r/interestingasfuck • u/AdministrativeMud907 • 5d ago

A girl saves her boyfriend from a robbery by pointing a machine gun at two armed robbers.(Texas) r/all

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u/Mr3cto 5d ago

Didn’t seem like a robbery, looked like attempting to kidnap

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u/stickywicker 5d ago

100%. If they intended to rob they would have gone into his house and taken stuff. You don't rob a man in a tank top and boxers.

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u/drgreenthumb12372 5d ago

if he’s a dealer/affiliated, he won’t keep the stash in his house he’ll keep it hidden somewhere close by, that only he knows about. they prob wanted him to lead them to his stash house/location.

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u/Wickerpoodia 5d ago

That and his girlfriend has a machine gun ready at the door within 3 seconds.

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u/machstem 5d ago

Yeah my kids would need at least 2-3mins to get themselves strapped for business.

I like to call the youngest one Bandolier.

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u/BestDescription3834 5d ago

Picturing a 3 year old you call Bandy, for short, strapped to your chest and wielding 2 six shooters.

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u/PiesRLife 5d ago

Wasn't there a skit or something about a guy strapping a child to his chest so his hands were free to dual wield, but referring to it as "unethical body armor"?

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u/Skullfuccer 5d ago

Pretty sure it originated from the comic “Preacher.” Could have been around before, but that’s where I first saw it way back.

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u/iamthehob0 5d ago

There's a Key and Peele skit where a guy covers himself in babies so he can win a street fight.

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u/damienreave 5d ago

a child would make terrible body armor. far less robust than a standard ceramic insert.

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u/YogiTheGamer 4d ago

That’s not funny, but it is hilarious.

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u/Due_Bet3782 4d ago

“Shoot em up” had Clive Owen carrying a baby the entire movie whilst, well, shooting up assassins. It delivers on its title.

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u/Ultima-Veritas 5d ago

Who left the fridge open?

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u/PiesRLife 4d ago

Lol - not what I was thinking off, but that's good too.

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u/Jorgsacul1973 5d ago

Can almost see the Eddie Van Halen leather sombrero he’s wearing…classic Bandy

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u/Creepy-Selection2423 5d ago

I say I say Brandy, nice big AK, what a good shot, you would be...

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u/ObviouslyNotALizard 4d ago

Just like the founding fathers intended

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u/_IratePirate_ 4d ago

With binky in mouth too

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u/Shippyweed2u 1d ago

I'm late, but the incredibles come to mind

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u/zdubs 5d ago

I call the big one bitey

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u/LiveShowOneNightOnly 5d ago

Non-Americans have no idea.

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u/Quirky-Swimmer3778 5d ago

You haven't gotten the "lil tyke's first gun safe" for them yet? It has a one digit combo so they can get ready for their big kid gun safes.

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u/machstem 5d ago

I've moved over their educational fund to help pay for the bunker base but I'm really not feeling like any of it's being appreciated

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u/FreeAssange- 5d ago

3 minutes? You're obviously letting them skip some training!

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u/dojo_shlom0 5d ago

that 90% weight reduction on ammo is huge in these situations.

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u/tonydanzaoystercanza 4d ago

Bro, you guys need to start doing drills to lower that time. You’d be long gone by the time your mini warlords were geared.

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u/EggBonus 3d ago

Got the nap sack n the gat?

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u/LiveInShadesOfBlue 5d ago

There’s a 99.999% chance it’s not a machine gun

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u/phazedoubt 5d ago

I'd say less the chance is less than that, but you're right that it's much less likely to be fully auto.

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u/glockster19m 5d ago

It's an AK though, which are fairly prohibitively difficult to convert from semi to full auto

This apartment building isn't nice enough for them to be able to afford the equipment to do it

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u/DamnZodiak 5d ago

For some reason, many older parts kits used to come with an auto sear. Milling the slot in the bottom rail of the receiver does take some skills and tools but I reckon many shady people did those conversions back in the day and many of them might still be floating around.

