Russian here. Such fucking ignorant drivers really is a problem. Someone can say that "Stop the douchebag" are going too far. Fuck that! Those morons in their cars are really deserve it, trust me. This is really some fucked up driver syndrome, like when person got a car he began to think he is above everyone else. Pardon my lame english, but there are really too much such ignorant drivers in my country, they deserve it 100%.
From watching many russian dash-cam videos, I think your "fucked-up driver syndrome" is the best diagnosis of the situation I've come across.
Nice point! Cannot agree more.
I love you
Haha, thank you! Honestly, your comment had put a smile on my face. Thanks. Have a nice day;)
I like this exchange. Have a nice day;)
And you too! Have a fucking awesome day;)
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This is cool. I still love how funny is russian accent portrayed in action movies of the 90s.
I just called... to... have a nice day!
Thanks! And... have a nice day too!
e FPS Russia always says this...
Can I love you too? It's past midnight so you can have an awesome this day too! D:
Sure! Not a problem. In my country the day is just started but have an awesome day too;)
Yeah man, our United States government/media is trying to scare us about your president. Just want to let you know that we are cool. I dont even care if he has aspergers, he seems like a pretty ballsy leader. If you get drafted to fight in WW3 against us, try not to bomb/shoot people in the central Californian area. Focus more of your attacks on the southern states. They asked for WW3 not us.
To be honest I don't care about our president and our government. We're cool too, man. A lot of russians are totally friendly towards US. A lot of our people have friends in US, especially in gaming community. I knew that a lot of americans are working in Russia, english teachers and something like that. There are even some american youtube bloggers who used to live in Russia, like Philochko, for example.
Oh, and check this. We have no beef too;)
We should just get the leaders of our countries to fight each other since none of us give a shit. Itd make for some good pay-per-view.
haha you made me lol that was nice! And fuck media and goverments that are trying to manipulate poor people's brains, if someone has logic then he will see that 90% of media shit is propaganda and it counts for every country
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cyka blyat
mid or i feed
you forgot the caps lock
MID OR I FEED
perfect.
oh..let me show you, this is the only game in the universe where you can hear a person said in russian "suka blyat";)
Man, I gotta check this game out...
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Now kith.
now kiss
I love you too and I love the fucking internet
Thanks! Love you too! And fucking internet;)
Holy shit you are the coolest
Reddit community is the coolest;)
Dude could you do me the coolest favor and show me how to spell my username in Russian?
Bacon Hero? Well it is pretty easy in russian. Here is how it sounds like. Бекон герой
You can easily count on Google Translate...most of the times.
If you have any questions, I am always free to answer;)
Haha that's awesome! I appreciate it :)
I love all of you :3
Oh, you're so cute...Best wishes to you too:3
Hi I like you
Thanks!Have a hug!
What the fuck Internet. Look at this guy. He said thanks, and told the guy to have a nice day. IN A FUCKING REPLY! Why are all of you such dicks?
Sorry but what are you talking about? Seems like everyone is pretty kind. Oh, and have a NICE day too;)
And now out of Ukraine ;D
sexy time
Appreciate the contribution man.
You can see that most of the drivers are stuck up rich assholes with nice cars who think they are better than everyone else. This can also be a problem in America -- it is good to see them put the assholes in their place.
Do you know in which city this is filmed, by curiosity?
Also, someone said that one of these videos led to the firing of a top Chechen official. Do you know if that's true?
Exactly, rich up assholes who are think they are better than everybody...I do not know about city and to be honest, I hardly doubt that some of those top officials can be led to firing...I've seen a lots of stories then morons with influental parents easily avoid a prosecution.
The scale is a significantly different, though. Yes, we have our douchebags who fuck around with traffic laws, but things like driving on sidewalks are practically unheard of... let alone to the point where groups like this are formed to try to counter them. The closest thing that I can think of off the top of my head to this sort of douchey behavior are the motorcycles you see driving between lanes of traffic to get through traffic jams.
What's the problem with that?
That's allowed in most countries and states.. In fact, I don't know anyone who thinks that's douchebaggery? Why would you think that? They aren't blocking anyone. Perk of driving a motorcycle.
People are stupid. They don't care that you drive a smaller vehicle that can use unoccupied road space to get through traffic easier. If they are stuck in traffic, then bikers should be too.
If I can't have it, you can't have it either!
^ internet hissy fit if i've ever seen one.
Talking to me? Not sure how I was throwing a hissy fit at all, but whatever you say doc.
People with autism have a hard time understanding sarcasm.
I remember when I was 8..
People don't expect motorcycles to drive in-between cars. I can see the argument for it being a little bit more dangerous than you're implying.
It's probably more dangerous because of car drives not paying attention yes, but that wasn't that guys point. He said it was douchebaggy.
It is more dangerous because both vehicles have to operate in a smaller area close to each other. I'm all down for lane splitting in stand still traffic, but the lanes are that width for a reason. Cars don't always drive perfectly straight, and bikes certainly don't either. What if there is a pothole and someone is trying to lanesplit at the same time?
They do when it's not illegal. Lane-splitting is very common all over the world.
More dangerous than sitting still, obviously, but the cars are typically stuck in traffic or at a light. There's not much movement.
I disagree on your last sentence. Look up the benefits of lane-splitting. California, one of the most populous states that has horrible traffic allows motorcycles to lane split. Many countries allow motorcycles to lane split. It's quite common in places except the US.
Not only is it a perk for people who take up less space on the roadway, but it's more economical too. I just wish more states adopted the practice. Hell some countries have their own motorcycle/scooter streets.
As far as I know such sort of douchebaggery will attract attention of police and police won't let such pricks away. Like our stupid cops do...
from watching these videos the fine is $30 to $50. In the us, the fines would be $125 to $250 + court fees + insurance rates skyrocket.
I wonder if the cops over there have a ticket quota like ours does...
How awful of them to ride a vehicle that takes up less room on the road and is better on gas consumption. If people like you would get your head out of your ass and allow motorcyclists to split lanes, then that would mean less people causing congestion on the road. Or maybe if more people would adopt riding a motorcycle rather than commuting alone in multi passenger vehicles, we could reduce traffic congestion as well.
I hardly doubt that some of those top officials can be led to firing..
Haha, 'hardly doubt'. I know what you mean in Russian, but in English a double negative is a positive. What you said was basically "I think those top officials can be fired."
'ne kak ne mogu' in English is literally "There's no way I can't". Except in Russian, it means, "I can't" but in English it means "I can".
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Damn, thanks for correcting me. I really didn't know that I really should learn more about all of such nuances:)
Mostly Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
Pardon my lame english
You're far better than the people I have to interact with on a daily basis who supposedly know english as their first language.
Damn, this is really funny. Thanks! I did not expect such statement.
It makes fun to read all your comments with a Russian accent!
Just read every comment on reddit with a Russian accent.
Not sure why Hitler would say something like that.
I did it with yours too. I can't stop.
I've just been looking through all of his just doing that.
Such statement Much Russian Wow
Just remember the next time you're insecure in your English - you have a better understanding of the language than most English-speaking redditors have of Russian. :D
Thanks! And by the way I found it really nice that are lot of redditors are interested in russian language. Это круто;)
English is not easy either. You're doing just fine. Like the other person said, better even than people who have spoke English their whole lives.
And this is really surprised me, better than some of the native speakers. Why is there such problem?
A number of reasons really, poor education and a lot of people just plain don't care if they know how to speak the language correctly.
Every time i read your comments i read it in my head as a russian accent. Your english is great by the way! Better than most Americans.
Haha, thanks! Maybe I should record some of the lines in typical russian voice:)
But at the same time, I can read the Russian accent
We done heard tale of fellers who talk good words, here round the holler.
Or those who speak English well but still choose to type like a teenager online.
das ignant bruh
Its bad enough I had to talk to you on the phone today. Now you gotta stalk me on reddit? Some people I tell ya...
u wot m8?
In my experience people who speak English as a second language speak it better than 90% of native speakers.
Just like in Django Unchained. Dr. King Schultz speaks better english than anyone in the film
Your English is better than my Russian.
ну давай проверим;)
nu davaiy proverim...I have no idea what that means but I can read it, lol
Haha, it was mean "so lets check it". Nowadays Google Translate can help you learn almost any language, this is really awesome.
Or you can play cs:go cyka blyat
The people who say they are going too far are the ones driving on sidewalks and parking illegally.
I've always wondered why we see so much of these videos from Russia. I know part of it is Russians have infinitely more dash cams than we do in the US, but jesus christ some of the driving that I've seen makes me never want to go anywhere near Eastern Europe/Russia unless I'm in a tank.
You said tank...well, here is something for you;)
Was that a tank crossing sign I saw? Kind of like the deer crossing ones we have here?
Russia is kind of nutty, and every dash cam video gives me unverified, totally biased proof of this.
To be honest, I have no idea what the hell was that! A tank crossing a road? I mean...what the hell...but I just do not know how to comment this strange situation¯(°_o)/¯
Perhaps in whatever part of Russia that was, this is a normal occurrence. Although, I hope not.
I read this in a russian accent. It made my potty break much better. But seriously they seem like they do deserve it. Buncha stuck up winey little assholes.
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Thank you! How about russian with american accent;)
douchebag
привет мой брат, I was looking for you. Is "douchebag" the best translation? It's sort of confrontational word here. This group seem kind and patient.
Привет, бро. Russian word "хам" means a rude person with bad manners so, it's up to you to decide if "douchebag"can fit our not. Also, little lesson about russian culture. Check the word "bydlo"(быдло), this is how we call such rude people;)
Hah, like cattle? Bunch of cows! Get back on the street ya bunch of cows! Is that like how you tell people not to take up the whole walkway so you can get by?
No, we use this term for people with no manners, who is rude to other people and his main interest in drinking alcohol & starting fights, street crimes, assaults, also can be a part of that so called subculture. It's kinda hard to explain... if you Google it, you will understand. You won't see those faces:) As far as I know it is something like english chavs.
Privet! I am learning Russian, but like English, it is a hard language. Please, allow me to correct your English. :)
drivers really are a problem
For more than one person, "are" is correct. This verb ("to be") is difficult because it does not follow normal rules. Because of this, it is called an "irregular verb". Its different forms must be memorized. (It is like "they are" in the chart.)
Someone might say
"Can" is not bad, but "might" is better because it tells us that we are thinking about a hypothetical person. If we are thinking about whether a person has the ability to say that, "can" is better.
"Stop the douchebag" is going too far
"Is" is correct because there is only one statement ("stop the douchebag"). If you talk about "the men" going too far, "they are going to far" would be correct.
Those morons in their cars really deserve it, trust me.
There is no need for "are" here, because "deserve" is a verb, not an adjective.
like when a person
a/an/the are called "articles", and tell which thing you are talking about. If it is any person or a hypothetical person, "a/an" is used. If it is a specific person, "the" is used. Articles can be difficult for Russian speakers because they do not exist in Russian. You should ask an English teacher for advice on learning when to use articles, preferably one who teaches Russians. They will know best.
gets a car
It is better to use present tense here.
he begins to think he is above everyone else.
Present tense, to match "gets".
there are really too many "ignorant drivers"/"drivers this ignorant"
In English, some nouns are "countable" and others are "uncountable. "Less" and "fewer" have similar rules.
Pardon my lame english
Your English is quite good! These are all small mistakes. People can understand you perfectly, and being able to communicate is the important thing. Good luck! :D
Oh, thanks! Sometimes I just forgetting about plural.
Thank you for saying something! I was curious if this was just a bad spot in Russia or if all of Russia has bad drivers like this. I think "Stop the douchebag" movement is a great cause! I'm so glad they video tape it so we can all see!
They've found a non-violent way to combat a very physically dangerous issue. That is not too far at all. What they are doing is very admirable.
It blows my mind some women were literally trying to run them over and even touching then with their cars. I can't believe that shit is real.
Oh man, exactly my thoughts! This is really fucked up when they dragging people on their cars. Seems like in our country you can easily left without problems.
Lame english? I didn't see one unnecessary apostrophe. That's better than 90% of our population can manage with a paragraph that size.
Thank you, man. Nice to hear.
I ran into a Russian at a bar a few weeks ago. We did a couple shots of vodka and he taught me a Russian cheers. Zadrovye or something like that, I can't remember. It was a great night though!
Haha this is quite funny. Za zdorovye. It means that you're drinking for healthy life:)
Thanks! I will remember it for next time.
I imagine you as the hero in the video with the track suit an AK. You are now tagged as AK Track Suit Hero in RES.
Haha, AK Track Suit Hero! Thanks! This is funny:)
Nothing makes me road rage harder than assholes who think their time is more important than the other millions of humans sitting in line patiently like respectful human beings.
The worst part is, the people in heavy traffic that are dodging in and out of any moving lane or driving on the shoulder are one of the biggest causes for stop and go traffic in the first place, its like they dont realize that the person they hate the most was themselves the entire time. They think "fuck all these assholes in front of me for causing traffic" but really they should be realizing "the reason we are stopping and going is because dipshits cant keep to a lane".
TL:DR? Stupid people dont have the brain capacity to realize they are stupid.
Cannot agree more. I really don't understand is it so damn hard for them to be more polite. Is it really some crazy driver complex..
As someone who has visited your fascinating country, unfortunately the douchey-driver syndrome is quite virulent. Nothing like a near-death experience in a Moscow taxi to heighten one's visit! LOL. I still loved my visit but that was a very scary ride--- and I grew up half my life in Marseille/Corsica in France-- reputed to be some of the worst drivers on the planet!
Nice to hear. It's interesting that you have enjoyed your visit. A lot of people thinks that Russia is pretty gloomy place. Can agree...but it's quite nice in the summer:)
That explains it, I went in summer! ;)
In truth my major in college was International Relations with an emphasis in Russia and East Europe so my visit was a dream come true. :) Though the night train from St Petersburg to Moscow was quite an experience!
Someone can say that "Stop the douchebag" are going too far.
I don't think they are going too far. Putting a sticker on the windshield is the least harm they can do. They are not causing any damage. This is the perfect punishment to douchebag drivers. They drove over the sidewalk to save time and now they have to lose time removing the sticker.
The thing is, they are getting a lot of criticism like they are provoking people. From my point of view they doing it right, first they are always ask drivers politely, then if the person is too stubborn... he will get the sticker. Seems fair to me. But a lot of russian commenters thinking that "Stop a Douche" is a bunch of morons who have no rights to do a damage (lol) to owners cars. Like "if they even touch my car I'll beat the shit out of them".
they are provoking people
Driving your car over the sidewalk is a bigger outrage. The drivers even can be doing a damage to the sidewalk. They are not made to cars run over. Getting a sticker is fair enough.
oh god yeah my uncle is one of those, came to visit him in moscow from new york, we were stuck in traffic and he just said fuck it and drove own a somewhat busy sidewalk. that was the day i learned douchebags exist
Nice story. And it's interesting that you have relatives in Russia. You was born in US as I understand?
no born in moscow but left in the late 90's when America passed an act granting russian jews political refugee status.
Oh, this is interesting. As far as I know my grandfather was a jew. Glad you can make it:)
I think it's important to note the drivers in the US aren't a whole lot different, we just have bollards up to prevent this.
Yep. You're awesome. <3
Thank you! Spasibo;)
Oh man, I wish I could hear you read this comment in your Russian accent. ;)
Ha ha, no problem, man! I can record it in typical russian accent and put it online:)
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Well...okay..I will record it in typical 90s action movies russian accent and will contact you by PM;)
Nooo! Public! I want to hear it too! We love Russian accents
Well, okay, no problem, just tell me where to put in and you can hear it in the next few days.
vocaroo.com for example.
Youtube and link it :)
Hmm...well, okay, I will publish it in Youtube account in next two days...Lets just hope my government won't punish me.
America has the same dipshits. I'm pretty sure whenever there is a shooting on the roads, it was well-deserved.
I undestand...There are black sheeps in every country. But as an individual I just want to chose a better place to living for me and my future family and thats all.
I've never in my life seen someone drive on the sidewalk in the US. I hardly see anyone driving in the emergency lane. In NY cops write tickets to bicyclists that go on the sidewalk. In fact in 2012 cops wrote over 20,000 tickets for people riding their bicycles on the sidewalk.
From my observations, Americans/Europeans are relatively unique in the world in that they tend to obey driving rules and rules in general, compared to most other countries in the world where rules aren't always enforced and people drive more out of practicality. With the lack of rules, they've developed other ways to remain safe when doing things like running red lights or driving on sidewalks: mostly making eye contact with other drivers.
I live in a immigrant-dominated place in the USA and I see this sometimes.. People like to stop in the middle of the intersections and back up. In general they screw up like everyone else when driving, missing a turn. The difference is they tend to disobey traffic laws to correct their mistakes, choosing practicality over obeying the rules of the road. Where I live there's a fork in the road, and if you choose the right fork, you will be able to legally turn right, if you screw up and choose the left fork, you then hit a stop light, and you're not supposed to make a right. But people always do. Rather than obey rules, continue on and make a legal u turn to correct your mistake, they choose the easy route. I even see suspect that I see this with non-immigrants at times.. I think the 'broken windows' doctrine is working... since everyone else is doing it, why not me.
Then there are the stop signs.. people pull up to the stop sign at the same time, and rather than yielding to the right, they look into your eyes to decide who should go first.
Had one of my buddies get run over by a car while riding his bike on the sidewalk. Cop showed up and gave him a ticket for riding his bike on the sidewalk. After 3 months of disability and a metal rod in his leg the judge threw out the ticket, "He's already paid enough."
Car jumped the curb?
I have never seen anyone in America drive on the sidewalks.
Yah man.. we've seen the videos... there should be a subreddit just for Russian Auto mobile videos.
well, you can see a lot of such stuff here..It's all in russian, but at least most of those videos are uploaded on Youtube, so you can check it with no problems.
Russians are some of my favorite people; your attitude about problems is remarkable. I miss talking to all my Russian pen pals when I was studying it in University...
Nice to hear! Well, if you miss it you can talk to me, понял?;)
Конечно, друг )))
No problem, чувак;)
Haha, that's what Pavel always calls me in Metro: Last Light...
Thanks for mention it...I still want to buy Metro:Redux...I really think that Metro is one of the best games ever made in terms of art direction. Sure Metro isn't perfect and it is do no have a budget like some AAA titles, but at the same time I think there are no games that can be compared to Metro. And in my opinion, underground city on Metro is just one of the best creations that I ever saw in video games.
Art direction is definitely fantastic. Slavic storytelling is unparalleled anywhere in the west, which is probably why the whole this is fun and curious to players.
Cannot agree more..I was really impressed with the world in Metro: Last Light. That theatre station, older people tellings stories to kids...I do not want to sound like a fan boy, but I really think there are no games like a Metro.
I'm so sorry you have to live in a country with such asshole drivers. Stay safe.
Thanks..Thankfully I do not have a car.
You speak remarkably good english, actually. A few things like "Those morons in their cars are really deserve it" should be "Those morons in their cars really deserve it" and "Like when a person got a car he began to think he is above everyone else" should be: "like when a person gets a car he begins to think he is above everyone else,"
Otherwise, really good, even better than about 50% of the native speakers here, you even used the correct "their" instead of "they're or there" which is something I even fuck up and I've been speaking this language since I was in diapers!
Oh man, thanks for correcting me..I just cannot remember all of those rules. Lack of good practice, you know.
Why exactly do certain people feel entitled to drive like that? Is there a more specific reason other than "RICH SNOB!"? Are they politicians, cultural, etc?
Why? Because they are are just ignorant and uneducated morons. That's why. I do not want to sound rude but I just cannot see another reasons to that sort of behaviour. Just like in every other country I think.
All your women seem to be outrageous cunts.
Edit: Seen other video with mostly men, they are no better mannered.
Ha ha! Not all of course. But those gals are pretty fucked up...
they are fucking aggressive (the team of douchebags with sticker). I saw others video, they just want to fight like hooligans, they are worse than the bad drivers or smokers.
They are just a bunch of bullies at five vs 1.
i love your English. i read it with a Russian accent
I agree! That is a damn sidewalk, and they drive their cars on it? I thought the title of the video was an exaggeration.
Nope, you should check other videos from stopxam channel. There are some even more fucked up.
Is the traffic so bad in russia that people have to do crazy things like this?
I think it's more about mentality. We just have a lot of ignorant people who put themselves above others. Check the term "bydlo", its quite funny. We call such people that way.
Вы говорите по-английски очень хорошо. пожалуйста, нет извинений.
Спасибо за ваш комментарий. Товарищ;)
Read this with a Russian accent. All is good my friend.
Pardon my lame english
Nothing to pardon, it's quite good and we all think the Russian English accent is really sexy/awesome.
Let you're fellow countrymen know that we love Russian people, just not your government.
Haha, even sexy. Cool to hear. No problem about government, we don't like it to;)
It's great that this isn't a problem in the US, at least not in PA. What makes you think you can drive on the sidewalk?
I read this comment the same way I read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" in its entirety.
Your english is just fine, and is better than 1/4 of the US population.
Are there no traffic police?
Question, is hitting someone with a car in Russia not considered assault with a deadly weapon? Several of the people in the video would have gone to jail for a long time for purposefully hitting someone with a car in the US.
Oh man I want it so much that we have such law system (I know it's not ideal) but it is much better than ours, when a lot of crimes just goes without any prosecution.
Your English was wonderful, better than some native speakers/writers/readers. In any case, I was quite honestly shocked that this actually happens. If it happened here where I live, you better bet your ass the cops'll be there to fine you. I'm glad these guys took it upon themselves to shame people who are so ignorant and arrogant enough to actually put pedestrians in danger.
Thanks! And it is really surprising that you are not the first one who are telling such things about your natives. Talking about police, ideally they should stop such morons, but in reality, a lot of crappy stuff in Russia is just goes off without any prosecution. Some money bag killed a men with his traumatic gun. No prosecution. Because of his connections. And this is just one of such stories.
The same happens here in the US, just in different ways. While someone would get in trouble for driving on the sidewalk, some other asshole will get off without even a slap on the wrist for committing even more heinous crimes (like our politicians and people with connections).
I wonder why the government or some group of citizens don't just install these yellow concrete posts at the spots where the road and sidewalk meet. Seriously it would end that shit so fast.
I think that government just don't give a shit. Really. I won't say they doing nothing at all, but sometimes it takes years when they finally fix something.
I hope then that the citizens living there will do it, because the drivers in the video have no concern for the pedestrians at all. Very scary!
Here's a question though, what will happen to the drivers shown in the film? Especially the woman who tries to run them over? I know here she would be facing charges. Probably at least assault possibly assault with a deadly weapon or more serious charges. Did anyone get into trouble with the police because of their actions?
For example the woman in this article jumped out and threatened another driver. She didn't actually physically harm her, but scared her and tried to run her off the road. Police arrested her and she's been charged with reckless endangerment, assault and battery, damaging private property, crossing the center highway line and making threats. It would make me feel so much better to know that the people in the video face some sort of prosecution!
Non-Russian here, what's the deal with smoking? Are you allowed smoke in public, because in the UK you can smoke outside no problem.
Yup. As far as I know you are not allowed to smoke in public. I cannot go into details just because I'm not a smoking person:)
Reminds me of America, people are so incredibly entitled here that it becomes the norm, and people seem to be physically incapable of self reflection, so they always assume they're in the right and everyone else is an asshole.
I understand..Sounds like some broken windows theory. Like, If everybody doing some shit, I don't care, I will do it too. Something like this..
One thing that upsets me is that this is a group sponsored and is a branch of Nashi. Which is sponsored by the government. I love what this branch is doing, but part of the reason is to make everything else the group is doing more okay.
Can you tell me what this means?
"your camera looks extra to you" "well, your car looks extra to you"
Is that a russian saying I have not heard before, or is it something that didn't translate well?
I read your comment in my head, in my best cold war accent. Also, is driving on sidewalks that common in mother Russia?
I wish I've said to you "of course not! we have only polite drivers" but...Yeah, its not so common but there a lot of douchebaggery on the roads. You can clearly see it all on stopxam videos.
Simple solution: Install bollards, so cars cannot fit.
http://imgur.com/QJAJzL1
If cost is too much, scrap metal and concrete can serve the same purpose.
True. We just need to wait for another ten years or so...when our government will see the problem and will try to fix it;)
Why not use these : http://student.yabangee.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Fixingpole_photo.jpg?
Probably because government is too busy stealing from a budget;)
They were pretty just. The ones who backed off nicely didn't get a sticker.
Yeah, but such people are minority.
I would believe it with dashcams being mandatory.
bring a weapon next time they try to run one of you over. They'll have nothing to complain to the police about.
What weapon? Possesion of firearm are illegal in Russia;)
like a bat to bash their windshield in? You could be out playing ball when "some idiot tried to run you all over"
+1
this one was also pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys
Holy fuck! How they got saved by randoms with an AK!
*edit: man they are serious about their sidewalk business! Get threatened with a pistol - respond "if you don't turn around I'm gonna put a sticker on your windshield"
HOLY SHIT! Fuck the AK, the guy at 2:17 pulls a fuckin gun on them and they simply do not back down. My holy god these guys have god damned titanium balls the size of Jupiter.
That gun guy is a fucking remorseless scumbag, acting all high and mighty until ooooooops the actual cops show up. Aww look at him being all sweet and gentle as a lamb, gee, he sure ain't pulling an act, no siree no sir.
looks like he's been crying lol
You would be too if you were just threatened with a trip to Siberia.
I learned how to say "You" in Russian thanks to this part of the video.
Best part: he used the formal you. Very respectful, all of the sudden.
In the US that guy would have gone to jail for threatening them like that. Right?
Felony brandishing, 5-10 years hard time.
That's what I was thinking. What about the death threat? Guy looks like he got away with at most a moving violation.
Actually apparently it's a misdemeanor in some states.
Yeah? Which ones? AFAIK brandishing a weapon in a threatening manner is a felony in all 50 states. This is different from accidental exposure of a CCW. Intent and the manner in which one reveals the weapon is taken into consideration.
I just googled "felony brandishing" and came up with Georgia: http://www.justanswer.com/law/0kr3u-brandishing-firearm-considered-misdemeanor.html
which led me to search for "brandishing a firearm by state" and apparently Virginia: https://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-282 It's a misdimeanor if not by a church, school, etc.
California: https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/calcrim/800/983.html
Washington: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41.270
And all of those are pretty clearly dealing with it being done in a threatening manner.
Which states do you know it to be a felony in?
I stand corrected then, thank you for the links!
Pretty sure that really anywhere else, that guy would've had the SWAT on his ass.
I actually found it quit satisfying to see him puss out once the cops arrived, directly after saying he doesn't give a damn about the cops.
"Do you know who I am?"
"No. Please back up off the sidewalk."
Made him eat a nice warm slice of humble pie. Delicious.
I know right? He should had smoked em all and drove off like a real G. Would had made an awesome unexpected thug life video.
Reminds me of AL the "innocent unarmed teens" being shot by cops..
Would've been pretty cool if he just popped them.
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Spam for one of the "women are evil" websites. He shills this shit all over /r/MensRights usually, trying to find anyone that agrees with him.
Holy shit that font had me loling all over the place
Trust me, high school might be hard for you right now, but it gets better.
My general view is that most assholes with a gun aren't actually prepared to shoot anyone. The ones who will shoot will generally pull, shoot and leave rather quickly if they are talking they don't want to fire it just use it to intimidate.
I agree, but holy shit I would be intimidated. Sure he's a small minded jerk, but he's a small minded jerk with an object that could kill me. No thanks!
The solution to this is to be terrible at fighting. I am pretty sure most people could beat the shit out of me and leave me for dead so I don't think a gun changes the situation that much. If anything it makes it better for me because at least it will be quick.
That's the spirit.
Small-minded jerks are the ones who would be the least likely to consider the consequences of killing a person when angered.
So yeah, those are the dudes you fear most.
A calculated killer would probably just follow you home and shoot you when no one is looking. An idiot might just shoot you on the spot.
i think what would've scared me the most was when he said ' do you know who you are fucking with' and 'i don't care about the police'. fortunately for them that was all just bluster but i should've been scared that he really was a rich mafia connected asshole who really could get away with just about anything. Or maybe he was but was convinced by the police that it just wasn't worth the hassle. But you are running the risk that he gets too hot headed and was connected as well.. eeek dangerous! even more good on them for standing their ground!
It's crazy because you can clearly see and hear him cocking the AK on the walk over to the other car.
I think he was referring mostly to the guy with the pistol they encounter at the end of the video.
The guy with the AK literally just tells them to get the fuck out of there, the car drives off. The guy with the pistol is constantly talking about killing and shooting those around his car, literally everything out of his mouth is about that.
The guy with the AK honestly seemed more willing to shoot than the guy with the pistol. The guy with the pistol was just trying to intimidate them.
That's an intimidation tactic.. Sort of like cocking a shotgun.. The sound alone scares people
Yea, any dude that puts his shotgun in the oven is bananas and they'd intimidate the shit out of me.
you i like.
Just like in the films, it's called the 'scare lever'. Doesn't matter how many times you've cocked it, be sure to cock it again for dramatic effect until you've emptied the mag.
anyone who cocks their weapon to intimidate has lost that battle. If you were prepared to use it, it would already have been loaded.
AK-47s have a real satisfying and easily recognizable sound when you rack the slide.
That all sounds very reasoned and logical but are you willing to test that theory with a complete stranger who you know nothing about or their frame of mind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYGRIGwR7Uo&t=43s
I read a story about a high-end repo man who steals planes back for banks. He said something to the effect of "If someone tells you to do something or they'll shoot, they're not going to shoot. That's your moment to disarm them."
Not a recommendation, but pretty badass confidence.
My Martial Arts teacher usually says that anyone who pulls a gun is willing to use it as the gun is triggered really quick (i.e. the way the trigger has to travel is quite low).
Yeah, once he started counting, threatening he'll shoot them once he gets to three, I seriously lol'd. When they start to do that you can bet your house they aren't prepared to take a life over something like this, merely just trying to scare you.
When my Grandpa taught me to shoot I received this invaluable lesson, if you pull a gun on someone kill them immediately. If your not killing someone don't pull it out.
Anyone who understands how a weapon will escalate a conflict would never draw any type of weapon without immediately using it.
Yah youre right most assholes waving around a weapon will not use it.
Indeed. Anyone who is waving around a gun as a threat is an idiot.
This is where I strongly advice to never press the issue to find out. Why play the reverse-lottery?
If only the same tracksuit AK guy showed up then.
I love how he is all "If you put a sticker on my car i will fucking shoot you" and "Fuck the police", until the cops actually showed. Then it was all "I think what you are doing is a great service to the community" and "I'll back up now, have a good day".
i kinda got the feeling that it might not be too uncommon, but i dont know. they seemed hella cool nonetheless
Russians
Just slavs being slavs..
"be a man if you are talking with a man" says the pansy fuck waving a pistol around
1) They have a camera. 2) Most people pull guns for intimidation factor. 3) There are way more of them than the one driver can handle, even with a gun.
Does not take away the fact that he could easily shoot and kill 1 or 2 of them before they take him down... You need to have some big balls to not even flinch when someone pulls this shit
Titanium balls you say?
Russians really don't fuck around...like at all.
pulls out gun "I'm going to shoot your fucking head off!"
"...not before I'm going to put this sticker on your car!"
Well, it is Russia
Well yeah, they're Russians man. They're kind of known for that.
I would be very afraid of it going off accidentally more than him actually shooting them, it was cocked and loaded, you can see the police pull the live bullet out of the gun.
Well, they do live in Russia.
I mean duh...they're Russian
It's a gas gun
what is a gas gun? I've heard of the term; but I don't know what it means.
It's like pepper spray but stronger.
I like how he keeps pulling the magazine out and shit to make it sound scary.
The cop looks like he's about to shoot his fingers off with the Makarov.
They clearly have had training for that situation. They also kinda cooled down the tactics a bit after that incident, only stickering if they try to run them over.
bullets are too expensive
The difference between courage and stupidity is what you are willing to die for, I would consider this as stupidity if they died trying to enforce traffic laws.
The guy doesn't get arrested for driving on a sidewalk then threatening people with a gun. All this on video for the police that show up too. Crazy Russia.
saved by randoms with AK? The AK track suit guy just shows up with no idea what's going on and scares off the minorities.
AK track suit guy
The everyday hero Russia deserves.
i'm betting my ass that Ak track suit guy showed up and served road justice because he saw a guy with a nice suit making problems by playing the "i'm an important person with tons of money, fuck off pleb"
AK track suit guy is no one to fuck wit
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We should all strive to be a little bit more like AK track suit guy.
You know, except for the AK and track suit.
Nothing wrong with a tracksuit; I'd rather that than an ill fitting suit that makes me look like Bashar Al-Assad...
I love you
he's a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything
Brandishes AK, Spetsnaz training, don't-give-a-fuck 80's tracksuit, Mirko Cro Cop physique...that man is like russian John McCain.
ГОПНИК-ГЕРОЙ!
awww yeah, I see a prime teachin oppo-tunity righta here!
ODB reborn!
This one has a night club owner who is basically a villain straight out of a movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Oh9CjHIUqVA
No, no they're not. https://40.media.tumblr.com/a3386d2fe783356363359a339e7afc23/tumblr_mp9su9L8If1rrmtkro1_400.jpg
man this is some nico bellic dope
This would make a great movie
The old dirty bastard of Russia
was he some kind of police? his car had a wail and yelp siren like the police
Russians typically have no love for the preliterate, as is tradition.
Dudes got nothing to lose, besides his AK, and his track suit.
Maybe AK track suit guy was just pissed suit guys were holding up traffic.
Clearly a Professional Russian.
I think you mean the everyday Russian.
If i ever see a Russian guy in a track suit walking fast toward me, I will be sprinting in the opposite direction.
How is this not a movie yet?
AKA "Random Hero"
But not the hero they need right now. Gotham will live another day.
minorities.
That's one way to put it. Dagestan mafia is another.
Bleh. Makes me glad I don't live in Russia.
I thought it was the Vulcan Mafia.
Clearly Romulan. Way too emotional.
Chechen, or Dagestani?
???
AK track suit guy showed up to go bowling with someone, and he's not taking no for an answer.
"Couuuuuuusin why you no want go bowling eh?"
Their car was partially blocking the road while sat partially on the pavement to be fair.
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Its a lot of chest inflation little follow through.
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Guys in car were probably not mobsters because they didn't pull any weapons but could be mob connected which explains the bravado. Guy with AK just looks like a truck driver
Hey nico! Lets go bowling!
"Boris here!" - * Red Alert 2*
You say it like it's a bad thing.
What sorta ethnicity do you think they were? 'Heavy Caucasian accent'? I dont get it...
Caucasus is an area in Eurasia between the Black and Caspian sea. The North of this area is controlled by Russia, while the South is part of various other countries. I assume that a Caucasian accent would denote that these guys are from that region, and presumably that is an ethnicity that some people don't like.
Thanks!!
So he wanted a reason to use his automatic Kalashnikov fucking 47
Figured he was pissed the front end of that car was holding up traffic.
Hahaha love the okay.jpg after the AK guy tells them to fuck off.
Where's the AK?? I missed it.
here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys#t=84
Definition of "popping the trunk" on their asses.
Thank you, I had missed that guy the first time through
I'd like to know exactly what happened to the guy at the end. He was pretty apologetic after the police showed up, haha. Wonder if they did end up fining him, or if the apology was in lieu of that.
Yes I watched it, I just can't make out an AK.
Exactly 1:27 in the video
haha thank you! I was watching the wrong scene like a putz.
Almost. Try this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys&t=84
It's like GTA in Russia. I guess GTA 4 was a documentary.
Somehow I think being saved by strangers with AKs is a pretty common occurrence in Russia.
Begging the question; was it a good day?
http://begthequestion.info/
Do you still tell people that "faggot" means "bundle"? Language evolves. :)
http://www.lawprose.org/blog/?p=2864
"Beg the question is now commonly used to mean (1) “to invite or raise another question; esp., an obvious one”; or (2) “to evade or ignore an issue.” Surprisingly, the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary recognizes only these contemporary senses:"
Language evolves yes, but you're using an example of one word meaning two different things, common throughout many languages. Begging the question isn't evolution in the sense of being natural, it's just something incorrect that people get lazy about, we shouldn't have such a lazy attitude towards it. It's like saying 'could care less'.
Language commonly evolves due to misunderstandings. The whole reason "one word meaning two different things" often happens is because the word is used incorrectly which is a part of semantic drift. I can even give you an example of one happening right now.
You may be familiar with "shredded" videos where people overdub bad playing over actual performances. This originally came from the St Sanders videos which had titles like "Santana Shreds", which was a reference to what he was doing on the guitar, "shredding" (which was slang for playing rapidly on the guitar). Over the past few years however, people have misunderstood this to mean the overdubbing that is done to the video and you now see videos title "Shredded", even though they often don't have any guitar playing.
For better or worse, the most common usage of "begs the question", isn't the logical fallacy. It doesn't matter what we "should" or "shouldn't" do as that's not how language evolves. Should "bootylicious" be a real word? People have decided that it should and academia has followed suit. Fifty years from now no one will care that begs the question "should" have meant something else, it will only mean what it means depending on how it is used.
Fifty years from now no one will care that begs the question "should" have meant something else
And the actual concept of "begging the question" will be defeated. There's a difference between reapplying the concept to new uses, broadening the definition, and ignoring the meaning and overriding it with a definition that can already be expressed fine (e.g. posing the question) This is the problem behind debates about what constitutes a theory. If people commonly misuse the word to mean hypothesis, then of course they'll get the wrong idea when they hear "theory of evolution" or "theory of gravity".
tl;dr: Extending a well known definition is fine, overriding it with a conflicting definition isn't!
The new evolved definition of the word 'literally' includes one meaning in which it is simply a synonym for 'figuratively'.
Another great example in my case, I believe. Do you find the redefinition of the word helps to convey either of the concepts better now?
People say "begs the question" when they mean "raises the question"
He didn't have to use it!
well, technically he didn't actually have to use his AK...
I saw the Goodyear blimp in the background.
As an American you could not pay me enough to be the guy who puts the sticker on angry russian cars. Why are they so fucking angry?
I watched that video. I don't see the guy with the AK.
Edit: NVM.
If there is anyone that loves guns more than Americans it's the Russians. So many videos with Russians pulling out guns.
Random cops who showed up, you hear the siren before you see track suit guy, and other guy in car has his face blured out.
That was like in Skyrim when you are getting your ass handed to you by a dragon and out of nowhere a bear runs up and started stomping the shit out of the dragon for you. Awesome (until you have to fight the bear, that is).
Hand guns are strictly controlled in Russia. The fact that the police showed up and the guy wasn't arrested suggests to me it was a less lethal pistol; some of them look like the real thing, and they shoot rubber pellets or pellets full of tear gas.
And with the AK, I thought I heard a siren. Could've been off duty or plains clothes coming over to see wtf was going on.
Russia, man, Russia...
Anyone know what the gun law is in Russia?
Wow. Both in that one and in this one the douchbag ends up giving a very "heartfelt" apology to the camera about how he would never do such a thing again. (Once the cops get there, that is.)
Is this a thing in Russia? Do the cops in Russia force you to give apologies, and they watch you to make sure you sound sincere and not sarcastic?
I think over-the-top apologies for cops are a thing everywhere there is police discretion.
Is this a thing in Russia? Do the cops in Russia force you to give apologies, and they watch you to make sure you sound sincere and not sarcastic?
I really doubt that's the implication. It seems blatantly obvious to me that these people are just changing their behavior in accordance to the authorities directly proximate influence. You don't think they'd continue acting the same when the cops got there, right? They know they were initially in the wrong in the first place, that's the entire reason they pull out guns and try to fight in the first place, because they can't admit their reluctance. They're forced to admit their reluctance as soon as the cops get there though, not because the cops make them, but because they have no other alternate form of behavior to resort to at that point.
That's an unusual use of the word reluctance. It usually doesn't connote open hostility.
Reluctance to chill?
Touché.
Reluctant to admit they were in the wrong, is what I meant. I basically could have conveyed the same meaning by saying they are in a certain state of denial.
According to an interview, they said they wouldn't press charges if the guy apologized on camera.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/11/russia-s-viral-stop-a-douchebag-fad.html
seriously this should be a thing and it should be used more often everywhere else lol.
It's not an apology if it's forced.
Nope, just humiliation.
Fair point.
You don't want to be in cuffs in russia. for the past 60 years police would clear out their 'John doe' cases (crimes not yet linked to a suspect) by arresting randoms or minor violations, tieing the case to said random by a thread and get them sentenced before anyone knows what happened. That's why everyone scatters when a wreck happens in all those dash cam videos we see out of russia. If the cops are headed your way you nope the hell out of there
Only if you can't afford to bribe the cop.
Is "777" on the licenseplate indicative of something special? The movement seem to pay extra attention video-wise to those.
Sounded like a threat in that apology.
I like the guy's comment at the end... "Don't drive on sidewalks, don't draw pistols or machine guns, and everything is going to be OK!" It comes across like a very hopeful vision of the future, with world peace and an end to suffering.
Similar comment in OP's video.
"I'll fucking kill you"
"Please don't do that; its punishable by law"
The slap of words that this guy gives is perfect.
Lmfao.. Their total sense of being able to be so calm in these situations is amazing. Lol
There's so many gems. Like when he's standing on top of the retaining wall so he's about 2 feet higher than the trespasser at the end. Fucking hilarious.
"What are you doing up there? Why are you standing like that?"
He's Batman
"I-It's only game. Why you heff to be mad?"
Agreed. I couldn't stop grinning after hearing that haha. Guy is awesome.
sounds more like germany....
Why are you standing so high? Do you mean I can't stand like this?
lol
I like how often they're told to get a job.
It's gut reaction. It's the same as seeing a meter maid give you a ticket; you made a mistake but you want to tell them to get a real job as if they are at fault.
Depends on location. Anyone working for the Philadelphia Parking Authority really should get a real job.
I cannot believe they made a reality show based on them. I'd fucking hate them too based off what I saw.
I think you're just an asshole, buddy. :P
I think its a Russian thing. I had Russian parents, I was getting yelled at about not having a job before I was a teen.
I'm waiting for the new wave of Russian immagrants to grow up and have "xtreme" american teens. "Back in my day we used to do pull up off skyscraper"
The brain really struggles to protect its ego when it doesn't have the intelligence to not care about certain things. If the brain cares enough, then that is just one of many ways it can manifest doing that, i.e. "Go get a job! Grow up! I'm not doing anything wrong, you're wrong! [neurotic overload]"
Unfortunately this is a form of intelligence, just intelligence used for sole survival, not necessarily intelligence used for productivity of the community/species.
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The guy ^waving ^a ^gun after driving on the sidewalk.
"OH, am I standing high? My mistake, I was not meaning to be up here."
Those fucking balls. They seriously look down the barrel of the gun, but still refuse those assholes to drive on the side walk.
seems like that this is a common thing there :D
Actually, firearms are extremely regulated in Russia. For the most part, you can only buy hunting rifles, and only if you have a hunting license... which is no easy feat to obtain
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What about rock, or scissors?
It's hard the believe. The guy cocks his gun and points it at them while shouting about shooting them. The cops show up and he is allowed to leave.
That is the part I don't understand
Russia
To be fair, that apology is pretty epic tho...
The dude probably had connections.
I'm guessing that it's not too hard to get an illegal Kalashnikov if you try though. In Albania they run about 200Eur.
200? Damn that's cheap for a black market weapon compared to america.
Depends on how hot it is.
Damn i forgot i even made this comment lol.
They are extremely regulated in Mexico too, yet, surprise surprise.... they are still incredibly common there too..
Well who would have thought that corrupt, incompetent governments don't do the best at enforcing their own laws.
A hunting license is extremely easy to obtain, unless you have a history of drug abuse and/or criminal proceedings against you.
Alcohol is a drug :P
im pretty sure driving on the sidewalk is regulated too.
laws/regulations only work when people care enough to follow them
Yet in this video a guy pulls an AK and another a handgun over traffic confrontations. I have never seen any such things in the US and it's easy as fuck to buy a gun here.
And yet the cops come, check his gun and he doesn't get arrested for fucking threatening to shoot people on camera.
Perhaps it was fake, a replica, or BB gun.
You think it matters if it's a fake gun when you threaten to kill someone? In case you didn't know, the answer is "No. It doesn't."
i think russia legalised handguns a few weeks ago.
Yet no one seems surprised by someone carrying a kalashnikov on the street.
They have some laws regulating them but in 2011 or something it was estimated Russian civilians had abput 12.75 million guns, and only 5million of them are registered according to this link (unkown how legit it is).
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/russia
Believe it or not, but laws only work on law abiding citizens...
Only Chechens come up with so many weapons, most of them are criminals or related to the mafia anyway.
To be fair it is highly probable that it is actually a pepper spray gun not loaded with real rounds. They are fairly common in Europe though i don't know about Russia.
if dashcam videos are anything to go by, i would have been far more worried if he pulled out a bat or hatchet. they seem to like to use those, while guns seem to just be displayed most of the time.
They seem to stand boldly with gun in in their face, but keep distance from guys with crowbar and knife.
Hahaha, no. Nobody uses pepper spray guns in Russia. Most likely it's "trumatic gun". Non-lethal weapon with reduced muzzle energy. Available for everyone here. And absolutely lethal of course at close range, especiallly if fired in the face.
It didn't seem that way from the sounds it made and how long it took him to load it. I don't think a pepper spray gun would have a slide like that, but I haven't ever seen a pepper spray gun that looks like a real pistol, so I may be wrong.
Unlikely. There is a far higher chance it is a single shot/double shot, small pistol. These are VERY common in Russia.
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He racks the slide when he pulls the pistol, so I don't think it's that type of gun.
Well nobody wants to be the one guy who gets shot.
That's why we always bring Mikey along. Nobody likes him anyway.
Poor Mikey.
Or a simple gas pistol that fires blanks. I've definitely seen more of those and to a lesser extent pepper spray guns compared to actual real guns on the street.
Not that there aren't a ton of real guns too, but ime they're outnumbered by the fakes. Generally, people just want to dissuade other people, not kill them.
Could also be that I don't go to the sketchier areas, because I'd rather not die, so it might just be a selection bias
Yeah just what i was saying, still not worth it fucking around.
The Scorpion type gas pistols that fire large ballbearings are still lethal. One of those in the face and you are probably dead. Nasty bits of kit, and tiny too. Very easy to conceal.
Yeah, like I said wasn't sure if that probability applied in Russia, but good to know. At least in germany if any one young pulls a gun on you half if not more of the time its one of the pepper spray ones, or is filled with blanks.
Still pretty ilegal doe* in most European Countries, anything resembling a gun must be properly tagged, for example, airsoft weaponry usually as Bright Red paint in the front of the gun, near to where the muzzle flash happens!
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Mate, stop assuming american laws apply everywhere, because they don't.
I was like "What the fuck is he talking about?".
They apply to where I live... Portugal..
Airsoft is a modern shooting sport. Airsoft guns themselves, are legal in many parts of the world, but not in all countries. Some countries have specific restrictions such as maximum muzzle energy, rules against using the trademarks of real firearms, and special marking requirements (such as bright orange barrel tips).
http://www.socomtactical.net/World-laws-of-airsoft.php
Take some more:
In addition, replicas have to be painted either in fluorescent yellow or fluorescent red and in compliance with the following criteria:
Long guns (≥ 60 cm)- 10 cm from the barrel tip and 100% of the stock.
Short guns (≤ 60 cm)- 5 cm from the barrel tip and 100% of the grip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_in_airsoft#Portugal
Also, stop assuming every one is American... And get your shit straight. FYI, pepper spray is also illegal in a lot of European countries.
I didn't say that US laws are exclusive to the US, just that they don't apply to the majority of the world.
This is what an airsoft gun looks like in Romania None of them have a brightly colored muzzle or any sort of identification as non-lethal weaponry. That is entirely up to personal expertise.
Same as in Canada: No brightly colored tip
non-lethal gas pistols much easier access to, but still Russian law will fuck you over its use (assymetric force)
Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhJ20Z4eB28
No it isn't. Guns are scary.
the gun was probably a non-lethal gas pistol since actual guns in Russia are very hard to have (legal) access to, not that there aren't any black market weapons besides of course the basics: security personnel, soldiers, hunters, etc (though the weapon would vary according to the license).
russians.
pointing a gun at an unarmed person means you're a fucking pussy and good for those dudes for calling him out. Funny how he changed his tune once the po-po showed up.
its the MAD principle, he knows that when he shoots one of them the others will rip him apart alive. oh, you can take out 2 or 3? thatll just make the remaining 5 even more mad, they will skin you alive.
worked in the cold war, works on a cold sidewalk.
His attitude changed when the cops showed up.
Link to where the action starts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys#t=143. Gun comes out about 10 seconds later.
The thing is he can shoot one of them but the others will be all over him in a second and he will lose badly. He hoped that just pulling a gun would work.
Not much balls when they're surrounded by traffic, cameras, other people to back them up, and cops on speed dial.
Balls is doing it alone.
Honestly, I'd be more scared to stand in front of the cars of these people.
Holy shit! That guy pulled a gun and they didn't even flinch. "im gonna count to three, 1... 2... 3..." ..... "this is awkward".
I wonder if he genuinely changed his stance at the end or if the police told him he had to apologise.
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Yeah can someone explain this? If there were reports of a man waving a gun around in America they'd practically send in the swat team. Is this just more common in Russia or what? Less strict gun laws in Russia apparently.
It's most probably not a firearm, i.e. it's a gas pistol or some bullshit self-defence stuff with rubber bullets or something. So they fall under different laws. And I'm pretty sure that guy still got fined "behind the scenes". You don't arrest people in America for acting up in public and traffic law violations either, do you?
And it's probably the activists' fault too. Since they refused to press charges about the threats that the douchebag said.
You don't arrest people in America for acting up in public and traffic law violations either, do you?
Actually yeah that does happen...
Not to mention pointing a gun, or something someone would reasonably perceive to be a gun, is freaking criminal assault.
Yeah that's something that kind of threw me off. Seems like in America if someone was caught on camera yelling at kids they're going to shoot them, and had a gun? I think they'd be pretty fucked legally.
Or dead.
If not shot immediately by police
Reasonably percieved to be a gun, like a cellphone, a stick, a bright orange and blue water pistol..
Or black hands.
Or a black dildo.
You forgot "wallet"
Oh boy, here we go...
A actual orange and a blue water bottle.
A bright orange, mind you
someone would reasonably perceive to be a gun
you mean like a poptart?
reasonably
Didn't Florida recently pass a law based on that case that made zero tolerance policies less ridiculous?
I was under the impression that assault is a threat, AND the immediate means to carry it out. He threatened to (try and) kick all their asses, which would fulfill those requirements, but doesn't him not having the immediate means to carry out the threat make it not assault?
Around here that person would likely be shot on sight if they had anything that looked like a gun.
If it happens to be in eyesight of a jumpy police officer you might just go to sleep for ever.
Hell, in America the cops might just f'ing kill you!
In Cleveland, you can just be walking down the sidewalk and get shot.^*
^(*You must be black)
dont start this
Our police already did. :(
He was white, though
^(Which reduces the chances)
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That might fall under reckless endangerment, wouldn't it? Which I am pretty sure you go to jail for. I could be wrong though.
Pointing anything resembling a gun will typically result in immediate execution by police.
Yea, but that's the difference. Since gun laws are more strict, chances that anyone can pull an actual gun are quite a bit smaller. So cops aren't as trigger happy, because the threat to the cop is also smaller
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But was that an actual AK? At least I couldn't tell.
But I guess the situation in Russia might be a little different from the part of Europe I'm more familiar with.
Not only does it happen, but can you imagine having a fucking gun out and about. Thats a serious risk of death
And if if you pull a gun in America, the chance of being shot increases a lot. The one with the pistol wouldn't have lasted a minute in parts of USA. Lots of citizens carry weapons. Legally allowed to use deadly force to protect 3rd party victims in some states. That level of douche baggyness can get a douche killed.
Psh, in 'Merica we arrest lawyers for lawyering at the courthouse.
and there's a pretty good chance the cops would have shot him too
You don't arrest people in America for acting up in public and traffic law violations either, do you?
Depends on the cop and the state but sometimes yes. You'd be surprised, I think. Definitely yes if the guy was supposedly waving a gun around and threatening to kill everyone. Even if the people didn't press charges he would still be arrested.
Well, i worded it poorly. Not "pressing charges"... they probably didn't even mention that he was threatening to kill them to begin with, so the cops didn't act on stuff they didn't know happened. That's a speculation though. It's just those guys give a totally chill vibe, and IMO they didn't want to escalate that.
And yeah, you can get detained in Russia too for acting up, it is not 100% enforceable in either countries. "Depends on the cop".
Any why would they not tell the cops? These guys just stood up to a fucking gun because the guy was breaking a minor law, you think they're not going to make sure he knows about the more major laws and adheres to them too?
Because they are promoting kindness, forgiveness and goodness and consider escalation of a (in their opinion) not a big conflict would be against their beliefs?
That's just a feeling i've got because they are WAY passive and super rarely resort to any action at all, except for blocking the road and putting up the stickers.
You must have missed the episode where a belligerent driver gets judo slammed onto the asphalt and limps away
Ohhh very true. I hadn't even thought of them not telling the officer that he pointed a gun at them. Very good point.
Yeah, stateside, even just a threat with a firearm will catch you some jail time.
Wave a fake gun around law enforcement in America and you are likely to get shot.
In the US, pointing a gun at someone, even if it is a fake gun, is assault with a deadly weapon and carries a mandatory minimum prison sentence in many states (for example, 3 years in Florida). He would absolutely have been arrested here.
It's the US. They can arrest you for anything even if a judge will throw it out, you still get locked up temporarily and nothing happens to them.
You can even arrest a lawyer for protecting her client's rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qhzdxYnwhg&feature=youtu.be&t=1s
Wtf did I just witness?
I'm from New Zealand, and pulling out anything that resembles a firearm (even if it isn't) and threatening someone will get the Armed Offender's Squad (NZ equivalent of SWAT) called.
They (stopxam activists) probably didn't say about the threats and assault, just about the gun. Guys seem way too chill.
The police would probably have killed the guy in America.
People get arrested for being drunk in public here. You don't even have to be acting that foolish. Some cops are cool, some aren't, but it definitely happens often enough.
Being drunk is a completely different law isn't it?
Its what we call a misdemeanor here. Take for example a kid in college. I'll even say this as a real world example. He steps on to the street from his porch with a drink in his hand. Campus cop sees him, tickets him for open container ie drinking alcohol outside in public. He goes to court, cop shows up, he's got a misdemeanor in a lot of states. If for example he wanted to join the Army in an intelligence field, he would now be disqualified. He would not be able to join the FBI as they require an absolutely clean record. America is pretty stupid as they are down to peg everybody with a criminal record. I heard Capitol One, a bank corporation requires a clean record. Sometimes this means no felonies, sometimes it means no misdemeanors.
People get arrested for standing on the sidewalk, if they look funny..
We have to keep our record for world's highest prison population somehow.
In America they shoot people for getting their driver licence when ordered to do so.
/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut
Threatening someone with something that can be perceived as a firearm is treated the same as if it were a real weapon.
HAHAHA, yes...you definitely do. You rarely see people driving on sidewalks in America or pulling out toy guns...cause you get shot if you do.
Yes you do get arrested for those things.
You don't arrest people in America for acting up in public and traffic law violations either, do you?
Not if they're black. We shoot them.
We arrest people for all sorts of things here. I've been arrested for jaywalking, and for just standing on a public sidewalk quietly holding a protest sign.
It varies from state to state and city to city, but in many places a toy gun is legally the same as a real one (that can even include pretending to have one).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_weapon#Laws
So? It's not like this is happening in the States.
You don't arrest people in America for acting up in public and traffic law violations either, do you?
Er, yes. Yes we do. All the time. In fact in some states if you speed just 20mph over the limit, it's enough to automatically be arrested on the spot for reckless driving.
If you acted anything like these drivers in America, you'd get arrested for attempted manslaughter at least. Those activists got hit/run over multiple times, and your vehicle is considered a deadly weapon when used to run over somebody... And that's not even mentioning the gun. If you pulled a gun like that and started waving it around, you'd get buried by the SWAT.
We would totally ticket or arrest anyone driving down a sidewalk in the US. That may contribute to why people never do that.....
't arrest people in America for acting up in public and traffic law violations either, do you?
No we murder them.
Yes America does arrest for threatening someone with a gun that looks real. Not really for traffic violations that don't involve criminally hurting or killing someone.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/cleveland-cops-recklessly-shot-boy-12-toy-gun/story?id=27402837
There's a story about a 12 ye old boy with a plastic bb pistol that looked real. He was waving it and pointing it at people so someone called the cops. The dispatcher never told the cops that it may be fake even though the caller said it may be. The cop drove up and shot him. Idk why anyone with even half a brain would drive up to someone you think has a gun and expect to be able to talk it out safely so the kid had no chance. There's a video of it it happened last year.
Watch this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrX3M3qJgJU&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DFrX3M3qJgJU&has_verified=1
The police let her go "because a child is having a fit". American police might have troubles but it's nothing compared to the Russians...
There is a reason all of our toy guns are covered in bright colors, so they don't look like a gun.
If it looks like a gun it is a gun in the US basically.
Err... all the time. Specifically if you're in a non-tolerant state racism wise.
No. We just kill them.
We most certainly do. Generally, if you're being unruly, you have about 2 minutes (this varies a lot depending on mood of officer, area, how unruly you are, your race, etc.) to calm the fuck down and walk away.
If someone was driving on the sidewalk they would most definitely be stopped. They would not be driving home. And depending on how they acted they would be going to jail.
Not a lot of gas pistols have clips. It looked real to me. More likely, he was son of a politician or cop.
Looked like a real Makarov to me.
You don't arrest people in America for acting up in public and traffic law violations either, do you?
Uh, if "acting up" consists of waving a gun around (real or fake) and telling people you're going to shoot them, then fuck yeah we do.
No, they just shoot them in the US.
In many states pulling out a fake gun is considered almost as bad as pulling out a real one.
Brandishing an airsoft or whatever is the same charge as with a firearm, at least in Canada.
Yeah, no. If you bring something out that looks like a gun, and say you're going to kill a group of people, you're getting arrested. Even if later it turns out it wasn't really a gun.
A child pointing a toy gun with an orange nozzle gets shot dead like *snap* that in america.
Guy had an umbrella bag slung over his shoulder at my school. Someone called the cops because "there is a shooter with a rifle!" They got an entire police tactical team out to it.
In Russia as you can see in many of the videos, they threaten a lot. Chest inflating to try and get the other to back down. Him admitting he was wrong and apologizing without any audible sarcasm killed his ego enough that he will probably think twice about it again. Prison in Russia is not a place for the faint hearted, while in America any average joe that doesn't cross the street correctly may be sent there.
If nothing happened, as nothing did why should someone be punished?
They probably said they would drop the charges if they could film an apology. The moment of seeing a total asshole cave in and admit he was wrong is worth more to the movement than having him forgotten about in a jail cell. Now, he is immortalized as a douchebag who has changed his ways due to their movement. It also shows they don't want to ruin anyone's lives, rather they just want people to act humanely. In other words, the Stop a Douchebag people are the ultimate good guys.
Don't forget the tank! We would send a SWAT team in a tank!
It's called common sense. It was pretty obvious at that point he was just being a douchebag, not actually planning to shoot anyone.
Because after the first shot, he would be hunted down and if necessary have his whole fucking house destroyed with everyone in it.
I disagree, some pulls a gun and points it at you, that is a threat. With or without intent to shoot there's a threat to your life. Common sense is not standing in front of a guy with a gun saying he is going to shoot you- it maybe brave, but not common sense.
They just don't need an entire platoon of guys dressed in combat gear to deal with one guy. At the end nothing happened so they let him go. I like the way the Russki cop dealt with the situation.
Might makes right. And in Russia, money makes might. Rich gun dude hands the cop a few large denomination bills and pretends it's all good, and the issue goes away.
not a real gun. rubber bullets at most, and he had all the papers, police checked his license to carry that as soon as they arrived, it's shown in the video
edit: sorry, misread waving as wearing.
"wearing a gun", or more commonly referred to as open carry, is legal in most US states. The cops will probably get called for someone with an AK47 or AR-15 on their backs, but the cops can't do that much if you aren't breaking the law. They won't arrest the open carrying citizen unless they do something illegal, and they definitely wont call SWAT
hey they are just more badass in russia
It is not common to see people waving guns around on the street in Russia.
Not necessarily true. In most states open cary is legal. You could walk down the street with a gun, and as long as the gun is legal, you are good to go. A license is only needed for concealed carry. But the country in which you are most likely to face a gun in a situation like this is most definitely the US. And does committing a traffic violation negate your right to self defense?
My guess: the group said they would tell the cop not to arrest him or press charges if he apologized on camera.
Here in the US a drone would have shot a hellfire up his ass.
If this is in the Caucasus (Southern Russia) then the cops are probably too afraid to deal with it. Could be someone in the Chechen Mafia, and it isn't worth fucking with them. The Mafia is very powerful in Chechnya and other regions south. Those motherfuckers drive around shooting in the air while pulling donuts. It's like the Wild West.
Guess they arent super hyper afraid of it in russia.
All I can think is that the gun propaganda is a little higher in America and Russia is maybe a little more desensitized to everyone carrying guns.
Guns are actually highly regulated in Russia and have less rights to them then we do in the U.S. Most guns in Russia for self defense shoot rubber bullets It is also possible it was a pepper spray gun as well, they are made to look like real firearms to scare off assailants. I believe the most a citizen can get is a hunting rifle, otherwise it's an illegally obtained weapon.
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You use lol like a punctuation mark. Have you ever noticed that? Any idea when it started, or why you do it (if you do it consciously)?
That acronym annoys me to no end, but I'm not trying to give you a hard time, just understand why...
Because I found the fact that the way law operates from nation to nation to be amusing in this situation. I think you may have a problem lol.....
But if you really need an answer then from a psychological stand point it would have began from msn messenger way back in the day. It is simply a way to apply a little bit of what our facial expressions and body language convey in real life. Txt is very bland without some kind of emoticon. I am very conscious of most all actions I take. I am a ridiculous human being.
If you are simply meaning the placement of lol before . then yes you have an issue. For an explanation of that I will just say I don't give a fuck.
Nope, was looking for the second part. Thanks!
Unless he was an undercover cop, in which case he'd get a commendation and a paid vacation.
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You're missing the circle jerk mate. Let me give you an outline so you can interact with the 'fedora-tippers'
All police are evil, black hating, nazis
America is an evil, black hating, power hungry state
Everything in America is disgraceful to the rest of the enlightened world
There you go. That's all you need. Just restate those in some form or another and you'll be best bronies with neckbeards in no time.
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That doesn't go far once you have pulled a gun on someone. Being white helps with suspicion...not so much when it is proven you done it.
They just let him off as if it was no big deal. What a fucking bizarre place.
Russia is nuts.
It's likely that the police were afraid, too.
One quick call by this guy's friend to a higher-up and all of the sudden, all of the bribes which the officer took (every policeman takes bribes; it's how they put food on the table) have become a problem.
This is how it works in Russia.
Americans overreact?
If he was black they might've just shot him first.
It wasn't a real gun. Hand guns in Russia are very strictly controlled. If he wasn't arrested it was likely a less-lethal pistol that shoots rubber or tear gas.
I'm just going to guess that these guys offered an ultimatum, to either apologize on camera, or they press charges. It happens in a couple of vids when the police are involved.
Well, amongst other things that people are going to say, it's a different place, with different people, with different mindsets, with different norms. The whole world isn't Americans, as it is sometimes hard to believe for some. It’s one of the reasons I personal really enjoy learning about culture in other places
Easy answer, the police are most likely paid to ignore these types of people, but since they can't arrest the guy and can't do nothing, they asked him to apologies and leave to make it easier. Honestly this type of behavior doesn't surprise me. Also it is not as easy to get a real gun here, so people often get gas pistols.
Seems like whatever the police did worked and nobody died, what's the problem? The American police way is to just kill anyone that might be a threat, clearly the American way is the absurd one.
What the fuck do you know about what the consequences were?
neither can i. i mean if someone here would pull a butterknife the whole town would know it the next day and there'd be an uproar.
on the other hand, my country isn't more or less openly invading ukraine and hasn't an openly homophobic soviet style president
No way he changed his mind. All that changed is that he lost his gun!
It looked like he was about to cry; I got a little justice boner.
What do you think? Of course he didn't.
It's pretty clear he dropped the act so that the police wouldn't take him for being belligerent. I highly doubt his punishment was "go apologize" rather his entire demeanor altered on their arrival.
Yes, but he didn't genuinely change his stance. Just superficially.
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I am actually surprised he did not leave on the back seat of the cop car.
Here if I would start point at people with something that looks 99% like a gun, I would get arrested.
I wonder if he genuinely changed his stance at the end or if the police told him he had to apologise.
I'm almost certain it was the latter to try to calm down the police. Would be interesting to know if these guys showed the police the footage ("Move out of my way or I'll shoot you") whilst they were all there too.
He's just a pussy with a gun, take the gun and all he is is fucked.
Check out the other videos they got, holy crap they are putting up with a lot.
One of the girls rides almost a 100m on the front of a car, filming mind you and keeping the shot steady. Also, lots of justice porn with the police showing up and arresting the idiots.
Pretty awesome. These dudes don't seem to be intimidated by shit. I can get behind the whole activist thing, but if somebody pulled a gun I'd probably step aside. I love that they just keep composure the entire time.
