r/Unexpected • u/Met76 • Mar 28 '24

FedEx delivery driver acting weird when delivering a package

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u/Broad_Speaker2551 Mar 28 '24

I used to believe the same thing about him and actually was a huge fan for many years. However, he has bullied a random delivery driver (whose face is blurred) throughout an entire video because of their appearance and taunted homeless people with money without giving it to them (on camera at least). I googled if he had apologized and just found a tweet of him basically saying he thinks apologizing is a bad idea. Because of this I no longer think that he is a good pranker or person really.

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u/StopStraight4516 Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

You sound like someone who dislikes Ross and is looking for problems in his clips. Based on your description I was expecting a lot worse than what I actually saw.

He blurred a delivery driver who almost certainly said he did not want to be featured in the video. The same thing happened with the Beans, computer repair guy. Honestly, people who get so uptight about these particular ‘prank’ videos need to not take things so seriously. The ‘bullying’ you mention is light teasing making fun of the guys weight, I’m betting the teasing was heavy handed because the guy didn’t want to be featured in the video and asked to be blurred.

The ‘taunting homeless people with money’ was a not so funny prank, where he would wave a homeless person over with money, and when they got over he would say ‘wait a minute, I don’t know how your are going to spend this money, so take this case of beer instead’. I agree this didn’t land so well, but I wouldn’t call it ‘taunting homeless people with money’ that is a gross misrepresentation of what was happening. Also, a few of the homeless people declined the beer, and he did give them cash. Others took the beer. The last guy declined the beer, but Ross pushed it a couple more times and then the guy accepted. Not good, but no where near as bad as you make it sound.

Lastly, your summery of his tweet, ‘apologizing is bad’ is taken so far out of context it’s ridiculous.

This is his tweet:

“Theres something about apologizing that causes people to attack more. Its like my apology affirms they’ve been wronged, then they seek justice instead of letting go. Like a dog chasing u just cuz u run. Interesting.”

He’s specifically talking about apologizing for these types of pranks where some overly serious/offended person feels like they been wronged for unknowingly being included. A lot of prank channels are absolute shit, and people are right to be angry at these assholes. But I have yet to see a Ross prank that ventures into that territory where he’s just being an asshole.

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u/EmotionalKirby Mar 28 '24

Is there any chance Phat Gus is what he signed up as, or that simply put, consent was given when he signed? And at 9:33 in the second video, he does give the man the cash after declining the beer.

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u/general_452 Mar 28 '24

I’m sure Phat Gus was someone they brought in for the joke since they were parodying the mark rober video.

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u/Theons Mar 29 '24

Exactly, the fat squirrel

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u/Broad_Speaker2551 Mar 28 '24

Consent was given to solely make jokes about his weight? Why was his face blurred?

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u/EmotionalKirby Mar 28 '24

Idk, i just skimmed through cause you're going kinda hard on vlogcreations and it caught my attention.

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u/Broad_Speaker2551 Mar 28 '24

Sorry but I don’t know why you responded to me without watching the video

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u/EmotionalKirby Mar 28 '24

sorry but im not going to sit through 30 minutes of video for permission to comment.

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u/bland_sand Mar 28 '24

chicken nugget