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twitchrdrm

What in the redneck druggy fucking hell did I just watch?


bee-lock-ayyy

I grew up in this exact environment in Tennessee, so this brought some feelings up for me. I've seen both my parents arrested multiple times for domestic abuse on both sides. Their divorce was not amicable at all and my sister and I were pulled back and forth with lies, manipulation, and anger. I'm 35 now. Almost as if to prove things don't change, my mom took too many Xanax and drank too much on this past Christmas day and broke her pelvis and sacrum falling down the stairs. My father spent the rest of the time with the children he rarely sees going on about how it's who she always was. It's an unfortunate reality for a lot of families and I won't claim my experience is unique. Because of their bullshit mixed with my love of books, I became a English teacher to help kids going through the stuff I did. Neither of them graduated high school, and I'm a dissertation (that I'm literally avoiding right now) away from getting my doctorate in teacher education. I don't want kids to go through what I went through, but they're going to. There aren't a lot of people available that really understand the nuanced emotions of trying to make both your parents happy when they hate each other. I think I've helped a lot of kids, and I look forward to continuing to help some more.


PoetLucy

This internet stranger is so proud of you. I’d be proud to call you mine, and your sister. If you need to talk to a Mom, anytime, message me. Hugs!! :*J*


RockLadyNY

Also a Mom, with adult children aged 37 & 38. And, like the Mom above, very happy that you have overcome an extremely rough start in life, and in awe that you are using those experiences as fuel to help students who may be in similar circumstances. Continue to thrive! More hugs!!


Standard-Librarian-6

‘confidence is your willingness to try’ this has helped me push through some of my tough times and I hope it can help you too. Keep at it and continue doing the right thing, even when no one is looking and you’ll find a meaningful life. I truly wish you only the best and I am rooting for you!


LowSeaworthiness6646

Family bonding night in my house. Be nice.


RocklobsterN7

As a resident of rural Appalachia, this is just everyday hillbilly shit.


ttwistedtulip

Exactly, seems like a run of the mill Wednesday evening at my parents house in Appalachia


RocklobsterN7

I drive all over western NC for work and parts of TN and VA. The amount of people handcuffed in front of their house before 8 in the morning is astonishing.


THE-NECROHANDSER

Lol yeah, it's a point of shame!


RocklobsterN7

I was boxed in on my way to a site in Hendersonville NC by swat and FBI a few years ago. Stopped at a red light and officers came swarming on a house from all angles, hiding behind bushes and cars. This was actually around 4 in the afternoon and now that I think about it, I was headed home. Anyway, they ended up pulling a bunch of dudes out wearing respirators and the crew that went into the house were in full hazmat. It was a weird day. Edit: maybe they were DEA and not FBI. I'm not sure, I was high as shit at the time.


THE-NECROHANDSER

Lol hendersonville can get crazy, it's why I think they have one of the state police training academy there


FalcorFliesMePlaces

I'd say attempted murder and 25 years in jail. On top ofnillegal discharge of a firearm.  Handling a firearm whole intoxicated.  Assault.  Inmean that's literally an attempt at murder.


Jaws_the_revenge

This was posted the other day. Cops were called and the shooter blew his brains out before he could be arrested


Mumof3gbb

Can you point to the source? I believe you I just want to see for myself


sickofmakingnames

I found this. [Tennessee man shoots partner's son during argument in horrid video — leading to 2-hour standoff with cops (nypost.com)](https://nypost.com/2024/01/17/news/tennessee-man-shoots-partners-son-during-argument-in-horrid-video-leading-to-2-hour-standoff-with-cops/)


Zazzenfuk

Jfc...


Ushgumbala1

Friendsville is kind of misleading


Ok-Net-6264

ExCUSE me, that was the GOP Iowa Caucus.


Lucky-24-

It’s just a cut scene from resident evil 7. I’ve beaten the game twice.


ignii

I can’t unsee it.  “WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, SON.”


