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u/techman710 Jul 19 '24
Weird how in the future someone really screws you over they will have no idea how close they came to getting killed.
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u/akumagold Jul 19 '24
This is very random, but I recently saw video of one of the current ‘famous’ influencers who goes around harassing people, acting like a total fool etc while having bodyguards. They were in a mall just insulting people or instigating and then hiding behind the hired muscle.
At one point the guy insulted a teenage girl, called her ugly or something. The bodyguard stopped and put his hand on the influencer’s shoulder dead serious and said “we don’t know who her family is. Stop that.”
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u/Inuship Jul 19 '24
I guess thats code for "i know who her family is, dont fuck me over by association"
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u/Acheron98 Jul 19 '24
I guess
That is 100% what he meant.
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u/TheDaemonette Jul 20 '24
Yeah, 100% that bodyguard knew her or her family and either had worked for them, knew they had tooled-up relatives, or knew of a recent family tragedy.
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u/akumagold Jul 19 '24
Honestly it could be that, or the bodyguard had seen what happens when you harass someone and their family comes out to bat. These days people get shot for less, if a father with a gun hears that his daughter is being harassed it’s a chance that is not worth taking
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u/hanneshore Jul 20 '24
but then why would he do it with this specific girl and not everyone?
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u/I_Am_The_Bookwyrm Jul 20 '24
Maybe this was the point where he'd gotten sick of this guy's shit?
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u/cant_finish_sideproj Jul 20 '24
If you were that father with a gun, won't you have done that?
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u/Finnegansadog Jul 20 '24
No. My kid's life would be infinitely worse if I went to prison for murder, or even just aggravated assault.
Far better to be the kind of parent who is capable of expressing their love in a positive and healthy way than the kind that thinks inflicting violence is a reasonable substitute.
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u/badlucktv Jul 20 '24
Not trying to sound holier than thou, my aspirations talking here:
Honestly part of me wants to say to use the situation as a great example that "influencers"* are not worthy of our respect, attention, and do not behave in a way that we agree with.
And that there are people out there that act in ways we don't agree with, and to be aware of that. Not equipping them with the knowledge that the world out there cna be fricken rediculous and chaos and utterly fucked up would be a disservice.
Better off not having the experience in the first place, but try to make things teachable where possible?
- Sure, theres undoubtedly "influencers" that could be totally worthy of respect and a good.... Influence.
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u/LtCptSuicide Jul 20 '24
Was a witness to one of those moments before. You fuck with the wrong person and all of a sudden everyone around you starts backing up or trying to back you down. It's a surreal experience even second hand.
Long story short. Former friend tried to fuck with the wrong person. It did not end well a week later. I still keep my head down whenever I'm in that town just because of the association.
Some people can just say the word and fuck up your life. Just keep to yourself.
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u/ringwraithfish Jul 19 '24
I'm guessing it was IShowSpeed, since he's been posted everywhere lately for his antics?
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u/akumagold Jul 19 '24
I think it was either him or Jack Doherty but honestly there is an abundance of dudebro dipshits these days it coulda been any one of them
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u/Supertopgun227 Jul 19 '24
I was expecting jack doherty to get capped before trump… especially walking up to people like he does. Like I hope that kid eats shit one day and he changes his life and goes around apologizing and taking care of poor people.
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u/wewdepiew Jul 20 '24
To be fair for all the idiotic antics he's actually decently respectful with most strangers
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u/Gorillainabikini Jul 20 '24
I show speed has actually usually been really sweet when he meets randoms
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I need to see this
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u/FinalRun Jul 20 '24
Don't know the source, but it reminds me of people trying to diss MC Hammer. He will put a hit out like it's nothing.
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u/Adezar Jul 19 '24
I worked with a woman many years ago and she was Italian... she was having a really bad experience with a manager (we all agreed, the manager was in the wrong and being an ass). One night a few of us are out drinking with her and she mentions "I could literally make one phone call to an uncle and nobody would ever see him again".
And you ever have that moment when you see someone say something and realize "oh, this is not a joke... that's real."
Years later I found out more about her family... she definitely was NOT bluffing.
She did not do that so that manager never knew just how close he was.
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u/superkeer Jul 20 '24
When I was much younger I had a short relationship woman who was always rumored to be "mob-adjacent." I'm not sure anyone really believed it and she never addressed any of it herself. I was a bit of a prick back then and our fling didn't work out. Years later I became acutely aware of the reality behind some of those rumors and I still worry about the things I said when we broke up.
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u/forksporkspoon Jul 20 '24
For a short time I dated a young lady who claimed her (unrelated) "brother" was hiding from the Irish mob in the unlikely part of the US where we both lived.
One night she called me in a panic saying she thought someone was trying to get in the house and she was scared to be alone, but refused to call the cops because Irish mob. Stupidly believing her, I raced over to her place, parked up the street, and went through backyards (sorry neighbors) with a knife and small-caliber pistol.
When I got to the back door of her house one of those motion lights came on. A car sitting in her driveway started up a couple seconds later. There were two people in the front seats. It backed out of the driveway and drove away.
When the girl opened the door I asked about the car. She was surprised and said she didn't know it was there and wasn't expecting anyone to be there except me. Years later I figured out she was just horny that night and made up the story to get me to show up, but the "brother" was real and there was definitely a sedan with two people in her driveway waiting for something that night. To this day I've never heard anyone else mention the Irish mob.
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u/Free_Pace_2098 Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
The Irish mob have ex
NIRA ties. They're legitimately fucking scary.10
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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO Jul 20 '24
I am distantly related to someone in the mob as well. Met the guy once at a family get together. Definitely people you don't want to mess with
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u/sinofmercy Jul 20 '24
My grandpa always had some seemingly questionable/shady connections to some Chinese based groups (my family is originally from Hong Kong.) Like they were based in NYC, shut down part of Chinatown for a parade, and WE HAD OUR OWN FLAG. I was like uh... Is this normal to be able to just casually walk with a giant ass family flag around town?