Also love when the dude taunts them and says they better think about who they're messing with, and somebody casually goes "Who are you?"
Working in a.. shady area, you kind of learn that there exist power in groups. A single individual is less likely to cause trouble, the bigger the group is, unless they already planned an execution
It also doesn't hurt with you are part of the bigger group
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Upvote for posting videos better than all the rest!
Great post. I agree, nice descriptions. What the FUCK happened at 1:22 on the last video
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Ah, I was just surprised by the sudden Lesbian Makeout.
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Buried, but at 1:24 exactly I'm positive the lady with the short black hair kisses the older redhead.
When you finally meet your soulmate everything else is secondary.
There should be many more of these "real superheroes". These guys, that guy that followed people to make sure they pick up their dog's poop, etc.
The only way to deal with douchebags is to tell them that they're douchebags (often people just don't realize it) and that you're not going to stand by and let them.
if there's one thing the internet has taught me about russia, it's that they give wayyyy fewer fucks than the rest of the world
Lmfao I found that hilarous these douchebags think they are fucken gods that everyone is suppose to know and these guys just fuck with their ego like who are you?
That video had my heart pumping. How the fuck do they know that he wasn't gonna shoot? It looked like he was trying to start some kind of physical altercation so that he could "defend" himself. I bet you that if there was only one of them there, he'd have gotten gunned down.
I bet you that if there was only one of them there, he'd have gotten gunned down.
Perhaps. But that's probably one of the many reasons why they do it in groups, sometimes in large groups. They think about the risk and they account for it.
The guy seemed genuinely apologetic at the end, like he knew he'd been fucked, and just crumbled completely.
I can only hazard a guess that he would never have followed through with it. He threatened to shoot them in their legs, so it's not like he wanted to kill anybody to begin with.
Although I agree with you that he wouldn't have shot anybody, I don't think that was a sincere apology. He was acting, just like he was doing with the gun.
WHAT?! I'LL SHOOT YOU IN THE LEGS!
On the side of a road in full view of a dozen people?
This is 10X more satisfying then world star.
More satisfying than what?
I could never live in Russia. This guy pulls out a pistol threatening to shoot them and they're stonewall. I'd be a pussy and be like, "Oh shit! Yes sir, do whatever you would like."
Why with that many people around the guy with a gun would have to kill them all, and destroy the cameras memory card. And when I say all I mean all the pedestrians and people nearby in traffic. Basically it's an empty threat of intimidation.
Just because he couldn't get away with it wouldn't help me when I'm dead
Sometimes fighting for what you believe in is worth your life. You only have one life to live might as well die fighting for something than nothing.
I get your point, but I think your cause should be noble. "He was a martyr for the proper enforcement of City of Moscow traffic regulation a(72)-b" isn't exactly an amazing thing to put on your gravestone.
I think they're doing something a little more noble than enforcing city code. They're shaming people who think the rules don't apply to them. I would love for them to do this on the southern California freeways where people are just as douchey... Maybe not worth dying for, but I'd appreciate them teaching the ass hole that using the breakdown lane as your personal road makes you look like a huge prick.
I agree wholeheartedly they're doing a good deed, I admit I was exacerbating the triviality of their work for the purposes of the joke, but yes, certainly not worth dying for. I mean "died shaming selfish dicks" isn't much better.
Life is too precious in america. If live were cheaper, more justice could be done. Today it is about traffic violations, tomorrow it will be about freedom, justice and peace.
"Man dies preventing reckless drivers from killing innocent pedestrians."
There was no immediate threat to any pedestrians, and at the speed they were going at they wouldn't kill anyone. Indeed, the argument they make to the drivers in the video is more that it is unfairly inconveniencing pedestrians who have to move to avoid some twat taking up most of the pavement when there's a road to use. It's also unfair on the law abiding drivers who are waiting in traffic. It's obviously a dick move but if anyone died over it it would most likely be attributed to road rage rather than sacrifice for a great cause.
Except in several of their videos you see these drivers running people over, almost running over a kid on a bike (then dad runs up and starts punching the driver), running over feet, chasing people down the street punching, kicking, pointing guns, tackling.
I would say that if someone of the mindset that allows them to justify these actions were driving down a sidewalk, they could indeed be perceived as a threat to pedestrians.
When we say running over, do you mean at speed? Or pushing them out the way with their cars? Not saying that pushing them out of the way is ok, but still, I don't think it's worth getting yourself killed to prevent a few bruises. If someone pointed a gun at me I sure as shit wouldn't say "No, you can't go past, you might run over someones foot, you're just going to have to shoot me". I would probably key their car as they went past though...
I've only watched a few, most of the time it's not at speed, although there was one time where a lady took off really fast with a guy on the hood.
Hey, I wouldn't stand up to a guy with a gun either, I have responsibilities in this life. But if these guys are okay with standing up to it (and they obviously are) then more power to them IMO.
If I have a choice between living out the rest of my natural life experiencing all life has to offer, and dying because some dude with a gun was driving on the sidewalk...
Sometimes fighting for what you believe in is worth your life
defending sidewalks
Yeah, but you're banking that the guy isn't batshit crazy, and the cost of losing that bet is ending up dead. Pretty risky if you ask me.
I learned my lesson about that from just flipping another driver off.
I was going the speed limit (45 MPH) in a relatively empty two-lane stretch, with a third, turning, lane on the left coming up. I'm about to go into the turning lane when a dude comes up behind me, practically right on my bumper, and it seems like an easy fix for everyone for me to just get over since the lane was just then enterable.
Flip on my turn signal, start to move into it, and the dude gets fed up, zooms into the turning lane and just stays there, matching my speed even when I start to slow to just try to get behind him, and he does just until I can no longer get in to turn, and then pulls ahead of me.
I'm pissed, I flip him off. He didn't like that at all.
His brakes slam, I have to brake and get over to the right to avoid hitting him, and then I go past him a little, he pulls up next to me again and start screaming out the window and then starts to try to run me off the road.
I was in a heavy van, he was in a little car (like a Metro or Geo or something), but I had my girlfriend, her little sister (12) and nephews (8 and 3), in the car, so I wasn't going to risk harm to them by getting into it with this guy. I kept trying to avoid him by slowing down, speeding up, doing whatever I could to keep distance between us, but he kept at it for about 2 miles.
Managed to get ahead of him, spotted a cop down a road, pulled in, got him to roll down his window and explained the situation (omitting the finger, of course), and he went off to pull the dude over.
Scary stuff when someone turns out batshit crazy. I don't flip off drivers anymore and I certainly would think twice about antagonizing someone with a gun.
Funnily enough, saw the dude again once while coming out of some place. He was stopped at a light, I was going the other direction, and he recognized me. I noticed in those couple of seconds, his jaw dropped a little and he put on this death glare, watching me go by.
And nobody in car recorded it? That is how you get people to get repercussions.
I live in Oakland, California this the way I have think when a gun gets involved.
Some people are BATSHITCRAZY!
He does not look like he cares if they recognize him or not.
Maybe but sometimes you just have make sure he is aware of the full depth of his situation.
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Yeah but the license plate number is a give away. Trust me people in my town shoot without thinking all the time. But they only tend to shoot out of stolen cars. People in stolen cars drive exactly like you would think. When you see one you make sure you don't get noticed.
That assumes the driver is a rational actor and can foresee the necessary consequences of the path he's on. But dude's driving on the sidewalk; that's how the thing started. So I wouldn't bet my life on it.
What if he's mentally unstable and doesn't care?
Yep. He would get swarmed as soon as the first bullet flies. And if it hits anyone, then chances are he'll get life-threatening injuries.
Some people don't think that far ahead. Even if I have 5 friends with me, I would not like to be in a situation where there's a 1 out of five chances of getting shot by some crazies.
There are plenty of stupid/crazy people out there though. If you're pulling a gun on a crowd of people in the first place, chances are you're stupid enough to use it too.
They probably knew he doesn't have the balls to kill someone on camera.
I doubt he has the balls to murder someone. Period.
I wouldn't risk that bet for karma points much less my life.
that's not being pussy, it's being sane person
They got his license plate on video. He had no other choice than to just fake it.
Thing is though, the only things you see from Russia are the ridiculous things. It's not really that extreme. Plus there were like 10 guys.. there's no way he was going to shoot them, it was an empty threat
It's cold weather and heavy clothing, that one gun probably wouldn't be able to kill them all before they beat him to death.
Up to you; personally I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I backed down like a coward when someone else made a threat and was in the wrong... or so I'd like to think anyways.
and i thought you were going to complain about the cold
If I may ask, why are they making a big deal out of him having an accent?
I think they mention it twice in this video
organized crime apparently
If I understood, I think they might have said ukrainian accent... I'm guessing it's very similar to a white person getting mad at mexican, ariab, asian, etc... for not speaking english in the US or europeans getting mad at gypsies and north africans but I'm not really sure. It's only a guess. Maybe they look down on them because they aren't pure russian. I come for clarification too.
Massive respect to them for standing their ground even when some tool threatens them with a weapon.
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Some people are just "angry at the world" and want to use every opportunity to create fights.
Thanks
I like how the guy with the pistol was all like "fuck the police" but yet when the cops showed up he flipped a switch... made me think of how many people can talk big but have no follow through. These guys that are stopping shit like this are awesome! I wish there was a crew here in my neighborhood doing the same thing for dumping violations at our complex's garbage dumpster
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In Russia, being a Caucasian does not equal to the American definition of being "white". Being a Caucasian means that you're from the Caucasus area including places like Chechniya, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, etc.
Out of curiosity, when it says "speaking with a heavy caucasian accent" does it just mean Russian is not the guy's first language, or is there something else being noted?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus
Russia is scary, holy fuck was that guy holding an AK? And that other guy a pistol? What the fuck is goign on...
Fuuuuuck.
I never knew Russians were so in to trap.
god damn. the side walk in question in OP's link looks like it could be mistaken for a small road, i get that.. but this link these clearly sidewalks not intended for a car and yet these people have the fucking audacity to drive their cars on them?! wtf is wrong with people in russia?
I thought concealed carry was illegal in Russia? How come this guy didn't get arrested?
I couldn't stop laughing at how pissed he was at the guy standing higher than him. He looked like an adult watching a child throw a tantrum.
That hypocrite.
Those guys are so goddamned polite in the face of such douchebaggery. It's really inspiring.
Jeez these guys have balls of steel.
Maybe the problem is that they just use asphalt to make sidewalks, so that it looks like it might be a road? There don't even appear to be obvious signs at the end that would tell you not to enter there.
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What's the deal with them liking the accent.
TIL speak with an accent in Russia. Shit will be better for you.
Guy gets out of the back does all the talking and muscle gets out afterwards.
This is the guy that would scare me the most (other than the guy taking a walk with an AK-47).
Wow this is great haha
Wow! Thanks man. I was thinking that it was Russia and nobody pulled a gun on them? Those guys are the best, if they could change things in this country that would be awesome.
-"You better think who you are messing with!"
-"And who are you?"
-"... don't push it!"
Lol little kid ain't nobody.
Can someone who understands Russian gun laws explain whether the guy with the handgun or the guy with the Ak were legally OK to do so?? I was under the impression that Russian gun laws were very restrictive
It takes a lot for me to subscribe to a new channel. This video just did it for me.
Where was AK-47 man when the dude whipped out a pistol while driving on the sidewalk?
Also, WTF Russia? How is it even possible that sentence wasn't about a bad action movie?
Why are you standing so high?
Awesome!
That guy has his pistol in a fanny pack hahah
Anyone know the song? I am in love with it!
How do you know which ones have subtitles in english?
What's the name of the song?
The balls on them. Jesus
This is going to sound really dumb but up until these videos I thought everyone but america had the driver on the right side and america was just the odd man out. Suddenly I learn this isn't true.
It's absolutely mental!!! I watched with such intensity I chewed off half my thumb. Russians give absolutely no fucks
Oh shit, the one where the guy pulls the handgun and claims he is gonna shoot them, and then ends up appologizing and backing out is awesome.
What's the significance behind the "Caucasian accent"?
Serious Justice porn
Russian roulette: ~~Street~~ sidewalk edition.
Anyone know what the song is?
edit: it's some heavier remix of "Get Free", but not the drum and bass remix that Shazam thinks it is.
Anyone know the name of the song they keep playing?
These guys are among my "Most Admired People" now that I've seen this. I hope that it grows in popularity as a method of protection for these individuals. If they get well-known and admired, as they should be, any action against them will lead to popular violence against the perpetrators. Its sad to say, but we need vigilante justice - even if it is simply posting stickers and videos.
To stay that calm with a loon waving a gun is conviction and craziness combined.
Go to episode 16. They stop a car, the windows go down, and one pissed off father who sidewalk car passed just beats the shit out of the driver for driving near his son on a bike.
These videos are beautiful.
Unreal..... You got a gun in my face.... I have seen that before
What a fake piece of trash, the second the police show up his attitude completely changes
Mmm the ending gave me a raging justice boner
Just when I thought it couldn't get more Russian.
I love how all of the rich fucking assholes who literally have no job besides being friends with someone in power say "go get a job". Notice there's almost no-one in what would be considered a "normal" car driving down the sidewalk thinking they're above the law telling people to "get a job"...
Catchy ass song. Anyone got an ID on it?
Here's a great one too. Not only is the guy here being a douchebag, you can also see that he takes his time to review his decisions, and still decides he doesn't want to move. That's some next level douche-baggery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2_QQ-9xtE
These guys have some brass balls, man. And it's ridiculous how people will argue for the longest time when if they just backed up they could have been on their way already.
That one additionally shows how little respect the people have for their community. Not only do they drive on the sidewalks, but in the process of backing out onto the streets, they just tear up the greenery, spinning tires on the grass/mud next to the sidewalk. It makes me think about how nice walkways and medians look around where I live because no one runs all over them and tears them up.
This one is the most satisfying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFNC_ka5Xw
hahahaha wtf a random guy just turns up with an AK47, what the fuck russia?!
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I've heard Japanese spoken with an American accent. It's notably different from Japanese spoken with a Japanese accent.
What's weird to me is that people like you exist, who don't know that all languages can have accents
Caucasians have huge noses
I love my home country... people don't fuck around ahahaha
Why aren't there bollards at the entrances to these paths? Simple solution.
Watch the other videos by them as well. A lot of them just jump the curb and then go down the sidewalk.
Where the fuck are the police then? This seems like a pervasive enough issue for them to know about it and do something. I thought police busting heads was one of the things Russia actually excels at.
Money is more powerful than law in Russia. Notice all of those nice cars driving down those roads. 99% of Russians cannot afford those cars. So, they feel they are above the law and sometimes are.
As far as the cops, they are too busy busting stupid things as opposed to enforcing road laws.
So we should expect these guys to be assassinated?
No, because they are a PR group founded from the "Nashi" youth movement funded by Putin.
They have the biggest "roof" in Russia - the Kremlin.
Edited to add Souce:
Nashi Movement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashi_%28youth_movement%29
Стопхам: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC
Google translate:
The project was founded in 2010 as one of the federal programs for our youth movement that existed in the project "NASHI-2.0", under the direction of motion of Commissioner Dmitry Chugunova. In July of the same year exist within the youth movement "Steel" project was first presented at the forum Seliger and verbally approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Rashid Nurgaliyev [2] [3].
Sources linked on wiki: http://www.lentacom.ru/news/15759.html
The sad part is that they support the government that creates a situation where rude fuckers get to drive over people in expensive cars, while the middle class is shrinking and it's very difficult to run a small business that isn't related to an oil/gas company or the government.
These clips are amazing to watch until you realize they are a distraction from building an actual civil society.
youth movement funded by Putin
This is a very scary sounding term.
Putin youth.
I Putin work.
Putin on the ritz.
Jello Putin Pops
I think you are missing the link here.
Pouth.
Slightly more scary.
It's a common joke here to call them Putin Jugend.
Put in youth.
The last to hit the battle field
Why are you reading and commenting on 5 month old threads? Also, hello.
Cause thats what I do at 1am. Hello also.
AAAHHHH !!!
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1646809_1416353,00.html
Indoctrination is the best tool of a functioning autocrat!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/04/putin-youth-conversation
http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2012/02/hackers-and-kremlin
Many of the messages over the past year appear to be from the head of the Federal Youth Agency Vassily Yakemenko and its spokeswoman Kristina Potupchik.
They are shown directing journalists and bloggers to extol Putin's popularity and attack his critics. The emails describe price lists and payments and discuss tactics such as filing hundreds of comments on Websites and creating a video cartoon comparing Navalny to Hitler.
Why ask uncomfortable questions or work to actually improve things in your country, when you can just be a paid bootlicker for comrade Putin? Their choice is understandable.
Indoctrination is the best tool of a functioning autocrat!
They pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and TO THE REPUBLIC for which it stands, One nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.
They pledge allegiance to the IDEAL, not the Man.
http://youtu.be/TZBTyTWOZCM?t=1m7s
Meh. Making any child pledge allegiance which they don't understand is indoctrination.
Just like any morality lesson taught by our parents and teachers. First we learn the words, then we learn the meaning.
They say the pledge to learn the basic principles of their community, the ideals they should strive for - Liberty and Justice for All.
It doesn't always work, but it sure beats idolizing any individual autocrat.
It doesn't always work, but it sure beats idolizing any individual autocrat.
Yeah, I agree. Even better would be to not do it at all, just like most of Europe doesn't do it.
It's indoctrination, the same way the Deutschlandlied, Germany's current and former national anthem, is. I mean, the (now banned) first stanza starts off by proclaiming Germany "[to be] above all else". State sanctioned, and especially politically afiliated youth groups like this one are more on par with the Hitler-youth.
Edit: punctuation
"Freedom is everybody's job" What a great quote.
Little Putin Urban Achievers
It is a scary term. Front page on the NY Times when he first started forming his Putin youth brigades. He started doing this (I believe, may be mistaken) right around when he banned international adoptions from Russia. Of course, this is when everyone was making jokes about how charismatic and manly he was, so any opinion or argument contrary to that was buried. And then he invaded Ukraine.
Putin jugend
Scarier when you look at what the word "steel" is in Russian
Putin youth to work
Nashi sounds like Nazi
So this IS Russia's solution. (re: Where are the police then).
Amazingly enough I read about the Nashi youth movement (sometimes called Putin-Jugend) today for the first time. It was in a Swedish news article about "They are Putins soldiers on the web" about 250 people who work in St. Petersburg by promoting Putin and his government both inside Russia and outside on the web, using blogs and comments on newspaper articles etc. This company in St. Petersburg which did all this was closely linked to the Nashi youth movement.
That puts a bit of a damper on the whole thing.
Don't most major political parties have a youth arm?
I can't say as I don't really have any experience with political activism. My issue mainly has to do with who the leader of that political party is.
Fair enough. Figured it was more affiliated with Putin's party than with the man himself, but that's me talking out my ass.
Lol not in my country no.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Youth
This comment should be higher. Most people don't realize that they are actually supported by Putin's men and that is kind of videos are more of a symptom of civil society breakdown than a solution to the inherent problem
Sourrrrrrce
Nashi Movement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashi_%28youth_movement%29
Стопхам: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC
Google translate:
The project was founded in 2010 as one of the federal programs for our youth movement that existed in the project "NASHI-2.0", under the direction of motion of Commissioner Dmitry Chugunova. In July of the same year exist within the youth movement "Steel" project was first presented at the forum Seliger and verbally approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Rashid Nurgaliyev [2] [3].
Sources linked on wiki:
http://www.lentacom.ru/news/15759.html
Sorry, you would need google translate again...
Actual problem is that Moscow has an overloaded transport system and terrible parking.
Two consecutive mayors come from Kremlin cronies / United Russia and are too busy making bank on Government contracts and other forms of corruption.
The obvious solution would be to elect someone different who is not linked to Putin/Kremlin.
When such a candidate was running against current mayor Sobyanin in 2014, the same people from the Nashi movement worked to support the mayor and prevent a change in government.
So on the one hand they make these wonderful clips that rightfully punish the rude and egotistical elitists from Moscow, and on the other hand they are supported by the very system that creates this environment.
Well fuck me sideways and call me Sally..
You're probably just a NATO shill, everything good in Russia must be bad. /s
Really interesting perspective on this, thanks.
i aint gona stop a murderer from picking up the trash. sometimes bad people do good things regardless of motivation. imo a good person is some one who does "good" a bad person the other way. so if a bad person does enough good things don't they become good? one good thing is not enough but i don't understand why we criticize good deeds like this just because the person doing the good deed is a bad person [talking about putan]
Because they replace actual solutions.
Last year they had the opportunity to support an opposition candidate during the Mayoral election. They could have supported the start of an actual change - advocated for better parking and transportation.
Instead they supported corruption.
Their good deeds are nothing more than entertainment - they do nothing to block entry into that sidewalk they keep filing, or changing the system where rude fuckers get illegally enriched.
If true, that is sketchy as fuck. Do you have a source?
Yeah, I showed the source in other comments but I'll just edit it in now I guess.
Wait... As in the leader of Russia... Ok, well I wonder how many of these drivers are still around and haven't been kidnapped o.O
Scary when you think America isn't too different
America's problems are on a different scale - it risks eventually devolving into the same state as Russia, if people fail to wrestle control back from corporations.
It's quite different right now though, so whataboutism doesn't really apply.
It seems like the general attitude of the drivers is "Fuck you, fuck everyone, i'm just trying to live my life." - Isn't this the American way? It seems like that distraction is working everywhere, not just russia.
No, it's not the American way. I'm getting tired of answering the same "what about?" response, the false accusation of hypocrisy.
Both the scale of the problem and society's response is much different.
Russia is near the bottom of the list in the corruption index. This is reflected in the health of society.
The philosophy of individualism is what i'm talking about here.
In America you can sue your doctor, and people do that all the time. Nothing is ever your fault, it's always someone else's. Just because you have been more successful economically, doesn't mean you have the moral high ground. These videos show the vast majority of people driving on the road(why else would people need to drive on the footpath?)
On top of that, these guys, although they make compelling videos, are basically being assholes themselves. They often end up fighting people, they ride cars down the road just to prove a point, and they work for Putin!! They are mostly pissing people off and getting their justice boners going. I really don't think they have saved many lives. Russia is a completely different culture to the USA, it has a vastly different history and life is much harder than anyone has it in the US. Having said that. I'm not an American. I have never been there, and i actually think the US constitution is probably the best attempt there has ever been at setting up a country.
I think the problem is in the constant attempts to set us against each other instead of working together. Every time i see a story that pits average people against average people i lament the loss of headway in facing the massive corporate and social injustice that pervades all aspects of our lives. I don't want to live in a monoculture at the whim of billionaires and politicians, i want people to feel free and happy about their neighbours. That's not going to happen if we find every opportunity to pick the crap out of each other. P.S. You shouldn't drive on the pavement, it's rude.
It is just a matter of time.
99% of Russians cannot afford those cars.
plz
source I am Russian.
Yeah, I threw some number out that was obviously high. But, it does not change what the average Russian salary is compared to most of Europe. Nor does it change that a very large majority of Russians will not be able to afford a Mercedes or BMW.
Your average Indian citizen makes more money than your average Russian.
I would love to see a source for that.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/putins-way/inequality-and-the-putin-economy-inside-the-numbers/
The video explains it pretty well too.
Cool.
What video are you talking about though?
Do you live in Russia?
No, but know enough people that do and have been there multiple times. I am no expert, but it is not that hard to know that about Russia.
I'll allow it
For a moment I though I was looking drivers in Mexico. They are exactly the same and for the same reasons.
But, they are on tequila there as opposed to vodka.
This is the same country where rich people put police lights on their vehicles to allow them to drive through traffic faster.
Clearly, money does not equal power there, right?
Even the freakin spokesman for the internal affairs ministry thought he was above the law. But Im thinking that perhaps there is not so much heavy implementation of these sidewalk laws in russia? Am I right?
Money is more powerful than law in Russia.
In every country to various degrees.
The question was where are the cops. The wealth of the driver doesn't have anything to do with it.
Also because tickets are cheap
I was surprised at how nice the cars were too. But the cars driving on the road were just as nice. If 99% of Russians can't afford nice cars, then why are at least half the cars we see in these videos nice?
At first I thought it was because they were filming in a rich area. But after watching 16 of these videos (yes), it looks like the quality of cars in Russia is about the same as every other European country. The vain people drive German cars, the penny-pinchers drive Hyundais, and there aren't too many bangers.
But what impressed me more than that was how many drivers accepted their mistake politely and moved on.
For years Reddit has been telling me that Russians are poor, alcoholic, violent etc. But I was impressed by these videos.
so, wouldn't busting people in nice cars be more profitable since money is what they're after?
in Russia
United States isn't spelled R-U-S-S-I-A Silly /u/defroach84
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Edgier than me and I've been edging for 12 hours straight.
I wish I had that self control.
Thanks! I really should go back into lurking. People seem to hate me here.
https://imgur.com/zxcusLr
Also, Russia has zero money right now, so I would imagine funding is low.
Which means these guys have even bigger balls than I originally thought. A load of these are probably gangsters or their relatives.
Watch the other video where the guy in the suit and black Audi(?) gets into it with them. Then the random guy with an AK shows and they quickly leave.
My money is on the guy in the Audi is into some questionable things and is not used to have anyone stand up to him.
I don't think that's it. There were shitty cars, too. And your cop comment was pretty ignorant.
notice its the "rich" douches that fight them and try to run them over, the ones with the "shitty cars" that back off no questions asked
From what I understand and have seen his comment is pretty accurate. Have you ever seen a Russian graveyard? Not all of them but some have shrines to the mafia leaders that are quite comical and absurd. Russia is becoming more balanced and this is the result. Cops do take their jobs seriously over there, but money rules all. I'm sure if sidewalk driving has become commonplace so much so that these young men are willing to get ran over for it, then that is exactly what happened in some cases. Russian road rage is a thing.
Oh I agree, cops there are busy doing other things (should not have said doing stupid things). But, a lot of these more petty road crimes go unnoticed.
Sigh, I comment on something where the poster agrees with me and I'm downvoted to hell.
Such is the way of reddit.
Involving police works in interesting ways. Back in Lithuania (we also have similar problems, but it's not as bad as in this video) I used to call police almost daily because of tens of cars parked on cycling path. They would come and block wheels of those cars, collect fines. Not that bad you'd think. But eventually city has figured out a better way. Cycle path was moved from street to pedestrian sidewalk (so less space for both cyclists and pedestrians, shit separation, small kids running around, etc) and made that part of street paid parking... Fuck.
Also, it used to be possible to send a picture via email of a car parked on bike lane. Again... Only small part of these drivers would get fined, but if you wanted to dispute you'd have to go to police station, so wasted time, etc. Kind of worked. ...Before police decided that email is not good and then started asking for photos to be delivered on cdrom to their department + your testimony on paper.. Shit.
Sometimes in their videos police stop them. They always act nice after for the camera after they get a ticket. It's hilarious.
Wait, the police stop the guys stopping people from driving on the sidewalk?
No. The douche bag drivers.
Was in Moscow and St. Petersburg last year and some guys in their 30's (if I generalize) are really shitty when it comes to queuing. Saw a Spanish family father get so pissed off at so many skipping the huge (and otherwise well formed) queue to the Kreml and he went up to the guards armed with assault rifles to yell at them for letting people skip queue, then he stood himself to block people (just like this video) from entering. Always wish I would've told him what he did was cool later when I saw him inside the Kreml in a museum, but I didn't.
They do have a video where a guy pulls a handgun. The police force him to apologize and get off the sidewalk.
LOL, reddit, thinking police have the power to stop this.
Too busy arresting people for gay propaganda I guess.
I think you meant, "police not caring unless there is a bribe involved".
Would be a GREAT way to legitimately get the police ticket quotas in. Two cops set up shop there and BAM!
I thought police busting heads was one of the things Russia actually excels at.
Well only when they're extorting you.
Ain't it nice to be spoiled by living in a civilized society?
Lots of Russian policemen take pretty minuscule bribes.
no. they excel at allowing people to things they are not supposed to do actually. In NYC cops would be salivating over the tickets they could issue. But in Russia, they dont care. They have an totally bullshit infrastructure, so they dont care about revenue from tickets and things like that. They get money from mobsters to protect them. Thats how they stay financed.
It's no different then in Denmark where cyclists ride drunk, don't use lights, ride on the sidewalk, cars parking in bike lanes and on and on. It's breaking the law, it's everywhere but the police simply don't care. They do one day "awareness campaigns" every now and then, but day-to-day, not one fuck given. It seems to be the same here.
Better yet, they could put a fence with a gap wide enough for pedestrians but not cars...
Police lol, you can pull stunts like this in Russia and no one will care:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKIP3hyaXoQ
Here is the same guy calling out the cops for talking on the phone and not having seatbelts on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3AcSvlZ1HA
Where the fuck are the police then?
Didn't you read the link? It clearly says "Russia's sidewalks".
Hope this answers your question.
It's not as big of a crime as holding the 'Je suis Charlie' sign so police aren't bothered.
Russia is a disgusting shithole, these people are amazing to show courage and stand up for a small part of why Russia is shitty, I'd never be able to live there.
Bollards are pretty impossible to jump. Really it's poor planning by whomever made that path. Of course the idiocy of drivers doesn't help
Actually I'd be okay with emergency vehicles using the sidewalks considering how crowded Russian roads can get.
They have ones that can be lowered
The videos where a normal car tries to sneak past the automatic bollard and gets destroyed are incredibly satisfying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELpd43PMvk
I fully agree...if there is not a way to just go around them. If you are already driving down a sidewalk to avoid traffic, I doubt one of those would stop them from going until they can just jump a curb to get onto the side walk.
Welcome to Russia... and... 90% of the rest of the world.
What a twist!
so put them down the middle of the sidewalk making the sidewalk too small for cars.
I'm not against this.
wouldn't take very many to make the sidewalk useless to cars either. :D
Yea, I first thought people were just mistaking the sidewalk for a road, but the other videos show drivers clearly hopping the curb and driving down obvious sidewalks.
Bollards? How about just boulders. They're easy to put down, cheap, hard to move, and add a certain aesthetic to the path.
Boulders are good, but they would have to be fixed in place obviously, otherwise dumb teenagers would just roll away with them, that's true for any country, and this is Russia where they have a special kind of teenager
*flat bottomed boulders
Isn't this a Queen song?
http://i.imgur.com/IhaSi1r.png
Silly, everyone knows Queen only has two songs. Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You.
They need both, bollards right in the middle of the path and boulders on either side so they can't just drive around. It's costly but not as much as having someone run over or shot will be.
Yes, but any pokémon with the HM Strength would just move them every which way
To be honest, I live in Brazil and deal with the same shitt.. People come up at night with a sledgehammer and just destroy it.
Our Bollards are big round steel things, about 12" diameter, filled with concrete and set into the ground about 4 feet with an oblong base further into the ground and rebar down the middle even further down. If they can remove that with a sledge hammer.... just let them drive.
Your bollards are bigger and more extreme than what we design here but I have seen an F-350 hit one at about 25 mph and come to a dead stop and not make a dent in one of these.
We have stuff in the US called empathy, as well as stuff called "laws" and "rules". Together these things allow us to have stuff like bollards and sidewalks free of selfish drivers...
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You really feel 'em.
Right in the heart.
After the second reload is when the true rehabilitation begins.
Best kind of bullets.
Mercy killing.
This. I like this.
No they won't.
What if you're black?
Just sprinkle some crack on him and we're done here.
What if you're white?
Did.. did ya choke em? Did ya shoot em? Then I don't see what the big problem is here!
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I see what you're saying, but I still don't think they'd shoot you dead.
Exaggeration for dramatic purposes. The point is that the only reason those people were driving on the sidewalk is because there were no consequences...until the guys with the stickers showed up. I think the reason you hardly see things like this in the U.S. is because there are almost guaranteed consequences to such actions. In an extreme case, getting shot. Most likely though, you'd just get guns drawn, a crazy fine, your car impounded, some handcuffs, and a short ride to the county office. Let's not forget the weeks of court and bureaucracy.
Good joke, texas doesnt have sidewalks.
Can confirm, it happened to my brother. R.I P. Carl.
Oh god, I hope I never make a wrong turn in Texas.
Don't let them scare you off! We're nice, come have some chicken fried steak and peach cobbler.
I would love to visit a Texas BBQ pit restaurant. I saw a picture of it on reddit once and immediately fell in love.
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*falls over dead"
Sometimes I really miss being an omnivore.
One incident means every time all the time, right guys?
I live in Texas, can confirm.
Why does every time someone mention the US in a thread there is the obligatory douchey "Don't mess with Texas" statement?
Is that a rhetorical question or an actual question? There is an answer.
Edit: Swype
Can't write a proper sentence. Way to further the stereotype, Tex.
They're just exaggerating.
Most of the people writing that stuff have never even been to Texas or are transplants trying on the "I'm a Texan now" pants. These are also the people who act like there's a gun in every glovebox.
In Texas they drive all over like this. In fact, it's the only state I've been in that they do.
Where in Texas did you go??
All over, but in Austin I watched car after car leave the highway that was busy and just drive 200 yards off road to side roads.
You say that as if we didn't have plenty of assholes who think themselves above the laws.
The worst I've seen in nearly 30 years on US roads is people driving on the highway shoulder. Someone driving on a sidewalk would be either A. arrested immediately or B. vigilante style stopped, and beat up/held down while waiting for police. We simply don't have this problem, thankfully.
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That gave me a semi.
The judge made her stand at an intersection with a sign that read "only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus."
I got a full on freedom boner
I love when truckers pull halfway into the shoulder to stop that shit.
I drive a lot and I never saw anyone drive on sidewalks. I did see a few people park on sidewalks, but they were pretty much all service vehicles and I'm not going to blame them for trying to safely do their job, as parking on some roads could be dangerous for them or others.
However, I saw plenty of people breaking driving laws in other ways. The most recent one was a guy turning left on a red light... while being on the 4th lane on the right! Talk about not giving a fuck about others. Sorry dude, you missed your street, just turn right 3 times and you'll be safely back on track.
Edit : Correction. I just remembered that once I saw a guy get on the sidewalk on a red light and to turn on the right light while there was cars in front of him. But once isn't very common.
That's legal in my state if you're turning onto a 4 lane 1-way street. Nobody understands that though, so you usually have to wait and/or get dirty looks.
That was in Chicago.
Also, the guy didn't patiently wait for his turn. He floored it when the light turned green, cutting off everyone who was going straight. I'm surprised there was no accident.
Sorry dude, you missed your street, just turn right 3 times and you'll be safely back on track.
This is not true in all cities
Source- Pittsburgh
One time I saw a guy go like 4 feet into the intersection on a green arrow, and I think he got embarrassed or something, because he stopped for about two seconds, then just went straight on through the 4-way intersection on red.
Same here in France, never saw anything like that....
Agreed. But at least in Paris, parallel parking is basically bumper cars.
Thank God for Arrow and Flash
Definitely true. this happened in Utah. Don't drive through our parks either!
I have to disagree.
I think if I saw a person driving on the sidewalk, I would at first assume it was an unmarked "emergency vehicle". I know that's kind of a contradiction in terms, but there are a few police cars that are hard to tell until they turn on their lights.
If they got close enough to me that I was able to tell they were not cops or anything like that, I'd think it was a crazy person. I would not get in front of it, because somebody willing to break a taboo like that could easily be crazy enough to run me over.
I would only get outraged if it became normal practice for assholes, like seen in the video. At that point I'd spend some free time blocking them and campaigning at the local government to put up better vehicle barriers.
tl;dr: It's just too rare in the US to spark violent outrage. It would simply be confusing.
You can bet your ass that if someone was driving on a sidewalk with kids/people on it, someone in a truck would try to do something about it.
If it appeared as if they were going to hit somebody, maybe. If they were driving carefully and allowing people reasonable time to get out of the way, nobody would do a damn thing but stare and wonder what the hell was going on.
...where in America do you live where scenario B is normal? Because, it certainly isn't in the places I've lived; California, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Nevada.
I've lived all over the US and think it's true of most places. Not to say it's true of most people, just that if a car was driving on a freaking sidewalk, some cowboys would want to do something about it before the police arrived.
Come to Chicago some time. I'll take you on a walking tour and we can count how many times we're almost killed by drivers breaking the traffic laws. The number should be pretty high.
My favorite is when city service vehicles do it. Like, you just parked on the side walk so the pedestrians have to walk on the street to get around you. Yes. That's safe.
Been to, and have driven around Chicago many times. Never seen people drive on the sidewalks, or anything even close.
I'm up there walking around quite a lot since I live near it. The joke around here is that taxi cabs are actually trying to kill you instead of just doing it accidentally. Not to mention the number of minor rules that get broken, like cars going into the left/right turn lanes just to speed straight to get in front of traffic.
I'm not necessarily talking about actually driving on the sidewalk, but they'll park on entrance drive ways (say to parking garages) with their bumpers to the gate and just leave the car there so you'll have to walk out into the street to go around them. Or if it's a particularly shitty taxi, they'll just slowly nudge their way into pedestrian traffic if they're turning left/right. And this isn't counting the people who block bus lanes and park in the emergency no-parking areas.
You know in movies how they slam their hands against the hoods of cars and go "I'm walking here?" Yeah, I've seen that quite a lot too.
Seriously though, fuck terrible taxi cab drivers.
It isn't perfect, but it's better than virtually everywhere else in the world.
Oh, of course it's better here. I'm just saying that
We simply don't have this problem, thankfully.
just isn't true. It's definitely not as bad, but we have the same problems of assholes ignoring traffic rules and possibly endangering others.
A cab creeping on a crosswalk isn't exactly the same as people using sidewalks as literal roads though.
No, it's not, but like I said, to say that we don't have those sorts of problems at all (i.e. people disobeying traffic rules and endangering people) is just a ludicrous statement.
I didn't say that we don't traffic problems, I said we don't have people driving on sidewalks.
My mistake then, sorry! I thought you were talking about problems in general, not that specific one.
Why shouldn't people be driving on highway shoulders? At least in Massachusettes it seems to work out really well for helping traffic flow.
It is better for traffic flow, but many people regard it as unfair and potentially dangerous. No one likes to be surprised by a large hunk of metal speeding past them on the right.
Are we really discussing why we have shoulders?
Right, and that. Sorry, bit of a facepalm for me there.
I took a cab ride in Boston where we drove for a while with the right side of the car up on the sidewalk. No one batted an eye.
Sure you did. We drive like assholes here, but we don't drive on sidewalks.
Nope, really truly happened. Not all 4 wheels, just 2. "for a while" was about 75-100 yards while the cabbie tried to merge with heavy traffic.
In your state/city you have a lot of drivers passing a traffic jam on the sidewalks?
Where is that?
Not the sidewalk. Instead they use the shoulder of the freeway that is usually set aside for emergency vehicles to get to accidents.
Yeah I've seen that. I'll do it by my house since theres a sign that says you can do it from 4-6 to exit. The worst is people are more Frequently pulling up in the parking spot at a red light to zoom ahead. I have a dash cam so I always race them at the green, never going above the speed limit just accelerating past the intersection.
Depending on the state (Massachusetts) it is totally legal to use the shoulder as a travel lane
You missed my point. I didn't say that I saw people driving on sidewalks. Only once I saw a guy get on the sidewalk on a red light and to turn on the right light while there was cars in front of him. But once isn't very common.
My point was that you say we have stuff called "laws" and "rules" as if there was no entitled assholes breaking those laws daily in every major US cities. The most recent one I saw was a guy turning left on a red light... from the 4th lane on the right! When the light turned green, he just floored it to cut off everyone going forward. We have plenty of selfish drivers, laws or not.
Scofflaws.
Some people may think it, but it is very rarely the case if ever.
Nowhere near as many. No way in hell could you make a youtube series out of it.
In some intersections, maybe. Just walking to work, I see at least one daily. I just dont think it would be as entertaining. Those russians ladies have freaking hot temper!
Also, most sidewalks are tiny in the US. Definitely not big enough to fit a car.
This is something I really don't get. Even in some of the worst cities where bad driving is notorious nobody in NA has the audacity to drive on a fucking park or sidewalk like that.
It's a magical place where everyone is free, brave and always happy. Everyone ebook the law and we have no problems. It truly is the greatest country on earth. everyone is just jealous and lazy so they become criminals communists and terrorists. In the case of Russians they become criminal communist terrorists.
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!
Everyone ebook the law
That's how well-read Americans are!
If we've got so much empathy maybe we should pour some of it into universal healthcare like the rest of the first world. We rate pretty poorly on social services across the board, social services being a societal expression of empathy made practical.
Long term empathy is most certainly an issue here.
On behalf of Americans I would like to apologize for this sanctimonious poster. Also, thanks to Canada for teaching me how to apologize.
You're welcome.
Sorry.
No shit. OP can make his point without basically telling non americans that they're terrible. Kids, jesus.
You're from the United States? Are you feeling ok?
I guarantee you if people could do it then they would, obviously not everyone though.
It looks very common in Russia and those sidewalks are very wide, the US doesn't have that.
there are wide sidewalks and bike paths in America all over the place, in California at least. I've never seen anything like this, it's crazy!
Would you?
No
I saw some old dude drive around a moving truck down the street the other day. Popped right up over the curb of a church sidewalk and drove around the truck. Old people... This was outside of Boston. Makes perfect sense given the location.
No we don't. We have things as described in the post above that are too difficult to remove.
We've got lots of great folks here. But we've got our entitled douche bags just like anywhere else.
You also have cities built for cars, which Russia does not. No parking and too narrow roads, this is one of the consequences.
You don't really live here do you. People will change lanes into an on ramp just to get one car ahead. They do it all the time, crossing all sorts of lines saying don't, into a lane that clearly merges into the lane they are in. It's ridiculous.
I live in the third largest city in the US, you twit. A shoulder is not the lakeshore drive bike path, is it?
You say that, but...
http://youtu.be/1UTM40K53K8
You think you could build a YouTube channel just on incidents like this in your area?
That video and that particular case are infamous! In the US many have seen that singular incident.. These russian fellows built a whole channel on this incidents..
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Also most sidewalks aren't big enough for half of a vehicle
How are those "laws" working out when it comes to pigs shooting black teens?
Yes. That is how white nighborhoods stay safe. The best defenice is a good offence.
lol no
Lol empathy. Just saw a white lady hit a black guy off his bike with her car a few months ago. Everyone was saying that poor girl. She must be having a bad day while the black guy, obviously in pain was on the ground holding his side. Then the police came and took the lady to the side telling her how she could get off easy for this even tho she'd exclaimed she was on her phone and didn't see him.
God bless America.
If you saw this happening so often you could grab a camera and make a youtube show out of it, then I would be convinced.
In the US we don't have Bollards.
You're getting better drugs than folks in chicago.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6Ml6ExIcAAJJ7r.jpg:large
Yea we call them traffic barriers not bollards. Oh btw it's called a trunk not a bonnet, A pharmacist not a chemist....
Now stop smoking that crack. you FIB!
This is a big country pal.
In Chicago and Boston those are bollards.
In Boston it's not a "drinking fountain" it's a bubbler, it's not soda.. It's tonic, and it's not your mom... It's my GF.
In Chicago it's a drinking fountain/Traffic barrier.
True....except drivers in the U.S are often just as awful to pedestrians. It's not the most pedestrian friendly country at all.
You also appear to have a lot of condescension in the US.
You're from the fucking Boston area?! Are you broken? I grew up in the Boston area, and if anyone in Boston were to see what you wrote...
You should know better than to drive on sidewalks.
Wow, this is a really pretentious sounding comment.
We have stuff in the US called empathy
top kek
We have stuff in the US called empathy, as well as stuff called "laws" and "rules".
Lol you need to watch more youtube.
You got something to share?
Sure. If you need more just let me know.
These are incidents spanning 38 years? I'm talking about a video showing me a street in your town full of drivers on sidewalks, et al.
Not cop conspiracies and single incidents of crazy, we're looking for something equal to what the OP's video had.
http://www.k12reader.com/subject/reading-skills/reading-comprehension/
No, you were talking about having "empathy", "laws" and "rules". It seems to me that these examples show lack of those things more than a guy trying to cut in front of others in traffic.
Context
The context implies you're saying empathy doesn't exist in Russia, and that the US is the epitome of law abiding citizens and law enforcement.
Apples and apples
I'm glad you agree.
Boy you really must be new to this country if you think it's empathy that keeps people from driving off the road.
You sound like a selfish person. I've been in the US for 43 years.
Yeah no. We just have no sidewalks of high enough quality to actually be driven on that would be quicker than just waiting in traffic.
There are still people that will fly past 50 cars using the shoulder and then try to dive back into the lane a few hundred feet down the road.
God damn thats a tank trap
And all so that kids can't tear up the baseball field at night in their Honda Civics. We take little league pretty seriously.
Or we put a lot of bollards... Say, a million...
A million bollards.
OK kids, I'm out.
because they are Thor
yeah that thing was designed to stop a speeding truck packed with explosives, i doubt sledge hammer is gonna put a dent on it.
I have a better idea: fill the bollards with explosives.
This seems like a lot of effort to break the law and save some time in the morning cause you're a fucker.
Take 20 minutes to destroy a pole and risk getting arrested to save 15 seconds every once in a while. Makes sense.
Risk getting arrested? Hah. Getting arrested is for people who aren't in gangs.
Well I don't know much about Russia other than The Machine.
So I understand that you are The Machine? [Looks around furtively]
It's not like they're in America, I think these people would have called the police before they decided to stoping motorists and get mowed down. If there was a risk of getting arrested they wouldn't be blatantly braking the law.
I see it all the time in my town where there is a walking street and at the very end there is a corner that is still technically part of the walking street, meaning only emergency vehicles can enter, but people ALWAYS cut the corner to get the 20 second benefit from avoiding a red light, even when there are people walking there. Even seen people do it infront of cops, I have done it.. If something illegal becomes the norm, people stop thinking ..
You didn't see the traffic? They are saving more than 15 seconds, closer to 15 minutes.
At 3:00, "I understand, but you can detour by taking that road"
"It won't take more than extra five-ten seconds."
Most likely they pay some kid $1 to do it for them.
I know, right?
We have a few of these by my house: http://img.archiexpo.com/images_ae/photo-m2/concrete-edging-119535-8229133.jpg, but they were separated every 30-40cms
Motorcyclist would just drive by and start kicking and then remove them.
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That my friend is the sole reason why technology exists. People who are too lazy to do something manually or by hand and instead design a machine to do it.
It's just like the baseball episode of South Park, when they had to play against the team that actually put a lot of practice into sucking.
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They would just bend it.. trust me.... Unless it is something that will affect a politian, they wont spend a few extra dimes for something that cannot be worked around
No it's called tire spikes that are triggered only by the weight of a vehicle passing over.
Dude, where in Brazil do you live that this happens?
I'm Brazilian too and I've never heard of it.
That's about when I'd just go out and buy a retractable spike strip, and have myself a bit of fun for a few hours every day. Sounds like an amazing hobby to have.
If they just get put back soon enough people will give up this tactic. If they're only put up once for symbolic purposes then not maintained, it doesn't really count, now, does it?
People break everything in Brazil for no reason at all. One of the reasons you can't find a trash bin anywhere, they get smashed or stolen very quickly. I would chalk this up to vandalism, not some guy's effort to get to work quicker the next day.
Where in Brazil do you live? I've lived in Brazil all my life and never saw that happen. I never lived in the big cities like São Paulo and Rio though.
I'm a brazilian too and this isn't normal here, maybe in your neighborhood only.
Where do you live ? just come to Sao Paulo and drive throught the Marginal avenues, almost every single exit / entrance to it, will have some sort of shortcut and people will always destroy it. (mostly for motorcycles)
Sao Paulo too and those illegal shortcuts are a worldwide problem but nothing like crossing a sidewalk through the park.
It's the same in the United States - plenty of barricades get destroyed in Philly every day, and I'll take a few illegal routes to avoid traffic like everyone. Hell, even in Europe you've got people that destroy red light and speed cameras to avoid having to drive legally and avoid fines.
It wouldn't even need to be bollards. Anything big enough to disrupt vehicles passing through, but not disrupt entry for bicyclists or walking pedestrians. It could just be a simple temporary fence that they use for crowd control.
Signs help too...
Edit: I watched some more of these and they seem to mention about installing and sometimes move concrete bollards into the path on some of the sidewalks. They're not always on the same sidewalk.
"ornamental planters" work great for this. Giant concrete boxes 4' to a side, filled with dirt.
They should have a spike strip just behind the guys and if someone drives through, they need to go shopping for tyres.
You don't need anything so sophisticated as a fence. A couple of one-tonne lumps of stone dumped in the middle does the same thing.
Yeah, they should be putin bollards in there
In the US they just put up steel or concrete pillars that are wide enough for people to walk though, but not cars.
Seriously, I mean it is a road width sidewalk. If cars are truly not allowed there, some simple design could easily prevent it from happening.
BOLLARDS...
It's a couple different paths that they hang out on, some of which have accesses other than the beginning or the end. It also seems like people are coming from both sides, so it would make sense to sit in the middle.
bollards
This is just what I was going to say. Much better than this bullshit confrontation.
someone ran them over.
Bollards don't make people realise how much of an ass they are.
Yea but they work 24 7
I think a bigger problem than people driving on unauthorized areas, is people who don't get confronted when they try to do such a thing.
So I would see this being a better solution than bollards. Bollards only work at preventing people from being douchebags, but what these guys are doing actually has a slight potential effect of helping douchebags confront their douchebaggery.
no, it pretty obviously is not.
the US is brimming with self entitled narcissistic ass-holes but they don't drive on the sidewalks because of bollards. confrontation has fuck all to do with it.
Also bollards don't generate hilarious videos of butthurt, entitled Russians.
Less entertaining though...
Yup. I guess it's gonna take someone actually getting shot before that happens though...
Because think of the YouTube hits! And, who the hell is gonna pay for those on every single sidewalk? Russia doesn't give that much of a fuck.
It's bullshit to confront them but ok to drive in pedestrian walkways?
How the hell did you interpret that? He explicitly supported the installation of bollards, which are used to prevent people from driving in pedestrian walkways. It seems pretty clear to me that he doesn't think that what the drivers did is ok.
Ah, ok. With respect, what he said could be mis-interpreted as though it is bullshit for the protesters to confront the drivers.
Well, maybe. The misunderstand is solved anyway, so there's no point in discussing what he didn't mean.
They just jumped the curbs though. The bollards were only at the beginning of the paths, so they went past the bollards and jumped the curb onto the path.
Or just don't drive on the fucking sidewalk.
Is that like bollocks?
Because, it's fun to watch women try to back up.
Yeah, they probably should have waited for someone else to fix the problem rather than trying to do something themselves. Its great that people will bitch about those who do nothing, and in the same breath bitch about those that do.
The drivers/vandals just move or destroy them, they are of no use to Russian drivers. It's not only a problem in Russia but in Baltic States as well.
If they're steel and put in properly, they wouldn't be going anywhere.
Because Russia is a borderline failed state at this point.
man propaganda really has hit you hard there, son.
No bollards = failed state.
Because the government has been working hard to improve the life of the people?
If you're calling Russia a borderline failed state or a failed state you're putting it in the same league as countries like Yemen, Somalia, Syria, North Korea, etc.
Just because it's not to western standards doesn't make it a borderline failed state.
North Korea isn't a failed state. The government has to lose it's authority for it to be a failed state.
"Common characteristics of a failing state include a central government so weak or ineffective that it has little practical control over much of its territory; non-provision of public services; widespread corruption and criminality; refugees and involuntary movement of populations; and sharp economic decline."
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North Korea has practical control over all, or at least the vast majority, of its territory.
No it fucking doesn't.Not by a long shot. You actually believe in North Korean propaganda? LOLOLOL!!!!11"!
You are talking out your ass. Black market economy is the strongest economy for the actual North Korean people.
You are simply talking out of your asshole.
The charade could not continue in its current form otherwise.
Congratulations! You have just invented the most inaccurate and irrelevant sentence possible!
And you still thin you aren't brainwashed with propaganda?
LOL.
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Try to learn what that means before believing it serves as an argument.
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Sure. Whatever you say, champ. Just plug your ears and shout.
No USA proganda at all...
What?
Are you saying there is no propaganda in US? LOL...
It's sarcasm
Have you seen pictures of North Korea? it looks like its fucking apartments looks like 5 star hotels and their driveways are clean with no holes in it etc, how can you call a country with such high standards a failed state?
It's hard to have 5 star hotels without electricity. Have you seen satellite views of North Korea? They have some electricity in Pyongyang and almost nowhere else in the entire country. Without fuel and food given to them by other countries, they could not possibly survive.
People who visit North Korea are only allowed to travel with escorts on preset routes. They cannot freely travel within the country to see areas where the government feels it would show the country in a negative light. They can only see the most affluent part of the country and nowhere else.
Or you're being sarcastic, in which case woosh I guess.
Edit: They have almost no electricity for lights at night at least (when you can clearly see the country almost completely dark). That much is objectively true -- this picture was taken a year ago (source). I don't know how one would know how power is rationed outside of Pyongyang since those aren't easily accessible parts of the country.
They have some electricity in Pyongyang and almost nowhere else in the entire country.
That's not really true. Most of the country is connected to the grid, usage is just restricted to 6-7 hours per day since they don't import any energy and can only produce a certain amount. Energy consumption is relatively low in NK, but it's still like 6 times higher than that of Afghanistan.
Who said anything about Afghanistan? That's one of the worst countries in the world in regards to almost any statistic you can think of. Being better than Afghanistan isn't the bar for being a nearly failed state (at least not in my opinion).
How about comparing North Korea to South Korea or China or to even comparing modern North Korea to the North Korea of the late 60s/early 70s?
According to this source, North Koreans consume 819 kWh per year per capita. That is less than the 919 kWh per capita consumed in North Korea in 1971 and less than 1/10th the electricity consumed by South Korea per capita and less than 1/3 the electricity consumed by Chinese per capita.
North Korea has been in a very long decline and doesn't even measure up to the quality of life they had over 40 years ago.
Does a country need to decline to nearly the stone age before being considered a failed state? Back when North Korea split from South Korea, they were the rich, industrial part of the country. It has declined/stagnated since their peak of the late 60s/early 70s and can't continue to exist without aid from China and other countries.
Being better than Afghanistan isn't the bar for being a nearly failed state (at least not in my opinion)
It's not a failing or failed state according to this, which relies on whole lot more than opinions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Fragile_States_Index
Ranked 26th on that list, and as you can see has been improving year in year out since 2007
It has declined/stagnated since their peak of the late 60s/early 70s and can't continue to exist without aid from China and other countries.
It could probably exist just fine if there wasn't so many international sanctions against it.
All of that shit matches with russia right now though.
Loss of Control of territory: No
Non-provision of public services: No
Corruption and Criminality: Yes
Refugees and involuntary movement of populations: No
Sharp economic decline: Yes
Sorry to interrupt the circle jerk.
Its true that i exaggerated, but you cannot seriously mean that russia has full control over the majority of its territory.
The population movement can be heavily argued with the whole ukraine/chechenya situation too. I'd say russia, for a supposedly first world country, is pretty close to be a failed state, no circle jerking.
I cannot speak about the non-provision of public services though, i do not know a lot about that.
Feel free to argue heavily.
I was not aware of large scale displacement of Russian citizens.
Refugees and involuntary movement of populations: No
They may not qualify as "refugees," but the middle class is fleeing Russia at a large rate. http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/russian-emigration-spikes-in-2013-2014/
So still no.
I don't think Russia is near the level of failed state, but given their economic decline (and more specifically lack of economic diversification), democratic shortcomings, corruption, and decades of brain drain, Russia is certainly a declining state.
a central government so weak or ineffective that it has little practical control over much of its territory;
nope
non-provision of public services;
nope
widespread corruption and criminality;
Not that horrible and nope
refugees and involuntary movement of populations;
nope
and sharp economic decline.
Not that sharp/debatable.
You're totally right, guy. How does that country still exist?
Confirmed never been to russia.
The
not that horrible corruption
no the economy is fine i swear m8
got you
Been to Russia just last summer. Will visit this spring/summer again. Where's your point?
And even then it's barely 2 points out of 5, not even a simple majority.
If you've been to russia and don't think there is bad corruption i feel sorry for you x)
Confirmed to never been to places where corruption is actually horrible.
And there's still no point in your posts.
The fact that some places are literally lawless does not make it any less of a fact that corruption is widespread in russia. To say that corruption isn't bad in Russia is borderline propaganda.
Ok, you're right. Russia is a totally failed state.
It is certainly halfway there anyways :)
It is at least a borderline failed state and I said borderline failed state or a failed state.
Although I'd probably agree with you there is definitely an argument to be made that it is a failed state depending on your definition.
Yemen's not that bad, apparently you can go salmon fishing there.
Do people drive on sidewalks in Russia? Because of a lack of rules or police presence?
Those are western standards... Maybe you're on to something?
No, Somalia Syria, etc ARE failed states. They aren't borderline...
I said "borderline failed state or a failed state" for a reason.
And OP only used 'borderline failed state' for a reason...he only mentioned it to be borderline
If you're calling Russia a borderline failed state you're still relating it to failed states. Borderline failed state is relative to failed state.
No, a failed state is where the government no longer has control over its people. North Korea is certainly not even close to a failed state. When people like this don't care about police and drive places where they're not supposed to because they know that law enforcement won't do anything then that is a symptom of a failed state. I'm not saying that Russia is even close to a failed state, but what you're saying is ridiculous. Saying a country is borderline failed is nowhere near saying that it is the same as North Korea.
Edit: You edited out the part where you said that saying russia is borderline failed is comparing it to North Korea, which is why my comment might not make sense
I edited it because I wrote it like that to be condescending and regretted it.
I think most people would call North Korea a borderline failed state because of the issues they have. I guess it's arguable though since it's hard to gauge the extent of the issues because of their closed off nature.
But regardless, it seems to me like you're saying is that a police state can't be a borderline failed state which I don't agree with. Corruption alone can render a police state like North Korea borderline failed.
When people like this don't care about police and drive places where they're not supposed to because they know that law enforcement won't do anything then that is a symptom of a failed state
Or instead of not fearing police and doing what you want you can have a situation where the police brutalize the citizens for their own gain because the state will protect them. It's the other end of the spectrum of what you've described but it's still a symptom of a failed state.
I guess we just have different definitions of a failed state. I see what you're saying though, Russia isn't really near borderline failed even under my definition.
Maybe, but just to clarify when I say
police brutalize the citizens for their own gain
I essentially mean very corrupt. A lot of corruption leads to very significant loss of control by the state in more than one way.
Seen the value of the ruble lately?
Got anymore goalposts to move?
How is that moving the goalposts? Every Russian without offshore accounts has seen their spending power has fall dramatically, interest rates have soared to growth-crippling levels, and there are forced efforts to get people to sell foreign currency. This whole episode has just further underscored that the Russian economy lacks diversification and needs high gas prices to prop it up.
Because the topic is whether or not the government is failed. Not whether or not the economy is rosy.
The state of the economy (and how the government reacts to deal with it) is a central factor in whether a state is failing. With Russia, I think it is on the decline but not yet failed (or destined to fail).
Their economic situation is a direct result of their policy as a nation, which causes their social problems such as alcoholism, poverty and misogyny.
Ah yes. Alcoholism isnt deeply rooted in russias history.
You ever been?
I love this 0 bullshit thread
Human rights? Corruption?
You don't actually know anything about the value of currency or the economy, do you?
I'd say he's pretty spot on. Between the sanctions over the Ukraine and global oil prices, Russia isn't doing so hot.
I think it's simple a matter of using a term like "failed state" without defining it. Is failed state one of rebellion and chaos, like Yemen and Somolia? Is it an intact government that ignored the needs of its people and brainwashed/oppressed them like North Korea? Or are those flat out catastrophes and failed is a series of economic blunders while posturing that continues to create a substandard economy for its 140+ million citizens?
What does it has to do with anything. If you want to compare prosperity you should check PPP. And even then "not prosperous country" =/= "failed state", otherwise apart from Norway pretty much every country is a failed state.
Economic strength is actually not a criteria for a failed state, though it can lead a state to fail.
So does that mean the US was a borderline failed state during our recessions or depression?
Seen the value of the yuan lately?
would you consider Greece or Portugal a failed state? Nao. The ruble is dipping bc three or four detrimental factors are hitting it at the same time. It'll bounce back
Or Venezuela.
You tell them Vlad!
It's a borderline borderline borderline failed state....corruption and crime are rampant, economies in sharp decline, human rights are degrading fast.....but the government still has control of the land, incomes are still much higher than the poorest countries and the government provides all the basic necessities such water/education/roads/etc.
So yeah, I agree it's no where near the countries you listed.
It's not a failed state, but you'd find yourself doubting it once you leave the major cities.
Their economy is pretty bad as it is, and all the sanctions on top of that really hurt the country, also because that's a decline in standard of living and falling wages.
Besides that, the government is pretty openly silencing everybody who's seen as a thread or exposes them, like yesterday that person who reported they are moving further into the Ukraine and got killed.
It's not as bad as some real shitholes, but the government fails it's people and further decline is just a question of how many years this goes on for.
Russia is becoming more and more a state with a failed economy trying to manipulate it's people into thinking it's still a superpower, while it really just has to go crazier to cover everything up. Not too far from some failed south american dictatorship or something.
Friends dad travels regularly to Russia, although I agree it isnt a failed state or close. It still has been on the downfall since the soviet union, just look at it now Russia has a lot of problems that need to be fixed socially, politically, and economicly. So much curroption in that country it is rediculous.
Your pops then should know better that there's a significant improvement since 15 years ago. Wild 90's was a pretty shit time period to exist in a large Russian city.
you pops? Not quite sure what that means it's my friends father, there may have been an improvment but from what we see daily coming out of russia is pretty fucking awful. People being killed for being homosexual, being lured into places to be jumped for this. curroption is rampant in politics and in the police force. It is forsure not a pleasent place to live compared to many places.
It's a failed state in that it does not have the basic infrastructure of the superpower it pretends to be
It is though. Their money is de-valued, they have human rights violations that even China and North Korea don't have. They are warring on a deficit with no nations backing their currency. Russia is barely operating as a nation at this point. Good thing their citizens are idiots and too drunk and stupid to fix their own nation.
I've seen enough dashcam and youtube videos to realize it's not much better than the super suneshine fun-times all the time state of North Korea.
Not saying you're right or wrong about Russia's government working hard to improve the life of the people, but being a failed state really has more to do with the government having a monopoly on what the citizens consider legitimate use of force.
For example, it could be argued that Mexico is a borderline failed state because the cartels have more power than the Mexican government in some areas.
Actually yes. I lived in Moscow for 7 years, and today it's a much better city than it was 7 years ago. Much less public drunkenness, lots of parks have been refurbished and made extremely pretty, this parking nonsense is at the beginning of its end because of the new army of tow trucks that don't fuck around. There are laws that punish not giving way to pedestrians, as a result of which the driver/pedestrian interactions have greatly improved. Yandex is working with the municipal government to pinpoint problem spots in traffic and fix them. The government is switching to the internet, you can now do a lot of administrative bullshit without leaving your computer. This is a random subsection of a much larger list.
Seriously, just buy a ticket and visit. It's really quite a different place than the impression you get from the media.
Sure, maybe things have gotten relatively better in Moscow or St Petersburg, but there's still the rest of Russia.
As far as I heard, in Moscow traffic is still far from good, a lot of drivers (especially the BMW kind) have no disregard for others, and there are even "VIP" lanes that those which are "privileged" can use while non-rich or non-connections-having people sit in traffic. Oh and the police is only a bother for "regular" people, the privileged can do pretty much anything and they don't even need to hide the fact. And that kind of outlines the mentality of society there. The disparity between rich and poor is huge, even more than the US, and double standards are obvious. Wealth disparity is also huge in the US, but that kind of shit would never fly there.
And life in rural Russia essentially hasn't progressed much since like a hundred years ago.
lol, like in the US. Same shit.
The US has bollards. Checkmate.
Atheists
How about take any other country than US? Saying "US does it" or "US doesn't do it" doesn't make neither Russia or US justified.
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Sure it does! National Park Service? In Washington DC?
At least they have proper* healthcare
*by proper I mean freely available
He could actually be prescient; let's see how Russia does with these oil prices.
It's going to economically hurt them, but it'll never collapse the country and create a failed state - that's just stupid thinking and something NOBODY, including the US would want to see. Europe is still dependent on Russian gas regardless of sanctions, as is China who just inked a $400 billion deal with China --- who you know holds a significant amount of bonds of the U.S.
OK let's zoom out a bit: big picture, the world as a whole has been dependent on hydrocarbons for a long time. Will the recent drop in oil prices kill Russia? Highly unlikely, if that's the only factor, but there are more. For one Russia's government is almost like a chiefdom, highly dependent on a few crucial people. Another is that - and I'm not generally a technology-theist, is that we might actually develop alternative fuel strategies in the coming decades, which could bankrupt Russia. Another is that Russia, as a nation of people, could crumble in the face of ethnic tension, in the face of the collapse of Putin's regime, or more likely both. So I agree with you insofar as I see Russia being extremely stable in the short term, but in the long-term, AKA next 40 years, I'd be surprised if it hasn't had large chunks carved out of it.
It's not propaganda....lucifersamtaco was just using terrible hyperbole. It's bad, but it surely isn't a failed state.
Yes poorly worded on my part. I happen to consider the facilitation of a balanced and diversified economy to be the key of a functioning state. Especially one that claims to be a former super power.
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So Russia is a failed state because...
There's a difference between being in an economic decline, a recession, a depression -- and a failed state. The United States wasn't a failed state in the 1930s, despite having all those same characteristics.
