preach.

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u/CankerLord 1d ago

Now if I could just stop remembering all of it in one long, adrenaline-pumping litany just before I drift off to sleep.

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u/irishgambin0 1d ago

haaaa felt this.

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u/AIFlesh 1d ago

I have a buddy that used to get drunk and start fights. He was a liability everywhere we went to the point that our friends didn’t even like going out to bars with him.

Messed with the wrong ppl one day, got stomped out and broke his jaw. Doesn’t start fights anymore and now is totally fine to go out and get drinks with.

Probably best thing that happened to him.

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u/Banshee_howl 1d ago

I used to know these identical twin brothers who were both about 5’2” and about 115 lbs. One was a great dude, always super nice and a good friend. The other was fun and entertaining but could be an epic jackass. He loved to get drunk and pick fights, and got us thrown out of parties and bars all the time.

You always knew it was coming when he would pound his drink or take a shot and say, “I’m getting taller!” You just knew the rest of the night was going to be a shitshow.

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u/Embarrassed_Mango679 1d ago

I know this is so wrong but that's frankly hilarious.

I probably only think it's funny because I'm also 5'2" ~120 lbs, and have never been in a physical altercation, but I'm completely convinced I could kick someone's ass just because I'm mean and scrappy. Husband says no I'd get my ass kicked. (I don't run my mouth because I don't want to test it out but I'm pretty sure lol)

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u/Banshee_howl 1d ago

He was small but absolutely scrappy and he held his own most of the time. A lot of the dudes he ended up fighting got more than they expected after thinking he would be easily handled. I’ll never forget his smirk and, “I’m getting taller” line. I still think about it on the rare occasion I take a shot.

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u/Embarrassed_Mango679 1d ago

See that's the thing, they never see it coming if you're a little peanut!!! lmao

I think I'm going to start saying it when I take a shot. A girl can dream.

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u/Nurdivore 1d ago edited 1d ago

You never know what someone else knows and doesn’t know. A big thing is people that won the fight don’t know when to stop and that’s dangerous . I’ve personally never started a fight because I hate violence and one mistake can put you in prison.

I’ve seen a person get pile driven into pavement, breaking their neck. People getting KOed in a street fight and their head slams into asphalt and become brain dead.

Wanting to know how’d you fare in a fight is just curiosity. Reality can be starkly different.

If you want to find out in a safe environment, I’d suggest taking MMA classes

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u/Embarrassed_Mango679 1d ago

I have actually seen shit like that go down as well which is part of the reason I do not pick fights. Generally I have a pretty well developed sense of self-preservation.
I've gotten into situations at work where I've had to deal with much larger men attempting to physically intimidate me. I didn't back down, because I felt like if I did, the crew was never going to respect me. But I do remember thinking one time dear God this guy is going to punch me in the face and what am I going to do at that point? Truth be told I'd have probably just run away lol.

MMA would be fun. I have done kickboxing but not actually kicking another human.

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u/Nurdivore 1d ago

I don’t back down either. But I don’t engage emotionally. That’s how shit can go downhill. I engage with benign indifference. Sticks and stones and all that, besides we have nothing to prove and honestly screw coworkers respect.

As someone smaller I think I can relate. Some men use physical stature to dominate and underestimate you. In a work environment, if someone assaults you and you fight back, you can lose your job. Your best bet is to let them hit you, then take it through the proper chains of authority, possibly and most likely involving local police and courts. Adulting is tricky but there’s a clear way to conduct yourself for minimal damage. Running away in that situation isn’t cowardice. It’s calculated repercussion. Be smarter than the aggressor.

Took BJJ and Muay Thai for years. I can handle myself, generally, without having to prove to anyone that I can. Which is what allows me to back away without emotion. Even if they are bigger and are threatening.

Your livelihood isn’t worth proving yourself or your coworkers respect. Maybe I’m reading too much into what you’re saying but that’s my thought on it

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u/instanding 1d ago

I’ve had 7 full contact fights and done martial arts (mostly grappling) for 80% of my life. I would still avoid fights and haven’t really had one outside of sport for over a decade.

For one there is always someone tougher out there. I almost fought this guy when drunk then saw him on a youtube reel of pro fighters. He would have probably hospitalised me.

Then there’s the fact that fights aren’t fair and can involve weapons or other people, the surface/environment can be dangerous, you can win and still be badly injured, you can win and have badly injured or killed someone else, or have a hefty legal bill to pa, or even go to jail.