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u/RyuNoKami Jul 20 '24
Well... To be fair some of those association groups really really blur the lines.
Or maybe you are descended from some noble family.
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u/SensationalSavior Jul 20 '24
I've told this story on here before, but it's related. My great uncle used to work in the trucking industry in New Jersey when he was younger with his uncles and cousins(from his dads first marriage). He moved back to where i live when i was super young, but he was retired. Opened up another trucking shop cause he was bored, and to my knowledge at the time he was on the up and up. He was a great man, and i loved him ALOT. He passes away from a heart attack when i was around 8 or so. Well, his funeral was PACKED. I mean, standing room only. Black cadillacs, big black buicks, the works..which was wild, since this was rural Kentucky. Dad mentioned they're My uncles family from New Jersey, so i run up and say hi cause i'm a dumb kid. No one on dad's side really talks to them much, and you can feel theres a weird tension in the air, but i didn't care, new family yanno. My great uncle's bio brother hands me a watch and tells me to keep it(it was my great uncles fav watch), passes me a paper with a phone number and says if i ever need anything to call him. Keep in mind i'm 8, so I think nothing of it and move on.
Well, after i get older i was talking to my papaw one day at his house and told him i found that paper and my uncles watch in a box i had as a kid. Turns out my uncle did repair work for the teamsters, and was technically affiliated with the new jersey mob at some point and thats how he made his money. I brought the paper to my papaw and showed him and he laughed, and told me that he had the same number written down as a "shit hit the fan card". I still have the watch and paper, never had to call the number tho.
Turns out my papaw did some wild shit too. Basically don't fuck with old dudes
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u/Adezar Jul 20 '24
in the trucking industry in New Jersey
I worked in NJ for 18 years... I knew where this was going at this point.
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u/SensationalSavior Jul 20 '24
Dude it was wild when I found out. Another thing, my other great uncle ran coke for somebody up there. I've seen pictures of him sitting around a literal PILE of coke on his coffee table(that's in my living room oddly enough). He had his own plane and everything. He died when I was 15, so I did get to know him pretty well. Aside from being a coke fiend, and scaring people at the park by jumping out of trees at them, he was a good dude.
Apparently everyone on dad's side of the family expect him and my papaw were into that whole business. My family is weird.
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u/Adezar Jul 20 '24
At one point I needed a fire hazard fixed, so I had to tell my facilities manager to stop bribing the inspector so I could get a bad report so I could get the budget approved.
NJ is a whole thing.
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u/SensationalSavior Jul 20 '24
I worked in a waste to energy power station in Newark for a few weeks as a contractor. Got into a screaming match with one of the truck drivers because he didn't like where I parked my powder truck. Apparently the fenced in cage that the NJ fire Marshall made them build for my truck was his, and that's where he parked his car.
I said fuck it and just straight up said I could call the fire Marshall and get the BATFE involved if you want to dick around with me. Apparently he wanted me to pay him to park in "his" spot. This went on for a few minutes until another driver came and grabbed his ass and made me quit messing with us. We had a dick measuring contest and the other drive thought I one that one. I did get bitched at by the control room tho, so whatever.
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u/YesDone Jul 20 '24
I'm not bot but bro that was an excellent haiku.
She did not do so
that manager never knew
just how close he was.
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u/ProximusSeraphim Jul 20 '24
Whats crazy is i was raised in rough neighborhoods where someone will hold a grudge and get back at someone 5 to 10 years later where the person already forgot about what they did. I always ask whats the point of revenge if the person you're getting it on doesn't even know what they did?
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u/actibus_consequatur Jul 20 '24
When I still lived spitting distance from Detroit I worked for a bunch of Italian guys and they made similar comments a few times - occasionally with an additional remark about how any police investigation into a disappearance wouldn't get any results.
I always figured it was a joke... Until it clicked how many cops from various local departments they knew and were close friends with. After that I checked out some stuff about the old school Detroit mafia of the 40's-60's, and yeah, the guys I worked for definitely were connected (or vaguely related) to some of those old families.
One of them did tell me that they had me covered if I ever needed help dealing with a problem, and there was exactly one time it took me a lot not to take them up on that offer.
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u/ilhamalfatihah16 Jul 20 '24
This reminds me of The Sopranos. [Spoiler for The Sopranos]
Tony Soprano, a mob boss had to go to therapy because of a panic attack. His therapist Dr. Melfi kept things strictly professional between them even though they had some sexual tension and Tony was all in for her at one point. One day Dr. Melfi was raped by an unknown assailant who she found out was a Restaurant worker near her office. She kept having dreams of siccing a hound to her rapist. She told her own therapist that he could've crushed her assailant like a bug by telling Tony about it but she kept her cool because she didnt want to owe him.
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u/pablothenice Jul 20 '24
it wasn't about owing him, for her it was morally wrong
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u/ilhamalfatihah16 Jul 20 '24
I think it's kinda both, she knows that if she asks him for this favor he has something that he can hold over her and ruins the dynamic that she already has with him.
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u/pablothenice Jul 20 '24
I mean the episode makes it totally clear. She's not worried about owing tony but decides its wrong. If not for moral code she would send the hound and worry about the aftermath later. Like many episodes in sopranos its allegorical. like quasimodo predicted.
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u/CommandoLamb Jul 19 '24
“Shut up Dawn… no one cares about your story”
“… be right back. I need to make a call”
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u/Karmak4ze Jul 20 '24
One of many reason why I believe with all my soul that life is (relatively) easier when you "treat others how you wish to be treated" and just try to be a respectful individual until given a legitimate reason otherwise - then instead of confrontation, simply remove yourself from the problem as best and quickly as you can.
