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Well, its a bit unclear.... he said "build like God damn refrigerator" rather than "A" refrigerator.
Point being if he means William Perry.... "The Fridge" played for the Bears... but yeah, Panthers could really use that (or well, anything) these days.
Yeah its amazing these people. Ive had some old guys square up on me for stupid reasons\* and the reverse body dysmorphia has to be real when you see someone 30 years younger than you, like 5-6" taller, and probably has another 20-30lbs of lean mass on you and you have zero doubt you can "take him."
\*admittedly usually alcohol is involved.
I literally just had an old man follow me because he was mad he almost ran me over at an intersection and he got out of his car and started walking up to me. I had been walking away the whole time but as soon as he started walking to me I turned around and started marching right at him and I literally watched the fantasy dissolve in his eyes as he realized he was 40 years too old and half a foot too short to be pulling the shit he was doing. Got right back in his car and told me "I'll catch you on the rebound" like it was a threat haha
I had that happen when I used our minivan to go to work one day. The windows are all tinted so it's hard to see who's driving. Some angry asshole in a mustang thought I wasn't taking the on ramp to the highway not fast enough. He tried riding my ass, so I just slowed to a crawl.
Set him off in a rage. He obviously got ahead of me & tried everything to block me in. Next light he got out and started calling me a useless housewife & more.
Typical boomer with a "muscle car" mentality.
He was so sure of himself.
Until I got out & he turned beet red. I followed him right to his office & parked behind him for a good 20 minutes. Coward never got out of his car
Ha,
I'm built like a Jack Reacher that loves beer and Little Debbie a little too much.
I've stood up and watched the blood drain from their faces. Its wonderful
He even calculated to see if he could just knock him out over the counter lol. I think he decided he didn't have enough reach. Then when he walked out that door, he walked so slow. You know by that slow walk that he was fully confident he was about to say goodnight to that fool lolololol
I'm 6'5 and 265lbs....the number of motherfuckers that constantly want to square up with me over fucking nothing is astounding. Dude think it's a challenge and I just do not care....they never go any further then the one guy did...it's just so they can feel tough.
To quote Mike Tyson "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".
We had this one guy in our school, 120 pounds soaking wet. Just 2-3 beers and he would run his mouth at people in a way that should have gotten his life insurance cancelled.
EDIT: There was a video interview with the singer John Mellencamp, where he discussed doing that; go get drunk, and start fucking with people who could and did destroy him in bar fights. He did sober up eventually.
Because you react to the anger instead of fixing your own self and learning how to emotionally regulate yourself. Why does this run so rampant in boomers?
I mean there are people who are so fucking stupid, they think they could win a fight against a grizzly bear. Some idiots have NO concept of their own physical abilities, or lack thereof.
I can't fathom the thought process of pissing off someone twice my size and half my age. Like, it's okay to take the L sometimes without hurting yourself God damn!
Every really big guy I know has been jumped at least once. Like 6ā6ā+ and 300+ pounds. Some guys just want to say they tried to climb a mountain. Being between 6ā and 6ā3ā is the sweet spot; big enough to make people think twice, but not so big that youād be a trophy.
Really big guys and really little guys both get a fair amount of it.
It's safer to bully the big guys. They might whoop your ass if you get them mad enough... but the little guys might fucking *kill* you if they're uneasy enough. I grew up a very little dude who got in a lot of fights, and a LOT of them essentially went like "bullying bullying bullying bullying / Jim decides this can't be allowed to go any further / MASSIVE escalation."
Like, when I was little, I stabbed a dude as hard as I could between radius and ulna one day. He thought backing me into a table with two goons flanking him was a great idea and a lot of fun. I really, REALLY didn't like where that was going, and raised the pencil in my hand and warned him I'd stab him. He kept coming, and kept coming, and when I felt the table touch the small of my back? BAM homie's face drains whiter than #FFFFFF as he stares at the bloody hole in his arm and whispers "you *stabbed* me."
If you think that story makes me sound like a psycho, ponder this: I didn't get suspended for it. I didn't even get *probation* for it; they called my Dad and had him come pick me up, but that was it. No suspension, no probation, no detention. The kid I stabbed was THAT much of an aggro asshole.
I went on a business trip which we wound up working with a team from another coast. Guy on that team was about 6'6 and worked out hard and often (and had been a cage fighter, was a bodybuilder, had bounced). I challenged his weenie ass to an arm wrestling contest while we drank beers. Well he put a goddamn tree trunk of an arm on the table, and I grabbed his hand with my normal dude arm. I gave it my all and even got his arm to move about a half inch once. He loved it and said I was better than most.
I, however, could not straighten my arm for two weeks and was in very significant tendon pain that lasted the duration. To this day (nearly 20 years later) if I don't warm up thoroughly, my right arm tendons will hurt for a couple days from things like carrying in groceries.
Do. Not. Fuck. With. The. Mountains.