Found the Russian
Philadelphian, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express one time.
man i hope you've actually lived there before talking about it, son.
Seen the value of the ruble lately?
Seen the value of the ruble lately?
Sure, seen Iceland's currency lately? Is it also a failed state?
Lol! How exactly is Russia a powerhouse? Aside from saber rattling, they have no funds to do anything. Didn't the Ruble drop in value again recently?
Really? Because you're still talking about a country that is actively funding a Ukraine overthrow, has Europe still by the balls for gas, just inked a deal with China for long-time gas trade, has one of the largest military in the world, a strong support for its government by the people, and has France looking to drop sanctions already. This is more than just some saber rattling.
And North Korea is able to launch some missiles... Ukraine was a weak nation that Russia took using political guile. And now they're paying for it. What's the latest drop in currency value?
The only thing keeping that dump of a country a float is their gas, but I wouldn't say its got NATO backed euro countries that worried.
What's your point with North Korea? That somehow the two countries are comparable?
That a weak country is still capable of physical power displays, but it doesn't mean an ounce of shit. Russia is a dump that's primed to collapse on itself in the next decade or two.
You disagree? They seem to have a lot of problems.
Do they have failed state problems? No not yet.
To be fair, the guy never said they were a failed state - he used the word "borderline".
hum. have you been to russia? or that's just one of those jump to conclusion comments?
"Oh, maybe you haven't heard that Putin hates gays and kills dogs and invaded Ukraine. It's science, ya anti-vaxxer."
sincerely, Neil Degrasse Tyson.
2 of those are true though.
SCIENCE!!!
That's funny because that's what the Russians say about America.
The russian military is powered by steam, spit and hope. The police who prevent people driving on sidewalks... Now that part of Russia IS working...
American highways look different from these, not like a dirt road.
But I totally agree.
That's just part of their plan. Take a Google for old kgb defector interviews. Their plan is working aided by the highest office in the land.
what the russians or north koreans say do not matter one bit
Comparing Russia with NK is a bit like comparing a tiger with a retarded, three legged cat.
But, tigers are cats too. Just because they peddle frosty corn flakes doesn't mean that they are sub-cat! #StripeEquality
It's comparing a retarded, three legged tiger with a retarded, three legged cat.
Like Russia or not, they're still a superpower on the planet. Downvote all you want, but it doesn't make that fact go away.
I wouldn't call them a superpower, they're not on the same level as the US anymore.
They are still a power though, sure. An important power too.
They don't need to be on the same level to be considered a super power. Of course, the US military force is formidable and, as far as I know, unrivaled. But the state of "super power" is a bit vague. It doesn't refer necessarily to military power, but the ability to change the political game around the planet. Germany and France for example, are still super powers on the global scale, despite their combined military force not reaching the US any time soon, if ever.
The US also has more influence on the global scale than any other country.
Russia is definitely a strong regional power and to an extent global power, just like the EU, but the US is on a different level than any of those countries at the moment.
I never said that the US isn't. US is very much the single most powerful country right now, in terms of global influence.
What I was trying to argue is that the term "super power" here doesn't apply only to the absolute. Just like in boxing the heavyweight category isn't descriptive of only the champion.
Yeah, no point arguing semantics. We seem to agree otherwise and I bet most people do too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower
TL;DR: America is the only superpower as of the end of the cold war.
I think you could make a strong argument for China.
I do too.
Uh what are you smoking?
A Superpower is defined by its combined military and economic strength. Period. The US is the only country in the world to have that power. If Germany's economy would fail it wouldn't nearly have the impact of a US downturn
Look at the 2008 recession. That was the US bubble that burst and dragged EVERY other country with it.
France and Germany are certainly not superpowers.
Germany [...] not superpowers.
That's genuinely funny.
See line 1: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/superpower
You have a strange sense of humor. Germany does not even refer to itself as a superpower.
Because France has the 3rd largest number of confirmed nuclear weapons on the planet and Germany is part of NATO nuke plan, while both being ranked 4th and 5th in GDP.
Ofc they aren't superpowers. /s
They really aren't superpowers. I have no idea why that is so offensive to you, but you could just look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower
Russia has nukes too but it doesn't make them a superpower. Their nukes serve only one purpose: they ensure they will never be invaded by a foreign power. They can never be used for offense.
You don't just get to decide what words mean, neither of them fit the established definition.
Don't bother, the american boner is strong around these parts.
I hate it when the dictionary gets in the way of a good ole anti-american circlejerk though!
It doesn't though, the dictionary proved my point. And nobody is being anti-american, I just said earlier that the US is the biggest super power in the world.
It just seems that some american are so plump with a victim mindset that you take personal offense when there is none to be taken.
I'm not American, I just don't go around deciding definitions for words that are factually wrong.
You two probably agree, I think it's just semantics that's getting in the way.
They are not any longer. Assuming you are using the traditional definition of the word superpower, the only superpower left is the USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower
No, they're not. They haven't been a Super Power since the USSR collapsed.
Politically, super powers are measured in potential energy, not in current displays.
A bell is a cup until it is struck.
Russia is not a superpower. A superpower has the ability to project their influence globally. Russia is a regional power.
Thinking that Russia doesn't have the ability to to project globally is naive, at best.
Their navy is rusting in its moorings, the merchant fleet is significantly smaller than other powers, and their air force doesn't have the logistical capability to project and maintain a significant expeditionary force.
Ignoring nukes (which don't matter here, because once those are used, everyone loses and global force projection quickly ceases to matter), the most they can reliably do is land invasion, meaning Europe, the Middle East, and China. They wouldn't invade China; too many people to pacify, too big of an army, too much land, and too many nukes. The Middle East doesn't matter much to them; they have their own supply of oil, and many of the -istan states are their bitch. Europe is also out of the realm of possibility; beyond the border states lie NATO, and a war with NATO ends in nuclear holocaust.
If they wanted to, say, intervene in the Pacific, South America, or Africa, they couldn't. They do not have the logistical capabilities to get there. Africa requires a long march through several states and the maintaining of supply lines. The pacific and South America require naval capabilities they don't have.
There isn't a chance in hell they could pull of a successful invasion of the US (again, ignoring nukes, because once those are used the conventional war is irrelevant). The US navy is currently the strongest in the world, and would vaporize any expeditionary force coming in. Landing in New England results in a ton of urban warfare with millions of citizens to pacify. The Southeast results in literally Vietnam (terrain, highly armed population, not much industrial capacity compared to the other regions). The southwest is desert and mountain warfare. Northwest is literally a rainforest. But let's assume they do manage to get a foothold: then what? How do they maintain supply lines? The US navy keeps naval supplies from coming in. Air force prevents all aircraft from coming in. Local supplies might be good for food, but we don't have too many factories producing russian arms or ammunition here.
They cannot project their force globally, hence they aren't a superpower. Saying that they can is a vast overestimate at best. The only thing they have going for them is the vast tracts of land that would need to be conquered in a conventional war and the nuclear deterrent.
There isn't a chance in hell they could pull of a successful invasion of the US
Why are you even describing him why it wouldn't work from the logistical side, Russian military couldn't match up to American in any situation, on any playground.
Because going down that path inevitably becomes a cyclical argument of "the US has THIS weapon/technology/tactic," and "oh yeah well the USSR has THIS thing specifically designed to counter it!"
Showing that they couldn't even keep their armies anywhere outside of their region avoids getting bogged down in that.
Nah, man, Russia is totally fucked. Economically basically bankrupt. Rouble is gonna default any minute now. Every person there is an alcoholic below the powerty line (except the cirimal oligarch friends of KGB Putin). Gays and press are persecuted like Jews in 1939 Germany. And their military force runs 50-years old equipment from world war 2.
Obama could liberate and bring democracy to that country any day, but he didn't want to ruin superbowl.
The USSR was a super power. Russia is just a country. It isn't even close to having a world influencing level of military and economic power.
Additionally, the international community considers Russia a joke right now because of their fiasco with Ukraine.
They're a superpower with shitty international credit whose police force isn't trusted.
They've got a big military and some oil. That's the only reason they're considered a 'superpower'.
If by "some oil" you mean that they provide gas for the majority of Europe, with some countries receiving 100% of their gas from Russia, then you are correct.
I don't like what's going on in Russia either, it's slowly falling back into despotism again and their civil rights are as well as non existent. THAT however does not in any way, shape or form deny them their powerplayer position.
While NK is not really a threat. We try not to aggravate them for the sake of commodity, but in a "stand off", North Korea wouldn't last more than 12 hours against any powerful state, be it superpowers like China, Russia or the US, or even against fucking France.
Just cause Russia has nukes and is run by maniacs doesn't make them a superpower. That's the only reason the rest of the world tolerates them - a fear of just how manic they are.
They have nukes, quite a few of them, AND (quite unlike any other country save for the US and maybe France) the ability to deliver them anywhere in the world they'd like to.
They also rate very high on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel
I'm not saying that we should do Cold War 2: Nuclear Boogaloo, that there aren't plenty of ways in which the US military budget could be reduced, or that Russia won't bankrupt themselves again by overspending on their military. But in realpolitik terms, raw power and the ability to project it do get world leaders to listen to you, even without weirdly homoerotic displays of horsemanship.
You need to know what a super power is, politically. It's a relatively vague term describing a country's influence over the world. If you think that Russia is not a huge influence in the movements of the world we live in, then buy me a souvenir from Wonderland.
You need to know what a super power is, politically.
You should try that yourself first.
Useless banter, terrific argument, 9/10
I'll take it, this one's going on the fridge!
You seriously argue politics on reddit? on /r/videos of all places?
I agree, shouldn't have tried.
I don't think you're necessarily wrong. The nukes that Russia has makes it a powerful player. But superpower goes beyond that and includes force projection, which only the US can do with impunity anymore. Militarily, Russia is hemmed in. Their navy is no longer relevant in the global theater. This isn't to say that Russia cannot influence policy and exert control extraterritorially, but not to the extent the US can.
Because NK doesn't have nukes.
We aren't afraid of Russia's army, and their navy and air force isn't that big a deal either. The whole reason for the Cold War and the reason we don't want to piss them off now is because they have nukes, and that's pretty much it.
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If your pro-Russian boner persists for more than 3 hours, call a doctor. Russia is not a superpower, unless you're going by definitions that you have just made up.
Let me know when Russian economy at least surpasses the economy of Italy, or the state of California. Let me know when they get any soft power. How's the EEU going? They got Kazakhstan and Belarus to join, anyone else? Oh, Armenia, my bad. Let me know when they get a blue-water navy, unless you count their one troubled aircraft carrier as such.
I'm not denying that Russia is an influential country, on the basis of nukes, large army and psychotic leaders alone, but I think you're looking for a different word than "superpower". Regional power?
The need to be aggressive and ironic to enforce an otherwise poorly constructed argument. Since you're linked a wiki page, please bother reading it.
Since you're linked a wiki page, please bother reading it.
Let's go through it together, shall we :D!?
Current state of affairs:
At the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, only the United States of America appeared to fulfill the criteria of being a world superpower.[1][2]
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 that ended the Cold War, the post–Cold War world was sometimes considered to be a unipolar world,[33][34] with the United States as the world's sole remaining superpower.[35] In the opinion of Samuel P. Huntington, "The United States, of course, is the sole state with preeminence in every domain of power – economic, military, diplomatic, ideological, technological, and cultural – with the reach and capabilities to promote its interests in virtually every part of the world."[36]
Matushka Rassiya not even making "potential superpowers":
The term 'Potential superpowers' has been applied by scholars and other qualified commentators to the possibility of several states achieving superpower status in the 21st century. Due to their large markets, growing military strength, economic potential and influence in international affairs; China,[46][47][48] the European Union[49][50] and India[51][52][53] are among the countries (or political entities) most cited as having the potential of achieving superpower status in the 21st century.
Okay, here's a positive one:
Besides those mentioned above, a limited number of observers have also discussed the merits of Brazil having the potential to emerge as a superpower, while some academics have argued that a resurgent Russia may have the potential to re-emerge as a superpower.[57]
Some fringe academics think Russia could become a superpower in the future, I give you that.
I'm expecting "well wikipedia is not a real source anyway" any second now.
well wikipedia is not a real source anyway
Here it is! Weren't you the guy accusing people of using poor arguments just now ;) ?
Out of curiosity: what do you consider a real source? Is it the opinion of the well known superpower expert /u/Thurmut ?
If the fact that my comment was word for word what you said doesn't clarify the joke, you win.
And I'm not pursuing this argument further, it's like preaching evolution to Westboro Baptist Church.
doesn't clarify the joke
Oh, I'm sure you'd say that anyway.
~~And I'm not pursuing this argument further, it's like preaching evolution to Westboro Baptist Church.~~ Not a single definition agrees with my idiotic opinion and it was repeatedly pointed out to me, I will now leave a condescending comment and pretend this never happened
Fixed that for you mate.
Thanks for proving my point.
Is there a way to discuss things with you without harming your feelings and making you evacuate the thread? I'm imagining you as some fickle, scared gazelle now, running away because definitions and quotations appread. Sorry :<
fickle, scared gazelle now, running away because definitions and quotations appread
Dude, your neckbeard is showing
The need to be aggressive and ironic to enforce an otherwise poorly constructed argument
Oh, I'm the neckbeard? You were like one "good sir" away from complete euphoria in that one, good sir.
I wouldn't call them a super power, but they can push around Europeans like little bitches.
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North Korea wouldn't exist if not for the former USSR and China, and both China and Russia still prop up and enable North Korean bullshit. Russia actually employs North Korean slave laborers. http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/15/world/asia/north-korean-labor-camps-in-siberia/
Please bring on the whataboutisms, I'll school you.
No, but what we say about them matters lots of bits.
What you think about them doesn't matter one bit either.
they're sub humans. of course what i say is more important
So why should things that you say matter?
because im above you
I'm not russian, nor am I north korean
The difference is corruption.
Compared to Russia everyone in the US is holding hands under rainbows 24/7.
Um. In America corruption is just called lobbying and it's completely accepted
Except in russia you can "lobby" a traffic ticket or go to jail.
Rich people buy their way out of court all the time in America, what's your point?
If a young person in college gets charged with an underage drinking charge, they can either pay $800 and take a class that says drugs are bad then it gets off their record
If they don't have money then oh well
People with money and lawyers can plea DUIs down to infractions.
Poor people lose their license.
Only gets more extreme as the crimes get worse
You have obviously never been outside westernized countries if you seriously think the corruption is in any way on the same level.
If you're a hot woman, you can do that everywhere.
Are you sure about that? The few Russians I know with family there are all pretty negative about the state of the country/government.
You are talking to Russians that chose to leave their country. That probably skews things.
They're the smart ones.
And the funny part is they're both wrong.
Yet there are fewer empty store shelves in the US than in Russia.
And I'm assuming you've been to Russia and have personally observed this "borderline failed state". /s
Borderline?
Borderlands?
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So please tell me how your government works for humanitarian rights? How they work for enviornmental problems? Oh wait you are to busy invading Ukraine.
I also love how you just assume I'm Russian...
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At least the ruskies have free healthcare just like most part of the world.
Yeah hearing how much it costs to go to the doctor in the US makes me feel bad for you guys. My cousin went to work in the US and had to enjoy his broken tooth for 3-4 months before coming back because the price was impossible lol.
I don't care who is wrong or right in your argument. I'm just saying that "he's not from Russia so he has no idea what he's talking about" is not a valid point.
Someone could have never been t the US and know more about it than any other american citizen. Do not assume that location = knowledge.
That may be correct but you also should not assume that reading some news sites on reddit = knowledge.
And YOU shouldn't assume that just because I have a different take on things to you I only read shitty news sites
And I'm assuming you are and have been living in Russia then? Fuck off with your "I am better and more intelligent than everyone else because of reasons and if you argue with me I will verbally degrade you as a person to make my argument better"
You don't need to go to Russia to show that it isn't a "failed state". I never said it wasn't without problems, just the idea of Russia being a failed state is laughable
I try not to talk about things i know nothing about friend. Russia is not a "failed state" but life there has been as bad as life in Bulgaria (imagine a tiny Russia).
May I ask where you hail from?
Zimbabwe
I've made a friend from down there, we worked on cruise ship together.... He's accent wise quite good and he was very very friendly and well mannered. Dont think that apply to all of the population.
Says that guy who's answer is no to all of his own questions
Who the fuck are you?
I am Skampers, defender of truth, soldier of Lady Justice. Where there is darkness, I will spread light. Where there is deceit, I will bring clarity. Tread carefully my friend, because the truth hurts.
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Only if I get to tag you as 'angsty teenager who's parents probably just don't get him'
So please tell me how your government works for humanitarian rights?
I actually think they work against them, didn't they just ban homosexuality recently?
How does this have anything to do with being a 'failed state'. The US doesn't respect human rights (glaring examples being Obama's ability to order the death of US citizens without trial, the Patriot Act, NSA, suppressing black voters)
A failed state implies total anarchy.
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Okay, but then your point has nothing to do with parent comments.
He's gonna need some ointment for them burns.
Lol, no it's not banned here, that's just a nice example of west trying to make Russia seems bad again.
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So? did you actually read that law? It doesn't ban homosexuality. You can still find a gay bar in any major city.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btAUWI0rYJg
coming from the nation systematically torturing around the world, having a militarized racist police, polluting the world, denying global warming and invaded iraq killing hundreds of thousand of civilians there? lol
I didn't know Sweden did such things.
If the responsibility of the state is to facilitate the success of the people why is Russia such a dysfunctional country? If they were a success they would not be experiencing their second economic collapse in less than 20 years.
Please, tell me more about "economic collapse", apparently it's so bad you can feel it from America, amirite?
It is has more overt corruption than you are used to. That doesn't make it a failed state.
I wouldnt really go as far as saying its a failed state, but corruption is definitely the main reason. The government officials would rather put 100 bucks in their pocket than make something useful with it.
2014: "Russian Approval of Putin Soars to Highest Level in Years-- Ratings of U.S., European Union leadership sink to record lows, in single digits"
http://www.gallup.com/poll/173597/russian-approval-putin-soars-highest-level-years.aspx
For a failed state run by a maniacal dictator, Russia seem pretty happy with its situation.
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lol. Have you been there or you being a computer expert.
have you?
No. Which is why I don't talk out of my ass.
How do you know he hasn't? I'm not OP and I've been to Russia. It's not borderline failed but it certainly can do better, and stuff like this is the norm in many areas.
Thanks Obama!
Why don't you give some thanks this way
Holy Crap! Best bot evar!
Russia has it's problems, and it's government has a lot of corruption issues, but calling it a "failed state" is really stretching it.
Bollards cost money. Russia is huge. Putin doesn’t care.
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Not for Putin, apparently. :P
But by proxy they are; if head of state orders the infrastructure rebuilt and upgraded, bollards can certainly be a part of a "Make streets safer for pedestrians" policy, I’d say. Granted, it’s more often than not a Mayor that takes care of that.
Obama cares about my bollards :)
You don't accumulate $50B in Swiss banks by spending your money on stupid shit that the populace needs.
I couldn't see (the back of) any sign at the entrance that might have said no cars. I wonder if that's part of the problem? It certainly looks like a sort of alley, not a sidewalk
Anti-vehicle mines work better.
They may use trucks with plows for snow removal. If so, I hope they don't try to put a sticker on the plows :)
Could you imagine NYC with bollards on every sidewalk/road intersection?
It seems like the gigantic brass balls the activists are carrying with them should be more than enough to deter motor traffic on the sidewalk entrance.
Agree. These Russian citizens are great, but they shouldn't be having to do so much heavy lifting. If the civil engineering of the roads was correct, there wouldn't be these opportunities for drivers to veer off the road. Guardrails and bollards [just learned a new word, wtf] would make these diversions impossible.
Seems like, instead of being "sidewalk monitors", they'd be more productive if they turned into "sidewalk bollard placers." if it's so lawless there that authorities don't arrest people for riding on sidewalks, they should be safe from being arrested for independently placing bollards.
Civil Engineering
Russia
Are these paths this wide for emergency services? Bollards would impede that purpose (unless they can retract for emergency vehicles). I guess an ambulance could jump the curb like someone else mentioned.
...or do it USA style, post a motorcycle cop there and start handing out $500 tickets. Make some money off of douchebags.
Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UTM40K53K8
Right? Or if they are getting ripped out, build a fucking dam/lake/water feature halfway!
Seriously! Drivers are douches in every country, just the way it is. If you really want change, but those yellow things that won't let your car through.
came looking for this. so easy to install these guys could do it themselves in a couple hours.
A handful of roofing nails is a cheap alternative. Four flat tires every time they drive on the sidewalk will cure that habit.
Sounds like a good solution. One where people don't get scared half to death by people gathering around their car.
This could be enough
Parks in the US do they real close together to prevent ATVs on bike and walking paths.
These are russians we are talking about. Even if they brick the entrance they would still enter
Oh my my, this was the most satisfying thing I've seen in a long time,
'you put that fucking sticker on my window? hah, Ill rip that shit right off' and they can't lmao
edit: Apparently there is loads more https://www.youtube.com/user/Lomak1581/videos :)
There are way more than that. Their last channel was taken down due to copyright. This is their current channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6s1g3k3iKuii-hJCihcRQ . Theres also different other stopxam-channels for other cities and this http://www.reddit.com/r/stopxam
Just got sucked into watching loads of their videos, they are all great. liked this moment in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibl6SHbq8sY#t=257 , sweet justice.
Homeboy lost his flip flop.
Dat limp back to the car tho.
The limp of sad, small, sidewalk-driving douchebag who lost his damn flip flop.
All in front of his girl too.
I like this one with an AK-47. I was wondering how long it was going to take for somebody to pull a gun on somebody else.
There's about 3 guns I've seen in their videos so far, usually brandished by the drivers though. Those guys have balls of steel to not back down when someone points a gun at them. Stupid, yes, but still.
But have you seen his tags!?!?!?!?
You dont hear it so well but he says "haven't you seen the plates" - referring to his license played with "AAA" on them. In russia there are some letter combos that only members of police, parliament, various enforcement offices get. so police wont stop "your own kind". some people will buy those if they have right connections, you wont get them from local "dmv". So this cool cat had smth there and someone didnt give a shit. A nice wrestling move, too bad he didnt learn his lesson (people like that dont change). I watched him get flipped like 10 times, so satisfying to see karmic justice!
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I think you need to watch more of these videos. The guy who pulled the gun, the fool who tried to drive back onto the sidewalk past the group, and the moron above who got slammed into the sidewalk all invalidate your statement and the image you linked. You're allowed your opinion, however terrible I may think it, but your argument is poor and your conclusion flawed based on the evidence on display in these videos.
The /r/askreddit post broke a rule you dumbass. It would have been removed even if the question was about men.
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So for the sand in my genitalia you ironically ask if I'm mad? At least be coherent if you want to insult me.
Seriously. Fucked that hip up.
Better than the face full of fists I was expecting.
Ever wrestled? Like the roman shit? It fucking hurts when you get throw like that on a mat by a "kid". I hate to think how it feels to get throw on asphalt by a grown ass man :/
I will tell you, that was like a love tap of a hip throw compared to what they do on the mats. I'm happy the guy understood that a good throw could literally cripple someone. Either way, i'm sure hes going to think twice before fucking with that group again.
Probably not good. After I saw the limp I watched again and his far leg flips over, shoe flys off, then only a socked foot slams the asphalt. Have fun explaining that injury, asshole.
So what you're saying is the man died?
I'm sure he died a little bit on the inside that day. You don't exactly recover from getting your ass karate-kid flipped in the middle or rush hour traffic while wearing camo swishy pants.
And his girl was in the passenger seat.
"You were supposed to hold me back!! I counted on you and you let me down. Now I look like an ass!"
It would have been great if she just stayed with them
It would've but fuck bitches like that too.
Ex-girl. Who would want to be with a guy wearing swishy pants and got his ass karate flipped in the middle of rush hour traffic.
Looks like Judo, perhaps 'O Goshi' technique, which is ironic because that's the sound you make if it's done to you.
Sounds like it was shortened to 'O Goshi' from 'O go fuck your- Oh shit!'
Awesome^TM
Actually it's called instinctually using someone's momentum against them.
That's actually a very common wrestling toss. I hated the sport but now that it doesn't matter I'm really glad I have a background in it. It's nice to have some wrestling moves in my bag of tricks in case things get out of hand.
Half died, still had other shoe. Midlife crisis for now.
I think it blew out on a pop top.
He's only MOSTLY dead...
No no no, that's only if you lose shoes, not flip flops. That's why wearing flip flops makes you invincible. Try it sometime!
It's better than flip, flop, flip, flop.
He's halfway dead.
Did he dead?
Even better was how long it took him to put the flip flop on in the first place since he was driving barefoot.
That was such an epic and totally deserved throw.
Thongs. Though I wonder what russians call them
I could feel that driver's moment of regret right when the giants Russian calmly hugged him.
And then he punched the giant Russian in the face. I feel like that's when he regretted his decision the most.
I think it's giants Russian.
For real, the russian bear just takes it. Barely even flinches, then flips that cunt all upside down haha.
"There, there...."
"You may be a douchebag, but I still love you"
punch
"Oh, I see you're a little grumpy. Let's lay you down for a nap."
Looked so tender
He tapped out right away, you can see his right hand tapping away away at the guys back. At least I think that was tapping, if he was trying to hurt him that's even funnier.
The best kind of Giant Russian to run into.
http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/I-immediately-regret-this-decision-anchorman.gif
Hah I loved an earlier moment, at around 1:20
"All people are equal, all must drive back."
So deep.
Communism at it's finest =D.
equality doesn't just apply to communism... America was based on concepts of equality. All men are equal under the law, they therefore must obey the laws equally.
This isn't America, it's Russia, and it was a simply joke because Communism everyone is equal too, a doctor will "make" the same as a policeman, etc. In Russia everyone is equal but not in the same concepts of Equality that is in "America". (This is theory, obviously no where in the world is anyone "equal")
Ok
Oh, I was wondering why they kept holding him up even after he was on the street.
So they wanted him to drive all the way back on the sidewalk instead of veering onto the road?
I think they equate reversing to the start as a form of shaming, so yeah I think that is generally the plan.
I reckon at that point they're taking it too far considering the driver already has a sticker.
What did he mean when he said, "Did you see my tags"? Would that mean he had veteran plates or something?
He has regular civilian plates, however his plate number starting with 'A', and further ending in 'AA' is what is of interest. Usually plates that start with A belong to a special series issued to government officials... and those in a favored position with ranking government officials. The fact that the plate then ends with 'AA' further reinforces this.
Russian license plates (edit: regular civilian vehicles) follow the format of X #### XX | ###, where the X's represent letters, and the # signs are numbers. The 2nd set of # signs are a number that designates the region the owner lives in.
The 777 on the plate means he lives in Moscow. Putting everything together it means that he has the 882'nd plate in the "prestigious" A ___ AA Moscow (777) license series.
As to who he is, I would venture he isn't overly important, or he would have plates from an earlier Moscow series. He was, however, important enough to bring attention to his plates and to act big and tough right up until the young man smashed him into the ground.
So he's either friends/useful to someone with power, or he has attained just enough power himself to get those plates. My guess would be the former.
EDIT - To add some further info for those interested, the actual number on the plate also heavily suggests the individual's importance. A plate like 'A 001 AA' would be the first issued in a region (might even be 000, but I'm not entirely sure), and would likely go to one of the most powerful/influential people in that region. Most of the time the Governor for non Moscow or Saint Petersburg regions. From there, the lower a number you get in the series, the more influential of an individual you usually are. This is simply because a powerful person can basically say "I'm important, I want a low number plate in the A series". So higher plate numbers show that the individual wasn't important enough to receive the social status of a low number plate.
TIL. Very cool, thank you for sharing.
same premise in Dubai
That was incredibly interesting! That you for taking the time to explain it.
Only in Russia are people so obsessed with status that getting low number plates matters.
Same thing in Switzerland, the lower the number the better in the Canton, mostly the plates are sold at an official auction (different canton different rules), more here: http://www.newlyswissed.com/high-prices-for-low-numbers/ .
It's more common than you'd think. Folks in Delaware are NUTS about that. I had no idea until I was stationed in Dover.
That's just absurd to me. I know people love their custom plates, but having a low numbered plate and caring about it to that level seems just crazy. Then again, where I'm originally from you can't keep your plates between cars and always get new plates issued with the new registration.
China too, but in a slightly different way (I don't know if they care about low numbers, but they definitely care about getting 'lucky' numbers). There are definitely ways of showing your prestige and power using license plates in various countries.
My license plate says MDY PWS and has a paw print on it because I rescue a lot of dogs and play temporary home to them.
I bet no dogs mess with you because you will straight up FOSTER the shit out of them.
When I tell people I foster dogs they always think I get paid for it for some reason. I like to think I am the most affordable bed and breakfast on the planet; for dogs only.
Thank you. One of the most interesting things I've learnt this year so far.
Thanks, I find it interesting that license plates can give you an idea about the society of a country.
Thanks! Sorry, but this is so MMORPG-ish that I need to know more:D
What happens if they crash their car? Do they get the same plates? Or what if they get a new car, would they have to settle for a lower number plate, or can they "steal" someone else's? Also, what if someone rises and overpowers someone? Would they take over their plates?
If I'd live in Russia, I'd be so grinding for those plates.
In Russia there are special tags you can either pay a huge sum to the government to get or are given to government officials that basically give you a pass on driving like a normal person and the police are told to ignore any traffic infractions by people who have these tags
Going to guess government plates.
Dat Judo...
My first thought.
Probably Sambo, considering the source.
Text book judo technique. So good.
Ippon!
Or Jiu Jitsu for that matter. That throw is pretty classic.
Yeah, pretty much any combat training has that too. Under hook to hip toss is everywhere. It was pretty damn clean though.
And that guy stumbling when he got up made my hips and back hurt just looking at him.
And that guy stumbling when he got up made my hips and back hurt just looking at him.
Depending on hard that guy was pulling him over his shoulder, it's gonna hurt for quite a while lmao. Sometimes I've had back injury when falling on our mats and those are far off from concrete.
Dat Jew doe
/r/justiceporn sfw
sfw
Not the kinda justice I'm into.
that was truly beautiful, thankyou
I love how calm they are. No hatred, they just want to stop douchebags.
The walk of shame after that is priceless
yea, those vids are addictive
Holy shit that was so good. I think I found my new favorite thing.
"Oh hey, let me just try to fight one of the 20 people in front of me, what could go wrong?"
/r/SuddenlyMetal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh67gGpaX1A#t=273
Dude gets slammed here also. So funny
The best is the one where the guy pulls a gun, the cops come and he then grovels with apologies and compliments.
The only part about this video I don't understand is why they were still lying on his hood when he was going back on the road?
Thats what I just watched, was awesome!
I've been up an hour and a half watching these. I love this stuff.
You want to punch me? Boom on the ground
Zangief wins!
Gotta love the dude that agrees with what the guys are doing but is in a rush so it really doesn't apply to him.
In this one some douchebag gets a gun out. IN fact in two of them i watched the police seemed to make them apologise to them and support their activism on camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys#t=176
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys#t=156
hahah thank you so much for that.
That was a very unproductive last hour of work. Thanks for that.
I don't get it, after trying to pull the first sticker off for a while he seemed to decide to go back on to the road, but the guy on the bonnet wouldn't get off, and then he gets out of the car to punch them. He was trying to pull out onto the road...
Forgive me if I've missed something.
Pretty sure his name is Arsten, think he says so in the second video.
Either way, Arsten is my boy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh67gGpaX1A#t=275
But the douchebag was going back onto the road, why did the wrestler stay on his windshield? Seems like he was looking for a fight
Why did they keep stickering him even when he was driving back onto the road? Because he wouldn't back out?
I think just getting them off the sidewalk is enough.
Why was he still on the guy's hood even though he was already back on the road, though?
Nice flip all the same.
Ya I loved that one too.
Also, that man is built like an adonis.
That dude just put the pussy on the chainwax!
They're so polite and reasonable, makes the videos so damn good
"Let me help you up" LOL
One night I stayed up until morning watching ALL of them. Such a justice boner.
Yeah, the smoking ones are a little fucked up, though. They put up their own signs that say no smoking and go up to smokers and ask them to put their cigarettes out. If they don't, they spray their cigarettes with water bottles. I can get behind stopping people from driving on sidewalks and parking in no parking zones, but making up your own rules and then enforcing them on people doesn't seem right to me.
This encounter is by far the most satisfying video I've ever seen.
I love getting lost in their videos!
Came here to say this - that was awesome - Artem can look after himself :-)
Episode 14 by the way!!!
Sambo at its finest. Nice hip throw.
Humans really, really can't stand to admit their faults. Until the police arrive.
And that makes me sad.
I fucking lost it at the first one here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFNC_ka5Xw
Let me help you up.
Go fuck yourself!
lmao
Beautiful!
This is amazingly satisfying.
I wouldn't say this is sweet justice at all. There was a crowd of people antagonizing the guy driving for quite some time, fucking with his car hanging off the hood... The guy doing that deserved to get his ass kicked
How can I give these people money or vodka or whatever it is good russians like?
They are way more entertaining than most movies I've seen recently.
YESSSSS! Love it. Does anyone know who he was? Some local celeb?
I actually kinda felt bad for that guy. He was trying to get back on the road at least.
Yup, Its 2:18am and I have to work at 7am but here I am watching dozens of these videos haha
HOW'M A DOOIN' T'DAE, GAREH BUSEH?
Brutal. I could be a little concerned if some of these guys were thugs that would some how take revenge.
That hip throw was the most satisfying thing ive seen in a long time.
what the fuck would make a skinny boy like that think he could take on someone twice his size and with all his buddies there no less.
Dude was a cop too, mentions his license plate, A on plate = police.
If he's a cop, it's pathetic how easy he got his ass handed to him.
Sorry. Got my decoder dialed in wrong, A#####AA = bureaucrat or regional governor.
That's not necessarily true. It means he is either a government official, or more likely just friends with one.
this one is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh67gGpaX1A#t=280
They broke his foot, heel bone. Broke mine in a match. Exact same throw.
... yet, at the same time I kind of want to see someone pull out a gun and blast some of these fucks in the chest and head.
I just want more bloodshed.
Thanks for repping the sub! Much appreciated!
Are you a part of the people doing this?
I'm not part of their group no, but i wanted to participate, and when i saw that they don't have their own subreddit i decided to create /r/stopXAM . Its been more difficult to track down their videos recently though, because their original youtube channel got shut down for copyright violations (they have got to stop using peoples music without permission). I hope to see more people post there because so far its been mainly just me, and these stopXAM guys, they do good work.
I sure do aswell, it's things like this that can help people see that not alla russians are complete idiots or whatever they believe.
Stereotyping people from other countries nowadays often leads to racist views and that road leads nowhere good.
Which videos have subtitles?
Turn on CC, then click the settings button (looks like a gear), then Translate Captions and select English or whatever language.
*it's not perfect, but it is something.
it's not perfect
I checked, it really isn't...
Video #119 aaalriigghttt
Edit: and with that I mean 'wow that many videos'
Link? They dont look numbered on my end.
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yeah
Then how about you fucking link it? I will put this sticker in your fucking forehead.
lol, but I did http://www.reddit.com/r/stopxam ^ ^
On the subreddit, there is a link with "#119" in the title.
It's been removed :(
I noticed the guy driving the Transit in episode 16 managed to flatten a pigeon. I thought that was an impossible task.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFNC_ka5Xw#t=56s
Start at number ten and work your way up. Before that it's a bit lamer and their stickers peel off easy.
Thanks for sharing, dude.
Haha, that MMA guy (or w/e) fucks their shit up.
the top video on that channel has them posting a sticker on a cop car. Does anyone know what they are saying to each other when the cop comes out and sees it?
Copyright? What were they infringing?!
They are using copyrighted music without permission.
Why stopXam though? Shouldnt it just be stopCam?
Fuck. Yes.
Copyright of what?
Music
I was wondering why they haven't uploaded in awhile. I was a YT subscriber and had no idea that the channel just doesn't excist anymore.
Their last channel was taken down due to copyright.
Whose copyright? That makes no sense!
I believe you that that's the reason they were given for taking the channel down, but there is no way what they are doing is violating anyone's copyright.
Translations anywhere?
I just spent all of my work day watching these thanks.
The videos on the other channel were better because they had subtitles. I wish I could learn Russian just so I can watch these videos.
Aw man everything on that sub is removed. I feel so disappointed :( Can't get enough of these vids. The satisfaction is real
But that Lomak channel is the only one with English captions, right? I'm on my phone so I might be missing them.
I watched the 20 in English but i cant find any more that have been translated. Do you know where I could find someone
I just got sucked into an hour of those, thanks :)
A related group is Lion Versus, where people accost those smoking in public places. When they bring out the spray bottles and start squirting the person's cigarette, it escalates pretty quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jww-su7nGQE
I was thinking how I would react if they put a sticker on my windshield but then I remembered I'm not a douchebag
Honestly if they threatened to put a sticker on my windshield I would instantly use my windshield spray to get my windshield nice and wet... no way that adhesive shit would work on a wet surface.
Clever girl! Honestly if they threatened to put a sticker on my car I'd probably back it out and get off the sidewalk.
Girl? I'm a dude... anyways, yea playing it safe isn't a bad idea either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8o5fxnDUjs
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clever-girl
Haha thanks for the knowledge
If in your fantasies you imagine yourself as the driver on the sidewalk instead of the people fighting to prevent it...
Yeah, you might actually be a douchebag.
He may be a douchebag in his fantasies, but you calling him an actual douchebag for that makes you look like a bit of a douchebag in real life...
Hah, turns out reddit agrees. One day I'll figure out this humor thing.
I hope this wasn't your best shot at humor, because I honestly didn't get that that's what it was... :P But don't worry, you gain some, you lose some! That's just the circle of ~~life~~reddit! ;)
how bout that victory music every time the car backs up? so upbeat baby
so much disrespect with the music haha
Down with the sickness!
This every time a car backs up.
OMG this one is hilarious!
I'm a fan of the guy in the pink shirt. Here, hold my purse, I'm going to show this slut my dick.
Damnit, the way you worded that made me laugh so much that I watched the video and was so disappointed that's not exactly what he said... Still golden though.
I think next time I get in a fight, I'm gonna say that. "You want me to show you my dick?" I feel like that would just confuse the hell out of people.
Don't forget to end it with "slut" ... most important part.
Yeah, but then it becomes a threat. If you leave that part out, it's just a disconcerting proposal.
"We must be doing it for a reason, don't you think?"
Yeah. Because you're douchebags.
That's like saying "Officer, I killed my wife for a reason, don't you think?"
This is actually their current channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/stopxamlive
Most recent video posted yesterday. It already has 262,009 views.
These bitches are making fucking YouTube bank. That woman told them to get a job? This is literally their job.
How much money does ~300k views get?
The best approximate figure is $2 per 1000 views. It may be slightly more or slightly less depending on if they are in a network/their country's advertising/random variation.
So that's about $600 for the video.
Which in Russia, is making bank.
especially if they get paid in dollars.
pretty sure it varies per country, region, as the type of adds may be regional for the viewership.
It also depends on if people have AdBlock or not. They get paid based on ad views, not video views.
Yeah, but enough people don't use Adblock to make my estimation still valid
It's probably somewhat less for Russian views.
Source: work in advertising
In 8 months, their videos have garnered 18,442,015. If the above $2/1k views is accurate, that's $37k in 8 months, or $4600k per month, or on pace for $55k/yr.
I find this incredible, but wikipedia says the average Russian income is 31,929 RUB, which is fucking $480 per month. Clearly that's not the average income of the cities in which these videos are shot, but it's an idea...
2$, not 20$
Actually, the dollar sign goes first. $2. But thanks for the heads-up.
Oh wow, I actually managed to mess up how to write currency. Well that's embarrassing.
Just so you know, that wiki page is monthly salaries, not annual.
Indeed, that's why I turned the youtube income into monthly, to show they're nearly ten times as much. But I'll clarify.
$20 is not even remotely close to a normal CPM.
If you actually read the thread, you'd see it was $2 and $20 was a typo. But congrats on your impressive skimming ability to read for errors and completely miss any comprehension. Too bad your math skills didn't help you to see that had I used 20, all the other values would be off by a factor of ten.
i know around 60000 vieuws can make 0,40 dollar's or something like that, a small youtube'er (friend) told me that so that would be around 6,6666666666666666666666666666667e-4 a view or 200 dollars for 300k views (but than again yt'ers aren't allowed to say the whole deal part of the terms of agree ). Russian video's have other ads/revenue than american video's so it can really depend on what the ads are and if people are using ad-block
You're just all over the place with your apostrophes here. You only need to put one of those when you are signifying possession, not making a word plural.
Not to mention his significant figures
they do that in a lot of different countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Examples_of_use
I think s/he's referring to the number of digits past the decimal, not the decimal itself.
He/she
Patrick
Nice to meet you, Ms. Patrick.
ohhh the sixes, right
Also the 7. Don't forget the 7!
You are kinda wrong there. The old YouTube agreement was that you can't discuss your earnings, but now you can.
http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/stopxamlive
"stopxam makes anywhere between $14,000 and $240,000"
well, isn't that helpful
it gets even more ridiculous when I look up my youtube channel
$99 - 1.6k yearly earnings. I've made $1. actually, i've made $1.47, fucking hooray.
around 500$ or so depends how many people are using adblock etc...
$3.50
Like $20
About tree fiddy.
About 3.50
However much it is they earned it.
Man, that bald guy in the last video is the epitome of Russian stubbornness and pride. He's gonna stand there until sunrise and have his whole car covered in stickers instead of admitting his fault and backing up.
They really need to get someone to translate these videos into English and other languages and they could really make bank.
They usually do, you can have a translation with the captions, but it takes a few days before it's translated.
Anything with English subtitles?
On some videos they manually made russian subs that you can change to english in the right corner of a video.
Ah so this is the original source, as several other channels have random videos from them and are being taken down.
Yes indeed
Do you know if there is another channel other than Lomak1581 with english subs ?!
On some of their videos they manually made russian subs that you can change to english in the right corner of a video.
You know I don't speak spanish.
It is not in spanish.
but no subtitles its hard to understand
Well it's an original source. Videos that are older than a week have subtitles in russian, which youtube can translate to whatever language you want. All found in settings button under the video, right corner
I looked into it the translations aren't really good, it's all mumbled
It works only when it's not audio translation by YouTube itself. If it does not work for you there is nothing I can do :)
The rap is pure gold. Makes em seem like proper badasses.
How can I support this movement, philosophically and financially? Every single one of their videos is gold.
You want to send money to Russia?
Better than that Nigerian jerk I never heard back from.
I just cashed my check from him the other day. Word is bond.
Oh, really? Maybe he just didn't get my first check. I'll send another.
Hey man, I'm a lawyer specializing in cses like this. Just send $1000 to my off-shore account and I'll get in touch with you soon.
That's how you get put on a list.
Why not? The world needs more people like this. Take a stand and do the right thing. These guys are awesome. Who cares what country they're from?
Bitcoin.
Seriously, these guys should publish a public wallet address for donations.
A bank wire ain't a bad way to do it.
buy a t-shirt, i think thats a pertty good way.
Email them to accept bitcoin. Then it's safe and easy.
This is literally the first time I've actually encountered a situation in which Bitcoin is actually useful.
Receiving money from abroad makes things tough for them.
It's bitcoin. How do they know it's from abroad?
Kickstarter
Everyone here is focused on money, but philosophical support is more important. These guys are a federally funded NGO (think Putin), thus don't need your money.
As a feat of irony, however, they've had several incidences of scandalous "stickering" of government officials, even after they told them who they were. But don't Ad Hominem them for being funded by Putin! Support the Russian people but scorn their government, instead.
this movement is created under one of Putin's propaganda team management, thus I don't recommend you to do this. russians deserve to live in that sh*t they have in their country.
wow you are one pathetic sad human being
What?
I don't doubt you, but I don't care either way. If they are backed by Putin politically, then they just don't need our financial support.
I focus more on what these kids are learning from all this. Stand up for what's right, don't be intimidated, and everyone is equal. In a country and culture known for corruption and bullying, where these kids end up in the next 10 to 20 years can have a rippling impact in their communities. Even if they support the status quo government now, involving yourself in this level of activism is bound to require an honest evaluation of your party's activities.
"Putin is Russian, and I don't like Putin. Therefore, I hate all Russians."
The logic here is flawless.
how did you think that the first is the reason of the last? these are two separate statements.
Let me get you some examples:
One more thing: as always there are normal people and those ones I've talked about in above. In Russia you have like 80%+ of the second. Sorry about potential grammatical mistakes, please correct me if I'm wrong somewhere.
Please Reddit... please...I beg you... bring these guys for an AMA.
They are awesome and we need people like them in other countries as well.
In my city, any path like this has a metal pole that would stop anything as wide as a car. Roadside sidewalks not included of course but it would have worked for anyone in this video. Some even have a key and pin to fold down for winter maintenance vehicles.
what's ironic that some Moscow's government did install those poles on many streets. They did resolve the problem of drivers parking on sidewalk... but the number of ticketed parking violation decreased dramatically, and Moscow government didn't like that... Now those metal poles are removed.
I guess every ruble counts these days.
this happened 1-2 years ago
Facts don't matter in the eternal pursuit of le karma
They were hurting economically then too, it just didn't show as much as it does now.
Dont take me wrong, here in Brazil we have that as well, but on many high traffic areas like that, people will just come up at night and destroy it.
Holy crap. That deserves some heavy duty reinforced concrete posts wrapped in balloons so that people will try to run them over.
Edit: the same principle as this cement soccer ball http://i.imgur.com/B2aeFnd.gif
That may be the meanest thing I have seen in a long time
I feel like I shouldn't have laughed at that as that kid probably hurt his foot but damn if I didn't chuckle....
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Ya, I could almost feel the foot and shin breaking when he hit that.
Seriously? I live in Brazil and have never seen this happen. Then again, I do not live in a big city.
Yea, Im from Sao Paulo.
The tartarugasmade of concrete over here are all destroyed by these kind of people.
A bollard!
also called a Sex Piston (never mind the bollards).
those metal poles are called bollards FYI. I dont know why I'm telling you this. its just a neat term to know.
Moscow and Petersburg have them, or concrete bumps so cars can't drive. However every building needs to organize it themselves.
"Bollards" is the name and can be made of stone. They could even use natural quarry rock cut in cubes and install them at the beginning of the sidewalk, very cheap and indestructible, well "mostly", don't forget that some people drive tanks in Russia.
Reminded me of another source of justiceporn, the bollards vs. cars videos.
Russian sidewalks need bollards, obvs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0wY-hvMC44
That black car needs a new radiator.
If those Russian cities had the budget they could use pressure plate activated bollards like those. Anything heavy as a car gets those hitting it from below.
Its not activated by pressure, but by Infra red and sensor. Just like tow passages that have that little box inside you car that let you drive through
That is not infra-red, this would be too unreliable. It is RF.
Yea, thank you... was trying to remember the name.. My mistake :D
No probs mate, glad to help =D
Ok, I will try to contact them then. I think they will be quite interested.
I'm pretty certain that doing that in the US would get you shot.
If they didnt get shot in Russia, you wont get shot in America, even more with all the lawsuits around
I may have a skewed perspective, I live in FL. So you combine the bat-shit crazy of FL with the fact that we have the highest number of concealed weapons permits in the country and yeah, you'd get shot if FL for sure.
I suppose Russia is a chaotic and run down country which makes stupid things like people driving cars on sidewalks a not too uncommon sight. But where else in the world is this happening -- I'm curious, where do you live? I have never seen this before in my life (I just wasn't too shocked to see it in Russia).
Live in Brazil. Driving on sidewalks not that much, but people doing u-turns, turns into streets, driving on wrong way on small streets, destroying those small concrete blocks so they can drive through, etc.
On sidewalks is mostly motorcycles delivery that does that.
I've contacted the guys who were said to the leaders through vk.com (it's like Facebook for Russia and CIS if you didn't know) and now i'm waiting for a reply from them.
Thank you! Hope they reply!
I love they all assume it's an easy to remove sticker, then suddenly "nope"!
Welp... There goes my productivity for the day.
Yup, I'm going to be watching these videos and in this thread for hours.
They put the Porn in Justice Porn.
I have an idea for the people in this movement I don't know how to pass to them. For the people who insist on driving while people on their hood, you can buy a valve stem remover for very cheap. Remove the valve stem from their tire and hand it to them. Not many people carry the valve stem removers, as only most auto/tire shops have them, and they will be forced to put on a spare or take it to a shop.
Bad idea: 1) They driver can accelerate the tire at any time. Very dangerous to have a tool on a spinning tire, plus you could break your fingers. 2) It would definitely be considered vandalism, while adhesive stickers aren't considered vandalism.
Is it because the stickers are on the window it's not considered vandalism? I know that if you put stickers on the paint, it is.
Whenever I get my oil change they put a sticker on my windshield. Can I sue Jiffy lube?
thick phone poles about as wide as a car, carry it with them and drop it in front of the vehicles. Either people drive over it which is a large bump and risk damaging their undersides, drive around (Use more than one?) or just comply and back up.
Places with large grass yards put these poles on the edges of their yards to prevent people from messing them up.
First...wow, Russia has some progressive smoking laws. I never would have expected it from them.
Secondary...wow that woman smoking while pregnant. I really hope she has shamed enough to stop...but I know she won't.
Ya, these guys are the brazzers of justice porn.
That moment took me from feeling proud of the guys to making me feel so happy. Plenty of warnings but the stickers, they don't come off!
I love how some of them seemed to realise the problem and reversed.
On episode 15 at the end there is a guy talking through a megaphone attached to his SUV. Reminded me of this scene from Spaceballs: The Movie.
They need one guy to hold a big digital clock and time how long each altercation takes. That way they can be like:
"Sir/Ma'am, you've wasted 4 minutes and 45 seconds here when you could have just taken the road instead of the sidewalk."
Subscribed. I'm kinda sad they don't do English translations on their own channels.
I find this really entertaining. Just the fact that they are getting so mad over such a small thing. Its enjoyable to watch these people in their fancy cars bicker over sidewalk space!
just watched every one of their videos in a sitting, they are pretty awesome, they dont flinch when guys pull guys on them! and hold firm and even places stickers still with a guy in sight
You are my hero. I can watch these all night. Thanks for the link.
I just binge watched them all and I learned two things. That a lot of russians like to threaten people with guns, and that this kids have ball of steel.
These guys are trolling even police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdCefv-GL34
Yes! And when that one driver stole the gal's water, that girl was ready to rock since driver took the bottle. Don't fuck with her water!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
I was just about to ask if there's more of that because I could watch it all day long. Thank you!
Actually, I have seen other reports on these youth groups and in a German news report they claimed these groups are paid by the Kremlin.
Makes you wonder why the government themselves doesn't take care of these traffic violations by letting the Russian police do their job.
I'm really afraid for these guys. I'm just waiting for some pissed off person to pull a gun on them. What if they stopped some Russian mafia dude. Yikes.
Happened numerous times already lol, they still kept going with 'move or sticker you'
"Stop a Douchebag" Ep.3 - A Dude Shows Up with AK-47: http://youtu.be/O1jGNd4Deys
Russia, where you can apparently threaten someone with a gun and get get off with a warning.
Thanks a lot. I just spent the last hour of my life watching all 16 of their videos. Time well spent!
Oh man, some of those self-entitled douchebags just make me so mad. I can't watch that for more than a few minutes at a time.
I don't really like the anti smoking vids, the road ones I do enjoy though
There goes my productive morning...
That body slam at the end. Too awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibl6SHbq8sY
Wow, Russia has really big sidewalks.
They are definitely making this more dramatic than. It needs to be though... If they really just wanted to stop this, they would stand at the entrance to the sidewalk, not the middle or far down it. They make it harder than it needs to be for entertainment value... So decent movement, but still done in a way that will get them more views through higher confrontation
I love it when they take pictures of the kids. What are they gonna do? "Hey police look at these kids blocking the sidewalk that I'm driving on!"
every major city in Russia has a group of people who are making it
and there are Anti-drug groups that just walk around city busting drug dealers and alcoholics who disturb peace
there's a pedophile hunter in Russia who phishes with a fake account pedophiles and then "has a talk with em"
there's SO MUCH SHIT people get done by themeselves that in the west would be considered "gvmnt should provide this service for our taxes"
Why are they picking on smokers? They are upset that people are smoking while they are walking down the fucking street? I just lost all sympathy for these assholes.
Well apparently that is a different group so there is that.
Yea, I figured that out after a few videos. I just don't understand peoples obsession with people smoking near them when they are outside. It is one thing if you are standing at a bus stop or somewhere like that and someone stands right next to you. But if they are walking by, and you get pissed, you are the problem.
I was clapping and howling at my screen when the wrestler from the group just BODYSLAMMED one of the douchebags. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibl6SHbq8sY#t=249
Russian government is distributing them iirc, people just pay the postage fee and get their stickers and can go out and be heroes. Feel it can easily be misused tho, idk.
rofl, that's kind of funny
It seems the women tend to handle it way worse than men. Like they immediately engage bitchy cunt mode only to get stickered to hell. Good for these guys.
Yo, we need a translation on this video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EMYljo5njQ#t=97
What gave it away, the "Episode 17"?
I believe that what they're doing is great but I think some bollards will be a better long term solution.
Well, this is sad. While at first you might think this is sweet justice, but in fact whole organization consists of assholes who break the law.
- They put a sticker on the window, making vehicle dangerous to operate. Try to drive with this kind of sticker in America, you will probably be shot by a cop.
- The sticker is hard to remove, and it leaves a layer of glue which will probably cost money to remove. This is straight damage of other person's property.
- They create dangerous situations on roads, you may see a number of them on the video. Potentional traffic accidents.
- They don't solve the problem. They make it worse by making those entertaining videos. This squads' most videos are about removing cars from places where it is illegal to park. The problem is cities are way too full of cars and there are not enough parking spots and the government can't / don't want to solve the problem.
- They are crimianls. On some videos you can see them being covered by armed people who are usually off-camera.
- They are cowards too who attack harmless people that don't really know their rights. There was one video where they encountered some tough-skin, who called the cops, they arrived and jailed all those assholes.
You can search youtube and see many videos with these guys being arrested. They also create a lot of dangerous situations with fights, weapons, broken cars and lots of cops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVKr-DLBYSo
Do you really think these activists belong to "justice porn"?
They don't attack people from what I have seen nor does it seem probable they have armed people with them, can you show us the video that proves they have armed people with them that belong to that group?
I wouldn't say these people who drive on the sidewalk or park there cars in front of other people are fully innocent.
And if there are not enough parking spots then either wait till there are or go by foot, bike etc. but don't park you car in front of others peoples cars or in places so people can't do their job etc.
Just random search: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVKr-DLBYSo
You can see what kind of situations they create, with fighting, broken cars and lots of cops.
So they put themselves in dangerous situations to stop dangerous behavior of others.
is it the best solution? Maybe not, but it's not as as bad as you claim it to be, also that video tells me nothing since I don't speak russian
It is as bad as I say. This organization is a business, they are not "good doers". They earned more than a million dollars (which is A LOT in Russia, especially these days). I don't have translated source, only Russian videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MSz2x4BJ8U
They do illegal activities in order to get money, they create lots of dangerous situations, start fights, they distract police from real criminal situations after all.
They create dangerous situations (mostly for themselves) as a reaction to dangerous acts done by others, they pretty much only call the cops when someone gets really aggressive and has a weapon or is big.
You didn't get what I was saying. People call cops on them and get them arrested, because all they do is illigal, dangerous and provocative. I can do quick search and get you dozens of videos with them being arrested.
That in and of itself doesn't prove anything about the morality of it, not cooperating with the Nazis was once illegal as well.
I don't see anything common between Nazis and vehicles with blocked view that makes nearly impossible to drive.
Are you sure they make money off of it? Their videos don't seem to be monetized (at least not the recent ones I checked), and they're funded by the Russian federal government.
they distract police from real criminal situations after all
That's just silly.
They get funds from the government, they get "donations" from misguided people (like in this thread) and they get quite a bit from ads on their videos and their website.
That might be silly, but if you see how many times they were called cops on, its not really fun. Police officers definitely have something better to do than wiping shit after these people who make entertaining videos.
Too bad I don't know Russian, otherwise I'd look more into it.
Police officers definitely have something better to do than wiping shit after these people who make entertaining videos.
A big part of being a uniform is just driving around to see if anything happens. Honestly, it's not like they're wasting time that would be used on something else.
I prefer cops to drive around looking for real criminals instead of wasteing time in situations like this, because we don't have nearly enough policemen here. Especially considering traffic jams, it might take them hours to arrive to the scene and to get from there.
I don't have particular video in mind, but there are many videos shot by drivers and random people. The one you just watched was of course edited by this organization and consists mostly of the most "bad drivers".
I am not saying that drivers are innocent, but this organization operates outside the law. You can search youtube and see loads of videos with those "activists" being arrested.
I am not saying that drivers are innocent, but this organization operates outside the law
Just because they are operating outside the law doesn't necessarily mean your are morally right, not cooperating with the Nazis also once was illegal.
More like most aggrivating thing i've seen in a long time.
I may sound like a troll here, but trust me I'm not. these kids are morons.
First off, IDK the laws in russia, so i'm going to be relating this to what would happen in the US.
One. The stickers? That's fucking vandalism. Any car could have pulled into a legal spot, phoned the cops and best case: They both get in trouble. Worst(and more likely imo) the punks get vandalism charges and the driver drives off.
Two. The physical blocades? Yeah, don't do that. To start, If a group of kids approaches my car, I just might freak the fuck out. You wanna risk your life to stop some douchebags from taking a shortcut(also look at the first "Sidewalk." Unless i'm missing something that looks like a road) I think you got a few brain cells that havent quite developed yet.
Oh so you did get hurt? Guess what? You were a mob, actively trying to stop a moving vehicle. Do you know who the courts are going to side with because I sure don't!
No, this isn't a Movement. It's a bunch of kids trying to be Vigilantes in one of the dumbest ways possible so they can go viral on youtube. Why you think its english translated. They want fucking hits.
I watched another one and this guy is trying to tell a cop"SHE RAN OVER MY FOOT! STOP HER!" Uhhhh Yeah she did because you were harassing her, blocking her car and gave her no choice. HER FAULT.. Can't make this shit up.
I dunno. It's not as satisfying as it should be, because these people are unapologetic. They feel as if they've been wronged by being called out on being awful people, and that they not only did nothing wrong to begin with, but are a victim. They're not going to do anything differently. The two women are going to go down the sidewalk next time they get a chance.
It was nice when the one girl got her head slammed into the car, but not enough.
I can see how they are trying to do good, but they break an extremely important rule (much worse than ANY parking infringement): Don't fuck with another man's vehicle!
Stopping them and forcing them to go back - nice. The stickers? They should be fucking shot for sticking them on the windshield.
Also, do they really think when people are unable to get the stickers off and are forced to drive without seeing that they have made their roads safer??? Or the alternative, forcing them to stay in the "forbidden zone" even longer to remove the stickers before driving away.
EDIT: I guess all other redditors are pedestrians who don't own a car - all I see in the comments are people who want to suck these russians off, not a single negative comment. Imagine you stopping for 1 minute to pick up your wife (who recently broke both legs and walk with crutches) at a bus stop on an otherwise completely filled street at a time when you know that there will be no bus for a long time and some assholes come and destroys your windshield. How would you feel? Would you still sing their praise?
check his history, he appears to be a gamergate psychopath.
Really just goes to show how often that douche says that sentence.
That guy is fucking douche, not only is he an ass, he makes his wife scrape the windshield.
Where's this exchange from? I've watched like 6 of these videos now and I don't remember that one.
I think there's something lost in translation.
Nah. Those are quotes from both the recorded, and the recorder. They laugh when it happens.
Their whole channel should be stickied on /r/justiceporn
Stickied so hard they can't pull it off?
http://i.imgur.com/oYwRHjj.jpg
where's that from
The movie Supertroopers.
Thanks man
http://gfycat.com/BoilingQuerulousGreendarnerdragonfly
most accurate reaction gif
You no kid Russian glue, it stick very good.
Ayyy
this is awesome.
Nah, they'd have to beat those drivers half ot death for that.
Anyway, those guys do this to accomplish something - to discourage bad driving. r/justicporn is only about spite and revenge. Those guys are too good for that sub.
spite and revenge.
Those guys are too good for that sub.
Hmm....
Lol
They've certainly got stickers to spare
My husband did this.
We lived on the first street up from the main road. We were pretty close to the intersection too, which was a pretty busy intersection. The side street we were on was a one way.
Well, they were doing construction one summer on the intersection, and people would try to drive down our street the wrong way to go around the construction. Not only would they drive the wrong way, but they would speed because they were already in such a hurry.
There were kids on our street, a man in a powered chair who always used the street because the sidewalk was pretty bad.
My husband finally got tired of it. He parked his truck on the other side of the street from my aunt's truck, and he would stand between them when someone would drive down the wrong way. He'd make them turn around, and what made it so much better is we were only the third house from the end of the street.
One guy got so pissed he drove up over the curb and on someones front lawn to go around.
Another guy pushed my husband down the rest of the street with his car.
A man got out, and the cops were called because a neighbor thought he had a gun.
Another man came back after turning around and threatened to beat my husband's ass, but the man had found god so that prevented him from doing so.
One woman said, but I have my kid in the car, as if my husband was doing something to harm her kid.
Most people just complained because they were in a hurry and had places to be. I sat on the porch the whole time and just watched. Watched in horror as he was pushed by the vehicle, or watched in absolute entertaining humor as these people whined and complained because he made them turn around.
The cops showed up and told him he couldn't do it anymore, and they sat at the end of the street waiting for people to go the wrong way. Then we sat on the porch watching these people get pulled over.
They eventually put up another one way sign at the beginning of the street.
Awesome story, thanks so much for sharing. Husband sounds like an amazing guy. Cops sound like amazing cops.
"But he had found God so that prevented him from doing so" ....you just made my day. Done with the Internet for the evening! 'Night! 😀😀😀
The great part of this is that even though the cops made him stop doing this, they took over and pulled people over. xD
I didn't say this in my original comment but this was over the course of a couple days, it took a while for the cops to come out and take over.
So was there no one-way sign previously? Was it not obvious that this was a one-way street?
There were 3 one way signs, after everything that happened with him standing in the street they added a 4th one.
Don't know where you are from but hitting (pushing) a pedestrian or pushing a car down the road (ramming) are both misdemeanors where I live. Most likely would get reckless driving.
Im glad the police stepped up and started patrolling the street. Perfect ending.
Another man came back after turning around and threatened to beat my husband's ass, but the man had found god so that prevented him from doing so.
I have no idea what that statement means, he found god in the space of time he turned around?
Im sure it was an excuse as to why he wouldn't "beat" his ass.
The guy came up to us when we were sitting on the porch and said "I'd beat your ass but I've been to jail and since then have found God"
This is a fairly common excuse for realizing you're a bitch and not starting a fight.
And what did we learn? That going out on the road and blocking traffic yourself is a dumb idea
Wow. THIS guy took a LOT of encouraging...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQPTa8DU-Uo
Any way to get that vid subtitled?
It has russian subtitles which you can translate with YouTube. It's as accurate as Google Translate, but you can get the gist.
Haha the retards behind the wheel start watching the episode of stopxam with the lexus and AK guy :D
ok, so they are asking the dude to get off the sidewalk because its unsafe, cool, but they are asking him to back down the same sidewalk (on snow) and then back into traffic in order to get off the sidewalk as opposed to letting the guy go forward another 10 feet where there is a driveway into a parking lot.
Yeah, the guy should not be driving on the sidewalk but making him back off the sidewalk when there is an easier and safer way right in front of him doesn't make sense either. Neither does covering every window so they can't see out. Do they want him off the sidewalk or do they want to make a scene for youtube? seems to me like these guys are more interested in making a scene at the expense of an extreme douchebag then they are about actually making the sidewalk safe to walk on. Especially when trolling douchebags is a pretty much guaranteed way of creating a profitable youtube channel.
Stopping people when they get ON the sidewalk as opposed to when they are stuck and trying to get off would be safer and more successful but that doesnt make good youtube videos.
You are incorrect. There are many places to drive onto the sidewalk and likely one common exit. You would have to have a lot of people to block all entry points.
there is pretty clearly railing on both sides of the sidewalk for a considerable distance. One side has a pedestrian rail to keep people from falling into whatever is off to that side and the other side has a guard rail to keep cars from driving up on the sidewalk.
So, in fact it looks like that would be a very easy sidewalk to block off.
The problem with that is, if they would let them ride through drivers would do the same thing again and again.
So stop them as soon as they get on the sidewalk instead of at the end of the sidewalk where they get off.
They don't have to let drivers thru, but also don't have to wait until very end of the sidewalk to stop people either. However, waiting until the end to stop people greatly increases the likelihood that those people will act like douchebags, which is good for youtube views.
I guess my point is there are less douchey ways to stop douchebags from being douchey. They just aren't as fun to watch.
Yeah, they should at least be closer to the middle of the sidewalk, even if not at the very beginning.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/attachment.php?attachmentid=242174&stc=1&d=1170816741
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somebody needs a sticker
taking one quick look at that dudes posting history... can't tell if troll or just actually a gigantic asshole
taking one quick look at that dudes posting history... can't tell if troll or just actually a gigantic asshole
candid fashion police is a subreddit dedicated to taking pics of random girls without their consent to jerk off to. It was previously called creepshots and was featured in the news and as a result was banned. they weaseled around the ban by creating r/candidfashionpolice. he mods it.
i've got my money on gigantic asshole.
