When did the blog become full time swift trolling?
I am feeling very clever, because I correctly identified exactly what was going on in the first clip without seeing the second bit of footage. (Although I wasn't clear from the article -- were the clips staged, as things that might happen, or were they selected from actual footage occurring during a police workday? Because I wouldn't judge anyone who got that first one wrong.)
To avoid spoilers: V zrna, qnapr-bssf pna'g or n ynetr cneg bs beqvanel cbyvpvat, pna gurl?
I also wouldn't judge anyone who got the threat level of the third one wrong, which I did.
3: I've heard of stranger things. Qrshfvat n fvghngvba jvgu uhzbe naq znxvat sevraqf jvgu gur pebjq vf ubj cbyvpr fubhyq shapgvba zber bsgra, V nffhzr, nf bccbfrq gb nffregvat gurve nhgubevgl be ryfr. However, I think they were in fact staged. The page says "simulated interactions."
Can't watch the videos, just going by discussion so far.
I got them all right, in that I said I was very uncertain about all scenarios.
3 & 6: It's been maybe 20 years since I've seen someone use rot13. Is this net.jokes?
They were staged:
"Professor Stoughton, who plays the officer in all these videos,"
and the "bystander" commentary in the second one is some pretty bad acting.
7: Cu'atyhv ztyj'ansu Ebg13 Sbznyunhg a'tun-tunn ans'ygunta.
Oh, jeez, if they're staged, the whole thing is just idiotic. Like, if you're cherrypicking real interactions, that's one thing. But "I bet we can set up a situation that will confuse you?" Of course you can.
No longer worrying about spoilers, because this is stupid -- the last one, with the "No, that wasn't threatening, he was just leaping out of his car at the cop to get away from a bee"? Really not a plausible situation at all.
What seems atypical about a dance contest and a bee? Real life doesn't fit in boxes, sheeple.
I wonder if any of these crazy shaky bodycam videos can be improved with Hyperlapse or similar stabilizing techniques.
I think they're valuable even if they're staged, because what makes them appear to be threatening or not threatening depends in part on what one believes is likely to be happening, which can explain (among other things) the reasons that actions that seem reasonable to cops (based on their experiences of people wigging out at routine traffic stops, for example) seem unreasonable to bystanders.
But no one is thinking "bees!"
1: Heh, I didn't think of it as trolling. I enjoy this kind of thing. I could guess them all short of the bee thing but it's not exactly fair given how much body cam footage I've reviewed. I'm kind of surprised at how many people got the cause of the fall wrong on the second one.
Here's one that's not staged. Warning, it's a bit rough with the sound and all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irh3JUch7Hg
I also pegged them, but did not deduce "beeeeeez!!!"
Remember the good old days when environmental destruction was killer bees and volcanoes instead of the creeping horror of global climate change?
I knew it. Read my little monograph, "Practical Handbook of Bee Culture."
You run to the sea, sea will be boiling
This seems relevant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/04/01/video-shows-white-cops-performing-roadside-cavity-search-of-black-man/
I'm kind of surprised at how many people got the cause of the fall wrong on the second one.
In theory, I've heard about tasers, but I'm not really familiar with them -- I guessed the guy tripped because he seemed to be out of reach of the cop when he went down, and it didn't occur to me that there were ways to make someone fall down at a distance.
You need to watch more Three Stooges.
23: And I forget that not everyone is going to immediately recognize that yellow flash in his hand as they run. I think he calls out the standard warning as well. ("taser taser taser")
That's not SOP, it's because you have to summon the electric spirit by repeating its name three times.
"taser taser taser" does sound kind of boring if you're going to have a standard warning that you're about to use a taser. Couldn't you just yell "HADOUKEN!" or something?
"If our underwriter's actuary says the odds of you having a heart condition are low enough that when multiplied by the expected cost of a settlement, it's still worth the premiums."
So far my suggestions for a Pikachu shaped taser have gone nowhere.
I was just about to suggest the Team Rocket slogan, but got too lazy to look it up.
Pretty sure there's a robust fetish market that would buy 32.
Taser warning strikes me as a genre for which creativity maybe shouldn't be the highest priority.
I'm sure there's a fetish market for uncreative taser warnings, but probably not a particularly fun one. No offense, teo.
Isn't 36 basically in agreement with 35? Or should "uncreative" be "creative"?
I thought she was implying that there is also a fetish market for creative taser warnings, which is more fun.
I was, but I was both lying and making hurtful assumptions about what constitutes fun. (My phone now autocorrects "gin" to "fun," but I of course only like the former.)
Taser fetishists probably aren't as bothered by hurtful assumptions as most people.
The uncreative taser warning fetish community almost certainly centers around either a German or Terry Goodkind.
In some communities yelling "Rule 34!" three times is a taser warning.
35: "Violent criminal suspect, I choose you!" ZAP
When they can replace handcuffs with Pokeballs, that'll be interesting.