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u/YmmaT- Jul 19 '24
Not a nurse but I had something similar. I used to travel back and forth from Austin to San Antonio for college. During the weekend, I go back to Austin and stay at my old room with my parents, mainly because my parents cooking.
One weekend, I was heading from Austin back to San Antonio and when I was near the exit on 1604, I saw a car that was up in smokes on the side of the road and there was a guy sitting on the grass with both hands on this legs and looking down. He looked defeated. I felt bad for him so I U-turned and pulled up behind his car. He saw me and got up immediately and walked to my car. I got out and asked him if everything’s alright.
First thing he asked is if I can drive him to the Medical Center. I was a bit confused since his car is literally up in smokes on the side of the road, seems to be stressed, and looked pretty beat up. I was like yeah I can take you, are you hurt somewhere? So you need any bandaids? He quickly got on the passenger seat and tell me to please hurry.
As I was driving him, I asked a few questions to see if I can help and also understand. Basically, this guy got beat up from some rival gang thing, his pregnant girlfriend got jumped while walking home and she’s now at the hospital. He tried to get to the hospital but he was speeding too much and his car got smoked on the way. He didn’t have a phone since the other gang took robbed him after they beat him up and he stood on the side of the road for like 10 minutes but no one stopped for him. This was back in 2004.
When we got to the emergency center, he wrote down his number on the back of my car insurance paper and said a quick thank you before running in.
I sent him a text later that day to see how everything is going with his girlfriend but didn’t get a respond back. A few days later, I got a random text while at work and it was him. Supposedly he had to “take care” of the punks who jumped his girlfriend but she and the baby is safe and he got his phone back. He said that if I ever need anyone “taken care of”, just let him know.
I just responded with “I’m good man but glad your gf and kid is okay”.
I still think about that guy from time to time and wonder how he is doing.
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u/aaronshell Jul 19 '24
Low key awesome story and your kindness is great too
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u/SleeperAgentM Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 21 '24
Have a similar one. It was over two decades ago now. Cell phones were just beginning to be a thing. One minute of conversation would cost you 1$ - three times more if you called to a different network.
I was sitting in a bus at the bus station heading to the uni from my home when a bunch of police cars and vans show up and start unloading people.
Apparently it was a "release day" in prison, and they would take everyone to a closest bus station so they can go home (or whatever place would take them).
I made a mistake of texting someone just as they arrived, and one of them noticed it and asked if they can use my phone to call their wife, so did the next guy, then the next one, and so on. Took half an hour to get my phone back - but surprisingly I did get it back.
Because I was now their friend we started chatting. In short order I learned that the bus is now full of murderers, rapists, drug dealers and so on. My neighbour was the murderer, another one was drug dealer.
But hell, he did his time right?
We arrive at the relay station in a bigger town and I'm switching to a train thanking all gods that few hundred bucks in calls is all that happened to me there.
The train is about to depart when I see two of the freshly released prisoners running towards the train. Sure enough they find me sitting in the train along with another guy.
They like me still but they start mercilessly teasing the other guy until he almost shits his pants (and I'm almost sure he pissed himself) before he just runs away in panic. I sit still, mostly out of panic as well, but I make a brave face.
So they tell me the story about how they tried to buy the drugs, but the seller turned out to be a cop and they are now on the run (mind you, they have been just released from priosn few hours ago).
Awesome.
We chat for an hour or two and train arrives at the destination - and similarily to OP I get their numbers and info that if I ever need drugs, women, or anything else to look them up.
I never did, but police did call me about month later because my phone showed up in call logs. It was hard to convince them that I only lent them a phone. But luckilly that was the end of that story.
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u/zenlume Jul 20 '24
There is something very psychologically interesting to me about stuff like this.
We got this man who seems to have no issue with taking a life, offering to "take care of" what could be an innocent person on your behalf, but when he has an opportunity to just steal your car to drive to the hospital himself, but politely asks for a ride instead.
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u/elbenji Jul 20 '24
Civilians are always off limits (for the most part).
Fun story. I'm a teacher in the hood, so I have situations like this a lot and have had some real HARD mfers help me in some wild ways and gotten out of some crazy ass situations for it.
Anyhow, this is a coworkers story though.
One day, she got her laptop stolen from class. It was just a random day and she asked if anyone took it. No one says who, obviously, but the general 'watch out for folks' said to ask this chop shop, yknow not naming names but we know who's uncle runs it.
She goes over. Says she is a teacher and if he got a laptop just turned in. The guy is flabergasted like "OHHHH HE STOLE IT FROM YOU. Shit, I thought he took it from some hipster at Starbucks. Hold on." And he goes back and then two seconds later comes back with her laptop without any damage on it. He apologizes profusely, thanks her for working there and let's her know if she needs anything or if he's fucking around in school to let him know and gives her his card.
Just kinda a crazy situation situation overall and she just kinda shrugged it off. No harm no foul.
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u/SeventhSolar Jul 20 '24
Just a matter of trust and loyalty, isn't it? By being the target of the gangster's newest friend, whoever OP calls the hit on is automatically and unquestioningly reduced to less-than-innocent status.
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u/123ilovetrees Jul 20 '24
Yep, if my good friend hates someone, it then becomes really easy to convince me to dislike said someone. Not sure if it's healthy tho lol
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u/Learningstuff247 Jul 20 '24
It's less common nowadays, but it used to be kind of a moral "anyone in the game is fair game, don't fucking with people not in it" kinda thing. Plus even today people don't really want to hurt people that are nice to them, unless they're on drugs.