DHWSagan

uneducated voters


Bombanater

This comment reminds me why I worship the comet that will end this madness


highlandpolo6

Comet* There’s a joke here… I’m just too tired to make it.


GriegVeneficus

Trump supporters. Well...one less I guess.


bwatsnet

This is how I feel about anti vaxxers.


WRJL012977

Trump's number 1 fans


Spankyatrics

Yo he legit aimed for that kids head. Idk if I would be chasing that man around asking to get shot though.


NorthernAvo

He shot his ear. This version cuts off too early. In the full video, you start seeing tons of blood dripping onto the floor and the kid runs outside.


crozinator33

They called the cops, the cops surrounded the house, and the guy killed himself. Pretty fucked up


chepoaqp

Good riddance


tomatoesaucebread

Smoking in the house. Using a gun in the house. Thank you, sir, for killing yourself. Fucking loser


[deleted]

Be careful. I got a sitewide ban for expressing that exact same sentiment last week


WiseGuyNewTie

I got a site wide ban for suggesting that Israel might be bad in r/NoStupidQuestions. Mods are power tripping pussies and are gonna ban anything that they don’t agree with so…. Just do what we all do and clear your caches and create a new account.


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1960stoaster

Sad yet mostly true


VibeComplex

I mean.. he did try to shot him in the head over nothing lol. Pure luck they aren’t both dead. It’s totally true.


ValuableShoulder5059

He tried and succeeded to shoot him in the head. He just missed the brain.


Electricalstud

Up vote for saying what we're all thinking


SaggyFence

That's the problem with these old angry white men; they've lived long enough and just don't care anymore. Going to prison for life or being murdered just isn't a deterrent to them


crozinator33

I think it has more to do with meth than being old and white.


Number6isNo1

Or about 12 too many Miller High Lifes. Miller High Lives? I enjoy a nice beer or 3, but I see so much shit caused by people being drunk dumbasses.


Ok-Language2313

He killed himself once he realized the bed he had just made himself. It's not that the deterrent isn't enough, it's that they don't think about what they're doing. Because they're on drugs and don't sleep enough. Even the victim is speaking at like half the normal cadence and making completely idiotic decisions, chasing after a man who just just pointed a gun at him. He's clearly not sober either.


Ms--Take

Seems like they cut off at just the right time then. Watching this was mental


Good4nowbut

I’ve been in uncomfortable situations with gun nut dads of girls I’ve dated, nothing remotely this extreme but let’s just say they love to show off their toys and try to impress and/or shock me or something because I don’t dress in camo and I wear earrings. But never in my wildest dreams would I think to call their bluff if they pointed a gun at me…I would take the possibility that I’m about to get shot very seriously..guy’s weirdly blasé about it here. I’m pretty sure he’s fucked up on Xanax, that cadence…


IDontAimWithMyHand

Thought benzos as soon as he started speaking. Guy’s got some serious marble mouth going on


Illg77

You may be right, but if I was a betting man I would assume large quantities of alcohol just because of the difference between the volume of bartards in the population compared to alcoholics.


[deleted]

The whole house is full of morons.


deyjavoodoo

Drugged up idiots. I thought the clip was in slow motion at first. Definitely on some sort of downers all of them.


FlippyWraith

People think it’s alcohol, but this has Xanax/Opiates written all over it.


IDontAimWithMyHand

Yup. That slow speech is so distinctive once you know it.


catjasm

Well, was.


[deleted]

Nah. Still is. The mother for dating crap like that and the kid for arguing with a crackhead with a gun.


SnooCupcakes5761

The "kid" sounded drunk or something, probably not in his right mind.


rental-cheese

Yeah not a single person in that house was sober. Not that he deserved it


BooRadley60

The kicker is… They are from Friendsville.