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Looks like we found the douchebag driver.
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Yeah, I don't think that's how cosmic justice works
Do you think people are going to drive around all day with the damn sticker on their windshield? I figure it's less dangerous for them to drive on the road with poor visibility than to drive on the fucking sidewalk.
Do you think people are going to drive around all day with the damn sticker on their windshield? I figure it's less dangerous for them to drive on the road with poor visibility than to drive on the fucking sidewalk.
The stickers say "I don't care for anyone, I drive where I want." If someone hasn't answered that already.
It was translated in the video it's self.
Wow. I can't believe I (and a whole bunch of other people) missed that.
Nvm, I figured out why. It's a bunch of text and it was only on the screen for 2 seconds.
It's ok, I missed it too and was wondering what did the sticker say.
Same here. I eventually assumed it was an obnoxious campaign sticker, maybe very outdated or for an unpopular candidate.
I saw it pop up on the screen for a second and had to remind and pause to see it.
I was searching for more videos, on their real channel they have more videos,but only in Russian https://www.youtube.com/user/Lastochka67/videos
It was translated in the video it is self.
I, too, am self
It was translated in the video [full stop]
it's self
I hope English isn't your first language, mate.
Thanks
I'm glad they used hard to remove stickers.
This is a reference to a type of license plate powerful people can get.
its in the video..
Thanks, I've been looking for that forever!
Feel like those drivers should be proud to have that sticker.
I'd totally get one.
Thank you for the translation! :)
Jesus I had to scroll down far to find this haha
Thank you! This is way too far down the thread
Why is this not higher up? I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who didn't read Russian.
That's the way I felt too. So I did the leg work of researching it for you all.
I was actually kind of trying to find a way to dislike the kids. While they are correct about these situations, I couldn't help but wonder if they were using the situation just so that they could be jerks.
If their sign had said "Asshole driver." or some other similarly unhelpful or rude thing, it would have confirmed my suspicion I think. I would have thought "they're just trying to instigate more violent reactions by having that on their sticker", but what the sticker says is completely fitting and justified. If they're going to create real change in these driver's minds, it has to come from some task.
Basically, with these stickers they made the argument "You saving 5 minutes on your commute by driving on pedestrian roadways makes people unsafe. Therefore, I conclude that you don't care about anyone else, and only care about your extra five minutes."
The stickers actually staying on there and needing to be removed later forces these people to consider that argument. I picture them going home, getting a bucket and suds and starting to remove it and thinking to themselves about it while they read the words.
The video did.... Translation was in the video
"I blowjobbed it." I got road rage just watching that...
But at least she held her phone horizontally when recording/taking a picture right??
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New month, Anastasiya. Blowjob is due.
I suddenly feel so guilty for just blindly assuming her to be a maniac!
It's europe-ish. We record in landscape mode.
I'm confused as to why she took the photo/video.
If she backed out and then used it to report to the police, it makes sense. But you aren't going to go to the police if the first thing you do when you get back in the car is to attempt to run them over.
To take to her pimp or whoever her sugar daddy is.
She didn't say anything wrong... there's just no way of directly translating "ra-sa-sah-la" (how it's pronounced) in one word other than "blowjobbed". A crude translation is "I sucked it apart" but with context it's "I sucked(s) someone off for it" in the sense that the way it's phrased implies that it wasn't just one blowjob.
On her iphone 6. That was so expected.
This is one of the only instances in which holding it vertical would have probably been better as she would get their full bodies in the shot.
why is that important?
EDIT: this was a genuine question, I honestly did not know this was a thing.
Because it doesn't have to look this way.
thanks:)
Damn straight! Vertical video plebs, man.
This comment was left before reddit turned to shit.
I can honestly say that it would depend on what car we are talking about.
Not with that attitude you wouldn't.
But apparently she did.
/r/sexwithcars
she made a blowjob to someone who gave her the car or she was presented with a car in exchange for a blowjob it's called "насосала"
But we all learned a new verb today!
My new favorite all purpose verb replacement since "I smurfed it."
I'm going to assume that means surfing in a cold ocean until your little toesies turn blue. Please do not inform me of any other meaning.
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I'm sensing this is a reference to something...care to share?
https://www.reddit.com/comments/2ueic2/slug/co7p38i
This I think.
The Russian language allows the conjugation if nouns into verbs (more or less), so it should be an accurate translation. But, I dont speak enough Russian to know those actual words.
I think the word she used was "насосала." She 'sucked' for it.
...my knowledge of vulgar (and most) russian is minimal.
But you could have gotten road head.
I prefer airheads.
I was editor of the school magazine!
So does her boss.
I worked at an airhead factory for a while, I'll choose road head every time.
Last time that happened I got pulled over for speeding. Apparently I don't drive as well when getting head.
Load rage
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I wasn't racist.
Road-raging boner?
It's when you really want to fuck but no one is willing.
I'm a straight dude, but i'd love to get a car from blowjobbing. how many do you think it takes?
For a Range Rover Evoque? Costing from US$41,100
About 822 $50 blowjobs.
What if each blowjob was 5 cents?
Am I the only one who noticed that only the women didn't comply? The men just exchanged words and backed off.
Yeah, in the posted video it's noticeable. I'd guess it's because women would be more threatened by half a dozen young males with video cameras blocking the road, harassing you with no apparent reason. Watch some of the other videos though - some of the men just go crazy.
no apparent reason
That was just a poor subtitle. She didn't say it the same way they translated it. (Similar if you translate BJ it gibberish).
He asked how she earned the car and she said that she sucked for it.
I think she just meant "fuck off and mind your own business", not that she literally blowjobbed it, though you never know.
Yeah she didn't actually mean that she gave blowjobs for it. She meant it sarcastically as a fuck you to the guys.
She basically said "I sucked [dick] for it".
I know, I mean she could have just been being facetious, she obviously knows what they're implying by asking.
That said, I don't know or care.
She certainly sounds like she wants them out of her face!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what she meant too, but the reason it was so great was that it was an unintentional double entendre that made fun of herself in irony.
I don't think that it was unintentional, just sarcasm.
A road rager?
What a twist!
|a road rager
ftfy
oh, man, it sounds sooo much better in russian :D
If the dude likes the suck job and she likes the car who gives a fuck
I got road rage just watching that...
Glad I'm not the only one.
But she tells THEM to get a real job. Priceless. Edit: she tells them to stop "fucking around", too. The very way she got that car..
From the video description
""Stop a Douchebag" - is a Russian youth movement that attempts to enforce the road traffic regulations in Russia.
In this Episode things get ugly when the activists try to move a car of the wife of a top-ranking Chechen offical (who later will be fired by the Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov)."
Edit - Oh oops. That's from a different video of theirs. This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a2lcP0texg
Speaking of officials, Putin was shown the videos and approved of it. I can't seem to find the video but they have him on it giving it a thumbs up.
Found it He comes out at the end but the whole thing is worth watching.
The wife, "you dumbfuck they're filming you assaulting them get in the fucking car" lmao
Mother, actually.
He comes out at the end
Good handshake and shoulder grab. "I approve of this, son".
Sudden sombrero!
Unexpected Sombrero
where? I skimmed it but didn't see it.
Start around 1:18. It's not real, but it made me giggle.
holy shit that's funny
Uncle Vlad seems so chill wearing his striped polo there.
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Thanks for making me spit my coffee out. no^seriously^thanks^that^was^fuckin^hilarious
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Watch out, Mr. President! Those boobs might be bombs!
Actually this is all putin, this is one of the youth activist groups he has founded.
Honestly, I think if they just had that picture of Putin shaking hands with their leader guy, it would be a much better deterrent than the stickers or whatever.
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"Giving a thumbs up" is a colloquial way of saying he approves.
of course Putin approved on Putinjugend
He comes out at the end
Hold on, what? That would be worth watching!
Lol I meant so people don't skip straight to the end.
Wow! Well, my approval of Putin went up a notch. I know Russia is full of all kinds of corruption and such, but at least things like this help improve things a bit. Gotta start somewhere, I guess.
sarcasm?
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Putin is a corrupt, murdering cunt responsible for countless deaths. I don't see how approving of a funny road safety video earns him any kudos.
I still find it entertaining that U.S. presidents are put at a higher level of respect. Countless lives lost in the Middle East of people not even remotely involved in the wars, corruption is so blatently obvious it's even legal through lobbying, and a whole list of stupid shit. Police forcEs are being allows to outfit their inner city cops with riot gear...
All anyone ever says is Putin putin putin!
Depends on who you ask, Russians also think highly of Putin. I for one dislike them both equally.
Yeah, all you ever say is Korea Korea Korea.
Brain washing at its finest..
FALSE EQUIVALENCY!!!!
Jesus, every damn time. I'm very liberal American and realize there are TONS of issues with the US.....but that doesn't make them the same as Russia and Putin.
First, Russia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world outside of dirt poor countries. While the majority of corruption by politicians in the US is for campaign money (which the politician doesn't keep for himself), in Russia it's straight out cash. And they do almost nothing about it.
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013/results
Russia ranked #127 with a score of 28. The US ranked #19 with a score of 73. For comparison, Denmark was #1 with a score of 91 and Somolia ranked #175 with a score of 8.
Countless lives lost in the Middle East of people not even remotely involved in the wars
First, the Afghanistan War was a justified war.....the Taliban protected al-qaeda after the 1998 US embassy bombings in AFrica and the 2000 USS Cole bombing. The US did bomb Afghanistan after the 1998 but of course it did little since it was just a bombing to take out some terrorist sites. After 9/11, the Taliban refused to turnover al-qaeda....the US had enough this time and they went in and after al-qaeda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing
Police forcEs are being allows to outfit their inner city cops with riot gear...
And this somehow makes it the same as Russia??? A country with a the cops extremely corrupt? A country where human rights are moving BACKWARDS!!! More restrictions against gays, more tightening of control of the media, and Putin is has slowly made himself a near dictator by voter fraud and by manipulation--- he will have been president 16 of 20 years between 2000 and 2020.
Let's not even compare the Ukriane situation with Afghanistan or even Iraq. Ukraine is a good member of the western community while Iraq in 2003 was ruled by a dictator that massacred people, used chemical weapons, invaded other countries, and threatened the international community. All of that and I still don't think it was justified to attack Iraq......but I'm just showing you that Ukriane and Iraq are not similar.
Don't waste your time, the anti-American circlejerk knows nothing of intellectual honesty.
American government results less corrupted than other governments like Russia only because you've set bribing legal and called it lobbying, that's the harsh truth.
That's STILL a false equivalence!!! That's campaign money, not money for the individual.
USA kills have dollars behind them.
People killed since ww2 20-30 million
Number of US military bases around the world? Over 900 and they are in 130 nations world wide
America has the network of secret prisons around the world used for kidnapping and torturing. Gestapo style.
But Russia has corruption!!! False equivalence!!!
Given Russia's history over the last century, and the fact that Russia hasn't been a democracy for even 30 years yet, he's one of the best leaders it has ever had. I'm not saying he's good, but he's damn better than many of the leaders in living memory.
And certainly you would say the same about most US presidents?
It's just a tiny silver lining. No one thinks that it in any way makes him good, but at least it is something. The world isn't black and white or either good or evil: people are only partly evil (granted, some people are 98% evil...).
Either that or him taking time of his day was just for likeability... oh well.
No, honesty. I really don't think highly of Russian's government, especially with the invasion of Ukraine, but if Putin can approve of the work these kids are doing, there's at least a piece of a good person in there.
Your approval should probably hinge more on respect for basic human rights than superficial approval of a video where kids help clean up his mess.
I heard Putin likes to pet kittens - how can you not respect this man!?
It does. But remember, Putin isn't actually murdering people himself, his army is. He's at the top, but there are thousands of other individuals who are just as bad as he is, if not much more so. After all, he's not the one driving on a sidewalk. It's not his mess.
As much as it would be nice to have, no person is 100% evil or 100% good. Every person is a mix.
Things like this are supposed to make your approval of him go up, its careful propaganda to win Russian youth. Putin is a huge international threat and for all practical purposes a dictator but he is also incredibly smart.
What are you on about dude? It's just him approving of citizens enforcing laws themselves...
happens all the time in america, it is just disguises as a "democracy". I even think would be fair to say over half the worlds governments are corrupt.
Off the top of my head i can only think of iceland who isnt
Why would they show the president of their country a violent video about double parking and not one of the sidewalk/pedestrian safety videos? Could you imagine some group showing Obama a video about fighting over parking?
lol wow.
Huh... Looks like they burned in Russian subs
Well he ought to be approving it, since he funds the group
Now they're basically untouchable.
What do you know, Putin isn't the bloodthirsty maniac that I imagined.
Even Hitler had a passion for creating youth activists.
He still is.
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It might be an economic issue when it comes to cops - probably cheaper for the budget if volunteers do this sort of thing and leave murders/robberies to the police
Douchebag #1 tries to throw a guy and inadverently faceplants into the side of a car. http://youtu.be/7a2lcP0texg?t=2m6s
haha didn't catch that at first ! this is hilarious, seems like he didn't learned anything from his ancestors who fought in grozny
Didnt even see that before, holy shit thats a 10/10 hahaha
Douchebag: "Because I told you so"
Camera op: Sorry bro didn't catch your name.. You some type of authority figure?
I don't know, having a bunch of unlicensed traffic wardens running around fucking up people's windshields and antagonising people doesn't really seem like a good thing to me at all.
Having a bunch of people driving on sidewalks seems like even less of a good thing, dangerous even.
Well, this video was just of badly parked cars, which escalated into a bunch of school kids having a huge public fist fight with two Chechen gangsters.
I don't see what they really achieved other than disturbing the peace. The sidewalk thing, fair enough - but the video I commented on seemed like a silly thing to do that didn't really help anyone.
Just one man's opinion.
Fair enough. Also just so you know I didn't downvote you, don't know why so many people are.
Cheers, I don't know either! Not to worry.
I don't know either!
Seriously? It's because you're saying that it's not a good thing to stop unsafe drivers.
It's not hard to understand why that's an unpopular opinion.
It's not a good/safe thing to involve the mafia in public disturbances over the way someone parks their car.
It's kind of hard to argue with that one.
I wouldn't say so. I think it's harder to argue that letting the mafia do whatever they like is a good thing.
Hard for who to argue? You? Who do you think would argue that with difficulty?
Ah, I see. You're in the "who gives a shit, just let it be" brigade. Thank FUCK that history hasn't been full of people like you otherwise we'd be in even worse trouble now than we are. I, for one, am glad that people like these guys exist.
Haha, yeah, they're really making a big difference telling people to park better. History will thank them for that.
I couldn't completely tell from the video if cars were blocking/slowing traffic, because they weren't really focused on that. However, I'm inclined to believe it can or does happen.
So more traffic, more people drive on sidewalks. Snowballing effects.
I don't know
yup.
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Have you been there before?
Have you?
Yes! I have. That's why I asked.
Douchebags are easily antagonized. But what is the alternative? Just let them do whatever they want? Clearly not an option when the police won't stop them.
They caused a huge disturbance involving the mafia because they didn't like the way some lady parked her car.
A mafia thrives when no one stands up to them.
Where are you getting this "mafia" shit from?
Did you not read the title of the youtube video? The guys beating them up are Chechen mafia.
They caused a huge disturbance involving the mafia.
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YOU are part of the problem with society. Try being a part of a solution for a fucking change.
Is there an actual news story pertaining to his dismissal? I would be ecstatic to read it.
It seems like the nicer the car, the bigger the douchebag.
All part of living in an oligarchy I suppose.
All part of living in an oligarchy I suppose.
I guess the U.S. and Russia aren't so different after all.
Where can I find the followup where he's fired?
People are saying he wasn't fired, but a quick google search pulled this article up which seems to be pertaining to the video. [Article] (http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/kadyrov-fires-official-for-wifes-role-in-brawl-with-nashi/458114.html)/[Video] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjc5FZvF940)
Seems like at least in this case Good Guys=1 Bad Guys=0
I doubt he was fired over this, Kadyrov runs Chechnya like Putin runs Russia. If this would have happened in Grozny then these guys would probably have some very large men in suits visiting them soon.
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It seems like he did. Check other posts in replies, contain different articles claiming it was exactly for this.
Wait... so was that one guy that those 30 people couldn't seem to keep under control?
article about husband being fired.
Does Russia not have cops? Isn't this what their cops should be doing? Are all the cops too busy beating up Pussy Riot?
Stop a Douchebag - a non-profit organization, part of youth movement "Nashi". "Nashi" was founded in 2005, its creation was encouraged by senior figures in the Russian Presidential administration.
I have no idea who is fighting who by the time we get to the end of that clip.
Where does it say she was a chechen official?
I keep saying to myself "Aren't they afraid that they're Russian?!" and not really addressing either side really.
What was the reasoning for the guys firing?
No clue, just copy pasted what was in the video description. It may not even by true or related to the video for all I know. I just thought it was interesting.
Your primary job as an official is "Do not embarrass your superiors." Everything else is secondary.
In the other video you are talking about, the woman was the wife of the representative of Ramzan Kadyrov in Moscow. Kadyrov fired him because "Any man that can't control their wife and lets them behave like that, will not be my representant anywhere".
I gotta say that video went exactly the way I was waiting for all their videos to go. How many times can you fuck with the status symbol of an entitled douchebag in Russia before one of them turns out to be a mobster or a corrupt government functionary?
In this video one of them is run over and picked up by an ambulance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a2lcP0texg
That was just the same video again. No ambulance...
Oh I got linked from it on a revered video. Went to "share" and hit "copy link" on alienblue. Must have glitched.
After seeing all these videos of people driving in Russia, I am left asking "Do they have police there?"
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One of the other videos linked in these comments shows a guy puffing his chest up then pulling out a pistol and threatening to shoot them if they don't move or put a sticker on his car. The police ultimately come and by the looks of it let him off with a warning after he does an about-face and starts spouting appologies and agreement that they were doing the right thing and good civilly minded folks.
I just finished watching that one. The cops in my town would have parked their car and stood with these kids.
I can count on my city cops to set up speed traps in the same place twice a week every week. No way they would turn down an oportunity like this!
And I think the public would LOVE it! Great PR too! I will often bash cops for their overzealousness, unofficial ticket quotas and pettiness when enforcing the law, but I'd fully support them setting up stings where they ticketed people who drive on sidewalks and the wrong way down one way roads (especially the problem areas where many people do it).
I love my local police. They don't ticket you unless you're going grossly over the speed limit. Moving violations for, frankly confusing, things - they give you a warning. Got pulled over by these 2 cops when I had a rented laptop that was a day overdue (totally thought it was about that, about shat myself and immediately confessed and pointed at the place I was returning it to in the same parking lot) and they just let me off with a warning. I was using a turn lane for the opposite lane as a middle turn lane...didn't feel like it was bothering anyone and didn't think I actually broke the law - apparently I was wrong. I fucking love my cops!
They're numerous and quick as fuck, too.
sounds like they have a quota to keep.
Yeah, only because he was caught...
It looks like they confiscated the gun, too. Basically all of his threats are empty without it, so he agrees to play nice so the police can let it slide.
I was wondering how they weren't shot at some point. Russia is not was it used to be...
probably because police brutality does not exist in Russia.
Yes they do.....they are busy arresting people who say bad things about the government.
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B-but muh traditional russian relationships!!! /s
Sigh, this again. No, you don't get arrested for being gay in Russia.
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Oh Catha, nobody has genitals like mine!
A clit is basically a micropenis so wouldn't that be all of us?
That was eloquently put.
That's good that they're focusing on what's important. Wait....
Exactly! I am russian and those fucking cops most of the time busy doing some other shit than protecting the people. Damn, I am counting the days then I can left this country...
Where are you going comrade?
To be honest, it is hard to answer. USA, Spain, Japan...Those are my top priority. All of them have their own difficulties regarding immigration, but...I don't know, man...thanks for asking, but I realy don't know. At first, USA is my priority, but at the same time....who knows, USA is pretty hard to immigrate, so...maybe it will be easier to get grounded in Spain. Thailand is a nice place, but to be honest, I don't want to live here all my life.
Buy a house near the beach between Salou and Benicassim. You will feel right at home: plenty of Russians, shops with Russian stuff/staff, Russian speaking bar-tenders,...
Also, if you have enough money to pay a house the Spanish government might give you the nationality (other conditions could apply: no criminal record, blahblah), take into account that an Schengen passport is a very sweet thing to have.
Thanks for additional info..One of my friends already living in Spain and as far as I know it is not so expensive...moreover, it is even more profitable to buy appartment in Spain than in Russia.. And to be honesty, I do not care about russian speaking neighbours, I am already fed up with them in my country;)
Good luck!!
Thank you!
South-East Asia is incredibly cheap to live in.
Agree. There a lot of beautiful places and I really want to see many of them. But to live there...not sure.
It could be funny if it weren't true...
Dont forget about the gays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNB3N6DWVTs
It's funny how much of propaganda Americans eat.
What is funny is that I get my "propaganda" from Russian immigrants who left Russia to escape their shitty life they had there and from Russians living in Russia hoping to get out. So I am an American eating Russian propaganda about how much it sucks to live in Russia.
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I don't know where all of them are from. I know one is from the Ukraine and the rest of them say they are from Russia. The one from Ukraine is a mail order bride who was so ready to leave the Ukraine that she married a guy she hardly knew. Shes has said she didnt know what to expect in the US but knew that anything would be better.
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From my experience I try to get my information from people who know what they are talking about. So I would take the word of people who have lived there over someone who just imagines what its like to live there. I know a lot of people who talk shit about how bad the US is, but I dont know a lot of people who are on a waiting list hoping and praying to immigrate to Russia.
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What is funny is that I get my "propaganda" from Russian immigrants who left Russia to escape their shitty life they had there and from Russians living in Russia hoping to get out. So I am an American eating Russian propaganda about how much it sucks to live in Russia.
I guess I am not too sure what part of my statement you are disagreeing with? I clearly stated that I am getting Russian propaganda about how much it sucks to live in Russia. Im sure there are some people who love living in Russia. Putin would probably be one of those people.
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Where did I generalize anything about Russia? Feel free to use exact quotes and not your interpretation of what I said.
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Ha ha, so Mr. "don't get caught up in generalizations", just wants to talk about things in general and doesn't want to get specific about his point? Thats great!
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Your point is that I am generalizing....your point is wrong. The reason I am arguing with you is because you are implying something about me that isn't true.
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... they are busy arresting people who say bad things about the government.
LOL, this is not that far from the truth, although it was meant as a joke. Ever hear of the band Pussy Riot?
I know a lot of people who talk shit about how bad the US is, but I dont know a lot of people who are on a waiting list hoping and praying to immigrate to Russia.
I dont know a lot of people from the US who are on a waiting list hoping and praying to immigrate to Russia. That is a fact not a generalization.
I'm sure there are some people who love living in Russia. Putin would probably be one of those people.
How is that a generalization?
100% chance of propaganda being brought up on anything related to Russia. No surprise here.
They have any stickers for the government? Plenty of douchebags there.
There certainly are enough police officers per capita in Russia but i guess they are not very efficient in enforcing traffic laws.
Corruption, easily bribed, and just don't care i.e. no incentive
as somebody who's lived in eastern europe, in russia and ukraine specifically, the police are fat mongoloids who only pull you over to take your money.
This is the only time I have ever seen a racial slur upvoted on a non-joke subreddit.
You know, I don't think "mongoloids" is universally understood as a racial slur. I'm a Canadian and I understand that it is one, but I've never bothered to look up to see what race exactly it targets. I'd imagine some people think it's just a fancy way to call someone a brutish idiot.
[EDIT: Apparently it just means Mongolian/Asian type of person. Guess that should have been obvious :)]
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And where do you think the term came from? The people that made the term thought Mongolians looked mentally handicapped. It's not just a coincidence that they sound/look alike.
Mongoloids isn't a nice insult to use
nice insult
So are you saying calling someone a dummy is just as bad as calling someone the N word?
Yes, that implies negativity towards all intellectually challenged people, you negative individual.
you haven't met east european police
Is there not money to be had from those breaking the law by driving on the sidewalk?
not when you can just sit in the middle of traffic and cherry pick whatever cars you want.
So basically not different at all from US
no, in the U.S cops dont pull you over for bribes. They pull you over for traffic infractions
The difference being that American police take your drugs too and lock you up?
In these series the traffic cops do actually show up, a notable one is the one where a gun pulls a gun on the activists.
...Not that they arrest him.
EDIT:A guy pulls a gun, not a gun pulls a gun.
stop making up meta- this isnt family guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys The last dude. Not meta, it's one of the episodes.
re-read your post.
shit
lol
You have to realize how many people are breaking the law (and a lot of them are illegals) and how large the country actually is. It's almost impossible to police it all. Their mentality has to change first.
the mentality. I think russians still lag far behind Americans particularly in that field. It would take decades till average russians are equiped with general public manners as Japanese citizens.
Wait, theres illegals in russia that are worse than russians?
I'm also wondering why they don't put up some freaking steel posts at the entrances to keep cars from driving on sidewalks
[They're all drunk] (https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&ei=OIvTVJe-EYyfgwTIioSQAQ&q=drunk+russian+police+officer&oq=drunk+russian+police+officer&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3..0i22i30.4769.4769.0.5797.2.2.0.1.1.0.493.925.4-2.2.0.msedr...0...1c.2.61.mobile-gws-hp..1.1.432.0.a-PTf4eJ-Fc)
They do, but it's more of "help" police rather than "enforce" police and the "enforce" police if present is corrupt as fuck. Just watch more StopXam, aka Stop a Douchebag
seriously...anyone try this shit over here that would be like 500$ fine
They do, but they really don't care. In another one of these videos, one of the douchebag drivers pulls a gun on the group and threatens to shoot them over and over again. The police show up and only give him a warning before sending him on his way.
the police are just as bad. they get paid by these douches. if the police actually did come, they would just hassle you for a bribe.
Police are only a small factor in enforcing public laws. As long as the general public doesn't take the laws seriously, there's little the police can do.
Yes, but they are corrupt. You can basically bail yourself out of any situation if you have the money.
Yes but they are paid by taxes and by the people but I think the second is legally called a bribe.
They do. They're busy enforcing other laws. Alcoholism, and alcohol related deaths are very high in Russia. Additionally, there's a fair amount of gun violence. I would assume the police are busy dealing with those crimes, rather than traffic laws. When people pulled guns on those kids, police showed up quickly, because that's the kind of laws they enforce.
That's one of the main problems with Russia. It is an odd mix of anarchy with totalitarianism
Just the KGB
If you watch the other videos there is one where they are asking people not to smoke in public areas (it's against the law in russia), there is a police officer around and the guy couldn't give less fucks about what is happening, all he says is ''don't film me''
The police are largely people who had the choice between police service or getting drafted.
Russia is big, so they mostly let you do whatever you want, unless you are really bothering people (or if they want bribes, but that has been reduced quite a bit).
They have something called "Police" but they're not the same thing as police in non-cleptocratic countries.
Catchy ass song. Anyone know the artist or name?
This beat is amazing, thank you!
Thanks.
This is why I came to this thread. Beat is fire.
Isn't this sampled in Sia - Elastic Heart? Or the other way around at least?
can def hear it.
Got that Russian Trap sound to it. I mess with it.
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Know any music similar to this? Really enjoying it.
Thank you
This song will now always be the Russian version of "Damn it feels good to be a gangster"
Ctrl+F+song You sir, are my hero.
Called "Babki" - Zoo In Space
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Who gives a FUCK about Cyrillic!? XD
thank you sir!
I play this song whenever I do anything mildly successful such as a successful surgery or opening a door properly.
You gotta have balls to do this to random drivers in Russia man!
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In one of their other videos a guy does pull out and start waving a pistol at them though. They just stand their ground as this dude threatens to shoot them all.
Link?
Thanks!
And in another (the one with Putin) they grab a pistol from a guys hand when they're wrestling with him.
Indeed. From russian movie even. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AMjmUFs-o&index=7&list=PL7685E87B1E13F891#t=23m16s
In Russia movie clips you
Which movie?
There's a lot more videos from them where drivers openly threaten them with handguns. I think I saw one where a crazy driver even had a grenade.
and shitty one at that.
but, I kind of can imagine something like this happening in Russia.. Eastern bloc is strange world, really.
I imagine a lot of things that don't actually happen.
And the movie is influenced from real Russian/human behavior (or at least that scene is)
Their friend filming it was on the hood.
It's fascinating.
Every single male driver backs up and doesn't want a confrontation.
Every single female driver starts cussing and trying to drive over the youths.
I guess neither organized mafia nor general thugs will hurt a woman, so the women can be aggressive. And maybe police actually arrest people that hurt women, where as if a group of guys beats up a dude the police do nothing. Gotta love the circumstances that social engineers purposefully create.
If you look at any other video of theirs you will see that is not the case. There are guys who actively fight, pull out guns, etc. Not saying the women aren't douchebags, but rather that plenty of these drivers act like aggressive assholes, regardless of gender.
Yeah I was just waiting for someone to get out with an AK
I think most people think there are more scary mafia than there are.
New money east europeans in nice cars tend to be giant pussies
Balls of steel
I was thinking the same thing, until I realized my entire thought process is based on what I've learned from action movies featuring Russian gangster antagonists.
It's pretty obvious here that in a public forum with enough eyes and cameras, the people who are TRULY dangerous wouldn't risk it, the only ones dumb enough to be violent are the rich women.
Meh. Watch a few episodes and you'll quickly realize some people they try to stop are clearly ready to fight over this. Sometimes they even grab baseball bats in their trunks.
I watched a few episodes and at first I thought pretty much the same. There was ordinary dudes, sometimes with girls trying to stop asshole drivers. But as you watch newer episodes, you realize they need to be in gangs to protect themselves and some of the people coming with them seem to be there for protecting the others.
For example, the big guy with the bull cap has joined them recently and had to intervene a few times.
There's also been an incident at a mall with a Chechen family that degenerated into a brawl.
I don't think you'd get killed over this but it does seem rather violent and dangerous from my Canadian eye.
Don't get me wrong, I'd be scared shitless to do this in Russia, it definitely seems that only their numbers make this even marginally safe.
I did enjoy watching that dude in camouflage pants get humiliated though. Thank you for that.
In their other video they actually get a gun pulled out on them and the guy points it at their head and starts counting to three...none of the "stop a douche bag" guys even flinch.
These guys literally have no fucks to give about a gun pointed at their heads.
In another incident a guy comes walking with a loaded AK too...
Indeed! It's only a matter of when, not if, they piss off someone they'll wish they hadn't.
Yeah I mean all it takes is pissing off one person and they are already in a moving weapon and you are in their line of fire.
The ending... oh my sides! I'll never stop laughing.
"Go get a job..."
"And how did you get the money to pay for such a car?"
"I fucking blowjobbed it."
That's a type of job.
Its a sucky job though.
Competitive pay: Range Rover.
Blowjobs are better than no jobs.
http://i.imgur.com/ZFcK2zf.png
"If it wasn't for blow jobs you'd be unemployed" -Eminem.
The best kind of job.
Blow jobs take some skill.
I liked the guys response.
"Well the truth is always good, I suppose"
Well, you have to hand it to her.
Then: "The truth is always good" xD
judging by the look on her face their was a bit of instant regret there
Hey guys, I am the Stop A Douchbag activist that speaks English if you have nay questions you can ask Me, if you are press or donor you can also write me. Our activist's organization originally called "СтопХам" (which means Stop Rudeness) is a social organization against Rude drivers ( Douchbags ), we have our own webpage that i can't give you because if reddit rules, and channel that is blocked for a while because of the driver who wants to sue us ( no worries, a lot of people failed with that, because we don't do anything again the law). Thank yo for attention
Maybe do something in r/iama or r/casualiama ? I think there might be quite a bit of interest, especially in the former.
I have a few questions if you don't mind:
I hear this started as some kind of NGO funded by the government. Does that association with the government bother you? Does it affect what you do in any way?
If you do receive subsidies, how are they spent? Stickers I'm guessing, maybe memory cards and such?
I love the polite peaceful approach in those vids, it gives me a lot hope seeing young people trying to improve their society in such a civil way. But I also hear some scary things about Russia sometimes, such as a lot of violence against homosexual people. I realize you don't speak for the whole organisation, but you personally, how do you feel about that?
1) Yea, our project was started by a person who was in Governmental founded organization sort-off like "boy scouts" but different. But in one week he we quit that corrupted organization and began living on our own. 2) We do receive money from YouTube and we use it only on stickers, office and camera's equipment. 3) Personally I am tolerant to any kinds of people, and I wouldn't treat a person any differently because of his sexual orientation, race and so on. And most Russians under 25 think the same. Younger people are mostly liberal and want to legalize lots of things in our country. Older people are a bit different because they still got that USSR mentality.
Very interesting, thank you!
Can you pm the site? And do you guys sell shirts with you movements logo?
Anyone else think the last lady was going to pull out a gun?
If you watch some of the other ones there are a few where people do pull guns on them. And bats, and crowbars, and even a knife.
How do you start with a gun, and then work your way down but still emphasize "and even a knife"?
Russia.
Lots of people carry guns for personal protection. Even if they're unlikely to use it. Knives on the other hand...
Yea then she just started taking pictures. I was so confused on that
People try to use their phone cameras to intimidate you, not understanding that it's completely ineffective if the person their filming isn't doing anything wrong. Unlike themselves who are intimidated by being filmed because they're doing something wrong.
See him, sweetie? This is the bastard. I want his balls for earrings.
So, this is making more sense now - they are a subdivision of "Nashi," a federally-endorsed/sponsored pro-Putin youth organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashi_%28youth_movement%29
There's a reason why they are so "fearless," and how they're able to get these apologies when the cops show-up.
Exactly.
It's particularly ironic considering they didn't oppose the current Putin-supported mayor.
They aren't interested in actual solutions to parking and transportation problems.
They aren't interested in changing the system where such rude people even get to earn expensive cars.
There's a reason why so many of the rich drivers feel entitled to be rude, because in the end they all get their money from the oil pipe and corrupt government contracts.
This is what happens to a society when promotion is based on corruption instead of merit.
I mean, I agree that a state-sponsored youth movement is not a Good Thing, especially in Russia. But it's not clear to me how strongly affiliated they are with that organisation, and at least on the videos I don't see any reprehensible behaviour on their part. The guys funding them may have nefarious intentions, but I want to give these kids the benefit of doubt.
The problem is that you have a youth group, that's sponsored and controlled by a government body, but essentially poses as a grassroots movement. The main question is - how are these "targets" identified, and selected? Some of them are random, but there have been specific episodes where high-profile business and government officials (or their families) were provoked, resulting in escalating conflicts, and consequences. I don't empathize with anyone in these scenarios, but I don't believe in the intentions of this group being particularly altruistic.
You may be right. You've certainly made me think about it.
Where did you read that? I didn't see it in the Wikipedia article (but English is not my first language). I'm curious, I was too wondering if they there linked to some pro-Putin organization.
It's from their Russian Wiki: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC
"С 2010 существовала в составе проектов «Наши-2.0» и «Сталь» молодёжного движения «Наши»."
"Since 2010, existed as a part of the projects "Nashi-2.0," and "Steel" of the youth movement "Nashi."
Ok, thank you.
11/10. Things I would love to do but never have the balls to.
Just be thankful that someone does. I honestly hope that this movement grows in Russia and spreads to other countries. And also avoids the inevitable issue of gung-ho cunts joining in as an excuse to fight and hurt people.
Say what you want about that woman at the end:
She's a bitch? Sure.
She's a cunt? Undoubtedly.
She shouldn't be driving? Most definitely.
...But she knows how to hold her iphone when capturing a video.
And can apparently suck a mean dick or enough dicks to afford a Rangerover.
Hey, some people are good at business!
maybe she only had to suck one rich dick
All is forgiven.
If I were a judge and someone brought me portrait view video as evidence, I would literally throw the book at them. And figuratively.
When all you need is a portrait of someone, portrait view is appropriate...
and she knows how to make good money with blowjobs. Kudos!
That's just business sense!
Unless it was pictures of the kids, then portrait would be more appropriate!
Ahh details. XD
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Russian women are fucking tough, they were the most aggressive ones.
M'lad-... No, never mind...
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Yup, there they are. Excuses.
That is why ,IMO, they shoudl have signs ahead stating that it is a sidewalk, and there are people ahead that will stop them with stopsticks. And instructing the person to back up.
Yeah, but these aren't exactly isolated locations. There are people everywhere so it's not really an ideal place to commit a crime.
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Nobody climbed on any cars. Some drivers were attempting to drive through a group of people, which resulted in that group of people on the hood of their car.
And the only shouting I heard was so they could be heard through a closed window, or if the driver was attempting to drive through the people standing in their way. In each case the rear of the car is not obstructed to allow the driver to back out.
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Why do you keep exaggerating what happened in the video? Did we watch the same video?
Nobody was "surrounded". In each case the way out was the same way they got it and was unobstructed. Not one of the people driving was acting in any way that someone who felt threatened would act. They were acting exactly like someone who was upset they weren't allowed to have their way.
I don't know, maybe I should watch the video again. watches video again Nope, nothing you suggest appears to be the case here. You seem to be thinking along the lines of "well, it's possible someone might feel threatened in this instance", but that's not happening at all.
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....you're right. That's not how it's meant to be used. I will undo that
Edit: and I understand your position. I will just leave it at that
Are you dense or did you watch something else?
They ask them to roll down the windows and politely tell them they are driving on a sidewalk and to back up and drive on the road.
The reasonable people say thank you, we're doing that and move on. The aggressive cunts don't give a shit and try to drive over them. Your victim mentality is leaking.
At no point did they seem surrounded. These guys always gave them an out, the way back. It remained clear behind the cars the whole time. Notice how some drivers backed up without as much as a word as soon as they saw the way was blocked by people with cameras. Knowing you're wrong and pressing on so stubbornly makes you nothing but a douchebag... No excuses.
Intimidation my ass. Those guys weren't shouting, had no weapons, no masks... Nothing but cameras and signs.
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Best thing I've seen today
It's good, but the day is young.
I'm with you!
Same here, and I already saw two porn movies today, so that's saying a lot!
This problem could easily be resolved on this sidewalk with government action by putting large steel posts at the entryway that people could easily pass between but cars could not.
They mentioned this earlier and said people will jump the curb and go around them
Perhaps it's so emergency vehicles can easily access that sidewalk?
Maintenance vehicles too. In winter someone's going to need to plow that.
They could have locked poles.
We had large steel bollards that screwed into the ground. They were really heavy, but in an emergency you could rotate them off and move them. If not you put down a bunch of cones at the entrance/exit with a guy in a high-vis jacket just waving his arms to keep moving on that ways --->
Source: Parking and Traffic Management
These are normal where I am. You just give a key to people who are allowed to pass and they can open it.
Nah, that might not be a strong enough deterrent. I've dealt with some really psycho people before, trust me. We had things similar to these.
Edit: The context always matters though of what location. So those gates could work better than the wooden beam barricades that you can just get out and move. Some other places were less security and cones worked fine. Like I said, context.
Så svenskt så att jag dör
Emergency vehicles couldn't get through in time then, though
I don't think the Russians and the poles get along very well
Get the ones that can go up and down.
Yeah, the ambulance needs to get to the hit and run victims!
Build retractable ones.
I'd imagine something like this would be viable. They're up all the time but will sink into the ground if you have permission to access the area.
Oh that's actually a really good reason.
I think the real issue is they haven't effectively enforced traffic laws for so long it's become the norm. It's like any bad habits, hard to stop once they have started. It will require a shift in cultural thinking at this point.
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Yes?
Russia would have to learn how to civil engineering first.
Ever noticed all the auto crashes we see from Russia? It's not just because they all have dashcams. It's because the country's road systems are laid out poorly with little thought to safety or efficiency.
no shit. I could see people thinking it's a road. the sidewalk is certainly broad enough to be a road.
You got a solution. But, if you strive for further thoughts, try to think of why they dont do it.
It's just too expensive to put these in every possible location a car could drive on a sidewalk
Too many sidewalks to install metal posts on each one.
It could also be easily resolved by putting up cameras, fining people who do it and getting the police to enforce the law. But that will never happen because Russia.
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They could still bend the metal poles.
That's why I like the concrete posts more.
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steel would be stolen within the hour
This is why we have governments and committees because a few guys will always be like you and come up with a simple solution that they do not think through.
How about the accident that causes a life threatening pile up where emergency vehicles cannot get around? That's just one example of why your simple idea isn't so simple.
However, this fact probably does not shake your internal foundation of the knee jerk "I'm smarter" response.
This is very satisfying. What does the sticker say?
It says "I don't care for anyone (I spit on everyone), driving however I want".
Isn't that how people live already anyway? Stick one on mine!
It's translated in the actual video
now this is a movement I can stand behind!
Well you don't want to stand in front of them, you'll get run over.
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These are the kind of stickers that come on all my damn products.
Yeah the annoying paper type, not the easy peel vinyl stickers.
It's because they're dirt cheap.
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Does anyone know what it says on the sticker? I'm dying to know.
From the video: "I don't care for anyone else, I drive where I please"
I missed that. I was too caught up with "blowjobbed."
I'm blowjobbin my way to the top!
To be fair, I'd give that woman a car or a blowjob if I had the money.
that is so fucking sad
I was being completely serious. You caught me bro.
how in the world could anyone know that considering she got where she is from people doing that? /s cause im stupid i guess.
I'm confused. Truce?
"I drive on the sidewalk with no care to anyone else" or something like that.
Read above. Along the lines of "I drive without care for others".
It's a bible quote
“I handle my camel with the recklessness of a blind berserker, and thus my fellow man must perish if he were to intercept my will”
—Matheos 32:7
I didn't know matheos was a book in the Bible but in any case you made me actually lol
I have no fucking idea, I just wrote something bible-sounding \^\^
Ah, i see. The closest book to "matheos" would probably be the gospel of matthew, for future bible spoofing adcventures
That is exactly what OP said...
but she hit it with water and the windshield wipers...that should have done the trick /s
NYC does this to you driver's window if you park on street cleaning day
The NYC Sanitation Dept does this if you block access to the curb on garbage pickup or street cleaning days. They stick an impossible-to-remove big bright yellow green sign on your window that says "this vehicle violated NYC parking rules, as a result this street couldn't be cleaned" (or something like that).
When they cooperate with the group I believe they put an actual vinyl type sticker to easily remove but those who feel they are too important to wait in traffic get that bullshit sticker that won't come off with less than 1000 pieces. SWEET JUSTICE.
They had easy-to-peel stickers in the first few videos, like decals. I guess they opted for the cheap shit because they didn't want them removed easily.
I'm sure that doesn't hurt, but I think the difficulty removing them is at least as important.
Just like yo mama
Paper stickers have got to be one of mankind's most obnoxious inventions that still has prominence in daily life.
They should just pour paint on the wind shields
the wipers and solvent could wash away paint, the stickers tell everyone else what they did till they manage to scrape them off.
There's a sticker on my Goo Gone bottle that won't come off, and that shit is supposed to remove all kinds of gooey stuff, including stickers.
This is how we ended up with nuclear weapons.
This kills the Goo Gone.
The same guy must have designed those that designed Milk Duds. The only thing that gets a milk dud out of your teeth is another milk dud. Pure genius.
EDIT: Read too fast and didn't realize the joke... advice is still valid on glass windows.
Is it on a window? Use a razor blade, it will come off easily.
i think its a joke?
Oh, yeah it is... advice still applies though.
The Goo Gone bottles come with little windows?
Or you could use like 3 dollar hand sanitizer.
Goo Gone giveth, and it taketh.
Don't use that shit.. It's nasty.. simple Ronsonol lighter fluid will do the trick.
"Don't clean your windshield with goo-gone, that shit's nasty. Use lighter fluid instead!"
You have to buy another bottle to take the sticker off
did you try using the goo gone on it?
Just for the future. 3M Anti adhesive spray is amazing and 100x better than Goo Gone! I highly recommend it!
Use Goof Off! its the tits!
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I'm the guy who makes a lot of these stickers and I constantly ask my customers (product manufacturers) if they understand this problem, and here's the answer I get (hundreds of times): 1. Yes, we know how hard they are to remove, 2. Yes, we continue to use them because they're cheaper. 3. No we don't care, partially because, "I'm not buying that product because it's got a sticker on it" <--said NO one, EVER. Vote with your wallet people. (or at least CALL and complain!! - Product makers seriously think it's not a problem.
I've even gone as far as asking one client if they'd allow me to eat the cost of easy to remove sticker, in return they'd let me put one decal on the back that says, "We're testing a new, no-mess, EZ peal sticker! - If you like them, let us know on Facebook!" They refused.
what was there? its gone
Ever wonder why Macbooks don't come with stickers or logos on them like windows laptops? When you are as powerful as apple, sometimes you can do good things.
Goo Gone, my friend. Works like magic.
I hope their the style they put under Thermos
And fuckin' tomatoes.
Your performance in Fury was okay
Protip: On top of the hundreds of awesome uses already in its repertoire, WD40 removes the gunk from these stickers really well. Just spray it on and leave it for a few minutes.
if you heat the sticker with a lighter or a hair dryer they peel off in one piece
In the earlier episodes they use stickers that have weaker adhesive and are easily removed.
Looks like they learned their lesson.
For the confused, this used to say
I'm so glad they used proper stickers that are impossible to remove.
And was edited to something more offensive which has now been deleted.
Edit: And it's back. confusion intensifies
Yeah, I only read the offensive part at first and was very confused this was so high up. Then I read the rest of the comments and it became clear what was going on.
I hope this doesn't become a trolling trend, it's pretty lame.
I've thought about this and I'm surprised more people haven't done it. It seems way too easy to abuse.
Someone did it to Gabe Newell. They asked him a question which he responded yes to, and they switched the question to "Is half life 3 coming"
That's fucked up.
As crazy as that is, at least that one is KIND of funny becuase of the whole HL3 thing.
master troll
It usually results in massive downvotes that either draw attention to it and get the user banned or give negative karma making posting timer-based like new accounts. That's why more people don't do it.
Right, I do know why people don't do it, but it is interesting with enormous amount of assholes online that this is not happening daily to big threads as it can derail an entire submission into "did you see that guys edit to the top comment?" ad nauseam. It is easy to make a few seed accounts and revisit them down the line to fuck with people. Just my thoughts.
Heh, as long as it's just harmless trolling. One asshole posted some funny relevant image link, and after it was decently upvoted replaced the link with a screamer. Not fun..
somebody did it on an AMA and got shadowbanned.
It's a pretty easy way to get your account banned.
It's the point of the edit-asterisk
I've done it. Sometimes it's annoying to have the same people comment the same thing on a highly upvoted comment.
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fight the good fight brother
I tried to do the same thing in /r/redpill, but there are apparently ways to get around it at the post level.
And if those neckbeard sociopaths can figure it out...
Probably paid for the gold themselves. No stranger involved.
The worst part of me finds it hilarious.
I think they're hilarious.
http://i.imgur.com/8DbZUGa.png
I agree. These people take the internet way too seriously.
What did it say?
What did it say?
That's why people post notes on what their edits were, even for little things like a word or punctuation, etc.
They will shadow ban people for doing it.
What did the offensive edit say?
Now it says:
I'm so glad they used proper stickers that are impossible to remove. Thanks for the gold stranger :)
What was the offensive thing that they said? I wish there was a better way reddit handled it's edit system.
It said:
It's a shame we can't put these kinds of stickers on fat people blocking footpaths.... Upvote if you agree, then come join us at /r/fatpeoplehate Thanks for the gold stranger :)
Although, that would be even funnier now that you mention it...
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Thanks. I wonder why it was deleted.
oh okay thanks. I was wondering why the fuck people upvoted someone telling us to join them on /r/fatpeoplehate
The user wasn't even an active user in that subreddit, he just wanted to bring negative attention to them. I mean, "Upvote if you agree"? Come on.
It was like one of those fedora comments in YouTube.
Well, that user is on tumblrinaction and imgoingtohellforthis so I wouldn't be surprised if he agrees with the people at fatpeoplehate or fatpeoplelogic.
If this happens again, send us a modmail.
Editing upvoted comments is really frowned upon.
Yeah the thing is that it's gilded and not deleted anymore.
(and I saw it deleted, then it came back somehow.)
Wait, what? It says the original message for me.
What was the offensive wording?
Thanks for clearing that up. I was wondering why a bottom feeding troll from a shit stain subreddit like fat people hate had top comment.
AND NOW ITS GONE
What's wrong wih people? Why dont they just stand up for their comments?
Ps: It was edited like 5 minutes ago.
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Good idea but probably someone would pull a gun at them.
Someone already did. They were certainly more brave than I would have been in that situation.
You'd think if you drew a gun and threatened people in public and the cops showed up you'd be arrested. In Russia, you just have to apologize?
But for a Russian that's like worse than death
Maybe he had some pull; police chief's son or oligarch princeling or some bullshit like that
Hes probably either really rich or has some protection, either from the government or the Mafia. The Cops dont want problems so they tell the guy to just go home and stop acting like a douche.
What more do you want? He said he was sorry, and that he won't drive on the sidewalk again.
I suspect it depends on how big a 'fine' you can pay at the roadside...
I'm guessing they said they wouldn't press charges if they received an apology, which would help their movement more than some dude serving some time or paying a fine. It reinforces the idea they aren't out to attack anyone, but to defend others.
Are you fucking sorry?
Russia, I got a feeling you're gonna be allll riiight
To act that way he must have been connected to organized crime or something. He doesn't care if they call the cops, he gets off with a warning, and he says, "You better think who you are messing with?" Insane.
Sounds worst.
In Russia, you arrest cops!
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Exactly. I'm sitting here thinking, he just took out a gun, threatened to kill them, and pointed it at them, and the police just are like "This is warning. Now get out of here and don't do this again".
WTF.
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I'm not sure i understand what is going on in that video. Is that a real gun. It sounds like one.
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Ok thank you.
Seems like it would be difficult to 'blow your legs off' with a pepper spray pistol.
well, it's the same country that is pulling off a minor invasion right now so...
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Nah, the silly sods accidentally got lost!
"Minor"
We pull of a Major invasion and still manage to arrest people...
What does that have to do with anything?
a country where it seems normal to pull a gun or an AK (in another video by the group) because of some silly street dispute is crazy, a country where the police sees that and let's the guy go without problems shows that there is a major fucking problem.
just wanted to point out that it's no wonder the same country is involved in a fucking invasion of a neighbouring nation and the president is quite nicely backed by his population
How many more invasions does America need to get involved in? We've been racking them up recently and our police aren't getting any more chill.
A British invasion of 5 singing boys.
Awww, someone's upset. Why the fuck does everyone have to be bring America into everything? NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU AMERICA!!!
Lmao what? You sound way more upset than me.
It's irritating how people turn things around and make it about America. War in Ukraine? 'Merica! Corrupt cops? 'Merica! Poverty? 'Murica!
Because it's edgy and popular to do so.
It's annoying and I'm saying this as an American.
/r/ANormalDayInRussia
Russia.
Funny enough, between videos like this, videos of Russians driving, and a quick look inside a Russian built military anything... Not sure why anyone is afraid of this country?
It's a steam powered carnival ride.
To have real strength you need money and allies. You need influence. Compared to a United States, European Union or even a China, Russia hasn't much strength left.
They used to have a lot of money reserves, but since 2008 they bumped military expenditure some 30%, increased salaries and pensions. They just don't have the strength some people imagine.
They have thousands of nuclear warheads, they have real strength.
Nuclear warheads act as a deterrent. Makes it difficult, or profoundly dangerous for any country to invade it. But as far as being an active asset to attack other countries with?...no good. Worth nothing.
Unless they're completely tired of living, and want humanity to vanish in a nuclear winter.
Or you know, they attack/invade/annex smaller weaker countries and no one wants to do anything against them further than embargoes because of said warheads
NATO not acting on Ukraine has nothing to do with the warheads. NATO could go full on in Ukraine and no warheads would go up. What it would do is escalate: engulfing and spreading the conflict to all of the Ukraine and other Russian border countries. Short of an actual invasion of Russia, Russia would never use the nukes. It would be suicide. Mutually ensured destruction.
Also, those embargoes have tanked the Russian economy in a very serious way. Their continued agression is making them weaker, not stronger. This is the 21st century: land grabs aren't completely useless, but they don't provide the wealth and power they once did, particularly when the international community despises you and aims to avoid buying your resources whenever possible.
Something tells me he was involved in politics or the police in some way. He also mentioned "Don't you know who you are fucking with" or something like that earlier in the video.
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Hell, this shit gets thrown around on college campuses in the US all the time as well. The venn diagram of "people with huge egos who think you should know them for some reason" and "people likely to start shit over some minor disagreement" would have the first group contained inside the second circle.
This happens everywhere not just "third world countries".
Don't you know who he is??!
Bc Russia is based
to be fair, he had to apologise first. when my kids fight, they get a chance to say sorry and make up before I intervene with the Department of Home Justice.
There is one with a woman who actually ran over the foot of one of the activists and the cops let her go because her kid is having a fit in the backseat of the car.
Seriously, no wonder there are so many weapon brandishing drivers in Russia; it's practically legal to threaten people with firearms.
of course... sucking dick as a man is much more harmful to society. Nice priorities Russia.
True, but I think his humiliating admission that he was wrong on camera is more powerful then any time spent in prison (granted that he doesn't pull out a gun and point it on another human being again).
Welcome to mother Russia.
You just want them to arrest everyone who brandishes a gun and threatens to murder someone? You want half the population in russia to be in prison, including dear sasha and babushka?
I think they figure half of Russia would be incarcerated if they had to follow similar laws as Americans do.
Pretty much what I'm thinking.
Such are Russian police. They're probably afraid, too.
Yeah, in the US I can get a brandish charge just for hinting I'm armed in a situation like this.
Such is life in the zone.
But they do arrest gay pride activists. Just let that settle in for a second.
If you did this in America, they probably would have arrested everyone involved, but when 5 guys stand in front of your car, people are going to start fearing for their lives, and that's when the guns can legally come out. I would be surprised if the person with the gun was charged.
Honestly, if 5 guys stand in front of my car, preventing me from going on my way, I am more likely to fear for my life thinking they want to seriously injure me (maybe even kill me) and steal my belongings than think "Oh, its just 5 friendly guys standing in front of my car wanting a nice little chat"
I think you are forgetting that that they are standing on the sidewalk not the road.
No, I understand that, but it still doesn't make their actions any less threatening to me. If someone comes up to my car from the front, forcing me to stop, that is what I would consider an threatening situation. If they were to the side, waving at me to stop, that is not threatening and I would probably stop to see what they want.
you're not really considering the situation, though. they're on a sidewalk, standing in place and politely asking the person to back up to a location where they're actually legally allowed to drive. would you really start "fearing for your life" when someone politely asks you to stop breaking the law?
When I see a mob of guys in front of my car stopping me from moving forward, my first thought is not that of "Let me see what these guys want". It more "I need to get out of here, I don't want to give them any chance to hurt me". I don't think I would wait for them to say anything when they are blocking my path. If they are to the side waving at me to stop, then that is not nearly as threatening and I would probably stop.
If you'd pull a gun on these guys, after talking to them and hearing what they have to say, you're batshit insane bud. I'd be concerned if you ever legally obtained a firearm.
Did I ever mention pulling a gun on them? Did I ever once say I let them talk to me when they are forcing me to stop? Please stop assuming things I never said
If they are being threatening by standing in front of my car and forcing me to stop, I am probably not going to give them a chance to speak before I try to escape. Me talking to them just gives them more time to get into a good position to break into my car. If they react by jumping on my car, then I interpret that as a very hostile action and will drive off. If they go one step further and start braking my windows, then the gun will come out. I only have one life to live, I am not risking that by stopping for a mob of people trying to stop my vehicle with what looks like metal poles in their hands. If they place some sticker on my windshield, blocking my vision, my first thought is going to be that they are trying to stop me from driving away by blocking my vision, another very hostile action.
If they are waving at me to stop while not standing in front of me, I would probably stop and see what they wanted, but as soon as someone forces you to stop, that automatically makes me think they have hostile intentions. Remember, I am not aware that I am driving on a sidewalk at this point, all I see is people standing in the middle of the road trying to stop my vehicle for some unknown reason
I wouldn't shoot them unless they started trying to break into my car. Now these guys probably wouldn't do that, but I am not going to wait around and see what their real intentions are. How do I know they aren't trying to rob me? They have tried to stop my vehicle, they might have blinded my driving vision, and as far as I know, I am just driving down a side street doing nothing wrong.
Remember, I am not aware that I am driving on a sidewalk at this point,
if you're legally blind then you shouldn't be driving
A wide sidewalk is not that much different than a street, especially in more rural areas.
edit: Also, since I would never knowingly drive down a sidewalk, the only way I would get into a situation where I am driving on a sidewalk is if I am in an area that is new to me where the sidewalk looks like small side roads.
in each instance shown in these videos it is extremely clear that it's a sidewalk. the car barely fits, and there are dozens of people walking through it. and not a single one of the drivers even feigns ignorance; it's always "yeah, i know, fuck you!" or "fine, i'll go back just because you're stopping me"
I was asked what I would do in this situation, and since I would never knowingly drive down a sidewalk, the only way I can respond to that is to assume the sidewalk wasn't clearly a sidewalk.
edit: In the first part of the video linked in this post, That sidewalk doesn't clearly look like a sidewalk to me. Looks a lot like a one way side street shortcut. It also seems weird to have a short sidewalk connecting two roads, with no visible sidewalk on either side. I can't see the entrance to see if they have to hop a curb to get onto this sidewalk, but it seems like its level with the road on that side.
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There being a mob is not a problem, but a mob trying to stop you by grabbing onto your hood and not letting you move forward, now that can be a scary situation for the driver.
5 guys against one of you can easily cause great bodily harm. From a distance, that rolled up sticker could look like a bat or pole of some sort. I can easily see how someone could feel really threatened in this situation.
Dont drive into them? None of them aggressively approached the cars.
One was holding a rolled up sticker, which might look like a metal pole from a distance. Also, stopping my car by standing in front of it is a threatening action in my opinion. My first thought when someone stands in front of my car, forcing me to stop, is not "They just want to have a friendly chat".
So you would aggress them first rather than back up to avoid conflict?
First of all I wouldn't be knowingly driving down a sidewalk, but for arguments sake lets say I was in a new area to me and went down it thinking it was a road. If the guys are just standing there, then I would try to drive around them or stop and see what they do. In these videos though, it seems like if the car stops short or goes around them, they will still approach the car, even possible running after them.
So I would escape if possible, but if there is another car behind me, or they start running after me with what looks like white metal poles of some sort, then I consider that about as threatening as you can get.
"Why are you standing so high?"
Fucking classic.
This was the moment i cracked up :D
Between this and all the sky-scraper free running I'm coming to the conclusion that growing up in Russia somehow prevents any sense of self-preservation from developing.
There's nothing to do in Russia except risk your life for YouTube videos.
I do not know of what sky-scraper free run you speak of nor do I want to know.
Are you sure? There's boobs...
I've grown through these videos to really like the good people of Russia.
The one guy who showed up to support them... with an AK. That was unexpected.
That was beautiful. Fucking Russians. Not even phased when someone pulls a gun on them.
Russian is such an intimidating language.
Holy shit.
The guy with the AK was helping them
Not gunna lie these guys are fucken ballsy as fuck! If someone wiped out that pistol in a country like Russia I would be Usain Bolting my way through that park!
Russians have no fear it seems.
They have balls of steel.
Damn, do that in Texas, brandishing a gun and you run real risk of getting shot yourself very quickly.
Man. Balls of steel. The calmness of those guys...
On second thought, let's not go to Russia. 'Tis a silly place.
That guy so casually leaves the trunk of his car and strolls in with his ak lol
That was a cute little gold purse he brandished that from
I see they go to the fox news school of weapon identification.
The AK is actually earlier in the video, at 1:28
Seriously. If you meet a Russian who can't identify a gun type, you haven't met a Russian.
I usually hear that phrase under "CNN school of weapon identification."
Although if you really think about, all news people are idiots who have no idea what they're talking about.
Yeah I clearly don't circlejerk enough. I knew there was le reddit hate against both, chose poorly.
I still have no idea what circlejerk is. I tried the subreddit but had no idea what was going on.
I've just seen more people complain about CNN not knowing what guns are, than Fox.
Not the subreddit, or the literal meaning, just an expression common in Reddit having to do with a bunch of people agreeing with each other and stroking each other's...errr...egos...
Ah. That makes a lot more sense, I have no idea why I didn't get that before.
Thanks.
Just glad I could explain before you turned to google images
I never want to go to Russia.
I mean I think a single guy with a hand gun is actually less scary compared to a car trying to run them down since they are in a large group. They are still willing to put their lives on the line for what they think is right and I give that a lot of respect very very few people have the conviction to do that, I just mean this probably isn't more scary than what they do normally.
In one of their other videos they do have a gun pulled on them. I've been watching all of them they're great!
Seriously. People are armed every in Russia.
Yea as much as I like this it's only a matter of time before one of them is murdered.
Yeah.. One day someone who has already received a sticker is gonna see them and just accelerate. One swift blow and the entire "crew" will be gone.
I mean I understand what they're doing, but this is just suicide.
Yeah, people are just going to kill you in cold blood because you tried to make them back up fifty feet. Get a grip, dude, this isn't Fallout.
no, its not fallout, its Russia where something like that is entirely possible
Not to mention that it has already happened
People have been killed for way fucking less. You need a real grip on the world if you think this shit does not happen.
Here is a mother getting killed over a parking space. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-woman-killed-parking-space-20141024-story.html
There is even more mundane shit that people get killed over. Stop trying to talk like you have some enlightened sense of this world.
People have been murdered for less. What the hell does Fallout have to do with anything?
It's so annoying to watch people be dead wrong and still refuse to admit they've violated others. The ones that showed remorse really restored my faith in people.
Or you know just simply have those steel/concrete pole things that make entry by car impossible but still allows pedestrians to pass through with ease.
Russian city design is really stupid.
Edit: here's a pic of the pole things I am talking about. http://imgur.com/7dWuLG5 those things stuck in the car, those are the pole things, I have no idea what they are called but all it would take to stop this from happening would be like three of those across the entry point, it would take less then a day to install and cost the city barely anything.
Edit#2: Logical thinkers in this thread 1 out of currently 3500. Now I ain't saying I am intellectually superior but while everyone here is getting a hard on by shitty justice, I have thought of a way to permanently stop these drivers from ever driving on this side walk again.
Your picture kind of makes it like those poles shoot up out of the ground. Which is awesome.
I like that they don't escalate and keep the "douchebag" on the defensive. (Drivers are breaking the law, so they can't really call the cops.)
flattening their tires makes it even harder to get the car off the sidewalk. Trashcan full of concrete would be better since it can still f*ck up a car but not so much that the car can't still drive away.
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yay! makes slacking off from work so much more worthwhile! :D
Instead of spike strips which would damage the vehicle and cause further conflict. They should just get a thick phone pole about as wide as a car, carry it with them and drop it in front of the vehicles.
Places with large grass yards put these poles on the edges of their yards to prevent people from messing them up.
It's so satisfying watching those calliography.. I don't know why..
Came for the calligraphy, stayed for dickbutt
I was really enjoying it up to that point, and then I was really enjoying it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYuQSZuTtc Watch that on double speed.
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Dickbutt
You sound like you are mentally handicapped.
You sound like a retard
don't call me a retard over my comment which garnered biggest upvote points in my redditing history. enjoy your downvotes, faggot.
You are a retard, though. lol you can't even talk correctly.
ok, I understand that you are young, rebelious, and so random right?? putting that into perspective, In what part of my sentence did I talk incorrectly??
If you weren't mentally deficient, you'd know. LOL
stop acting like a skinny teen, you stupid skinny_teen!
Are you mentally handicapped? Be honest.
I may have some psychological issues, but in no way mentally handicapped. you take back your words, kid
I may have some psychological issues,
What are they?
why should I tell you when I'm clearly aware of your intention to mock the fuck out of me for my personal issues. fuck off, skinny teen
Just tell me. Maybe I can help you.
also, kudos to you, saying whatever the fuck you want and, made more comment karmas than me in less than a month. fuck you,though.
You are jealous of my superior brain.
please don't kill this gif... its a great gif.
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fucking mesmerizing. won't give a way the surprise ending either.
That was satisfying to watch
Greatest thing ever. Gonna have to break out the razors and puts some elbow grease into it. 😂😂
not really at all dude. you just need to put windex on it and soak it for like 5 minutes. wipe with towel, it comes right off.
Drive on a lot of sidewalks do we?
That's where he gives all those blowjobs to pay for his car.
3 blowjobs is the maximum you should give for new car. After that you're just a whore.
After that your're just a whore.
I hate to be that guy that corrects spelling on Reddit, but it's spelled "who're".
"Let's step outside! Right now!"
"We are already outside, how can we step out here?"
What about isopropynol? That gets out most stubborn sticky resin.
I think what you really have to do is pour some bottled water on it and then use the windshield wipers to remove the sticker.
A heat gun works even better. Loosens up the adhesive and it will peel right off with hardly any residue.
Eucalyptus oil will make it come off like an eucalyptus facing a ton of Koalas.
Even though it requires patience to take it out. Which proves to show that these drivers completely lack. It's pure genius really.
gasoline or rubbing alcohol is better
Wd40 does miracles on stickers
The really nasty stickers are the ultra thin vinyl stickers. The vinyl is so thin, and the adhesive is so strong, that if you try to peel it off, it instantly rips. Goo Gone and similar don't work until the sticker is removed. God help you the sticker is stuck on a something other than glass or similar . They used to (probably still do) put these on software bought from the Microsoft company store so people couldn't resell items bought there at full price.