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u/glockster19m 5d ago

I think that the vast majority of people with full autos on the streets nowadays are those with a temu glock switch or an AR and a coat hanger tbh

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u/glockster19m 5d ago

I was just making a joke

Not trying to inform the uneducated masses

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u/JerrySmithIsASith 5d ago

Anybody with a Dremel and the right attitude is a gunsmith.

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u/Icy-Worth2040 4d ago

Nah. They need some JB Weld too.

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u/HypnoStone 5d ago

Plenty of legitimate professional salesmen who are more than willing to do the work though for a cheap price of tree fitty

Edit: Especially in Texas

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u/WhatevBroski 4d ago

For Tree Fiddy?!?

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u/HypnoStone 4d ago

Yes just one time just a small fee of tree fiddy? And trust me I am 100% not the lochness monster

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u/beardicusmaximus8 5d ago

My local best buy (I'm in Southern Arizona, 30 minute walk from Mexico) was robbed by a van full of men with full auto AKs. So I'd say it depends on how close he is to Mexico and how closely he is affiliated with the cartels or not.

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u/phazedoubt 5d ago

Those guys are amateurs. I doubt anyone in this situation is close enough to the cartel to have their gear.

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u/hoxxxxx 5d ago

if it is one then they def don't want this video on the internet

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u/FuzzyPine 4d ago

well, it's been on the net for a good long while...

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u/Dagwood-DM 5d ago

If he's a gang member, especially a drug dealer in a gang, the odds are surprisingly high it's been modified to be automatic.

But of course, it's not a machine gun.

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u/TheGreatMightyLeffe 5d ago

Honestly, though, if anyone points something even vaguely machine gun looking in my direction, I'm not sticking around to find out if it really is one, or if it's a mislabelled semi-auto rifle with a box mag.

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u/Original_Banana_4617 5d ago

Given as that was an AK patterned rifle and that is not at all a machine gun, I would venture to say it’s a 100% chance it’s not a machine gun.

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u/Ninjaflippin 5d ago

Do gangbangers still have SMGs? I was under the impression Macs and Uzis were common place for a while there. Maybe that's just hollywood.

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u/LiveInShadesOfBlue 5d ago

Glocks with switches are the new thing for bangers to want

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u/Matstele 5d ago

Assault rifle ≠ machine gun. That was an AK, a kind of assault rifle. It most likely isn’t even automatic, as the full auto parts are banned to the point that manufacture and shipping those parts in the US is almost impossible.

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u/ovrlrd1377 5d ago

You are correct in your concepts, most non English speakers would associate any gun that has some automation as a "machine gun", even when it doesn't apply to the actual repetitive mechanism

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u/Sudden_Construction6 5d ago

Yeah, those "impossible to get parts" are readily available. Actually easier to get than a firearm itself since the parts aren't regulated. But if you put them in your rifle without the proper paperwork you're going bye bye for a long time.

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u/clm1859 5d ago

Haha you are very right but you are gonna make some people very angry by misusing the term assault rifle. Which technically should be full auto.

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u/Junai7 5d ago

Select fire, as in semi auto and can also fire either full auto or burst fire (2 or more cartridges per single action of the trigger).

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u/jdgsr 5d ago

How are people so confidently incorrect? Machine guns are not banned. They are highly regulated under the national Firearms act and generally prohibitively expensive for most people to legally buy transferable ones, but that's it. This is not a machine gun, an assault rifle is a stupid made-up term. Also. You can buy a machine gun if you pay a $200 tax, and pay and inflated price because the manufacturer of new transferable machine guns for civilian ownership was banned after 1986, leaving unlimited supply and an ever increasing demand. Illegal semi-automatic AR-15 lower can be had for as cheap as $30. A legal machine gun. Select fire AR-15 lower is closer to $30,000.

Regarding construction of parts and shipping, there's no regulation any different from regular firearm there. Ffls with an sot regularly produce machine guns, post 1986, every single day. They're just not transferable and are typically for law enforcement or other purposes such as demonstration, etc.

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u/MrWaffler 5d ago

Alright listen I generally am on board with correcting people's misunderstandings and terminology, but..

assault rifle is a stupid made-up term

First, all words are made up by definition - words are literally what you get when humans stupidly make up a term for something.