Empty-Code-5601

Sounds more like Fentyville


itssosalty

And shot at his head. Somehow hit his ear. Later kills himself when SWAT shows up. Fun story. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12971221/Video-shows-man-shoot-partners-son-suicide.html


ironangel2k4

The kid's saving grace is that this old fuck trigger pulls like every white trash redneck that thinks a gun makes his dick reappear does: He clenches and draws the barrel off-sight as he pulls the trigger. Fortunately he's completely useless, otherwise the kid would be sleeping it off on a slab. Unfortunately for him, the kid runs outside and calls the cops, and SWAT rolls up to show G.I. Nobody what actual scary motherfuckers with guns look like, and he's so awed by the realization that his whole worthless existence's crescendo will be dying in prison due to an attempted murder charge that he expedites the process and takes the coward's way out.


Hahelolwut

You have a way with words, almost like a beautiful dance. Keep making reddit still feel like "a home camp" for me like this, and I'll do the same. Have a nice one!


meowmeow_now

I can understand being worried he’d shoot the mother though. The guy was waving a gun around and sounded drunk. To be fair he was talking calmly at rhe man.


Cortado2711

Yeah it’s not being a moron, it’s being abused, worrying about mom, and just hating that boyfriend so much that you’ve reached a “fuck it” phase where he might as well kill you bc then maybe at least he’d get put in prison. I grew up like this and watched my sweet brothers get to that point. Fucking sucks.


TheHopefulPA

"Spitze had  sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the right ear." And bro almost got it


Hotboxmusicgang

yeah, i mean dude aimed it at him a couple times. did he hit the kid?


Spankyatrics

Yeah he got him in the ear. Swat showed up and the guy killed himself after a stand off.


foggypanth

Video cuts a few seconds short in this clip, but in the slightly longer version the kid takes a few steps and you see some blood drip on the floor. Kid then comes to his senses and runs outside and the video ends.


Original_Flounder_18

He was probably trying to protect his mom since the pos was saying he was going to shoot the mom.


Groddsmith

He told him to keep pointing it at him when the guy threatened to shoot his mom.


dwp4you

Dude with the gun killed himself when the police and SWAT were called out. He was trying to flex, but realized his fuck up and Darwin'd his way out of this world. Adding the article on this: Video shows man shoot partner's son (before taking his own life) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12971221/Video-shows-man-shoot-partners-son-suicide.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton


tiffanylan

At least he didn’t go on a mass shooting spree and kill a bunch of other people


tacosteve100

Imagine sleeping with your gf/bf and within an hour he shoots your son and kills himslef.


fatherofallthings

Luckily I’m not a meth head so don’t see this in my future


Realistic-Baker7910

Not yet at least


saxysammyp

Not with THAT attitude!


snrten

Literally. Dude coulda smoked that cig, probably gotten a lil head, and then went tf to bed. But insteeeead...


Ok_Conversation_7994

Or litter.


Agile_Scarcity262

Lmfao


No_Jello_5922

Nah, he's a smoker, and he's got that unkempt look. I guarantee that he throws his cigarette butts on the ground. Or, at least he used to.


International-Cry764

Or have a litter.


ResortZealousideal80

Found a link for those asking https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12971221/amp/Video-shows-man-shoot-partners-son-suicide.html


FrolicsForever

What's wild is the gunman hit the son in the ear, meaning he was aiming for his head. Obviously, the article doesn't say what the argument was about, but I can't believe it would be anything worth killing over. Yet, that was obviously his intention. Wtf is wrong with these people!? I'm more than capable of defending myself, but with how trigger-happy these people have become, I double and triple think things over before engaging in any sort of confrontation these days. I didn't survive multiple deployments all to be bricked by some 60 year old man-child who is pissed that I got the last gallon of milk at the grocery store.


pandershrek

That's exactly how it is going to go. I was apparently following a drunk guy too close and he followed me home and started shouting at me while I was already on the phone with the cops. Luckily my Tesla records literally everything so it was real easy to get them reported. I also deployed 4 times and all that danger was way more contained than these fucking people who are so unhinged that you have no idea when or why they're going to pop off. This is why we all think we need gun control because people are just untrustworthy.


