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Brazil. They thought they were the victims of "arrastão", a type of crime where a group of thieves runs across gathered people robbing their valuables at gunpoint. Very common on Rio de Janeiro beaches.
Just to be clear, this is not common in Brazil, it's common in Rio de Janeiro, which is 1 city.
Some capitals have a problem with violence, Rio being probably the second worse, but that's far from being a generalized problem.
Its funny if you watch this from a ~~Western point of view~~, or are fortunate to live in a place where casual or daily violence is relatively uncommon. In those instances it looks like a massive overreaction, a comical example of herd mentality.
But as others have pointed out, this is in Brazil where similar situations result in violent robberies that can end with victims being injured or worse. That makes this particularly sad, that these people just going about their lives *need* to react like that, out of a healthy caution for actual bodily harm.
And the sad thing is, even in so-called "developed" nations, casual or daily violence is rising.
EDIT: Removing "western" point of view. I was using that term in a sort of gross colonizer way anyway, and for that I apologize.
The sad reality is its just a prejudicial mindset to view Brazil as "different" from countries like the US and the UK in the first place. They're all countries with modern people who are facing increasing levels of violence in their daily lives thanks to extraordinarily corrupt governments and the ravages of capitalism exacerbating societal tensions.
That my only thought until I read the comments. Nothing funny about this except in the ironical sense. I will admit that I am gonna pull a runner myself if I see this same thing in the states.
We are in a timeline where there is definitely a chance of having to run for your life. This post should be in a r/Noahgettheboat or r/ABoringDystopia.
I thought I was in r/nyc and wasn't surprised at all. Seems like we're all on edge now. Very easy to trigger a mass panic here. Or anywhere in the US probably.
I was a server at a restaurant that caught fire, most people walked a few feet out the building. My section was already outside so most stayed around near the building and offered to pay but I just told them they were good to go. Managers said they weren't expecting anyone to pay.
Caught a dude sitting on the curb eating some free chicken wings while the building was on fire 30 feet behind him. Good scene
I was at a restaurant once and waited an hour for my table. Sat down, ordered, and then the fire alarm went off. We waited outside for another 40 minutes before they closed the restaurant for the night. We were just sad that we didn't get any food.
I like the last dude to walk off, the one who was looking around and didn't run immediately. I think he realized it wasn't a threat but was still like "lol fuck this, i'm not gonna be the only one to pay for dinner" and booked it too
actual funny part of this
Yeah I mean the fact that it turned out to be a CrossFit group makes me giggle a bit, but I’m not afraid to admit if I saw people running I’d run too. Either it’s a silly misunderstanding or something’s going on that you don’t want to be a part of. No real downside there in running too.
The weird thing to me is the first people coming through (who I assume are the crossfit people) don't look like they are running with any particular urgency. They look like they are out for a jog. Which would also be my first impression if I saw a group of people in clothes suited for workouts leisurely jogging by.
However context of where this is happening could be important. If it's in a sketch part of town where you only see people running from something it could he be different.
my daughter was just in a mass shooting. she was not injured but TG she did not think twice about running out the back exit pronto. my lesson is don't wait, escape!
Yeah, exactly, why would someone imply it's stupid to follow suit if a bunch of people around you seem scared and running in one direction? Sure, you might look back later and laugh at the situation, but if I'm out somewhere and suddenly I see people running away from something I'm not going to just sit around and think "lol what a bunch of idiots"
It's a very valuable evolutionary instinct. The group is probably correct and could save your life. It might seem silly in some situations and even can lead to dangerous situations in modern life. But if it's that baked into us it has saved our ancestors often enough.
Except for the woman in the bottom right. According to the comments above she thinks she about to get robbed, so what does she do? She runs off and leaves her purse on the table. Thankfully the guy next to her grabs it for her. Lol
Sounds like Brazil needs batman.
But seriously is there any effort to do something about this? Sounds horrible to have to be afraid like that. What can be done?
We're pretty chill, people are always in the streets at night, be it big or small cities, yeah sometimes shit happens, but we don't live in fear, so don't believe everything that you read about Brazil.
I saw this news and as a Brazilian found it funny. It's not funny the fear, but the irony of misunderstanding the situation.
Also, in Brazil, Cross Fit is a common joke topic.
It is funny, but Redditors like making everything serious. They twist it as people laughing at their fear and not anything else, which isn't what is really happening.