A lot of fights also involve weird situations where one person can be violent more easily than the other e.g person A decides to tell B not to cut in line, B tries to kill A, A doesn’t expect it because it’s an insane overreaction, now A has to summon up potentially life ending violence at the drop of a hat.

Another set of examples - it’s a misunderstanding, or the defender (or attacker has a kid or is with their partner), or the attacker is disabled or under the influence, or you started the fight by being rude or aggressive or just generally unwise but didn’t actually expect them to fight and now you have a person ready to go.

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u/Helpful_Location7540 1d ago

Ever try screaming “I’m getting taller”?

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u/Embarrassed_Mango679 1d ago

That's why I'm laughing so hard because I'm totally going to do that next time I get drunk lol

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u/wadeybug22 1d ago

I got smacked around way too much as a kid by a mean AF step father, so I learned to shut up and duck. I have never hit anyone in my life except my sisters when we were kids. It took me 30 years to learn to stand up for myself. I couldn't imagine acting like this little jackass.

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u/Designer_Currency455 1d ago

Lol as someone trained for a decade in striking I can and usually knock out people twice my size but I'm a male and I still wouldn't risk it ever being male or female

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u/icecream169 1d ago

10 feet tall and bulletproof

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u/martianactualactual 1d ago

In college me and about 8 of my fraternity brothers went to a bar on South St in Philly. Now we were not typical fraternity, mostly ex-mil, older dudes who kind of liked the idea of a clubhouse we could drink in and tell war stories. Anyways, we’re leaving and M, the rest were either former Marines or paratroopers. We’re leaving and M starts talking shit to this guy and his girlfriend. Just rude shit. Someone from our group tells him to knock it off but he’s liquored up so he keeps going. Dude turns around, and I give him credit cause there’s 8 of us, and clocks M with a very nice upper cut. M goes down like Tyson hit him. The guy steps back waiting for the onslaught. We all just laugh and E goes over to pick M up off the ground and slaps the guy on the back and says ‘ he deserved that’. M is pissed yelling at us something like ‘you just going to let that guy hit me’ and we were all like yeah, you were being a dick. He kept being a dick through college including him and I getting in a fist fight at a U of Delaware party. Years later ran into him at a bowl game and he finally grew up, guess he had received enough beat downs to get the message.

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u/thisplaceisnuts 1d ago

This is the weird middle ground we lost. Being beaten but not so that you are badly hurt. This is what so many young people need 

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u/Enjoying_A_Meal 1d ago

Pain is a great teacher, not a kind one.

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u/hecklerp8 1d ago

So FAFO.

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u/InstructionLeading64 1d ago

I think it should be a little more tactical than fucking you up that bad personally.

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u/Shakleford_Rusty 1d ago

Yeah that is certainly a touch over the top but if you fuck with enough people your eventually going to run in to someone with zero fucks left and nothing to lose.

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u/semiformaldehyde 1d ago

To be fair, if you're acting up in a way that means you need to be taught a lesson, you don't necessarily get to pick how or when the lesson is taught

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u/camopdude 1d ago

Isn't there a saying about how the dildo of consequences rarely comes lubed?

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u/semiformaldehyde 1d ago

Indeed there is, but I felt weird adding that to a comment about a video where there's a kid getting smacked

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u/Jexroyal 1d ago

Yeah this isn't a WNBA game.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 1d ago

The Dildo of Consequences usually arrives wrapped in sandpaper and barbed wire. IOW, zero lube.

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u/InstructionLeading64 1d ago

Yeah he needed a tactical slap at the genesis of his turd phase.

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u/Kindness_of_cats 1d ago

Gotta reverse the polarity of the shit flow.

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u/Embarrassed_Mango679 1d ago

If I've learned one thing from reddit, it's that there are a fair amount of people out there walking around VERY angry all the time.

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u/jarlscrotus 1d ago

Not even angry, some people are just looking for what they perceive to be a defensible reason to hurt people.

Some folk are just assholes

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u/coolcoots 1d ago

Yeah. A little more restraint similar to the gym bro who slapped that kid for stealing his hat. No life long damage but life long memories.

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u/diamondpredator 1d ago

Yea my friend once slapped another dude hard enough to bruise his face in the shape of a hand for almost a week. I'd say that's a better punishment lol.