Second, and certainly more importantly, assault rifle is a pretty decent delineation of a type of select fire rifle. The terms "assault rifle" and "assault weapon" typically used in American gun discourse ARE typically used incorrectly to refer to any large, accurate rifle with a high capacity magazines with visual resemblances to "call of duty guns" which definitely shouldn't be categorized as Assault Rifles in the sense they were classified prior to the rise in popularity of those terms in American gun discourse.

"Assault weapons" is the "stupid made-up" term as there's no encompassing definition, and really seems to just refer to accurate, larger caliber rifles with high capacity magazines and ability to rapidly and accurately inflict large amounts of terror and chaos into American communities, which may be useful in coloring the discussion by hijacking the way we talk about things but is pretty worthless as far as a classification of a weapon goes

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u/OneBigRed 4d ago

I found that funny too. Yeah it's a made up term. By germans, when they made the first assault rifle and named it sturmgewehr. Assault rifle is a straight translation of that.

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u/caustic_smegma 5d ago

I get that most people on reddit aren't able to identify an AR/AK type rifle in a short clip, but "machine gun"?? Like, cmon...

I read the title and immediately thought, "oh shit who's rocking an M249, BAR, or M60 by their front door". Saw the rifle and was disappointed.

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u/Started_WIth_NADA 5d ago

Add another couple 9s and we will call it good.

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u/joeygymnastics 5d ago

100% chance

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u/2LostFlamingos 4d ago

To be fair, it did the job required at the necessary time.

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u/Jort_Sandeaux_420_69 5d ago

found the gun guy

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u/fordlover5 5d ago

Where machine gun? All I saw was a semi auto most likely century arms AK clone.

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u/shokzz 5d ago

Thank you for this. The term “machine gun” really bothered me.

Also, nice nickname. I drive a Ford and love it too.

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u/PM_ME_UR_SM0L_BOOBS 5d ago

I read it and was like oh shit someone bust out of the house with an mg42 or something but no just sadness

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u/fordlover5 5d ago

I'm on a crown vic currently.

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u/Junai7 5d ago

Panther platform supremacy.

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u/BluSteel-Camaro23 5d ago

Now kiss.

*Chevy

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u/Plenty_Pack_556 5d ago

This is what happens when you got a antigunner who lives outside of the US in India writing headlines.

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u/Belgand 5d ago

It's not even a SAW, let alone a .50 cal.

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u/fordlover5 5d ago

I didn't do the " not an assault rifle thing" but now I will. An assault rifle is a rifle for attacking positions, examples of one being a m240, m249, RPK, m1919, m1918, hotchkiss, and so on.

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u/VRichardsen 4d ago

Sorry to bother, but is this sarcastic? Because those are not assault rifles.

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u/fordlover5 4d ago

It is mostly sarcasm. It's poking fun at the guy that started up the assault rifle thing in the comment section

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u/VRichardsen 4d ago

My apologies, then. I wasn't sure, and I thought it was better to ask rather than making a fool of myself. Thank you kindly for your reply.

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u/ZekkieB 5d ago

I don’t know much about guns. But aren’t the ones you’re mentioning light machine guns? And assault rifles being m16, m4a1, ak 47 etc etc?

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u/Own-Mark1285 5d ago

No. “Machine guns” mean automatic and they are almost impossible to obtain. There are hacks you can do to kind of recreate it, but not really. Most civilian guns are semi-auto but with the same structure as the military machine guns. But it’s not about the shape of the gun, it’s not able to fire automatically. Hence not a machine gun.

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u/SyntheticElite 5d ago edited 5d ago

He is referring to the military definition of "machine gun" of which an M240, m249 and RPK certainly are. (Light Machine Gun)

The legal definition of "machine gun" is just anything with burst or automatic fire.

Two separate definitions.

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u/fordlover5 5d ago

Dude you and your other anti gunners don't know the definition or purpose of anything, and you just make stuff up as you go to support your narrative.

That kamala or other libs called something an "assault weapon" doesn't mean it is.

If I call an apple an orange, is it an apple or an orange?