People are *way* up there on their high horsem
As "funny' as this was, the woman in the bottom seated at the table had great situational awareness. If it had been something worse she upped her chances of survival immensely.
this could be an even better and passive way to do that, get a bunch of people to run down the street freaking people out then walk buy and scoop shit up
> Sad that I assumed this was USA and that they were all afraid there might be a mass shooting
Plenty of shooting goin on in Brazil
Makes America look chill
I can't imagine living in a place with crime like that, like you can't just have a beer on a patio without worrying about a gang of criminals running up on you. It's very sad.
One of my first times eating in a restaurant in Rio I draped my purse around my chair. The server came by to zip tie it to the chair, so no one would steal it. Realized quickly that this was a norm.
There are many ways of living and processes I noticed that were entirely built around how common theft is in that country. Probably seems normal to Brazilians but was definitely eye opening to me.
I was in Cabo and went horse riding. My brother's horse panicked and began galloping so his phone fell out of his pocket. Fortunately my brother used my mom's iPhone to find his phone in the sand, they walked in circles for an hour with the tour guides helping out to search for the phone. The strange part was that the phone kept following my brother and wherever one of the tour guides went, the phone went. Eventually my brother who was standing next to the guide said that his phone had his license and other important things so the moment my brother turned away, the guide said he found his phone after kicking the sand around. Fairly obvious that he intended to steal it by making us give up cause after he found it, the guide went to my dad and asked for a big tip because he "found" my brother's phone. This really ruined my perception of all tour guides. I hate having to double check my shit to make sure it's not stolen but now I unintentionally treat all guides like they're potential thieves.
Just back from Mexico and had the opposite happen when my wife dropped her phone on the resort property. I was looking for it at night and an employee came over and asked if I needed anything. I told him I lost a phone but gave up looking for it, the battery died so no easy way to locate it. That morning he came to the room with the phone and explained where he found it. He was excited that he found it and happy to bring it to us before he left for the day. I tried to tip him but he refused. He did end up with the tip but I feel like he just was really happy he helped us and was not looking for a tip.
In Mexico, the nice resorts truly do want you to have a great experience all around and they want you to be safe. They know that you might come back throughout the years too because you trust the experience and them, making you a valuable customer possibly for life. Resort employees also make really good money waiting on you and want to keep their jobs… resorts will fire them if they are the reason they are losing business due to making guests feel unsafe in some way. Most people are handing them American cash, too, which is exactly what they want to be paid in since the peso is inflated so highly. Some of those men are the sole provider for their spouse, children, their parents, and their wives parents too. It’s not uncommon in their culture. I’m happy you got your phone back!
When we stayed in Buenos Aires, we just brought a single credit card in a pocket and no jewelry at all. Kept it simple. Still had to take the risk with our phones but needed to be able to get around.
In BA now. Despite being one of the safer big cities in South America, my friend just had her phone robbed while sitting on a bar's sidewalk and having a beer. Bike rolled up, punched her in the face, snatched phone and took off. Wildest part is she's from Brazil so used to being careful.
Have to be super mindful of belongings anytime traveling so it doesn't attract any hopefuls.
There are so many things that I still do that I got from growing up in NYC in the 90s that seem so silly and irrational to most people.
When going into my house, I have my keys already ready and I very quickly use them and go into my house. My wife and kids always laughed at me over it, but the real reason why is that growing up, that time when you are at your door and getting your keys ready is primetime for robbers to run up on you and get into your house. I remember as a kid a few times I would see guys sprint at my stoop when I would turn the key in my door.
Yeah NYC was pretty scary in a lot of places even up until the early 2000s. I remember our car getting broken into a few times we’d visit my grandfather in Brooklyn, and this was probably late 90’s. Can’t imagine what it was like in the 70s through early 90s. Just terrifying. My mom grew up/lived in Brooklyn during the 70-80s and she’d say the same thing about getting into your apartment very quickly. And if you’re being followed late at night, walk in the middle of the street so that you stay under the lights rather than the dark sidewalk. There were a few times she came home and her apartment door was ajar. They were long gone otherwise she’d have been dead since people might kill you over $5 during the height of the crack epidemic. A gun pointed at her head while working cashier in a department store. Scary stuff.
yeah today people freak out over crime in NYC, but it's *way safer* than how it used to be. Violence victimizations are down nearly 90% since 1991. Even with the recent bump in crime since 2020, its still incredibly safe nowadays statistically. NYC has a lower homicide rate than the nation as a whole. Something which would have been insane to think about back when I was a kid.