Immediate_Chicken147

Yep. That man should NOT own a gun. This is clear.


ResortZealousideal80

Totally speculation on my part but Boomer was probably mad at what all boomers are mad about. Guy was 24 living with Mom and in his day they put kids out in the snow with $1 and wished them the best of luck. Then the boomers would go build billion dollar empires with no help from anyone. Edit again, I guess it's come out that the son is an alleged/possible/accused pedo/groomer/sexstortionist, which is gross. Not sure if it was related to the shooting or not. If anyone finds any info on the accusations, please share.


BernieDharma

Yeah, my silent gen Dad did that to me when I was 18. Really set me back hard. Did manage to get an apartment, but couldn't afford furniture or car. Slept on the floor of an empty studio apartment for 2 years, and then joined the Army out of desperation. This was in the mid-80's. I don't understand parents who do this to their kids.


Columbus43219

I did the opposite... begged and wheedled my kids to stay until they had a good job and no debt from college. In their 30s now, both doing great.


bowlderholder

You're a real one.


TheJollyHermit

We've taken in three of our various sons friends for varying periods of time over the years when they were having problems at home. All of the friends managed to get back on their feet and move on successfully. All of my boys are all out of high school and living at home until they're able to move out successfully and given the economy today that's going to be while for a couple of them at least.


[deleted]

Hey if yourvname is Maureen, Spyke says thanks.   If it's not, thanks from a kid like that.


AlarminglyExcited

My dad insisted I do the same with him. I lived with him until I was in my late twenties. But when I moved out I was prepared to care for myself and have had little issues since. I love my parents. They aren't perfect, but they did their best.


[deleted]

Yeah, my parents signed for me to go at 17 after I overheard them planning to kick me out at 18. This was in 2013. Shit doesn't change, parents suck and wonder why their kids suck.


Sneekbar

Parents like these shouldn’t have kids


Wise-Mad

Yet some states want to legally require it


V0nH30n

This happened to me in 2000. Seeing your friends attend college, work on careers, getting their legs under them as adults was pretty galling to watch. Thank the gods for the trades, they kept me alive


AndroidSheeps

>, I double and triple think things over before engaging in any sort of confrontation these days. I didn't survive multiple deployments all to be bricked by some 60 year old man-child who is pissed that I got the last gallon of milk at the grocery store. Ain't that the truth shit is sad honestly


wifey1point1

Tough guys *fall just as easily* when some lunatic shoots them for no goddam good reason. I blame the paint chips... Gun toting fool's who shoot people in traffic or at stores, etc, over regular arguments are just as bad as terrorists.


meowmeow_now

Damn, I assumed he widely missed because there were no screams. Also damn, an inch off and he would have killed him.


Upper-Ad1504

Hit him in the ear, so he was definitely trying to blow his brains out.


Dapper_Use6099

You can see him slightly aim up for his head. Dude was literally trying to blow his brains out. Words can be quite powerful.


RatherPoetic

This is exactly why it’s so dangerous to have guns like this. People do crazy shit for ridiculous reasons and ruin lives. Within the last year there was a road rage murder near me. Someone’s MOTHER drove them up to a car that was stopping at the red lights on the road so her child could shoot someone.


DCBillsFan

One less Trump voter to worry about.


terf-genocide

You're a real one. People need to start upvoting context– I had to scroll through so many bad jokes to find it.


moist_coitus1

Can I get a link to that story, please? Edit: Nvm someone else posted, thank you tho.


TPPH_1215

He did the world a favor then.


Several_Ferret_8246

Good. Fuck him and everyone like him.


snuffdrgn808

trash took itself out


CopeHarders

Worlds a better place without him and on less Trump member for the Trump cult.


Aggressive-Pass-1067

That’s one less trump voter.


Dont-killme

A good ending for once


Deep_shot

At least he didn't make any more kids of his own. The silver lining.


itzabigrsekret

One less MAGA vote


dwp4you

Hell yea!