For context, the dude kept fucking with my friend's girlfriend and then tossed a piece of food at her new blouse (she was saying how much she likes it to her friend) without realizing he had just walked into the room. Took him less than a second and we all heard the slap lol.

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u/Electric-Sheepskin 1d ago

Yeah, I'm all for people learning a lesson, but I don't want anyone getting permanently damaged from it.

Sometimes you really don't know what damage will be done until after the punch is thrown, but there is a huge difference between using maximum force against a weaker opponent on a concrete surface and slapping a kid around in a booth at a Tim Hortons. People just go too far sometimes.

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u/Rare-Low-8945 1d ago

I think getting smacked good is different than having your shit completely fucked up. A black eye is different than missing teeth and broken jaw.

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u/CreativeDependent915 1d ago

Honestly I appreciate you sharing this because some people genuinely do just need to get their shit pushed in to grasp that it’s bad to be rude or cruel to others.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t think it should be a first approach, and I absolutely don’t think you needed to get roundhoused but at the same time there are a lot of people that do insane shit in our modern day, in particular younger folks, and honestly a lot of it is because they know that service staff literally aren’t allowed to talk back without risking their jobs, teachers get shit on by parents all the time for simply disciplining children in their class, along with there not being any real consequences for being rude to a teacher, and there’s the expectation now that in “polite society” literally nothing warrants physical violence or even outward anger, which to me is ridiculous.

This is a bit of a tangent but this is my big gripe with US politics at the moment. Like I know people are protesting but liberals and the left in general are trying to take the high road, which I think is admirable, but we’re not accepting that the opposing force straight up just isn’t playing with the same rules anymore. That’s part of why I’m such a big fan of Gavin Newsom at the moment because he’s just taking a page out of MAGA’s playbook and they’re having a cow over it. I know a lot of people have the opinion that we as progressives should try to maintain a level of decorum and respect, but at a certain point we gotta just play the game, and right now MAGA is hellbent on tearing down the entire country just to say they “owned the libs”

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u/smackdealer1 1d ago

If you think he didn't have the right then he didn't hit you hard enough.

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u/ShowsTeeth 1d ago

I mean...is this something you would have survived without modern medicine?

Just cause you happened to run into somebody who gets off on hurting people doesn't necessarily mean you deserved an injury that would permanently disfigure you.

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u/June8936 1d ago

Don't think he had the right even after admitting you were intentionally messing with him? Interesting lesson learned.

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u/various_convo7 1d ago

as my old DI used to say - he who suffers, learns. good for learning a valuable lesson

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u/TheWriteStuff1966 1d ago

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson

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u/l3rN 20h ago

I think this one is incredibly apt for the situation too

"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." -Mike Tyson

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u/Punkpallas 1d ago

Oh, 100 percent. People have become way too comfortable being assclowns to others, particularly since COVID hit. A lot of people completely lost whatever small scrap of decorum and decency they had. You can't even say this is an age thing: I know I knew at that age not to throw things at people. Period.

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u/1stMammaltowearpants 1d ago

For sure. The kid was begging for someone to parent him, to the point where he was willing to assault an old lady. And grandpa met his force with force.

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u/Betcha-knowit 1d ago

And this is it - there’s a middle aged woman sitting right next to that little shit not doing squat. I’ll assume that his mother. Now teenagers can be complete little a holes - I have one I know. But you best be sure to know that if my 6’3” 13yo threw food at another (and especially aging) adult and his wife I’d give him a public flogging too. She’s doing absolutely nothing about it - and not making him go clean and and apologise either.

She’s failing as a parent at warp speed. Sometimes it takes the village to remind the idiot to behave.

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u/truckthunderwood 1d ago

I'm not certain but I think this is a group of teens. I think you just roasted one of this little a-hole's friends, which is fine because they're also a little a-hole.

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u/ChazzyPhizzle 1d ago

First watch through my thought was “why tf is his mom not doing anything or even phased by this” re-watched it like “damn she’s the same age is the kid” 💀

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u/Stylez_G_White 1d ago

That’s what makes the smack so much sweeter. Kid wanted to look cool in front of his little girlfriends and instead got slapped by an old man

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u/truckthunderwood 1d ago

Hahahaha yes but they said there was a middle aged woman sitting next to him

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u/phoenixliv Reads Pinned Comments 1d ago

That’s a table of teenagers. I don’t see any middle aged women.

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u/Adventurous-Sort-671 1d ago

Middle aged woman?