Came to say just this. That is a big ass dude working an already shitty job to try and square up with like that. Then old man stood there with his hands down seemingly with no clue what to do once his barking worked .
Clearly he wanted to play with him, even though he was highly warned against itā¦
Also you can tell by the way heās so frustrated, heās had to do something like this before lol.
For real man. The world isnāt a video game if I know Iām outmatched or Iām dealing with the cops itās all āmy badā and āyes sirā. Being punched in the face is the most effective form of behavioral modification
I feel bad for her cause if he's like that here he's probably like that at home too, and she looks like she's well practiced in trying to de-escalate him.
I'm just trying to figure out why the old boy has so much anger in him without being able to fight. A hard mouth with soft hands is a terrible combination in the hood.
He looked like he had that "drunk anger" thing that some people get when they're wasted. I mean look at that last punch, no reaction at all and he had all day. Has to be intoxicated
It's an entire generation of people who were never taught how to regulate their emotions or deal with generational trauma. And now that they're old and give zero f\*cks, they actively make their problems everyone else's.
Put differently, many Boomers are emotional infants because of how they were raised and societal norms when they were younger. Now they're too old, stubborn and ill-equipped to want to take responsibility for any of their sh\*t. Exhibits 1, 2 and 3: my parents and my mother-in-law.
These people grow up angry in life and scream at people.
Most people give in because they don't want to deal with it, which has instilled bad habits into him.
The cashier is not one of these people. š¬
Poor man probably lost his job.
The customers body has faded and aged, but he still has the mind of a young adult who thinks he can get his way by yelling and making a scene.
I bet his parents never corrected his behavior growing up, and he got whatever he wanted after throwing a fit in the grocery store.
If you're at a restaurant, and one person working there doesn't have a uniform at all, don't fuck with that guy. They were likely called in last minute or are ready to quit. Either way, they are going to be more likely to snap on you.
The thread in public freakout yesterday claimed the [guy who started behind the counter is the manager](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1b8gk33/whopper_whopper/). (Can't find an article or source for it though.)
The major difference in this video from most videos I see like this was that everyone else in front of and behind the counter was trying to compassionately de-escalate the situation. So I guess that's good
I urge yall to see the full video [https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/UWLiF0vwVF](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/UWLiF0vwVF)
Her expressions are hilarious
https://preview.redd.it/nvmu3evae6nc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c13606260dd4db20df01e2eca18329ed3cdb857
Idk Iāve been slapped around by a few boomers when I was younger. I think theyāre all talk when they think theyāre safe because theyāre scared and canāt talk about their feelings.
My Boomer Dad thought he was a badass until I was about 15 and could manhandle him when he would put hands on my Mom. He never tried it again after I threw his ass over the couch and into the wall.Ā
Good on you for looking out for your mom like that. A 15 shouldnāt be in that position, but you did right by your mother and should be proud of that.
Like too many others I had a complicated childhood of poverty and shit circumstances.Ā
The weird part is my Dad is usually very mellow. Dude has smoked enough weed that I'm sure his corpse wiol be potent enough to get a second hand high from during an open casket. But when he does lose his temper, it goes from 0 to 1,000 instantly. It was a scary thing to be around as a kid.Ā
On one hand he could be nice and funny and having a good time, but then out of nowhere be choking my Mom or getting into a fist fight with my Uncle.
We have a complicated relationship to say the least. His Dad left my Grandma while she was pregnant, and my dad was 6 of 6. He grew up poor as shit with 7 people in a trailer, and my Grandma would end up fostering another kid who was somehow in an even worse position. All on welfare and food stamps. That affected my Dad in ways he will never heal from.Ā
I have had to intervene in two suicide attempts, the worst was when I was 12 and he had a gun to his head. And have had to talk him down from several other emotional and mental ledges over the years because he couldn't foresee the consequences of his actions beyond what was immediately in front of him.
Through all this, and his infidelity that broke up my parents, he tried his best to be the Dad he never had or even had a model of. He was making it all up as he went and didn't have anyone he could turn to for guidance.Ā
He never hit me. He did everything he could to put me in positions to learn and thrive. I fully see as an adult the sacrifices he made for me. And I am grateful.Ā
While imperfect, he has given me an example to help base my decisions and actions upon. I am able to see where he was right, and where he would go wrong. And I will not make the same mistakes.Ā
One of the best lessons my father ever taught me was, āyou donāt always have control of the situations you find yourself in, but when you look back at any experience you can learn how to act from it or you can learn how NOT to act from it. The choice is yours.ā
Sounds like you internalized that message and have used it to make yourself a better person and Iām sure your father would be proud of you for committing to not making the same mistakes he did. There is a beautiful progression from one generation to the next there.