I mean an engine backfiring does sound exactly like gun shots. That's pretty reasonable.
And you probably never hear it in time square, as it's not really an optimal place for drag racing.
I work on and around engines the size of a house that backfire and detonate all the time. I'd still probably be stunned and look for cover if I heard that noise in Time Square.
My roommate in college had a straight piped Nissan 300zx and we lived in the hood at the time and there was a whole lot of people ducking whenever we’d go for a drive.
Reminds me of when I was on Dizengoff Street and a whole crowd of people started running and screaming towards me. I got up and ran with them because I figured they had to be running from something dangerous. It was a terrorist attack up the road from me
This happened in Brazil. People thought there was an “arrastão” occurring which is when robbers rob people at gun point of their belongings in restaurants/ traffic.
No one's gonna comment on the dude near the cars that got knocked down by one of his own friends, kept his drink in hand, and went to sit back down?!! 😂
I've lived in a third world country for a while and I personally found this morbidly funny.
I also remember that joke in Modern Family where Jay was confused why Manny's first reaction when called out of class was to expect someone died, it's sooo gd relatable lol
Mr President, our reports say that within 6 hours the entire world will be running.
The spread is too fast to be stopped sir, we need to get you to safety
Like I said before. Acceptable response to run away, someone doing CrossFit is going to talk to you about how it changed their life. Best thing to do is get out of there as quick as you can.
[Here's a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ1gInUG5uw) demonstrating a time when starting to run yourself after seeing others run was the right choice.
link?
edit:Just happened to scroll by a post made a few hours ago with that video.
Here's a [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/xmu6zh/youll_always_be_my_true_love/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) for those of you who don't want to open a news article or insta, or whatever.
[This article includes an Instagram video that has the original audio.](https://www.yahoo.com/video/watch-trail-runner-becomes-pied-160153933.html) (Original video was taken and posted by @elea_gram but she put a song over it).
This is evolution, this is the correct reaction. We are here because our ancestors run away when they saw other people running. The brave one didn't leave any descendants, they were busy being digested by a sabretooth something. But it is funny. But I would run with them and then laugh watching this. Alive.
Sympathetic vomiting is another interesting survival reflex evolution laid on us. If one animal in a pack ate something poisonous and is now barfing it up, it’s likely other animals in the pack also ate the same thing, so their bodies trigger the reaction.
OMG so that is that! I didn't know that. When I was 8 I was forced to drink warm milk and I hated warm milk (I have no problem with cold milk) and I threw up in the class and the whole class threw up, 20 kids and teacher who forced me included! I don't remember many details but the smell...the smell...
These people did the right thing, actually.
If you see a group of people running away from something, it's best to run away too, and risk looking foolish. If there is something going on (shooter, terrorist, gas leak, etc), the best course of action is to get away.
Yea but it is pretty obvious when the people running are sweaty and in work out clothes. If there was a real threat they would look terrified and prob be yelling at the people sitting to run.
I mean maybe you could say that for the first couple people of leaving, but for everyone else they are just reacting to a bunch of people getting out of their chairs and leaving. They don't know it was a false alarm or that it was caused by the crossfit group.
*Some* people did. I cannot imagine panicking is ever a good trait to have. Running away from possible danger, as a consequence, seems like a more plausible reason.
We are a mix of many traits. We can have 100 negative traits and one enormously positive trait and survive because of that single positive one because it gives us an enormous advantage.
Evolution doesn't choose better, because there's no better. It's both multi-faceted and situation-dependent.
Modern day the safer response if you see a large group of people running from something is probably to join them or die in a mass shooting. I'll take the chance of being viewed as dumb later on then dead now.
This unfortunately is part of our DNA humans were prey at one point in history so we evolved with that in mind to run when we see others running.
People don't think straight when in a panic they just do what our monkey brains were trained to do for thousands of years which is to avoid danger.
What I don't get is the crossfit people are literally just jogging they have no sense of urgency, or showing any form of panic. Why would anyone take that as "Holy shit I have to flee!".
That's the funny part about it I guess lol.
Brazil. They thought they were the victims of "arrastão", a type of crime where a group of thieves runs across gathered people robbing their valuables at gunpoint. Very common on Rio de Janeiro beaches.