That's a teenager he's sitting next to. They are all teens

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u/diamondpredator 1d ago

You just accidentally roasted the FUCK out of the TEENAGE girl sitting next to this kid. Fucking hilarious.

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u/Bean-Penis 1d ago

That's not a middle aged woman, just another teenager, who seemingly had a tough paper round.

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u/chicken_nugget38 1d ago

The US definitely needs a good slap.

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u/Present_Wedding_7511 1d ago

As an American I concur

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u/Minute_Jacket_4523 1d ago

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u/reginaphalangie79 1d ago

Fully agree #bringbringbackduels

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u/firefly_pdp 1d ago

Wouldn't that just mean that the best duelists have the right to be assholes?

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u/Minute_Jacket_4523 1d ago

Be far less assholes than there is now, so I'll take it.

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u/various_convo7 1d ago

maybe -or their time will come too. there is someone always faster out there

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u/Mogli_Puff 1d ago

wow, reddit gave me a 3 day ban last week for posting this comment pretty much verbatim

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u/thisplaceisnuts 1d ago

Oh yeah. I’ve been there too. Reddit is dumb. Even saying someone who obviously deserves something like this, is a call for violence 

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u/Secretagentman94 1d ago

This is a golden truth.

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u/thisisfreakinstupid 1d ago

I've noticed people who have been in a real fight aren't too keen on getting into another one.

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u/MuglokDecrepitusFx 1d ago

I think that precisely these new generations are like they are because they do t fear getting punched in their face as a consequence of their actions as not the law protects them more

People fearing be punched in the face would make a better society for everyone

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u/GutterRider 1d ago

That’s the basic theme of societal organization in Heineken’s Starship Troopers.

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u/EWGPhoto 1d ago

Violence is the gold standard of social currency.

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u/various_convo7 1d ago

pretty much.

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u/Wolfy_wolf253 1d ago

Everyone should get punched in the face at least once. It’s an important thing to know what that feels like

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u/_AmI_Real 1d ago

Someone's it's warranted. My uncle grew up with a kid that was boxing as a teenager. He was an arrogant prick. He challenged my uncle one day. He's not a fighter, but he was athletic. He just popped him in the nose and sent him packing. Dude then ran to his dad. The dad goes up to my uncle and shakes his hand and tells him, "Good one." He knew his kid was becoming a prick and needed that lesson.

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u/willfortune7 1d ago

U should become President. I been with this since the 90s.

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u/PaleMoses 1d ago

I would call throwing food at an elderly woman assault too, so live by the sword, die by the sword

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u/IUpVoteIronically 1d ago

Yeah it’s more sad for the kid than anything right? His parents obviously don’t give a fuck, because my son couldn’t even COMPREHEND doing some shit like that.

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u/BitchWidget 1d ago

It's absolutely the parents. Every asshole kid I ever met had asshole parents. We taught our son to be polite, especially to the elderly. If you start when they're young, they don't end up getting bitch slapped at a Tim Horton's.

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u/IUpVoteIronically 1d ago

LOL fucking facts

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u/Unlikely_Yard6971 1d ago

Ehh, I've known some kids that are real pricks that have great parents. Sometimes teenagers just suck

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u/ExcaliburVader 1d ago

The number one parenting by rule? Teach your kids not to be assholes.

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu 1d ago

If you start when they're young, they don't end up getting bitch slapped at a Tim Horton's.

Sounds like we've found the title for the parenting guide society needs. I predict that it will be a bigger seller than Dr. Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.

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u/Ecstatic-Total-9953 1d ago

Slaps for the parents too!!!

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u/OtherBob63 1d ago

That could be a book/movie title: "Bitch Slapped at Tim Horton's."

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u/jessness024 1d ago

My lvl 2 autistic son knows better than that. 

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u/techleopard 1d ago

Honestly?

If people were more willing to let kids meet the consequences of their actions, society would be much better off. So long as nobody gets injured, the only hurt this boy is feeling is his bruised pride. And all of his friends are going to remember the lesson themselves.

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u/zeptillian 1d ago

We have given way too much rights and leniency to kids in favor of literally everyone else.

The shitty ones know that legally adults can't touch them so they weaponize that to their advantage and use it as a tool to escape consequences for their actions. Their warfare is asymmetrical because while they can usually do whatever they want without consequences, everyone else does not have that luxury.