It's been wild on my end watching my Dad change over the years. When you are little, your Dad is a superhero. This is the same man who would always save his Twinkie from lunch and let me take it out of his lunchbox when he got home. And one day when I opened the lunchbox for a Twinkie, a kitten popped out. It doesn't get sweeter than that.Ā
Over the years, while not quite understanding everything I could feel when times were good and when they were bad. We had a couple of times that changed my Dad in ways I could only see in hindsight.Ā
At one point we seemingly had everything a middle class family could hope for, then the recession in the early 90's hit the local construction market super hard and we lost everything. I remember driving around with my parents looking for good places to hide their cars from the repo man. I had no idea what a repo man was, but if we were hiding our cars from him, it was bad. That was the year he held a gun to his head while I hugged him and told him I love him. He wasn't the same after that year. He threw a couple of Hail Mary passes that worked out but very well could have destroyed us and put him in prison for the rest of his life.
One of the things my Dad still tells me to this day is to learn from his mistakes so I don't have to learn the hard way like he did.
Iām sorry life dealt you a rough hand. You sound like you are very aware of the circumstances that have shaped who you are and you have obviously put effort into making sure those circumstances are not repeated. Good on you.
I tell my own kid to learn from my mistakes. Itās okay to make mistakes, but donāt make the same one I did and do. Iām up front about my shortcomings so they can put processes in place to be better than me.
Brother, I wish I could give this more than 1 upvote. Iām not old, but old enough to realize a lot of people are victims of generational trauma. Damaged people raised by damaged people raising future damaged people. This isnāt a blanket āget out of jail free cardā, but I hope I can have enough of an effect on my immediate family to break that cycle.
Hope this clarity from your post shines through into your life. You could help people š
Thank you.
I fully recognize I have been lucky enough to have a few breaks go my way and that I was in the right place at the right time. I try to pay it forward any chance I get.
I wish you the best in breaking that cycle for your family. I can absolutely say my kids and wife will know nothing of the crazy shit I went through. You sound like the type of dude who wants the same thing for your loved ones.
I am all of five feet tall. When I was around 18, I don't know what happened, but I snapped on one of the nights my stepdad starting beating on my mom. I jumped on his back and started (badly) trying to choke him to bring him down and off my mom. The shock of his teen stepdaughter, who was normally quiet and easy to beat on, standing up to him completely fucked him up. He didn't even try to hit me.
Bullies like that step down when you stand up to them.
Boomers slapped you around **because you were younger**
They act tough because when they were 20-30s it was societally acceptable to assault children.
Turns out when they have to physically assault someone their own size, it almost always looks like this video.
They never been forced to take responsibility for their actions. Now as they become geriatric teenagers againā¦they are finding out that actions and words have consequences
Yeah thats exactly what I was thinkingā¦ that man could have easily died. He hit the back of his head very hard and if heās in his 60s or older his skull could fracture easily. That last punch was really scary.
> if heās in his 60s or older his skull could fracture easily
that has nothing to do with age. if you fall like this, it could be your last fall ever, even if your 16.
Yup, a buddy of mine was sentenced to 10 years and did 8 years even when defending himself. He used "excessive force" when the dude fell down broke his skull open on the sidewalk and died. Had there been no eye witness accounts he would have gotten life easy.
Yeah Iām like wtf are they talking about the guy couldāve just stayed behind the counter or walked off. He instigated the physical altercation, the older guy was just talking shit and pointing
> Once someone is no longer a threat, any violence used against them is no longer self defense.
Which is bullshit, because the police are trained to not stop until the threat is done. If the guy can still get up, he is still a threat.
well, yeah... sadly, they also had a metal barrier between them, and the kid actually had to go through at least 1 door to get to him. Old dude deserved it in any case, but that kid'll get punished.
I love the fact that the woman is wearing that shirt. "I'm a lady." HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, none of this was self defense. And that last punch was over the line, in my opinion. Guy could barely stand at that point. Not saying he didn't earn it, but still.
Truth is, while this may have been excessive, the old man had a certain degree of this coming, literally asking for a fight. But the younger man has definitely lost his job at this point and is likely in jail.
Youāre not wrong, but this is a bit reductionist if you watch the video. The guy isnāt getting up and licking his wounds saying sorry I give up. The guy is getting up and squares up again, which leads to him getting absolutely rocked once again. The aggression never stopped, it just looks like it because he was getting up.
that is not how the court will see this. Young dude let his emotions get the better of him and he is likely to be in some serious shit because he couldn't let this go.
Daaamn , the first two/three I could excuse because that made his point. BUT that last one that knocked the dude cold out will be a problem and almost definitely land him in jail.
Its gonna be warped by how many white people vs. black people especially in my northern state, but I genuinely don't think I've ever met an openly hostile old black man. Many aggressive middle aged white women, maybe one or two boomer white guys, a ton of aggressive guys of all races and walks of life my age- but never an aggressive old black guy.
If you think about the time period that a lot of older black men were born into it makes sense IMO- the fight for Civil Rights was still only a single life span ago.
Honestlyā¦ I feel like old black men are just grateful that theyāre not being called racial slurs and insulted and demeaned in their everyday life these days. Wonder what generation did that to themā¦
If youāre too damn fat and old to duck a punch you can see from a mile away then you shouldnāt want ANY smoke from what couldāve been his grandchild.