And as for your TV show stuff, I don't even know what you are talking about

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u/verminal-tenacity 5d ago

anti gunner

yeah i stopped reading your shitcunt spiel right there lmao. i've been shooting longer than you have you fucking loser.

what i don't do tho, is sanctimoniously flop my dick out in public and "well akshully" every headline that comes along then mince about triumphantly like your autistic obsession with call of duty made some kind of point.

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u/Porkflake 5d ago

Not a machine gun. Just a regular rifle.

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u/AWeakMindedMan 5d ago

You dont have a machine gun ready at the door at all times?

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u/Backdoor_Delivery 5d ago

Well… it’s not a machine gun, but carry on.

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u/echo202L 4d ago

Not a machine gun, just a regular civillian AK.

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u/psychoacer 5d ago

It's Texas so it's not that suspicious

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u/goatfuckersupreme 5d ago

id expect most texans to have a rifle at the door

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u/psychoacer 5d ago

Wow, I thought we were past this, I thought we were above stereotyping around here. Texans love guns unconditionally. Semi automatic, full auto, pistol, pellet, BB, squirt, paint, air or revolver they accept all guns. We shouldn't be marginalizing people based off of movie stereotypes. Texans are diverse

/S

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u/goatfuckersupreme 5d ago

im sorry, that is very narrow minded of me. texan guns come in all shapes and sizes <3 <3 <3 <3

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u/IAmSoWinning 5d ago

not to be that guy - but even in the US that's likely not a machine gun.

It's just an assault rifle of some kind. (hard to tell exactly what from the photo, maybe an AK?)

There is a difference - and machine guns are generally banned in the US.

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u/Astrolaut 4d ago

An assault rifle is a select fire capable of full auto.

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u/Radbrad90s 5d ago

Yes it is obviously an armalite. Might not be a “machine gun”, but it’ll definitely cause the machine in your chest and between your ears to cease functioning.

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u/FeeRemarkable886 4d ago

Everybody needs a girlfriend with an AK47. (I know that's not what she has, I just like the AK)

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u/bellzglass 4d ago

Looks like he was just leaving. The door could have still been open, and she could have seen it.

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u/DONT-PM-ME-BOOBS-PLS 3d ago

That's not a machine gun

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u/draxidrupe2 5d ago

Wait, this placement isn't typical?

the ones that have in safes are still fiddling combinations while the love gets kidnapped

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u/LurkLurkleton 5d ago

I've known a few people that leave the combination dialed in except for one or two numbers because of this

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u/jmspinafore 5d ago

That's how toddlers end up shooting themselves in a lot of cases.

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u/draxidrupe2 5d ago

or older, I remember in 5th grade I went to a friends house. This friend was all about military history (age 10) and his house was a fortress with hidden and open guns all about. I visited once.

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u/Started_WIth_NADA 5d ago

Machine gun 😂

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u/hoxxxxx 5d ago

yeah but, texas and everything

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u/Moo_Kau_Too 5d ago

.. isnt that just 'merica?

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot 5d ago

Still kidnapping.

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u/drgreenthumb12372 5d ago

absolutely, this man and his lady are victims.

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u/DrDrankenstein 5d ago

What? You've been watching too much tv

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u/Dinlek 5d ago

He's talking about cartel-level dealers, who absolutely know better than to keep thousands of dollars of coke in their closet, not the low-level random plug selling pot/his uncle's basement meth.

Though, no one in this video seems like they're involved in the former.

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u/DrDrankenstein 5d ago

Yes, I'm only commenting on the video we all just watched

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u/wannaseeawheelie 5d ago

I wanna know more about these “cartel level dealer” lol

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u/adm1109 5d ago

I mean there isn’t anything to suggest they aren’t involved with cartel or aren’t high level dealers

More likely gang affiliated than cartel but still

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u/cupidsclick 5d ago

Common sense and statistical probabilities 

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u/Neighborhood_Nobody 5d ago

For real lmao

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u/DrDrankenstein 5d ago

Im laughing thinking about showing up to a plug's house back in the day and him being like "How much you want? Alright, I'll be back in like three minutes.. AND DONT WATCH ME!" Cut to, me looking out his window as he's climbing a tree where he keeps all his shit, a scale, and baggies.

