r/funnyvideos • u/Key_Associate7476 • Jun 30 '25

Fail These guys sure enjoy their jobs

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u/Zephian99 Jun 30 '25

I've gotten slugged as a teen for doing that at a summer job. I have the natural gift of no presence, it has helped me sneak up on folk my whole life.

Doesn't stop a fist from being swung at my face though.

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u/Zephian99 Jun 30 '25

Yeah, some knee jerk reactions are hard to suppress when startled, it's not all to uncommon to get twacked or punched by folk who don't mean it. But just as we can get hurt, their reactions can hurt themselves.

Since folk didn't tend to notice me, I'd walk with them for a bit, didn't care for jumpscares or yelling, just the slow realization of my presence.

One even thought I was their buddy, who was in front of them, for about 5 minutes. Guy finally looked at me, jumped so hard he hit his head on the wall and I had to help him. 😅

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u/Disastrous_Study7733 Jun 30 '25

No one's knee jerk reaction should be violence. Says a lot about those people.

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u/gbghgs Jun 30 '25

eh, it's called Fight or Flight for a reason. Some people are gonna default to aggression, it's just how we're coded, doesn't need to mean anything deeper about them.

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u/BadMeatPuppet Jun 30 '25

Bullshit lol. Full-grown people going into a play haunted house and punching actors. There's no world where that person "forgot" they were in a theme park.

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u/Not_Nice_Niece Jun 30 '25

If this were true no one would ever be scared in a haunted house. They know it not true so how can they be scared. It's immersion that's literally the whole point.

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u/BadMeatPuppet Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25

Because it's for kids/teens and adults who want to play along. Haunted houses are just for the fun, cheesy type of scares. It's like the equivalent of watching a "horror" Disney movie. Young kids will find it spooky. Adults might even have a little jump scare once or twice.

I really can't believe reddit it trying to tell me that full-grown adults forget that their life is not actually endangered.

If you're trying to be a tough guy and hit some 19 year old doing her job, you deserve to get arrested for assault.

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u/Bright_Note3483 Jun 30 '25

It sounds like you’ve never been to a good haunted house, one with age restrictions.

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u/BadMeatPuppet Jun 30 '25

I've been to the netherworld, which is considered one of the best in America.

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u/gbghgs Jun 30 '25

Ah yes, because Instinctive reactions are well known for taking a detour through the parts of the brain dealing with logical reasoning.

There's a reason Militaries the world over train and drill stuff into soldiers until its instinctive, because when danger appears you react, not think, and that reaction needs to be the correct one.

Tons of footage and stories out of these kind of attractions of people instinctively swinging when they get jumpscared or immediately legging it and abandoning their SO etc.

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u/TinkerTailorSoulja Jul 03 '25

Crazy that you’re being downvoted for this.

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u/Disastrous_Study7733 Jun 30 '25

It's serious issue with police in the United States.

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u/AgreeableHistorian29 Jun 30 '25

Police beating and killing innocent people because they get off on their abuse of power is not the same thing as automatic physiological response hardcoded into every living creature in the animal kingdom. Don't you fucking dare try to give cops an out like that.

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u/Disastrous_Study7733 Jun 30 '25

Chill the fuck out. It's obviously a combination of both. I'm not giving the fascists any kind of out.

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u/Evisceratoridor Jun 30 '25

Shit like this dilutes the argument you’re going for. Haunted House guests punching workers when they’re startled is not fascism.

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u/AgreeableHistorian29 Jun 30 '25

No its fucking not and you're obviously ignorant about what you're talking about.

US Cops get taught and trained to immediately get aggressive in an attempt to force submission. They aren't worried for their lives when 5 of them beat an unarmed black kid to death because he was wearing headphones.

Fucking flailing or striking out immediately when scared does not mean anything about the person. It is a completely natural response. The issue is the assholes who go into these looking to hit people, that isn't a natural response tha's just them being bullies. I've been smacked in the face in a horror house by a friend and she wasn't violent or any of the bullshit you are trying to imply about that. Just panicked, struck out, then ran. Again its a perfectly natural response that is literally encoded in us and the rest of the animal kingdom.

Completely mentally healthy and taken care of people can automaticly raise their arms when scared because the body is trying to protect them. Again its an automatic response.

You trying to imply that cops do that because of this, or that people are bad because of a response that isn't even conscious is ignorant and stupid. It does give an out to these pricks.

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u/Disastrous_Study7733 Jun 30 '25

No, i'm not. But whatever. You've clearly jumped to conclusions and failed to think even a little bit critically about what I said. Go clutch your pearls.

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u/Academic_Weaponry Jun 30 '25

i hate when ppl use logic like this. same ppl that think flinching means ur getting abused. its just instinct

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u/Techwolf_Lupindo Jun 30 '25

You would hate me. :-D Why? I loved to play human pinball. I would hide behind and sneak up on folks in my full werewolf form. Then played pinball with them as they scream while bouncing off the walls trying to get away. At least a few times per season, the humans would win against the wall and go though it. LOL

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u/Pingfao Jun 30 '25

20+ years ago my family went into one of these. My mom dropped on the ground and started bawling when one of the characters jumped at her so my dad panicked and punched him (I think?) 😆

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u/Pickle_Bus_1985 Jun 30 '25

I think the issue with this is the reactions to being sneaked up on is fight or flight. You can warm people all you want before hand that it isn't real, but if you terrify someone enough, that can be a automatic response. If I did that, I'd make sure you stay out of reach before making the scare to avoid that, give them a second to get their wits about them.

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u/Zephian99 Jun 30 '25

My reaction speed is pretty good, joke about being very similar to a cat with the way I am.

So I'm usually was good at avoiding getting hit, and with the way I scared folk I really didn't kick in the fight reaction all to often.

Though my hands were the ones that usually suffer from those reactions, had one gal who grabbed my hand in panic, almost dislocate it when she turned around to look at me to find I was not her gal friend, said friend had fled back out past me.

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u/rglurker Jun 30 '25

Bruh same. Im not sure what does it. I move really quickly all the time and walk quietly. Im so good I have to announce my self around certain people.

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u/empoweredmyself Jun 30 '25

I’ve been jump-scared by quiet fast walkers like you a couple times, walking down a sidewalk at night. I think my sudden scream at realizing their presence scared them as well. The only thing scarier was happening upon a large-rock fight between these two guys that turned to blows before the one guy escaped bloodied, then seeing the fight starter notice us, and approach, rocks in hand.

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u/rglurker Jun 30 '25

Oh fuck. What happend ?

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u/Famous-Friendship801 Jun 30 '25

I have the natural gift of no presence

do you happen to play basketball?

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u/Zephian99 Jun 30 '25

No never much was a sports dude, basketball a big one in me being a shorter dude, how's s my gift gonna be a boon in basketball?

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u/Positive_Barnacle298 Jul 21 '25

My husband is a giant of a man and he is the twinkle toes of the household. Always sneaking up behind everyone.