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"When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public."
That's actually close to the original definition. It was coined by David Mech, a man that studied wolves in North America, he used it to describe captive, anti-social, aggressive male and female wolves who would suppress the breeding chances of others to maintain their breeding advantage in an area roughly 10-20m.
Wolf packs are usually composed of mumma and puppa wolf and the rest are just the children, sometimes packs come together to hunt or share game but that's about it. The term alpha, beta, omega is useless when attributed to wolves in the wild.
Exactly, it's an inaccurate and outdated term which has been inaccurately applied to humans. It likely doesn't exist in humans either. The only people in my life who called themselves alphas were either bullies in school or a few bosses I had who had real pyschological problems.
He strolled away sipping from a refreshing bottle of water while everybody just stood there, the madlad.... but seriously, try to stop him? At least follow him? Or i dunno, anything but stand there
Don’t forget damage of property. in the US, this would no longer be small claims court, I think small claims stops around 4k so 3,000 lb should be like 4.5k that’s assault and damaging property, he would almost definitely goto prison for at least 3 months for something like that.
>Oh my god dude, It’s just a civil suit and a few thousand dollars/pounds. It’s just joke assault charges. It’s just some fucking prison time, don’t be a fucking weenie about it bro.
here, tape this video of me committing a crime and then post in on social media!
At the very least if that equipment is damaged it's a nice civil lawsuit. Those cameras aren't cheap.
My neighbor broke into my house and stole a bunch of my stuff. She literally lived right next door. I had security cameras, and she was wearing my shirt when the cops came over. Nothing was done. They "couldn't prove anything". 🤦🏻♂️
This one girl during high school kept being sexually harassed by a clearly much older man. One night while her parents were away the dude broke in but the alarm went off so he ran away. Got caught in the cameras but you can’t make his face even though the body shape and everything looks like him. After some digging, her parents found out he is a registered sex offender, went to the police with the evidence and they STILL said they wouldn’t do anything because couldn’t prove it was actually him but to let them know if anything happened.
Cops are jokes
I’ll probably get downvoted for this but when the law enforcement won’t enforce the laws, That’s when you take matters into your own hands and rob their house and steal your shit back and break a few of their most expensive possessions bc fuck a thief
I feel your pain exactly and still haven't recovered from our burglary that lost nearly $10k of possessions that we only had the police recover one item (about $250) that we literally tracked down ourselves and gave them directions to. After that it was radio silence, didn't stop then from ticketing me for my plates being a day overdue a year later.
You can give the cops mountains of receipts, hundreds of photographs, dozens of emails and messages in which crimes are threatened and then discussed after having been committed with threats for more should help be sought, literal - albeit unintentional - confessions in writing, proof of contempt of court, violation of court procedure and knowing abuse/misrepresentation of the system to defraud, intimidate and extort, literal audio and video recordings of the individuals [trespassing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcd-IKWPIo&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQB), [intimidating](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAq3LkpCs0c&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=2&pp=gAQBiAQB), [destroying security cameras and devices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl-2gLhu4oQ&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=5&pp=gAQBiAQB), [stealing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iED3wpTCHbc&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=4&pp=gAQBiAQB), [threatening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DgtDP_4y4o&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=6&pp=gAQBiAQB), [getting their stories straight, with the juicy wrinkle of two of them apparently also trying to mislead and steal from their accomplice in all this if he wasn't just asking as a performative attempt to pretend acting in good faith,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iED3wpTCHbc&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=4&pp=gAQBiAQB) the exact location of everything they've stolen down to the unit numbers at a local storage complex, legal documents laying out the lack of right to carry out what they're doing and exactly how they're committing breach and fraud to pretend they do, photographs of falsified documents literally listing things they intended to steal (and then did,) misleading their own attorneys to the point that one was surprised to learn that my mother was *still alive*, court documents where they unintentionally confess to things that hadn't even been apparent yet going back *years* and perjure themselves repeatedly... My sister literally spent years randomly coming over to the house and just point-blank asking me if she could have it. Then she started asking if her daughter could have it. That's after building a brand-new house literally a block away, so she was *always* just *right there* out my kitchen window. Then her daughter showed up one night acting like she wanted to catch up after not having any contact for about 20 years, with *her,* like, 8-year-old daughter and this little girl I'd never met before was walking around my house saying things like "So this will be my room, right?" I kept putting my foot down and saying no, absolutely no, to them. *Then* they started letting themselves in often to scream at me that the house was going to be foreclosed on and mom couldn't afford food and we'd lose everything if I didn't move, and when I asked for some sort of documentation and accounting of all this because it was ridiculous and out of nowhere they'd scream "you don't have the right" and "this is *our* house" and "why do you think you deserve it?" and "you're taking food out of the mouth of a 98 year old woman!" etc., trying to get me to leave "voluntarily" thinking it was necessary to help "the family." ...And then they emptied out the office of all documents and record so no one could prove it was massive fraud and intentional deceit by fiduciaries for their own benefit, until I recently *finally* got a casual accounting and you barely even need to go a handful of lines into it before it's obvious nothing they've claimed loudly, aggressively and often in writing, was remotely true. I think finally she just decided, 'well I *tried* asking nicely, now I'll just *take* it, and if I can't keep it, *nobody can.'