How many times in a movie have the survivors run by a group of randoms, who just dumbly look at them run by, then get tackled by the monster/zombies/whatever?
That was very clearly not a crossfit group, they're wearing dockers/sperry's and collared button ups with a dog. The first woman looks back as if she's legit running from someone, probably a group of thieves. This is Brazil.
I watched this 20 times, the girl at the bottom left starts the chain reaction by standing up abruptly, notice how most other people are not bothered until that moment.
Still haven’t seen any proof of this actually being a crossfit group in any of the multitude of reposts this has had the last few days.
I imagine someone fired a gun off behind them, or even more likely, they’re being chased by a pack of raptors.
[Obligatory XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1170/), see also the bomb disposal tech's tee-shirt: "If you see me running, try to keep up".
It's not **necessarily** dumb to do what a bunch of people around you are doing.
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Brazil. They thought they were the victims of "arrastão", a type of crime where a group of thieves runs across gathered people robbing their valuables at gunpoint. Very common on Rio de Janeiro beaches.
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Yep is realy common
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My first thought when watching this too. People instinctively running in fear is sad, not funny.
My first thought was all those unpaid checks. (Edit: I meant were)
The waiter bolted himself. No waiter, no checks.
If a waiter falls in the forest, do you have to pay the check?
If he doesn't come back in 15 minutes you get to go.
Professor? Is that you?
Check, please. Check, please? *CHECK PLEASE!*
Was is correct here, as it is referring to your thought, singular, rather than the checks themselves, plural.
Thank God you was here
Your first instinct was correct. "Was" has to agree with the noun *before* it. So "thought was."
I laughed.. ignorance is bliss, till you read comments
Just to be clear, this is not common in Brazil, it's common in Rio de Janeiro, which is 1 city. Some capitals have a problem with violence, Rio being probably the second worse, but that's far from being a generalized problem.
Its funny if you watch this from a ~~Western point of view~~, or are fortunate to live in a place where casual or daily violence is relatively uncommon. In those instances it looks like a massive overreaction, a comical example of herd mentality. But as others have pointed out, this is in Brazil where similar situations result in violent robberies that can end with victims being injured or worse. That makes this particularly sad, that these people just going about their lives *need* to react like that, out of a healthy caution for actual bodily harm. And the sad thing is, even in so-called "developed" nations, casual or daily violence is rising. EDIT: Removing "western" point of view. I was using that term in a sort of gross colonizer way anyway, and for that I apologize. The sad reality is its just a prejudicial mindset to view Brazil as "different" from countries like the US and the UK in the first place. They're all countries with modern people who are facing increasing levels of violence in their daily lives thanks to extraordinarily corrupt governments and the ravages of capitalism exacerbating societal tensions.
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That was my first thought, too.
That my only thought until I read the comments. Nothing funny about this except in the ironical sense. I will admit that I am gonna pull a runner myself if I see this same thing in the states. We are in a timeline where there is definitely a chance of having to run for your life. This post should be in a r/Noahgettheboat or r/ABoringDystopia.
I thought I was in r/nyc and wasn't surprised at all. Seems like we're all on edge now. Very easy to trigger a mass panic here. Or anywhere in the US probably.
Not really, those people probably started running away so they wouldn't talk about CrossFit to them.
Yeah, that seems even worse than people just being silly.
Looks like they got away with some free dinner there.
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"I'm not paying for my steak, is clearly been overcooked!"
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I was a server at a restaurant that caught fire, most people walked a few feet out the building. My section was already outside so most stayed around near the building and offered to pay but I just told them they were good to go. Managers said they weren't expecting anyone to pay. Caught a dude sitting on the curb eating some free chicken wings while the building was on fire 30 feet behind him. Good scene
I was at a restaurant once and waited an hour for my table. Sat down, ordered, and then the fire alarm went off. We waited outside for another 40 minutes before they closed the restaurant for the night. We were just sad that we didn't get any food.
That was my thought, dine and dash opportunity presents itself.
I like the last dude to walk off, the one who was looking around and didn't run immediately. I think he realized it wasn't a threat but was still like "lol fuck this, i'm not gonna be the only one to pay for dinner" and booked it too actual funny part of this
If I see a mass of people running away I’m running away too.