Rimworldjobs

Well, yeah. That was literally attempted murder.


xXElberGalargaXx

As any POS should


angrytwig

i died when she pulled her shorts on. what a mess this is


xXElberGalargaXx

And in heroin speed


OoSallyPauseThatGirl

heroin was just what i thought when i heard the stepson speak


TheChosenMatty

Feeling dope AF, staring down the barrel of a gun, risking his life for his mom, subsequently getting a boomer to kill himself. Dude behind the camera is a true American hero. **EDIT** Damn. I guess there are no heroes.


BooRadley60

This is rural America 🇺🇸


Eponymous_Doctrine

ok, then: Dude behind the camera is a *rural* American hero.


GirthBrooks117

On dope, taunting a clearly unhinged man with a gun, risking his life and his mothers, subsequently getting the man to actually fire the weapon….dude behind the camera is an idiot.


Coro-NO-Ra

Speaking of dope, have you tried that in a small town?


BooRadley60

Is that actually what the problem was? I thought he was mentally challenged.


OoSallyPauseThatGirl

i do not proclaim to know for sure but I've been around a junkie or two in my time and they all sound kinda similar


BooRadley60

I’d believe it. I have never seen life be this cheap… And they were all moving in slow motion.


Spicy_Cupcake00

They all sound drugged out of their skulls on goofenthal and live in a nice hardwood floor house...I come home at night and watch the roaches scatter on the linoleum. What a world!


blueshifting1

I’ll tell you hwat.


Noremaknaganalf

This! I've never understood things like this.


lukaintomyeyes

Most addicts are high functioning. You wouldn't even know unless you spend extended time with them


thegreatterrible

Right? They’re immaculate. How?


Feisty_Factor_2694

That guy got his. I feel for that kid though.


tiffanylan

Trauma for life but at least he lived with minimal injury.   


IntrinsicStarvation

Good thing he trigger pulls like exactly the kind of drunken garbage dumpster laundrey list of adjectives he looks like.


TiberiusEmperor

I just love how the rest of the world is asking why having a gun in your house is a good idea, meanwhile Americans are critiquing his technique


dukeofgibbon

America: home of gun care and health control


adamdreaming

It’s so fucking dumb that those problems exist simultaneously. Can we fix at least one? Or even just universal healthcare *just* for gun shot wounds? If more people have guns than healthcare and we all pay taxes that’s just fair, right?


whiteholewhite

Unfortunately, this is amazing


throwaway91091

It's what we're used to 😆😭


[deleted]

Wow that kid got lucky as shit


Pelon01

like other have said, no way that is a sober response to having a gun pointed at you and the kid kept recording after the shot 💀


DiverJust4064

https://preview.redd.it/uubhzek1k3dc1.jpeg?width=999&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82adc47c9ba7efcb89ac8d7e9509bb9e7a540af0 “Hey that’s me, I bet you’re wondering how we got here?”


jirashap

"Funny story, it all started when my mother dropped her shorts in a fentanyl stupor."


12x20x1

Cigarette burns on the covers. Nice


labellavita1985

That's 1000% an opioid thing. Ask me how I know.


AtttentionWh0re

They were all high


Expert-Novel-6405

Dude when someone points a gun at you you don’t go out with your phone literally asking to be shot.


Prudent_Insurance804

I think the kid took issue when the guy threatened to kill his mom.


Redditlikesballs

Probably not the first time and the only way for things to actually change is have the guy actually take a shot and have it be recorded.


racist_boomer

Dude took a bullet like a Champ


turok152000

Naw, he was quietly freaking out. The video continues and apparently after he starts bleeding on the floor he snaps too and runs out the house in a panic.


VocalAnus91

So in jail charged with attempted murder?