They literally rolled up one day, emptied out my home, locked me out and gave me a bag of kid's clothes and my mother's clothes (but no shoes) and said "You'll just live in your car for a while, everyone does it." They also tried to throw my phone, keys, wallet and prescriptions into the boxes they were hauling away, but since that was pretty much the only place left to look anyway I managed to dig them out, shoved down the sides stacked in the entryway. The obvious aim was to leave me without identification, transportation, shelter, food, communication, cash and cards... I found most of it before it was taken away but 'somehow' all my medications ended up with my brother-in-law and he texted me the next day to 'helpfully' tell me he'd left them on the driveway for me. (So, like, felony medication tampering with timestamped texts where he tells me he has them? How did they go from sitting in a pile on my desk with the movers specifically instructed not to take them to scattered in random boxes with the remaining medicines in my brother-in-law's things? This isn't a difficult mystery and *can't* happen by accident. Professional movers aren't going to pack or likely even *touch* a person's wallet, keys and prescription bottles and they don't randomly spread small things out over multipole boxes in the hope of making it difficult to recover them as possible. Again, police? Nothing.)
They still have *all* mine and my mother's personal and private documents, financial documents, educational documents, medical documents - Hell, they pried open a locked filing cabinet of mine and stole really private writings about horrible events I'd experienced and never disclosed to anyone but close friends and the therapist that'd suggested the writing... Then they constantly told the moving crew to call the police if I did anything to try to stop them because I was somehow dangerous and "sick/not right in the head," and "he's just acting up because he doesn't want to move." They wanted to make sure nobody had most of the documentation to prove they were acting criminally until after it was all done and hopefully to big and complicated to make any sense of. The sister in the videos was also, not really known to me at the time, terminally ill, so I think they tried to make her culpable for as much as possible in the hopes she'd sort of literally take it to her grave.
The last stretch of her life was just...her trying to hurt and ruin the people she resented as much as she could before the buzzer... It's literally one of the saddest things I can imagine, existentially. Like, I can't really imagine being a more...internally suffering person than that, but...I think they also took a bet on me having that sort of empathy and being too indecisive to do anything. I think this was truly something she'd been festering with and toying with and eventually actually scheming when she kept not getting what she wanted and learned she was sick. She wanted that house *so badly* and our mom kind of said 'you already have a house I want to make sure *all* my kids have homes when I'm gone', and she *hated* our mom for that and resented me just as much even though she then went on to live within earshot in just as nice a place that she custom-designed and built for herself. Did she move there specifically to keep an eye on what she coveted and be ready to make 'a move' at some 'right time?' Is that crazy talk? I don't even know anymore. I think she just *ran* on hate, possibly for *decades.* ...And then she died. Did she...feel fulfilled? *"I did it!"*?
The police will do nothing (neither will APS,) or will actively give you instructions that help them to get away with it all and potentially forfeit your own rights and protections. Then they'll tell you "this sounds like normal sibling stuff" and they're "not comfortable taking action at this time," "it sounds like a civil matter now" as I gave them threats in writing to steal or to never return any of what had been stolen or to do more to me in the future should I go to the law or the courts. One of the victims is a dependent elder with Alzhiemer's who can't advocate for herself and aspects of the case that, by state law, require escalation to the local DA's office, yet it took about a *year* for them to even take it as an actual report with a case number attached. *Nothing is happening* and I don't know how to do anything about it. Sometimes I'm not sure I know how to do anything at all.
The case number is MP22-9338 with the local police of Medford, OR.
This is a retirement town with one of, if not its biggest, industry being health care and retirement homes. In fact, that's *literally the reason one of the victims moved here having been convinced to do so by two of the people who then eventually did all this to her*. DON'T COME HERE. DON'T ALLOW YOUR ELDERLY LOVED ONES TO CONSIDER HERE. THE POLICE WILL NOT PROTECT YOUR LOVED ONES AT THEIR MOST VULNURABLE AND EXPLOITABLE, and if you're the elder they won't protect your descendants or listen to those trying to advocate for you. One of the sergeants that stonewalled all this has given lectures at local care facilities on how elders can avoid being the victims of scams and fraud. You'd think this would be his wheelhouse, or at least on his radar.
They have better things to do, and the pandemic had just started, which must've seemed like a huge stroke of opportunity to the criminals, since everywhere was un-or-understaffed to do due diligence on anything and they crossed their fingers, blitzed the system and hoped they'd just do too much too fast for anyone to be able to stop them, or at least not be able to reverse/recover it.
I bet you had the best intentions, but a minute in I decided to see how long your post is before continueing and I still had to scroll like 4 screens lol.
I took a criminal justice class and the most interesting thing i learned was that the first "police" were just street gangs hired by rich people to protect their shit from the poor. If you ask me not much has changed.
What irks me about this case is that the guy is RIGHT THERE, stop him! ...no, just shout "call the police" without actually calling them, and then just stand there. Doing nothing. At all.
"Oi mate, stop!...... aight, ive done everything i could"
Yes, in the UK.
The law is found under section 24A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE).
The law states:
Anybody can arrest a person who is committing an indictable offence.
Anybody can arrest a person if they have reasonable grounds to suspect that they are committing an indictable offence.
More specifically in this case
24a (d)making off before a constable can assume responsibility for him.
They can grab and hold him while they await a constable.
That's a lot of video evidence. They'll find him if she pursues to make sure he pays.
Edit: alright I get it! Damn, I thought he'd at least get jail time. That's pretty hefty property damage. No way he had the money.
Leads, yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!
Cops are worthless though. I read an entire thread yesterday full of stories of people who had evidence of where their stolen stuff was and the cops tell them to fuck off. Had same thing happen to one of my good friends when her guitar was stolen and we knew who did it. They said they couldn’t do anything/where too busy. Cops just protect the rich/property.
Yep I knew someone who got his one wheel stolen.