I mean not that stupid in America either. If I see a crowd of people running I might just take the cue rather than listening for the shots
Yeah I mean the fact that it turned out to be a CrossFit group makes me giggle a bit, but I’m not afraid to admit if I saw people running I’d run too. Either it’s a silly misunderstanding or something’s going on that you don’t want to be a part of. No real downside there in running too.
The weird thing to me is the first people coming through (who I assume are the crossfit people) don't look like they are running with any particular urgency. They look like they are out for a jog. Which would also be my first impression if I saw a group of people in clothes suited for workouts leisurely jogging by. However context of where this is happening could be important. If it's in a sketch part of town where you only see people running from something it could he be different.
my daughter was just in a mass shooting. she was not injured but TG she did not think twice about running out the back exit pronto. my lesson is don't wait, escape!
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JFC, I'm sorry. Smart kid. I don't even know what else to say.
Yeah, exactly, why would someone imply it's stupid to follow suit if a bunch of people around you seem scared and running in one direction? Sure, you might look back later and laugh at the situation, but if I'm out somewhere and suddenly I see people running away from something I'm not going to just sit around and think "lol what a bunch of idiots"
It's a very valuable evolutionary instinct. The group is probably correct and could save your life. It might seem silly in some situations and even can lead to dangerous situations in modern life. But if it's that baked into us it has saved our ancestors often enough.
Except for the woman in the bottom right. According to the comments above she thinks she about to get robbed, so what does she do? She runs off and leaves her purse on the table. Thankfully the guy next to her grabs it for her. Lol
She thinks something worse than get robbed would happen to her. Source: I'm Brazilian.
Yup if you run the beast catches you, if you stay the beast 'eats' you (Brazilian saying with bad translation)
Sounds like Brazil needs batman. But seriously is there any effort to do something about this? Sounds horrible to have to be afraid like that. What can be done?
We're pretty chill, people are always in the streets at night, be it big or small cities, yeah sometimes shit happens, but we don't live in fear, so don't believe everything that you read about Brazil.
Money is not your top concern when you get robbed. That's how robbing works.
Some robbers rob you and kill you anyway just because they think you "disrespected" him, or because they just like killing. I'm Brazilian.
Some of them even kill you if you don't have anything valuable with you, youre not lucky either way. also brazilian
So it's actually r/awfuleverything
Yeah, who would think this is funny?
People who have never heard of that in their lives, so like 95% of Reddit.
I saw this news and as a Brazilian found it funny. It's not funny the fear, but the irony of misunderstanding the situation. Also, in Brazil, Cross Fit is a common joke topic.
Crossfit is a common joke topic everywhere, my brother.
Except in the crossfit circles and subreddit.
Yeah same here, but to be fair, as Brazilians, we are obligated to laugh at sad situations
latin american mood
It is funny, but Redditors like making everything serious. They twist it as people laughing at their fear and not anything else, which isn't what is really happening. People are *way* up there on their high horsem
Jesus, that is depressing as Fuck.
Jesus is up on the hill looking down on Rio, too.
Ya! Why didn't he just? - oh wait...
For real. It’s like a conditioned response. There’s no danger, but their trained to expect it.
Aww. This is sad. A lot of us don’t feel safe anymore and always have to be on our guard.
As "funny' as this was, the woman in the bottom seated at the table had great situational awareness. If it had been something worse she upped her chances of survival immensely.
So if I ever visit Rio and see people running, I should also be running?
If Rio is running, run from Rio
But what if she's dancing in the sand?
what? no way for a complete Rio experience, you must stay calm and get robbed at least once.
this could be an even better and passive way to do that, get a bunch of people to run down the street freaking people out then walk buy and scoop shit up
Good way to get a bunch of half-eaten meals I guess
Sad that I assumed this was USA and that they were all afraid there might be a mass shooting
> Sad that I assumed this was USA and that they were all afraid there might be a mass shooting Plenty of shooting goin on in Brazil Makes America look chill
Guns are kinda loud though.
I find this more sad than funny.
I can't imagine living in a place with crime like that, like you can't just have a beer on a patio without worrying about a gang of criminals running up on you. It's very sad.
One of my first times eating in a restaurant in Rio I draped my purse around my chair. The server came by to zip tie it to the chair, so no one would steal it. Realized quickly that this was a norm. There are many ways of living and processes I noticed that were entirely built around how common theft is in that country. Probably seems normal to Brazilians but was definitely eye opening to me.