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u/gizzomizzo 5d ago

Who do you think sold the drugs to the dude who sold you the lil shit you went to buy?

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u/DrDrankenstein 5d ago

Yeah I've been to that guy's house a few times too. You just chill in the living room and he goes to the bedroom or upstairs or whatever and comes back.

Point is, if the dude in this video is selling, he doesn't leave his apartment to go to a fucking second apartment or house or bunker or docked boat or abandoned church or whatever yall are imagining for his product.

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u/Brilliant-Report5121 5d ago

Tbh, I used to move a lot of coke when I was young and dumb and you are both right and wrong. We would have the stash house where the main supply was kept. Usually at like a grandmas house or something like that far away from any action. Then we would go pick up from there every few days to refill the stock we kept at the house.

So yeah, from your perspective I just go in the other room and bring back your bag. But I never kept the whole supply at my place either.

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u/gizzomizzo 4d ago

Yeah, you have never ever talked to a "plug" in your whole life, you just got served a few times and thought it was the whole thing.

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u/DrDrankenstein 4d ago

I gave you an upvote for how little I care about this conversation

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u/gizzomizzo 4d ago

Okay?

Was just explaining to the onlookers that stash spots are like, very basic parts of selling drugs everywhere on Earth for the past 100 years but I'm glad you reminded me that you're a cool guy

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u/No_Win6358 5d ago

Dude, they don't keep all of their product in the safe house and go get it every time somebody wants to buy..

They'll keep it at the safe house and make occasional runs to stock up smaller amounts to split and sell out of their own place. That way they don't have to make runs every single time, but they also don't have to keep their entire stash on them in case they're robbed.

This isn't abnormal for those higher up the chain.

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u/DrDrankenstein 5d ago

Yeah I get that. I just don't think this guy was getting dragged away to a safe house. Call me presumptuous.

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u/thirdeye-visualizer 4d ago

So many upvotes on some a bullshit post I’ve known many dealers and none of them did that shit lil

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u/PM__YOUR__DREAM 5d ago

Alright Heisenberg, tell us how they really do it lol

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u/Necessary-One1782 5d ago

they simply keep it either with them or at home

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u/ChroniikW 5d ago

That’s not true at all 💀

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u/HeavenIIyDemon 5d ago

Plenty of dealers keep their drugs in their house lol. Not unheard of

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u/ButtplugBurgerAIDS 5d ago

Meh some have decoy safeboxes and then real safeboxes as well

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u/ThePerfumeCollector 5d ago

TIL dealers keep their stash elsewhere than their homes. So they do gotta commute to work every day!

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u/FearlessPhone6084 5d ago

id say that’s rather unlikely, what’s more likely is forcing him to unlock his phone so they can use it to scam and send themselves money. if they were kidnapping him it would be so they can drive him to a atm and force him to withdrawal as much as possible. i know cus this type of thing happened to my friend

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u/BooBailey808 5d ago

most kidnappings are robberies with extra steps

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u/loveeachother_ 5d ago

never sell no crack where you rest at, i don't care if they want an ounce tell em bounce

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u/westcoast7654 4d ago

Right. Who has a machine gun at the ready.

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u/fujiandude 4d ago

I used to Rob dealers, you're being ridiculous. You only do that if you're moving mad weight and this dude isn't. This side sells grams, halves at the most, not kilos. You don't live in apartments if you're a big pusher, and you don't keep your two ounces hidden in a nearby location lol

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u/waroftrees 4d ago

Not always. Drug dealers are fucking dumb. Probably has the AR right next to his bag, and his girlfriend just happened to notice what was going on.

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u/Ammonia13 4d ago

Ohhh true

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u/Necessary_Ticket_557 5d ago

What else did you learn from watching tv and movies?

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u/drgreenthumb12372 5d ago

a lifetime ago, I used to sell coke, molly, pills. i would hide my stash in a monument sign in a park a block away from my apartment complex and grab as needed. and I would never let someone come by my place to pick up. Keeping drugs in your house is a stupid fuckin thing to do if you sell drugs, because you don’t know who is watching. you don’t need anyone seeing you coming and going at all hours or people showing up.