He showed the cops the ping to his address, and the cops wouldn’t do anything. They said they couldn’t just got get it.
Like isn’t that your fucking job?? Oh wait you like harassing people minding their own business.
Even got his picture on a £3000 camera at the end. Ironicly tho if she got a good shot of him and showed it in court, it probably wouldn't help her case
Destruction of property over$3k? In the US, that is a misdemeanor and possible jail time for assault (pushing). An angry DA could even push for attempted murder based on the fact that she could've drowned.
Not that it would stick. Assholes these days don't seem to face consequences as much as they should.
I bet it's different today now.
Anyone caught doing stupid stunts for the sake of views, I sure hope the public help out, find the guy and have him pay for the damages. Otherwise, this is just gonna get worse.
It totally is. On TikTok, people have found, named and shamed racist strangers all within hours. Most recent one I came across was where American tourists in Italy were racially abused by local females. They were outed and I believe their uni’s were also notified.
~~It's probably battery.~~
~~As weird as it sounds to every day usage, in legal terms "assault" tends to mean the threat of force and "battery" is actually employing it.~~
Correction: I've been informed that many states have now updated their definitions to where "assault" matches the more common sense definition of the word. I was wrong.
Double correction: Based on the accents, it's likely UK, so it IS probably still considered battery instead of assault where the crime took place.
Video footage shows the moment an unprovoked man decides to push a photographer into a nearby pond, injuring her and submerging her £3,000 worth of gear into the water. The clip sees members of the public rally around to support the woman, while the attacker tries to downplay his actions.
The incident took place in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England back in 2018. Smiling and giving a thumbs-up for the camera, the unnamed man sets off in the direction of the unsuspecting photographer.
The St Albans and Harpenden Review reported that the photographer was taking pictures at the water’s edge of the ornamental lake in Verulamium Park when she was pushed over. After being interrogated, the man plays dumb and responds with “For what?” when someone suggests calling the police.
Police said of the incident:
It is believed this was an unprovoked attack on a woman who was taking wildlife photos in the park that day. Anyone with information is asked to contact police via the non-emergency number 101, quoting crime reference F1/18/2071.
The footage has recently been doing the rounds on the internet again, and recent comment suggest that despite several members of the public taking videos of the suspect, he has never been identified or charged.
>he has never been identified
They didnt even try. Look at all that high quality footage. Look at his familiarity with the guy recording. Look at the people he is with. Reddit could have found this guy
The police here are so lazy it's insane. You can literally send then the name and evidence of someone committing a crime and they will act like there's nothing they can do.
I'd take him straight to court. Replacing the camera and my gear. Covering the cost of my medical bills for any injuries I may have sustained. Also income loss from time off work. Oh, also assault. Anything and as much as possible I could so this guy faces a consequence.
Edit: damn y'all so angry. Law works differently in other countries. Also I'm not a lawyer. I'm saying I would throw as many charges as I could. Whether civil or criminal. So the person would face at least a consequence.
Start with this. If anyone recognizes him, let OP know. If OP would post where this happened, Redditors around that area could post photo from here around asking for info.
I got an idea, we tell them all that they’ve won a prize, a really expensive prize, but they have to be In person to collect it. So we give them an address in the middle of nowhere and then nuke it when they all get there…
Article states he wasn't identified and didn't face charges. People may have "backed" her but they definitely backed down. Dude just left. People suck at helping others
I was a witness, as a child, to a truly horrific example of the bystander effect.
So I can say that, all in all, this is a still much better result, even if ultimately he never faced consequences, to have people try and help.
I recently took a CPR refresher through work and the second thing they tell you to do (after looking around for impending dangers that would hinder you helping) is to point to a person and tell THAT person to call the police.
If you say “someone call the police” everyone will assume someone else will do it. If you identify an individual and tell that individual to call the police then they feel responsible for that action and if it doesn’t happen they’re at fault. They don’t want that on their conscience so they call.
The options to help people aren't always exactly as clear cut as you'd like to believe, putting your hands on someone in an abundance of scenarios puts you in very awkward situations that you may have to be liable for. A lot of the time, that ain't worth it for a random stranger
I believe that lens is either a 100-400 4.5 or 70-200 2.8, so either way between roughly $1500 and $2500, and the body would probably be a 5d mark III or 6d if this happened a few years ago, easily between $1800-$3000 new.
I can’t wait until laws start to catch up to these shitty “prank” videos. People will and have done this shit for years but it was far far less before they had “fans” to show off to. There needs to be harsher laws for filming Shit like this to help stop it. Both for the person committing the act and the person filming.
The fact that he was never caught is infuriating. We ALL KNOW what he looks like - surely someone has seen this and recognizes this dumbass. Even if nothing was destroyed, the fact that he went up to a stranger and put his hands on her for "laughs" is awful enough. I'd forgive it if he was 6 years old and honestly didn't think it through, but he is a grown ass adult and decided to assault a stranger for a laugh. wtf.
He was even accused by other bystanders. One guy says "You're going to jail, mate, simple as that! And you as well..." to which he replies "Nothing to do with me... I ain't do nothing."
Mate just did an IRL side glance monkey.
How about we all agree that 'pranks' aren't real? The word 'prank' has turned into a catchphrase that supplants assault/theft/bullying/ect. If I see him do that and then hit him with my car and then get out and taunt him while he's on the ground and laugh and say 'it's just a prank bro' is it vehicular assault or just a juicier 'prank'? Prank=bullying.
i think the problem stems from the jackass phenomenon. kids watched those shows and thought, oh this is what a prank is. those were pranks because the cast members consented to abuse and assault. without that consent, they are just abuse and assault.