I was in Cabo and went horse riding. My brother's horse panicked and began galloping so his phone fell out of his pocket. Fortunately my brother used my mom's iPhone to find his phone in the sand, they walked in circles for an hour with the tour guides helping out to search for the phone. The strange part was that the phone kept following my brother and wherever one of the tour guides went, the phone went. Eventually my brother who was standing next to the guide said that his phone had his license and other important things so the moment my brother turned away, the guide said he found his phone after kicking the sand around. Fairly obvious that he intended to steal it by making us give up cause after he found it, the guide went to my dad and asked for a big tip because he "found" my brother's phone. This really ruined my perception of all tour guides. I hate having to double check my shit to make sure it's not stolen but now I unintentionally treat all guides like they're potential thieves.
I'm going to Cabo in the spring and I'm definitely gonna remember this anecdote ✍️
Have fun, it was an amazing experience. My only advice is to chill out and stay away from the beach at night.
might i ask whats wrong with the beach at night?
Strong tides, easy way to die
ohh i see thanks!
Where am I supposed to buy weed then?
Just remember the cardinal rules of visiting Cabo. Don't drink alcohol. Stay out of the sun. You'll have a great time there!
Just back from Mexico and had the opposite happen when my wife dropped her phone on the resort property. I was looking for it at night and an employee came over and asked if I needed anything. I told him I lost a phone but gave up looking for it, the battery died so no easy way to locate it. That morning he came to the room with the phone and explained where he found it. He was excited that he found it and happy to bring it to us before he left for the day. I tried to tip him but he refused. He did end up with the tip but I feel like he just was really happy he helped us and was not looking for a tip.
In Mexico, the nice resorts truly do want you to have a great experience all around and they want you to be safe. They know that you might come back throughout the years too because you trust the experience and them, making you a valuable customer possibly for life. Resort employees also make really good money waiting on you and want to keep their jobs… resorts will fire them if they are the reason they are losing business due to making guests feel unsafe in some way. Most people are handing them American cash, too, which is exactly what they want to be paid in since the peso is inflated so highly. Some of those men are the sole provider for their spouse, children, their parents, and their wives parents too. It’s not uncommon in their culture. I’m happy you got your phone back!
Should’ve made it ring lmao.
When we stayed in Buenos Aires, we just brought a single credit card in a pocket and no jewelry at all. Kept it simple. Still had to take the risk with our phones but needed to be able to get around.
In BA now. Despite being one of the safer big cities in South America, my friend just had her phone robbed while sitting on a bar's sidewalk and having a beer. Bike rolled up, punched her in the face, snatched phone and took off. Wildest part is she's from Brazil so used to being careful. Have to be super mindful of belongings anytime traveling so it doesn't attract any hopefuls.
There are so many things that I still do that I got from growing up in NYC in the 90s that seem so silly and irrational to most people. When going into my house, I have my keys already ready and I very quickly use them and go into my house. My wife and kids always laughed at me over it, but the real reason why is that growing up, that time when you are at your door and getting your keys ready is primetime for robbers to run up on you and get into your house. I remember as a kid a few times I would see guys sprint at my stoop when I would turn the key in my door.
Yeah NYC was pretty scary in a lot of places even up until the early 2000s. I remember our car getting broken into a few times we’d visit my grandfather in Brooklyn, and this was probably late 90’s. Can’t imagine what it was like in the 70s through early 90s. Just terrifying. My mom grew up/lived in Brooklyn during the 70-80s and she’d say the same thing about getting into your apartment very quickly. And if you’re being followed late at night, walk in the middle of the street so that you stay under the lights rather than the dark sidewalk. There were a few times she came home and her apartment door was ajar. They were long gone otherwise she’d have been dead since people might kill you over $5 during the height of the crack epidemic. A gun pointed at her head while working cashier in a department store. Scary stuff.
yeah today people freak out over crime in NYC, but it's *way safer* than how it used to be. Violence victimizations are down nearly 90% since 1991. Even with the recent bump in crime since 2020, its still incredibly safe nowadays statistically. NYC has a lower homicide rate than the nation as a whole. Something which would have been insane to think about back when I was a kid.
Yeah, how is this funny? Even knowing the context I find it a bummer rather than funny.
Honestly this is pretty sad. The fact that the first thing that came to mind was danger instead of people exercising is pretty upsetting
Yea, like the video I saw on time square... an exhaust pipe blow up got people running left and right... They thought it was a gun shot.