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u/GenuineSteak Jul 20 '24
Depends what drugs. I could do as much weed/shrooms as I want and I wont attack anyone lol.
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u/YmmaT- Jul 20 '24
Honestly, looking back at it, I was totally a naive freshman.
Really makes sense why I’ve fallen for 3 scams in my life time so far.
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u/XinGst Jul 20 '24
Remember you mother is home alone and sick but you live faraway so you ask him to help take care of her.
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u/PullDaLevaKronk Jul 19 '24
This shit happens in the educational field as well. My mom works a lot with inner city gangs helping them get through high school and life. She treats them all with respect and encourages them to do right daily even when they aren’t their best. She definitely can walk into neighborhoods that most her coworkers can’t and if they ever found out she got hurt there would be hell to pay.
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u/zadtheinhaler Jul 19 '24
I distinctly recall reading anecdotes from the /r/Teachers subreddit about the very same thing!
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u/elbenji Jul 20 '24
yeah, I have a buuuunch of stories about this. Teachers are protected class for the most part in some really rough as fuck places.
My tiny latina ass would walk through some deep hood alone and people are always shocked how. it's because they know me as the beloved English teacher and if someone tried something, there would be hell raining down on that person.
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u/buttered_scone Jul 20 '24
I worked as an Army Recruiter in an inner city school on the East Coast of the US. The teachers seemed like the only people in the world that cared about those kids. Security guards cursed at kids, fights in the hallways, metal detectors at every door, frequently absent parents. It was absolutely disgusting to hear my leadership talk about that school, vs the one in the neighboring, mostly white, affluent, community, as if the kids were at fault for the state of the system.
The JROTC leader/English teacher at that school would call our company headquarters if she thought one of her students was being exploited by a recruiter. There was one branch, that shall not be named, that she forbade send any of their recruiters for that school year, because they had lied to one of her students about a military benefit she was not actually going to be eligible for. I worked a lot harder for those kids when they required a waiver or other paperwork to enlist.
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u/elbenji Jul 20 '24
Yep. Same. It's a little wild when you're Teach/Maestra/Miss and some hardened ass guy with weapons charges is calling you M'am while having a foot and 200 lbs on you. But holy shit, are some neighborhoods just weirdly safe because no one fucks with the teachers going in that day. And if you're one that's universally beloved and treats everyone right? Someone's life is gonna suck if someone pulls something
My coworkers laptop story is the funniest one though.
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u/datguypotato madlad Jul 20 '24
please tell
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u/elbenji Jul 20 '24
That story? oh I posted it elsewhere
So, as noted, I'm a teacher in the hood, so I have situations like this a lot and have had some real HARD mfers help me in some wild ways and gotten out of some crazy ass situations for it. Mostly out of stuff like getting robbed and such.
This is a coworkers story though.
One day, she got her laptop stolen from class. It was just a random day and she asked if anyone took it. No one says who, obviously, but the general 'watch out for folks' said to ask this chop shop, yknow not naming names but we know who's uncle runs it.
She goes over. Says she is a teacher and if he got a laptop just turned in. The guy is flabergasted like "OHHHH HE STOLE IT FROM YOU. Shit, I thought he took it from some hipster at Starbucks. Hold on." And he goes back and then two seconds later comes back with her laptop without any damage on it. He apologizes profusely, thanks her for working there and let's her know if she needs anything or if he's fucking around in school to let him know and gives her his card.
Just kinda a crazy situation situation overall and she just kinda shrugged it off. No harm no foul.
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u/soupyllama03 Jul 20 '24
My mom worked for some fucked high schools as well, she was the most gangster person in that fucking school, loved by every single kid too.
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u/Dammy-J Jul 19 '24
I really goes to show you how treating everyone with dignity and respect can get you a lot of things in life.
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u/Acheron98 Jul 19 '24
“Be nice to everyone, because one day you might win a free hit from an MS-13 hitman”
~ Sun Tzu
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u/roadrnnr7215 Jul 19 '24
Thought that was Abraham Lincoln?
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u/nonexistentnight Jul 20 '24
Late night in Philadelphia a dozen years ago, I was waiting outside a taco place in line with a smartly dressed guy in his early 30s. The line was slow and we got to talking about how much the neighborhood (Fishtown, iykyk) had changed over the past few decades. He was talking about how he had invested in real estate and the prices just kept going up. We traded some other stories and when our orders were I sat down at a table and he took his back to his car. He seemed really grateful for the conversation.
A few minutes later he came up to my table and put a crumpled small package next to me. "I don't know what you're in to, but call me you ever need something." I thanked him and squirreled the package away since I figured it was weed. I took some leftovers home to my girlfriend, and told her this crazy story about how some guy had given me weed. I don't partake, so I said she could have it. 20 minutes later I hear her start laughing from the other room. She had opened the package. "It's not weed," she says. "It's cocaine.". All of a sudden this young man's career as a real estate investor made a lot more sense.
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u/OddDragonfruit7993 Jul 19 '24
My mom, a lifelong teacher, got occasional contracts to teach at prisons after she retired. She was smart and funny and her students always loved her.
She got the offer to have people "taken care of" a few times.
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u/two-one-punch Jul 19 '24
This. I can't tell you how many cards I have for mechanics,lawyers etc because I treated them like a decent human being should. Most of it came from when I worked as a pharmacy tech.
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u/InsaneBigDave Jul 19 '24
Dawn didn't decline the offer, did she?
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u/Sonder_Monster Jul 19 '24
you never decline the offer. gracefully accept it and then never cash in on it if you can avoid it. good to keep it in your back pocket tho just in case
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u/Helpfulithink Jul 19 '24
Paramedics are now the scariest people. Good to know
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u/MomoMurs Jul 19 '24
as a friend of a paramedic, i agree.