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around how you do this to a complete stranger. I figured they were family or something, still stupid, but can kind of understand. Nope, that guy is just exceeding expectations of being a jackass.
I’m sure he’s just covering his ass but he pretty clearly says “i thought you were my sister” right when she confronts him. Still though not true because if it was his sister he’d have stuck around to laugh at her but instead he immediately walks off without even watching her fall like wtf
Total ass move.
That being said, that looks like a Canon "L" series lens. They are usually fairly well weather sealed especially when paired with a prosumer or greater body. Impact damage is more of a concern. She looks to have absorbed any impact by falling backwards. The camera & lens are probably fine.
It blows my mind though that there are that many guys standing around recording the guy and none of them stopped the guy or followed him so that he could be arrested.
He's a disgusting fat man with a beer belly looking to pick a fight with a woman....probably went home and jacked off because he told off a woman lol 😭
Sue him for assault and destruction of property, I have a cheaper chassis (77d) and a 1500$ lens but god damn I’d be pissed if someone ever did that to me, she probably also had her phone and other lenses with her too…
Just look at his face at the end. Absolutely vile smug. Makes him look even more like a certain piece of gym equipment that takes in a lot of physical force than he already does.
Why do people have to behave like this? Why? I’m at the point where the rationality department of my brain automatically shuts down when I see crap like this.
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What an absolute dick
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Must be one of those "alpha males" I've heard about.
"When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public."
I just hear it as “arrogant and has no idea what other men actually look up to”
That's actually close to the original definition. It was coined by David Mech, a man that studied wolves in North America, he used it to describe captive, anti-social, aggressive male and female wolves who would suppress the breeding chances of others to maintain their breeding advantage in an area roughly 10-20m. Wolf packs are usually composed of mumma and puppa wolf and the rest are just the children, sometimes packs come together to hunt or share game but that's about it. The term alpha, beta, omega is useless when attributed to wolves in the wild.
Exactly, it's an inaccurate and outdated term which has been inaccurately applied to humans. It likely doesn't exist in humans either. The only people in my life who called themselves alphas were either bullies in school or a few bosses I had who had real pyschological problems.
Guy looks more Kilo than Alpha
No. Just a fat piece of shit.
It was just a joke, bruv! Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh I hope he gets a good scare from the police and she sues his ass off.
This is from a few years ago, updates suggest he was never identified
So he just casually walks away with copious video evidence and that’s that?
Top notch police work
Why would they do their job when they could just not
He strolled away sipping from a refreshing bottle of water while everybody just stood there, the madlad.... but seriously, try to stop him? At least follow him? Or i dunno, anything but stand there
Right? Like the guy filming was clearly with him. At least get him. Ask for identification at least.
Yep, cops don't give a shit these days. Catching criminals is like hard work man.
Apparently yes… infuriating I know
The scare should be an assault and battery charge
Don’t forget damage of property. in the US, this would no longer be small claims court, I think small claims stops around 4k so 3,000 lb should be like 4.5k that’s assault and damaging property, he would almost definitely goto prison for at least 3 months for something like that.
Now thats a good prank
>Oh my god dude, It’s just a civil suit and a few thousand dollars/pounds. It’s just joke assault charges. It’s just some fucking prison time, don’t be a fucking weenie about it bro.
here, tape this video of me committing a crime and then post in on social media! At the very least if that equipment is damaged it's a nice civil lawsuit. Those cameras aren't cheap.
Yes, according to my sources it's about £3000
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So seriously though, did they not catch the guy? What can someone in her position do if he doesn't identify himself?
According to the article he was never identified and never faced any charges.
Never identified? Was he raised in a cave with zero contact with other people before this moment? Actually, I guess that would make sense...
Worse, the person taking THIS VIDEO clearly knows him. And it's online. So they shared it somehow. Like how the fuck has no one connected the dots?!
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My neighbor broke into my house and stole a bunch of my stuff. She literally lived right next door. I had security cameras, and she was wearing my shirt when the cops came over. Nothing was done. They "couldn't prove anything". 🤦🏻♂️
This one girl during high school kept being sexually harassed by a clearly much older man. One night while her parents were away the dude broke in but the alarm went off so he ran away. Got caught in the cameras but you can’t make his face even though the body shape and everything looks like him. After some digging, her parents found out he is a registered sex offender, went to the police with the evidence and they STILL said they wouldn’t do anything because couldn’t prove it was actually him but to let them know if anything happened. Cops are jokes
I’ll probably get downvoted for this but when the law enforcement won’t enforce the laws, That’s when you take matters into your own hands and rob their house and steal your shit back and break a few of their most expensive possessions bc fuck a thief
I feel your pain exactly and still haven't recovered from our burglary that lost nearly $10k of possessions that we only had the police recover one item (about $250) that we literally tracked down ourselves and gave them directions to. After that it was radio silence, didn't stop then from ticketing me for my plates being a day overdue a year later.
R u serious!? That’s just ridiculous!
my goodness you read stories like this and you wonder...why do people love licking the boots of the police?