Spoken like someone who hasn't really had to remove any these.
I worked at a car dealership and sometimes help the lot guys detail a car. Stickers don't come off easily with just some windex, trust me. You'll get the paper off, but the glue will likely leave a big mess that you won't be able to see through very well if at all.
What you want is mineral turps or meth spirits. For most adhesives on the label, it will come off like butter from a hot knife.
Some of the things suggested here might also make the paint of the car come off like butter from a hot knife, though.
I LOVE ME SOME METH SPIRITS! GET ALL THE FUCKING SHIT DONE GHUIEOIHTGSLARE:HT#EW% I WISH I HAD TEETH
Life Pro Tip: Brake cleaner. Sprays the sticker right off.
Am wondering if I can buy those in English..
PSA: for easier removal of these stickers, use heat, such as a blow dryer!
Shhhh there are douchebag drivers in this thread.
What, did they blowjob their car too?
Yes but you are one of the rare few who drives with a blow dryer and AC adapter in your car.
A 1000+ W AC adapter and a hair dryer that can deal with the non-sine output of most such adapters, too.
And something to connect the AC adapter to which allows it to pull 80+ amps.
Yes!! A blow dryer works wonder!!
Lighter fluid will dissolve and wash away the glue.
Also, you can put some hand sanitizer on them and let it soak. Then they peel off pretty easily.
YES...I got a good piece of the...nope. Just a strip. A skinny, thin, see-through strip. This is gonna take a while.
Looks like you also post in multiple places dedicated to hating black people.
You're just full of hate and anger; I feel very, very sad for you. That's an ugly unfortunate way to live.
EDIT: This comment was edited to be about hating overweight people, then was edited again to something different. My comment was in relation to the hateful comment.
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"A white supremacist" rofl.
I love that it's not enough to post an offensive comment. You automatically get your post history stalked through to look for extra dirt.
What a bunch of fart-huffers.
You automatically get your post history stalked through to look for extra dirt.
I mean that's pretty much standard procedure on reddit, especially if you at least casually mention you're a girl.
You'd figure mods would let people hide their comment history from other users by now.
I hate it when people do that - post something then don't stand by it - what a wimp!!
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They probably hate you too! But why post then delete?
At this point, I almost feel bad for racists, I mean, you are so mentally deficient that you consider skin color, arbitrary fucking skin color, to be the defining characteristic of human beings, but the almost isn't enough, fuck you if you are racist.
I used to be 390 im down to 220. You want to know what being fat for most of my teens and twenty's got me? Afib im 30 and now have an irregular heart beat.
No one should defend unhealthy choices. Being fat causes more deaths than smoking and no one defends smoking. Lose the weight.
Smokers get called disgusting, get made fun of and called smelly. Being overweight should be no different. Both are choices.
I can post pictures as proof of weight loss if needed.
Smokers don't get made fun of, they either go unnoticed or get treated as seriously as alcoholics if they're addicted. Fatpeoplehatehate doesn't truly care about fat people, it's just a sub that people go to so they can feel superior to something. Bashing fat people tends to just make them eat more. Fatlogic actually tries to combat HAES stuff, unlike fatpeoplehate.
Im not a member of that sub, reguardless as some one who has dropped the weight it should be a stigma.
it should be a stigma.
Then you don't care about helping people recover from it. That doesn't help people recover from it, it just makes them eat even more.
People only recover from bad things. There is a movement trying to make being fat acceptable. I couldnt imagine that happening with smoking. Happy people dont change who they are. Adversity makes you change. Sugar coating things only makes people fatter.
Don't accept it, but don't be an ass to them... Just help them with the proper resources and respect. IS IT REALLY THAT FUCKING HARD
Im not running around calling people fat ass, Im telling them to lose weight its unhealthy. Its not normal you eat to much. No one should feel good about being fat.
It's almost as if bashing them and encouraging them to be fat are both bad...
Welcome to Politically correct america. All about the feels.
Are you saying I'm trying to be PC? I'm not trying to be PC, I'm just not so retarded that I advocate for trying to solve a problem in a way which has been shown to make it worse.
Can you link a scientific peer reviewed study on that?
Lol at sugar coating
I agree but sadly the leftist whale lovers would go out of there way to even have the slightest chance of making someone feel bad about bad life choices.
If fatpeoplehate truly cared about the obesity epidemic, they wouldn't be doing something which makes it even worse. They don't actually care about stopping obesity.
You forgot to check this page, particularly the last section.
Wow, anecdotes and one guy's idea. That sure beats an actual study with almost 3000 people. /ssss
So ones that have a spine and decide to do something about it lose weight while the others are just one step closer to a heart attack. Win-win.
Thanks for proving my point about fatpeoplehate.
So we need to enable and coddle addicts?
No, we need to encourage them to get help and change their lifestyle and kill HAES.
"We need to either bash the shit out of fat people, or coddle them and enable them to remain fat. Those are the only two options."
-fatpeoplehate
I would really question that study though. Finding that overweight people tend to gain more weight is really unsurprising. I mean even if they weren't involved in the study at all, it stands to reason that they would still continue putting on weight due to their lifestyle choices and nutritional choices.
As long as you're making excuses you'll always be fat.
bro, do you even pragmatism?
They have zero issue doing it with smokers and taxing the living shit out of them.
We need to tax fast food like we tax smokes.
I don't agree, all you're doing by increasing taxes is make everyone pay for an overweight "minority' depending on what country you're from.
People just need to regulate what they eat, it's fine to eat fast food just don't do it every day of the week. If you want you can change, in the end it's all up to you if you think it's worth the effort or not.
Same goes for smoking and drinking, good job on losing the weight by the way. I've personally never been overweight but change is usually difficult and takes some work and dedication.
Look Im just saying if being fat causes more deaths than smoking than it should be taxed like smoking.
Smoking is a choice so is over eating. Ive done both and quit both. If smoking is a stigma being fat sure as fuck should be. It cost tax payers more, and effects more people.
Smokers are gross and so is being fat. Terrible for you.
Some countries are actually already doing it. It is isn't the taxes you're thinking about though, it is taxing fast food at the vendor. So if you eat healthily, then it won't affect you.
In the end the customer ends up paying for it though so it doesn't really matter where they tax it.
Of course it matters where they tax it. If you don't eat unhealthy food then it won't affect you. Its a lot better than just taxing everyone for a minority (which was actually your original point).
My original point was that people that are not fat eat fast food too so share the same markup as fat people do because they can't control their urges.
Went and looked at his history, downvoted everything I saw. That's enough internet justice for today.
leans back in recliner
Careful, pretty sure the admins don't take kindly to this regardless of his deserving of it. Also pretty sure votes from users' profile don't actually do anything.
What a waste. Reddit has algorithms that stop this.
Watch out guys, we have a stone cold sjw here.
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Neutral Milk Hotel isn't that good.
So a false tricotohmy then?
Reddit: where calling out white supremacists makes you an SJW.
Let me make this clear. You are a virgin who is not very good at social skills.
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Surely you must have other insults then calling me fat multiple times.
I'm not even overweight... I lift weights, hike, play racquetball, and follow a balanced meal plan that I track in excel. I just don't hate people who choose a different lifestyle.
That being said, no - I'm not mad "bro". I'm not black either, which is sad that I even have to say (given, you know, your participation in black hate groups).
I'm not offended nor upset over anything you have or could say. We're all just trying to get through life and find a little joy. I wish you the best and hope you manage to find some compassion and empathy for your fellow human beings.
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You're the worse kinda person. A coward.
More like 2wo_Birds_No_Stones, amirite?
I dunno Hitler seems kinda worse.
Hitler was a coward too, that's why he killed himself before allied powers got him.
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That's cool, you're still the worse kinda person, though. :)
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Why did did you delete the post /u/2wo_Birds_1_Stone ?
Were you you losing your precious internet points?
Were you receiving comments or messages you didn't like?
If you're going to be so passionate about finding ways to hate people, you could at least stand by your convictions and not act like a coward when they're brought into the light.
I understand what it's like to feel angry and I wish you the best of luck in finding the courage to deal with those issues, instead of just letting it all out as hate.
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You suck.
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That's obviously not the case.
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obviously not jealous of a 30 year old who thinks that trolling people on the internet is a great hobby.
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try to spout some more memes
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You are a fuckhead
yea, the shit kind lol that stuff is a bitch to get off
Seems like in the first few episodes they were using the kind that rips right off. Glad they wised up because that makes ALL the difference in the world.
butyl glycol would take it off, but generally people don't know that hahaha, this video is amazing.
Its like the classification stickers we use on PCs in the USAF. Seriously... Those things never come off.
Anyone who lived in NYC in the 90's will recognize this from the neon green stickers that Sanitation would put on your window if you didn't move for street cleaning. Way more effective than the ticket.
I have a wide-format solvent ink jet, and I make stickers for people all the time. I wrote a plug-in for my printing software so that when the sticker is done printing and it's cut out, the cutting blade goes back over the decal with a ton of horizontal lines with only a few grams of downforce, so it scores the shit out of the sticker dozens of times. If I use a paper based stock, once it's installed, it's fucking IMPOSSIBLE to remove without a hours work with a razor blade. I even found this one material that uses an "organic" based adhesive that reacts HORRIBLY when you try to remove it with solvant based chemicals like lighter fluid, brake cleaner, or alchohol. It turns the adhesive into a schmeary, rubbery, sticky mess.. sure to gum up any "scraping" device. :P About the only thing it's weak against is heat. Apply a little bit of heat and it comes off in one piece with no residue, but most people don't try that method, once they realize their fingernail causes it to shred the decal into a million pieces, they go for gasoline or alcohol. It's hilarious. My biggest customer is a parkinglot management company. (evil)
That is perfectly devious
I'm so worried all those well-meaning kids are now dead - Russia is such a disgusting cesspool of corruption and mafia
I need to know where I can order some stickers of that caliber... for research.
As a fat person, that Subreddit is the equivalent of /r/blackpeoplehate or /r/jewsshoulddie
Fuck that subreddit.
What sub was it?
/r/fatpeoplehate
I guess you are fat?
No, I'm just not a hateful, bullying dickweed who projects his insecurities onto others. I've seen comments on that subreddit with hundreds of upvotes essentially saying that fat people should kill themselves.
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I'm sorry I don't condone flat-out bullying and shaming. I guess I'm not insecure enough about myself to do that.
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That makes it worse. You're a coward hiding behind a mask. Learn to let go of your hate.
To be fair, sometimes shame and ridicule is the only cure for bad ideas and habits. Surely you have to acknowledge that. I don't want to think you're somebody who'd hire someone who believed Elvis was still alive, to work for your business. Some people just need ridicule to be the influence significant enough to correct their thinking closer to reality and functionality.
I'm not at all condoning /r/fatpeoplehate, or /r/cringe or any other hate subreddit. But shame and ridicule can be done without hate, and instead with productivity. That's all I'm trying to say. When there's no other potential way of correcting somebody, then sometimes these just have to be the hail mary attempts necessary to snap people out of their ignorance and/or dysfunction.
Lately I've been feeling more and more this way because of the ISIS shit. People are just resorting to Islamic apologies, trying to compromise the blatant and abundant Islamic influence for jihadism with the slight and almost nonexistent Islamic influence for peace. News agencies all over the world are censoring the Charlie Hebdo comics when they're the cause for the news in the first place. What every corner of the world is doing is failing to ridicule and shame Islam en masse, to give an influence big enough to potentially make them all think, "Huh, maybe the Quran really does say all this stuff, maybe Islam really is about a warlord and conversion by sword, and I'm just sticking my head in the sand to it appealing to the cherry picked Quranic fluff instead just because most Muslims aren't like that..." (Maybe enough for the world to realize that the Muslim "extremists" are actually the ones following the Quran religiously, and the Muslim "moderates" are the ones who identify culturally as Islamic but don't actually follow the fundamental principles of the doctrine, instead of it being the other way around like people assume so.) And yet, that's not happening, because some people don't condone shaming...
Surely you have to acknowledge that.
No, I do not. Shaming leads to emotional distress, not motivation.
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Is it really "bullying" and "shaming" if you have to actively look for something? I mean, no one is forcing anyone to go to /r/fatpeoplehate
And that guy was so well versed in putting them on.
I also like how the chick almost smashed her face into the car when she stole her water.
But... Why not just auger in a metal post or some metal fencing, or some plastic bollards that catch, or use chocks or put down a nail bed.
Putting your life at risk is shitty, but it does make for entertaining videos.
Notice it's the fucking ... FUCKING... you know who, are so self fucking righteous fucking bitches about it. Fuck. It's always the same.
And it's not even that they're too fucking stupid to know they are wrong, it's because "HOW DARE YOU, HOW DARE YOU" fucking attitude they have.
The guys are pissed but they're like "fuck it, I can be pissed but I know given different circumstances I'd be doing the same".
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I've not seen a car with a DC plug hat had the wattage to run a hair dryer.
Too bad they can't wrap the car in one of those impossible to open blister packs should the driver step out...
Looks like they were afraid of putting it on men's cars though; only put it on the women's cars.
Honest question. If they put the sticker on the driver side of the windshield, and if the person got into an accident because the couldn't see, would they be held liable since the sticker obstructed the driver's view?
Hijacking the top comment to ask does anyone know what the song was playing in the background?
The one time were glad they used the stickers that do the thing.
"The truthis always good"hahahahaa
Yeah, you can see from the previous videos that they changed their sticker materials to make them super annoying to remove.
Especially this lady trying to get it off
These are game stop grade stickers that they put directly on the box
PROTIP: How to Remove These Bitch-Ass Stickers
Cover sticker completely in paper towels soaked in isopropyl alcohol (it will stay on even vertically)
Leave it for like 8 hours
Take off paper towel, use a razer blade to scrape it right off. You might need to experiment with angle, but when you get it right it will come right off, no damage to the window.
There's some videos in the colder months the sticker comes right off. Not sure if it's the cold making it not stick as well or residue from window wash fluid. More likely a combo of the two.
If you look at the old videos, people could just rip them off. Looks like they upgraded to paper!
You get gold just for expressing approval of something these days?
I approve of that
They must have purchased the stickers from wherever Game Stop gets theirs from.
Good ol' cheap ass paper-based stickers! A consumer's worst nightmare.
Instead of installing a simple sign and some bollards? This seems like a waste of time and effort. Two bollards and a sign would do the trick.
Sadly it seems they've downgraded to much more easily removed stickers recently.
It soviet Russia, sidewalk stops you.
didn't. didn't really need the faggot thing there, bud. So much winning until the faggot thing
Uh, this is about stopping douchebags. So you'd have to put the sticker on yourself, right?
Don't ruin your good post with shitty "acceptance speech" edits.
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Did you really just delete your post?
Fun fact: My dad's print shop made specialty stickers, so we would order blank sticky paper with either "removable" or "impossible-to-remove" backing. It was very difficult to tell the two apart, so we had to be super-careful that the paper did not get mixed up.
And, yeah, we once printed up a bunch of "No Parking Here" stickers for a hotel that was having trouble with shoppers taking up spots that were meant for their guests. They were fun to "distribute" in our high school parking lot. ;)
Good job /r/videos. You upvoted a stormfronter. Fuckin idiots.
How the hell would anyone know that without checking their history? You fucking idiot.
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LPT: hand sanitizer is paper stickers arch enemy.
I love their faces when they try to peel them off and make it worse.
First time I've ever been happy to see them used!
That gold's not gonna come off for a month.
Weird. I swear this comment was deleted earlier.
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Looks like the curvy men and women of srs don't appreciate healthy and attractive body culture.
Bunch of cies (comfortable in excess skin) hypocritical retards.
A few full blown douchebags in those cars. The folks that turn back without much drama realized they were going down the wrong path, of douchiness.
I suspect it's just that they're clever enough to realize that a camera is on them, and they don't want to be on YouTube.
It probably has more to do with not wanting to be confrontational. Everyone doing this knows they are dicks for doing it, but when you are in your car it is easier to, psychologically speaking, distance yourself from the conflict.
However, when all of a sudden the conflict is inevitable, people back down.
I might be an asshole for doing this, but when I was commuting through Long Island, NY, people would always jump onto the entrance ramp and try to cut up ahead, as some of the entrance ramps were pretty long. If I saw someone doing this, I would just move over onto the entrance ramp and block them from going any further than me.
Some people would absolutely freak out, and start honking and yelling and cursing at me, as if I were wrong them somehow. However, most of the people just didn't do anything. They sat there and took it. I think they just realized that they were being dicks and they had no interest in verbally sparring with me over it.
Back when I used to go to college, there was a stretch of road before a bridge, with heavy traffic. People would always drive along the shoulder for about mile, and then cut back in close by the bridge. I am proud to say, I've managed to never let anyone in from the shoulder. But my favorite time, was when I kept blocking one guy from getting back in, until he got pulled over by a cop who was stationed right up ahead.
It's all well and good but these youth movements have been getting more and more self righteous in Russia. They are run by Nashi, an extremely pro-Putin youth movement.
First it was "don't park like an ass", then it's "don't drive like an ass". Suddenly I find myself occasionally approached by 4-5 thuggish dudes while smoking during a walk from a metro station. "Do not smoke ~~like an ass~~", they say. "We are Nashi, and Russians must be healthy!". It's just really annoying, they should not care at all. If I'm breaking any law, the police do their job and fine me for it (though it's evident from this video they have other, more pressing concerns).
If this real-life Russian /r/JusticePorn trend continues soon over-zealous youth volunteers will be asking questions like: "Why'd you let your hair grow out?", "What's up with the earing?", "Why aren't you at work at noon?". And you know, we've sort of had this shit before.
TLDR: this is a good cause, but should not be their responsibility, as they can turn over-eager.
Edit: here is a nice documentary on Nashi.
Yeah, their anti-smoking videos are much different. In this one they put up unofficial no-smoking signs themselves and then harass people smoking, spraying them with water.
Wow, I can't believe how different my reactions are to these two videos. OP's video had me laughing and clapping and vehemently siding with the activists.
But this one has me raging pretty hard. Sure, some of these people are probably in actual non-smoking areas, but to come up to people in a large open outdoor area that (I'm assuming based on their fake stickers/posters) doesn't have a no-smoking policy and then causing physical altercations because in their personal view it's "wrong" is just egotistically selfish and stupid.
The people driving on the sidewalk are breaking the law. The people smoking in public spaces that are NOT smoking-prohibited are not breaking the law. Two very different ideals being displayed.
(I'm not a smoker, FYI)
I agree. Their anti-smoking/anti-drinking videos pissed me off. It's one thing to stop people from potentially running over pedestrians, but it's another to control peoples unhealthy habits by spraying water on them in public areas (they did this when smokers wouldn't put out their cigarettes).
What really got on my nerves was in one of these, a woman and her son were having a beer in public and they kept trying to shame them by using the classic rhetorical tactic : "Think of the children!"
They've been also shaming people into wearing Georgievskaya lentochka on Victory day with a premise that if you are not wearing one you are not proud of our grandfathers who kicked the Nazis out. Kind of ideological shaming.
And the worst thing they are doing is giving people the idea that anybody can do this.
But you can't have everyone going around and making people do/not do what they see is right/wrong beyond legality of those actions. That'd be anarchy at its worst meaning.
Do we know that? I know there are many places where it's city ordinance that you can't smoke within X meters of the entrance of a public building, and they don't all have no smoking signs. I don't know about this place in Russia, but the way they were talking, it seemed like it was a thing there.
From other conversations I've seen, it's looking like it might be illegal to smoke "in public" anywhere in that area of Russia. Haven't confirmed it yet though.
If that's the case, then I have no argument; what the smokers are doing is inconsiderate and against the law. Now, I don't agree that it should be that illegal (not smoking anywhere outside at all? Seems a bit over the top), but if these guys are just upholding the law then I have no complaints. It would also make sense as for why there's no anti-smoking signs; if it's illegal everywhere, then they shouldn't need signs.
It's only illegal in most public buildings, bus stops and restaurants. Source
They're just assholes
Yes! The good small deed mentality is big in Russia right now, but i believe they are doing it wrong.
But the signs are only informational and reinforcing existing law. They are not merely creating a fake no smoking area.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/news/article/smoking-ban-met-with-skepticism/481131.html
This comment should be getting more play. Because when I watch the linked videos, I admire the action, yet I'm unsettled.
You forgot to mention that some time ago there were leaks of hacked emails of russian government propaganda agency leaders, and there were emails from leader of this STOP XAM, where he negotiates prices for creating those videos and for attacks against opposition leaders.
And guys it these videos are very brave for only one reason - there are tough guys with FSB badges and guns staying 10 meters behind the camera.
Of course it's paid for by Kremlin. About bravery: I doubt there are FSB men guarding them, but if somebody was to fight them they'd get in massive amount of trouble for attacking NASHI. Also these kids are usually recruited form some small towns and super convinced in the ways of the ruling party and mr. Pu.
Like this girl, Sveta from Ivanovo, who gave an interview some years ago where she says that because of United Russia people started dressing "more better" and the country now grows more vegetables(!). She is now in the TV pretty consistently. Coincidence? Nahhh
EDIT: Full text of sveta's hilarious interview: "My name is Svetlana, I am from Ivanovo. «United Russia» made very many accomplishments, they fixed the economy, we started dressing more better. There wasn't stuff there is now. There are great accomplishments. Everything is very well in agriculture. Ah, we've got more land, a lot, I don't know how to say. More lands are being sowed: like vegetables, rye – all that stuff. What else? Since our country is multinational, here in Moscow are many people who are helping us, from different cities. Yeaah, it's a very big accomplishment, very good. Healthcare, yes, now we have great healthcare in Ivanvo. What else? City improvements are great, no problems with places to live. People are being helped a lot."
Sorry is it's a little incoherent, I tried keeping it close to the original.
By your twisted, selfish logic, allow me to murder, its the police job to catch me, not some citizens. Why does someone have to die being struck by a car on the sidewalk before it gets taken seriously? You could not be more wrong if you tried.
Yeah, but they aren't harassing murderers. They're harassing people who are doing perfectly legal things, just because they disagree. If you were chilling with your family and muslim activists handed all the women a hijab and asked them to cover their hair because it's the decent thing to do, then poured water on them when they refused, you'd be pissed. How is this different?
It is not perfectly legal to drive on the sidewalk.... Are you fucking daft. Cops show up in several of these videos, so clearly it is far from legal, because the drivers cower like wet beaten dogs soon as the cops show up.
I was referring to the video in the comment, where they're harassing people smoking in public, which is perfectly legal. Watch the video next time.
OK, again, it is not perfectly legal to smoke in No smoking areas. I see a sign there in the video pal.
Which if you'd WATCHED THE ENTIRE VIDEO you would have noticed they put the signs up themselves, THEN harassed people. Please actually watch it. Please. Please. Or shut up. Either is fine.
well it's true but you shouldn't make your job catching murderers, unless you are batman. I'm mostly talking about "be a good citizen stuff", not criminal activity though)
well let me put it this way. These guys are saving the life of the person who hits my kid on the sidewalk, because that person would receive no mercy and i would spend every minute in jail satisfied at what i had done to them. Stay off the fucking sidewalks.
you sound like a douchebag i dont think anyone would agree with you that its just fucking dandy to drive on a sidewalk anywhere regardless.
I never said their were after people who do dandy things. Driving on a sidewalk is objectively wrong, but it shouldn't be their job to do this stuff. My point is: our police does not do shit and people take the matters in their own hand, often being too eager.
Stop XAM are awesome. This is their real channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgsBlpYI0uYd6WshMhzt15A
but it doesn't have english subs...
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Yeah, the queen should pay a group of people to translate various media from other countries in english.
Crown sourcing is the future.
Yeaah I'm so dissapointed
Can any one give a translation on what the hell is happening in their most watched video?
Wishing for more subtitled videos! Too funny.
Russia in a nutshell - best and worst living side by side.
ps. These young people are heroes.
I love that they use cheap paper stickers so you will never be able ot get them off cleanly.
That was the best part, when the first chick tried to peel it off I thought it would come off cleanly. Such satisfaction!
Where do I sign up? I love fucking with self entitled douchebags.
You might consider watching episode 6, the ending gives me chill down my spine.
"She just murdered our friend!"
"Stand back. This child is having a fit."
I honestly don't know how they didn't end up punching that woman in the face.
because its a woman and if they did that everyone would beat the shit outa them.
They probably decided beforehand that they aren't going to react regardless what happens. But got to admit that's ballsy of them.
They're pretty straight forward with the "good guy" mentality, but constant assault is constant assault and constitutes self defense. Regardless of gender. I'd have stopped her after the 4th kick.
I'm not a doctor, but any kid who's audibly crying is not having a fit in the true, medical sense. More in the "can't have a toy they asked for in the store" type fit. Not a medical emergency.
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I think that was a translation error. I assume it had to do with the child crying hysterically.
shes lucky they are nonviolent activists. the child would really have a fit when their mother got knocked the fuck out.
Scary as fuck. I am happy I live in Canada where this wouldn't be tolerated.
exactly. Russia is really strange place for us living in developed world. not only this kind of thing wouldn't even happen in the first place, but If this kind of thing happened in my country, this would have caused public outrage, and the cop would be suspended for being a neglecting idiot, and It would make lines in newspaper and subsequent debate on traffic safety. and that bitch would be punished for attempted murder. I wish more place become better to live.
Well, sure driving on the sidewalk is not acceptable in Canada (though I still see it from time to time),and bullying of pedestrians by motorists is less common here than Russia (or countless other countries), but bullying of pedestrians to save motorists a few seconds is still common. I would have been hit by a car making a right hand turn through a red light when walking in a crosswalk with a walk signal just yesterday, if I trusted the driver. This sort of thing is a daily occurrence.
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Yea, she just couldn't help pushing her foot down on the gas after the dude jumps on the hood of her car.
Wow, just like a cliffhanger to a series.
Brass balls the size of Jupiter. Fucking hell.
White knight police. Better save the poor woman.
The part where orange gun dude just drives slowly with a sticker covering half the windshield and not one, but two guys just chilling on his hood is awesome.
My favorite part is when the driver is speeding away at the end with one of the activists on her car and one of the friends yells out "hold fast."
Laughed so hard when he put on that sticker that was bigger than the whole windshield.
is there a mirror?
That white knight when the activist said his foot got run over lol
I don't get it. Can you explain me what happens?
EBay...stickers r cheap.
Why are all the women so aggressive?
Spoiled rich brats
More like feminist culture
Technically, I think they're spoiled rich kielbasas.
If you watch their other videos it's totally random if it's a man or woman that's being aggressive. In a couple of them the men pull out guns and bats. It just so happens this video in particular has three aggressive people in who happen to be women.
No, it's a statistically significant sample, and clearly all the women here are aggressive.
All you have to do is apply that to the general population. So, if my calculations are correct, 100% of women are like the ones in this video.
Not bad satire here. Good job sir. I approve.
They're late for their shift at the blowjobbing factory.
Hey man. Don't knock it. If it weren't for those blowjobbing factories Europe would currently be in year 82 of their 1000 year Reich.
Because they're women and they know nobody will punch them.
Men won't punch them. That first lady (who just wants to honk the horn) discovered that other women have no such qualms. Shouldn't have stolen that water...
It looked to me like the girl was going to ram her face into the car, but I think she had a sudden change of heart and immediately turned around and walked away. I could be wrong - that video made me want to fight and I had to turn it off.
I would. That's just my unpopular opinion
Everyone should see this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr162OZ2Z0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsxdgW_xqY Needs to be brought back.
"but i like it here"
"well i can change that in a hurry"
... fuck my sides hurt.
Reagan too!!
Bingo. Many women rely on their magic vagina shield as an excuse to act like gigantic assholes in confrontations with men, secure in the knowledge they can get away with it.
Editing and confirmation bias.
Russian Women. The more you know
*First world women
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They're women
Because society allows them to be. We should have a crack troop of British 'slappers' who get shipped into places this and kick the living shit out of women like this and teach them a lesson.
If that guy pulled a handgun and threatened to shoot a bunch of people after driving on the sidewalk in American he'd have gone to jail for 10+ years.
If that guy tried to drive on a sidewalk in America, he'd stand a chance of getting shot by someone who'd never be identified or caught.
"I am a woman, I don't want to listen I just want to honk the horn!" I'm about to fly to Russia and buy this dude a beer. He is my fucking hero...
The women were way worse than any of the guys
In this video. Watch all of them. All the humans are terrible regardless of gender.
The women are worse in all the videos. A bunch of guys say ok and leave, one had a horse mask and was joking around and some fought and pulled guns. MOST of the women honked to silence them, threatened them, berated them with insults and tried to run them over. On average the women are clearly much more AGGRESSIVE than the men, on average
Women are so much more aggressive, they actually made an entire video of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73CfUXBat2c#t=13
Also watch this one where a women is the only one to assault, threaten, and almost run them down with her car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_szxvgUfHs4
None of the women pulled out guns. How can you say they're worse?
You didnt see the one where the women tried running the guys over with her car? Im sure if those women had guns they would pull them. But the point is is that theyre clearly way more AGGRESSIVE on average than those guys.
Women are so much more aggressive, they actually made an entire video of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73CfUXBat2c#t=13
Also watch this one where a women is the only one to assault, threaten, and almost run them down with her car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_szxvgUfHs4
what does that have to do with being a woman?
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Yeah, because there is no racism and sexism or homophobia here in Russia. We hate every person equally.
I didn't think it was sexist at all, or at least not intentional. You hear faggot; bitch, death threats, see violence and on top of all that someone pulls out a gun but you ignore that and focus in on a woman being called... a woman. ( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)
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I just think its weird that there's a lot of really messed up shit going on in the videos and for some reason that's the thing that bugs you. I mean, are you looking for something to be offended by? I don't think Russians are nearly as sensitive as the rest of the world, and hell even the translations could be a little off or mean something different.
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I agree completely. I've had women do some things to me in my job where, if it was a man, I'd have swung a punch but, with women, you're forced to hold back. And they KNOW it. And if, just IF, they did it to a man who was happy to punch back, to paraphrase the great Bill Burr, they'd twist that feminist haircut into pigtails and turn on the waterworks quicker than you can blink. If women want to be treated as equal as men, then they do NOT get to cherry pick in which situations it applies.
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Yeah, let's forget the various examples of physical altercations and pulling guns and bats and the like between men that have been posted throughout this thread.
I think the reaction between the men and women is very different. The men, in general, are very much "I'm going to kick your ass" whereas the women are much more "how dare you treat me this way? And now I'm going to react out of instinct at being disrespected in such a way". And the women are the ones who get away with it.
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is that somehow worse than the guys who pull out guns?
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i get what you're saying, but trying to attribute these shitty behaviors as being "what women do" is just bigotry. there's nothing about the fact that they're women that affects them being obnoxious assholes. all the people featured in these videos are dickbags and trying to pick out and shine a light on one gender or race from among them is stupid.
it is the same in almost all the videos
Well the people in the video didn't shoehorn any sexist undertones. They have other videos where guys physically assault them and pull out weapons. It just so happens this video featured women who 1) honked their horns hoping something would happen, 2) tried to run them down while talking on their phone or 3) threaten to kill them. If you're talking about the guy you replied to, then yes, he was trying to bring up gender for no reason. But the content makers had no such intention.
It's just the one video though. I watched through half a dozen on the channel, and there's no singling out. This video just happened to have more women worth showing.
I agree with you. The needless commentary wasn't funny or helpful in any way.
Your American feminism has no power in Russia, also Russian women don't need it, they're already hard or harder than men.
I'll pit your Russian women against my Scottish women any day. Scottish women will, in general, fuck up anyone. I'll even extend that to British women.
Its funny because its true. Sorry sweetheart but every single female driver I have encountered, with the exception of my sister (who is pretty much a dude anyways) has been a below average driver. If pointing out the truth is sexist then I guess I'm a misogynistic prick huh?
every single female driver I have encountered
This makes your perspective anecdotal, not the truth. If you're interested in actual facts, here is some data:
http://www.aami.com.au/sites/default/files/fm/pdf/AAMI-Facts_MenWomen_08.pdf
Women have fewer and less serious accidents than men. Sorry if that tramples on your world view.
Thank you for this. All the comments in this chain and probably all 65 of the blissed_and_gone's downvotes are based on anecdote.
If women reported every traffic pole/parked car they backed into in parking lots, they wouldn't be allowed to drive.
If you're interested in actual facts
I had a feeling you weren't.
Every single one, huh? Do you know what hyperbole means?
Ignore the downvotes, you're not wrong.
Great stickers!!! Fuuny video. Keep it up.
What do they actually say on them?
They say, "I don't care for anyone, I drive where I want."
Skimmed half this damn thread looking for this because i knew somebody had to have asked. Can't believe this isn't anywhere near the top. Thank you!
It is also in the captioning from nearly every video
only watched one, didn't catch it. oops.
It wasn't very noticeable so no worries, bud!
CTRL-F
because half the posts don't have the words "sign" "sticker" or whatever in them, and the answer contained "translation" or "translate" right? oh right, that's not the case at all. also i enjoyed reading the thread, just thought this would be near the top. sheesh.
not everybody is an idiot, and things aren't always worded for convenient searching.
CTRL-F "what does the" did it for me.
Even the Douchebag Squad doesn't respect the semicolon!
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Are they using a literal translation of "douchebag" in their group's name, the untranslated loanword, or another idiom that means "jerk/asshole"?
Finally someone's asking the important questions around here! I want to know too!
It said on the video...
"I don't care for anyone (I spit on everyone), driving however I want".
Not too insulting, yet it gets the point across. I like it!
I don't think the "Stop a Douchebag" movement cares about insulting people.
I know. They aren't trying to stop douchebags with douchebaggery.
What I meant was that it could have said "I'm a giant douchebag who drives on sidewalks"
In another video, the sticker is translated, the first part says "i don't care about other people", the second part is not the same, so i don't know. Edit: second part is "I drive where I want"!
It says in the video, something like, "I don't care about anyone else I drive where I want"
I love how it doesnt come off easily
seriously~ i was expecting those window stickers that you just yoink off. nope... the cheap as shit glue + paper, two buckets of goo-be-gone stickers. very nice
and seeing the drivers realize it when they try? Soooooo satisfying.
I checked out some of their earlier stuff, and sadly their original stickers look like they just came right off without much fuss at all. Glad they got "better" stickers.
The next step is a spike strip or tire trap of some kind. There's no need to personally engage when a series of spike strips can say what everyone's thinking.
you cannot use spike strips. What if a bicycle rider wipes out on them, or kids trip on them. Spaced barrier posts is the answer.
Not as a permanent installation, but they definitely should have some and roll them out if the driver tries to run them over.
Because spike strips would count as destruction of property. Obviously the movement is acting with the use of the law. Putting a sticker on the window doesn't count as breaking the law, at the very least could be like mild vandalism.
It counts as destruction of property when you put a spike strip out, tell the driver about it, and the driver then drives across it? Also, the idea isn't to pop the tires, the idea is to convince the drivers that they don't want to drive there. I'm not suggesting throwing it under the wheels, stop-stick style.
You would have to look at the Russian criminal and civil codes.
I think it being peaceful is part of the point...
You know, I don't think I'd make it in Russia. I wouldn't last a goddamn day.
It makes me so happy that they use the shitty stickers that suck ass at peeling off.
-If you put a sticker on my car i am going to kill you. I swear.
-Please don't do this. It is punishable by law.
That video makes me ~~fill~~ feel all warm inside. I think i'm in love!!
It's interesting seeing the difference along gender lines. The men are like "you got me, my bad... I'll turn around" the women are like "I know I'm wrong and I still don't give a shit. Honk Honk"
Yes, in that video it appears to be like that. But watch some other videos, both sex act roughly the same, they are all douchebags.
Yea but if you watch other videos, you'll see a lot of guys trying to fight and/or shoot them. I will say, I haven't seen any men trying to run them over with the car yet.
Can't dent the hood, and do you know how hard it is to get dried blood out of your under carriage?
It's because the men know that if they get out of their car, they might get their ass kicked by 5 big dudes. The women don't give shit. They know that they could probably run those guys over and get away with it because no one is going to hit a woman.
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I just feel like everyone should be afraid that if they act aggressively, they might get punched in the face. If everyone had that fear, people would be a lot more respectful of each other.
I'm sure I'll get voted down for this because there's a huge circle jerk going on. I've followed this group for a long time and they're not quite as great as they make out. There are many videos where they actively try to start fights with drivers who haven't even parked or done anything wrong yet, just to get a decent reaction for Youtube. They then pile onto the driver with multiple guys. Some of their videos have already been removed from Youtube because of the violence.
When they first started, it seemed like they really wanted to make a difference, then over time they got more cocky and more abusive, realising it hugely increases their views and therefore earnings.
So yes, they have a nice idea but take it with a pinch of salt.
Can you link a video like that?
Do you have any proof to what you are saying?
Self-righteousness, attention, money, especially when the violent videos get more hits, it's bound for corruption. It's easy to see right through their good intentions as with a lot of things people do in "good" intentions.
Interesting, maybe thats why only some of the first videos are subtitled?
Yeah I watched a couple of the ones where they were asking people to put their cigarettes out; they really just seem like they are picking a fight, then when the one dude they are fucking with fights back they gang up on him like 4 to 1. Seems pretty shitty.
As long as they aren't picking fights with people who don't start physical altercations with them first, I think it's not that big of a deal.
You know, I kinda got that sense from this video as well. Driving on the sidewalk may be a dick move, but their response does seem to be unnecessarily aggressive and provocative in places. They're clearly looking to wind people up and start fights.
Did you see the one where a random passerby comes up to a car stopped by the Stop a Douchebag folks and gives the driver a few good punches in the face? He was yelling, "you fucking idiot, my son was riding his bike on this sidewalk!"
If I were in that situation, where not only my life, by my young child's life was threatened by some fuck driving like this, my reaction would be at least as severe as this guys.
They're clearly looking to wind people up and start fights.
Another way of interpreting that is that they want to prove a point.
Watched the 17 capped versions and saw nothing like this.
Care to provide an example?
I'm looking for an example now. Their original channel 'stopxam' was terminated by Youtube after they pretty much just had a month of posting videos where they go out and start fights with people. Although the Youtube warning says copyright claims. All these videos showing up on Youtube are re-uploads.
From all the videos I've seen uploaded, they only fight if the other person throws the first punch. Even if they're looking for a fight or whatever you say, they aren't throwing the first punch.
A lot of videos are missing in this re-upload. It seems they've avoided the ones that were previously removed from Youtube.
Egos got the better of them?
I was going to say, they seem to be mongering for attention. Consider the fact that they like to keep their blockade at the END of the sidewalk. If you're really interested in keeping people safe, you're more concerned with preventing it from happening in the first place.
should be more up in the comments, this is my opinion also
Let's get this higher.
Yeah, run your windshield wipers over the sticker. That should help remove it from the glass.
/s
just smoothing out the airbubbles
That would be a good bait: "run your windshield wipers, that works for most people. ... Oh, sorry, I lied."
Why is the women so aggro?
Like all the guys are understanding and back off but the women just go fucking apeshit.
In the other videos there are some insane guys too, just a coincidence for that day of filming. A guy pulls a pistol out and threatens them.
Yeah i checked through all of their videos, gonna hand it to the dude in the video that walks with an AK being all badass though!
I remember a reverse of this video series. It was a guy trying to drive on the road but tons of people were blocking the way and he couldn't pass. He then calmLy went to his trunk and pulled out a machine gun and fired it into the air forcing everyone to run away.
I think it was Chechnya, too.
Probably mafia prostitutes
In their other videos there are mostly men getting aggro, one guy pulls a gun and threatens to shoot them
Probably mafia prostitutes
Yea, pretty sure that woman that said "I got this car from blowjobs" gave that way
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Why is it a shame?
n/m just found out you're a moderator of a sub oriented around taking suggestive photos of underage girls in public. You creepy disgusting neckbeard. and a bitter MRA shitlord. You are exactly what is wrong with this website.
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They're literally forcing people to follow safety regulations. Are you simple?
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That ability was already impaired considering that they were driving on a fucking sidewalk. Notice how the people who cooperated didn't get stickers?
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Aaaaand I fed the troll. Dammit.
I guess they're used to getting away with a lot of shit.
^^^^fixed ^^^^spelling, ^^^^don't ^^^^know ^^^^how ^^^^that ^^^^happened
The kinds of women who try to get away with this in the first place are the kinds who will be aggressive.
Yeah, that's probably true.
don't know how that happened
Blame autocorrect.
getting away*
Doesnt really matter, what you mean is conveyed regardless minor grammatical or spelling issues.
I'm still baffled by the fact that I managed to put more than one error in such a short sentence.
I managed to make an error as well (regardless of as another person pointed out), shit happens.
*they're
/r/pussypass
They are the victims no matter what so yea
There are over 100 videos. Plenty of dudes going off. Check out the sandals dude.
None of the women pulled a gun on them.
They blowjobbed their way to demanding respect, obviously.
Blowjobbed. Verb. Past tense of blowjob; to blowjob someone. Professor Vereshovsky was to give me failing mark, and this I cannot have, so I blowjobbeded him, and he give me the C+.
Respect is not given. It is blowjobbed.
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Check out the other videos, both genders going ape shit together. Totally equality. It's beautiful, in a douchebag way. Yet I haven't seen one these videos where a woman pulls a gun, like the guys. Ahh well, I haven't seen them all yet.
The women know they won't get their asses kicked. Men generally have no such assurance. It's like that in every culture on the planet.
Yeah, well some of the guys took out guns. Makes the woman who threw water a lot more "understanding" now doesn't it?
Editing?
At least the tank was holding aggro..
She just made her last car payment. She was in a rush to go spit.
Just look at her clothes, her car and her iPhone. She's some dumb mistress of a russian gangster or something, has never worked a day in her live and won't accept the response "No". The world is full of entitled bitches like this.
/r/pussypass
not ALL women, just the ones in the video.
Entitlement
you are simply a misogynist, how can you not treat men and women equally? /s
she threatened a group of guys that are all bigger than her with "im going to kill all of you if you put that sticker on".... shes clearly got spoiled bitch delusions of grandeur.
All women are like that
The "I'm a woman and I don't want to listen! I wan to honk the horn" thing makes me wonder if the video wasn't just edited to show more aggressive women.
Most of their other videos have plenty of crazy guys, including one who pulls a pistol and threatens to shoot and the police have to intervene.
I don't think there is selective editing going on.
I haven't seen any so I'll just take your word for it. I was just replying to the guy asking why the women seem more aggressive. The "I'm a woman" thing just seems weird to me. Why did they point that out? The "I don't want to listen! I wan to honk the horn" would do just fine.
it's a variation of a common Russian joke about women, that's why
well, it makes sense now. thanks
After watching some there does seem to be a distinctive difference between how some men and women react in these videos, the most aggressive men get out and get physical, the aggressive women seem to just keep driving and honking even if there's two dudes on her bonnet.
But yeah, I don't know how Russian stereotypes work but I'm guessing the women quip was about that.
bonnet
Bonnet aka hood.
I agree there are just as many men acting crazy... but there is one noticeable difference: there are almost no women who just reverse and leave or listen to what they have to say and leave. But there are quite a few men who do.
I dont think its anything to do with "women are bitches" though. It is just they are alone in a car surrounded by 5+ unknown big dudes who clearly know how to fight and arnt even afraid of guns. Once they get a sticker you can actually see many of them relax and then leave because they have realized the men are not a threat.
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I didn't mean that. What I mean is that they mainly just showed footage of women being aggressive in that video.
They have a series of videos up, in this one it happens to be a woman who's the most aggressive of the bunch, their other videos feature a man pulling a gun on them or a man trying to fight them.
So they didn't edit anything out to make women look worse, it's just what happened that day.
male privilege is being able to drive on sidewalks without being captioned in youtube videos
Pussypass.
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Self-entitlement sure is a bitch.
This video is one of the most satisfying videos I've seen in years!
entitlement
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One woman driver vs. bunch of men...might get a woman a little antsy in the first place. Might be she was already running some adrenaline just from the circumstance. Could you see what the outcomes might be if this was a group of women vs. male drivers?
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In all their hundreds of videos, its every female? Nice try, sexism apologist.
Even though the drivers are doing something wrong and probably illegal in Russia, putting something obstructing the drivers view is definitely illegal at least in the US. Even after it is taken off if there are still some sticky remains it can be argued that it caused the accident.
Finally, someone with reason here.
I feel like they are going to get shot doing that in Russia.
I feel like maybe you've based your entire opinion of a country on what you've seen on the Internet.
Or their history of crime, corruption, and gangs.
The U.S. Has More Guns, But Russia Has More Murders
Russia has roughly twice as many homicides by firearms than the US, even though they have roughly half the population of the US. This is also with about 100 guns per capita in the US and 6 guns per capita in Russia.
LOL.. this one is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbjFv81l1qQ
the mom puts her son in his place.. and yet...
Man, how can I support them? It's amazing!
Fucking awesome. Love the stickers.
It is always impressive when people get so angry about being called out for being in the wrong. Then treat you like you are the one in the wrong...and the death threats I mean really?
This could all be solved if you just erected some pedestrian only gates.
Edit: Or bollards.
My favourite is when the woman is freaking out in the white SUV some truck driver just chimes in from the road.
"Hey BITCH where are you going?"
Just lost it.
The part I find funniest is how it's improved over time. I watched all 17 videos available at the moment and they're getting good at this. More people, the stickers get waaaay stickier, and their placement technique is flawless now.
Why not just put up a barrier on the edge of the sidewalk that says no driving allowed. Dig some holes with jack hammers pour some cement in, or bring some giant rocks and lump em down there but keep enough space for people to walk in between.
I admire these people, but they are acting on a assumption that people have morality. They don't. Only way to ensure giant sidewalk like that free from idiot drivers, is to block the drivers from entering the road in the first place.
I'm going out on a limb and suggesting that Russian municipal parks and works departments aren't the best at reacting to and investing in pedestrian safety infrastructure while allowing maintenance/emergency vehicle access.
Maybe, but would they react better than the drivers do to the protestors? Or how would they react when every day there are giant rocks placed on the road? (small enough to be easily moved or driven over in an emergency)
Sometimes sidewalks double as emergency access for maintenance vehicles. That doesn't make them roads, but they still need to be passable by powerline/sewer/etc. trucks.
Although more expensive, they could install removable bollards for that purpose, they're pretty common.
Obviously, they could. But because they don't, you get videos like this. Not sure why people think bollards are a bright idea in association with this video. Of course bollards would fix this, but that seems awfully irrelevant.
Not sure why suggesting a common solution as an alternative to what's happening in the video is relevant?
They have blocks on some of the sidewalks here in Canada. They are wooden break away posts that can be broken if driven into hard enough by an ambulance or fire truck, and have a bolt at the bottom so the wooden post can be removed for maintenance crew access (or replaced if broken). But Ms. Beemer or Mr. Range Rover isn't going to break the post and ruin his front bumper just to save 30 seconds on their commute.
So block one end and leave the other accessible.
Some people DO have morality.
Is this one of those situations where the thief thinks everyone is a thief and uses it to justify his actions? Do YOU have morality?
I admire these people, but they are acting on a assumption that people have morality. They don't.
... They're acting on the assumption people don't have morality, or they wouldn't be there with anybody they expect to confront. You've entirely missed the point. The point they're trying to make is to confront these douchebags with what they're doing, and trying to see how they react, whether for better or worse.
Keeping people from going down the sidewalk is secondary. But even then, it's still based on the assumption people don't have enough morality to follow traffic law. I don't see how they're assuming anything beyond that.
Balls on the guys.
I've thought about doing something like this a lot but I'm too much of a wuss to pull it off, much less in Russia!
I like how every girl felt entitled to break the law..... At least the men could see where they had failed and try to do what was right...
I can hardly watch it, because the picture is completely covered by the size of the balls of those young people
God I love this! :D keep up the good work!
The best part about this is that the stickers they use are so adhesive, they can't get it off immediately. I'd imagine some goo gone magic would have to be used.
This made me feel so good. Started watching one episode and ended up watching an hour.
This is something I have noticed as a runner especially. 9 times out of 10 when I almost get hit by a car it is a woman. It's not because women are bad drivers compared to men I have noticed they just don't fucking care about anyone else around them. Not sure where the entitlement comes from but it's really aggravating.
Sounds like those bitches have their heads up their asses! Please be careful out there, Chris! ♥
All this could be avoided with a cement post in the middle of the paths
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Some people. And certain times of the day and certain places.
Which would be avoided by going along the grass I'd assume.
Bravo to them! This is a brillant citizenship action!
If that is a sidewalk, why are there no concrete pilings or barriers to entry? You have to put those at the entrances to make these sorts of paths impassable to motorized vehicles.
Where are the police in all this?
It seems like curbs would really go a long way in Russia..
Most, if not all, of these sidewalks had curbs.
Really? They need those tall curbs. The kind that'll fuck up a sedan that tries to roll up on it.
How are they able to get away with taking on a while campus!!? Is there something I'm missing here? It looks like there are only about what 5 or 6 guys filming and placing stickers VS about 100 students who are ready to beat them.
Why not just use road spikes? but with enough clearance for pedestrians, strollers and bikes but not car tires.
That would break the car more than one shitty sticker..
I love how those stickers are paper based so they are impossible to get off quickly.
Russian Redditors, I understand this part:
Hero: "It won't take more than 5 or 10 extra seconds [to take the detour]"
But what about the following two lines?
Douchebag: "Your camcorder seems kinda extra to you"
Hero: "Yeah, your car looks extra to you too"
What are they trying to say to say?
P.S. the "I'm going to tear your ass" translation had me lulz.
They should install traffic spikes.
Their sidewalks should look less like driveways.
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Maybe they were upset about something or were having a bad day? They have hundreds of videos, and in many the men are the aggressors. But it'd seem silly to specify why they're so aggressive when that kind of information isn't clear.
fucking gold. we need a team like this for Miami drivers.
Can't those guys get done for vandalism to private property? Another thing would I fuck do that in Russia fuckers are crazy as it is without annoying them. majority of the guys will be in the Mafia .
Edit. Prime example. 1:26 and 2:36 http://youtu.be/O1jGNd4Deys
They're sponsored by the government, it's part of a russian youth club and has received support from public officials.
Is that what it is I've watched everyone of them on YouTube I love those guys. Does seem in some of the video the police don't care they put the sticker on and do stick up for them and stuff
It is very popular (hundreds of youtube videos). Sometimes even other pedestrians "support this campaign"
They don't give a slightest f**k whose car it is:
Front of Russian Parlament - not a problem
Police Car - fuck yeah
Guy with gun - so what
Another guy with gun - he even apologized at the end
Why?
"StopHam - a popular and effective format of work of social activists, together with the authorities and law enforcement in the prevention of traffic violations and road rudeness"
Edit: bullet points
We need this in the united states, tax payer funded and everything
This is the best thing I've seen in ages. MORE!!!
"How did you earn money for such a car?" "I blowjobbed it!" "The truth is always good" Well played!
"We're from the 'Stop A Putin' group. Could you back up the way you came? You can't drive your tanks on this Ukraine."
Quality stickers. I was worried they'd peel right off.
These are the only times those stickers can be called quality
Nooope I've seen enough dashcam videos from Russia to know that you should never stand in front of a Russian driving a car.
Oh Russians, only Putin can drive on sidewalks.
where can i send donations so they never run out of stickers???
Sadly douchebaggery (of this nature) isn't exclusive to Russia. When I lived in Salt Lake City, UT they were doing construction on State Street and there were construction pylons blocking off the right turn lane WHERE CONSTRUCTION WAS HAPPENING. Before the pylons there was a sidewalk at the same height as the pavement. People would drive on the sidewalk and go on the wrong side of the pylons to get around the inevitable traffic resulting from the closed turn lane. You know, where pedestrians and construction workers are. Because they're too fucking impatient to wait for a few traffic-light cycles.
Eventually SLCPD caught on to this and parked a police car in the gas station there, and a cop stood by the side of the road gesturing cars over every time someone tried going around. It was glorious to watch.
All these commenters writing that US drivers never do anything close to what these Russian drivers do apparently just don't notice the insanely selfish stuff that US drivers do.
My guess is that much of it is so routine that they don't even see anything wrong with it (probably much like those Russian drivers who are shocked at being confronted on the sidewalk).
"I blowjobbed it"
The guy in this one takes the cake.
There's no excuse for driving on the sidewalk. But there's even less of an excuse for vandalizing someone's car like that.
Can't wait to see this from the dashcams perspective
the best part is that they used stickers that wouldn't come off easy
Goddamn,I love you Russians.
And their children ^too^ooo^ooo^ooo
They solved this problem a long time ago in the United States by not making sidewalks look like smaller roads.
Well, my country solved it by something else. They made it look JUST LIKE FUCKING SMALL ROAD, but they builded in some bars so you cant enter with anything bigger than bike.
You see all the other cars on the other "road"? I doubt that even as stupid as these plumbags are, they genuinely think it's a road. It's not like they're geniuses who discovered this hitherto unknown road that had gone unnoticed by everyone else sitting 10 feet from it. They're on a sidewalk and they fucking well know it.
I didn't mean they are unaware of what they are doing. Just that it would be a little harder to pull this off on a sidewalk sized correctly. If it has to be bigger to fit the scene, plant some trees or put in some benches.
Why don't they just put up some 'do not enter signs'?
Yeah, that'll stop them!
I would like a study done immediately. Why do the women decide to try and run people off the road, when the men just back up? Serious question.
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Rest of what videos? We're talking about women using several 3000 pound killing machines to try and run people over. Is this some sort of physiological issue? Can women not properly handle power? Have men been wrongfully labeled as aggressive drivers? These are questions I'd like to know.
These people jump in front of their cars. They bring their own fate if she keeps going.
These people are on a sidewalk getting in front of these assholes trying to get passed the traffic. Not to mention the fact that those cars are stopped before they start to ram pedestrians.
And this justifies putting a hug sticker in front fo teh driver seat how?
ProTip: It doesn't. It's not "Justice". It's a bunch of assholes with shady government connections taking the law into their own hands. If they REALLY gave a shit they'd get jobs in public planning and run for public office and effect actual change.
In Russia, sticker strong like bear.
To the people defending these drivers - what the hell is wrong with you? One day you too might need to walk down the path.
Every woman in this video looked to be more violent than any of the men. Also seemed entitled. Yea I said it. LET THE DOWNVOTES BEGIN!
Ah yes we all know how much reddit hates when you trash talk violent entitled women. Maybe if you're brave enough you can say something bad about religion, reddit would tear you apart.
"Reddit" ah the hive mind mmm. Yea..
While this is true, the men didn't exactly say nice things either
Every woman raged and the men simply accepted it and backed off.
Wow.
Every woman raged and the men simply accepted it and backed off.
in this video.
FTFY
Check out the other videos. Let the men impress you with their douchiness.
I wouldn't have posted my comment if say one of the women was a prick, but they all were, which is starting a trend...
However I'll heed your recommendation and watch the others
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Not trying to sound like an MRA
You didn't need to say this, you're literally stating an observation
It's like when people say "Not being racist but" and then say that someone is black... Again that's literally a skin colour!
Nobody would do shit if someone called me "white" and they shouldn't because that's what colour I am...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztd8Z1qbJ0c
Is it weird to anyone else that the women who got stopped were getting violent much quicker and often than the men were?
It took me a while to catch that. You my friend, you're a legend.
Maybe one woman in front of "a lot" of guys is more afraid than a dude in the same situation, or maybe like some else said, they think that being girls they can do w/e they want.
Or maybe they are just loud shits
They are used to /r/pussypass
I would guess it's because the guys would expect a fight if things turned, the ladies wouldn't. 4 or 5v1 whatever it'd be wouldn't go too well.
*In this video at least, I'd expect crazy dudes in other videos.
Women rarely get beaten in public, so they feel like they can say whatever they want.
They haven't had civility beaten into them like men have.
Men take confrontation more serious, they know a physical fight is a real possibility, it's not worth it.
Many women know they're "off limits" to physical violence and use that as an excuse to act like assholes (not most women of course, just some, that's the type we seen in the video).
I was going to comment on this. I think there is a special level of douchebaggery that happens when you know you are never going to get hit.
Where are the police? Why not just call the cops to sit there and hand out tickets?
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On one hand, I feel a little bit better on how the U.S. does things, but on the other hand, Russia pretty much let's you go wild so long as you don't talk bad about politics. Decisions, decisions...
lol, good joke.
The police do this kind of stuff too, except they approach it a little differently. They would set up at the end of the "shortcut" and offer people taking it a choice - give me $100 and i'll move, or go to jail/precinct. If they're feeling generous or see you have no money they might let you back out.
That would stop people, but you can't have an officer posted at every sidewalk in the city. If other civilians make them stop then they'll be less likely to drive on the sidewalk when there aren't any officers around.
Recursion to your username.
touche.
The sense of entitlement in some of these people is astounding, but not surprising. We see this in all countries - people thinking they're special and rules don't apply to them whenever they get behind the wheel - just not quite as bad.
Can't speak for everywhere else, but in my area there's a lot of drivers who for instance unashamedly display a rabid hatred for bicyclists and occasionally even pedestrians. As someone who doesn't drive, it's such a weird thing to observe. Car culture is almost like a religious thing to many.
I loved how many of them told these people to get a real job. So much wrong with that statement.
Firstly, if these videos go viral, these guys will make more money in that one afternoon than that motorist will make all week.
Secondly, if they didn't go viral, they could (in America at least) take these drivers to court for vehicular assault, and offer an out of court settlement for quite a nice amount, meaning they will make more money in that one afternoon than that person will make all month. I honestly don't think they will, but they definitely could.
Thirdly, this is a volunteer youth movement performing a community service. This isn't supposed to be a damn job, they aren't doing this to get paid.
Lastly, these people are having their faces put online with very clear evidence they are trying to run over pedestrians with their car. If they don't already, they'll very soon join the ranks of people who, too, will need to follow their own advice and "get a real job."
Someone should send them a spike strip, four flat tyres will change their minds.
"The truth is always good." :) yes brother, preach it.
Did anyone else notice they drive really nice cars?!
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No not even that dude total opposite of the point I'm making like that's wat u expect but people drive Wayyy better cars than in the u.s I'm from South Africa and I see more luxury cars in a day than I see in the u.s.
Why are some of you defending the drivers? They are fucking asshole driving on sidewalks where people walk FFS.
Also the douchebag movement is really banking on the douchebags aren't actually psychopaths willing to run them down for inconveniencing them.
What's with the majority of females in this video feeling entitled to continue doing what they're doing? Literally every guy simply backed out, while so many of the women bitched and threatened lives..
Naw. If you watch the other videos there are men with guns, bats, crowbars and fists.
I was mainly talking about this video, but the majority still stands in the good. It's kinda sad to see the guys act tough though haha
Keep in mind that the people who don't react strongly aren't very interesting and won't make the video.
you mean video?
There are plenty of calm "You're right, I'm sorry" reactions. But I get what you're saying!
My favorite is when this dude on a scooter tells them to put the damn sticker on his front and then he just backs out and drives away.
hahaha, yeah, i meant video.
i have to imagine (hope?) that there are many, many more sane, calm, rational folks that get stopped, we just got a small sample to balance out the crazies.
If this was in America you would get shot.
I feel like there's a bigger chance to get shot in Russia.
Doubt it. That'd be pretty pathetic to shoot some kids who are blocking you from driving on a sidewalk. Don't know what type of people you hang out with.
Jumping on someone's car and putting a sticker on it so they can't see. What if the driver freaked out and drove away and ran someone over cause they couldn't see.
OP here. Holy shit, RIP my inbox. Thanks for the gold, kind strangers! :) Don't miss the fella with the [crowbar].(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2_QQ-9xtE).
These videos are also proof of why it should be allowed for men to use acceptable violence against women in order to defend themselves. Women are constantly kicking and punching these guys and they allow it simply because they're women. They're hitting you, slap them or put them on the ground. The women are only getting physical because they know no one will hit them back. It's horseshit. The women are by the worse in these videos. Episode 6 proves that point well. It also perfectly proves the point of how shit the Russian police are.
Yes, agreed. I wouldnt beat woman, but if it was this bitch, doing well... fighting-manly things, that would be some combo...
Exactly....
This is incredible! I think I'm done for the day.
That task could be a dangerous one for those upstanding citizens.
It is. After all the guns, weapons, and fists shown at them for all their videos, I'm pretty sure they understand that very well though.
It's great those guys have lots of balls, but what they really need are bollards.
Obviously bollards would solve the problem, eh? But because there aren't bollards, thus, these videos get made. And these videos are great. I'd even go as far to argue there shouldn't be bollards just so there can always be more of these videos.
the song, in case anyone else liked it.
Was watching their other videos in the playlist, and this is probably the best line.
"Hmm....let me just pour water on it and turn on the wipers. Should do the trick."
I'd like to place an order for 1000 of those stickers, please
No bollards in Russia, apparently. Maybe all sheared off at the base?
Honestly if they really didn't want people to drive there or to not start trouble, they would stand at the entrance. They are in a way beckoning people in and letting them fail. Also, I don't know how the city government works there, but they should just put polls up so cars cannot drive through. Doesn't change the fact that it is pretty funny though.
The need a blocker car, a junker they can just pull out from the side to block the cars path, terrifying when that last bitch decided she'd like to run them down.
This is amazing, even more so because some people still don't give a fuck after having it literally spelled out to them. The nerve of that fucking brat of a woman. "Oh this is sidewalk? I kill you if you do not move. Don't put sticker on windshield!" Steals someones waters "Oh you try to take water back!?" splash "You fucking dicks, get this sticker off!" How? How are you so fucking selfish that this is your line of thought?
Women are growing up today being taught that they can do no wrong and only be victims.
Women, or people? I don't think that's a gender specific influence.
It's more so in women because people are generally much more forgiving to women. Refer to how women almost always get custody in divorce and prison sentences. And White knights
I love that they got the shitty sticker that rips apart when you try to take it off! 10/10, very happy about that.
Sidewalk needs a steel pylon in the middle at both ends so no can can even begin to go down.
we do that in north america but i guess its too advanced for russia LOL
Guy in truck: Where you goin', bitch?
Golden.
What the fuck is wrong with these people driving on the sidewalk?
this is awesome!
In Poland we have something similar, an anonymous punishiment or revenge for people who park their cars like douchebags and it's a sticker on the perpetrator car's windshield. It's called "karny kutas" (penalty dick). Stickers are made on purpouse from a paper that's really hard to peel off, leaves glue marks and comes with different slogans and dick shapes on it. That guarantees a "drive of shame" for you or being late for work.
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That was one of the more satisfying things I've ever watched. I would like to start a US chapter of Stop a Douchebag!
doin god's work
Jesus Christ, the amount of people that were ready and willing to run those guys over staggered me. That one lady kept trying to go like 3 times.
Why don't they put a pole or a large rock at the entrance of these paths? People can walk around rocks or poles. Cars cannot.
I was thinking the same thing the whole time.
In some of their videos drivers just jump the curb to go around stuff like that and drive on the sidewalk anyway.
TIL Russians are total assholes.
People are total assholes. But yeah, basically
I need to learn how to keep calm like this during a confrontation. If someone hit me with a car, I'm sure I would have retaliated. Kudos to them for keeping from escalating.
I can think of a few places in Oakland where this crew could do some good.
here's an idea,put a couple of poles or signs there.
Fucking love Russia! - This is awesome!
These guys are amazing.. + that sticker you cant just peel off.... Well, good job. Let these bitches going over people sink to the bottom.
it's funny to watch their early videos because their sticker placement kinda sucks, but through much practice they have mastered the art.
True. And I love that in Russia, police delivers.
Russian style of life, but young people will change it
these guys should do an AMA, they got some big balls and are doing great work
I'm glad I have the day off. I'm dedicating it to watching all of these videos.
this is gold.
"All people are equal. All must drive back" I ROFLMOED!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibl6SHbq8sY#t=78
I like how they don't put stickers on the cars of people who are like "Oh, ok" and drive back.
Can someone translate what is on the sticker?
Love the size of the sticker. It was as comical as it was effective. I applaud these guys.
Too fucking risky and dangerous. They should lay spike strips in front of the cars instead of standing infront ofthem. If one crazy motehrfucker comes along they would be spending weeks in the hospital.
In this episode, Women's Day, can anyone name the song that plays in the beginning? The first words play around 1:02
I could watch these all day, the sticker is genius!
My observation: The more expensive the car, the douchier the driver.
Though that's kind of true here in the US too.
I've seen studies in the US confirming that. The explanation given was that with more money (presumably accompanied by the need for conspicuous display of wealth) the circle of empathy narrows.
/r/JusticePorn
I'm so impressed by these guys, but I hate confrontations between people using roadways so much that watching this video moderately stressed me out. Kudos to their calm manner and refusal to back down.
I had no idea driving on the sidewalk was a "thing" and here I was upset when people drove on the sideroad
IThis guy has a gun and they do it anyway. Ballsy.
Just like the EU servers in Dota 2.
"I blowjobbed it".....quote of the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys
ballsy
Can someone tell me what the sticker says in English?
TIL that when Russian cops show up, dickheads become apologetic freaks.
A lot of these doucebags tend to be driving fancy cars, coincidence?
The first guy they stop in this video is pretty cool, for a douchebag. He wears a horse mask and tries to convince the activists that he's a horse, note a douchebag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFNC_ka5Xw
I absolutely love how they greet everyone with, "Stop a douchebag movement."