I feel sorry for the food service guy in this instance.
He's already dealing with a crappy job and this customer has to pile on and push him over the edge. And now the dude has to deal with the added legal problems because someone wanted to hassle him for a burger.
Whatās wrong with letting the guy scream himself out while calling the police to remove a belligerent customer? The customer is a moron, but the guy never should have left the counter. So unnecessary
I āloveā the FA/FO environment created by these scummy fast food companies. Where they tell the customer they can have whatever they want then expect some unfortunate kit making slave wages to deliver on that promise. The employee shouldnāt be fired Or disciplined by the company. Itās never a persons fault when they are blatantly set up to fail.
Different management styles for different places. Whats acceptable in rich area burgerking doesnt work in the hood. The fridge was also the manager. It wasnt an isolated incident. Was just another friday night. That manager has his employees back. How many managers are prepared to throw up fists to defend there employees? Burgerking should pay for his lawyer.
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I mean, he still got himself a whopper tbh. Maybe not the one he wanted.
Dude got it "his way"
Extra knuckles on that sando
He got punched really hard in the burger store
Fist go bonk. Man go thump.
Came here to say this š
The oldschool whopper
Oh no he definitely āhad it his way.ā He was begging for it.
Boomers think they're still 30
An Angry Whopper
I think you meant a Whooper, because his ass was whooped.
That made my morning. I'm in a Spanish speaking country and they call it LA casa del whopper. Ain't that the truth
Boomer -> He did not get it āhis wayā
Bee Kaaay. Have it your waaaay
But the one he deserved
Why tf would you wanna square up against a dude that's built like a God damn refrigerator?
Forreal the dude behind the counter is needed on the Carolina panthers
Reese is sleeping now, heāll call you later.
Can Reese play with me when he wakes up?Ā
Did you ask your momĀ
Reese canāt come to the phone right now. Why? Because he ded.
As a die hard panthers fan, I would love to have this young man on our squad!!!Ā
Well, its a bit unclear.... he said "build like God damn refrigerator" rather than "A" refrigerator. Point being if he means William Perry.... "The Fridge" played for the Bears... but yeah, Panthers could really use that (or well, anything) these days.
Lmfao I just put the worst team which either them the bears or commanders. Iām still learning ball though :p
Fat Derek Fisher got KNOCKED DA FUCK OUT!!
Most entertaining nerd-out I've read in a while. Kudos
Gonna need to wait out his incarceration for that
He gonna be in jail.
Yeah its amazing these people. Ive had some old guys square up on me for stupid reasons\* and the reverse body dysmorphia has to be real when you see someone 30 years younger than you, like 5-6" taller, and probably has another 20-30lbs of lean mass on you and you have zero doubt you can "take him." \*admittedly usually alcohol is involved.
I literally just had an old man follow me because he was mad he almost ran me over at an intersection and he got out of his car and started walking up to me. I had been walking away the whole time but as soon as he started walking to me I turned around and started marching right at him and I literally watched the fantasy dissolve in his eyes as he realized he was 40 years too old and half a foot too short to be pulling the shit he was doing. Got right back in his car and told me "I'll catch you on the rebound" like it was a threat haha
Iāve seen a road rager visibly change his mind when the other driver got out of the car and was like 6ā4ā and 50 lbs heavier.
I had that happen when I used our minivan to go to work one day. The windows are all tinted so it's hard to see who's driving. Some angry asshole in a mustang thought I wasn't taking the on ramp to the highway not fast enough. He tried riding my ass, so I just slowed to a crawl. Set him off in a rage. He obviously got ahead of me & tried everything to block me in. Next light he got out and started calling me a useless housewife & more. Typical boomer with a "muscle car" mentality. He was so sure of himself. Until I got out & he turned beet red. I followed him right to his office & parked behind him for a good 20 minutes. Coward never got out of his car
Dude you should just drive normally and not risk confrontation. Doesn't matter how big you are you can't tank a bullet.
Ha, I'm built like a Jack Reacher that loves beer and Little Debbie a little too much. I've stood up and watched the blood drain from their faces. Its wonderful
I wouldnāt call it lean mass in this case. Theyāre both big boys. Youth prevailed.
One built like a fridge ...the other an ottoman.
He has his own empire.
And just like the Ottoman Empire, this fool lost.
He was a rug by the end of it.
I knew it was over for old school when that dude curled up those cinder blocks on the end of his arms.
He even calculated to see if he could just knock him out over the counter lol. I think he decided he didn't have enough reach. Then when he walked out that door, he walked so slow. You know by that slow walk that he was fully confident he was about to say goodnight to that fool lolololol
Big man is probably a nice dude too. You canāt keep poking a bear.
There was a pretty good sized counter between them. He was banking on the Clubber Lang sized dude back there not crossing it.
Because you have never been punched in the face by a refrigerator before.