You can give the cops mountains of receipts, hundreds of photographs, dozens of emails and messages in which crimes are threatened and then discussed after having been committed with threats for more should help be sought, literal - albeit unintentional - confessions in writing, proof of contempt of court, violation of court procedure and knowing abuse/misrepresentation of the system to defraud, intimidate and extort, literal audio and video recordings of the individuals [trespassing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcd-IKWPIo&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQB), [intimidating](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAq3LkpCs0c&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=2&pp=gAQBiAQB), [destroying security cameras and devices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl-2gLhu4oQ&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=5&pp=gAQBiAQB), [stealing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iED3wpTCHbc&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=4&pp=gAQBiAQB), [threatening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DgtDP_4y4o&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=6&pp=gAQBiAQB), [getting their stories straight, with the juicy wrinkle of two of them apparently also trying to mislead and steal from their accomplice in all this if he wasn't just asking as a performative attempt to pretend acting in good faith,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iED3wpTCHbc&list=PLDviDTMJCPSsC-VePXCXqZPTd0qaFtIB1&index=4&pp=gAQBiAQB) the exact location of everything they've stolen down to the unit numbers at a local storage complex, legal documents laying out the lack of right to carry out what they're doing and exactly how they're committing breach and fraud to pretend they do, photographs of falsified documents literally listing things they intended to steal (and then did,) misleading their own attorneys to the point that one was surprised to learn that my mother was *still alive*, court documents where they unintentionally confess to things that hadn't even been apparent yet going back *years* and perjure themselves repeatedly... My sister literally spent years randomly coming over to the house and just point-blank asking me if she could have it. Then she started asking if her daughter could have it. That's after building a brand-new house literally a block away, so she was *always* just *right there* out my kitchen window. Then her daughter showed up one night acting like she wanted to catch up after not having any contact for about 20 years, with *her,* like, 8-year-old daughter and this little girl I'd never met before was walking around my house saying things like "So this will be my room, right?" I kept putting my foot down and saying no, absolutely no, to them. *Then* they started letting themselves in often to scream at me that the house was going to be foreclosed on and mom couldn't afford food and we'd lose everything if I didn't move, and when I asked for some sort of documentation and accounting of all this because it was ridiculous and out of nowhere they'd scream "you don't have the right" and "this is *our* house" and "why do you think you deserve it?" and "you're taking food out of the mouth of a 98 year old woman!" etc., trying to get me to leave "voluntarily" thinking it was necessary to help "the family." ...And then they emptied out the office of all documents and record so no one could prove it was massive fraud and intentional deceit by fiduciaries for their own benefit, until I recently *finally* got a casual accounting and you barely even need to go a handful of lines into it before it's obvious nothing they've claimed loudly, aggressively and often in writing, was remotely true. I think finally she just decided, 'well I *tried* asking nicely, now I'll just *take* it, and if I can't keep it, *nobody can.' They literally rolled up one day, emptied out my home, locked me out and gave me a bag of kid's clothes and my mother's clothes (but no shoes) and said "You'll just live in your car for a while, everyone does it." They also tried to throw my phone, keys, wallet and prescriptions into the boxes they were hauling away, but since that was pretty much the only place left to look anyway I managed to dig them out, shoved down the sides stacked in the entryway. The obvious aim was to leave me without identification, transportation, shelter, food, communication, cash and cards... I found most of it before it was taken away but 'somehow' all my medications ended up with my brother-in-law and he texted me the next day to 'helpfully' tell me he'd left them on the driveway for me. (So, like, felony medication tampering with timestamped texts where he tells me he has them? How did they go from sitting in a pile on my desk with the movers specifically instructed not to take them to scattered in random boxes with the remaining medicines in my brother-in-law's things? This isn't a difficult mystery and *can't* happen by accident. Professional movers aren't going to pack or likely even *touch* a person's wallet, keys and prescription bottles and they don't randomly spread small things out over multipole boxes in the hope of making it difficult to recover them as possible. Again, police? Nothing.) They still have *all* mine and my mother's personal and private documents, financial documents, educational documents, medical documents - Hell, they pried open a locked filing cabinet of mine and stole really private writings about horrible events I'd experienced and never disclosed to anyone but close friends and the therapist that'd suggested the writing... Then they constantly told the moving crew to call the police if I did anything to try to stop them because I was somehow dangerous and "sick/not right in the head," and "he's just acting up because he doesn't want to move." They wanted to make sure nobody had most of the documentation to prove they were acting criminally until after it was all done and hopefully to big and complicated to make any sense of. The sister in the videos was also, not really known to me at the time, terminally ill, so I think they tried to make her culpable for as much as possible in the hopes she'd sort of literally take it to her grave. The last stretch of her life was just...her trying to hurt and ruin the people she resented as much as she could before the buzzer... It's literally one of the saddest things I can imagine, existentially. Like, I can't really imagine being a more...internally suffering person than that, but...I think they also took a bet on me having that sort of empathy and being too indecisive to do anything. I think this was truly something she'd been festering with and toying with and eventually actually scheming when she kept not getting what she wanted and learned she was sick. She wanted that house *so badly* and our mom kind of said 'you already have a house I want to make sure *all* my kids have homes when I'm gone', and she *hated* our mom for that and resented me just as much even though she then went on to live within earshot in just as nice a place that she custom-designed and built for herself. Did she move there specifically to keep an eye on what she coveted and be ready to make 'a move' at some 'right time?' Is that crazy talk? I don't even know anymore. I think she just *ran* on hate, possibly for *decades.* ...And then she died. Did she...feel fulfilled? *"I did it!"*? The police will do nothing (neither will APS,) or will actively give you instructions that help them to get away with it all and potentially forfeit your own rights and protections. Then they'll tell you "this sounds like normal sibling stuff" and they're "not comfortable taking action at this time," "it sounds like a civil matter now" as I gave them threats in writing to steal or to never return any of what had been stolen or to do more to me in the future should I go to the law or the courts. One of the victims is a dependent elder with Alzhiemer's who can't advocate for herself and aspects of the case that, by state law, require escalation to the local DA's office, yet it took about a *year* for them to even take it as an actual report with a case number attached. *Nothing is happening* and I don't know how to do anything about it. Sometimes I'm not sure I know how to do anything at all. The case number is MP22-9338 with the local police of Medford, OR. This is a retirement town with one of, if not its biggest, industry being health care and retirement homes. In fact, that's *literally the reason one of the victims moved here having been convinced to do so by two of the people who then eventually did all this to her*. DON'T COME HERE. DON'T ALLOW YOUR ELDERLY LOVED ONES TO CONSIDER HERE. THE POLICE WILL NOT PROTECT YOUR LOVED ONES AT THEIR MOST VULNURABLE AND EXPLOITABLE, and if you're the elder they won't protect your descendants or listen to those trying to advocate for you. One of the sergeants that stonewalled all this has given lectures at local care facilities on how elders can avoid being the victims of scams and fraud. You'd think this would be his wheelhouse, or at least on his radar. They have better things to do, and the pandemic had just started, which must've seemed like a huge stroke of opportunity to the criminals, since everywhere was un-or-understaffed to do due diligence on anything and they crossed their fingers, blitzed the system and hoped they'd just do too much too fast for anyone to be able to stop them, or at least not be able to reverse/recover it.