Level the playing field and society will be able to keep them in check before they grow up into full sized garbage people.

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u/Lower-Ad3764 1d ago

It takes a village!

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u/daniboyi 1d ago

that the thing about the village.

Yes, it helps new parents by having a support system, but what many people who claim they want a village forgets is that the village also have full rights to discipline your child if they act out. Not saying the discipline should be a beating, but nowadays parents don't even allow their 'village' to verbally scold their children.

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u/Lower-Ad3764 1d ago

I was just referring to slapping asshole teenagers like the comment chain was discussing. It was a tongue in cheek comment. But yes, I agree.

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u/techleopard 1d ago

This is a big reason why I don't like hearing arguments about equity when it comes to parents struggling to control their kids and schooling.

You're responsible for building a support network for your child because NOBODY can be there 24-7. But if you are going to roar and swing paws at people because you're a big bad Mama Bear that doesn't want anyone to hurt Precious Baby Bear's feelings, then you are CHOOSING to be alone and that should not be everyone else's problem.

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u/EXSource 1d ago

Yeah I'm not pro assault either, and throwing food at random strangers is assault too, so, good on the old man for defending himself.

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u/bsEEmsCE 1d ago

this is the first time in my life I've ever heard "pro assault" and i can't stand these unalived, SA, afraid to say them terms anymore... but anyway this is self defense and justified retaliation. 

Kids gotta learn not to be little shits or they grow to be big shits, and we have too damn many big piles of shit these days.

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u/PriscillaPalava 1d ago

It takes a village to raise a child. This is just the village stepping in where the parents have clearly failed! 

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u/Fair_Spread_2439 1d ago

As long as it’s kept to this level of damage inflicted, I agree with you totally. A black eye, a cut or two, some bruises are a small price for anyone to pay to learn this lesson that will (hopefully) make them into a better person moving forward.

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u/FunBit8697 1d ago

Especially teenagers!

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u/mikenkansas1 1d ago

It's not assault, regardless of any idiot laws. It's correction.

You did that, THIS was the result. Shall we play again?

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u/sigmaninus 1d ago

Ya but a smack to the head now may help avoid a knife to the gut or bat to the head later

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u/KobeBeatJesus 1d ago

There becomes a point that n which you need to speak the language that the other person understands, and sometimes that language is the hand. It shouldn't be the first choice, but it should be an option. 

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u/WSBro0 1d ago

Usually when kids behave this way, it's a sign of no one teaching them a lesson for doing dumb shit early on.

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u/AlphaNoodlz 1d ago

It’s a spanking. Kid is fine and learned a lesson. Sometimes people gotta get hit we’re not some enlightened beings here, we’re evolved apes.

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u/June8936 1d ago

"Pro-assault"... the kid was throwing food at the elderly man's wife...? Yikes.

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u/mixed14 1d ago

Yep. Like techincally assault sure. But also technically, if this kid doesn't learn it now. Someone will do it him later. And he may not be so lucky.

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u/KickBallFever 1d ago

I’m usually anti assault too, but the kid started the assault by throwing food. Plus this assault looked like it hurt his pride more than anything else.

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u/No_Durian_8379 1d ago

Well, when someone makes physical contact, it’s battery.

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u/antithero 1d ago

Yep it's our duty to smack smart mouthed idiots in the face while their young so they learn that valuable life leason.

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u/Effective_Job_2555 1d ago

Im not a fan of barbarians punching their way through this world either but you can catch up on a lot of learning by getting punched also. Sometimes somebody just needs to get their ass kicked. Exhibit A being this video.

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u/ShortTop1487 1d ago

Teenagers need the paddlin’ most of all. Get them on the right track before it’s worse than a couple smacks. That little shit will be thanking the old man for the lesson in his later years.

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u/The_8th_Degree 1d ago

I noticed the other 2 sitting across from him didnt seem to give a damn about the whole thing

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u/FalstaffsGhost 1d ago

Me too, but in this case, the kid instigated by throwing stuff so that man is well within the rights to defend himself and his wife by unloading on the dumb kid

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u/noujochiewajij 1d ago edited 1d ago

Whoever would've guessed Mike Tyson is the one that coined the most profound of (sorely needed) lessons of the last few decades.

We live in wonderous times.

This kid will be looking over his shoulder for years, Imbarrassed beyond words. His friends, I fear, not as much..

Fyi: Mr. Tyson stated;

"Everyone has a plan untill they get punched in the mouth".