TIL: Russia has some crazy-wide sidewalks.
They stand in the middle. If they stood at the entry point and just told them, they would probably have less drama. I think they wanted the drama. Less about road safety.
Why aren't there concrete or metal posts to stop cars but allow pedestrians?
Word cloud out of all the comments.
Don't like this? Message me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys
Here is one with guns!
America needs a show called ' Stop a Douchebag'. Man .. the possibilities are endless
This is like crack...I just can't stop watching
I have an idea. Lets design sidewalks to look exactly like a road!
"your camera looks extra" "your car looks extra" what is this supposed to mean? I imagine it's a funny translation?
I suspect it was a passive aggressive threat to steal his camera.
I imagine it's more of a literal translation thing. like, maybe they meant "excessive" or "not necessary"
So what exactly is stopping these guys from putting up bollards on the side walk to prevent people from driving on sidewalks?
Needs big signs stating "this is a sidewalk... tire puncturing devices laid in the road".
And... stop sticks in the road.
I noticed that they were disproportionately luxury cars. Almost like there were a correlation between ostentatious displays of wealth and the belief that laws don't apply to you.
I love everything about this.
Similar stickers for drivers who can't park http://i.imgur.com/amjYrdI.jpg
Maybe vertical metal concrete barrier bars, I dunno.
It seems like there's some stupidity on the government's part. These aren't expensive and they are effective.
Degrees at EMU are quite affordable, but what does that have to do with the issue?!
"How did you pay for this car?" "I blow jobbed it" "Well... The truth is always good"
love how they got the cheap stickers so its so much harder to remove and leaves the glue behind
entitled cunts everywhere
When that one chick thought she could just take the sticker off, and then realized that it was a proper sticker, I lost it.
How about some stout concrete pylons or something? Seems dangerous to hop on their hoods.
Well it certainly much nicer than giving them to the count of 10 an then smashing the shit out of their car with bats. Stupid cunts.
Keep up the good work, guys!
This gave me such a raging justice boner.
"I f*cking blowjobbed it"
That music... I must have it...
Tell me if you find it!!
*EDIT Found it
Thanks dude, I honestly appreciate it
I wonder if there's a chance some of these people don't know that it's a sidewalk but resist backing out because they think the guys in the video are trying to pull an insurance scam or something. It's not unheard of in Russia.
Need a "Bollard Squad" instead.
This is pretty funny, I support this movement all the way from Chicago.
What? No kickstarter? No GoFundMe link? All these people spending money on reddit gold for this thread when we should be sending money to these heroes to keep them going.
Agreed.
It looks like a road more than a sidewalk. It would be simpler and more effective to just put up a car-blocking barricade - a couple of waist-high vertical poles would do the trick.
God this was so satisfying to watch.
Is this group in Southern California? I like to join please amd help spread the awareness of douchery. Send stickers
Quite possibly the best thing I have watched in a very long time. Thank you for this.
This is so awesome.
So does Russia just not use bollards? Do they have a thing against them?
How can we create Stop A Douchebag squads across the globe?
Loved the automatic wipers sensing the water and getting that sticker on there a little bit better!
I ended up watching so many of their videos
I really like that most of the time they give the offender a chance to back up. I think this has until recently been a tolerated driving practice in Russia, so they're letting people know its not OK anymore instead of just trying to put the sticker on their car right away. They're going about this the right way.
Fantastic. We need more people doing the job police aren't doing.
These guys are fucking super heroes!
I find it odd how it's usually the women that try to run them over.
I find it entirely expected. Dat sense of entitlement.
oh my god. this is filling my justic porn quota for years to come.
Jesus Russia is scary
Those are high quality stickers!
These guys deserve some award or something.
What's wrong with people?
The female in the white suv.
fuck off! get a job assholes!
how did you get this car?
I fucking blowjob-ed it!
Do they have a site to donate? Those stickers cant be cheap.
So when are we starting this with cellphone douchebags?
Reddit unite!
What does the sticker say?
"I don't care for anyone else, I drive where I please."
This inspires me to do an American version, but for red light runners. Place a bumper sticker on the back of their car while they are in the store after a running a light that reads "Hey Cops! I love to run red lights! Easy ticket money right here!"
I've long pictured slapping an "I don't care about the safety of pedestrians, so I run red lights" sticker on their car as they pass through the crosswalk I am in.
I was even kind of close to getting stickers printed up, but the sad reality is that police would more readily cite me for property damage, than cite them for running red lights. (And there's the obvious safety issue of being that close to the car.)
Ah, this gives me all kinds of satisfaction. Maybe next they could do this to drivers who park in loading zones/fire lines with their hazards on because they're "just running in."
In Soviet Russia, sidewalk drives you
Jesus Christ. Just get some concrete pillers at the end of the sidewalks. Problem solved.
Russia is such a backward country.
Unsung Heroes!
Way to go folks! We need more heros like those. And they even give away free stickers.
I approve of everything these people did. In my area in the states we have people who go into areas that you are not suppose to drive in just so they can get around the people driving the proper way in front of them. The comments on this video are crazy saying its sexist because the stickers mainly go on the female drivers vehicles but why?... well because the female drivers were the ones that would not turn around and insisted on gassing their car into people in front of them in hopes that they move. These men are doing their area a service in my opinion.
Seems like a lot of work for something you could fix with concrete posts or spike strips.
TDIL Apparently driving on side walks is common place in Russia.
Also why don't they install those cement poles that a bike can easily go through but a car can't.
"You guys should be in every major city." Fact.
They should get cops to do this, and they should put up giant barriers.
can someone explain to me why they don't just put up concrete barriers on the sidewalks? Keeping cars off sidewalks seems like a pretty easily solved problem.
Heck, just roll a few trash cans out into the sidewalk and fill them with concrete. Place them where cars are turning onto the sidewalk and you will have blocked 90% of the people you see in the videos because most people don't have time or strength to drag something that heavy out of the way.
Because they are lazy Communists who don't think things through and want to put their youth to "work" (for free) because there are no jobs in that desolate shithole.
well THAT was not the answer i was expecting, but its certainly quite an answer :D
So putting youths to work making barriers is not an option? Maybe we should start a kickstarter for funding russian youths to make sidewalk barriers.
I loved every second of this
Honestly I'd just get a mask and cover myself up and then take a bat to their cars. I'd wait for them to come and then smash their windshield and mirrors in. Afterwards I would proceed to peace out of there.
These stickers are amazing and......tacky.
Holy shit the whole youtube channel is full of wins...man that feels good to watch the drivers back up in shame.
Body slam at the end!!!
http://youtu.be/W0XQE9eCfOk
This one, Passerby punches the driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFNC_ka5Xw
"i fucking blowjobbed for it!"
shit
I can't believe they still do it after having pulled guns at their faces numerous times. Balls of steel. Maximum respect!
This area really needs a car barrier.
They really need a spike strip. Someone is going to run them over in anger sooner or later.
HA that Robot Chicken Russian drop!
It's totally hilarious that these are fragile paper stickers so they can't be peeled off in one piece. They thought that shit through. That'd take like half an hour to get visible again, could take a couple of hours to get all the residue off if you didn't figure out any special tricks.
Just love how the people driving think they are so fucking in the right....unbelievable!
Fuck. Just upped the bar on how fucked up I thought driving in Russia already was. Props to those guys, the police are obviously useless stopping those self important whorebitches.
Guy in the truck - "Where are you going, bitch?"
I love that a random guy in his truck starts yelling. So fucking perfect.
Two words: Spike strips.
The comments, oh that was a funny browse.
They need to put bollards at places where will try to enter the sidewalk.
If you watch, the first set of stickers they used in earlier videos would come of in one pull... they learned fast.
Just put a few large decorative rocks near the start and end of the pathway.
Man that last woman was a bitch. Apparently she was so fucking important she was even willing to run them over to get to the gas station.
Russian here. Can confirm. This shit happens daily and no one gives a fuck. I don't know how bad it is now, but when I left the country 9 years ago it was pretty bad already.
The random guy in the truck who called out the last lady really got me
Watching this has increased my misogyny.
Anyone interested in starting this in the UK? :P
It takes the police officers an eternity to arrive at these altercations in the rare instances they actually do make their presences known.
This would go over completely differently in America. No doubt about it.
How'd you pay for this car?
I BLOWJOBBED IT!!!!
What do the stickers say?
I have the hardest, longest, thickest, blackest, and throbbing justice boner right now. It's like a cylindrical throbbing diamond between my thighs
This is great. I love that they didn't put the sticker on until the people were just completely unreasonable.
Fuark. All these social justice videos are making me feel so good. Today, traffic violations... Tomorrow, government corruption. Go Russia!
Amazing, kudos to these guys!
This makes me feel all worm an fuzzy!
Great job guys, keep it up!!!
While digging through the channel, I found this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OdEnPb2TE
Rap sounds badass in russian O_O
Here's a radical (but late) idea: How about a sign indicating "no motorized traffic"? Better yet, 2 concrete posts positioned to prevent cars from entering?
I've watched almost every video now, damn russians are righteous af.
big up to these guys.
They handled it well at least. Douchebags of that caliber in the US also come with psychotic road rage.
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"One flah-ra-da driver"
It's "Florida" you dumb bitch.
Also love the cunt filming while driving. Pretty fucking smart. She should get arrested too.
Do these people accept donations?
If not they should. This channel needs to stay alive.
This is such an endless story. Everyone who has hearing and vision knows of this movement, yet the # of retarded drivers who care about nothing but themselves seems to never decline. It's as if they're keep being produced from some sort of a perpetuum mobile factory or something.
This is the level of culture in modern day Russia.
There's a lot of nice and kind people, but as a country, I think they're pretty fucked up right now.
Source: a guy from a neighboring country.
In Canada we just use bollards so that cars can't get on to the paths. Pretty simple.
In america we just don't drive on sidewalks
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Since when?
My experience while visiting the US: https://i.imgur.com/URIPJ3b.jpg
Yes bc that small part of a suburb you visited is a great sample size for making general statements about america.
Not my photo. Just an example.
My latest experience with the disappearing sidewalk was in Orange County.
There is a sidewalk ending on the front page of r/funny right now.... weird.
Yup reminded me of my travels. So weird.
It should be noted that the Russian "xam" doesn't exactly translate to "douchebag" in this sense: whereas douchebag connotes a person (usually male) who behaves ignorantly or obnoxiously, "xam" refers to someone dismissing recogized conventions of public behavior.
For example, the verb (to "xam") literally describes acts like swearing in public, littering, spitting on people, flicking cigarette butts on the street, etc. In English, these acts would not be called douchebaggery.
so is there an english version of this sticker one can order...would love to keep a bunch handy for reminding people driving is a responsibility.
So you're going to stick one on every car that you disagree with?
You should be made aware, vandalizing cars is a crime.
the stickers are removable with a little elbow grease, no damage to the car, i would say "vandalize" is a bit strong on that one...i wouldn't be planting this things willy nilly around the place...would be saved for a clear cut case of douchery...but i thank you for your concern.
What's truly amazing, is the reaction of those drivers. Every single one of them, a full one hundred percent, know that the Stop The Ham guys are out there with one and only one purpose: to stop the douchebag drivers from driving on sidewalks. They won't budge no matter what, that's why they move in groups which include some physical guys to provide support or fend off the especially violent drivers, and they videotape everything.
Yet, some of the drivers just fucking can't help but descent into this meaningless and unwinnable quarrel where they scream and yell while fully knowing they will not get it their way.
There must be a name for this psychological syndrome.
i think russia is just a shitty society in general
The teenagers should all wear high-visibility jackets for 1) Safety and 2) to give them more gravitas in these disputes.
Great stuff, keep it up!
Fuck these people, thinking they're above the law and rest of society just because they happen to be richer and driving nicer cars than the rest.
I have the feeling that we are going to see footage of one of these guys being stabbed or shot when they mess with the wrong person. Like a Russian mobster or something. I mean a few drivers have already drawn guns on them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbs6eMxa5ds
Why don't they just put caltrops or a spike strip in front of them?
Thank you for this upload, I just spent half of my workday watching all of the videos!
why are the sidewalks as wide as a road? and why doesn't the city just put a couple concrete beams at the ends of the sidewalk to prevent drivers from driving on it? would be easier than trying to stop drivers 1 by 1, and any new driver would see the opportunity to take the shortcut and take it
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Starting with blowjobbing.
You're forgetting Rule #1: Never stick your dick in crazy.
Also Rule #2: Sometimes it's worth it to ignore rule #1.
The exception to rule# 1 is if you tell her your name is Randy Lahey and your phone number is 867-5309.
Also with the exception of Rule #3: Don't tell them your name or where you live, and preferably without knowing what you look like.
So, wear a bag over your head?
Or hers.
The Russians are already crazy. So, that point is moot.
Well the one did have a 90,000 dollar Range Rover from sucking dick so yea!
Buy yourself one and see for yourself.
Nah, those deranged women probably can't even get passed themselves to enjoy sex.
That's how they get these cars no? Or did I misunderstand the last scene?
waaaaa that's sexist waaaaa ROFL
Hell yeah son. I need me some of that russian poon
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In this video, yes. In others... Everybody gets a bit crazy.
Their other videos show men getting out to fight them, and one even pulls a gun on them. This video just happens to show women who are crazier than men, but they don't take the cake.
Why's that odd? In the same way it would be odd if the behavior was reversed for the genders?
All it really implies is that the people who had bad days, were upset about something, had unstable personalities, etc, happened to be the females in this one particular video. Much in the same way that another video would have all the bad behavior being committed by guys. Much in the same that another video would have all the bad behavior done by people with green eyes. Much in the same that another video could have all the bad behavior done by people who are over 6 feet tall. Etc. Etc. Etc.
There's nothing odd about it unless you're thinking about it with sexism.
There's nothing sexist about expecting men to be more aggressive. It's a natural factor of having higher testosterone. That's what makes it odd, but these are Russians we're talking about and the sample size is inconclusively small.
No one will hit a woman. They know they can pretty much get away with murder
Ok good, I didn't want to sound like a sexist pig or whatever, but damn the women were incredibly more irrational and had this air of entitlement. But oh well, it's Russia
Their other videos show men getting out to fight them, and one even pulls a gun on them. This video just happens to show women who are crazier than men, but they don't take the cake.
The sense of entitlement a woman driving a nice car that she probably didn't earn is not to be underestimated.
The women know they can get away with it
This is absolutely fantastic guys mad props to you.
I love the way you talk to these people more than anything else. You never seem to show anger and are polite and to the point when talking to them at all times its brilliant (except the one time when the woman took the water bottle).
This is a brave thing to do I have to say, I admire you all. Just be aware you might get somebody who thinks you are muggers etc or just a plain nutjob and they could run you over/take out a gun. Put your own safety 1st when in doubt
I don't know who you're talking to since none of the StopHam crew is reading this. You could leave a comment on their YouTube channel.
I'm not sure why that would be the case, if me or anybody I knew made the front page of reddit im sure SOMEbody in my social circles would hear about it and tell me.
That being said I appreciate what you meant, its more likely they would see it on their youtube page, fair point.
I understand, and also how reddit can be seen as an American website.
It's actually quite multi-national
Maybe if it was translated.
They've had a few guns pointed at them in their other videos, plus people try to run them over too.
So much satisfaction in one video.
I would watch all these videos, but their youtube channel was shut down for copyright infringement.
They were "StopXam." I don't know if they've created another channel, but these guys are awesome.
where are the cement blocks meant to block cars? i mean it is not clostly and would greatly help reduce this kind of thing. hell just put a fucking rock on the side walk.
it dosen't matter if they are russian or not douchbags will allways be douchbags and drive on walkways if it means things will go quicker. had a newly built walk way that saved having to go around it easly saved 5 minutes of driving if you used it so douchbags drove there and what is worse they didn't drive slowly we are talking fucking rally speed here.
my uncle who lives below the walk way got fed up with it got in his traktor grabed a giant ass rock from the forest and placed it on the walk way. bikes, moped people etc can easly walk past it but car not so much. there was a crash some morons apprently going upwards of 70km/h hit the rock totaled there car. the people in the car were fine.
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you normally only do one side it is a bit of backing but the hassle is well worth fucking over douchbags.
You gotta have some major (russian) balls to do this shit in Russia
That was amazing. It's awesome that no matter what the driver says they stay calm and polite, that's the way to do it.
Can anyone translate the sticker? Just curious.
http://imgur.com/tdbajPf
Thanks, must have missed that.
"I don't care for anyone, I drive where I want"
Thank you!
Very appropriate sticker.
The speed and grace those stickers get applied at is hilarious
I was waiting for someone to pull out an AK on them, not use to this kind of Russian videos.
Yeah half of me wants to join up and get my sticker on. The other half just wants to live.
Try to watch more their videos, there is a video where a guy with AK comes to them.
Looks like a road to me.
There was really no reason to caption that section with "I'm a woman."
It's entirely irrelevant to what's happening.
Literally every woman in the video became confrontational.
They have a dozen other videos where men confront them as well. It is irrelevant what sex the driver is.
I know, I've seen them. I'm not saying that its only women being angry, I'm just saying "equal rights, equal lefts".
full playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfRXPv2mK1xlf-0qb2B2AL9F4zm1ZhmLl
I created a subreddit for these guys
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stop_a_douchebag/
EDIT: then I got too lazy to actually post anything on it, so go nuts everyone else!
Anyone notice how it was the woman who got violent and reacted in such a manner, yet the men as much as were doing wrong thing backed away and weren't
In this video, yeah.
In some of their other videos (its a series) some of the dudes they pull over get out and try to fight them. One even pulls a gun on them.
Being a violent asshole transcends gender.
you realize bro with the AK actually jumps out to help them, right?
Talking about guy waving the pistol.
Don't act like that's universal. There are plenty of men and women that will run your ass over for doing that. Men and women can be assholes
That's probably right. And even if it wasn't, the amount of data here wouldn't be able to prove anything beyond the anecdotal.
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Well, obviously it seems that way. But I think the point was initially being made as a sweeping generalization of all genders. Of course the ones in this video who reacted the worst are the ones who are apparently most self entitled, and yes, in this particular video it happened to be mostly the women, whereas the next video it may be the men, etc...
Let's not forget the clip linked above where a man pulled a pistol on them and threatened to shoot all of them.
We both have them. It makes sense!
Yeah but the women knew that the men wouldn't hit them, where as the men were just out numbered. They were playing the entitled sex card. But then again how many men get nice cars for BJs.
Agree with alot of your statement, people are referencing the video with a guy and a gun, I see no issue with that as thats self defence, but look how entitled the girl reacts when she pushes the driver for grabbing the water bottle.
Yeah guns change all the rules if a women has a gun and looks away for even a sec, and I am close. I have done things that a woman doesn't walk away from. But all people are equal when they are holding a gun... a deadly treat. But then again it is a rare day that I don't hear a gun battle. Also iirc that was a woman on woman push.
Yeah but when girls are dicks apparantly its fine, when a guy farts at a girl theres a movement to have the guy killed. Just a simple comment,
Yes but rich women are much more entitled than men.
From this video alone it shows women are more aggressive.
Watch the other one where. Guy pulls his pistol out me threaten to shoot them each in the face.
Yes and? I'm sure if that crazy threatening women had a gun she would pull it too. I mean she almost ran them over in her fucking car
Car gun, difference?? tbh the people are acting dangerous. Mod mentality is a scary thing
Men are more likely to back off and go back to the road.
This time. Look at e other video where a man gets out of hi car with his pistol pointed at them and continuously threatens to shoot them.
There's also another guy who is apparently some mafia guy who had one of his guys pull out an AK-47. But the larger % that is ignorant and refuses to get back on the road seem to be woman, even considering most drivers are men.
It's not universal, but it sure ass hell raises some questions.
Dude sample size is so small theres no way you can make any inference about gender responses. It also happened that those three women seemed to be raging bitches, which the average women is not.
Only reddit would argue on and on over some dumbass observation that was most likely just a joke.
Part joke/part mimmick of how the media would treat men in the situation.
If you claim that most women arent raging bitches then you clearly have been lucky in the dating game.
sample size of 3?
Hail Ra, opener of every eye, ancient of heaven! Which is better- creamy or crunchy peanut butter? Also, is there a concise way to explain the mystery of Khepri?
It isn't natural to think like a scientist. You can't really blame them for having natural assumptions like that. But, you can certainly blame education for not enforcing stronger logic in its population! (This is one of many reasons why people are passionate for education reform.)
/r/sizematters
What are you implying? That some 5 minute video is some sort of evidence on difference in gender? Look at the other videos when men pulls out guns on them and start fistfights. Anecdotes != evidence.
And yet his is one of the top comments. I think /r/theredpill is leaking.
DAE think that anyone who does not agree with: women are always sweet/nice but always victim no matter what because of the evil men (all men), is a sexist misogynist fascist AKA red pillers?
Read the original post. It was insinuating certain things and buddy stepped in to keep that shit in check. No one here is saying women are innocent all the time, but let's not get out our pitchforks just yet.
This would be way more /r/mensrights than TRP.
Stereotypes exist because of the majority.
i always hear this and you're so wrong. anecdotes are evidence. those clips are evidence. it may not be all the evidence, but it's evidence nonetheless.
There's good evidence and there's shitty evidence.
Anecdotes are shitty evidence
This has nothing to do with "anecdotes". It's not an anecdote, it is clearly filmed. I think what you mean is the test size to make conclusions needs to be larger. You can't just pick one subject and base conclusions off of it.
Anecdotal evidence has nothing to do with not believing the person who told the anectode or something, but with small and cherry-picked samples:
Because of the small sample, there is a larger chance that it may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
Thanks for that. To me the wording is kind of weird.
np :)
You can't just pick one subject and base conclusions off of it.
But that actually is the definition of anecdotal evidence. He used it correctly.
Wow that's true, shit lol. I was thinking it was more of someone saying a story.
yet that 2 minute video of that chick walking in nyc made people think all men are evil or whatever ~.~
To be honest I feel that if the woman attack one of the man there wont be persecution...
Persecution?
Common sense right? Now think about the harassment video. Still common sense? Some people will crucify you for the comparison.
I am sure if you would research this with decent sample size and method and such women will atleast be 10% more likely to react aggressively or do what they like due to the conditioning there is happening in society. This would have been way higher if it weren't for the testosterone of men.
Im just commenting on the facts from the video, Im sure if at some point there was a man in this video pushing a woman off his bonnet then the hardcore feminists would blow up at it,
Just commenting/ re enacting how the media portray men. Its apparently acceptable when they do it to us
Of course only the men get into fist fights, women know they would get their asses kicked. But there are more aggressive women in these videos
Yes
Yep. I know all I need to know about Russian women now.
You need to calculate the p-value before you can claim anything as significant.
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Yea, they were the only ones who were willing to run people over in order to refuse thay they were wrong... That said I'm sure there are some guys who are just as obnoxious in their other videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh67gGpaX1A this is one of their videos where they have to fight a guy
BODY SLAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqSYHtj2ROc
This is one of their videos where a guy tries to fight girls putting stickers on.
Haha yeah I've actually seen them all now. Such sweet justice, hilariously entertaining.
I gotta wonder what made that guy decide it was a good idea to instigate a fight a younger, taller, and significantly more athletic man.
MMA trained head of the douchebag movement. Hero status.
I find it funny how everyone on the road is just watching like it happens everyday and that black car just waiting until they're finished fighting.
Well there were two women in this video. They were filming all day and probably cut out some boring reactions. Also the only people who turn down those roads are raging assholes. So if you find an angry dude you'll find an angrier woman. This is not some mind blowing gender statement you're making
Why bother noticing? It's a 5 minute, utterly meaningless sample that indicates nothing whatsoever about either gender.
Not to mention the dozens of other videos where it shows guys trying to run them over and starting fights.
I have no clue how this post has so many upvotes. It's not even trying to hide it's sexist bias.
How is it sexist to point out the content of the video?
I have no clue how this post has so many upvotes. It's not even trying to hide it's sexist bias.
Name ONE thing that is sexist in u/FotherM's comment, just ONE. He is just saying what we all saw. Unless you watched a different video than I did?
That's like saying, "All the aggressors had blue eyes." So what's the fucking point of saying it unless you're including a biased implication of, "Hey guys, so maybe there's something to it with these blue eyed fellows!"
The only difference is, if someone pointed that out they wouldn't be flamed for being "eyeist". It's the people who take offense in it that's my problem. Why do you get offended if you're so sure it's pointless? Maybe he thought it was interesting, but NOTHING he said is even close to an indication of being sexist.
Whilst my account name is short for a play of a swear word im quite confused where you got the gist of sexism here? Whilst the comments replying to our quiet clearly agreeing that I'm not I can explain the theory behind my comment aswell if you so feel that my post did thus offend thee
Its simple a comment saying the women flipped and the men behaved rash in THIS video. Whilst media would have a field day if a man acts like this, but when women do it, no one bates an eye. (so far not sexist just a comment on media kk?).
Females have alot of media support these days when comes to violence yet men are always that bad guys. Was simple commenting
dude, admit it, we all know women are the more childish. why you gotta be that guy ffs
Why YOU gotta be that guy? Back to the 50's with your "back to the kitchen" bullshit. Not cool anymore.
but most women truly are immature as fuck. this cannot be denied. guys are immature, but it's usually surface level shit, where girls are immature on a deep ass level. admit i am right, you know this to be true.
Ironic, considering that you sound like a 14 year old.
Have you seen any of their other videos? Men are just as aggro as women - if not more - in loads of the other episodes.
Except for the man in another video who pulled out a fucking gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys
The men and women they actually showed in the video, yes. We don't have access to the entire unedited video, which may or may not show a different story.
I'm guessing it would just water down the results.
Assholes make for good footage. If there were more irate men on this day we would have seen it.
It’s what Reality TV is built on.
This is the exact kind of logic used in the 10 hours of walking in NYC video
Well its much simpler than you think or other people who responded to you. Men see a group of guys who will jump at him and pull him out of his car if things escaleted and if things escalated with a girl people wouldnt get violent at least not to the extent to guys.
Male - let me turn around
Girl - I will fckn kill you.
As much as those are two select quotes in THIS video since everyone is referencing another video, they do kind of example to very different reactions
In one of their other videos a dude pulls a gun on them and threatens to kill them, so I don't think your point is valid.
There are other videos where this apparently is not true.
I think it's because those women marry rich men and have learned to act like a bitch. Also I think men would be afraid of other men confronting them. Women aren't afraid because they think those men can't hurt them.
Yeah, I wanna be super open minded about it but it was JUST the women who were threatening.
DAE think women are stupid bitches??
That's just what i was thinking! Omg!
Most are though. Most of my co workers are women.
Women generally haven't taken an ass beating for their douchebaggery due to societal gender roles.
Men can see the logic in what the group were doing, they may not liked it but they understood what was going on. Women on the other hand mostly have no grasp on the situation, they don't see the logic behind actions of others. My sister is exactly like this, I gave up on trying to change her mind.
Also, two of my friends work at ISP & Electric company, they say when Internet is down or the Electricity is out women are the majority of the callers to complain and argue, men call but they are like "ok np".
Took phone calls for 3 years before being promoted at an ISP. Theres a touch of bias here but i would say for the most part you are correct. Men will get unruly though if they believe they are getting the run around
This will be interesting to see how this pans out.
Edit. I first saw them at +7, then up to +20, down to -1, and now at -10.
Leave for a day and come back to 57 messages, I learnd so much about myself so far. Apparantly im sexist for saying three woman got pissed off in a video .. sweet jesus i wonder if the media knows its sexist
Sounds like some pretty bullshit /r/TheRedPill science.
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Well done, You picked up on the side where we cant even comment anymore with out having your head chewed off.
I dunno, why would a 110lb female threaten a group of 5 or so people that she's going to fucking beat them up? That's very, very illogical. Those women were fucking retarded.
Or, they're just self entitled and knew what it would probably take to get their way without anyone manipulating that. That's called surviving. Maybe they're better at it? In that case it makes them the opposite of retarded, it makes them intelligent.
Saying, "Oh, okay, you're right, I'll back away now," is also intelligent, but it doesn't let them get their way, it just absolves the issue at hand. But because this method is submissive, you could argue it's less intelligent. But you realize the intelligence here is relevant to their motivation, right?
If a hundred pound girl thinks threatening a group of grown men with physical violence is going to get her her way, she's fucking delusional. I can't imagine a situation where that would ever work, especially out on the streets of Russia.
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Holy assumptions, Batman!
What truth is that?
Compare OP's video with this one that they also made. Men come off worse than women in it Some look rich, some look poor. That's the problem with a small sample size. Any 'evidence' I'm seeing here is completely anecdotal. I could just as easily tell you about how I've seen men react completely irrationally in road rage situations.
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Like a typical man.
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i'd assume they're the kind of people who marry for the money.
Sounds like some pretty bullshit /r/TheRedPill science.
American sighted.
Clearly you've never been to another country outside of America, or if you did you clearly didn't look the fuck around, a third of the motherfuckers marry SOLELY for monetary benefit
Dumbass redpill bullshit, anytime a women is wrong in any way or a guy comes off right or as an asshole, its redpill science.
lol
American sighted.
I really dislike comments like this. N America obviously has a giant population with hugely varying opinions, levels of education, and personal beliefs. You're only devaluing your comment by starting it with a faulty assumption.
Sorry, I was just responding to your dumbass comment
Not to mention as someone who lives in N America, your comment spills SJW
SJW's unite!
lol
No, they married for love, and because of the happiness they get from their marriage of love they act this entitled in the videos? Yeah... sure, buddy.
Now, what I just said is some actual /r/TheRedPill science. What your parent comment said is actually coherent reasoning that's based on reality, like many generalizations are, even if they're merely generalizations. When you see behavior this neurotic, there are only so many different sources it can stem from. Obviously it may not be because they married for money, but that has valid potential for being the influence in question.
TL;DR: It's an assumptive guess, not bullshit. There's a difference.
I honestly can't understand your writing.
there's a reason i said people and not women. i knew someone would get upset about that response. i was going to put (in this particular video) after every mention of gender but it looked pretty tacky.
edit: there, i changed it. sorry for generalizing that one guy in the video with the girls and vice versa. next time i'll make sure to be extremely specific so when the one exception to what i said is pointed out and i am ridiculed for, i can tell you that you guys are nitpicking for a reason unknown to me.
I laughed. It might not be a very clever answer, but its clever enough for me.
You can tell that's the case when the guy in the BMW decides to mow them all down while laying on his horn instead of turning around.
yes, and i'm sure there were women in shittier vehicles that weren't shown in the video that backed up peacefully.
why are you trying to make something out of this? i made an observation about vehicles and attire, lol.
What is reddits hard on for trp?
You realize you're saying "men understand logic and women don't", right?
Half of the human race doesn't understand logic. Do you genuinely think that's a logical thing to say? Please tell me you don't actually think that and you're just being a reactionary shit.
"reactionary shit" dont think i can even google that one
was more or less a play on how the media comments on stuff.
Im sure if a guy pushed that girl with the water bottle there would be a court case
Dude I was responding to the user who said women are unable to understand logic. Reddit is so ridiculously sexist that bullshit of that nature needs to be called out.
lol sexists seems one sided these days
In one of the other videos there was one dude waving his gun and saying that he is going to kill them if they won't leave the road(well sidewalk, but he didn't care). Actually in general the men were pretty violent and resistent to logic in those videos.
But i guess watching a video with like 5-6 people in it doing something bad is enough to come up with
Anyone notice how it was the woman who got violent and reacted in such a manner, yet the men as much as were doing wrong thing backed away and weren't
That combined with a shitty sister and voila: we got general assumption that woman are resistant to logic.
your story alone shows that you are the one who seems to have some issues with grasping logic, but i'm pretty sure you are male. So there is that.
She's not, if he was she'd see that when she says something women wouldn't grasp the logic in it so it's a waste of flanges movement.
Edit:He to she
Yeah, at least that guy had a way to kill them. At least his words made sense. Did you see the pretty little 100 pound dumbass girl threaten to kill a group of 5 or 6 people? Like she's just going to go Jackie Chan on them all at once?
I have noticed a similar trend, some females think being rude, loud and obnoxious will help situations.
Yes, we call those 'cunts'.
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/the-can-i-speak-to-a-manager-haircut1.jpg
In a lot of situations it does work for women because White Knights get involved and "help them out" when they are the ones causing the problem to begin with.
That got me thinking and I just realized I do this myself. On many occasions I've repeatedly helped women who caused their own problems and refused to learn how to solve them or avoid them in the first place.
I patiently helped them over and over again with the same things, while if they were men I would have told them a long time ago to either listen to me and learn, or to stop bothering me.
It's not doing anyone any favors to treat women like children. It's not fair to me as I have better things to do with my time, it's not fair to other men because they deserve the same help I give to women, and it's not fair to women because it doesn't encourage them to improve themselves like men are.
The last two people I have helped have been women and both times it backfired on me.
Glad some people actually picked up on some stuff in the ridiculously long thread now
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I wouldn't say literally never, there are probably a few that do somewhere.
because in a lot of situations (customer service) it will
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I disagree that the women have no grasp on the situation. It was more likely that the women were puffing up so-to-speak. The entire group with the stickers looked like men to me, so along comes a single woman in a car with these guys surrounding her car telling her to do something (although in a polite way). My fight or flight might go up as a woman causing me to be more defensive and just want to get out of the situation as quickly as possible. Just a thought.
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I agree and was really just playing devil's advocate here. Just trying to show that there might have been an underlying cause as why the women were the one's doing this as opposed to it being a gender flaw for all women as was kind of implied. I think men would tend not to respond this way because they are more confident when solo within a group like this. But for women, they have usually been taught to be cautious when by themselves if a group of people are targeting them in any way. It MIGHT explain why the women got so defensive and aggravated. That's all. Of course, it's also possible that these women were just douches.
If you think they had a grasp of the situation, then that makes the ladies behavior twice as bad. Also, if you saw the video, you would notice that the lady in the Range Rover, stole a bottle of water from a female of the group. And then the Range Rover driver threw the water back at her.
just want to get out of the situation as quickly as possible.
I don't that that's what was happening in the linked video...
/u/tar_heeldd downvoted me because she was wrong and didn't agree with what I was saying. Just a thought, you are wrong.
You downvoted me because I was correct.
Bullshit, they have had guys pull various weapons on them. Guns, knives, tireirons... it is not a gendered thing, its a dumbass thing.
Haven't there been studies that show that women have more violent tendencies towards due to the belief that they can't be hit by men?
I had to study Harry potter at school for a literature part, doesnt make it all true,
I could make the statement that woman think they can be more violent cause they believe they can get away with it. a variation of your statement.
Not fussed for the logic behind why people do things. people will be violent regardless of gender. Its more the events after being the media on men and the woman not really having any.
Wow. This is a really bad comment. Go watch the other videos and then come back and edit your comment.
confused when a gun was different to trying to run someone over?
My experiences at clubs were similar. If you're a guy, you have to be cautious about being violent, since if you do fight, you're on your own and nobody will help you. If you're a girl, people will always help you if you get in a fight, and the law will back you up in a court case.
That said, a guy who was willing to fight was something to be scared of, since he wouldn't do it unless he was sure he could win (e.g. he had a weapon or significant backup).
Law will back you up in a court case - pretty much summed up the majority of the idea behind the comment.
men would never get away with it. media will always profile them
before feminists comment saying women get profiled aswell. yes true. however you have the support of the 21st century men get told to harden up and go to prison. thats not fair. thats not equal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys
That's a video of the same guys, where men get even more violent than any of the women in the video OP posted. So I wouldn't say it's just women.
Remember, you can always edit a video to make a certain group of people look worse than others. I always try to take edited videos with a grain of salt. You never know what they left out.
The women all looked pretty scared of the situation. Their car is surrounded by 5+ big guys for some unknown reason. I'm sure that is why a lot of the guys in other videos get aggressive too (which is probably the whole intention of the video, to scare these douchbag drivers). You actually see many of them calm down after the sticker is applied, probably because the women realize they are not actually a threat, they really just want her to stop driving on the walkway.
Valid yes.
Feel like a reference to the land rover running over the mob mentality bikers would be good here. However still feel like there is some justification here.
Probably in this videos yeah, but if you watch more of them you can see its not that way.
You're right, but wrong. Both men and women get violent and reacted negatively sometimes. However yes, the women that react negatively almost all do/act the same, they ignore the guys and just honk their horn or actually fucking driving through them. I've yet to see a video of their's where a guy just ignores them and acts all stuck up or actually drives through them and goes a good distance with them hanging onto the hood. They may make a lot of empty threats and try to drive through, but they always give in at some point. The women are a lot less likely to admit fault or accept not getting their way. Which is expected. Let the downvotes commence.
In some of their other videos they get into physical violence and guns being drawn... By men. So it's not just women who fly off the handle.
And yet the only people who pull guns in the other videos were men, yeah, odd.
Yes. All women are disrespectful cunts that must be tamed, as evidenced by this video. r/redpill
Men take confrontation with other men more seriously, they don't escalate it unless they're prepared for some serious shit. It's just smarter and easier to back down unless it's something serious.
Many women, on the other hand, exploit the fact that most men won't hit a woman in a confrontation as an excuse to act like a huge ass. Most women don't do this, but a small group do, that's what you're seeing in the video.
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So true. I frequently have to remind my girlfriend that she's being a bitch.
Dude. Seriously?
I'm here to inform you that you are a sexist piece of shit. I know that news can come as a bit of shock, but you should really try to remedy that before it gets any worse.
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Oh man how'd you guess my nickname? Was it my cock or my beard that gave it away?
/r/pussypass
Okay, I read this like 6 times and still have no idea what you're saying...
What about when the guy pulled out an AK-47, or in this one where one dude got so enraged that he pulled out a gun?
This woman squirted some water on another woman.
Take your red pill, MRA shit back to 4chan.
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So? Getting violent is getting violent.
So self defence is violent??? so if i stab your child you wont defend him her cause its violent??
(for the record hyperthetical children in no danger)
also squirted water. other attempted to run people over
/r/theredpill is that a way.
That's such a Chad thing to say.
When women have a weapon such as a car they seem to be okay with violence like trying to run people over, it seems quite apparent it's okay for them to attack if they have the superior strength for once in their lives.
Miss the video of the man pulling a gun and trying to intimidate teenagers? The one that try to run them down? The man that attacked them with a crowbar? Unlike you, I assume it is only the douchebag men that behave this way, not ALL men.
Oh, I fully understand that men get violent and when they do, they do it far better than women generally.
But from what I can tell of this video specifically, the women were comparatively more likely to get violent when they have the "upper hand" (being in a car).
It was edited and this was the only video to show the men acting calmly (for the most part) and the women flipping out. I watched several of their videos. The men were just as likely to use the car to intimidate. It's human nature, not strictly the domain of one gender unless you are looking to confirm an established bias.
Violence is in our nature, I don't think there is anything wrong with violence when people don't respond to reason, which is why I'm fine with the idea of hitting women who are being violent and unreasonable. I am against the current "pussy pass" as ledditors call it that women have.
My general point is women are violent much like men, they just often don't have the means to act on it.
women are violent much like men
Did you watch the other videos? You didn't see the video of the guy pulling the gun on them, or the guy chasing a young girl with a crowbar, or the guy that twisting a young girls arm to take her camera. Just fuck off with your anecdotal bullshit.
I have seen woman with broken ribs, teeth and jaws from men that never considered women have anything as vulgar and misogynistic as a 'pussy pass'. If you think it is OK to hit a woman that is being 'unreasonable', you can just fuck right off. I have no desire to converse violent asssholes like you.
Yes, men are better at being violent than women, I already said this.
Your list of anecdotal shit doesn't refute anything. Women would get out of their car and attack/threaten people just as often as men if they weren't inherently weaker.
most of the female drivers should have lost their license
Those female drivers shouldn't have had a license to begin with!
BRILLIANT! Right until the moment when the activists themselves turn into douchebags and start putting stickers on cars that are actually correctly parked, like it happened to me. They also stick those things on to cars that are standing with their blinkers on, even if its an emergency, friend had to drive to hospital while having half of the windsreen blocked by this shit. Its a noble cause, but there is also collateral damage,civil justice pretty much failed here. FYI this was not really effective, every one still parked where the hell they wanted. everything got solved when the city [at least in Moscow] started towing away the cars and charging for parking in the central areas of the city.
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I watched about a dozen of these videos today, women seem to be more stubborn than men in just admitting they're wrong.
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Holy crap. Not even sure what I think of these guys... Looking over their channel, they are standing against people with AK47 and 9mm. Awesome stuff in a crazy place.
Why do women always act the hard nuts then whine like little cunts the moment they get knocked on their ass?
I'm all for this but that sticker could damage their windows. Yes, they are being dicks but so are you guys. Honestly, call the police or go to your local government and have road blocks implemented to stop cars from going on the sidewalks.
I agree with you...but this thread is so shitty right now. The top comment isn't even a joke, because that asshole means it 100%. Every comment is about how they'd want to do this to other people. But they'd throw a shit fit if someone did it to their cars. There's so many easier ways to deal with this than making an aggressive confrontation.
The problem is that when the police don't enforce rule of law and a civil society, groups like this pop up. If they police were doing their job, they wouldn't need this. Unfortunately there is no other recourse.
The police can only do some much especially during traffic. Not saying they should not be at fault as well but its the city government job to make sure this doesn't happen. They could easily add blockades and this wouldn't be a thing.
And you don't solve a crime by committing another. I would sue these guys for defacing property and damages to my window. You'd win the case too since although you committed a crime by driving on the sidewalk, since the city isn't countersuing you, you'd win.
There's a reason this happens in Eastern Europe but not in the States. And the reason is rule of law. I lived in Eastern Europe for two years, and there's a very big libertarian, strongman attitude when it comes to many laws, especially driving laws. This is a citizens group finally stepping up for society.
They didn't try to sticker the cars unless that car made contact with one of the protesters/activists or the driver refused to follow the law when asked nicely. Most of the situations were escalated by the driver and not the people with the stickers. Notice in many videos, that if the driver started backing up the car and complying with the law, they didn't get stickered?
All of them were breaking the law by just driving on the road. You don't settle a situation but making someone more angry. They really are defeating their purpose of doing this. I wouldn't be surprised to see one of them run over for doing this only to people who are already mad at them.
Watch the videos, they do get run over.
The purpose is to prevent people from driving on the sidewalk, making the drivers angry and making great internet video is just a bonus. What about the people that walk on these sidewalks? Don't they get angry when they have to dodge being run over by these douchebags too? These people are completely within their rights to stop people from driving down a sidewalk if you ask me. The people getting angry bring it upon themselves when they make the choice to drive down on a fucking sidewalk.
The purpose of the videos is to spread awareness of not driving on the rather wide sidewalks in Russia. I've never even been to russia, and I've gotten the message.
I have no problem with what their doing other than putting giant stickers on peoples car that they can't easily take off. Than they put it in front of their driving view but expect them to drive back without worrying about how that impaired view is going to cause other accidents.
These people are driving on a sidewalk, endangering countless pedestrians. The sticker for their car making contact with pedestrians/activists, or refusing to move their car which parked in the street and blocking traffic or buses.
And you are more worried about them driving with a sticker on their windshield, than what they did to earn it? The point is to make the car undriveable and be a pain in the ass to make it driveable again without causing real damage to it.
I'm "worried" for both the people and the drivers. Yes, do this so they will stop but don't make it so they could hurt others by impairing their view. That doesn't necessarily solve a problem assuming they drive off and hit someone for not being able to see (just as you can assume they'd hit someone for driving on the sidewalk).
The car isn't undriveable. They can still drive, except now they can't see where they're going.
The driver with the sticker on the window shouldn't drive with it on regardless of who put it on there.
This is vigilante justice. If you get sticker-ed by these people you already are breaking the law. These guys only resort to placing stickers on windshields when driver refuse start following the law and stop blocking traffic or make contact with people blocking their attempt to drive on a sidewalk.
So you expect them to just leave their car there...
Like I said, I don't mind what they're doing and they should do if their government won't, it's the fact that they are endanging those drivers and others that that driver may come in contact with. They know full well that putting the sticker on their car isn't going to stop them from driving that day. May stop from going on sidewalks again but at that very moment, they obviously will drive and be impaired b/c of it.
I don't care for the douchebag drivers, I care for the people they might hit due to a sticker they can't easily take off blocking their view.
NO I expect them to drive to a legal place to part and spend the time and effort to remove the sticker.
Just as you expect them to not drive on the sidewalk right.
I'd hope they would think twice about doing it again after getting their windshield stickered.
They were already mad, putting a sticker on their car isn't going to make them nicer.
These people (both the drivers and the sticker people) need to think twice about their actions.
Worrying about making someone mad trumps protecting pedestrian lives?
You're not listening. The drivers could hurt other people by driving with impaired vision from having a sticker put in front of their window that they can't take off easier. They aren't going to stop, they are mad and are going to drive off as they have always done in the videos.
The drivers could hurt other people driving down the sidewalk too.
And no one is saying that they should drive on the sidewalk.
That is why they put stickers on their windshield, to stop them from driving on the sidewalk. Disabling the car without damaging it.
You just aren't getting it. They are putting on their cars to stop them, but they are also making it so they are part of the reason of them crashing due to not being able to see with it in front of them. Not just putting it on the side of the window but directly in front of them.
They aren't disabling the cars since they always drive away. You saw the video, every person they put a sticker on the car drove away. Guess it's easy when you're not sure who they might've hit while driving impaired from a sticker they can't remove easily.
Both parties are wrong, one more than the other.
They are attempting to stop them, but vigilante justice can only stretch the law so far. They can't remove the sidewalk driver from the car nor take the car away from the sidewalk driver.
Who cares if it pisses off the sidewalk driver, they are the ones breaking the law.
No one cares that it pisses the driver off, its the fact that the drivers will drive away with impaired vision and hurt others due to that. What are you not getting about that?
And this squad is also breaking the law with vandalism.
the drivers can always hang their head out the window Ace Ventura style.
That sticker isn't covering the entire windshield either, they will be fine. Also do you have proof that someone has driven away and hurt someone due to the sticker or are you just assuming that it has already happened?
You saw how narrow those roads were and with that amount of traffic. Do you really think that would be wise?
Actually the proof is in the videos were the people do hit people on the sidewalks. It can be assumed that they have more likelihood that they will hit other drivers with impaired vision.
These people are in their right to stop them from driving here, but they should think about putting stickers on their cars especially directly where they are have to look.
Any more wise than driving down the sidewalk to avoid traffic?
Both wouldn't be wise but you expect them to not do it once they drive away. "the drivers can always hang their head out the window Ace Ventura style."
So just let them run people of sidewalks and block traffic?
You are very dense.
Simply blocked their way and have them back up. That or call the police. Putting a sticker on their car only escalates the situation and makes matters worst for not just pedestrians but other drivers as well.
They only put the stickers on the cars after they hit someone with the car...
No they don't, they do when they are aggressive or won't agree to turning around. You're really not getting it, they shouldn't put anything on the car that blocks their view when driving.
No really, what do you not understand? Specify in detail what so hard to get about it.
What do you not understand that if you drive on a sidewalk and hit someone standing on it, you end up with a sticker on your windshield to identify your vehicle to others that you are a reckless driver?
How many times do I have to say that I agree that they shouldn't drive on the sidewalk and that putting a sticker on their car only endangers other drivers / people.
Again you are very dense.
I don't think you understand, the people driving the cars are the ones endangering other drivers. Putting a sticker on the car is a way to mark the car that has hit a pedestrian.
Are you stupid? I'm done repetitng myself to someone as thick headed as you.
The point is that I don't agree with your assumption that the sticker has directly caused a accident. And because of that I find your point invalid.
Good for you. The fact that their vision is impaired will make their chances of getting into an accident and hurting others higher. There is nothing to disagree with.
I find your point invalid that they should continue doing this even though (assuming you actually watched their other videos) they have hit other people and other cars driving away. Why is it hard for you to believe that having impaired vision gives them less of a chance to hit someone. Rhetorical question that is, I'm sure you're going to repeat yourself.
The men driving know if they mess around they'll get their ass fucking beat by 15 guys.
Meanwhile the women driving keep pushing the limit because they know they're can't be any physical repercussions.
If there was equality, and everyone had an equal chance of getting the shit beat out of them, I think people would behave themselves better.
Men grow up learning that if they get out of line, they quite possibly can catch an ass whooping. Princesses grow learning they are always right, and there are 0 repercussions for their actions.
It would be nice if these guys would setup on the boarder of Ukraine and put these on the tanks driving through (and ignoring a sovereign nation).
Sovereign nations? Those don't exist, anymore. The United States invaded Iraq without provocation, and we're bombing Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, etc. Sovereign nations no longer exist.
EDIT: Since the downvotes are coming, I'll double-down and elaborate. Americans: You cannot judge Putin or Russia for their actions in the Ukraine when you have illegally invaded Iraq and illegally launched drone strikes against Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, etc, etc. You cannot judge Russia when the CIA runs around the world instigating coups d'etat against democratically elected leaders and sometimes assassinating them. You cannot judge Russia when the United States has illegally kidnapped, tortured, and imprisoned hundreds or thousands of people in countries all over the world, often kidnapping them right from the sidewalk, never to be heard from again. You cannot say that Russia is aggressive when the US has military bases on every continent and a military presence in a majority of countries, and the US hasn't seen a year go by since WWII without some kind of violent conflict going on.
Wouldn't it be easier to just install a big wooden post that prevents cars from driving through?
So incredibly satisfying, these guys are doing a fantastic job. I'd love to see more of this
These people need to come to Vancouver.
Be the change you want to see. (Then post it online so we can watch)
justice, nice
This is good to see. They reacted perfectly to the threats, didn't back down and kept their cool.
TIL people can drive on sidewalks in Russia.
Yeah this could never happen in America our sidewalks are not wide enough.
These guys are doing a great service, but why not just make a road block at the pathway opening? Something that is not easily movable and will scratch paint?
Too bad these guys are all a part of Putin's propaganda campaign. Their leader is a former member of Nashi movement and current member of Russian Civic Chamber. Nashi basically acts as Putin's personal brownshirts.
Good on these guys, doing gods work!!
I love that huge sticker they put. Always makes me laugh.
My justice boner has never been harder!!!
As an American, I think I am supposed to hate Russians, but man I would definitely hang out with these guys.
I just watched the whole series of videos and geeeeeez Russians can be massive assholes and get super violent when they think they have the right
I enjoyed watching you guys stand up for what is right. I hate assholes like this.
Get a job. Heh, then admits she sucks people off for money.
Oldest profession out there...
We need this movement in California. I'll join, I have a video camera.
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Герои Нашего Времени!
Wow Russia seems like a great place
America solved this before it became a problem by not making sidewalks that looked exactly like roads.
A small town here in Canada where my mother lives has sidewalks that looks like roads, and even then nobody drives on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibl6SHbq8sY#t=257
This one has epic body slam.
And this one is actually deserving of the drowning pool treatment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGuzwnZVIo
It makes me feel so good that there are other stupid people in the world and not just here in the U.S.
Takes a douchebag to stop a douchebag. I'm glad they took that upon themselves so we don't have to.
They're doing good work. Kudos to you Russians from an American.
Glendale, CA needs these guys, badly
The men back up, the women get violent. Best part.
I'm always surprised how lots of times women are quick to threaten violence on men.
Official channel of these guys.
This "Lomak1581" youtube channel is reposting videos fom the official youtube channel to get easy views.
Well he is also doing it in english, so he's helping a bit.
Why does this sidewalk look like a road and have an entryway just like a road with no railing? It's almost like it's there to bait the drivers.
The entitlement of some of those people is infuriating.
TIL women can be entitled cunts.
Yea, I fail to see who the bigger douchebags are in this video.
really? it's ok to drive cars on sidewalks where you live?
That sure was one hell of a big SIDEWALK
Doesn't make it a ROAD.
It's ok to put stickers on cars blocking the driver view and creating a traffic hazard where you live?
Yeah, because they are driving on the SIDEWALK.
They will have to get on the road sooner or later. How are they going to safely to that with the damn sticker blocking their view?
If someone is that stupid/selfish to drive on a pedestrian path, they don't deserve to be on the open road.
They will have to stop and remove it. Penalty box for being an asshole. Maybe they'll think twice about it next time.
In the states, this lady lost her license for a month & a $250 fine: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/13/ohio-woman-who-drove-on-sidewalk-to-avoid-school-bus-holds-idiot-sign-under/
Hm... I didn't think about that, I guess you're right in this case. But that doesn't change the fact that they created a traffic hazard as the drivers still got back to the road with their vision blocked. Instead of an asshole driver that can see well the road there is now an asshole driver with its vision blocked.
You are getting it! :P
Yeah, but what about the traffic hazard? I'm not trying to oppose the initiative that the guys had, I just think that they chose a way that endanger the other drivers.
It is the responsibility of the driver to not drive if they are un-able to.
I know, but we're talking about drivers who drove in a sidewalk, we can't expect responsibility from them.
Are you saying that if a person is belligerent and irresponsible that they are not culpable for their actions?
No, I'm saying that if someone is capable of driving on a sidewalk you should expect that if you put a sticker blocking their vision they might not give a fuck and drive anyway. The correct action is to stop irresponsible drivers from causing damage, not give them the opportunity to cause even more.
You would argue that it's the protesters fault if the drivers get into an accident after being stickered?
Indirectly, yes. But technically the fault would be of the driver.
Imagine this situation: Would you give beer to someone that you know that is a irresponsible driver and will drive despite being drunk? Technically you wouldn't be held responsible if the person in question drove drunk and got in an accident, but don't you think you could have avoided the problem?
My analogy is a bit exaggerated, but I think it explains my point.
I understand where you are coming from, but the difference between your example and these drivers is that the drivers are sober. A bartender is aware that people are intoxicated and may not be in a rational state of mind. So, it is not really an appropriate analogy. Even in the case of the bartender, one would still argue that it is the individuals responsibility for getting so drunk, not the bartender. It is not as though the bartender is the one making the person drink and then drive.
I suspect you see my point and, to be honest, I can see potential arguments for someone getting their cleaning bill for the sticker put on the protesters.
So, it is not really an appropriate analogy
Yeah, I couldn't come up with a better one. But I'm glad that you could understand what I tried to say.
I suspect you see my point
I do. I'm aware that it would be kinda silly to punish them if an accident happens, since the driver should know that he must not get in the road if his windshield is covered and he can't see well.
I can see potential arguments for someone getting their cleaning bill for the sticker put on the protesters.
That would be silly, honestly. Before any of the protester are billed anything the drivers should have their license suspended, some almost ran over them. If I had to put in scale, what the drivers did are dozens of times worse than any wrong that protesters might have done.
It's not often I get to come to an agreement with someone on reddit.. we need more people like you.
Thanks. I guess that avoiding getting attached too much to your own opinion ends like this, you find out that you agree with the other person more than you could think.
Clearly the drivers, they're the ones who initiated the confrontations, and then escalated the confrontations once they were informed they were wrong and given an opportunity to back out.
I fail to see why any person not biased towards drivers doesn't realize that.
That is so fucking awesome! Fuck people that don't give a shit about others and double fuck people who can't listen to reason.
Self-entitled assholes ruin everything for everyone else.
Self-entitled assholes, that describes the motorcycle drivers in honduras, they weave in and out, overtake on sidewalks, and generally dont give a fuck
Did anyone else want a third sticker to go on that last woman's car?
To be fair, that sidewalk looks an awful lot like a side road.
Watching the rest of the videos these kids are just regular thugs looking for someone who will react and then proceed to beat them up. And they're always walking in groups of 10-15 people. Thugs behind a valid cause. Mafia methods, if their system doesn't work it should be solved politically not on the streets with fights. One day a car with Russian mobsters will be stopped and these stupid kids will regret they even started their "movement".
This is a state-sponsored group with overwhelming support from the Russian populace. How are they thugs? In every single video they very politely inform the driver that what they are doing is illegal and that they need to back up or they or going to get stickered. Seems like a group of stand up kids to me.
They are pathetic statists who are enforcing low-level bs laws through violence and intimidation. And of course, this shitty, "liberal" website creams themselves over this.
violence? They stand in the sidewalk, politely inform the wrong-doers of their wrong doing and give them a chance to correct it before, gasp, putting a sticker on their windshield! This is a state-sponsored youth organization and it has overwhelming support with the general Russian populace who are sick of drivers behaving like this.
The've beaten people up in other instances. Youth movements should never be supported by the state. Tell the gov't to enforce the laws using paid law enforcement officers. A "state-sponsered" youth movement!? You mean like the Hitler Youth?
Bitches be crazy worldwide. I always assumed so, but it's good to have some proof.
Another proof that women drivers are the biggest douchebags on the roads in any country!
you should watch their other videos if this one made you believe that
Well, this is sad. While at first you might think this is sweet justice, but in fact whole organization consists of assholes who break the law.
- They put a sticker on the window, making vehicle dangerous to operate. Try to drive with this kind of sticker in America, you will probably be shot by a cop.
- The sticker is hard to remove, and it leaves a layer of glue which will probably cost money to remove. This is straight damage of other person's property.
- They create dangerous situations on roads, you may see a number of them on the video. Potentional traffic accidents.
- They don't solve the problem. They make it worse by making those entertaining videos. This squads' most videos are about removing cars from places where it is illegal to park. The problem is cities are way too full of cars and there are not enough parking spots and the government can't / don't want to solve the problem.
- They are crimianls. On some videos you can see them being covered by armed people who are usually off-camera.
- They are cowards too who attack harmless people that don't really know their rights. There was one video where they encountered some tough-skin, who called the cops, they arrived and jailed all those assholes.
You can search youtube and see many videos with these guys being arrested. They also create a lot of dangerous situations with fights, weapons, broken cars and lots of cops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVKr-DLBYSo
Do you really think these activists belong to "justice porn"?
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So let them continue driving on pavements?
If it was illegal to put stickers on people's windscreens then traffic wardens would be out of a job no?
Do traffic wardens put stickers that block completely the vision of the driver?
Can the drivers not stop and remove most of the sticker?
By what the video showed in the cases that the sticker didn't glue properly they could remove after some minutes, I guess, while in others they tried and couldn't remove anything. But yes, they could with some effort remove most of it, using some product if necessary.
I just don't see how 'being able to remove with some effort' proves that it's legal or not to put stickers nor that it proves that a sticker a traffic warden puts and one that blocks the driver's view are in the same level.
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It clearly did... Many many times.
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I think they'd probably think twice about it if there's a chance they're gonna have to spend 20 minutes scraping off a sticker again to save 30 seconds on a drive.
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You must be a fortune teller.
Except, most of his points are flat out false and don't even apply. These guys may not be highway Jesus but that doesn't automatically make out to be justice jokers.
in my state, doing this would be considered illegal detainment, no matter if the vehicle is committing a crime or not.
source: know several LEO and used to do comp work for them.
What state is this? Because I'm pretty sure detainment in all states mean that you are restricting a person's movements and they are unable to move away.
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id suggest a refund on your public education.
cheers!
Detainment? By standing on the fucking sidewalk? I have concluded your retardation/.
I bet your the type of person who would want to see Batman locked up in jail.
YEAH! GIVE THE SHITTY DRIVERS A BIG STICKER ON THEIR WINDSHIELD THAT DOESNT COME OFF SO THEY CAN HURT SOMEONE IN AN ACCIDENT. SWEET
They should of put it on the driver/passenger side window. Still provides the message but not quite as dangerous.
Such horrible people..
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Maybe you should look at the other videos where men pull bats and guns and threaten to fight them. They most likely cut out the most boring reactions from a day of filming. But don't let logic interrupt your jerk.
Can't help but notice the women were the most insane here.
Gee, i dunno, because rape?
Those little poles that keep cars off the sidewalk would work wonders here, but then we wouldn't have awesome videos like this.
Considering the vids I've seen of Russian road rage incidents involving brandished pistols and assault rifles, these guys have some balls on them.
This is great and all but a long time ago somebody invented these ingenious things called "bollards".
They work wonders.
I'll show you my bollards
I'll drive into them.
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Love this is! D bags are in all communities and people gotta stand up for them selves. I like how they acted like they didn't know sometimes or they wouldn't do it again. I call BS
I just feel like with the amount of time they spent on this they could have easily constructed a pillar in the middle of the sidewalk that would prevent people from driving on the sidewalk
knowing russian makes this so much better. that language is something else, their swears are so much more.... pungent.
on the phone driving down a sidewalk....
man, some people are shitty...wait, no, a LOT of people are shitty.
they should make the same in Ukraine, but instead of stickers use freaking real tanks.
That really doesn't look like a sidewalk. Looks like a small road.
CYKA BLYAAAAAAT
Where the heck is the police? Ticket these people driving on the sidewalks, impound their cars and take their drivers license's away.
Russia needs bollards.
It'd be awesome to get those stickers also for those ass hats who park in between parking spaces, in handicapped spaces, across parking spaces.
What do the stickers say in English?
The stop a douchebag movement. That's an interesting combination of words if they were all used in their proper way instead of based on context.
I can't even think of what I have seen in America as a comparison. As in a sidewalk people see as a road. Other than what cyclist do in NYC...
dam dont mess with Russian women
I would have done the stanky leg once the thing got put on the car.
Blow jobbed her way to a new range rover! ? I may have to re think my career...
Wow!
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Stop+a+Douchebag
"I blowjobbed it"
They need to set down spike strips to keep from getting run over. That'll dramatically increase their chances of getting shot, but it will definitely get their "point" across.
I adore the Robot Chicken cut-scene
The World needs a LOT more people like this. I wonder if any of the drivers would face prosecution for running people down, especially when it's on camera? I hope these guys keeps it up and I truly hope none of them gets injured.
You would think the guys with nice cars would try to give them money to get buy
This sucked me in. I've watched so many of these videos now. So many people say "I'm late" or some variation. Really? I'm late, so I'm just going to drive on this sidewalk. Nuts.
In Regular Russia, Car walk on sidewalk!
wow these guys a pretty brave. mega points for them
At first I thought they should just put up some bollards to keep the traffic off the sidewalks, then I thought, wow those are the perfect stickers for the job. Also don't fuck with Russian women, but we all kinda knew that already.
Good job, someone would get shot if they did that in America.
why not just spend some cash on bollards.... or at least a big rock at the end, big enough to stop a car...
hope they bring a spike strip next time.
Holy shit this is amazing.
"I'm going to beat the shit out of you"
These guys are heroes.
At least she was being honest
This is great. We need a group of these guys in Atlanta.
What's the wording on the stickers?
Why not post some cops nearby and ticket everyone who drives on the sidewalk? Once word gets out...
people just learning about those guys? thats weird
Does anyone else notice their website uses the Soviet Union domain .su? Thought it was interesting.
It is amazing people's willingness to use their car as a deadly weapon as though it is no big deal.
I just love angry they got for being the one at fault. Fuck you all I will kill you!
I had no idea that driving on the sidewalk was so common in Russia. Where are the police?!?
Where are all the Russian cops?
This is awesome. Sad that the police there don't do anything, but these guys help others to stop assholes from driving on the sidewalk and such.
Lool, I solute these guys!
We may have problems of our own, but at least here in the US they will arrest idiots that do dangerous driving stunts like that. Surprised the Russian cops haven't started seizing cars when people do shit like this and forcing them to pay bribes to get them back.
Reminds me of the sticker NYC sanitation dept use to put on your car when you violate street cleaning rules... Shit never came off
Once these cowards get out from the car they quickly realize they are on an even paying field and not behind a death machine. It's good to see the expression on their faces the moment they realize this.
That was so satisfying
The sense of entitlement here is astounding.
Does anyone know what that song is in the video?!?!
Good on them!
Russia seems nice.
Indescribably satisfying to watch.
Douchebags live everywhere. Here in the good old USA, I have watched a kid with crutches nearly get run over by a speeding driver in a parking lot, and then aggressively honked at. Nearly been run down on crutches myself. Got yelled at by an old man last year for swearing when he nearly backed over me (he didn't look behind before hitting the gas). Assholes.
This is real /r/JusticePorn, not the violence-boner shit they post there.
The more proactive and less violent solution would be to put posts beside the road to prevent cars from going in the first place. Why not write a request to the local government agency?
It's so funny how stereotypical those dick sucking whores are, driving nice cars, using iphones, and sucking some old wrinkly dick for it.
can someone who knows russian tell what the sticker says?
The best part is the ending...
Guy: How could you afford such a car?
Russian Ma'am: I blowjobbed it.
Spoken like a woman who's come to terms with her profession.
That was amazing. We see a ton of crazy shit from Russia from dashcams, but this is fucked up. I remember when i was in San Francisco in Golden Gate Park and was driving on the small connecting streets to get to the main roads and felt bad because people were walking and stuff (yes, they were actual roads, not walking paths....), but these fucks don't think they are doing anything wrong. I hope they stay on that shit and keep it cleaned up. Get some poles put up that block cars or plates that won't go down from the weight of people but will go down under the weight of a car exposing tire spikes and give those fucks some flat tires.
I guess I agree with the idea, but honestly, if I was driving anywhere in Russia and a whole slew of younger guys blocked my path, I'd probably loaf in my pants and then floor it out of sheer terror.
why dont they put up stone or metal barricades? problem solved.
Well, that would take a municipal act. Maybe these guys have petitioned their local government for barricades and were denied. Maybe the barricades are coming, but there is a delay. Maybe you should just enjoy the video.
Snarky aren't we?
Are most Russian women such colossal bitches?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHJxIwvFIGY
They get a handgun pulled on them late at night in the snow. I'm surprised they can walk with those massive fucking balls of their.
Not gonna lie, I wanted to see one of those guys get run over
that is a big sidewalk
The guy in the truck stuck in traffic parallel shouting "where are you going bitch".