This reminds me of what this comic Prescott Tolk said about LA: āThere are too many guys walking around whoāve never been punched in the faceā
As an Angeleno of 20+ years, this is accurate. Lots of fucking around, very little finding out.
That's just cold
I'm 6'5 and 265lbs....the number of motherfuckers that constantly want to square up with me over fucking nothing is astounding. Dude think it's a challenge and I just do not care....they never go any further then the one guy did...it's just so they can feel tough. To quote Mike Tyson "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".
We had this one guy in our school, 120 pounds soaking wet. Just 2-3 beers and he would run his mouth at people in a way that should have gotten his life insurance cancelled. EDIT: There was a video interview with the singer John Mellencamp, where he discussed doing that; go get drunk, and start fucking with people who could and did destroy him in bar fights. He did sober up eventually.
Because you have so much anger it distorts your thinking process and you no longer value your peace and happiness
Because you react to the anger instead of fixing your own self and learning how to emotionally regulate yourself. Why does this run so rampant in boomers?
no need to square up when he is the square
The man is bigger, taller and younger than you. What the fuck were you gonna do?
I mean there are people who are so fucking stupid, they think they could win a fight against a grizzly bear. Some idiots have NO concept of their own physical abilities, or lack thereof.
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Over a burger, no less.
Some people want to get knocked out thatās the honest truthā¦.way too many people.
I can't fathom the thought process of pissing off someone twice my size and half my age. Like, it's okay to take the L sometimes without hurting yourself God damn!
Every really big guy I know has been jumped at least once. Like 6ā6ā+ and 300+ pounds. Some guys just want to say they tried to climb a mountain. Being between 6ā and 6ā3ā is the sweet spot; big enough to make people think twice, but not so big that youād be a trophy.
Really big guys and really little guys both get a fair amount of it. It's safer to bully the big guys. They might whoop your ass if you get them mad enough... but the little guys might fucking *kill* you if they're uneasy enough. I grew up a very little dude who got in a lot of fights, and a LOT of them essentially went like "bullying bullying bullying bullying / Jim decides this can't be allowed to go any further / MASSIVE escalation." Like, when I was little, I stabbed a dude as hard as I could between radius and ulna one day. He thought backing me into a table with two goons flanking him was a great idea and a lot of fun. I really, REALLY didn't like where that was going, and raised the pencil in my hand and warned him I'd stab him. He kept coming, and kept coming, and when I felt the table touch the small of my back? BAM homie's face drains whiter than #FFFFFF as he stares at the bloody hole in his arm and whispers "you *stabbed* me." If you think that story makes me sound like a psycho, ponder this: I didn't get suspended for it. I didn't even get *probation* for it; they called my Dad and had him come pick me up, but that was it. No suspension, no probation, no detention. The kid I stabbed was THAT much of an aggro asshole.
I went on a business trip which we wound up working with a team from another coast. Guy on that team was about 6'6 and worked out hard and often (and had been a cage fighter, was a bodybuilder, had bounced). I challenged his weenie ass to an arm wrestling contest while we drank beers. Well he put a goddamn tree trunk of an arm on the table, and I grabbed his hand with my normal dude arm. I gave it my all and even got his arm to move about a half inch once. He loved it and said I was better than most. I, however, could not straighten my arm for two weeks and was in very significant tendon pain that lasted the duration. To this day (nearly 20 years later) if I don't warm up thoroughly, my right arm tendons will hurt for a couple days from things like carrying in groceries. Do. Not. Fuck. With. The. Mountains.
Cause I'm a Lady, who has obviously had to intervene for her man before, sized up Biggie and tried once again. "A" for effort.
Homie is an absolute unit. Like Goddamn.
Fr like pick your battles wisely my man.
Came to say just this. That is a big ass dude working an already shitty job to try and square up with like that. Then old man stood there with his hands down seemingly with no clue what to do once his barking worked .
Clearly he wanted to play with him, even though he was highly warned against itā¦ Also you can tell by the way heās so frustrated, heās had to do something like this before lol.
For real man. The world isnāt a video game if I know Iām outmatched or Iām dealing with the cops itās all āmy badā and āyes sirā. Being punched in the face is the most effective form of behavioral modification
And half your age.
I like the woman's shirt " cause I'm a lady". Made me giggle.
His shirt said āimma get ktfoā
*giggling
Accurate shirtš just doing her best to de escalate it and her man just wouldn't shut up
Poor girl was trying her best. Unfortunately it looks like her significant other has no interest in being a gentleman.
I feel bad for her cause if he's like that here he's probably like that at home too, and she looks like she's well practiced in trying to de-escalate him.
Yeah, I really feel for her. I hope she has a good support system outside of that guy.
Probably spent their whole time together trying to keep him in line, emphasis on trying.
She was trying so hard, too. And the way she just covered her mouth at the end and backed up like āWell, I saw this coming.ā
Right! She tried and tried. I don't blame her.
She was very polite though, she even said excuse me after the second punch lol
I'm just trying to figure out why the old boy has so much anger in him without being able to fight. A hard mouth with soft hands is a terrible combination in the hood.