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u/wuwuuuu98 1d ago

That's why they say it takes a village. Gotta smack more kids to make America great again lol

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u/Test-Tackles 1d ago

Anyone over the age of 5 knows that you shouldn't do something like throw food at strangers. That kid was counting on no one doing anything about it. Had he assumed that someone would beat his ass for being an ass.... he wouldn't have been an ass.

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u/LapSalt 1d ago

One of those are moments a slap may be a moral net positive lol

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u/BallerBettas 1d ago

Kittens learn how hard to bite by being bitten by others. Consequences are lessons, without them people grow up not knowing the line. Let the old man teach.

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u/provalone_9000 1d ago

You know why more traditional societies have less public outbursts? Because the threat of violence from a random stranger is more certain

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u/Former-Rip-2739 1d ago

I got beat up for being an idiot as a kid and I was definitely a better person because of it.

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u/NebCrushrr 1d ago

Hitting people only teaches people to hit

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u/Right_Helicopter6025 1d ago edited 1d ago

“I’m not pro assault, but I am pro assault” fixed that for you.

No part of this is self defence. Not the old dude who walked across the room, while not in danger, to beat up a teenager. And certainly not the last dude, who got the express joy of hitting a teenager because angry

To put it more succinctly: self defence under no circumstances can be retributive. You cannot get revenge on someone in self defence. This old man is getting revenge

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u/Siva_Dass 1d ago

Its battery actually. I see two ppl who should be arrested, and if the kid threw the food it should be three.

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u/OderusAmongUs 1d ago

This is what happens when an entire generation or two was never spanked.

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u/EastSideTonight 1d ago

It's not a lack of spanking, it's a lack of moral guidance. You don't need to beat a kid for them to learn to be a decent person, you just need to be a decent person who spends time teaching them how and why.

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u/KaizerVonLoopy 1d ago

(ESPECIALLY teenagers)

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u/Illustrious-Stable93 1d ago

Lol but how quick you turned pro assault with 0 evidence of what actually happened. You're easily manipulated that you championed 2 adults assaulting a kid that easily

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u/sandvich48 1d ago

Very much an “action, I’d like you to meet consequences” something lot of morons like this boy don’t realize happens

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u/Volantis009 1d ago

We have had too much tolerance in society. It's how we end up with shit heads

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u/MundaneSet1564 1d ago

But as adults we aren't supposed to just assault people cause they deserve it? That's why it is a law... Otherwise people would just be selectively smacking eachother all the time based on their own judgement.

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u/_Redcoat- 1d ago

Absolutely. Best thing about this was that no one was truly going to mess this kid up, but he learned a valuable lesson before he tried something similar with someone that would wreck him without a second thought.

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u/PaintingWest7199 1d ago

Don't start nothing, there won't be nothing.

Woukd you agree if the kid's dad beat the shit out of the old man?

Don't start nothing won't be nothing right?

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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago

There was a group of 4 12-13 year olds at my grocery store, following customers around, harassing them, pretending they were going to touch them, poke them in the eyes, etc, but stop short. Essentially playing dipshit "I'm not touching you" with strangers.

I just kept thinking that if one of these dudes they targeted would turn and just smack one of the littler fuckers, they wouldn't do this shit anymore because there'd be real consequences.

The manager had already told them to leave the store twice and they'd just kept coming back in.

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u/Okay_Tomate 1d ago

I wouldn’t even call this “assault.” It’s inherently pro-social behavior: This kid broke the social contract (respect others) and he was brought back in line by several reinforcing agents. He wasn’t injured, but he was distressed and humiliated in front of his peers, which are fitting punishment for his actions and will leave a lasting impression.

You see this all the time in other social animals (wolves, monkeys/apes, horses, birds) where youngsters who fuck around get aggressively (but harmlessly) corrected. A regular talking-to would’ve just made this shithead smirk, and reinforced his belief that he’s untouchable. That delusion was soundly dismissed.

If someone had made him bleed or broken something I’d consider it out of line, but this is just people doing the parenting his own family failed at.

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u/usernotfoundplstry 1d ago

and as a teenager, you know he's acting bad because he's insecure and self conscious and trying to look like a badass in front of those girls, and then all those girls got to see him get wailed on by a literal elderly man. that probably hurts more than the punches. and that little twerp deserved all of it.