Many people have done things that you have only seen in movies or heard about second hand, so its understandable that humans are skeptical of what we read on the internet. Its hard for some of us to imagine that we don’t know it all. I don’t take offense.

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u/Head-Winter-3567 5d ago

I mean, I don't think it's a race thing? Even if all parties were white, and his girlfriend comes out with a machine gun, I'd still probably guess drugs were involved somewhere.

Truly Drugs break down all language and race barriers like that. The universal culture.

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u/Interesting_Raise_39 5d ago

Maybe he is a legitimate business man who was targeted.

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u/multiple4 5d ago

Bro his girlfriend is popping out with a full on machine gun out of nowhere, and two dudes with pistols are trying to ambush him

To suggest that he's a drug dealer is just making the most obvious assumption possible

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u/Interesting_Raise_39 5d ago

Why not assume he is a successful legitimate businessman who practices his 2a right because he has been targeted befor?

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u/multiple4 5d ago

The better question is why you feel the need for everyone to play along and pretend that there isn't a high chance of this guy being a drug dealer

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u/Interesting_Raise_39 5d ago

Because there is nothing to indicate he is, if this was a little old lady would you immediately jump to the conclusion she is a drug dealer?

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u/multiple4 5d ago

Any police officer or detective who watches this video would immediately assume that both parties are involved in something illegal which would be the motive for this attempted kidnapping

This video looks like every single drug related kidnapping or killing that I've ever seen in my life

If you can't acknowledge that, that's fine, but don't expect the rest of us to close our eyes and play pretend with you

Old women make up probably 0.00001% of drug dealers. In what world do you think that's a good point? Someone in their 20s or 30s, regardless of race, obviously makes the context of this video much different

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u/Interesting_Raise_39 5d ago

A police officer or detective would speak with the victim befor assuming they are a criminal. I'm just fascinated that you can so quickly come to the conclusion that you have.

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u/multiple4 5d ago

Of course they would talk to the victim. I didn't say they wouldn't investigate anything. I said they'd be very suspicious of the motive based purely on this video, which you seem to have a problem with

You're just being obtuse if you don't see that. The rest of us can use our brains, you can think whatever you want

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u/UglyForNoReason 5d ago

It’s factually not though lol

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u/nameyname12345 5d ago

I do too! But then I am after tank tops and boxers! Why? Because I know nobody would ever believe them!!!!/s

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u/Kestrel1207 5d ago

If they intended to rob they would have gone into his house and taken stuff.

that'd be burglary, not robbery

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u/Realistic_Ad3795 5d ago

Those might have been Lulu Lemon, my friend.

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u/StrandedinTimeFall 5d ago

Yeah, didn't look like a standard robbery to me. All they would get is a phone and some crocs.

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u/OldDogTrainer 4d ago

Except it’s common enough to rob someone by forcing them to send money through a cash app of some kind now which is likely why they let him pick his phone back up.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

Where I live sometimes people get abducted and tied up, then tortured until they give up their bank card pin. The culprits then spend the next while withdrawing the daily limit until the card is flagged. When i saw this video that's my first thought, this is a long rob.

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u/GoodtimeZappa 5d ago

Speak for yourself

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u/Virtual-Citizen 5d ago

Come to L.A, where they will rob you for a pack of cigarettes. The biggest mistake you can make is assume a criminal has the same logic or mindset as you. People here get killed for much less.

I'm sure Chicago is worse.

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u/NoFearLukeskywalker 5d ago

They could be after his car!!

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u/Melisandrey 4d ago

what if they wanted to rob his anal virginity?

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u/Puzzleheaded-You1289 5d ago

You guys are definitely from the ghetto. This is absolutely a robbery. They are using the guns to force him to tell them where the drug cash is. Smh y’all so stupid I’m sorry

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u/um-username-criativo 5d ago

If they remove the person to show them where the cash is, which is much more likely than forcing him to tell, that's still kidnapping, you uneducated weasel.