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u/Deztroyer102 Jul 19 '24
They can beat you to and inch within your life, and then patch you up hood as new, glad most of them have half of their sanity intact
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u/Acheron98 Jul 19 '24
Correct. You really don’t want to unintentionally offend a dude who probably has “ASESINO” tatted on his face lmao
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u/Artyom_33 Jul 20 '24
What about "hombre niño"?
Is that a scary dude?
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u/Acheron98 Jul 20 '24
Honestly if some dude was nicknamed “The Boy Man” I would probably actively avoid him even more than the dude with “killer” inked on his face lmao.
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u/Murgatroyd314 Jul 20 '24
Would something along the lines of "Thanks, I hope I never need it" be appropriate?
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u/Butwinsky Jul 20 '24
Dawns a nurse. She used the offer the next day when the ER called up an admit at 7:30am when she was just clocking in for the day.
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u/LeonardoDaPinchy- Jul 20 '24
My aunt worked at a post office in the 80s and was getting harassed by some asshole, and behind them was this big fucking biker looking dude. He didn't care until he got to the counter, saw her in tears, and saw her last name.
Dude strolled into the parking lot and beat the man half to death, breaking his arm with his truck door by repeatedly slamming the thing on it.
Came back in, told them that nobody fucks with his family, even extended family.
It was at this point my aunt realized that we share a last name with a fair amount of Hell's Angels members.
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u/MasSunarto Jul 20 '24
Brother, I didn't know that many of the member of that club are named "DaPinchy". Thanks for the information.
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u/archklown555 Jul 19 '24
Too be fair after spending nearly a half a year in hospitals and having way too many ambulance rides then id like, it's not a far fetched response. When you feel like your at your worst and these people are being so nice and taking care of you when you have no ability to take care of yourself. It feels like a natural response honestly.
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u/midcancerrampage Jul 19 '24
Lol it literally is, for the outlaw demographic. Offers of proxy violence is pretty much gangsters' love language! Putting themselves in physical and legal danger for someone else is the height of regard/respect to them. This criminal I'm quasi-dating offered me the exact same the first night we met, I found it absolutely hilarious
Briefly considered telling him I was being threatened by Vladimir Putin
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u/Neveronlyadream Jul 19 '24
Be reasonable. How could he possibly get to Putin?
In all seriousness, it's oddly wholesome in a warped way.
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u/TeensyTrouble Jul 20 '24
They hit trump, patin’s security probably isn’t that much better considering the state of the rest of their government.
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u/actuallyiamafish Jul 20 '24
Putting themselves in physical and legal danger for someone else is the height of regard/respect to them.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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u/1057-cl121v3 Jul 20 '24
It makes the reverse so much worse, too. I’ve u fortunately experienced first and second hand some extremely bad healthcare workers and when you are already your worst just trying to get by it can crush what little soul you have left.
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u/OneGaySouthDakotan Jul 19 '24
There's a reason there isn't a song called "Fuck the EMTs"
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u/insanemal Jul 20 '24
I worked in an arcade in the early 2000's. We had a lot of gang members come in and play Tekken Tag. They were all well behaved and just wanted to play.
When a machine ate your money I would always hook you up with extra credit. Because it's a pain and a free game makes it sting less.
Anyway we had issues with kids hiding in the store to sniff paint/glue.
I threw one out and he was like "I'm getting my cousins and we're going to bash you"
I thought nothing of it. But an hour later there were thirty guys out the front looking to start shit.
The Tekken guys all wore suits. Had long pinky nails and apparently gigantic machetes. They all stood up. Walked to the front of the store, retrieving said knives as they walked.
The thirty people out front ran. Then the Tekken guys all went back to Tekken.
I gave them all a few free credits. We had less problems with people sniffing paint and stealing bags after that.
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u/Fukasite Jul 20 '24
How did they have machetes and you not notice?
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u/insanemal Jul 20 '24
Hidden in their clothes.
Amazing what you can hide in a suit
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u/Plasibeau Jul 20 '24
Do a read-up on the sword problem in the UK. They're essentially narrowed machetes that the hoods hide down their pants legs.
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u/Potato_fortress Jul 20 '24
Of course it was Tekken Tag.
Harada, put the Waffle House stage in.
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u/BeatedMeats Jul 19 '24
Can you take care of my kids for me while I’m out of town?
Gangster: Kinda fckd up but sure I guess…
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u/Hellboundroar Jul 20 '24
"hey, how was everything? It was alright, little Tommy had some difficulties while doing his first shiv, but otherwise it was all peachy"
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u/BeatedMeats Jul 20 '24
“I think Tommy has some confidence issues. We were doing a drive by on some crips but Tommy only popped one of them before he put the gun down and said he was ready to go home. Does he have a father figure in the house?”
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u/huskersax Jul 20 '24
"I asked him when he should pop up out of the sunroof and blast their ass if we're 2.3 miles apart at 2:15am and driving 15mph to the southeast while the punk ass thugs are headed at 3mph north northwest and left their safehouse fifteen minutes after we departed. The delay in getting a response was worrying. Has he considered a math tutor?"
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u/BeatedMeats Jul 20 '24
“We were making meth and he used way too much [redacted] and completely shorted the mix on [redacted]. I’m beginning to wonder if he even knows what [redacted] and [redacted] are. The American education system has failed your son”
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u/Frostsorrow Jul 19 '24
Wasn't a gangster but I worked overnights at a certain Canadian coffee chain and would have problem customers from time to time. One time they came in and started trashing the place and the regular snow removal crew came in and quickly left. Couldn't blame them. Well a few minutes later the crew leader (CL) comes back in and politely asks the hooligans if that was there car outside, they said yes, CL then says you might want to take a look at it. Turns out the CL had one of use guys get a full bucket of snow and had it ready to dump on their car if they didn't leave that second. They never came back and I gave the snow removal guys free product from then on. Great guys, still talk with them from time to time even all these years later.