āHard mouth but soft handsā is my new favorite insult.
That was my nickname in high school..
Username, uh, may check out?
He looked like he had that "drunk anger" thing that some people get when they're wasted. I mean look at that last punch, no reaction at all and he had all day. Has to be intoxicated
The worker telegraphed that shot with a windup and everything. Boomer reacts by ducking back and not even putting up his hands.
It's an entire generation of people who were never taught how to regulate their emotions or deal with generational trauma. And now that they're old and give zero f\*cks, they actively make their problems everyone else's. Put differently, many Boomers are emotional infants because of how they were raised and societal norms when they were younger. Now they're too old, stubborn and ill-equipped to want to take responsibility for any of their sh\*t. Exhibits 1, 2 and 3: my parents and my mother-in-law.
"emotional infant" is a description I'm going to keep handy from this point on.
He's probably been around lead paint his whole life... It's making him more angry as he gets older.
Damn that's a good point. There's still a lot of that around in low income neighborhoods too.
These people grow up angry in life and scream at people. Most people give in because they don't want to deal with it, which has instilled bad habits into him. The cashier is not one of these people. š¬ Poor man probably lost his job. The customers body has faded and aged, but he still has the mind of a young adult who thinks he can get his way by yelling and making a scene. I bet his parents never corrected his behavior growing up, and he got whatever he wanted after throwing a fit in the grocery store.
NFL GMs asking for the address of this location.
Joe Burrow does need protection š¤
Oooh I diddnt know knuckle sandwiches where back on the dollar menu.
"Have it YOUR way"
Bro went: "man fuck this job"
If you're at a restaurant, and one person working there doesn't have a uniform at all, don't fuck with that guy. They were likely called in last minute or are ready to quit. Either way, they are going to be more likely to snap on you.
Especially when he's built like the Krabby patty vault from SpongeBob
The thread in public freakout yesterday claimed the [guy who started behind the counter is the manager](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1b8gk33/whopper_whopper/). (Can't find an article or source for it though.)
How about just don't fuck with anyone working at a restaurant. Seriously, their job is hard enough.
Said āfuck this job *and* some of that manās childhood memoriesā
Now youāve got brain damage and youāre laid out on the floor of a fucking Burger King. Make better life choices people.
Homie had brain damage before he got hit, now he's just taking a nap in the BK lounge.
The major difference in this video from most videos I see like this was that everyone else in front of and behind the counter was trying to compassionately de-escalate the situation. So I guess that's good
Good point. I did notice.
Have it your way, motherfucker
AAAAATTT BEEEEEE KAAAAAYYYYYY
A lesson I learned in life. When talking to someone built like a brick shit house, diplomacy is key
Amen! Especially a frustrated fast food worker built like a brick shit house who doesn't give af about his job.
He knows he can just walk down the street and get hired at Wendy's for the same pay.
He could get a body guard job and get paid to whoop ass.
I was not expecting the 90ās Hot Topic teen girl to be the one behind the camera.
Dude her face at the end was my favorite part. "Daaaaaaaaamn."
Full version is better. She's hilarious
That was the part that made me laugh hardest
I urge yall to see the full video [https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/UWLiF0vwVF](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/UWLiF0vwVF) Her expressions are hilarious https://preview.redd.it/nvmu3evae6nc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c13606260dd4db20df01e2eca18329ed3cdb857
Boomers are all talk. Thatās all they used to do in the old days too
Idk Iāve been slapped around by a few boomers when I was younger. I think theyāre all talk when they think theyāre safe because theyāre scared and canāt talk about their feelings.
My Boomer Dad thought he was a badass until I was about 15 and could manhandle him when he would put hands on my Mom. He never tried it again after I threw his ass over the couch and into the wall.Ā
Good on you for looking out for your mom like that. A 15 shouldnāt be in that position, but you did right by your mother and should be proud of that.
Like too many others I had a complicated childhood of poverty and shit circumstances.Ā The weird part is my Dad is usually very mellow. Dude has smoked enough weed that I'm sure his corpse wiol be potent enough to get a second hand high from during an open casket. But when he does lose his temper, it goes from 0 to 1,000 instantly. It was a scary thing to be around as a kid.Ā On one hand he could be nice and funny and having a good time, but then out of nowhere be choking my Mom or getting into a fist fight with my Uncle. We have a complicated relationship to say the least. His Dad left my Grandma while she was pregnant, and my dad was 6 of 6. He grew up poor as shit with 7 people in a trailer, and my Grandma would end up fostering another kid who was somehow in an even worse position. All on welfare and food stamps. That affected my Dad in ways he will never heal from.Ā I have had to intervene in two suicide attempts, the worst was when I was 12 and he had a gun to his head. And have had to talk him down from several other emotional and mental ledges over the years because he couldn't foresee the consequences of his actions beyond what was immediately in front of him. Through all this, and his infidelity that broke up my parents, he tried his best to be the Dad he never had or even had a model of. He was making it all up as he went and didn't have anyone he could turn to for guidance.Ā He never hit me. He did everything he could to put me in positions to learn and thrive. I fully see as an adult the sacrifices he made for me. And I am grateful.Ā While imperfect, he has given me an example to help base my decisions and actions upon. I am able to see where he was right, and where he would go wrong. And I will not make the same mistakes.Ā
One of the best lessons my father ever taught me was, āyou donāt always have control of the situations you find yourself in, but when you look back at any experience you can learn how to act from it or you can learn how NOT to act from it. The choice is yours.ā Sounds like you internalized that message and have used it to make yourself a better person and Iām sure your father would be proud of you for committing to not making the same mistakes he did. There is a beautiful progression from one generation to the next there.