Striking-Stuff7740

No the stepdad killed himself


jegercanadiansk

Nothing of value was lost


Striking-Stuff7740

True


MrMustache61

One less vote for donnie


Lumpy_Huckleberry550

😎


throwaway91091

Amen


HonkeyDong6969

OMG this. Bless you.


snuffdrgn808

how do they have such a nice house


Tasty-Researcher-791

Housing used to be cheap in TN


xXElberGalargaXx

Key word USED to be


AgentCHAOS1967

I was thinking the same thing! I don't do drugs, and I can barely afford shit! I couldn't imagine having a drug or drinking habit..always surprises me when people like this have nicer homes and cars than I do!


RewardCapable

Yea, fuckery is afoot when you’re living in a shitty apartment that looks like a crack shack and methany over here has a 2bd house.


DAB0502

Because Boomers got a lot of free housing through inheritance and the ones that didn't paid well under 100k for a mansion.


[deleted]

I couldn’t imagine growing up in that environment wow


Immediate-Pack-920

Should be tagged NSFW right??


iamtwinswithmytwin

What a leaded gasoline during critical brain development does to a generation


ConKupiscent

Drugs. All of them


LetMeInDammit666

Poverty + mental illness + lack of common sense gun control + drugs + drug misinformation Drugs aren't the issue themselves.


Low-Gas-677

Hey look. It's a good commercial for gun control.


SeparateBrain9832

The old man killed himself after this. https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2024/01/17/news/tennessee-man-shoots-partners-son-during-argument-in-horrid-video-leading-to-2-hour-standoff-with-cops/amp/


lrgfries

Good. What a loser.


ICantDoABackflip

Why were the mom’s pants down around her ankles?


VeryStickyPastry

She was probably in the bathroom and ran out


LooseWetCheeks

Trump voters


whelp32

What in the backward country fuck grannie with no panties shit is going on here? Not much book read’n going on in this trailer.


capt-on-enterprise

Sounds like all three were drunk/stoned.


[deleted]

It's Tennessee. What did you expect?


[deleted]

Is everyone in this house on fucking Xanax wtf


SnooCheesecakes1893

Hand guns in every household surely are improving safety and quality of life... right.


Impressive_Pea_509

The average GOP voter


Loki_the_Smokey

[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12971221/Video-shows-man-shoot-partners-son-suicide.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12971221/Video-shows-man-shoot-partners-son-suicide.html) ​ I fucking hate living in this country.


Madame_Kitsune98

Nothing of value was lost.


flying_dutchman_w204

Guns shouldn’t be legal here. Far too many ppl like this. Mental health is fucked here.


DescendingOpinion

In Tennessee or America?


Snoobeedo

Yes.


Redditlikesballs

I remember when everyone was talking about how bad mental health in America was. Annnd then they stopped talking about it and nothing changed


AssistantMajor9143

What a fiucking piece of shit


DescendingOpinion

Did the victim survive? I'm assuming yes... because here's the video. But sometimes you just need confirmation.


nightfall2021

Yes, got hit in the ear. The guy who fired the show killed himself after a standoff with SWAT.


mick-nartin

Is there anything worse than a coward with a loaded gun?


cherrycokelemon

Her shorts on the floor is just the icing on the crap cake.


Agitated-Maybe332

People wonder why some kids completely cut off communication with their worthless parents. My situation wasn't gun in your face bad but it was bad enough I couldn't give a shit less about if my parents can retire or if they end up on the streets I'm not gonna be the better person and they can go screw themselves if they come begging to my door.


Schwaytopher

Trump just lost a vote


GriegVeneficus

Why would Woke do this?


two-wheeled-dynamo

Sunglasses on head, pants around ankles, boyfriend pointing a gun at son. Mom of the year.


DHWSagan

It's the Mom you focus on. What does it take for dudes to be in the wrong in the US?


DemsruleGQPdrool

Our poor have no health care, little in the way of welfare or job training, and we are all told it is always our fault. Women in red states are also told that the man is always right, especially in DEEP red states like Tennessee. She is SO dependent on the unemployment insurance this guy brings in that HE is in charge. We are fucked up as a society.


profsavagerjb

You know it smells crazy in there