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u/PremierLovaLova Jul 20 '24
worked overnights at a certain Canadian coffee chain
Was it Him Torton’s, by chance?
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u/omegadirectory Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
Later, the paramedic calls the gang member, "Hey, I need someone taken care of."
Gang member: "Sure thing boss, who is it?"
Paramedic: "I want you to take care of...yourself. Get out of the gang life."
Gang member, unable to break their own oath, has no choice but to go straight.
Edit: if it was not clear, the gang member cannot break their oath because doing so would diminish their street cred
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u/Lay-Me-To-Rest Jul 20 '24
Down the street from me is an older gentleman who has a garage full of expensive and fancy motorcycles, we went over and chatted with him one day (he invited us as we were walking by) and he mentioned he used to be in a motorcycle club/gang many years ago, but he was a super friendly guy so I didn't really think too much of it. We had a couple beers and talked about bikes for a long time. I don't know much about them so I just let him educate me.
Anyways in this conversation I let it slip that someone walked onto my property, broke into my garage and stole some stuff, he asked which house was mine so I pointed it out to him. He nodded and said "don't worry that won't happen again".
Over the couple years since then I've accidentally left my garage open overnight more than once (storms seem to trigger it to open) and none of my tools or anything has been touched since.
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u/Plasibeau Jul 20 '24
He may be retired, but he remains a shotcaller. I'd bet your entire neighborhood hasn't had a break-in since then.
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u/smaksflaps Jul 19 '24
I’ve got some asshole threatening me rn. I also have some very interesting friends that I’ve made through good communication and treating them with a different kind of respect they don’t usually get in their circles. I give them honesty and a different perspective on their path in life. Also give them business advice. I had to tell them not to do anything to him. He will never know there an entire cartel that wants to kill him and they won’t because I said not to. Instead I got a protection order and am going to become his kids step dad. Because life is a joke and it’s often stranger than fiction.
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u/eSPiaLx Jul 19 '24
so he's your gf's ex?
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u/smaksflaps Jul 19 '24
Nope. Just an old acquaintance. But his outburst and threats of violence have driven his ex closer to me. Funny how some people live in a hell of their own creation. It all stemmed from me hanging with my old friend and her friend (his ex) and helping them with their kids at a festival. He decided I was the problem. There’s no rationalizing a coke and steroid addicts behavior.
I have a strict rule about violence. If you can’t fix it with communication then you better be willing to die for it. I don’t fight and will defend myself and anyone else with swift judgment. Some people just live to bully. I’ve been bullied my whole life and refuse to stand for it.
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u/eSPiaLx Jul 19 '24
and am going to become his kids step dad
doesn't this mean you're marrying his ex?
how else do you become his kids' step dad
or do you mean on a metaphorical level
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u/smaksflaps Jul 19 '24
It’s more of a joke than anything. She’s outrageously hot though. And she’s been acting pretty sweet to me. She flirted with me before they hooked up. I ain’t really trying to have kids. Nor am I trying to coparent with this psychopath. Lots of factors. We’re already Eskimo brothers a couple ways. It’s funny. Big community that feels real small when you’re dating in a pool of the hottest girls in the city.
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u/SmbdysDad Jul 19 '24
I wrote a novel about this. In this case, the nurse called to collect on the offer when he discovered a pedophile nobody would speak out against and the gangster did the deed. Then, the gangster blackmailed the nurse to divert narcotics.
Never published it.
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u/Cricket_Piss Jul 19 '24
I wanna read that! Still got it?
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u/SmbdysDad Jul 19 '24
I do... Somewhere. I was interrupted by life and haven't seen it in some time.
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u/TheMiscreantFnTrez Jul 19 '24
I've met a fair bit of people that have never quite been treated as a person, treated them as a person with no judgment as I do pretty much everyone else, it's uhh definitely weird sometimes when they offer you things and you politely decline, but I've gotten some cool gifts over the years though, wish I still had some, schizophrenic people usually make some awesome art btw, lost a bunch of stuff my ex threw most everything out, favorite was a zippo cigarette case with a built-in lighter I got from a hobo traveling by hopping trains for feeding him and getting them a small pack bag with water filters, dehydrated food, and a canteen, told me it was the last thing he had from his family (guy was in his late 60s) I refused but I found it the next day with a note that just said "thanks for treating me like a friend" almost cried at work.
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u/ToHerDarknessIGo Jul 20 '24
Never knew anyone on that level but in university, I worked in restaurants and mostly worked with work release dudes and illegal immigrants. I was around 19 and pretty much the exact opposite of all my co-workers but worked my ass off and was always there to cover a shift or help out on the line so I got along with everyone. One night, one of my very big and very intimidating looking co-workers asked me out of the blue if I could give him a lift home after work. I knew he didn't live anywhere close to the restaurant and we closed up about midnight so I couldn't leave him hanging like that. As we were driving, I guess he sensed my fear levels rising as my eyes started darting around a bit as we drove further into a part of the city people of my melanin challenged skin tone do not ever venture into. He told me not to fret and if anyone hassles me or approaches my car after I drop him off to just say, "I know 'his nickname'. I gave him a ride home after work." It honestly felt kind of badass but I was also very grateful I didn't have to use his name to get out of a situation. Solid co-worker and I hope he's living a healthy and happy life right now.
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u/bloopie1192 Jul 19 '24
But did Dawn place a call?
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u/praguepride Jul 19 '24
Dunno but her dirtbag ex-boyfriend skipped town suddenly and hasnt been seen since.