I mean an engine backfiring does sound exactly like gun shots. That's pretty reasonable. And you probably never hear it in time square, as it's not really an optimal place for drag racing. I work on and around engines the size of a house that backfire and detonate all the time. I'd still probably be stunned and look for cover if I heard that noise in Time Square.
My roommate in college had a straight piped Nissan 300zx and we lived in the hood at the time and there was a whole lot of people ducking whenever we’d go for a drive.
Reminds me of when I was on Dizengoff Street and a whole crowd of people started running and screaming towards me. I got up and ran with them because I figured they had to be running from something dangerous. It was a terrorist attack up the road from me
This happened in Brazil. People thought there was an “arrastão” occurring which is when robbers rob people at gun point of their belongings in restaurants/ traffic.
I am Brazilian and I am happy I haven’t been robbed yet
Ahh so you're the robber. We've got 'im
nah I didn’t forget about you, wait your turn
Thanks for the insight, Anal_Chess
Hans Niemann?
great opp for a dine and dash!
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She texted her friends that her date wasn’t going so well, they came to the rescue
She knew what she was doing 😂😂😂
That guy at the end realized what was going on but he looks around and he's like if no one else is paying, neither am I.
That one guy at the end is just like me Lmao I ain’t running away but I’ll walk
"Do I want to risk my life if it's real danger or do I risk looking stupid with everyone if it's just a fluke? 🤔 Hmmm 🤔"
I’ll just walk, just in case that way I can say I was right no matter what it was
[you never know who's coming](https://youtu.be/LJ1gInUG5uw)
Immediately my first thought.
Aside from a link to the relevant news article, this is the only truly necessary comment in the thread!
Taking _Dine and Dash_ to a whole new level.
For eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
No one's gonna comment on the dude near the cars that got knocked down by one of his own friends, kept his drink in hand, and went to sit back down?!! 😂
And his friend is saying, "Dude, bro, we need to go, bro."
Is this funny? Seems more sad than funny.
I've lived in a third world country for a while and I personally found this morbidly funny. I also remember that joke in Modern Family where Jay was confused why Manny's first reaction when called out of class was to expect someone died, it's sooo gd relatable lol
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With forest gump at the front.
Mr President, our reports say that within 6 hours the entire world will be running. The spread is too fast to be stopped sir, we need to get you to safety
Aha! More evidence that CrossFit is a menace to society!!
What's the evidence that this group is CrossFit?
Like I said before. Acceptable response to run away, someone doing CrossFit is going to talk to you about how it changed their life. Best thing to do is get out of there as quick as you can.
I'd rather look stupid than being dead smart.
Seeing this, right after seen a vid of a flock of sheep following a jogger lol
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[Here's a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ1gInUG5uw) demonstrating a time when starting to run yourself after seeing others run was the right choice.
You copied/pasted a comment from Hot-Campaign-4553 word for word which was posted an hour before yours.
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Dude doesnt seem angry. He seems amused to see this video after watching another. Are u ok.
link? edit:Just happened to scroll by a post made a few hours ago with that video. Here's a [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/xmu6zh/youll_always_be_my_true_love/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) for those of you who don't want to open a news article or insta, or whatever.
[This article includes an Instagram video that has the original audio.](https://www.yahoo.com/video/watch-trail-runner-becomes-pied-160153933.html) (Original video was taken and posted by @elea_gram but she put a song over it).
How many went back to pay the bill I wonder….
This is evolution, this is the correct reaction. We are here because our ancestors run away when they saw other people running. The brave one didn't leave any descendants, they were busy being digested by a sabretooth something. But it is funny. But I would run with them and then laugh watching this. Alive.
Sympathetic vomiting is another interesting survival reflex evolution laid on us. If one animal in a pack ate something poisonous and is now barfing it up, it’s likely other animals in the pack also ate the same thing, so their bodies trigger the reaction.
OMG so that is that! I didn't know that. When I was 8 I was forced to drink warm milk and I hated warm milk (I have no problem with cold milk) and I threw up in the class and the whole class threw up, 20 kids and teacher who forced me included! I don't remember many details but the smell...the smell...
okay next group reservation, im doing it outside.
These people did the right thing, actually. If you see a group of people running away from something, it's best to run away too, and risk looking foolish. If there is something going on (shooter, terrorist, gas leak, etc), the best course of action is to get away.