Oh man I lost it.
Russian girls
Not even once
Can anybody translate what the stickers say?
In the video doesn't one of them say what it says. Something along the lines of "I don't care for other people, I drive where I want.". I'm don't speak russian but I swear I saw them say something like that.
Makes sense but I'd like to get an actual translation if anyone here speaks Russian
There is an actual translation further down in the comments that says the exact same thing. Considering y'know that translation came from the russian speaking guy in the video...
This is fantastic! More please!
The douchebags actually ran into - well bumped people - in a rage .
Perhaps douchebags are psychopaths in reality- this explains why there are a few % douchebags in the general public. This explains Wall Street criminals.
It does kind of look like a road. Perhaps they should post signs saying it is not a road and then the people that drive there are doing it with full knowledge and deserve the harassment.
It was funny seeing the government car trying to drive there. It appeared he wanted out of there quickly when the camera pointed at his government ministry sticker.
The first time I saw this, I've spent 6 hours straight watching the videos. Must have to do something with me being eastern European.
Boyyukakuyayaya <--- music sound
This may be a stupid question, but what exactly russia's deal with driving? I know that you'll find bad drivers everywhere but i feel like every time i see some horrible selfish dangerous driving (like driving on a fucking sidewalk) its russia. Is it a lack of enforcement? Cultural? Or has the internet just made me biased?
This is awesome, well done guys.
Well I have to say since so many cars are driving on this stretch of concrete that maybe it is a road and the people standing in the middle are just jerks
As funny as these are I don't understand the reasoning behind putting a sticker on their windshield so they are unable to safely drive afterwards... this to me seems like it would only put other people's safety in danger after they drive off in rage.
How do they put the sticker on that quickly?
I love these russians, they are fucking badass! they are not scared of anything.. one video was showing i guy pulling a pistol on them and shit and they just stood there not moving out of the way, these guys are awesome!
Yess... This gives me the good feels. I love it that they are paper stickers as well. Going to have to sit there and peel it off and contemplate how much of a douchebag they were being.
How are so many russian douchebags driving such amazing cars?
I can't be the only one with an erection right now.
Sidewalk Justice Warriors
Do they not have traffic cone technology in Russia?
They are so polite and to the point. Bravo.
Wish I could blow job my way to a new car
These guys are my heroes.
Those blowjobs really helped! She's certainly got the hang of being a dick!
So to stop them from being unsafe by driving on a sidewalk they cover their windshield with a giant sticker?
TIL: that us swedes have the same word for sidewalk as the russians: trottoar.
EDIT: It's a french word that has spread I guess :)
They need to get wheel lock boots for the really obnoxious drivers. Keep them there till the cops show up.
Now if they would go and kick the Russian terrorists out of the Donbass and Crimea maybe then I'd give a shit about these Slavkc fuckwits.
i love these guys.
Here in MIchigan, any walking path has concrete or wood posts spaced out about 3 feet, and posted signs that say "Foot Traffic Only" if it is a walking path.
Anyone else agree they could have stopped the drivers before they were at the end of the path? An irritated douche driving in reverse is more dangerous than just letting the cars pass at this point.
I applaud the justice, but do it right.
I feel like this is a good way to get killed in Russia
Hey /u/DesignerCat,
This is now the top post on reddit. It will be recorded at /r/topofreddit with all the other top posts.
I have the biggest justice boner right now
This is my new favorite show.
"Oh this is a sidewalk!?"
I love how the one lady thinks water and wipers work as a sticker/adhesive remover. Glad they do this, teach the arrogant drivers they're not anyone special and can't drive on sidewalks.
Fucking hilarious. Hopefully they got a few plates recorded. Definitely a few hit and runs in there.
What aren't the police enforcing the rules?
lololol. This is Russia. Good luck with that.
That first woman, taking the water. Man what a fucking bitch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2_QQ-9xtE This one is my favorite. This man is so fucking angry and it was so easy to solve the problem.
Good god this is incredibly satisfying.
What a gift . . .
those cunts were agressive as fuck
looks like russia is an anonymous enough place that people believe they can get away with this. so just shoot them next time. meh.
Dudes are heroes.
My soul has been satisfied...they should win the Nobel Traffic Enforcement Prize! (Wait, that doesn't exist? It should now...)
well now I have to watch ALL of the videos, there goes my productive work morning.
I love these guys!
This is great!
This IS brilliant. Zero fucks that they may be "linked" to skinheads and hooligans. "Where did you earn money to buy such car?" ROFL
You guys are heroes
I've wasted so much time this morning watching these videos now. Thanks a lot! :)
Seriously though, these guys are awesome, and have balls of steel. I'd never do this in a country with reasonable law enforcement, let alone Russia, where I assume everybody is willing to shoot everyone else.
FUCK YEA! VODKA, COLD, RUSSIA!
The guy in the truck yelling, "where are you going bitch?" Was hilarious
why did you re upload the video
why just not link to there channel
The Internet has become awesome since the Russians got here.
Wait, I thought Obama said all Russians are evil nuclear monsters?
I just want to know if any of them have been shot yet?
Its amazing what happens when basic policing is not a priority for a city. NYC Cops would be salivating to stop pricks like this breaking all kinds of traffic laws. Does Russia not know what a killing they can make issuing tickets?
I think there's a lot more money in escorting mob limos and looking the other way.
And I guess that is so lucrative that they dont need anything else. What a bizarre place.
The Danish satirical radio talkshow Monte Carlo covered Russia in a series of television shows called "Monte Carlo loves Putin". They went to Moscow and tried to be "as Putin as possible". This included buying a Lada and getting escorted by corrupt policecars through downtown - with cameras and everything. They even rented a ~~mistreated and brainwashed~~ tamed bear, got it driven to midtown in a van and posed with it on top op af bridge before getting access to one of the biggest mob clubs in central Moscow and blowing all of their money.
this sounds pretty funny. Is there an english translation or transcript?
Nah, don't think the production went that far. Search for "Monte Carlo elsker Putin" and see for yourself.
There is hope for Russia. Now let's see them stop the real Douchebag.
These guys need some spike strips. Some of the drivers don't mind running them over, but I bet they do mind ruining their tires.
These guys are heros. Sadly the some government elements are after them !!!
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Blowjobs are apparently very expensive in Russia. Although to be fair, all she got of it was a shitty Range Rover mini-ute.
Does Russia not have police?
lolol nope.
The only thing that has provoked a shred of national pride in a very long time.
Great Job!!
This is awesome, but to be fair it looks a lot like a road...
I take that back, watching later in the video thats totally a side walk
That doesn't look like a pedestrian road tough.
What the.. this frequently happens?!
lol ruskis
I would feel safer hanging off side of buildings in russia than this.
They should just lay one row of spikes out.
These are awesome. New favorite channel
Everyone is so aggressive
TIL, there is no law enforcement in Russia.
I'm glad no one on those car brought any AKs.
Ignorance is bliss.
Fucking heroes, every single one of them. Wish we had a chapter here in the US.
More power to you, Stop a Douchebag Squad!!
So gratifying...i do miss the other russian activists that stomped on drugdealers.
This is great..
I'm glad none of this people are armed...that would be very bad considering how mad they get for driving in a fucking SIDEWALK!! I would put fucking spikes all along that sidewalk...
That's so great!
this is amazing! first thing from russia that I actually like!
Protip: if you want to get stickers off glass, you can use windex and a razor blade.
This is pretty great, but the sticker is really just a bad idea considering every single one of these reckless fuckwads just chose to keep driving with it anyway.
I love these guys!
I'm so confused...why are there so many people who seem to think it's okay to just drive on the sidewalk and then attempt to run people over who try to stop them?
This movement actually achieved a lot in Russia, they've been around for few years now, I'm surprised they made it to frontpage only now. This shows that a civil society can govern itself better than the government.
They should just set up a barricade.
Why don't they just put a Ballard pole at the road access points to keep cars from getting on the sidewalk?
Why the hell do Russians drive on sidewalks?
I think Kelsey a great idea for them would be to lay down spike strips 20 feet past the point they stop the cars. Instant karma for those who keep driving.
These guys are my heroes
My friend works for them. They are a government sponsored movement with an office near Kremlin and a very respectable pay. They only work in downtown area though, hence a large number of rich entitled douchebags.
Fucking yes! Great Job!
Their channel is awsome! This should have more views.
Wouldn't it be easier to just put up a roadblock/pole which allows pedestrians access but not cars...
Damn, now I'm hooked. Been watching the rest of their videos all morning
YOU GUYS ROCK!!
Great stuff!
I wish these dudes were around on my daily commute. They could keep the self appointed road-royalty from using the turn lanes to skip to the front of the line.
this is the most awesomest thing i've ever seen!
Yes!
Ahh nothing like public shaming. I always thought this would be a proper way to combat idiot drivers.
The lady steals water from a stranger then squirts her, I woulda decked that bitch especially if I was a girl.
If people keep thinking a sidewalk is a road then I'd blame the city planner.
This is great! Seeing Russians take on other Russians makes for great entertainment :D
But... why are they having to deal with this? Why aren't there barricades blocking access? Why aren't the cops stopping people like this?
Cops don't much care about "minor" driving infractions in America, let alone Russia.
Really? I saw someone pulled over for trying to use the shoulder to skip the traffic jam just 2 days ago.
Yeah, I thought the way I wrote it left it open for people to recount times when police in America do. But there are huge numbers of times where police just don't bother.
There are too many infractions, and in general police don't see it as hugely important.
... it's Russia
These guys get guns pulled on them all the time and they just don't give a shit. Balls of steel right there.
How awesome would it be if we all donated money to their cause?
Made my day! Its funny how quick they turn to serious threats.
I tried to watch it with CC because I'm HH, but the Russian CC was get'n in the way...couldn't really catch all, just glimpses of dialogue, but got the gist...douchebags are a worldwide organization.
What a twist!
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING BITCH?"
If the city just installed concrete posts where the sidewalk intersects the streets, this would drastically reduce the content of their YouTube channel.
They'd just move on to something else. Drivers do no shortage of selfish stupid things.
What do the stickers say?
This is why large sidewalks like this should have pylons so shit like this is less likely to happen.
There videos are great I just wish they were all translated.
Why do lot's of area in Russia seem like such shitholes but people drive around in such nice cars?
I can't help but feel like blinding these drivers with a giant sticker makes them an even bigger danger to pedestrians
I know there's probably a reason, but if this is such a problem why doesn't Russia just put up some pylons that drivers can't drive past but pedestrians can walk past?
Every major city should do this.
With a medium-sized Bobcat and a powerhead attachment, you can drill "self-tapping" parking bollards directly into the ground (through blacktop and-all). These things are amazing, and it only takes about 5 minuted to install one, no need to dig, no need to backfill or pour concrete, they pile into the ground like a giant screw, then you just pop a yellow plastic dome over it and they'll stop a car! They're less than $100 a piece. Wish I could have found a youtube video to show them being put in.
http://www.hubbellpowersystems.com/anchoring/bumper/
I wonder if all the women they stopped were all bitchy and shit or only the ones in the video...
Im imagining, what the fuck would they have done if putin came driving down that sidewalk....like i DARE you to put a sticker on his fucking car.
i love these videos so much.. lollol
This is some of the most satisfying stuff I've ever seen. And with 16 episodes... we have plenty to keep busy with now.
This is awesome. All the thumbs up guys. Do not stop.
Holy shit, Russian women are scary.
If one hit me wit her car I would not hesitate to punch her in her fucking face as hard as I can. A car is a lethal weapon, lethal force could be used to stop them.
Note: Do not attempt this in Texas.
These guys are gonna get soooo many subscribers. Better than these dumb prank videos, that's for sure!
This sounds like a typical Dota game.
Also i lost it at "i blowjobed for it".
First world problem: Want to stop people from driving on sidewalks, no one drives on sidewalks here :[
I wouldve just laid down a spike strip at the beginning where they all turn on to the path.
This is probably the best thing I've ever seen on Reddit! Thank you so much for sharing!! :D
Tune in next week for 50 dashcam vids of them getting their asses kicked.
I'm surprised no one pulled a "russian turn signal" out on them.
Next, if the person doesn't move, they need to lift up the car so it can't run off. That would be great, and very annoying for the person inside.
Vladimir Medinsky, Culture Minister of Russia said that he did not agree with the portrayal of Russian people in the film Leviathan because of the amount of swearing. Boy does this video prove him wrong.
How do these kind of people have money for such nice cars... and in russia of all places
Anyone know what music they used?
I actually fucking love this, I just watched all of them.
Just subbed to their channel. Thanks for the post OP!
Wait... gas in Russia is 51 cents a liter?
This video was SOOOOO satisfying.
Dude yes the wrestler one! If you want to see someone get slammed, this is for you.
This is so awesome
Fuck yeah, this is an example of the education the world needs today. There is no time to waste on other methods, cheers from Shanghai!
TIL "What a tweest" Is an international phenomenon!
Man, Russian women are scarier then the men.
Does anyone know what the stickers say?
I f*cking blowjobbed it! hahahahah
No lie, I would do blowjobs for that car too
do the stickers come in motorcycle size?
nothing like vandalism to prove a point
Plot twist: Because of the stickers the lady doesn't see a pedestrian crossing the street and runs him over
This is really brave of them to stand up to this low level bullshit. Russia is a dangerous country to be calling people out like this, and I hope they don't stop the wrong guy (or girl) someday.
That was the most enjoyable video i've watched.
I love these guys! I really wish they gave music credits at the end of all their vids... those ruskies definitely know how to pick out good tracks!
That sticker would make it very unsafe to drive home wouldn't it?
Damn that honking lady pissed me off
Thank you for this video
..and they wouldn't be necessary if there was a metal pole there
anyone else notice the differences in the reactions from the genders?
reeeeeeessssssssspppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeecccccccccctttttttttt
What do the stickers say?
Someone's gonna get killed.
Is this the same group that had the lady picking up litter from jerks on a motorcycle and then throwing them back into the litterer's cars?
I think I solved the problem. It's a somewhat new invention call the gate.
Awesome, you should move over there you'd blow their minds...
A guy literally just walks into this one with an AK-47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys
This is the best thing I've ever seen. +1 for good guy Russians!
In England, we use bollards.
this is amazing
"How did you earn money for such a car?" "I f'ing blowjobbed it".
ha funniest thing I'll read today.
And boy the women are so hostile compared to men.
This is episode 17, eventhough it is the only episode. I want more of this, god damnit!
official channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/stopxamlive
Cheers! The youtube transated russian to english is a bit off. Sounds exactly how you would expect a russian to speak english
Just put spikes on the sidewalk entrance. Harmless to pedestrians, terrible for cars.
I don't understand this, why are they driving on the sidewalk? Why do civilians have to sort this why not the police?
Funny how the chicks seem more annoyed than the dudes.
It's probably because the police don't have time to watch every sidewalk for people using it. They should put up means to stop traffic from going on the sidewalks with like fences or concreteblocks, but there is probably an issue of funding it.
That's insane, why not just use bollards. Or to police it, I would just put a monster fine for driving on footpath, with little police it wouldn't matter, catch 1 or 2 every so often the fear of the fine will deter most.
They need to stand at the point of entry for these cars, instead of being reactive they should be proactive.
Where can I get a sticker like that!?
people really love driving on the sidewalks there
Wh can't they just put Poles in the ground, like we do in the states?
Wh can't they just put Poles in the ground
Because that is what started WWII
Haha, that Russian robot chicken was a twist.
I hate that entitled attitude.
How did this become a day-to-day problem in Russia?
I would donate if they set up a fund
Typical that the most aggressive drivers are le women am i right?!?! XD
They should roll something like a bed of nails on the sidewalks
Hot damn I'm watchking this entire series now and it honestly makes me feel satisfied... I want to hug eveyrone who made these...
If I were a cop I'd sit by this sidewalk all day.
This is brilliant F-ing BRILLIANT
I have been watching their videos all morning now. We really need a movement like this where I live.
Nice touch with Russian M. Night Shamalamadingdong. What a twist!
AWESOME! Many thanks for posting such a hopeful human movement. I am not surprised to see young people leading the way. AND THEY WERE SO POLITE!
As a woman who has had to fight for human rights for most of my 59 years- I am astounded to see how insanely assertive some women have become in order to do the wrong thing!
It's all fun and games until they mess with the wrong person. One of them will eventually get killed.
That was ... beautiful
Russian drivers not even once.
This video is way too short. =)
this is SO great.
When that girl poured water on the sticker I was like "well that's never going to come off"
In Soviet Russia, sidewalk looks like road!
They're in russia. Surprising no one decided to run them over.
Why don't they just install bollards at the entrance to the "sidewalk" so the cars can't drive on them? Pedestrians can easily walk between them but cars can't fit.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bollard&biw=1209&bih=828&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=RKHTVKzHOsr3yQTRj4CQBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=1.5
The song/music is Zoo In Space- Babki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-TSAO-PQLw#zoo-in-space-babki
The simple solution is to put a barrier up so cars can't come through but people walking can.
This gives me a big raging justice boner.
I laughed so hard when he slapped that huge ass sticker
Doesn't that sticker obstruct the view of the driver?
pretty sure if something like that happened in the usa those people would get in trouble
Good stuff, people need to learn and have respect.
"How did you afford such a car" "I fucking blowjobbed it"
Its funny how the women were much more willing to escalate to violence when compared to the men
This is the best thing I've seen all year! too good, thank you
I literally applaud these guys for doing that. That was great. Made my day watching that. :)
Man, this is first time I've actually wanted to know Russian so I could follow all the nuances of the conversations.
This is one of my favorites, Chechen Mafia vs. Stopham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a2lcP0texg#t=99
do people really drive on the sidewalks over there? normally I thought that was only for police when they were chasing down batman
Song
If anyone's interested
I've been watching the episodes for over an hour now and my justice boner is throbbing.
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I'm loving the Russian videos
i wish there was some way i could help these guys buy more of those stickers
I love how they didn't put the sticker on her window until she was extremely aggressive.
They waited until they had her dead to rights.
I supported what the those kids were doing until they started applying stickers on the windshields. How are the drivers supposed to drive with that thing blocking them?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/bQ2_QQ-9xtE
If you put this sticker on, I'm gonna stick it on your ass.
No problem.
Stick it.
Anyone know the story behind the one where they're ripping the doors off the storage lockers? Shit gets intense.
Seems counterproductive to put stickers that obscure the view on cars when your effort is to protect pedestrians from inconsiderate drivers. Better to lay a spike strip and hold warnings up for drivers, if they still go than they did it to themselves. Being confrontational only polarizes people to their view.
I was hoping this was going to happen when they tried to run people over
"Stop a douchebag" (Stopham) - a non-profit organization, part of youth movement "Nashi". "Nashi" was founded in 2005, its creation was encouraged by senior figures in the Russian Presidential administration.
That would explain why the Interior Ministry car got right the fuck out of there when he saw what they were doing.
I enjoyed everything about this!
Bravo.
Giggled like a schoolboy when they just double-stickered the last driver
I almost spat my food out in the middle of a restaurant with the plot twist.
Wish these guys slapped a few stickers on that Buk last year.
He who fights douchebags should see to it that he himself doesn't become a douchebag.
I just spent the last hour watching all their videos...LOL these guys/girls are AWESOME!!!
Putting those stickers directly in front of the drivers side windshield can get them into serious legal trouble. US law is very clear with.. oh
Of course in the US, running.someone down in a car is assault with a deadly weapon. Personally I'd rather have the sticker.
Then again I'd rather just back out and use the road
Then again, I'd just use.the road to begin with.
This isn't going to stop them. What they need to do is install concrete pillars. If the city won't do that, then you can fairly easily make a wall out of sandbags.
Can any Russians (or anyone who knows) explain why there are no bollards or cement blocks stoping cars getting on sidewalk? Lots of people asking that here, it seems so simple why do they not have them?
Where is the police?
This might be the best youtube account on the planet.
These people feel entitled to the sidewalk and Ukraine.
I'm just waiting for one of these guys to disappear and then have his body wash up from a river one day. Some of these cars were damn fine, mafia level fine.
You gotta have big balls to stop random cars in Russia.
Many a land rovers were earned by blow jobbing
They should put one of those car nail traps down next time.
Are there not laws to stop them doing this? i would be so shocked if i were to see a car on some of the small sidewalks where i live
This is stupid, why wouldn't they just put a barrier up so cars can't get in?
This seems way more dangerous than all those hood prank videos. So much corruption in Russia - the chances of having somebody drive through that is affiliated with some of these groups...
I'm disappointed that I can only upvote this once!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYA3wDqm9X4#t=157
These guys are crazy brave, I mean they have pistols pulled out at them and they don't back down. I mean I guess most people expect people not to call their bluff, but still when I was watching these videos I was thinking "If they were in American somebody would pull a gun on them". Turns out, it doesn't matter; these guys are on a mission.
I'm down with what they're doing but you have to admit that sidewalk looks like a road.
This channel needs more subs.
They're doing a truly good cause and they're hardly being noticed for it..
Some of the people they stop genuinely deserve more than a sticker on their car though.. Hats off to the guys who keep cool.
That's a really impressive sticker
anyone know where I can find more translated?
turn on cc, go to settings and have them translated to english
Driving on the sidewalk is really a problem in Russia? Jesus fucking Christ...
There is a place I know that is a one way street that people will go down the wrong way because it is easier than going the opposite way, going over an overpass, down an onramp and then down the road a little ways and turning left.
I hate these fuckers. IMO the cops should put a traffic cam there to catch and ticket these shitheads unmercifully.
Some youtubers should set up shop there with radios, a spotter and a waiting vehicle so that when someone tries it... they are met by a giant SUV in their way and will have to back allllllll the way back and have to take the wrong route to where they were wanting to go.
These are the same kind of assholes that drive to the front of any line and try to merge and then cite the zipper method as to why they did it.
I wish that guys will to do such a thing. Here in Brazil people do a lot of things that are wrong/douchebag like that drivers, but we just accept because that they way things work ¬¬, the famous "jeitinho brasileiro"
Shit. And I thought driving in New England was bad...
The whole scheme will collapse when they unwittingly tag Putin's car and get deported to Siberia.
I love this shit. sad if that was attempted in America someone would end up shot. these douchebags here need some stickers also tho
Words cannot describe how much I love this.
I just watched an hour of their videos! These were great.
I'm binge-watching all their episodes. So good.
This, and their other videos are one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
OMG! That is soooo gooodd:) hahaha
Absolutely surprised no one has had them killed
So the douchebags are turning against each other? By the laws of evolution a breed of super-douchebag will evolve shortly.
Anyone know where to find stickers like this? Specifically ones that rip when you peel it
Awesome!!
That was so satisfying. I wish I could smooth out every sticker myself.
That's awesome FUCK THOSE SELFISH FUCKS!
As much as I think this is awsome, I feel like these guys are one bad encounter where they get driven over/hurt seriously.
Hahaha! "We will put such sticker"
How are these guys not being murdered by angry mobsters? Does anyone know if any of them have faced retaliation elsewhere in their lives?
I don't get why they wait for cars to drive up the sidewalk and then try to stop them. I mean, why not block off the entrance to the sidewalk.
What a twist!
I don't know why, but I really want to go to Russia now.
Do normal people just watch the main video and don't end up watching every video SADBM has made?
It doesn't really look like a sidewalk to me, more like a poorly paved road, but then again, I've never taken a Russian driver's test.
Well class what did we learn today?
TIL: Russia has just as many douche bags as the United States. At least these people stood up to these douche bags. Good work!
EDIT:
Add some bollards or fencing to keep cars/vehicles out but let pedestrians in.
Why are your sidewalks so large?
Imagine doing this by yourself.
Can someone translate what the stickers say? edit: Someone already answered. They say "I don't care for anyone, I drive where I want."
Nice job guys next time tell those women that they are fat and ugly and they will lose there mind.
Here in America there are metal or concrete posts in front of walkways specifically to keep this shit from happening... otherwise there will always be a douche who decides it is okay if they drive on the sidewalk.
Why don't they just put a post at the entrance to make it too small for a car to go through?
Rather, the city should place steel posts in the middle of the sidewalk to prevent this.
YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS TO THE END. WHAT A TWISH!! HA HAH HAH AH HAHHAHAHA ASDFGHJKL ROFL!!!!!!
God these videos are amazing, i just watched all episodes and now i think i speak russian.
These guys doing the Lord's work. Such is life in Russia.
Okay, when I started watching this I was totally expecting it to be all guys... What a twist!
These guys are awesome. I just watched four videos back to back.
Could a Russian speaking person confirm that they really talk that well mannered?
Yes, the protesters are very polite.
Thanks. All the best to them.
Why in the hell do they risk getting beaten up/shot on a daily basis instead of using a Spike Strip ???
Do you want to get a huge obstructing sticker on your windshield?
Because that's how you get a huge obstructing sticker on your windshield.
I want a project like this for online Russian gamers.
The fact that they prepared ahead a time for being run down by drivers is awesome and hilarious.
as someone who speaks Russian, these are so enjoyable to watch.
I kept waiting for some Russian mafia guy to pull out a gun and tell them to fuk off.
episode 3 came pretty close. The guy was an idiot though, pulling out a pistol against 5-6 guys at close range.
These guys don't look like just ordinary guys though. Looks like they've got the self-defense skills etc. to be in the mafia themselves.
Why don't they just stand way down at the road to stop them from turning in to begin with.
To be fair, the first sidewalk looks like a road... the second one, no excuses though..!
Wouldn't it just be a lot easier to have a few poles installed at each sidewalk entry if this is such an issue in Russia? Their sidewalks are like 1 lane roads. And it's a douchebag move to put a giant sticker anywhere on someone elses car, even if they eventually comply they can't see anything once they get back on the road. You WOULD get shot in Texas for putting a sticker like that on someone's car, you wouldn't last a day. Luckily our sidewalks are deisgned for human legs, not 18 wheelers. Side note: Women are fucking nutbags
It's brilliant that they have made the stickers so that they peel and tear.
These guys need to release some merch
"I am gonna kill you all" "Why did you stick it?" "Do you have anything to remove that shit?"
drives back
LMAO
That dumb bitch trying to wash it off with water. All I could think of was The Hangover 2 when St tried to wash his tattoo off.
Seriously--skip to 5:05 and watch for 10 seconds. Blew coffee out my nose.
Wouldn't putting a sticker in someone's field of view cause an even worse problem, like people crashing their cars?
Hmm in Russia we can't just take the simple solution and put in polls as a barrier
Fair play, those are brave guys...
This is actually very incredibly awesome. Anybody that by any chance knows, can you explain why this is such a common and prevalent problem?
Man, I didn't know Rushians drove nice ass cars
TIL Russians drive on the sidewalks/pedestrian roads everywhere.
I think advanced warning signs ("you will be stickered if you drive through here" sort of thing) would be suitable in this case. But they did do their best to persuade drivers to get off.
They give the drivers much advance warning before placing the stickers on the window.
I'm surprised you guys are just now finding out about this, they have these groups in multiple cities. Moscow group got banned on YouTube unfortunately so they had to open another one and so far don't have nearly as many videos as they used to. Links: Moscow: https://www.youtube.com/user/stopxamlive/videos?spfreload=10 St. Petersburg: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDi5ZW8DgHYwIHwYl2LcPwg Petrozavodsk: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAtPtX1EQ4RgRoqs17-opMg Moldova: https://www.youtube.com/user/StopHamMd/videos Omsk: https://www.youtube.com/user/StopHam55/videos
I'm sure there is more
SOOO MANY DOUCHEBAGS!
FUCKING WOMEN! All of the women in this video were bitches and thought they were entitled to do whatever the fuck they want to. Thanks for posting this to prove a point.
Can anyone translate what the sticker says? Its just so damn huge! Haha
People are crazy. Loved the ones that took and look backed right out.
Couldn't this be easily fixed by putting iron poles cemented into the ground at areas that cars can turn onto the walkway from the street? Or maybe the problem is the walkways are too wide?
man you have dumb bitches in Russia
"I blowjobbed it"
I like that music
Seems to me that if these people really cared about making the sidewalks safer, they'd be agitating for new laws instead of harassing private citizens and vandalizing their property.
America solved this problem with cement pylons. now the douche bags are all on the road
But where are the bears :(?
How do you get to be so hardcore that you don't even give a fuck when a guy pulls a gun on you. I literally can't even.
Aren't guns fairly heavily restricted in Russia? Like, only rich and connected people can own them?
I love how "sidewalk" driving is an actual problem in Russia lol
TIL Russian women are hot, but fucking crazy.
So I watched them all. I find it funny that the vast majority of the douchebags that cause confrontation instead of just backing out are all driving 50k plus cars. The people in more modest vehicles seem to back out without much confrontation with a few exceptions. Especially the entitled bitch in the TT with her "crying" kid. The fucking cops let her go and she immediately hits one of the dudes and takes him for a ride down the street.
After a quick and lazy Ctrl+F this begs the question...WHY THE FUCK DO THEY EVER DRIVE ON SIDEWALKS?! ...And how often does this happen?? X.x
Wish I had a spike strip to donate to these guys. Then if someone gets pass them it will destroy the tires.
I mean, it does look like a road... they should put those bars at the intersection that are too close for cars to go through but cyclists / walkers can fit just fine. I've done this before in the states and someone stopped me and said it was a sidewalk. I was like "ha, oh shit, really? Looks like a road man" and the guy was like "Yeah, it does. Even the campus map has it labeled as a road. But when you get down to the other end, it has concrete bars that you won't be able to pass. And there is a bridge about halfway that is very obviously not made for cars." it was on a campus. I actually brought it up with the hot shots of the college and they were like "lol that map is totally wrong, yeah, that's not a road"
They could just build a small fence or metal gate?
what is the music that is played?
America in 2 years.
I would love to see these guys get a hold of some really loud air horns, like the AirZound
I love this group!
This kinda of shit doesn't happen The U.S., Cops will literally kill you for this shit.
http://www.carbuzz.com/m/Article.aspx?Id=25257
Awe...some! Made my day : )
omg that russian 'what a twist' at the end had me rolling. Good for these guys but I hope they dont end up getting hurt.
Remind me never to date a hot russian, no matter how many ads I see.
At first I felt kinda bad, because that certainly doesn't look like a sidewalk. Then I saw the people running the guys down...yeah, fuck those people.
I love these guys.
Why do so many people in Russia drive on the sidewalk? In the US, you very rarely see anyone drive on the sidewalk. On the shoulder sometimes, but I can't remember the last time I saw anyone driving on the sidewalk.
Get a blowjob!
Russia has a high concentration of douchebags
Hell yes fellas!
There are a lot of cool young people trying to make Russia better, but it's so corrupt and dysfunctional it must be awfully demotivating. What a sucky place to live.
Anybody else think Russia needs narrower sidewalks?
damn these russian women are not to be fucked with!
What a twist!
Tbh it doesn't look like a footpath, there should be bollards up to stop cars from going down that path definitely a path that wide. Still quite a few clearly couldn't care either way and rightfully deserved the sticker.
This was awesome, ending was the best haha
If only we could sticker Chriz Clown Brown and the Porndashians. Oh god, I could use up a lot of stickers quick!!
A few barriers would end this problem really quick.
These guys should carry mace or a stun gun for protection/ our entertainment
WHAT A TWIST!!! :-).loved it
I just binged on their youtube channel. It's just mind blowing to see the number of people over there who think it's okay or even the cops who don't really care. Also the number of people that want to fight over it. Pulling out weapons like knives, bats, tire irons, pistols, AK47 (though that was a bystander not someone involved in the original confrontation.)
Classic vigilantism.
How do I donate to them?
Their paypal is: wilwil05@gmail.com
This is brilliant !
I am impressed they are still alive. There was another video posted a while ago in some downtown area and they got attacked for this.
The anti-douche squad should just ask their government to put in anti vehicle barriers.. Oh wait, they can't afford it....
You guys are awesome. Stupid driver's everywhere.
Why not install a curb and a barrier?
I really like their approach on violence inflicted on them: If they receive, the give back ;D
is there any good reason to not just sprinkle some nails/jacks across the road?
Russia seems like a friendly place.
best video is a man that draws a gun and then apologizes infront of the police hahaha
link for the lazy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys the second one
jesus how many people just drive around with a fucking AK.
GODS WORK
Those are some road looking sidewalks.
Man, that music is BUMPIN'
That's how you deal with pieces of shit. Breaking windshields works as well and is more satisfying, but this is more effective in the long run.
so many good ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gP0mTsLlMQ
Another example where the female solipsistic and narcissist nature surfaces. "I have a pussy, let me pass". Disgusting cunts.
Why didn't they just put a pole at the end of the road? :P
people would just take it down every night
Put bars at the ends of the sidewalk???. So only pedestrians and cyclists can get thru Godamnit Russia. How did you beat the world to outer space?
This made my day.
Seems like on average the women were less inclined to cooperate.
Hilarious & awesome. But a better, more permanent, and minimal-effort way to stop these drivers would be to break through the sidewalk, making holes 8-10" in diameter & 2-3' deep. Maybe 5 because that's a huge sidewalk. Put big metal rods in the holes that are 6-7' long. Fill in the holes with quick setting concrete.
...this is Russia, I almost suspect you could do it really late at night and have it installed by morning. One side of it one day, the other side the next day.
OR just do one side then people who come from the other will be really, really ticked off when they find the other side is barricaded!
Or just dig the holes and leave it. That way they don't see it coming and their car gets stuck.
While I love the idea, that causes more hurt & problems. Dealing with stupid people who don't care about others...I'd rather not make them mad. I'd rather just solve the problem & wash my hands of stupid people.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC
Is there a way to translate this into English?
right click > translate to english (google chrome)
My God, that easy? Thanks very much! Never knew that.
I don't know what they say, but I wish I had those stickers.
Russia is like real life anime. Is there a sub for more Russian videos lol
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I see that you've never lived in Russia. Such extremes are needed for some real change.
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I lived in Ukraine. Very similar culturally as Russia. Riding on the sidewalk is quite normal. I remember flagging random cars on the street (unlicensed taxis), paying $1 for a rides, and the taxis would just go on the sidewalks if they felt like it. One time, a pedestrian would jay walk, run into my taxi, break off the side mirror, and keeps on running because it's the norm to get "tapped" by a car from crossing the street legally or illegally. Cops stop cars whenever they want expecting bribe money even though all the documents are at hand. They would specifically target foreigners and it was easy to spot because foreigners had a yellow license plate vs white. What I'm trying to say is, in a country where there are no enforcers to enforce any rules, it's fresh to have what these guys are doing in Russia. Vigilantes if you will. Although what they're doing is not safe at the moment, the viral influence will allow for that safer society.
Lived in Russia for 10 years. Roads are shittily planned, and the people are agressive.
Maybe they can raise money for some road blocks so cars can't even get on the paths. Most places have the huge concrete balls or metal post. Seems like even a gate would work.
Is riding the side walk a big thing in russia? Rare in the US without getting hammered by the police. Obviously for good reasons, no one wants to get run over while on the sidewalk.
whats the song ?
cement 1 - 2 cinder blocks on the sidewalk. done.
Balls of Steel
I see all the comments about barricades at either end, it's very clearly a length of sidewalk along a road, the answer is to put the barricade in the MIDDLE, so the douchenozzle thinks he has beat the traffic and skoots along, only to be surprised by metal/concrete/etc in the middle of the run, and has to back all the way out.
Hell if Russia is as crooked as all these videos seem to be, someone out there must know someone with a flatbed, crane and a concrete business that can drop off some Jersey Barriers in the middle of the path...be in and out in a matter of minutes in the middle of the night with no one the wiser..
I sense a faint glimmer of hope for Russia.
Why doesnt Russia just put statues or something heavy that also looks good / serves a function in the middle of these pedestrian walkways to make sure cars dont think they can get through
It looks like there isn't a sign saying that is a sidewalk?
It's sad we live in a world where people need signs to know anything, though.
Love the truck driver at the end chucking out his thoughts irritated he had to wait.
"Where are you going bitch?"
Combine this with glitter mail.
Should be easy with all the nice shots of plates on all those cars.
This is beautiful
Are these stickers for sale on the internets? Anybody? Googling russian douche sticker doesn't get me anywhere.
[Justice Boner intensifies]
I love how the bitch at the end tells everyone to get a fucking job and then proceeds to tell them how she sucked cock for the car she's driving.
Two main takeaways from these videos: 1. Lots of people have nice cars in Russia. 2. Wherever they are, traffic SUCKS.
First off this is awesome. Fuck those people.
I have a little bit of a concern with it tho. Some people genuinely likely don't know they can't drive there (unless it's clearly marked which I can't speak to). So why set up camp that far onto the sidewalk? Why not stop people before they get in there?
the sticker on the car move totally reminds me of Y.T. from the novel Snowcrash.
when drivers are being douches and not letting you poon on their ride.
stick'm with hilarious stickers that are a pain in the ass to get off.
I find it very interesting that only women were persistent enough to get stickers put on their cars. For some reason men decided to back off.
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They knew. They were playing ignorant.
wonder if they had anyone pull a gun them
These guys are very lucky that none of those drivers decided to run them over.
Well, some of them did. But they were ready for it and were able to hop onto the hood or step back.
What fun I could have in a country where you can witness a stranger committing a traffic violation, vandalize their car, post a video of the lawless conduct of both parties, and have zero fear of legal consequences.
I can quickly name at least six intersections where much rage could be vented and much joy could be had.
This is brilliant. I'm watching this all day now.
is this a common thing in russia? for people to drive on sidewalks?
Yes
this is great. I am surprised people are that ignorant...
Well, I subbed
"Get a job"
The youtube hits we get for this provides a reasonable source of income per hour, sir.
This video gave me hope for Russia
Looks like Russia needs to buy some parking posts.
I wish this movement could start in Mexico. (To be fair, the Russian drivers do take it to a much higher level.)
I like this video, but in others they are way over the top. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUjzEG56oac
All this shaming of people. I dont know how strict the law is, but you can say that without going the whole "think of the kids" thing. Just my opinion, but its a bit forced good mannering.
Where you can you watch these with english subs?
Heroes.
this channel doesn't have nearly enough views
I'm pretty sure most of these people just went home and joined my dota 2 games.
This happened in Virginia (somewhat) recently.
TIL: driving on the sidewalks is a thing in Russia.
God damn people are confrontational in Russia.
Does anyone know the song in the background?
ahaha thats awesome
The irony here is that they are obstructing the driver's vision causing a more severe traffic hazard.
The last lady was the craziest. In russia there isnt much middle class, usually you are either poor, or rich. The middle class there would be considered pretty poor by our standards.
Judging by the car she was driving and her attitude I wouldnt be surprised if she was the wife of some shady businessman that would have these kids ripped to shreds. Either way I love the video, have been sharing it all day.
Their channel is unreal
But if they put a stop to these douchbags and make Russia safer, where will we get our insane vehicle incidents from?
Props to the chill first guy who apologized and wasn't a dick about making a mistake. Though I gotta wonder why whatever passes for a government there didn't just put a sign up saying 'not a road' at that part. Or am I missing some context here? Also, what do the stickers say?
Edit: Just to clarify so I don't look like a moron: That second part with the pedestrian guard rail? No one could've mistaken that shit. Those people were total assholes.
lmao dope beats
the stickers got better and better each episode:
ep02: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSBsVy-6SR4#t=77 ep15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7u8UAPNX7o#t=43
LOL "can't you see there is a broad behind the wheel?" WTF difference does that make?
"You wanna step outside?"
..."we're already outside..."
They should do this over at China too...
They need a cement barrier. Badly.
did you guys know they got like 16 more episodes! I already subscribed for more p.s. I really like the concept of street justice
I feel like a rebar and concrete pylon placed at the entrance of the walkway would be simpler.
I'd like to see a group of Americans do this to assholes who drive down the shoulder in traffic.
Now I swear to God this is a true story:
A few years back, when I got my driver's license, I was driving around the city and at one point a pedestrian runs across the street. I brake, but the Mercedes Benz behind me fails to brake hits my rear. The hot chick driving the Merc jumps out of the car and yells at me "Do you know how much dick I sucked for this car??!!!"
We just over doubled this channel's total views for one video, and probably gave them more likes in one day then they have for all their other video history combined.
This is pretty awesome. Although I'd drive back on the road when asked. I have to admit I would probably stab someone if they stuck that sticker on my windshield
I just lost about an hour and a half at work watching all of these...They're great. It seems like everyone threatens them to put the sticker on, then tells them to "take it off" once they see that first tiny piece tear off and the rest remain intact.
I've always found Range Rover drivers to be complete assholes no matter which country they come from.
What do the stickers say?
Edit: It says "I don't care about other people, I drive where I please."
I like how the subtitles said "F*cking fuckheads" in one part.
RemindMe! 2 hours
I'm curious. Do people in Russia normally talk like that? Over half of the drivers stopped yelled out death threats or assault threats left and right. I just can't imagine everyday people yelling out threats to cut someone's legs off like it's an everyday occurrence. Do they mean nothing to police? A single threat like that in the U.S. will get the cops called on you and probably get you arrested.
It would have been easier to park a couple of cars in the middle and use them like bollards. Then nobody gets run over.
Judging by their views, This post has got to be the best thing that's happened to their show.
They should throw a handful of caltrops on the ground instead of using their bodies. And then pick them up later so the pedestrians don't step on them.
Nail board or whatever. "Get off my hood"- "OK, but there's a nail board 20 ft down, your choice".
You want 2, you see. So she gets out and drags one out of the way. When she goes to drag the second one out of the way, move the first one back. LOL.
I guess you'd want to anchor it down on one end so she can't drag it over to the second one and move them together. Well, the car could still do it if there were 3 people in it.
In Poland we had a "penalty dick" squads posting such stickers on the windscreens of carelessly parked cars. It says: "You are receiving a penalty dick for parking your car like a dick"
Why make it so easy to drive onto the very wide sidewalks that honestly look like a road? Put a bench or curb or something at the beginning of the the sidewalk and that would solve most of the problem.
What the fuck russia? get some baseball bats and ski masks, who are these fucking people.
If you watch more russian road rage or even these stop douchebags videos, you will see that a lot of russians have baseball bats in their car.
Brave fuckers, to do this in Russia of all place... I admire that, no I fucking commend that.
This is the best.
Why don't they just put up a bollard so you can't drive onto the path??
I'm guessing they want to keep it open so "authorized vehicles" can use it- police, maintenance- but that's just a bad planning concept.
I'm imagining they don't show the ones where the DB got the best of them.
That's AWSOME. I love that the stickers are so massive & hard to take off. People would prefer to hurt someone (drive over them), then follow the rules.
There is another solution, easier, less risky and less time-consuming.
Write a message about not driving on sidewalks on the sidewalk. Weld packs of 4 nails into tetraedres. Put them near the message.
Given the cost of car tires, it should make some people think.
Amazing. These guys are awesome
It's these kind of antics that make me realize how much the U.S. and Russia have in common. If we could just eliminate all the douchebags we might have a serious chance at world peace.
It's always the bitches that be crazy on the roads. The choice of using that paper sticker is clutch. Those inconsiderate pricks are gonna have fun peeling that shit off later.
WHAT A TWIST!
So their response to dangerous driving is to put a giant sticker over the driver's side windshield. Essentially blinding the driver and making their driving even more dangerous for pedestrians and other vehicles. Because it looks like the stopped drivers just get pissed and take off anyway.
I applaud the effort but it would have been safer to stick it on door or the rear passenger window.
mhhmm, this just sooo delicious. i've now watched all 17 of these videos, a cumulative 90 minutes and there's just much more action, satisfaction and just all around entertainment than in any recent hollywood big budget flick.
This gives me much pleasure
Lmao "If you put this on my windshield, I'm gonna kill you. I swear."
"Don't do this, it is punishable by law."
I don't know if that's just how Russian translates to English, but that was hilarious
LOOK AT THESE FUCKING WOMEN. Fuck you cunts
Im guessing the cops don't give a shit which is why all these people feel like its OK to drive on the sidewalk. All these people are just so ignorant its sad
I love how the insult "go get a job" transcends cultures.
Fuck , I want to upvoted this post so many times but I can only do it once
I watched some of the other episodes because I thought it was great! However, in the background(in some videos) I see a lot of parked cars like the sidewalks might be entries to parking lots?
I'm all for stopping people from driving on walk ways they're just so wide I can't help but wonder if some were possibly roads. Some large middle brick cylinders sure could help the issue to diffuse any possible confusion of side street vs sidewalk.
How about... put a big sign that says "This is the sidewalk not the road" with a spike strip just after it. Driver goes past sign, kerpop.
TIL Russians don't give a fuck about street laws.
She blow jobbed it
I like the AK47 video better! found my new favorite youtube channel!
You could run somebody over so we are gunna stick an u removable sticker on your window so you can't see where your driving. This should certainly save people getting hit!?
I'm not usually a fan of vigilante justice, but this was very satisfying.
i feel like if they could get just one brute, one dude built like a tank, that supports them, to stand out there with them, drivers would back the fuck up much quicker.
Why not put a pillar at the entrance of the sidewalk to prevent cars from getting in?
Haha this is just great. All the people that don't respect. GG
Cunts.
CAN'T. STOP. WATCHING EPISODES.
awesome
HAHA! Asphalt sidewalk.. Dare one say "Only in Russia" :P
Really, it's not necessarily a sidewalk. A sidewalk entails a small "road" for walking on the "side"of a road. Mostly those were walking trails or paths, not sidewalks.
The sidewalks kinda look like roads though
Could do with some bollards
Russia really needs to invest in some bollards...
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/r/JusticePorn its all videos of people getting what they deserve
dumb entitled wenches. this would never have happened in communist russia. I liked them better when they just spat out weans
Watched all their videos, they have some good stuff.
Someone give these guys a set of road spikes.
MORE!
police seem pretty chill in russia. dude pulls out a gun, fake or not, and all he has to do is apologize lol
So that woman at the beginning keeps on driving into them... wtf? Surprised she didn't just gas it and injure or kill some people
I thought American drivers were bad. Damn. Russians are crazy
These guys are awesome. This is what happens when the police don't do their job.
This is my favorite one http://youtu.be/FrX3M3qJgJU?t=2m31s
An easy solution would be to make sidewalks smaller than roads.
Great job guys. Keep it up.
They should bring out 5 gallon buckets and just fill them with cement to use as makeshift bollards. Yea they can be pushed out the way but the car will be damaged if so.
Went don't they put barricades up at the ends of the sidewalk?
What the fuck is wrong with russian people?
What the fuck is wrong with people?
FTFY
these guys are part of the Nashi movement.. ie. Putin's Hitler Youth lol
all their requests are backed up by a threat of implied violence and the knowledge that they're goverment sanctioned.
take a look a this vidoe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUjzEG56oac
pay attention to the fascist overtones and the fact they go around in a pack to force people to stop smoking out in public
It's crazy when someone is clearly in the wrong starts acting like a trapped animal. Shows a lot about human nature. Some people will take a situation to completely dire straits before simply admitting they messed up. I don't know if it's an effort to save face or, especially since this is Russia, just look tough all the time...but man do they make it so much worse for themselves in the process...
Isn't this just stop xam?
Why not just lay a spike trap or improvise one? Not worth fighting or arguing with who literally dont care.
You don't get a pretty video of you harassing people and damaging their cars if you set a spiketrap.
Urite
Welp, time to watch all of these now.
Anyone know if there are similar movements ( Activists / Vigilantes ) that confront wrongdoers ? It's fun watching these videos .. kinda brings forward what's right.
Since when was creating a road hazard "right"
They're not creating road hazards , they are preventing assholes who drive on sidewalks. It's a though lesson to learn by these asshole drivers.
Put an unremovable sticker on someone's car and order them (Not ASK NICELY) to back out back onto the road is creating a road hazard.
This is beautiful. It has been a cause of great happiness to me. I will abandon America to be a part of this movement.
Anybody have the name of that song?
Power to the People :D
What is the deal with some of the driver's saying 1) you talk with caucasian accent and 2) the culture of the corporate?
They seem like derogatory statements but I can't figure out their meaning. Anyone with some familiarity want to address this?
These video's really give me hope for Russia in the future. Russian's are fucking badass people; and seeing these young people acting in such a humanistic way is encouraging; even when faced with multiple threats of violence they don't retaliate. Hope to see this spread into their politics.
"Humanistic"
Damaging someone's car and preventing them from being able to drive safely or even GET BACK ON THE FUCKING STREET.
Humanistic level: PETA.
Humanistic as in, when being faced with multiple threats of violence they hardly retaliate or react. In one of their videos the guy makes a great point and says
'Your running people down, do you not care?"
"You've broken my ignition lock."
"Indeed!, your ignition lock is nothing compared to human life and health."
And no one was given a sticker unless they continue to be an asshole and try and drive past them.
So they disabled a guy's car?
That's fucking low. Humanistic is not how I'd describe these scare tactics.
So yeah, these people are assholes for driving on sidewalks. That doesn't mean you effectively disable their car.
What they SHOULD be doing is anything to make a REAL difference. you know, put barricades where the sidewalks meet the roads. Run for office, pass laws to prevent it.
No, they have to make their "Activist videos" wherein for all YOU or I know, they've got people directing these peoples' cars onto the sidewalks.
It's been made clear they have connections in the police department. It's immoral and just plain stupid to damage peoples' cars and prevent them from being able to drive safely. Especially when they could just use those police connections to enforce driving laws.
But then they would not be able to make their agenda-pushing videos to support their "Activist" cause.
"They've got people directing these peoples' cars onto the sidewalks." Damn bruh, I think you'd enjoy /r/conspiracy pretty well. And if that was the case, I'm fairly certain a lot of the people they would stop would say something like "Oh well the guy back there told me it was OK". But doesn't happen.
And if you haven't even watched the video I'm talking about; the guy breaks his own car because he's an idiot who cant drive a manual and continues to drive them over instead of reversing.
It couldn't possibly be that elitist entitled people in Russia disregard common law and do as they wish because their money and power usually gets them out of trouble with the law.
Placing a sticker on someones car isn't damaging it, it might be defacing, but there is no physical damage done to a vehicle because of it. And I guess being an activist isn't "making a real difference" even though in most of their videos they have polite respectful encounters where many of the drivers promise to not do it again.
AND, back to my original post. Which was about how I hoped these young people DID get involved with the politics of their nation so that they CAN make a "REAL" difference.
They should invest in a sign and a spike strip...not necessarily in that order.
More of this needed we got to do this in the UK for disabled spaces.
Same in US man. Can't stand it when I see some able-bodied teen come out of a car with their relative's handicap placard hung in their rear view mirror. Oh so you were born in 1960? You look great for your age!
And pre-judging is wonderful.
Handicap tags aren't just for physical disability.
Well yes of course. I was just referencing the situations of people obviously using the wrong tag. I've written handicap tickets as a security guard a while back, and in most cases the birthday on the tag obviously isn't for the person driving the vehicle
So, i assume people have to do this because the police is not doing its job?
These videos are great. I'm going to watch them all tonight. It's great seeing people being called out for asshole behavior and throwing childish tantrums for not getting what they want. These kinds of people are all over. You see them doing fifty in the breakdown lane while three lanes of traffic are backed up.
shouldn't they have a sign for notification that that's a sidewalk and not a street
I love this! What exactly does the sticker say? Translation please. Is it just "Stop a douchebag?"
It was translated in the video
Seems like it would be easier and quicker to just install a couple posts or bollards, whatever they are called.
Right. I'd just get the group that does this together, and have them petition city hall for some bollards.
I meant I'd do that myself, as it would not take long. Pipe or lally column, dig a hole, hydraulic cement. It would take way less time than what they are doing in the video. Then when you are done and walk away, the fix still works. Half an hour. Very simple
I want one of their jackets. Where can I get one?
Russians...
Can someone explain the phrase that was translated as "that camera seems extra to you"/"that car seems extra to you"?
I believe it similar to "nice car, but how did someone of your low class nature afford that?"
Ive never experienced such thing in Denmark, i guess it could only happen in a police chase!
I blowjobed this car and I'll drive where i want!
Sweet, sweet, justice porn.
I would be pissed if someone put a sticker on my windshield. Although, I wouldn't put myself in that fucking situation. Wtf Russians?
I can't help but think a narrower footpath, a couple of park benches and a large sign with giant lettering warning that driving there carries a big fine would go a long way to fixing the problem. Also, are a lot of people in Russia this aggressive or is this just a random sample of douchebags?
That was awesome!
Why not install some concrete barricades to prevent people from driving there? This seems like such an easy fix...
So have these guys been arrested for being dangerous to Putin's state? Or is that just the homosexuals?
Too think, as a gamer, i hated all russians. FAITH IN HUMANITY HAS BEEN RESTORED.
Did anyone else notice that the most aggressive ones were women? I thought it was just america? There are entitled cunts everywhere
Is not car, only potato!
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It is. Pay $100, get a bunch of them made, pay $20, build an ecommerce site. Done.
that was the best
Let get these guys to LA
I've never seen anyone drive on the sidewalk here.
Plenty of douche bag drivers though
They did pretty good against the douchebags, but those snotty little self-entitled bitches put up a fight. They handled it very well.
snotty little self-entitled bitches
I agree. And they waste their time putting stickers on people's cars.
spent the last hour watching all their videos...someone is actually going to die from this and it's gonna suck.
If anyone speaks Russian, what does the sticker say?
I watched all their videos, subscribed and refreshed the page to see their subs had gone up ~3000 in about an hour. Great stuff
What is the cost of luxury cars over there? In America there's this idea that Russia is some weird oppressive country, but it looks like a lot of people are very well off.
So, here say for BMW - we have the like the 328i, 328 diesel, and 335i. Over there? 318i, 328i, 335, 330, 320, 325, etc, and all its diesel variants. Basically, Europe/Asia gets a lot more variety, and from that, cheaper varieties as well, vs in the US we only get marketed the premium luxury since that's the image they've built up.
Thanks for the reply. That makes a lot of sense. However, I know that a lot of asian international students at my university buy reallllly nice cars and then bring them back. What's up with that?
bragging rights - assuming chinese, buick is considered pretty luxurious over there.
I think in the US driving down a pedestrian walkway you would get a really large ticket, and if a cop saw you, he would go out of his way to give it to you. From the amount of cars driving this way in the video, I am thinking the Russian cops don't care much?
(I looked up Rhode Island's rules for driving on a pedestrian/bike path, they just revoke your license)
car #3 is a cunt
I like America. I can walk down the side walk on most days knowing that I won't be hit by a car.
oh my justice boner is at full mast
OK... so why don't they just put pylons too close together for a car to fit where the sidewalk meets the road... like every other developed nation?
How do you say douchebag in Russian?
"Jump in front of a car and put a sticker on it."
I appreciate that someones bothering to translate it, but here's the original channel anyway.
I like these guys.
Would it really be that hard for the road department to install some metal posts or does Russia literally have no money to spend on stuff like that? Like this. It doesn't even have to be that fancy.
Wow, I just spent 2 hours watching all their videos.
No Regrets!
They used to have over 200+ videos on their old youtube channel but they got banned..
Does anyone know the beat to the video??
What does the sticker translate?
Anyone know the name of the beat that suddenly drops when the vehicles roll away after being stickied?
You're doing the worlds work, son!
I spent way too much time enjoying these videos!
I would watch an entire weekly episode of just this.
I love this. Anyone who does this shit in life NEEDS this kind of slap in the face to show them they can't just act like the World is there for their sole benefit. Sadly, I remember growing up thinking it was just kids.
Nope, sadly it seems the older I get, the more assholes I see... haha
You're right. Every asshole in this video needs to have someone hunt them down and put an unremovable sticker on THEIR car.
Uh.... no. See, this is called a battle of escalations and, while not always the wisest approach, it shows those who are unashamed by what selfish fuckwits they are that instead of educating them, puts them in a similarly equal inconvenience, ala the sticker.
I'll assume your comment, as many in Reddit, was made just in passing as a poor attempt to gain some debate, but frankly m'dear, anyone who truly feels these people are wrong, well, they're just dumb and naive. Sadly, while discourse does resolve most issues, for the asshats who believe they are more important than others and refuse to believe otherwise, well, fuck them and fuck their car. :)
They can fuck the cars by putting stickers on the hood or something. Then these drivers do not become a hazard to the public once they get back on the road. Plus stickers are even harder to remove from painted metal than they are from smooth glass.
This is great!!!
Have these guys ever stopped legitimate Russian gangsters before that we know of? If so how did it turn out?
Curious why they don't just put a bullard at the beginning of each sidewalk. Seems to work great everywhere else.
I'm assuming this is a pole or something but I was unable to find a definition other than a last name.
For anyone else that can't get that "what a twist" guy out of their head...
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/4716188
I need some of those unpeelable stickers!
MMMMMM the flavor of their tears arouses me
My question is why don't they call the cops for them vandalizing their car.
They're driving on the sidewalk, though.
My question is why drivers consider laws protecting property as super-serious, but laws protecting human beings as irrelevant and worth ignoring.
I'd happily take a reckles driving ticket above having some douchebag put a sticker on my truck.
that was awesome!
Wow, ultrabitch at 1:23. Like, you can be that selfish and still exist? You don't get shot? In Russia? Wow.
lol @ the small woman saying she's gonna kill them in a serious tone.
Who are you kidding?
yeah people are assholes there especially the rich ones. glad they do come here.
Just spent a hour watching all the other videos I could find because that was so great. I swear reddit doesn't control my life... Help me....
I woke up few hours ago and my mailbox was filled with replies! I really didn't expect that. Actually, this is my first top comment on Reddit. And someone game me gold?? Really?? Thank you guys for your questions and kind words. Spasibo!;)
Girls be like I can tear this off..... oh shit
Y'all Russians need bollards.
This is awesome
Awesommmmmmmmmmmme
The assholes in the cars act like they're in such a rush to get somewhere (which is apparently why the drove on the sidewalk), but seem to have more than enough time to get out of the car and argue about their apparent right to drive on the sidewalk.
While this is all very entertaining justice porn, the traffic on that highway raises an interesting public infrastructure issue. Downvote me to hell , but they should really make one more lane regardless, as there appears to be ample room to do so without losing much of the adjacent park.
In general, making more lanes doesn't solve traffic problems. It just increases traffic flow to fill the space. (In other words, the infrastructure change is an inducement to drive more.)
Anyone know what song they are using in the video? Thanks
AWESOME.
Something extra to you? What does that mean?
≈ "seems like you don't need [something]" meant as a threat of taking it away.
So I watched them all. Worth it.
Does anyone know the music in the vid?
I love the part where the lady just slams down on her horn. As if that's going to work.
That song was awesome though.... Still playing in my head
Not one gun pulled. Wow I'm impressed.
Song?
This is so satisfying to watch.
What a twist!!
It'd be a good scene for a movie if suddenly two Russian mobsters came driving down the sidewalk and these guys stop them and the mobsters just shoot them and continue driving.
You guys are truly doing good work! KEEP IT UP!
If they really want to stop a douchebag they should start at the Kremlin
Authorized Ministry of Interior vehicles have a right to walk on the sidewalks like any other citizen.
What a weird coincidence that so many assholes drive huge expensive asshole cars.
Video of the day! So Satisfying
Mundo drives where he pleases.
I love their channel. Addicted***
Wow, people are crazy.
I love everything about this video. I'd love to do this for the asshats that pull into the shoulder to go around traffic on the interstates.
Bad civil planning. A guy can't even put a barrier in front to prevent the unauthorized traffic. It's a shame the road is assumed idiots won't drive down it to skip a traffic light. One can only stick so many stickers on windshields, it will never stop. Hilarious nonetheless.
Anyone j is the name of that beat?
I couldn't find anything about them actually contacting any officials to put up more signage or any kind of recommendations to just have an officer there to fine people that drive on the sidewalk... I'd much rather these guys team up with a law enforcer so they'll be fucked via money, driving record, and shame.
I just watched all the episodes. These guys are very brave
TIL: Never mess with a Russian chick
What about bollards?
That was intensely satisfying to watch.
I love this. Они получили то, что заслужили.
I'm surprised no one used their washer fluid while the sticker was getting out on
the film was edited so i wouldnt be surprised if that happened
Hey Russia,... New technolgy circa 1800s get with it. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Stainless_steel_bollard_SSP150.JPG/1599px-Stainless_steel_bollard_SSP150.JPG
Can't stop watching these!
These guys are champs
Song?
EDIT- zoo in space
zoo in space, babski if anyone wanted the song
Are Russians woman just nuts?
Overly self-entitled one rolling around in Range Rovers dressed like a cross between Snookie and the bride of Frankenstein are.
So, in Russia, people just drive on sidewalks as shortcuts? This blows my mind! Here in Canada people don't normally do this. It looks to be pretty common there.
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Why you drive on sidewalk?
We need this in the US for cyclists that blow through red lights and refuse to obey any traffic laws.
The police?
Why were the doushiest people in this video all Women? All the men seemed to listen to the people and back out. Is that a Russian thing? I feel like in America the guys would be way doushier than women
you should watch the other videos!
While yea, most of the people who freaked out and started throwing fists/feet were women, all of the people who pulled out guns and other weapons were men. Different sexes have different ways of dealing with their batshit insanity, it seems
hahaha, women. it's OK to be a middle aged 7 year old (no its not please stop)
Holy shit, those female drivers are downright homicidal. Can they not grasp that a car can KILL people?
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they need to put one of those automatic ones they have in the uk lol that shit is funny when people try to make it and their car gets spiked
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To be fair - they would probably drive around the pylon and onto the grass...while running over a woman and her dog
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Am I missing something or does that sidewalk look like a road?
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Note that violence & death threats were used exclusively by women. Funniest thing was that the girl who said 'get a job' probably haven't worked in her entire life.
Look at the other videos and you'll see that it was just in this particular video. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jGNd4Deys
where did you make that assumption?
Well, if the blowjob doesn't count at least.
Women seem to be the worst douche bags in Russia. Not unlike America.
I suppose Russia is quite a bit different than the west, but vigilante justice doesn't really work regardless of how noble the intent. If you watch the other videos in this series they stop people from driving on sidewalks yet it usually results in some form of violence. Some of the activists are even injured trying to stop vehicles from traveling. They have guns, bats, and other weapons drawn on them. It just isn't worth it. Back a project that would implement cement obstructions to pedestrian walkways. Get behind projects to ease traffic on roadways. These guys have a great cause, but they are executing it in arguably the worst way possible.
If their ultimate goal is to get Youtube views, then I guess they should keep doing what they are doing. If they are truly out to enforce traffic regulations and protect pedestrians, then there are better ways to accomplish that.
I find it funny that it was the younger women in nicer cars who would get out and threaten them but everyone else backed out without a problem.
Anyone else notice the trend of most men giving up and backing out rather easily, but the women freak the fuck out and go ballistic?
No, you are the first and only one to notice this.
I like how this exposes how shitty women are and how men well just be like yeah, I'm wrong, backing up.
Aren't those stickers vandalism? That could easily backfire on them.
Should they instead have resorted to violence after having been subject to attempted vehicular manslaughter?
That's even worse, lol.
of course the girls were the biggest assholes
The female sense of entitlement never ceases to amaze.
They should send an application to their city council to get a few of these installed, I know it's not always that easy but it's worth a try.
Do people just, not give a fuck about vehicular assault and attempted manslaughter?
Also, what do those stickers say?
"I'm a douche, and I don't give a fuck about anyone else" they also have an "i'm parking like a douche.."
why do they have so many roads that you are not meant to drive on, but you can ? why don't the local council put bollards up ? won't don't the police enforce the law ?
On a different video the police does seem to show up, after a driver pulled out a gun. But no one arrested.
Everyone is asking themselves the same question, where the hell are the bollards?
We are talking about Russia here, baby. not all citizens of other countries are as enlightened and have high moral standard as americans or japanese. officials would rather have those money spent on themselves than building a bollards for safety.
It's Russia, trying to keep anything free of douchebags is like trying to keep things dry at the bottom of the ocean.
They have a bigger change of trying to keep Russia douchebag free then trying to keep the US douchebag free.
As someone who has spent a lot of time around many, many tourists from dozens of countries, including Russians and Americans, I can say with total sincerity that Russians take the douchebag cake. It's not even a contest.
Sorry they need to be standing at the entrance instead of partway down the path so they can look all cool putting stickers on cars
Came here for the sticker translation...
Leaving confused how no one has translated it yet....
It basically says "I don't care for anyone, I drive how I want", according to a few other people.
Thank you.
Why don't they just install bollards on the footpaths? these things
This was so fucking satisfying
These guys have balls. A guy whips a gun out on them in this one and they play it completely cool.
The truth is always good!
The "what a twist" cut away to the creepy doll was an amazing touch.
"How did you get that car"
"I fucking blowjobbed it"
--What a twist--
Thanks, had no idea that was a thing
So much /r/justiceporn
The first sidewalk looks way to much like a road. They need to put those concert posts in it. The second was fucked up. :D
It's always the gold diggers that are the worse.
I really like how they are staying calm and not being assholes about it, even when some asshat pulls a gun.
An easy way to stop this is to put poles at the entrance so you physically can't drive down the sidewalk.
In my area we have these 5" steel tubes, set upright into the asphalt, filled with concrete at the entrances to these kinds of walking paths specifically to stop these kinds of shenanigans
I love the justice, but I could never do this. I might just want to hammer the shit out of each of these assholes' cars. Aw who am I kidding, I'D WANT TO HAMMER THEIR FUCKING FACES TOO.
I'll stick to spectating.
I say this every time a video of Russian women shows up. they're fun.. But super not worth it. In my experience, (Which is only 2, but cmon.. ) they are crazier than a bag of possums. (Bag of snakes, bag of rats, whatever... They're nuts.)