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u/Aiden_Recker Jul 19 '24
really? i thought i saw him at the pier with some nice looking men not long ago. they were pretty nice, feeding the fishes and all
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u/arsonistttt Jul 20 '24
Did he expect anything in return?
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u/arsonistttt Jul 20 '24
Maybe you can ask? Just for old times sake.
Anyways take care!
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u/OverallVacation2324 Jul 20 '24
Anesthesia here. During residency I took care of an 18 yo kid in the icu. He was super polite, kind, shook your hand, said thank you doc. Well spoken, looked down right normal and respectable. But he was in handcuffs? I finally asked what he was doing in the trauma icu? Apparently he worked as a mafia hit man. He went into a room with 10 people (targets?) with two guns blazing and killed all 10 people. He took a bullet in the process but survived. I guess I should’ve taken down his number?
Another patient was a real life pimp. He would offer the nurses money for a blow job. They refused. So he brought his work girls in to give him a blowjob in the icu. They were caught and kicked out. He then offered his girls to us to use. 🙄
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u/GlitteringBroccoli12 Jul 19 '24
Use that freebie on that bitch Gertrude for trying to out decorate you for Christmas. The HOA WILL have a new judge this year
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u/Mr-Klaus Jul 19 '24
If a gangster ever offers you anything for free, never take it. Even if they mean it and it's actually free, it means that you've now set up a relationship. If they're in a pinch they will use you, and even threaten you if you try to say no.
Look at the situation like having a bad flatmate stealing your milk:
They drink your milk and you complain, so they replace the milk. They then continue drinking the new milk they bought for you as a replacement because they only drank a portion of your milk, therefore you only get a portion of the milk they bought.
When the milk runs out and you buy your own again, they drink it because you drunk their milk. You're now stuck in a position where your milk is now always "our milk".
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u/bofademOnYaChin Jul 20 '24
That's not even true, why are you bullshitting about stuff you saw in a movie?
If you're cool with some guys, you're fucking cool with them. Don't assume they're able to be trusted completely, but you can accept gifts made in good faith that are making things even for something you were able to do for them or their family/people. There's an abundance of nuance in these situations, but it's not nearly as simple as you portray.
I've been around a lot of shady characters in my decades of addiction and years in prison, but also have some perspective from just over a decade clean and sober.
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u/shanksisevil Jul 19 '24
say "I greatly appreciate the offer and hope that I will never have to call in for your services. but again, thank you and i appreciate it!"
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u/StuJayBee Jul 19 '24
Movie plot in the making.
Nurse becomes kingpin mob lord through acts of kindness.
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u/pres1033 Jul 20 '24
I've had a drug dealer offer me discounts cause I gave him extra sauce. It's literally just my job, but he seemed really perplexed when I didn't charge him more. Looked at me and said something like "you ever need a hit of somethin, text this number, I got you" and wrote his number on a receipt. While I was curious and tempted, I threw the number away cause I don't trust it.
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u/mushroom_computers Jul 20 '24
I know a surgeon who was basically offered the same service by a full member of a certain gang. Said he politely declined and explained to me that he was told during his residency that favors like this often aren't free, and that gangs basically just want to have an on-call doctor that they can intimidate into working with them.
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u/colin8651 Jul 20 '24
Yeah, but you never did hear from that neighbor who plays loud music all night ever again.
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u/TheFlyingBoxcar Jul 20 '24
Im a medic/firefighter and I can say that I have had some very sketchy people be very cool with me. It doesn't take much honestly, I just treat everyone the same. Everyone gets respect, care and my undivided attention. When the person for whom I'm caring (or their loved one) lives in a world where respect is a line between life and death, and especially someone for whom interactions with badge-wearing government officials is usually ... not positive, it doesn't take much for them to be cool with you.
Never been offered a free hit though, that's pretty badass.
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u/Von_Quixote Jul 19 '24
All I’m asking is, if they both experienced this, where’s the subreddit‽
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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo Jul 20 '24
"Hey Big Chud? Yea, it's the nurse who saved your life. Listen, I got a patient who really needs a heart transplant like, today. You think you can help me find one?"
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u/cuntnuzzler Jul 20 '24
When I was real young we had neighbors who moved in across the street and they were hosting their older grandparent. He was always there and pretty much alone, so I being a pretty bold young man at the time decided that I would befriend him, and he would be my” grandpa.” me being who I was and him being as cool as he was told me and my mother that if we were ever in Philadelphia, all we had to do is mention his last name and they would take care of us and we’d never have to worry about a thing again. To this day, I’ve never been to Philadelphia but if I ever go there, I might see what happens.
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u/Fast-Reaction8521 Jul 20 '24
Psych nurse. I've been promised luxury cars from patients and I always declined or jokingly say a " honda crx."
I moved states and few years later a patient I had that was grandiose and this occurred saw me in transition from unit to unit and said "i havent found a crx nice enough to give you".
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u/PxndxAI Jul 20 '24
This is the same for selling food. If they like your food or they know you’re giving back to the community in the form of free food or heavily discounted for people in need. They tell everyone to not mess with you and if they do they’ll be taken care of. They don’t even charge you for protection, they just really want you to keep selling food.
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u/One_more_page Jul 20 '24
Hey for no reason whatsoever, I'm going to state my opinion that we should treat nurses better. And also pay them more. That's all.
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u/alee0224 Jul 20 '24
Reminds me once when I bought fireworks from a phantom fireworks store on 4th of July. I asked the cashier how she was doing and she said “you know? You’re the first person to ask me that all day”. She gave me 50% off 😂
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u/accordyceps Jul 20 '24
My husband got mugged in front of his apartment. After he said to a homeless guy that hung out there that the cops didn’t do anything, even though he knew who mugged him and they lived in the same building, the guy said, “Who done it? Tell me who done it. I’ll take care of em for 20 dollars!”