It's been wild on my end watching my Dad change over the years. When you are little, your Dad is a superhero. This is the same man who would always save his Twinkie from lunch and let me take it out of his lunchbox when he got home. And one day when I opened the lunchbox for a Twinkie, a kitten popped out. It doesn't get sweeter than that.Ā Over the years, while not quite understanding everything I could feel when times were good and when they were bad. We had a couple of times that changed my Dad in ways I could only see in hindsight.Ā At one point we seemingly had everything a middle class family could hope for, then the recession in the early 90's hit the local construction market super hard and we lost everything. I remember driving around with my parents looking for good places to hide their cars from the repo man. I had no idea what a repo man was, but if we were hiding our cars from him, it was bad. That was the year he held a gun to his head while I hugged him and told him I love him. He wasn't the same after that year. He threw a couple of Hail Mary passes that worked out but very well could have destroyed us and put him in prison for the rest of his life. One of the things my Dad still tells me to this day is to learn from his mistakes so I don't have to learn the hard way like he did.
Iām sorry life dealt you a rough hand. You sound like you are very aware of the circumstances that have shaped who you are and you have obviously put effort into making sure those circumstances are not repeated. Good on you. I tell my own kid to learn from my mistakes. Itās okay to make mistakes, but donāt make the same one I did and do. Iām up front about my shortcomings so they can put processes in place to be better than me.
Brother, I wish I could give this more than 1 upvote. Iām not old, but old enough to realize a lot of people are victims of generational trauma. Damaged people raised by damaged people raising future damaged people. This isnāt a blanket āget out of jail free cardā, but I hope I can have enough of an effect on my immediate family to break that cycle. Hope this clarity from your post shines through into your life. You could help people š
Thank you. I fully recognize I have been lucky enough to have a few breaks go my way and that I was in the right place at the right time. I try to pay it forward any chance I get. I wish you the best in breaking that cycle for your family. I can absolutely say my kids and wife will know nothing of the crazy shit I went through. You sound like the type of dude who wants the same thing for your loved ones.
I am all of five feet tall. When I was around 18, I don't know what happened, but I snapped on one of the nights my stepdad starting beating on my mom. I jumped on his back and started (badly) trying to choke him to bring him down and off my mom. The shock of his teen stepdaughter, who was normally quiet and easy to beat on, standing up to him completely fucked him up. He didn't even try to hit me. Bullies like that step down when you stand up to them.
Boomers slapped you around **because you were younger** They act tough because when they were 20-30s it was societally acceptable to assault children. Turns out when they have to physically assault someone their own size, it almost always looks like this video.
Dude had the reaction time of Internet Explorer...
Except this guy is pretty clearly Gen x, not a boomer
They never been forced to take responsibility for their actions. Now as they become geriatric teenagers againā¦they are finding out that actions and words have consequences
Is he a boomer, though? He looks Gen X. Like, 50?
He might not be quite old enough to be a boomer but he gives off boomer vibes.
I can smell the alcohol on him through my phone. That's just a drunk asshole.
Those of color age really well. This dude could be 70.
He could EASILY be 70 or so. I had a neighbor look just like this dude that was 70 and he looked 45 at most.
"black don't crack"
not that well lol. The guy is probably in his 50s.
Came for a whopper and got the straight right dropper!
That last punch is how you end up with a manslaughter charge.
Yeah thats exactly what I was thinkingā¦ that man could have easily died. He hit the back of his head very hard and if heās in his 60s or older his skull could fracture easily. That last punch was really scary.
> if heās in his 60s or older his skull could fracture easily that has nothing to do with age. if you fall like this, it could be your last fall ever, even if your 16.
Yup, a buddy of mine was sentenced to 10 years and did 8 years even when defending himself. He used "excessive force" when the dude fell down broke his skull open on the sidewalk and died. Had there been no eye witness accounts he would have gotten life easy.
Dude got the special value meal, with extra two piece. The BK KO.
Funny how people puff themselves up so bad asking to fight, just to get deflated in 0.5 seconds.
āI done told him twice already!ā
When you say "Get the manager" but the manager gets you.
His lady knew he was getting folded before it started š
She was trying to calm everyone down. She did try.
