This nation has devolved into Tragicomedy.
At any point in the past, most people would criticize “running from the police” but now it’s the most socially acceptable it’s ever been to cheer someone on.
ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike.
Submitted 1 day ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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F_State@midwest.social 1 day ago
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well these Meal Team 6 chucklefucks are not police.
Were they looking for this guy or did they just say to themselves “Hey he looks Hispanic, nab him.”
What the actual fuck?!
booly@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
He was circling on the bike taunting them, saying stuff like “I’m not an American citizen,” and the ICE dudes just tolerated it until the bike rider dropped his phone, and detected weakness and pounced, before the guy snatched up his phone and managed to ride away.
Tragicomedy is the best description.
madjo@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Apparently he had hurt their feelings by shouting “Fuck ICE” at them before this Benny Hill/Keystone Cops routine started.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 day ago
They might have ordered food, and thought they wouldn’t have to pay the tip if they arrested him.
rumba@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 21 hours ago
In USA for a lot of (unprivileged) folk that was always true, ppl could get in random unrelated trouble for reporting a crime & needing police assistance.
I’m glad I didn’t grow up fearing the police, like in an emergency, I would run to them, seeking/getting help.
After all, they are public servants, they work for & get paid by the people, they shouldn’t be controlled by politics & oligarchs.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That first guy that ran after him pulled something. Guess we’ll be paying for him to be “sick” for about 3 weeks.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’m tax striking I’m not paying for this shit
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sounds like someone turned into an illegal Mexican
Chivera@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Go tax exempt. We should all stop paying into the system
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Future pizza delivery guy outruns fascist enforcers sounds like an awesome low budget 80s movie but it’s not that much fun to actually live through
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’d start good, but then there’s be chapter after chapter of exposition about the Sumerian language.
DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
As someone who loves linguistics, you’re just saying that it starts good and then continues good. :-D
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who genuinely enjoyed Snow Crash from cover to cover and it makes me wonder if my media literacy is suffering
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 21 hours ago
So it improves.
Good.
Hard to find movies that do that nowadays.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Reminds me of the first chapter of Snow Crash.
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
There is Smokey and the Bandit which is another example of the irony of the south.
F_State@midwest.social 1 day ago
Smokey and the Bandito
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I don’t even understand what prompted them to start chasing him. So little of this makes any sense.
Are they just chasing random pedestrians?
rumba@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
They are allowed to racially profile now. Yes, if you don’t run in fear from them and your skin isn’t the right shade of pink, they will arrest you and figure out if you’re legal later.
This is 100% “papers please” nazi bullshit.
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Okay. So we’re at Slave Catchers stage of repeating the run-up to the Civil War.
Apparently I was too focused on Trans issues, that I missed this escalation.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
“Papiere, bitte”
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 15 hours ago
They are punk ass shitstains who think ‘if we charge at someone and they run away they must be an illegal’. Nevermind that anyone would flee at the sight of their ugly asses even if they weren’t in uniform.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
“LOOK! THERE’S ONE! GET HIM!”
That was the entire mental effort that went into it.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can tell the cowpoke in the cowboy hat is an expert tracker.
I’m sure this delivery guy was super dangerous, you can tell by the way he was out in public without lilly-white skin.
NGram@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Somebody needs to add yakety sax (aka Benny Hill theme) to it
Steve@startrek.website 1 day ago
It would be funny if it wasnt so horrible
derry@midwest.social 1 day ago
Thank you so much, I needed to see this
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This brightened my day, thank you
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This is incredible.
Curmuffin@fedia.io 1 day ago
Meal Team Six is *huff*-*puff* on the *pant* case!
krashmo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To be fair, although I’m not sure we need to be, each of them is probably carrying 60 lbs or more of military gear on their body. It’s pretty hard to run at full speed with that much extra weight. That info might come in handy in the future, so long as they don’t just start shooting if you run away.
SpookyLights@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
No, it’s not that hard to run at full speed with that kind of gear. It’s hard for these guys because they’re cosplaying
ReiRose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The one that makes me laugh the hardest is the guy that leans back as he runs fwd, with his weapon or something bouncing on his chest. Its so comical (he ends up far left when the cyclist gets away)
madjo@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I thought the idea behind a uniform was that it was you know uniform. who the hell wears a stetson as official uniform hat?!
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
These are the same guys that would cosplay special forces in full tacti-cool gear at Trump rally’s and counter protests.
Except now they’re getting a govt paycheck for their incompetence.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Dumbass Texans
rumba@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
I’m honestly surprised someone doesn’t start dressing like them and just infiltrate them.
klemptor@startrek.website 23 hours ago
Raylan Givens wannabe.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 21 hours ago
… multiple highly-trained ppl didn’t catch some dude pushing a delivery bike?
At some point it’s not even running away from ICE, it’s just like casually crossing the street away from a slow moving (fascist, for some reason) zombies.
onnekas@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Is this real? Why aren’t they all opening fire? I thought this is America.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 21 hours ago
Prob no bystanders to potentially get shot, they try to be efficient.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
They don’t care about bystanders, they just don’t want the bad PR.
hayvan@feddit.nl 21 hours ago
Skin not dark enough.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
They’ve been instructed to not kill the detainees until they get back to the office. Bad optics.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 22 hours ago
The cyclist has not done anything at all. It would not even be hard, but straight-out impossible to justify.
onnekas@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
It would not even be hard, but straight-out impossible to justify.
It would be so cool if that would stop police from shooting people.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
They’ve done it before lol
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If you aren’t protesting ICE and have a bit of a safety net and a plan on how to deal with these idiots … don’t go anywhere near the US Gestapo because you’ll be taken in and disappear.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 21 hours ago
Ban on foldable bikes incoming …
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
I think you mean radical leftist folding bikes.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 14 hours ago
All new bikes sold may only be able to steer right.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
At least this explains why my Giordano’s delivery was late.
RYS@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Nah, that’s the new trailer for GTA 6.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Ugh, don’t make me run!”
whereyaaat@lemmings.world 14 hours ago
Is there a database of ICE employees?
Asking for a friend.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Oh man, that other guy standing randomly in the way with his bike was lucky they didn’t decide to just get him instead. Then again that dude looked much whiter so maybe never was in danger…
F_State@midwest.social 1 day ago
No one is safe from the Gestapo
Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 day ago
*Gazpacho
33550336@lemmy.world 1 day ago
just an ordinary day in us
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
please don’t share videos from a platform that has a functionally broken video player
carlossurf@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Like a horror movie, but with a nice ending
FuCensorship@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Interesting how the first half of the original video is cut out…
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
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Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Okay if GTA is like this then I totally understand now. The way they turned around like pathetic NPCs 😂
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Nah, if this was GTA, more agents would have spawned in front of him just off camera, and plowed into him with their cruisers.
GTA’s crazy cops were started because of a coding bug. The game devs wanted cops to navigate to the player then brake, before hopping out of their cruiser to arrest you. The astute programmer has probably already seen the error here… The cops navigated to the player and didn’t start braking until after they plowed into you at full speed. Then once you were laid out on the ground, the cops would hop out of their cruisers to bust you. The devs forgot to add any kind of “brake before reaching the player” distance to the player’s location, so the cops would just run you down at full speed. But during play testing, the devs discovered that the players thought it was a lot of fun, constantly dodging the wildly homicidal cops. So they left it in, and GTA was born.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Who knew kiting worked in real life?
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ah cheers
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Apparently he said something like “fuck Trump”, and they got big mad.
takenaps@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lmao
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 21 hours ago
Solid example of why dutch style bikes are so nice.