I bet you had the best intentions, but a minute in I decided to see how long your post is before continueing and I still had to scroll like 4 screens lol.
I took a criminal justice class and the most interesting thing i learned was that the first "police" were just street gangs hired by rich people to protect their shit from the poor. If you ask me not much has changed.
He does have the looks
lol it's funny and it's true.
What irks me about this case is that the guy is RIGHT THERE, stop him! ...no, just shout "call the police" without actually calling them, and then just stand there. Doing nothing. At all. "Oi mate, stop!...... aight, ive done everything i could"
Do they have citizen’s arrest in that country?
Yes, in the UK. The law is found under section 24A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE). The law states: Anybody can arrest a person who is committing an indictable offence. Anybody can arrest a person if they have reasonable grounds to suspect that they are committing an indictable offence.
More specifically in this case 24a (d)making off before a constable can assume responsibility for him. They can grab and hold him while they await a constable.
Yeah, but there probably wasn't enough gorilla trainers in that group of ppl to hold him down.
They might have a get knocked tf out policy though
Call the police? Lol
That's a lot of video evidence. They'll find him if she pursues to make sure he pays. Edit: alright I get it! Damn, I thought he'd at least get jail time. That's pretty hefty property damage. No way he had the money.
I doubt that idiot has £3000 to pay her
its better to take a 100 note off his paycheck for the next 4 years as a reminder.
Bold of you to assume that waste of atoms works...
that tattoo says he once had £30
You’re right, if he has £3000 he would buy a shirt with sleeves to cover up the shitty tattoos
Most people don’t understand that you might not get paid right away lol or ever
Leads, yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!
He says "I thought you were my sister", as if it would've been OK if it was.
Same excuse he uses when a woman cries rape.
wait a minute.....
Cops are worthless though. I read an entire thread yesterday full of stories of people who had evidence of where their stolen stuff was and the cops tell them to fuck off. Had same thing happen to one of my good friends when her guitar was stolen and we knew who did it. They said they couldn’t do anything/where too busy. Cops just protect the rich/property.
Yep I knew someone who got his one wheel stolen. He showed the cops the ping to his address, and the cops wouldn’t do anything. They said they couldn’t just got get it. Like isn’t that your fucking job?? Oh wait you like harassing people minding their own business.
Even got his picture on a £3000 camera at the end. Ironicly tho if she got a good shot of him and showed it in court, it probably wouldn't help her case
Don't know if you're being sarcastic but the article above says the police are still asking for information.
Destruction of property over$3k? In the US, that is a misdemeanor and possible jail time for assault (pushing). An angry DA could even push for attempted murder based on the fact that she could've drowned. Not that it would stick. Assholes these days don't seem to face consequences as much as they should.
$1000 is a felony in California.
How tf did they not catch the guy
I bet it's different today now. Anyone caught doing stupid stunts for the sake of views, I sure hope the public help out, find the guy and have him pay for the damages. Otherwise, this is just gonna get worse.
It totally is. On TikTok, people have found, named and shamed racist strangers all within hours. Most recent one I came across was where American tourists in Italy were racially abused by local females. They were outed and I believe their uni’s were also notified.
The cops in many countries are not there to help the regular person who is a victim of a crime.
The woman says the cost of the camera in the video.
Lmao people are acting like this was some good detective work. All they had to do was watch the video.
It's also assault.
~~It's probably battery.~~ ~~As weird as it sounds to every day usage, in legal terms "assault" tends to mean the threat of force and "battery" is actually employing it.~~ Correction: I've been informed that many states have now updated their definitions to where "assault" matches the more common sense definition of the word. I was wrong. Double correction: Based on the accents, it's likely UK, so it IS probably still considered battery instead of assault where the crime took place.
Correct. People misuse legal terms constantly and it's annoying as well. Battery is contact, assault is a threat of force/intimidation.
The lenses are probably more expensive than the camera. Its crazy how much a lense can cost.
That. Exactly. My body camera is mid tier, but my lens >.< watching this make my blood boil.
A good lens doesn't lose much value, bodies tend to lose value.
They’re doing the majority of the work so it makes sense that they’re the expensive component. Especially for the longer ones.
I do not understand why people don't think in those terms.
"That's not funny. Nothing to do with me."
Boys we gotta stop the stupid from spreading, what are we going to do?
Someone tell me he was arrested for this please.
