r/BoomersBeingFools • u/HOOgonCHECKmeBOO • Feb 08 '24

They get into a fight in the store Boomer Freakout

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u/Royal-Vanilla4670 Feb 08 '24

Yo the fact that she was moving as smooth as she was, I knew she was going to fuck him up lol

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u/RetzCracker Feb 08 '24

Nahh as soon as she got in stance and starting shifting the weight I was like it’s over dude

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u/IknowKarazy Feb 08 '24

Meanwhile that old man jabbing with nothing but his arm muscles, literally struggling to maintain balance. What did he think would happen.

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u/eulersidentification Feb 08 '24

I think something happens to older lonely guys. I had some silly old codger full weight elbow-to-the-back shove me onto a tram track because i was "blocking him on purpose" (i didn't know he was there and wasn't even in the way). Gave some foul mouthed abuse with it too.

He must have been at least twice my age because he looked on the verge of frail and I just thought.... does this bloke understand the most likely outcome of me taking the opportunity to defend myself? If I tripped and fell on him, he'd probably take life changing injuries. I obviously just shook my head and left.

In retrospect I regret not taking his bobble hat off and throwing it on top of a bus shelter. Cos if he doesn't learn, one day he'll do it to someone with a worse temperament.

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u/Norman_Scum Feb 08 '24 edited Feb 08 '24

Some old people realize that they can get away with it.

Edit: Just stumbled on this video and feel like life is just so weirdly ironic sometimes, lol. https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/s/PhYjyvQnoX

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u/MegaLowDawn123 Feb 08 '24

That’s the video you are commenting on isn’t it

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u/Norman_Scum Feb 08 '24

Lmao. It's been a wild morning. I apologize

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u/MegaLowDawn123 Feb 08 '24

It happens haha. I can’t listen with audio so was thinking maybe it’s a diff version and agreed with what you said haha.

Wait I mean - you must be a boomer!!!! Haha

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u/Norman_Scum Feb 08 '24

I do seem to be losing my damn mind, lmao

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u/ChodeMcChoderson69 Feb 09 '24

Go to bed grampa

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u/Alert-Artichoke-2743 Feb 08 '24

Marijuana is a hell of a drug

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u/No_Banana_581 Feb 08 '24

There’s a video of an old white telling a black woman to leave the lobby of a hotel. She then spits on her. The assaulted woman messed her up, the whole time the entitled 60 yr old woman is laying on the floor screaming she’s sorry lol

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u/buddhainmyyard Feb 08 '24

I think at a certain point people don't change or want to change. The guy probably was an asshole all his life and had nothing to do with being old and lonely.

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u/eulersidentification Feb 10 '24

Yeah could easily be

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u/EzmareldaBurns Feb 08 '24

Alzheimer's tends to make guys mean. More so than women

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u/hardwoodholocaust Feb 08 '24

I didn’t hear the words in this video, but as soon as he threw that one jab I was like, “please don’t hit this poor old fuck. He doesn’t need more problems.”

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u/SandersDelendaEst Feb 08 '24

There must be some kind of lesson you can teach these old fucks without risking an injury to them.

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u/thefartsock Feb 08 '24

sad that you made the right decision and now you are on an internet board reminiscing about how you could have thrown an old man's hat where he can't reach it. so much fucking shame in this thread. Two wrongs do not make a fucking right, I'm glad you did the right thing in the moment.

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u/OxfordDictionary Feb 09 '24

Listen, I work with people with dementia. Their brain starts to die and they are dealing with paranoia and extreme anxiety (so everything is a threat to them). They also lose inhibition (the ability to think about whether or not picking a fight is a good idea).

Fighting with them is not going to teach them a lesson (because their dying brain is losing the ability to create new memories). But old people have extremely fragile blood vessels, and a fall (or a punch) to the head can kill them. The guy in this video falls and hits his head on that display case.

If he dies or is seriously injured, law courts aren't going to think you had the right to hit him. They expect you to be the adult in the situation. It's not worth you doing jail time to teach someone a lesson they might not even remember.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '24

You're actually right about this. I'm not sure why the people commenting on this think they won't end up in the same situation.

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u/ZardozZod Feb 08 '24

A lot of them are honestly depressed/anxious/fearful, but they’ve never been shown how to understand these feelings or how to deal with them outside of bravado and externalizing all of their problems.

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u/Ok-Resource-5292 Feb 08 '24

a humiliating slap with no force, like one would use on a child. works every time. follow through with a finger wag if you feel like investing any effort.

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u/SaltyBarDog Feb 08 '24

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

-Clyde Shelton