I applaud their efforts, but haven't the city planners ever heard of bollards? Just don't make sidewalks looks like roads.
thats because the way soviet cities are designed - these sidewalks needs to be 'drivable' for emergency vehicles like ER
Thanks for the information. Did not know that.
Every person that doesn't want to listen is a woman.
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Yes.
It is called a pussypass /r/pussypass after your are mad as fuck then go to /r/pussypassdenied
I love how they respectfully introduce themselves with "We are the Stop a Douchebag Movement". Awesome.
If I had gold I'd give it to you
so... what do the police do in russia?
That's what I am wondering...
Why do people in the US do not have the balls to do such things?
Because we don't have retard level drivers on sidewalks.
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Their videos are great, too bad they are related to a Putin Youth movement - "Nashi".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashi_%28youth_movement%29
Why are the girls being the biggest douchbags?
Why were the women so much meaner?
Haha awesome job guys. Lol the women were much worse then the men!
those russian women are pretty scary
These guys are simply amazing
Why does Russia have a depressive appearance to it?
Because of communism. Looks fun, doesn't it?
In fairness they weren't a terribly rich or prosperous nation before communism either.
heroes! Keep at it lads, love from UK
Russian women are vicious.
those were no "ladies"
they were cunts.
I love you guys. Please come to Poland and help me campaign against pig parking, talking on phones while driving, running red lights, not stopping at zebra crossings, and much much more. The world needs more people like you!
Sooner or later you'd get shot if you attempted that in the US.
Russia is not so different. They have had guns and other weapons pulled on them multiple times.
If this were in the us someone would have beat the shit out of them
Russia is not so different. They have had guns and other weapons pulled on them multiple times.
what? #1 They do get assaulted with bats/knives/have guns drawn on them all the time. #2 Why would you expect the USA to be worse than russia?
This video did not depict any of that occurring my statement was based on the fact that if you did this in America there are enough Lunatics that would do exactly what you described I never once said Russia was worse or America was worse the only thing I said is you get your ass kicked in America if you did that because people are dicks and again I will repeat this video did not show any of them get hit with about or any other kind of weaponry except forget pushed wrong with the car or get a gun pulled on them so I'm only stating that out of what I watched on the video
These guys have a lot of courage, some of those people are pretty aggressive. What's wrong with Russia is captured in these videos, fuck the rules, fuck the police, the police don't bother to enforce the rules, guns come out, people feel they have special privileges. In a nutshell: No rule of law.
The best part: "I'M A WOMAN AND I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN! I WANT TO HONK THE HORN!"
-"How did you get the car?" -"I fucking blowjobbed it!" LOL!
A brilliant way to get killed!
Something's really satisfying by how smoothly those stickers go on.
The MEN: "Yeah, I know I'm being a douchebag. I'll reverse back.
The WOMEN: "GET OUT OF MY WAY YOU FUCKING FUCKS I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!!"
I'm not a fan of assholes driving on the sidewalk. It seems like a pretty shitty thing to do. But, I think those guys are asking for trouble. The same ass that thinks sidewalk rules don't apply to him/her might also think they can just run someone down. I also think that once they put a sticker on the car, running them down would be defensible as the view was obstructed and the person could claim to have been scared.
I like these better than their "murder a queer"-squads.
Was expecting the dumbest, most irrational and most dangerous responses to be from women. Was not disappointed.
i love this. i do love seeing wankers like these get dealt with accordingly. there is one other thing that makes it even more sweeter.
You're getting shot if you put a sticker on my car.
Russian women: as much of a bitch as they are attractive.
Man, I hope the women in this video aren't representative of most Russian women. They were all incredibly rude and irate.
Never forget that the Russian is, in fact, culturally Mongolian. Territory is a statement of power, and power the desire of all.
When I visited Moscow, it's hilarious how much respect I was given when I took it by force rather than by assuming it was a standard. This mofo in McDonalds kept trying to cut in line, and I just swinged back and forth whenever he tried. Suddenly he was very respectable and nice.
Is there a page where we can donate to the cause?
I don't really blame some of the drivers. It looks a lot like a road.
Edit: the first one does. The second is pretty damned obvious.
If you drive properly you should be aware of what's the road and what's not, is like following GPS directions mindlessly and asking afterwards why are you stuck on the train tracks.
With people walking on it, I feel the opposite.
Did anyone else notice that the Russian women were absolutely lightyears ahead on the crazy scale? Holy crap.
Anyone else notice how it was all women that were irrational, arrogant and refused to listen.
If they try to do anything like this here they'd get shot! By the police!
I really don't want to start an argument but does anyone else notice how the guys in this video tend to just back up, or else try get around fail and then accept and back up while the women go full psycho
If it's a sidewalk, why does it look like a road and have an onramp? Seems like a pretty understandable mistake.
I can't say for certain, but I'm going to assume bikes? Also all sidewalks technically have an onramp, this could just be a bigger walkway.
It's funny how the female drivers tend to be more aggressive than the males.
"If you run us down, we'll put a sticker on your windshield!" Why did I laugh so hard at this line...
I hate Russians with a passion. The most obnoxious people in the world.
You seem to be keen to give them a run for their money!
I'm sorry but I disagree with their methods. While I agree those people are douchebags, it's not your place or responsibility to correct them. That's up to the police.
You know what your right, if cars are frequently flying down a one way street in the opposite direction in your neighborhood and hits a kid on his bike? Your sole responsibility is to call the police after the fact. That solves the problem.
Maybe they should take their show to the Kremlin and deal with Putin instead of picking on common citizens..... unless they are... you know...... pussies.....
Funny how the men just go ahead and admit their mistake while the woman get all pissy about it.
The sad thing is how agressive these women with money have become. They have a serious supiriority complex with a hint of bitchyness.
From what I saw, the "sidewalk" at the beginning wasn't very clearly marked. I definitely would have mistaken it for a road.
It was a road. Have you ever seen a paved sidewalk? I've seen them gravel and dirt paths and concrete of course.
Where do you live? We have asphalt walks all over the place.
The women were far worse than the men
Interesting that only women kept driving forward. Man usually don't lose energy in meaningless fight. Also, admitting the mistake is not a shame, but sticking to it is.
did they have to put the sticker in front of the driver
I love how all the men are violent evil creatures that won't admit to their mistake when confronted and will instead try to kill you with their car and all the women are level headed polite beauties that will apologize profusely for any wrongdoing and do anything to correct their mistake.
I love how sarcastic you are. And that people don't understand that.
Thank you
You seem to have trouble discerning males from females in this video.
You seem to have difficulty distinguishing between sarcasm and being serious.
There's sarcasm and then there's Poe
dat pussy pass.
it's always fun to see women get more violent than men.
It's because they know there won't be actual retaliation.
To clarify some things: "Stop a Douchebag" is Kremlin-paid youth movement. There is nothing brave about what they are doing, they are often involved in street fights with the drivers (and mostly have some thugs with fighting abilities among them to keep the upper hand) and they are protected by the police. The reality is that while most of the drivers in these videos are douches it is the russian government that is to blame for the traffic and parking conditions that create that sort of the environment. The traffic police exists strictly to collect bribes and escort thousands of privileged politicians with blue beacon lights on their rooftops. This whole movement was created to steer up hate between car drivers and pedestrians in a society where having a car makes you seem privileged to distract the people from the real problem - the government and the police.
Do you have any documentation to support your argument or is this just your personal opinion?
You can try to translate the russian wikipedia article about them: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Стопхам. They are subsidiaries of kremlin youth organizations "Nashi" (The Ours), and Stal (Steel), previously led by Vasily Yakimenko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Yakemenko), who was involved in dubious businesses in the 90's connected with extortion and murder as well as Kristina Potupchik (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Потупчик,_Кристина_Андреевна) who also manages the pro-kremlin internet trolls, commentators and bloggers (not only on russian internet, but also every major international online news outlet. probably reddit too). Her emails were leaked several years ago, with correspondence regarding several high profiled russian bloggers (who position themselves as anti-kremlin) being on her payroll. There is a lot of very dubios stuff about them all over russian internet but nobody really cares. The whole Stop a Douchebag, Steel and other youth organizations do heavy recruiting among poor areas of provincial cities and bring the kids to moscow or other areas of concern to do all sort of propaganda work.
Thanks, I'll check it out!
They also got over 300 000$ from the presidential grant last 2 years alone, since their former head organizations Nashi and Stal have been disbanded or reorganized after the civil unrests in aftermath of 2012 Duma-elections that caused a personal shift among kremlins propaganda bureaucrats.
Well, I don't agree. Is this not what we pay police for? Wannabe anarchists should find a greater cause. Not excusing idiot drivers, just saying this is not how you resolve a problem, this is how you might create a larger one.
Edit for clarification: you mob my car, I will show you my knife. You continue to bother me, I will get out and cut you.
Carry on children of Reddit, believe in anarchy, morons.
In Russia traffic law enforcement is based upon the car you drive, if it is expensive you get away with a lot and are allowed to beat up drivers of cheap cars. If you drive a cheap car you will get stopped by police and fined as much as possible.
you mob my car, I will show you my knife. You continue to bother me, I will get out and cut you. Carry on children of Reddit, believe in anarchy, morons.
/u/Themosthumble is not showing his usual humility here.
My communication skills are for shit. I should have said my comment differently...., live and learn.
LOL...internet tough guys threatening to knife people who are trying to stop them from being assholes. Always good for a laugh. Keep cutting bro...
Goofy little Russian wannabe tough guys mobbing women...., let me guess, you?
That cuts deep man...really deep. But hey, if it makes you feel better, I am totally for sure that you would be bad ass in a knife fight after you get out of your car when stopped by goofy little russians.
okay, imagine this scenario, goofy little Russians swarm girl in car, girl in car gets frightened and pulls a gun out of her purse, shoots goofy little Russian right in the face. Dead.
Who is to blame? That's right, you, the dumb fuck dead wannabe vigilante goofy little Russian. pulls out knife, reinserts
Maybe stupid girl not get swarmed if stupid girl learn to follow law instead of being stupid vigilante driver.
see, now you're getting it...stupid girl caused the problem, a problem that can only escalate with vigilantism. This is not a solution, a solution is the responsibility of government, this is why we have them.
When you arbitrarily proclaim yourself as the 'LAW', you are destined to fail, either the real cops will take you to task, or some Russian gangster will shoot you for fucking with his wife and or car. It's gang mentality masquerading as justice, someone is going to get hurt, or worse.
a solution is the responsibility of government
LMAO...says the internet tough guy who claims he will stab people who try to stop him from driving down pedestrians. The only thing funnier than internet stabbists are hypocrites.
I don't rely on the Government to protect me, that's what the knife is for. By the time the cops show up the shit is long long over.
Accosting a fellow citizen, even when they are infraction of the law, is always best left to the 'professionals', even if they are inept and incompetent. The risks are massive for all involved, let the 'insured' get there hands dirty.
Understand, vigilantism is a very scary concept, if not put in check, that slippery slope becomes deadly very quickly.
you mob my car, I will show you my knife. You continue to bother me, I will get out and cut you.
You have already proven that you are a closet vigilante with a penchant for stabbing...just admit it and move on. It is better to love yourself for who you are, than to pretend you are something other than what you are. Embrace your inner stabbist and rejoice in the fact that you have a knife in your car to cut mobs down with.
Can do. Thing is though dude, I was speaking from experience.
People in the street (drunken scum in the morning) stopping cars as they tried to go through the intersection. Idiots dropping themselves on the car in front, pretending to be hit, as the old lady, frightened out of her mind, nudges her car forward...they let her go, then they looked at me.
I looked the scum bag in the eye and flicked my switchblade, tapped on the glass, and pointed it in the direction I was going.
They got the fuck out of the way.
Wow...you are truly a force to be reckoned with. I wish I had a solid 4 inches that could scare drunks away.
The point you are missing, I'm guessing, is if you don't know who it is that is stopping you, do not stop.
How am I, or anyone else supposed to know that you are not trying to rob me/assault me?
I don't know. So dear departed, I have run you over, I will face the judge...you have met your maker.
Do you now see how this can get out of control?
Do you now see how this can get out of control?
Yeah...I guess if someone is driving down the sidewalk swinging their knife around, you should just shoot them. Unless....wait...your car doesn't have bullet proof windows does it?!?!
Jeep.
These are the tires, that last thing you see.
http://www.1010tires.com/Tires/Reviews/Goodyear/Wrangler+MT-R+with+Kevlar
I am not sure what you point is, but you really aren't making yourself look good...you have advocated for illegally stabbing people and now suggest that running them over is the solution... what is next on your vigilante wish list? Pedestrian defenestration?
Death to J walkers!
Death to sidewalk drivers.
It's Russia.
Cop business is not to be administering traffic laws, but crime laws.
And Reddit wants to be like Russia obviously, fucking morons.
No way man go out in public and video yourself confronting people in a hostile manner. That's how the world works.
Ya my mistake, forgot this is reddit, where most are proudly delusional.
are you talking about yourself?
There's another video of theirs which shows the police letting a woman go after she basically ran them over and basically sped down the street with a guy on her hood. He cops came and let her go, probably because she drove an Audi.
Lol you're an idiot.
If my friends and I are standing side by side on the sidewalk and you come up to us in a car we can just stand there, on the sidewalk.
If you pull forward you are using your car as a weapon and that's instantly going to result in an arrest most of the time if you try to run over a podestrian on a sidewalk standing there.
Talking to you through the window isn't mobbing. They only "mob" once people are running them over.
If I'm on a sidewalk and you start to hit me with your car I'd fear my life and could shoot you in self defence.
I am not defending people driving on sidewalks.
What I am trying to say is, it is not your place to tell anyone what to do ever. You can suggest, you can demand, you can beg and plead, if I decide to disregard your request and say drive on a sidewalk, you had better call a cop. If you decide at that point that you ARE a cop, you had better have a badge, or I will fucking run you over.
But it's a sidewalk. They can stand and not let you pass without becoming a cop and even a light hit is turning it into a form of violence and these people are straight up running them until their on the hood or windshield.
I'd stand still and then shoot if someone turned the car into a threat
Just a little info on the group: It's a youth movement founded by the Russian government. More info on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashi_(youth_movement)
As satisfying as this looks, in fact it's a very suspicious youth movement with links to skinheads and hooligans.
different group, it doesn't mention "stop ham" at all ;]
http://abcnews.go.com/News/video-of-moscow-parking-brawl-goes-viral/blogEntry?id=16277146
http://www.thinkrussia.com/life-arts/stickers-bumpers-–-exploring-new-communicating-vehicles
http://rt.com/news/prime-time/illegal-parking-protest-stickers/
Every source (even Russia Today) is saying it's "Nashi".
note it's the women in their 30s who got aggro
why do all the women run them over
I love how the women take it so much worse than the men.
I don't who which country has bigger scumbag drivers. Here in the US or Russia.
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oh I hope not
Of course not. I think thats the point though... make it so they cant see and inconvenience them because they are being douchebags.
Really shows the difference between women and men.
women are cunts
/r/justiceporn
what a surprise its women who are the most douchey
Ok, I know I'm gonna get down voted for saying this because it's sexist regardless of the evidence...but I'm gonna state exactly what I saw.
Anytime the kids got hit by a car in the video, it was a female driver...why?
Commence down voting.
You should check out more of the videos.
I'm gonna state exactly what I saw... Anytime the kids got hit by a car in the video, it was a female driver
Valid observation. Okay.
...why?
I know I'm gonna get down voted for saying this because it's sexist regardless of the evidence
Commence down voting.
It's amazing because based on all the content of your comment, it's as if subconsciously even you understand there's no meaningfully substantial gender correlate, and yet you speculate one anyway. Don't tell me your question was actually spawn from intellectual curiosity? If so, you could have formed it much more sensibly, without all the downvote and sexism disclaimers worded the way they were. Regardless, I'll bite anyway.
The only thing you can do is judge the video for itself, because of the pathetically low sample size. Thus, based on your observation, we can claim many things, but you'll see there are many things we can't claim.
-A certain number of human respondents in the video kept their cool and complied, in which we can assume they either were having a good day, were momentarily happy, or had stable and functional personalities in the first place, etc. etc. etc...
-A certain number of human respondents in the video reacted wrecklessly, and we can assume they were having a bad day, were upset about something, had unstable personalities, etc. etc. etc...
-The attire of all people who reacted positively were a certain way, and the attire of those who responded negatively were different in a variety of ways. However, no correlation between attire can be associated with significance nor causality. More evidence of attire needed.
-The eye color of all people who reacted positively were certain colors and ratios of said colors, and the eye color all people who reacted negatively were certain colors and different ratios. However, no correlation between eye color can be associated with significance nor causality. More evidence of eye color needed.
-The gender of all people who reacted positively were male, the gender of all people who reacted negatively were female. However, no correlation between genders can be associated with significance nor causality. More evidence of aforementioned behavior being exclusive to certain genders needed.
Thus, we can return to your question:
Anytime the kids got hit by a car in the video, it was a female driver...why?
Because, simply and merely, it just so happened in this particular video that the human respondents who had bad days, were upset about something, had unstable personalities , etc. etc. etc. happened to be female. Just like the answer would be similar if you asked:
Anytime the kids got hit by a car in the video, it was a driver with blue eyes/long sleeves...why?
But also, one of the many reasons you couldn't really carry out a speculative hypothesis of, "Or, was there a more fundamental factor, such as the gender?" is because you can find inverse evidence (i.e. similar videos where the behavior is reversed by gender).
This is a really natural and simple bias of the cognitive human brain to make, though. In fact, it's so engrained into the way we perceive and reason reality, and it's such an abundant bias, that psychologist type thinkers coined a term for it--sexism. There are similar modes of fundamental bias, such as racism, but it doesn't end there. There's also ageism, heightism (although that could have a different name), basically many things you can think of that may seem intuitively curious, but are really just dead end logic.
Stop talking about downvotes and just state you opinion man...
So when the drivers park on sidewalks are douches, but when some guys are sticking a non-removable sticker on personal property, they are NOT douches?
Fighting crime with crime is not the solution and that's why Russians are so backwards. (And probably because commies fucked up the world and the mentality of their people for almost a century now)
America needs this,I have seen motorcycles parked on mall sidewalks and even within 10 ft from the door.As for me I use a key on the gas tank,once i dumped my soda in the gas tank.
Wow... Really? Its honestly that big a deal for you that you'd destroy somebodies vehicle? Good job crusader, making your walk 1/10th of a percent easier for others. Next are you going to kick people in the spine when they walk two abreast slowly?
Flip that around, you've got so much higher regard for your personal property than for other people. Why is that?
I'd prefer his actions be directed at cars blocking entire sidewalks or putting people in danger, but I get the principle of what he's trying to say.
I dont drive. I dont see how a douche bag parking their motorcycle on a mall sidewalk is a big deal. He's an asshole with a boring life trying to make themselves feel like they have a purpose. I get it. It happens in offices when people do the same shit day in day out gossip starts to seem really exciting and cool!
Err and outside of Russia how often do you see cars blocking entire sidewalks? In my country a car would not be able to fit on most side walks and the ones they can have concrete blocks preventing idiots from trying it. So my question is- Why the fuck are a bunch of teenagers enforcing traffic laws? Where are the police?
Probably persecuting Ukrainians and gay people lol!
In cities like San Francisco you can see cars blocking entire sidewalks every single day.
Im trying to picture this. Like you mean somebody drives over the curb and parks on a sidewalk? So where are the traffic cops?
It's usually where a garage opens up directly onto the sidewalk, so there's no curb. The car pulls all the way up to the garage door to be sure not to be sticking out onto the street, thereby completely blocking the sidewalk.
Although it's illegal, it's not a focus of law enforcement. There is apparently a number that can be called, and theoretically someone from the department of parking and traffic is supposed to respond by coming out and give a ticket.
That seems like an EXTREMELY minor inconvenience, especially somewhere where it doesnt snow.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but it is illegal, it does block pedestrian right of way forcing them to walk in the street (generally waiting for cars to clear, since cars won't stop for them) -- and it illustrates a general notion that cities and city infrastructure are for cars to do what they want, without regard for whether it inconveniences or endangers others (especially nondrivers).
That was only one example. There are many others and it occurs throughout this city and elsewhere.
Probably persecuting Ukrainians and gay people lol!
I was wondering where the police were, makes sense.
Put a sticker on it or confront the driver, don't damage the vehicle.
douchebag. Your confirmation bias is showing. They have plenty of other videos where men also get violent and even pull guns on them.
Can't you just enjoy the video for what it is without smearing your seeming hatred for women all over it?
Right because this linked to every single video right? I've watched all those right? Right. Just watched 5, in every single one a woman tries to run over or hit them. In one a man does.
That's my point. You could've just made an observation and be done with it. But instead you had to also go and use derogatory language. Your comment was so desperately trying to make this a thing about how women are so much more awful then men in general.
You shouldn't go and make those statements just going off of a heavily edited short video.
OK, since you can't see reality you go count the amount of women that physically attack them, and the amount of men. I've watched 12, every single video has had a woman, or multiple, run in to or try and assault them. 2 have had men run into or assault them.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Lomak1581/videos
I just watched episodes 1-8 and so far it's 2 women, and the rest men running them over or getting out to attack the protesters. Not to mention it's only men who are pulling out guns and bats.
Look, my point isn't that men are worse or that women don't abuse the fact that they probably won't get hit back. It's that you're using a tiny sample size to make generalizations about women while ignoring contrary evidence, just to support your own weird biases. A little objectivity won't hurt, you know?
Let's pretend you don't have your own personal investments in the matter, the point is exactly what you said, they think they can do it and not get hit in return. The women knew they had compete impunity, such as the video or the woman running over a protesters foot, kicking at them for minutes, and the police letting her go. Also I like how assault is the same as battery to you. The men know they're in for a fight, and won't just get a pass like the women assailants.
I literally said that that's not the point in the last comment. The point I'm making is you're disproportionately hating on the women for no real reason.
Are you against women in general? Or just the horrible ones? If it's the latter, there's no reason to attach that hatred to the very idea of womanhood. Lots of people are bad in different ways. Some taken advantage of their gender, some their size, some their wealth. But that doesn't mean it's okay to make blanket statements about those groups of people and write them all off as the same.
It doesn't matter what you think the point is. The point have been making this entire time is the one you seem to think isn't the point. Using schemas is human nature, if the majority of a populace fits a trend then the natural reaction is to assume the trend fits the entire populace, because majority of the time it's right. Like low class poverty and crime, or fat unkept men and anime. Go cry about it on tumblr if you think it's not OK
I'm pretty sure these people aren't driving on the sidewalks because they are "douchebags," they actually have a blue light. The blue light basically means road rules do not apply to you, and that you are technically an emergency vehicle. Source These people also usually know someone in "high places."
Excuse me if I'm completely wrong.
I'm pretty sure these people aren't driving on the sidewalks because they are "douchebags," they actually have a blue light. The blue light basically means road rules do not apply to you, and that you are technically an emergency vehicle. Source[1] These people also usually know someone in "high places."
A. Most do not have a blue light on their car
B. Even if they did, their still douchebags. Moscow's notorious privileged blue lights are given out without reason, except that they are connexted and have money.
Socialist thugs playing cop, what's not to love about it.
Notice it's always the bitches who think they are hard that don't back down and push the issue.
i see people illegally harrassed by soon-to-be paramilitary thugs
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they are not really being assholes, they are being polite and good mannered about it, they don't stick stickers on until last moment, they give the drivers every opportunity to back out.
Or more specifically, when they try to run people down.
Yes!!!! So good.
Russian women are bloody angry though!
Bring this to America, please!
So vandalizing some ones vehicle is okay.
Shoveling snow on Garys lawn is not, however. huh
So why don't they just petition to put cement bollards up that will let people pass but not cars?
Good lord the women were the worst about the whole thing.
I'm surprised that the ones that got stickered were mainly women. And they were attractive. Why so angry?
What do the stickers say?
From one of the videos "I don't give a fuck, I drive where I want"
Their videos are fun, but you should understand that these punks are funded by government, which instead of actually doing something with bad drivers spends money on PR like this
THat is AWESOMEE!!!!
Weird how it seems that the women seem to be power tripping in this case more often.
The last one openly threatening them with what I presume is her boyfriend while taking pics of them so he has targets.
I wonder if they feel like they can powertrip because they have what they perceive as powerful spouses or if they powertrip because the car gives them imaginary sense of power.
Was wearing headphones, that strange music scared the shit out of me every time.
Lol, and ofc the women are the over the top entitled ones. I mean they are all assholes, but jesus christ, you aren't above the law princess. They even attempted assault with a deadly weapon.
I understand their movement, but couldn't they just petition the city to create barriers so that cars can't drive in? Just like here in the US they make the barriers wide enough for people and bicycles. By observation it does look like a road to me.
Those sidewalks do look like roads. They should put some kind of cement or metal barriers at the end of each one so no cars can get through and it's still easily accessible to pedestrians and bicyclists.
Russian women are bitches!!!!!!!
so many good cars in Russia!
These guys are great, but I think these situations should be absolutely non-violence. If the douchebag punches you, don't punch back. Have a guy grab him (or something) and wait for him to calm down.
The idea is awesome and it seems a lot of the situations end up nicely!
The women are totally crazy.
This belongs on /r/justiceporn
Why do women have the worse reaction. Most dudes just back off after a few words.
Why do fucking vaginas act the most entitled?
Just because you have a hole between your legs where you let your husband empty his balls doesn’t mean you have to leech him.
Wow, the woman are the aggressive ones.
The women are the worse ones out of all of them from the video. The guys would swear a bit but they'd back down and back out. Meanwhile the women, damn man. They really, I mean really. Just no words to describe their behavior.
I'm a woman and I don't want to listen! I want to honk the horn!
AAH! One of their videos was posted almost a year ago on here so I subscribed to them, but then they were removed from YouTube for copyright violations. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS! Now I've found them again!
Why the fuck are people driving on sidewalks anyways?! I have never once encountered this in America. You'd have to be literally insane or mentally handicapped to do so. Also, how am I the first person to ask this question? lol
Uuuuhhhh.. Russians. It's good to see SOME good ones out there actually thinking about their fellow human beings. Some of the most selfish people I've met.
Is it me or was it women only that made death threats and tried to run people over...?
These guys are heroes
What the fuck is wrong with Russian women? God, what cunts
Meanwhile, in Canada... http://imgur.com/cM1oofG
I don't like it, it is just an excuse to be jackasses
Well, atleast they are jackasses towards other jackasses :D
That's for sure!
Parts of this video are literally /r/pussypassdenied
Man, Russians are crazy!
I'm pretty and young I can be a bitch!
Though they need to put up a chain or posts to keep people out.
The folks who translated the videos — I assume it's the same outfit that made the videos — are a bit too interested in which drivers speak with an accent.
Only in Russia would it be common practice to just drive on side walks through parks
On other video I saw a guy with a AK47 and in another someone threatened them. In other countries it could be safe but not in Russia. Nope. These guys are risking their lives.
ok, they are going about this the hard way. Why not put up concrete posts to just keep the cars from being able to go there in the first place?
I think Russia needs some good ol' American tow trucks
You'd think the govt/council/authority would install some barriers/bollards to prohibit cars & just allow pedestrians/cyclists; I guess those funds somehow got misappropriated into the caviar & hooker account.
no need for racism bro
Russian = a race? I could've sworn it was a nationality, thanks for the clarification ...bro (what's your race? Apparently mine is Irish). Also, I was obviously mistaken in thinking caviar (a major export of the country in question) amongst other luxury goods & escorts weren't something indulged in using taxpayers money in numerous recorded cases & even more through hearsay, by unscrupulous politicians around the world.
Sorry, no need to stereotype then... this world could do with less hate and a little more love :)
Ok - I do agree with you, so how about my essential point "You'd think the govt/council/authority would install some barriers/bollards to prohibit cars & just allow pedestrians/cyclists" ?
Good, but I think at the recently Russia's government has had more on their plate to deal with than road laws. I can't say that I keep up with politics well, let alone Russian politics, so I'm not trying to debate by any means. I agree that the government should take responsibility for a simple thing like this. I've been to Russia and I know what it's like there (Moscow, St. Petersburg), people do not give an actual fuck about road laws. Or many laws for that matter. I've only lived there for a few months at a time though.
kudos to those guys and gals
Them Russian chicks Seem like crazy bitches.
This makes me like Russians more, and hate some of them at the same time
Whenever I see these videos of people blocking the path of cars, I always wonder why the jerks in the cars don't just slowly inch forward. Slow enough that you won't really hit anyone (just displace them), but you would still be moving forward and therefore still not "losing" which a lot of these people clearly care about...
Keep up the great work!
Jesus christ I had no idea the general populace in russia are fucking douche bags.. Wow. Glad to see some not taking it anymore though
so that's why Russians are crazy drivers. They just dont care
My justice boner is so hard right now.
Wow...
Kind of feel like 2 poles and a chain would be much better than getting into arguments and vandalizing with people.
Props to 'I blowjobbed it' lady.
Seeing Russian youths being active and contributing to their community really warms my heart
Very small sample size, but I'll make the claim anyway:
Women are horrible drivers.
Linking relevent sub /r/JusticePorn
Ok so i sat through watching several of these and i am left wondering, where the fuck are the police? Forgive me i am ignorant American but why aren't police smacking those douchbags driving on the side walk in cuffs?
And thanks for the down vote, may i please have some more?
Did no one read the episode title? This one is about ladies. The other videos aren't. Jesus.
Good guys Russia. Refreshing
These guys need spike strips for people like the lady at the end.
/r/pussypassdenied
oh god, I can seriously fap to this
It's ridiculous that you're not allowed to just punch a woman (and to a lesser degree, a man) in the face when they are trying to hit you with their car. Honestly what the fuck difference does it make what happens to be between someone's legs? An asshole is an asshole and a good physical reminder is all some people understand.
lmfao at the end, waht a twist.
It's cool that they're doing this and all, but I don't feel like it's cool to put a sticker like that on somebody's car that they can't remove very easily. It's one thing to make a point and stand your ground, its another thing to potentially damage someone else's property.
Why is it that the women were the worst ones? Maybe its because women are mostly entitled spoiled bitches who think they can always get their way just because they are women?
Was it just me, or were the ones getting stickers all women in the video? Wouldn't doubt men got stickied too, but it seems women don't listen in Russia. I just watched the parking one though and were mostly men, however the one with the woman at the end turned into a fight with her sons or something
That's what happens when you feel self-entitled.
Hail Penis, this was good.
This would never work in the US- these guys would have been shot. So please, don't try this at home US redditors.
This is the fault of poor design.
These guys are hilarious. The women drivers are funnier than the men.
those women are dumb cunts
This is great entertainment. I even made popcorn to watch the second video. The drama had me in the edge of my seat. Morale of the story don't drive on sidewalks.
Why is it only the women who are huge douchebags?
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It's more than that though, they have massive support throughout the country (even Putin has voiced support) and they are shaming douchebags into being better drivers. For some of those specific sidewalks putting in barriers would help but more needs to be done.
I just hope to fucking god this isn't some PR stunt sponsored by the government and an actual, genuine case of people having had enough douchebag drivers.
they all remind me of Mila Kunis
I can't wait until they stop a car full of belligerent drunks.
why are the women so volatile?
Funny how all the women acted like dumb shit bags
I haven't watched any of their other vids but it's interesting that the womens' reactions are significantly more violent.
The patriarchy makes them that way.
Man, Russian sounds like English played backwards.
The more episodes of this I watch the more I get unsettled. Take a look at other like-minded groups on the Lomak1581 aggregator — https://www.youtube.com/user/Lomak1581/videos?view=0&flow=grid&sort=p — there's a group that uses similar tactics on folks who have the temerity to smoke cigarettes in public, which is far less an emergent public safety issue than driving cars on the sidewalk. And why stop there? This sort of extrajudicial norms enforcement could readily be adapted to some shitty ends.
If I wanted to clear a neighborhood of immigrants, for example, I would approach a group like this.
Looks like a road to me...
The women are huge cunts. Holy shit.
Wasnt this just in the front page good damn reddit every day with this shit. Maybe I just come here to much but then if I take a break all the same shits still here!
What's with these women, its like all their hours of watching lifetime kicked in and that scenario of being surrounded by a bunch of men meant they could use your car as a weapon even though all they were asked to do was turn around. If they were alone on a street and they were confronted I would understand more, but its broad daylight and there were people everywhere.
Wow...Russian women are ferociously cunty. Scary even...
This is how you get shot.
Riddle me this, why were the women acting the craziest??? They were ridiculous!!!11
Very excited for more material from this guy! Maybe a little gay kissing in public?
Why don't they just put up a sign or a small gate or obstruction instead of being douche bags themselves? The first sidewalk looks like a road anyway. So then they go and endanger the lives of everybody on the sidewalk by blinding the drivers with those fucking stickers. Seems pretty douchey to me.
Seems like your vagina needs a good "douchey" to me.
Stopping douchebags by being bigger douchebags than them. Yep, that's Russia!
Oh look, the first bitch to arrive and be a cunt is a feminist, what a fucking surprise.
I'm not sure what this video says about women... they all fucking want to run them over for fuck sake.
I was quite surprised to note that the female drivers behaved the most belligerently. Also a very large number of Mercedes/BMW/Range rovers. The Alfa Romeo drivers must be pissed the didn't get their chance to shine.
anyone surprised that the men are a lot more understanding than the women who just kept attempting to drive through them most of the time
Interesting how the women all feel entitled to drive on the sidewalk.. Treat them like princess all their life and they act like it as adults, who would have thought
Only women got stickers.
ya know, a couple metal and concrete bullards is all it takes to stop this.
I also cant help but notice the women are the biggest fucking cunt hole nasty bitches about it Ive ever seen. Literally trying to kill people and ignorant about it to boot. I wanted that waterbottle lady to curb stomp that chick.
funny that the worst ones are all women
It looks like a road. It doesn't look like a sidewalk.
Because it is a road.
I love how the women are the most unreasonable.
Russian women are worse than their men.
Balls for those guys.
It's funny how all of the women tried to run them over.
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How is this even possible? I get crucified for not signaling or making an "Illegal turn," let alone driving on a sidewalk.
wtf russia
Why are only the woman acting crazy? ... What a stupid question.
It's a good thing I don't stand on roads at the end of sidewalks and vandalize people's cars.
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Well they weren't doing so hot when they could see
This might be the most satisfying Justice Porn around. And a welcome break from fight videos and grainy South American scooter robberies.
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How would you know that they aren't?
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So, you are saying that if someone makes a video of something; that means it's all they are ever doing 100% of the time?
That's a pretty wild assumption, don't you think?
The only douche bags I see in the video are kooks involved in making it
Clearly all of the walkers thanking them disagree with this.. along with a large amount of people here.
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note that only women were the one being cunts and honking
That's fucking ridiculous and dangerous. Let's put a huge sticker over someone's view, to fight for the fact that what they're doing is dangerous, while making it even MORE dangerous to prove our point. Sounds like something a bleeding liberal would do.
Or a douchebag.
There was a documentary posted on the appropriate subreddit entitled something like "Understanding the Russian Sensibility." I haven't watched it yet, and while I admire the intentions of the sticker-placers here I feel inclined to say: Fuck Russia and everyone in it. I hate them all. And before you make a comment about my username or make inquiries into the reasons for my hatred, suffice it to say (not that I need to justify a goddamn thing to you fucking assholes), they're known for their invasions and my countrymen suffered many such.
You want to really stop a douchebag you ought to sterilize the whole goddamn country.
I would mace whomever did that to me. Get a job is right.
We need this in the US. Unfortunately here it would result in injury, possibly death, and so, so many lawsuits.
and so, so many lawsuits.
Yup MURICA...
Why don't they just put up some time of concrete barrier that would block any vehicle yet allow a bicycle or walker to use the path? I see them all the time in downtown cities. Or use the security poles that are in front of major retailers that keep thieves from ramming their car into the building.
That's a great idea, but it seems like officials don't even care.
at 2:08 this almost turns into an /r/pussypassdenied video.
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You're kidding right? Your argument is "the roads are shit, that means it's okay to drive on the sidewalk." Do you realize how crazy that sounds? The roads where my dad lives are shit too because it's a small town that has shitty infrastructure and the roads aren't properly maintained (maybe not as shit as Russia), doesn't mean people should be driving on the fucking sidewalks.
..but...but i thought the one woman was going to kick all their fucking asses, and the other woman was going to run them over and kill them all? I'M SO DISAPPOINTED :( :( :(
This seems like the wrong solution to a problem. It only ends up agitating both parties. Yes, the drivers are in the wrong, and it's good that people are willing to step up, but someone can still get hurt. This is just asking for trouble.
Signs, traffic cones, bollards, a stack of cinder-blocks with open paint cans on the top would do a better job.
Actually agreed with the lady who said, "don't you have anything better to do?" This is a pretty inefficient way to try and solve this problem. Maybe petition the city to put in some sort of concrete columns at the start of the sidewalk so cars can't drive on it?? A sign stating you will be fined for driving on the sidewalk??
Then again if they did that, their youtube channel would suck balls so nm.
russian woman are sassy, me like
Why are the women more likely to get confrontational and threaten peoples lives for their convenience? Did they perhaps edit the male confrontations out like they did in that New York City harassment video?
I think they just took the clips where people reacted worst. Most probably just backed out when they were told.
A lot of the youtubers are commenting that the men behaved better than the women in this video. That the men eventually just let it go and backed out, whereas the women behaved like total asshats.
Another youtube commenter really hit the nail on the head, it's not because women are "entitled", it's because men know if they keep going they're in for a fight, whereas women know that they're not going to get hit by anyone so they just keep going.
It's got nothing to do with gender, it's just a bit of culture mixed with risk assessment.
Or maybe generalizations don't apply at all, and that one woman is rude and selfish. Just a thought.
Wow, Russia really is lawless
nice russian propaganda going on here. v
How is this russian propaganda?
There is nothing to say about gender specifics that we don't know...now who's a better driver?
as everybody knows, there is no real problems in Russia, except sidewalks
How are they supposed to drive safely when a giant sticker blocks their windshield?
How about you just put up a cheap barricade instead of trying to get yourself run over. I get it, the people in the cars are assholes, but this method just causes a bunch of shit. Put up some sort of barricade until you can get the city or whoever to put in some damn yellow cement or metal poles to block drivers from entering.
How are people supposed to walk or jog safely, with all those cars driving where they shouldn't? How about people just drive like they should, and it would not be an issue? Mmmmm, thought food.
Spare me your sarcastic bullshit.
Should should should. You don't live in fucking should land. People shouldn't be driving on the sidewalk, people shouldn't rape little kids, people should fly planes into buildings. You can complain all you want about how things should be, it doesn't change a thing. And when you act out, and you act like an idiot like these guys you help nothing. They are going to get themselves hurt, and the sticker on the window, (while I appreciate the destruction of the asshole driver's property,) just makes it harder to see when they leave and is unsafe. It's a retarded fucking way to handle this situation. It's bullshit half assed, barely thought out vigilantism. This is why vigilantism is frowned upon and generally illegal, too many of you are too stupid to find a appropriate way to do it.
First off, you need to get yourself back to English class, as your grammatical errors are astounding. Secondly, you are obviously living in "shouldsville" or whatever stupid shit you said there (which was slightly funny), because you apparently think RUSSIA would even consider spending extra $$ to put in something to deter drivers from driving where they know they shouldn't. Thirdly, "people should fly planes into buildings"? And last, but certainly not least, it would be "AN appropriate way to do it.", not "a appropriate way to do it." Thanks for the lulz though. :D
So nothing to argue on the point, just bitching about grammar, got it. I don't edit on a phone it's a bitch.
They could dig a hole and stick a pipe in the ground. There are pipes and debris everywhere it's Russia. They could make a barricade with. This is a just a group of kids being high and mighty assholes disguised behind a just cause. And you're right there with them, amigo.
I'm on a phone.... Your point? I'd rather take the time, which you obviously have a lot of, and correct the mistakes, than look unintelligent. And no, nothing to argue about the point, since your argument was constructed of idiocy.
Also, you didn't read anything about this group did you? Just say you didn't, because everyone knows it's true.
Russia: Had enough, here's a sticker to point out my grievances.
Murica: Had enough, here's a sticker to point out my grievances.
5 minutes later
"Hey what are you doing with that sticker hands behind your head BANG BANG BANG! I said hands BANG behind PUT THE STICKER DOWN BANG BANG BANG.
Sarge they dead.
KILL ALL THE THINGS BANG BANG BANG BANG
Autopsy report. They died from licking stickers.
Country of the 'free'
chuckle
I couldn't be there, I couldn't do that. The second one of those self entitled bitches touched me with their car or their hands I'd smash the shit out of their cars invalidating the 'peaceful' protest.
I'd have to have my sister there , I love her to bits, but she's a 'proper northern lass' who I've seen knock out cold, a lot bigger men than me, I'd need her there for the ladies, because even though these women are pure bitches, I still couldn't bring myself to smack them upside the head. Fair play to these guys, I suppose YouTube money provides some restraint, it's hard to have the moral high ground as you're whailing on some womans head.
well it is just stupid to start it. But the video where a woman goes crazy and throws punches to the head, i would have told her, do it again and ill knock you out, or just lay her down on the ground...
I'm not professing to be an intelectual here, I'm being honest and saying that with the same provocation as these guys had, I wouldn't have been aso 'cool' about it.
Hoesty not appreciated in here? Fine then. I'd stand there and take it like a bitch, secretly hoping my sister was there, so she could dishout some actual justice. You happy now? Huh? huh?!!
Why don't these idiots get a job and leave it for the authorities to deal with?
Glad to see them get rolled over.
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Your line of thinking is why things suck.
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No one there is confusing it as a street, anyone with an IQ above 50 can tell that the giant 10 lane road full of cars is the street, and the tiny fenced off section of pavement parallel to that is the sidewalk. If you have trouble differentiating the two maybe you shouldn't be driving.
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You should look up Russian driving videos.
Yeah, I've seen that in X'ian too. But you know what? Anything goes in China.
I wish people drove as carelessly in the US just so I'd have a reason so go out and do this.
they do. Where the hell do you live?
Why is it always the women ....
Of course it's all women. Same in the US. They all are shit drivers with that same attitude. This is why I always make it a point to cut off or throw coins at shitty female drivers.
Dude what? Their other videos have men pulling guns and threatening to fight them. Those 3 crazy women sure do say a lot about millions of people, am I right?
Please.
wow women are such cunts
I would have just run those fucking idiots over. If you do this in WV you're just going to get a gun pulled on you.
Why you drive on sidewalk?
Driving on the sidewalk and hurting those who try to stop you is normal in WV? I dont think so bud.
Approaching anyones car like that is a bad idea, go try it. Hope you die
You're retarded lol. SIDEWALK.
And you'll crying to the police when you're sitting in jail on attempted murder charges, fucking dumbass. Stay off the sidewalks.
Yeah ill just tell them i was scared and panicked because it could have been an angry mob. Fuck off scrub
Your defense is that you confused a group of people asking you to not drive on the sidewalk that they are walking on for an angry mob? You're an idiot
I guess I could theoretically confused a sidewalk for a road too. Idiot. If you seriously stand with these people I hope you die
I 100% stand with these people and these videos have actually changed my perception of the Russian people for the better.
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Let's coerce and fuck people's day so they behave better socially.
Right.
These young fellows should be working instead of ganging up on people like miscreants and Behaviourism (ie positive/negative reinforcement) is an old ideology that needs to be laid to rest.
Positive/negative reinforcement is literally how we learn everything from infancy.
Notwithstanding the fact that infants and adults can't be compared in terms of "learning" and "complying", reinforcement is input, not output. And we learn from both input and output.
So no, reinforcement is not "everything" and it certainly doesn't even come close to articulate a sound theory on learning behavioural patterns. But hey, that's just what every linguist you'll ever meet will tell you.
Even in this case, which relates to misdemeanor domain, un-deputized citizens shouldn't be doing this. Just because they're "righteous". This isn't the fucking crusades.
Just because they're "righteous". This isn't the fucking crusades.
I'm not saying anything about this video, I'm commenting on your erroneous statement.
Notwithstanding the fact that infants and adults can't be compared in terms of "learning" and "complying"
Yes, they can. Baby cries and gets what it needs. Baby starts to smile and babble and gets more of what it needs. Adults simply employ more sophisticated means of obtaining what we want, though the basic premise is the same.
reinforcement is input, not output.
No, it's not just that.
A baby cries (output) and gets fed (input) this literally reinforces the behavior. As the baby grows, it smiles (output) and in turn gets smiles back (input). This reinforces smiling to get a positive reaction in turn. As the baby turns into a toddler and begins to crawl (output), it get praise (input). This reinforces the want to make more gains. As the toddler begins school and learning (output), it gets gold stars (input), reinforcing the desire to learn and get more praise. Alternatively, reinforcement does not only come from other humans. It can come from gains unrelated to human input or praise. The food tasting good reinforces the desire to eat more or eat that food again.
Seriously, do I need to go on?
Well no, I understand behaviourism and thank you for that brilliant example and I endorse that it's far too simple of an explanation for how people actually behave. And therefore far too simple a policy for people to enforce without being jerks and just ruin someone's day without altering their psychology in the least.
See, my point is only that police should be a government thing and that vigilantes are the worst kind of assholes. Righteous ones. The ones who enforce their morals on others with violence and with absolute disregard towards the constable. That's like, what you pay taxes for. I want to believe I pay taxes for a reason, and fucks like these just ruin it for me.
You can however go up to people and talk to them like normal people do everyday and try to convince them that what they're doing is reprehensible. You mitigate and you take the risk of facing a wall, you don't death squad and you don't advertise on social media like a good little like-whore.
I don't know, something about leniency.
Maybe there's no better way to get people to stop driving on the sidewalk. Also, behavioural psychology is still widely used in many fields, such as autism treatment. It looks like the people driving on the sidewalk in this video need some form of tangible negative reinforcement, because the law is not enough to prevent them from being complete dicks. Are you a sidewalk driver?
Everytime it's the same argument that I get when I get salty in a public-gallows-type of thread. "The Justice isn't good enough". So the answer to professionals not being good enough is un-deputized angry 20-somethings ? The solution is the death squad ? If there's something that I hate more than antisocial behaviour it is the antisocial-behaviour self-entitled police.
Isn't driving on the sidewalk anti-social behaviour?
If there's something that I hate more than antisocial behaviour THATS THE BAD GUYS IN THE VIDEO it is the antisocial-behaviour self-entitled police THAT4S THE GOOD STICKERMEN.
I DON4T LIKE THE BAD GUYS BUT THE GOOD GUYS ARE WORSE, essentially, because their mistake is greater. They believe they can change people for the better by bullying them. I believe that's manure and it has far more dangerous implications than someone being a physical obstacle where they shouldn't be.
Why do you think this is an example of bullying?
It's a gang, a group; an undeputized, organized coercitive action against individuals, not individual actions regarding individuals' own freaking business. As I was trying to explain, if you have a problem with a sidewalk driver get up in their face and try to be as politely firm as you possibly can, and if that fails make sure to report it to the authorities before you lose all hope and go full Road House while filming it to show your entourage how active you are as a citizen. Gives me the willies.
I think the act of driving on the sidewalk is a form of bullying, and pedestrians don't do anything for fear of being run over. I see the gang as a group of individuals stepping in where law enforcement has failed. And this is not some wild vigilante group - they told people not to drive on the sidewalk, and when people resisted they put a sticker on their windshield. There was no threat of violence, only from the drivers.
How do you know they don't work?
How can you not dislike russians after watching videos like this? Why are they such animals?
Only women got stickers, men didn't... Proof of the patriarchy and men's attempt to control and silence women throughout history!
so it's really "Act like a douche bag in order to stop a douche bag"
Fight fire with fire.
At least these douchebags were in the right.
How about the douche bag pedestrians that walk in the street?
Don't blame the drivers. Blame the city government for not building stoppers so cars don't drive on the sidewalk
Im not defending the drivers but....it kind if does look like a side-street, don't you think?
It's a street.
Well, as much as I hate douche drivers, this is straight out illegal. And fighting illegal activities with illegal activities is wrong. Photo the car, call the police, write official complaints, maybe even ask the driver to move first (while filming it for proof) -- it's fine, but breaking the law is not right.
All I see is a bunch of douchebags in this video (including the guys putting the sticker on) and this video gets all these up votes and comments.. reddit never ceases to amaze me
Says the guy with the username 'Irreversible_Rape'.
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utube loser thiefs here lol
these douchebag kids would get shot in my state, or at the very least beaten down with a bat.
A youth movement designed to enforce road regulations!? These kids need to smoke some weed and get laid. Why are they wasting their youth enforcing low-level regualtions for Putin... for free?
russia fucking sucks
I guess I'm the only one infuriated by this. These "vigilantes" (SJW's) filmed a few surprised people making them out to be scumbags. This isn't going to change anything, rather just piss off a few people who probably don't deserve this harassment.
The people who drive on the sidewalk are the equivalent of people who drive on the shoulder in bumper to bumper traffic. And the SJW's in this video are the equivalent to vigilantes on the road, who would pull in front of someone driving on the shoulder. Why does it bother you? It shouldn't. Let the dangerous fuckers drive where and how they want, as long as it's not a danger to you, it's not your business unless you're a municipality.
Let the flood of downvotes begin.
This dude blowjobbed for his SUV. ^
Le reddit armie saving the day xD
Fuck this is so autistic and cringy. If they gave me that sticker, I think I'd run these faggots over in an instant.
Well, the joke would be on you when you get caught for deliberately running over pedestrians on a sidewalk now wouldn't it? :)
It would be worth it.
The stop the douchebag people are douches too. Yeah, its wrong to drive down a freaking sidewalk, but maybe the signs are confusing; maybe once they get a heads up, they won't do it next time, but figure, might as well just go through; maybe there's an emergency and they're dealing with something; maybe they're not good with confrontation and the "stop the douchebag" people are just making the situation that much more difficult. Rather than asshole stickers that can't come off, a much better approach would be dealing with the problem before people even turned down the path.
This is fucked up, and reddit is applauding. Just vigilantism and privileging of traffic regulations over everything. A way of guising violence under a veil of legitimacy. Ok they've broken the law, but the answer is for the government not a jumped up faceless mass of Russian youth.
Disgusting.
I'm going to need you to back your car up please. Don't make me get the sticker out.
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Ok here's the deal. Some of those drivers are humble and go back on the road, others may be less humble or even assholes... THE POINT IS when I see comments like "I'm so happy they got punished" or "great job" (about a bunch of jobless idiots who spend their time on a very questionable sidewalk taking themselves for heroes who SAVE the poor victimized pedestrians) it just makes me think: when is the last time YOU've done something good for someone (not punish someone for something bad they have done)? Just like, if you're sill reading this, take a minute and think about something you could do for someone else. Nobody can change the world (like these guys believe they do) and make it better by punishing others. Punishment only brings frustration and pain, which leads to further hatred. I got kind of carried away but I hope it's not for nothing ;) cheers
That's a fairy tale. In a perfect world everyone would be motivated by rewards, but we don't live in a perfect world. There are plenty of people who will do things that are morally reprehensible unless there is some reason not to.
You can't prevent murder by offering non-murderers gold stars and cupcakes.
You're right! It is a model to follow. It's an asymptote ;) You will never achieve a good level without aiming for perfection
Way to be a bigger douche to ppl getting to work.
You would be one of them?
You sound like a Democratic supporter.
You make it easy to tell how smart you aren't. I don't think about democratic/republican, etc (you know there are more than two political parties, yes?) before looking at the information that's relevant to the topic at hand first. I'm not democratic or republican. I'm American.
you know there are more than two political parties, yes?
There are only two that matter.
It must be hard, being so smart.
It is a blessing and a curse.
These idiots are fucking stupid. I was sooo hoping a driver would not slow down and instead hit one at like 60mph or so. Teach them a fucking lesson.
teach them a lesson? you sound like a psycho
i hate those retards, white knights of sidewalks.
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You're such a big tough guy, I bet you can kick everyone's ass
Their faces when they realise they can't take the stickers off is amazing.
I like the death threats followed by "get a job".
I have a personal rule that I follow with regard to physical violence.
I never fuck with someone who has less to lose than I do.
Depending on how much you have to lose, you might be a very violent person.
This is mildly profound.
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the username! ha HA!
Wise words.
Or the richest, zen motherfucker in town.
That's why all those ex-cops with dead families are great for getting the job done.
cough Name Namerson
DAMMIT
I have plenty, but I don't mind losing it so I punch people with impunity.
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Stop trying to plug your shitty website
My statement doesn't preclude me from being a very violent person, but I'm not.
I'm a libertarian, meaning the non-aggression principle is foundational to my system of beliefs. I believe that the initiation of force is morally abhorrent.
Edit: Downvoted 5 times for thinking it is wrong to initiate force? I love you, Reddit.
I'd guess you're being downvoted for throwing a wildly stuck-up reply at a joke.
I think it's because you randomly threw out you were a libertarian; like a political position should judge what kind of action you should take in regards to violence.
Ever heard of morals? Those are what you should live by.
His response was too serious given the guy above was joking but Wikipedia: "The non-aggression principle (NAP)—also called the non-aggression axiom—is a moral principle of many popular strains of modern libertarianism." There are morals built into pretty much all political ideologies.
I would love to meet this kind of libertarian. Around these parts, they think it's okay to shoot you for looking at them funny and the government has no right to stop them.
It's frightening those morals aren't instilled in them regardless of political affiliation.
Is abortion morally ok? If you're a Democrat and you believe it's a woman's right to choose then it's obvious the answer is yes, if you're a Republican and you think abortion is literally murdering the fetus then it's obvious that the answer is no. Morals and political affiliation are intimately intertwined.
Yes, if you're both Republican AND you think that abortion is wrong, then you think that abortion is wrong.
On the other hand, if you're Republican and you think that abortion is ok, then you think it's ok.
The basis of libertarianism is the nonaggression principle.
I learned about nonagression before I learned anything about politics.
But I understand where you are coming from and i'm sorry you were downvoted to hell.
My imaginary internet points!!! I'll weep for days.
Seriously, though, thanks.
No thank you, you could have been that one guy that gets really upset and calls me mean names :((
Instead you were actually very kind.
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I think its pretty clear you were downvoted for being a douche about it. nobody really cared about your opinion in the first place, you were just kind of being a cock about it so people down voted you.
Lick my boots.
Hey man I was answering your edit. You thought people were down voting you for one thing, I corrected you. Most people thank others who clarify for them. You're wildly immature. For future reference when you say
"I'm a libertarian, meaning the non-aggression principle is foundational to my system of beliefs. I believe that the initiation of force is morally abhorrent."
Is douchey and obnoxious, not to mention it just reeks of high school wannabe know it all.
Im sorry you had to be this way.
I'm sorry you felt the need to pass judgment through your keyboard.
Fuck off.
I was again just explaining things to you. You could be a grown up about it and thank me
Obvious troll is obvious.
Do you have a social disorder? I'm being 100% civil and polite with you and you're cal;ling names. This is why people say you're immature. You understand all of that, right?
Obvious troll is obvious.
Im sorry you have to be like that. Id be embarassed as well.
I AM A LIBERTARIAN AND THAT MEANS I DONT KILL PEOPLE! ROWR!
obvious troll is obvious.
You're hardly trying anymore.
Man I never once tried to troll you. I dont think it means what you think it means. Are you always this uncomfortable when people point out your flaws? Its honestly really awkward. i wish you could understand.
See, there, that's better. If you let someone think they aren't being understood, it is a better troll. You are learning. I'm sure you'll get more practice though, don't worry.
Still not trolling though.. Ive completely lost track of why you think I am. You asked a question right? I answered it. It seems to me like you're just upset about being corrected and are intentionally being a jerk to try and cover up.
I take it you aren't done insulting me, then?
Im not insulting anybody, im just wondering why you took it as trolling and not actual criticisms. I mean, no offense, you were acting kind of like a spastioc. Hence being down voted 40 times. If you didnt want to know why you got downvoted why did you ask? Its a legitimate question Im asking you here. Nobodys trolling you, mate. Nobody is insulting you just to insult you. They criticized you because the dumb things you were saying were worthy of being criticized.
Guess not.
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Like, bags of dough? I don't follow.
you know how bags of dough are always slowing things down because of their viscosity?
Frickin doughbags.
Who doesn't know what a doughbag is?
I just don't fuck with people, but to each their own, I guess.
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Guess that's why I never fuck anybody.
That's good advice up until a certain point. But when you become so powerful and so wealthy that you know the Police Commissioner who would arrest you, the judge who would try you and the Governor who would pardon you... well... God have mercy on the poor person who screws with you then.
In terms of money or intelligence?
Username is relevant
Not me. I wanna be sitting at a position of "Fuck You"
Yea that's true. In the end, that's what it is all about. Unless, someone is defending their loved ones. That's is even more dangerous.
Not really. Their primary goal is to protect their loved ones but they're not going to suicide or risk jail to do it unless it's literally the last option. Those that have nothing to lose won't consider their own safety and thus all options are open to them.
Not sure about that... I cant think of anyone more ferocious than a protective parent...
To use an extreme example: A suicide bomber. A protective parent still wants to remain a parent at the end. Someone with nothing to lose (not just suicide bombers) won't care what they do to get at you. Jail, eventual death, whatever. No limits.
A protective parent is certainly a solid second place threat.
yeah, well, thats not common enough to be useful. Im talking about disputes between fairly normal people... or even criminals and normal people.
fuck with a guys kid and you best be on your toes..
People with nothing to lose isn't common? Wrong. I used the suicide bomber as a clear example simply because you somehow couldn't think of anyone more ferocious.
But anyone in that nothing to lose category (normal person, criminal...doesn't matter) is going to trump a parent simply because the parent has a secondary objective to still be a successful parent (living, not in jail, not getting sued and losing, etc) and would only resort to losing being a parent to protect their loved ones at the last moment, back against the wall, with no other options.
Someone with nothing to lose is going to wreck your shit with no holdbacks instantly because they have nothing at all to worry about.
Enough of the proud parent puffing up BS. Reddit has spoken with their upvotes and they clearly agree with /u/willsueforfood. I will put my bets every single time on the person with nothing to live for vs the person with kids. Anyone else vs the parent? Sure, the parent.
current count is 4 points for me and 2 for you poopy breath.
I'm arguing in favor of the person who has nearly 300 vs the person below him/her who has what? Then you joined in and pretty much didn't get anywhere.
Comcast customers trying to get back a promotional rate that they kept getting renewed since Bush was president.
People with nothing to lose may choose another option rather than killing.
This is fucking brilliant, just wanted you to know, how brilliant your comment was xD
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Congratulations, you've won the contest for least original comment. Are you going to call me a neckbeard, too?
Uh, if you insist? Neckbeard.
you forget your "le"
No, because that would be something you would use, not me.
I'm like glue? and you're like rubber? Is that what I'm hearing?
That's a good rule
Smartest thing I have heard all day.
That's the smartest comment I've seen!! Lol
Glad I'm rapidly approaching rock bottom. Maybe I should move to russia
Fucking with a person who has more to lose might mean that they have a lot of dogs in the fight... or they might have a lot of dogs that they could throw into the fight.
Someone kept stealing my pack of cigarettes off my porch. I installed a $3,000 security system to catch the fucker.
I'm the kind of guy who would say fuck it all and throw everything I own at fucking you up if it came to physical violence.
Bitch, I have the funds to take a vacation and the determination to sit outside of your house for weeks at a time until I learn your schedule....
......I think maybe I have some issues.
Meanwhile the job these people are performing helps society much more than the average occupation.
People spend 8 years getting PhDs in humanities and then see these guys and feel like they've done nothing.
I dunno man, I mean getting run over and killed by a douchebag isn't such a big deal is it?
Edit: clearly Reddit's sarcasm radar isn't aligned today.
Actually, no, they don't help society.
If they wanted to help society they would support the opposition during mayoral elections, so someone unrelated to Kremlin could reduce corruption in the city and spend the money saved on building new parking and public transport.
They are nothing but a PR group from the Putin Youth "Nashi" movement.
Ya, because they have a great job and money they should be able to drive wherever they want.
"I'm going to literally kill you." Spoken from a lone girl to a pack of lean guys.
"and how did you earn money for such a car?"
And then discovering her job is sucking dick
Typical libertarian ;-)
Yeah that is some really shitty sticker paper, or good, depending on whether you're using it or getting it used on you. either way, it was a great choice of sticker.
They used to have two types. One that was easily removable and one like the ones in the video for situations when people kept removing those and not budging.
Yeah, in the older videos they used some (for the purpose) far inferior stickers, that could just be peeled off in one piece. Glad they changed that. Btw., am I the only one who finds the at times a little creepy and reeaally dishonest friendliness quite unsettling? :/
I feel like that's just a combination of people using situation-defusing language and a translation of slavic cultural language.
They're clearly raising the stakes, then.
Next step - spike strips
"Finally our low-quality sticker manufacturing plant pays off Dmitri, I told you! Ten years ago I told you this day would come!"
-"Yes, but Vladimir, your dog... we had to eat your dog because we couldn't afford food."
"He died for the benefit of society, Dmitri. These stickers will change the world we live in."
I read this in the voices of the Vlad and Dmitri from GTA IV
Wow, that was very telling
It only makes sense. Everyone who used the easy to remove stickers all go run over.
I believe this conversation actually occured... but I think both of their names was Ivan.
I rarely laugh out loud at anything on the internet anymore. This did it for me.
... I feel like the dog would have become the shitty sticker glue.
If you check out their earlier videos, their stickers were so easy to take off. I think after that they realized they need a different sticker material.
You just have to slash the top layer of the sticker with a razor blade few times, that way it will only come off in pieces.
They manufacture sticker paper this way for a variety of reasons. Like car registration stickers, those will tear before they peel.
P E R C E P T I O N
Oh I love it! Especially how they made stickers out of that infuriating material, where it only tears into small pieces and you can never get it all off in one peel. It'll take hours for those assholes to get it off.... it's been a while since I felt this happy
I like the stickers...it's really annoying. But if they were feeling really lazy they just need a clearly labelled stinger strip, they can go home for the day after the first car ignores the sign.
You can get it off really easily if you pour petrol or lighter fluid or alcohol onto it. Won't be able to until they get home though.
I bet the blowjob princess in the suv doesnt know this though. Then again she might leave it on, it appears she has zero regard for human life
She'll just blow someone to get them to clean it off, or just blow someone and get a new car I guess.
brother, try goo gone or goof off. Instantly gone.
Razor blade works well too.
Nothing a little goo gone won't remove.
Heat gun and razor blade it'll come off in 5 minutes.
I bet I could get it off in 3 mins with razor blade only.
I'll do it in two with some nail polish remover and a towel.
I will do it with a box of Fiddle-Faddle and a rock.
Ya, well, I'll do it with a flamethrower and/or a rocket.
Me too!
that stupid girl "im going to kill every one of you fuckers" and whatnot.... always makes me laugh when some spoiled bitch pulls that threat out like it has any weight lol. what are ya gonna do, scratch me? most of the time it just ends up exactly like she did, just walking away while still being bitchy.
The stupid woman who thought water was going to do anything to the sticker made me jump out if my bed, start stomping my feet and started laughing hysterically
The parking tickets at my uni were stuck on with water soluble glue. You couldn't just peel them off but they came off easy enough with a bit of water.
As someone that has worked in the print industry at one time… Good luck removing those paper decals.
Can't you just use acetone/nail polish remover to dissolve the glue?
Yes. Very easily.
Won't a typical ice scraper do the trick? There would probably be residue.. but the sticker itself would be gone.
Maybe, but it'd be better to pour something on it that can dissolve the glue then just take the sticker off. No residue then.
Sure that would work to remove the paper, but the glue is what will be blocking your vision along with scraps of paper stuck to the window. My point was that it wasn't something that you can easily peel off the window. Obviously you will need tools and liquids to remove and just getting to the store will be a task in itself.
I'm just saying that ice scrapers are very widely found in cars as a precaution, so they could just use that immediately after getting a sticker on their car.
Did you really work in the print industry? If you did you'd know you can just pour some alcohol, petrol, nail polish remover, lighter fluid etc onto it and easily get it off. Lot of ways to dissolve that glue.
The only thing I wondered was how these people would drive away if they couldn't see out of their now blocked windshields. Makes it more dangerous when these hot heads get out on the road and hit someone else. If they had put the sticker on the hood I think it would have been better.
The voice of reason...
Could someone translate what the sticker says?
Translation at 1:15, "I don't care for anyone else, I drive where I please"
I use to work at a supermarket and we use to stick disabled awareness stickers on cars that wrongly parked in disabled bays. We were told to put them on the side windows but it was much more amusing to put them directly in the drivers vision.
When she went for the sticker, my instincts said "Oh, please don't be one of those stickers that just tears off in frustrating pieces", but then I was so happy in seeing these stickers have a good use. Pure gold.
They must use the same stickers they use on dvd, cd, game cases etc. It's impossible to get those stickers off easily!
Lighter fluid, petrol, nail polish remover, alcohol can all dissolve the glue and get it off in no time and leave no residue.
I was kind of hoping she's gonna pull out a Kalashnikov....
They must have learned from their earlier videos because people were able to tear them off quite easily.
Just came here to comment on that being by far the funniness moment. I thought the whole campaign was hilarious(ly Russian) but that part… lol!
Also: This is episode 17! They have so practice, apparently.
"Yeah, I need the crappiest paper sticker you sell, 100 of them, and I want this printed on it..." and why are the women the worst with their sense of entitlement, and want to get violent when you tell them you can't drive on the sidewalk, or take someone else's water!