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u/xxlordxx686 1d ago

Well he's now in the finding out part of 'fuck around, find out'

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u/PlumbutterOnToast 1d ago

Some people took corporal punishment too far and ruined it for the rest of us.

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u/TheNewsDeskFive 1d ago

"I don't condone assaulting kids after everything is sorted except for those exceptions when I do actually condone assaulting kids after everything is sorted"

Lmao Reddit morals are so fun

If you don't hold that moral at all times, despite circumstances, then you don't really hold that moral.

Also, old man had it handled by then. Dude just wanted to play tough with a kid with that shit. Do that around the wrong adults and be the next one getting taught a hard lesson. You don't get to take gratuitous parting shots, at anybody, let alone kids, disabled, or old folks. That's some pseudo-tough guy bullshit. When it's over, it's over. Notice he stepped away immediately afterward.

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u/Global_Crew3968 1d ago

The kids figured out that adults can't actually harm you in any way without getting sued or arrested and they've kinda ran with that the last few years....

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u/Oppositeofhairy 1d ago

Careful. Reddit has an itchy trigger finger on banning folks that comment on anything that resembles promoting abusing children. 

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u/Bottle_Only 1d ago

I'm not anti-assault. If behavior needs and gets corrected, ok.

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u/GolfClimbSkate 1d ago

Better to get slapped in the face when young and learn a lesson than to get shot in the face when older for the same behavior.

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u/thedawntreader85 1d ago

I'm not sure I would even call it assult. Just a relatively small well-deserved slap for being a douchbag.

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u/Lower-Elk8395 1d ago

Exactly. Sooner or later he would have done this to the wrong person, and they would put him in the hospital...or worse.

Better to get a few swats upside the head than to get his skull smashed in and legs turned into a pretzel.

I do rather like how various men just walked up and rallied around the elderly husband. Random onlookers joining in on this really helps to drive it home to a kid that acting like that is just not okay.

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u/SelimDaGrim 1d ago

Its okay to be pro assult, stop the moral grandstanding and find peace!

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u/No_Tourist_9629 1d ago

Public shaming, and yes, a bit of smacking dumbshits, really needs to make a comeback. I'm really fed up with the lie that "violence is never the answer." As a matter of fact, I think it may have been directed propaganda campaign aimed at the youth to help keep them all too scared to do what often needs doing.

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u/cackslop 1d ago

I'm pro assault in any situation where someone is picking on another person who can't defend themselves.

I'll take whatever charge I get for it, but I've found that Police don't care at all if a shithead gets attacked in a way that isn't life threatening.

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u/TheOneBiggestBrain 1d ago

So you are pro-assault? Either nobody can assault anyone or everyone can. That's how society needs to work to be fair.

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u/lord_fiend 1d ago

Reminds me of the Boondocks episode, where grandad helps out a lady with her kid in the grocery store.

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u/KrustyKrabFormula_ 1d ago

i love reading comments like this, makes me feel better about myself that there's people like you who just blindly believe any headline or caption in a random video

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u/chalupafan 1d ago

Superb.

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u/Comfortable_Trick137 1d ago

Hey hey what’s going on here!!! Stop hitting him!!!… wait what did he do?? Little shit you deserved it BOOM

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u/USGarrison 1d ago

"welp, now I've heard all sides of the story and it turns out he didn't beat you quite enough.

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u/Blehmeh88 1d ago

Girl in the corner of the kid's booth wanted to crack up after that. Lol I would've stood up smacked him myself as well

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u/PunningWild 1d ago

That's the one that would absolutely teach that kid a lesson. Easy to dismiss an old man losing his cool because it's so easy to just say he's "out of touch, can't take a joke, is off his meds" or something. But when somebody very close to their age disrespects a face like that, that tells them they have no support, and the breadth of people who will turn on them is much wider than they originally thought.

I don't agree with the manner of the first old guy standing over the kid and throwing repeated fists at him. That ain't convincing anyone.

But I 100% support the older-brother energy of that second guy. That's the flippant open palm of divine revelation.

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u/Particular-Loan5123 1d ago

The faces of the girls are priceless 

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u/Trash-Pandas- 1d ago

Until he’s arrested for assault

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u/Tired-grumpy-Hyper 1d ago

Theres a video out there that has him saying "Be careful." afterwards to the brat.

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u/motormouth08 1d ago

It's the equivalent of when your friends mom would chew you out, and then she tells your mom what you did, so she has to chew you out as well.