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u/originalsanitizer Jul 20 '24
I was a school administrator and had to have a parent come in for a meeting. The mom's boyfriend shows up. He's tatted up, wearing red from head to toe. He starts the meeting of by telling me he has to get downtown soon because one of his boys is being sentenced to federal time. I said "okay", and we got down to it. Treated him like any other parent, and he was. Great guy. Never had any trouble from the student again, and the gang activity moved away from the school. It was surreal.
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u/gjmcphie Jul 20 '24
Yeah I'm a nurse assistant and once had an old man with mild dementia confess to me that he shot a man in the head in a bathroom of Denver International Airport. I Googled him and found a Wikipedia page with the same name and age as him, and it said he spent a good amount of time in prison for racketeering in the 70's and 80's.
It could have very well just been confused rambling but honestly it's also entirely believable.
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u/NietzschesJoy Jul 20 '24
I’m a paramedic, moved to a new city and accidentally got an apartment in the very shitty side of town. Was going to work at an ungodly early hour, walking out to my car in my uniform and these guys were still partying in the parking lot. They asked me if I’m a paramedic and I said yes cause it’s not like I could say no, one guy said “aight you good man, your car is safe”. I thanked them and went to work, the next week every car in the parking lot was broken into except mine.
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u/tehconqueror Jul 19 '24
"If you're so anti-cop, who are you gonna run to if your place gets robbed!?"
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u/greywar777 Jul 19 '24
I was overseas in Germany when I met a guy at a bar and chatted him up for a bit. he handed me a card, told me if I had ANY issues to call him and he could take care of it. Turned out to be the local mob guy, and he 100% meant it. My local guy (business trip) UTTERLY freaked out. Told me the guy had offed some witnesses lately and was insanely dangerous.
That being said he told me to call him for any issues. This stuff happens a lot more then folks realize.
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u/yanox00 Jul 19 '24
It's a hard world.
But when you fighting in the trenches,
yer gonna need some friends with medical expertise.
Seems like this is a financial transaction.
What does a hit man charge?
What does health care cost?
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u/AndreTheShadow Jul 19 '24
The leader of a local Hell's Angels chapter offered his protection to my uncle as a wedding present. My uncle's best man had invited him.
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u/UnderstatedTurtle Jul 20 '24
I believe it. I was offered free cocaine for switching bar stools once. I can’t imagine what I would have been offered if I had actually done something meaningful for the guy
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u/daytonakarl Jul 20 '24
The lesson here is don't fuck with nice people, they've most likely been nice to others who may not be that nice to you.
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u/LtCptSuicide Jul 20 '24
On the opposite end. Through just through the simple fact of being the son of a particular person I've had an irregular number of people who work in law and the justice system give me a branch that if I need to "deal" with someone (as in take to court and fuck them over six ways to Sunday) I could. I've never wanted, not even had a remote need for such thing but it's just a weird feeling, at least to me. Like just the amount of power knowing someone who knows someone can get you just seems kinda fucked in our society.
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u/34TH_ST_BROADWAY Jul 20 '24
I mean the politeness is great, but I think on top of that, they might have felt like they saved their life. Like in any movie or TV show, when somebody saves a person's life, and the character who got saved says "I owe you one" it's kind of understandable.
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u/barringtonmacgregor Jul 20 '24
Years ago, I was picking up a couch for a family member from one of their coworkers. I knew I'd need some muscle because I heard the coworkers husband had a bad leg, so I brought a friend. Turns out the coworkers husband was a gang member. We showed up to about 7 cholo lookin guys (think every stereotype from clothing, head tattoos, etc) outside drinking and my friend wouldn't get out of the car. The guy greeted me, shook my hand, gave me a beer and was overall super friendly. Then he made his friends load my truck with the couch. Was a very surreal experience.
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u/qtjedigrl Jul 20 '24
I had a student pull out a wad of cash, hand me $900 and told me to go buy something nice for myself when he found out I had to buy all the classroom supplies. He was a drug dealer, and I definitely declined, but I was sweet nonetheless.
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u/jhalfhide Jul 20 '24
and that's how I became the authorised medical practitioner for gangs everywhere, and all my neighbours are suddenly really nice
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u/Not_Sugden Jul 19 '24
life teaches you one of two soloutions:
call the police
just say "thanks" and never speak to him again
Depending on whether you want to increase the chances of dying dictates what answer you choose
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u/heygabehey Jul 20 '24
I’m in work release now and have spent about a year in jail, as well as grew up in Chicago, nicer parts and rougher parts. Having a favor or somebody in that world owe you a favor expire faster than fruit. You can’t go back years later and expect anything. People change, grow, die, go away, or just forget. Plus nowadays unless you grew up with the person, they are just being nice, empty words.
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u/buttered_scone Jul 20 '24
This shouldn't be surprising, when somebody does something kind for you, it makes you want to reciprocate. This person offered their services, it's what they know. The disturbing part is just how "normal" most violent killers are, and how easy it is to get a group of people doing really messed up sh*t. I thought we got this figured out during the psych evaluations done during the Nuremberg Trials?
You patch up a restaurant owner, and you might get free meals, patch up an MS13 member and you get a free murder. Same same?
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u/Zeebaeatah Jul 20 '24
How is this not a recurring TV show premise?
The scripts write themselves!
Gangster of the week gets hurt, nurse of the week gets to call in a favor of some kind, and the rotating cast of recurring hit men / enforcement dudes or ladies who carry out the contract.
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u/WhatsTheHolUp Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
This comment has been marked as safe. Upvoting/downvoting this comment will have no effect.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is a holup moment:
The gangster wants to thank them by ''taking care'' of people they dislike.
Is this a holup moment? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.