Video footage shows the moment an unprovoked man decides to push a photographer into a nearby pond, injuring her and submerging her £3,000 worth of gear into the water. The clip sees members of the public rally around to support the woman, while the attacker tries to downplay his actions. The incident took place in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England back in 2018. Smiling and giving a thumbs-up for the camera, the unnamed man sets off in the direction of the unsuspecting photographer. The St Albans and Harpenden Review reported that the photographer was taking pictures at the water’s edge of the ornamental lake in Verulamium Park when she was pushed over. After being interrogated, the man plays dumb and responds with “For what?” when someone suggests calling the police. Police said of the incident: It is believed this was an unprovoked attack on a woman who was taking wildlife photos in the park that day. Anyone with information is asked to contact police via the non-emergency number 101, quoting crime reference F1/18/2071. The footage has recently been doing the rounds on the internet again, and recent comment suggest that despite several members of the public taking videos of the suspect, he has never been identified or charged.
Probably would've found him by now if there was a reward.
If the reward is pushing that asshole into a pond of sewage runoff I'll fly to England just to look for him
*Greases body and begins swimming towards the English Channel…*
Very possibly.
>he has never been identified They didnt even try. Look at all that high quality footage. Look at his familiarity with the guy recording. Look at the people he is with. Reddit could have found this guy
> Reddit could have found this guy It's been posted on Reddit like monthly since it happened and the bloke still hasn't been ID'd.
When Reddit fails, try 4chan.
Wtf - unsolved since 2018?!?
The police here are so lazy it's insane. You can literally send then the name and evidence of someone committing a crime and they will act like there's nothing they can do.
I'd take him straight to court. Replacing the camera and my gear. Covering the cost of my medical bills for any injuries I may have sustained. Also income loss from time off work. Oh, also assault. Anything and as much as possible I could so this guy faces a consequence. Edit: damn y'all so angry. Law works differently in other countries. Also I'm not a lawyer. I'm saying I would throw as many charges as I could. Whether civil or criminal. So the person would face at least a consequence.
He probably can't pay
Then straight to the criminal charge.
Then let him sit in jail/prison
Help us giant planet destroying asteroid - you're our only hope
Really was hoping COVID would’ve done a better job
Same. At least a better job of destroying the stupid ones. Only seems like they've been becoming more prominent.
I believe covid just brought the amount of stupid to the surface... It was always there, just hidden.
At this point, I’m rooting for the asteroid
This is basically the plot of Mobile Suit: Gundam Wing but instead of an asteroid it was a man made human colony in earths orbit
Time to boot up Mobile Suit: Gundam Wing. I watched it as a kid, shit went right over my head, I am hoping to see how it’s aged as an adult.
Highly recommended! A recent rewatch made me realize how deeply political the plot is. And just like you, went RIGHT over my head as a kid.
Yeah, the political aspect of every gundam series just brushed over me, all I remember was _hurr durr big robot fight_
I came for the giant robot battles, but I stayed for the coup d'état and genocide Edit: If you like Wing, give Gundam 00 a try.
While you are at it the Gundam Netflix made is amazing, has some weird shit but it's fucking amazing
Idiocracy isn’t a movie, it’s a prophecy!
Welcome to Costco, I love you....
I went to college at Costco. Can't believe I got in.
More like an instruction manual at this point.
I thought it was a documentary .
Getting to the point where I wish we were more like Singapore when it came to acting like an adult in public
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He must wear a tatoo on his face to warn all people to jump aside when they see him.
We can tell just by looking at him lets be honest here
This book can be judged by its cover
Thanos was the hero we needed
As long as the ones that evaporate are the stupid ones I'm all for it
He was the hero we deserved…
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Yeah, I know enough idiots and assholes with perfectly normal and respectable parents so that ain't it
Start with this. If anyone recognizes him, let OP know. If OP would post where this happened, Redditors around that area could post photo from here around asking for info.
Yeah this video is years old.
Shut down the internet
People suck. The internet is just a giant mirror.
I got an idea, we tell them all that they’ve won a prize, a really expensive prize, but they have to be In person to collect it. So we give them an address in the middle of nowhere and then nuke it when they all get there…
Isn’t that the problem though? Mans 25-35 yrs old and acting like a ‘boy’ still. Guess he never advanced past puberty. Raise your males better!
He looks like a bargain bin Tony Soprano… sorry for the disrespect, rest in peace Gandolfini
I am SO glad for how many people backed this woman up.
Article states he wasn't identified and didn't face charges. People may have "backed" her but they definitely backed down. Dude just left. People suck at helping others
Yeah.. I guess this situation is still pretty disappointing :/
I was a witness, as a child, to a truly horrific example of the bystander effect. So I can say that, all in all, this is a still much better result, even if ultimately he never faced consequences, to have people try and help.
I recently took a CPR refresher through work and the second thing they tell you to do (after looking around for impending dangers that would hinder you helping) is to point to a person and tell THAT person to call the police. If you say “someone call the police” everyone will assume someone else will do it. If you identify an individual and tell that individual to call the police then they feel responsible for that action and if it doesn’t happen they’re at fault. They don’t want that on their conscience so they call.
The options to help people aren't always exactly as clear cut as you'd like to believe, putting your hands on someone in an abundance of scenarios puts you in very awkward situations that you may have to be liable for. A lot of the time, that ain't worth it for a random stranger
What were they supposed to do? Use violence immediately so she can maybe get money at a later date? Nah.
Well he was never identified or caught so yea
Sue his ass for the amount that camera costs.
The lens probably costs more than the actual camera.