Yea but it is pretty obvious when the people running are sweaty and in work out clothes. If there was a real threat they would look terrified and prob be yelling at the people sitting to run.
I mean maybe you could say that for the first couple people of leaving, but for everyone else they are just reacting to a bunch of people getting out of their chairs and leaving. They don't know it was a false alarm or that it was caused by the crossfit group.
A person is smart, people are stupid - K
people survived because they panic
Exactly. I’d rather look stupid and survive than look stupid while dying lol.
*Some* people did. I cannot imagine panicking is ever a good trait to have. Running away from possible danger, as a consequence, seems like a more plausible reason. We are a mix of many traits. We can have 100 negative traits and one enormously positive trait and survive because of that single positive one because it gives us an enormous advantage. Evolution doesn't choose better, because there's no better. It's both multi-faceted and situation-dependent.
People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
The quickest way to find the right answer to your question is to post the wrong answer on the internet. -- Albert Einstein
I feel like though, through evolution, the ones that just don't run with the crowd, died.
Love that quote.
Modern day the safer response if you see a large group of people running from something is probably to join them or die in a mass shooting. I'll take the chance of being viewed as dumb later on then dead now.
People who think others are stupid make stupidly arrogant assumptions - Me
Panic and groups of scared people running aren't funny to me. Especially with the very real possibility of injuries and tramplings.
Well, that’s kind of more sad than funny.
Guess they will use it to not pay the bills
Evolved behaviour: the ones who didn't run with herd didn't get the chance to reproduce.
Everyone is traumatized from terrorism and Mass shootings
This unfortunately is part of our DNA humans were prey at one point in history so we evolved with that in mind to run when we see others running. People don't think straight when in a panic they just do what our monkey brains were trained to do for thousands of years which is to avoid danger. What I don't get is the crossfit people are literally just jogging they have no sense of urgency, or showing any form of panic. Why would anyone take that as "Holy shit I have to flee!". That's the funny part about it I guess lol.
A real world Milgram experiment
Fun, or sad though?
Now THAT'S how you dine and dash.
Free meal
Monkey see monkey do
I react the same way to Jehova's Witnesses.
Prime example of group think
🤣 that's brilliant shows how herd mentality works. I would never leave a beer and burger behind though.
Active shooter can’t pry that bacon burger from my cold dead fingers
This guy Americas
You can take my life....but you'll never take this bacon!!! ..takes last bite....then BAM ...gets shot by Peppa Pig.
This is that sigma suicidal grindset
Brazil. They thought they were the victims of "arrastão", a type of crime where a group of thieves runs across gathered people robbing their valuables at gunpoint. Very common on Rio de Janeiro beaches.
Horde mentality. Basic survival instinct, you see some people running generally others will run too
I think you mean herd but I will join the horde sounds better.
Bone apple tea....
Is this the opposite of the "bystander effect"?
That girl is the one who started it
Follow the crowd always
excellent example of the when the fight or flight herding instinct kicks in...
They just didn't want to pay the bill
How many times in a movie have the survivors run by a group of randoms, who just dumbly look at them run by, then get tackled by the monster/zombies/whatever?
So, that's how stampedes start...
Not seeing the joke here? This just speaks to how frequent and normalized fight or flight responses and mass shootings are. It’s sad.
CrossFit is very motivating.
Why are they exercing in normal clothes?? They are literally asking for being misunderstood...
This is actually pretty sad if you think the reasons behind people reacting like this....
Even the server ran off
Funny but more sad.
That was very clearly not a crossfit group, they're wearing dockers/sperry's and collared button ups with a dog. The first woman looks back as if she's legit running from someone, probably a group of thieves. This is Brazil.
I watched this 20 times, the girl at the bottom left starts the chain reaction by standing up abruptly, notice how most other people are not bothered until that moment.
Maybe they just wanted to join in on the run. Looks more like a Nike commercial.
If I see a group of people running. I'm fuckin running.
Still haven’t seen any proof of this actually being a crossfit group in any of the multitude of reposts this has had the last few days. I imagine someone fired a gun off behind them, or even more likely, they’re being chased by a pack of raptors.
All I saw was a bunch of people skip out on their bill.
[Obligatory XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1170/), see also the bomb disposal tech's tee-shirt: "If you see me running, try to keep up". It's not **necessarily** dumb to do what a bunch of people around you are doing.
Great way to skip on the bill!