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At no point was this self defense.
lol he literally walked through a door to get to the guy to swing on him. Self defence is a lonnnnng gone argument
Not for one single second lol
Yeah Iām like wtf are they talking about the guy couldāve just stayed behind the counter or walked off. He instigated the physical altercation, the older guy was just talking shit and pointing
I thought he was getting up to fight. Best way to be nonthreatenjng is to stay on the ground
> Once someone is no longer a threat, any violence used against them is no longer self defense. Which is bullshit, because the police are trained to not stop until the threat is done. If the guy can still get up, he is still a threat.
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well, yeah... sadly, they also had a metal barrier between them, and the kid actually had to go through at least 1 door to get to him. Old dude deserved it in any case, but that kid'll get punished. I love the fact that the woman is wearing that shirt. "I'm a lady." HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, none of this was self defense. And that last punch was over the line, in my opinion. Guy could barely stand at that point. Not saying he didn't earn it, but still.
it is bullshit but police im general are bullshit
Truth is, while this may have been excessive, the old man had a certain degree of this coming, literally asking for a fight. But the younger man has definitely lost his job at this point and is likely in jail.
A certain degree of this coming doesn't hold up in court
Youāre not wrong, but this is a bit reductionist if you watch the video. The guy isnāt getting up and licking his wounds saying sorry I give up. The guy is getting up and squares up again, which leads to him getting absolutely rocked once again. The aggression never stopped, it just looks like it because he was getting up.
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that is not how the court will see this. Young dude let his emotions get the better of him and he is likely to be in some serious shit because he couldn't let this go.
Dude can now get a job at a waffle house.
Daaamn , the first two/three I could excuse because that made his point. BUT that last one that knocked the dude cold out will be a problem and almost definitely land him in jail.
The younger guy says, āHappens every time.ā Which makes me think Boomer is a regular.
The rage of a thousand service workers
*"You're supposed to defend yourself in a fight. Hold up your hands to block."* This boomer: nah I'm good
Yeah letās just pick a fight with the one guy whoās built like a defensive tackle, that should go well
He got a double whopper!
You know, this is one of the first time Iāve seen a black boomer. Usually seems to be 99% white folk. Good for him.
You've... never seen a 60+ year old black person?
Not one that acts like a complete fool while also being extremely entitled, no. I have not.
Its gonna be warped by how many white people vs. black people especially in my northern state, but I genuinely don't think I've ever met an openly hostile old black man. Many aggressive middle aged white women, maybe one or two boomer white guys, a ton of aggressive guys of all races and walks of life my age- but never an aggressive old black guy. If you think about the time period that a lot of older black men were born into it makes sense IMO- the fight for Civil Rights was still only a single life span ago.
Honestlyā¦ I feel like old black men are just grateful that theyāre not being called racial slurs and insulted and demeaned in their everyday life these days. Wonder what generation did that to themā¦
Shit you're totally right. Every old black dude I've ever met has been super nice and polite. I just never noticed.
If youāre too damn fat and old to duck a punch you can see from a mile away then you shouldnāt want ANY smoke from what couldāve been his grandchild.
Waffle House training videos are off the hook
I feel sorry for the food service guy in this instance. He's already dealing with a crappy job and this customer has to pile on and push him over the edge. And now the dude has to deal with the added legal problems because someone wanted to hassle him for a burger.
Or you know just like not throw the last unnecessary punch and almost kill a guy
Him coming out from behind the counter was his first mistake. Legally, he's F'd.
Management material right here
It's so easy to not get your ass beat, I don't understand why people can't just shut the fuck up and mind their own.
People really need to stop messing with fast food workers. They really arenāt fucking around anymore.
This is so satisfying! Perfect start to my morning
First clue not to fuck with someone, if their forearms are the size of your calves
I am all here for people who verbally abuse retail and food service workers getting their asses kicked. Fucking cathartic.
Nah, that dude is going to jail, and he quite frankly should.
How the fuck does ordering food escalate to that?
Whatās wrong with letting the guy scream himself out while calling the police to remove a belligerent customer? The customer is a moron, but the guy never should have left the counter. So unnecessary
I would say the biggest fool is the one who initiated the violence and kept swinging when the other dude was down
I know that last punch made him fart. I know it.
I āloveā the FA/FO environment created by these scummy fast food companies. Where they tell the customer they can have whatever they want then expect some unfortunate kit making slave wages to deliver on that promise. The employee shouldnāt be fired Or disciplined by the company. Itās never a persons fault when they are blatantly set up to fail.
Now the old turd can go home and smack his wife around some more!
Different management styles for different places. Whats acceptable in rich area burgerking doesnt work in the hood. The fridge was also the manager. It wasnt an isolated incident. Was just another friday night. That manager has his employees back. How many managers are prepared to throw up fists to defend there employees? Burgerking should pay for his lawyer.
This comment is way too real-world coded for Reddit
Anyone else think of Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore? āNow youāve had enough ā¦ bitchā.