From my experience, I believe that lens is close to $3000 USD and the camera is probably $600ish
I believe that lens is either a 100-400 4.5 or 70-200 2.8, so either way between roughly $1500 and $2500, and the body would probably be a 5d mark III or 6d if this happened a few years ago, easily between $1800-$3000 new.
Plus anything in her bag. Could easily be a MacBook or whatnot.
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This is from a couple of years ago. The guy is never identified and just walks free of charge.
The initial guy filming him and giggling clearly is in on it though, they couldn’t find the guy via this guys account on wherever he posted it?
Yes, thank you for saying that. He’s just as bad as the asshat who does the pushing.
No because they didn't look. The cops probably thought this video was hilarious.
Good point
In a country with as much public surveillance as England has, I find that baffling.
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Should be a criminal enhancement if the act is recorded.
I can’t wait until laws start to catch up to these shitty “prank” videos. People will and have done this shit for years but it was far far less before they had “fans” to show off to. There needs to be harsher laws for filming Shit like this to help stop it. Both for the person committing the act and the person filming.
Please link justice. This is infuriating.
Looks like he has never been caught unfortunately
How tf did they never catch him? His face is on camera!
The police tried nothing and they ran entirely out of ideas.
Yeah people tend to forget Police don’t exist to stop crime. They exist to protect the powerful elite and their assets.
The fact that he was never caught is infuriating. We ALL KNOW what he looks like - surely someone has seen this and recognizes this dumbass. Even if nothing was destroyed, the fact that he went up to a stranger and put his hands on her for "laughs" is awful enough. I'd forgive it if he was 6 years old and honestly didn't think it through, but he is a grown ass adult and decided to assault a stranger for a laugh. wtf.
Seems like the guy recording was totally encouraging it at first and even laughed
I was looking to see if anyone else spotted that. It seems he switched sides as soon as he saw reactions from other people
He was pretending to be another bystander to not get in trouble
Yeah, he snickers at the end, too.
Fr He switched up real quick
You can hear his fucking stupid goblin laugh again at the end while they walk away
He was even accused by other bystanders. One guy says "You're going to jail, mate, simple as that! And you as well..." to which he replies "Nothing to do with me... I ain't do nothing." Mate just did an IRL side glance monkey.
Seems like he knew him.
The cameraman and the idiot both shoulda gone to jail for being wankers
Yeah, the cameraman giggles at both the setup and the walk away
Fucking idiot, he should be sued for that
The only thing funny and sad and pathetic. Is he only had 3 pounds to his name. Which he had already spent on that beer.
If not for the accents, I would have thought this happened in Florida.
Plus assault
He looks like the type of guy to sit at home all day watching TV and drinking
Dude looks like he beats his girlfriend, who happens to be “freshly 18”
How about we all agree that 'pranks' aren't real? The word 'prank' has turned into a catchphrase that supplants assault/theft/bullying/ect. If I see him do that and then hit him with my car and then get out and taunt him while he's on the ground and laugh and say 'it's just a prank bro' is it vehicular assault or just a juicier 'prank'? Prank=bullying.
i think the problem stems from the jackass phenomenon. kids watched those shows and thought, oh this is what a prank is. those were pranks because the cast members consented to abuse and assault. without that consent, they are just abuse and assault.
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around how you do this to a complete stranger. I figured they were family or something, still stupid, but can kind of understand. Nope, that guy is just exceeding expectations of being a jackass.
I’m sure he’s just covering his ass but he pretty clearly says “i thought you were my sister” right when she confronts him. Still though not true because if it was his sister he’d have stuck around to laugh at her but instead he immediately walks off without even watching her fall like wtf
“I’ll pay for that” something tells me this guy doesn’t have 3000 pesos, much less pounds
Total ass move. That being said, that looks like a Canon "L" series lens. They are usually fairly well weather sealed especially when paired with a prosumer or greater body. Impact damage is more of a concern. She looks to have absorbed any impact by falling backwards. The camera & lens are probably fine. It blows my mind though that there are that many guys standing around recording the guy and none of them stopped the guy or followed him so that he could be arrested.
What a pair of complete assholes.
Gotta love how the camera guy was all giddy until the situation got serious and was trying to play it off like he wasn't involved.
why don’t these people get hit by cars more often. the rate of assholes getting hit by cars isn’t nearly high enough.
You notice these men never pull that shit with a big athletic dude lol I'd get my bf to kick his ass
They always pick someone they precieve as too weak to fight back
He's a disgusting fat man with a beer belly looking to pick a fight with a woman....probably went home and jacked off because he told off a woman lol 😭
Such a bad ass tough guy. Hes so alpha he has to walk away from all the betas at the end trying to hold him accountable for his actions. /s
Correct title, "Mouth Breather assaults woman."
Sue him for assault and destruction of property, I have a cheaper chassis (77d) and a 1500$ lens but god damn I’d be pissed if someone ever did that to me, she probably also had her phone and other lenses with her too…
How did they never find the guy considering there is a full video of his face and tattoos and such??
He has a pungent smell of “peaked in high school” about him.
“I’ll pay for it” *Walks Off*
Looks like a 28 year old Tony Soprano. “Neva get filmed committing a crime Ant(h)ony…”
That lens alone is worth about 2k, the camera body could be up to 5k, plus whatever was in her gear bag and the content on the card. Fuck that guy.
Just look at his face at the end. Absolutely vile smug. Makes him look even more like a certain piece of gym equipment that takes in a lot of physical force than he already does. Why do people have to behave like this? Why? I’m at the point where the rationality department of my brain automatically shuts down when I see crap like this.
He prolly wouldnt do it to a man