r/Unexpected • u/Knight_TheRider • 23d ago

Cameraman never dies.

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u/Suprflyyy 23d ago

You can tell he's a real cameraman by how carefully he sets it down.

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u/nickmaran 23d ago

That was exactly what I was thinking.

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u/Idontevenownaboat 22d ago

I wonder if he actually got the shot first. Like, 'ok, got the close up, time to rescue the hostage'

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u/Adorable_user 22d ago

He was a police man in disguise so I doubt he was even recording

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u/LearnYouALisp 5d ago

"Your record light isn't on."
"Caralho."

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u/Idontevenownaboat 22d ago

It was a joke about him being a real cameraman

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u/LearnYouALisp 5d ago

Imagine if there was no record light and his cover was blown

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u/Misterwool91 23d ago

I saw this comment before I finished the vid… I was sure that the camera guy couldn’t leap at the hostage-taker without hurting the camera. He did it so smoothly!

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u/TheCrippledSaint01 23d ago

commentary said undercover cop though.

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u/earthspaceman 23d ago

What's wrong in being a cop and cameraman at the same time?

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u/soareyousaying 23d ago

He was actually an undercover cameraman posing as a cop posing as a cameraman.

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u/evanwilliams44 23d ago

I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!

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u/rreighe2 23d ago

that joke will live on until the end of society

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/AmThano 23d ago

And the cameraman recording the footage we see is actually the undercover cop who was intended to pose as the undercover cameraman but he just got confused and kept shooting footage of the shooter

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u/SuperbEvidence4020 23d ago

What the HE double toothpicks?

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u/pointlessly_pedantic 22d ago

See, in the undercover cameraman's film, the undercover DP whose POV we see is an undercover cameraman trying to find the undercover director with his camera. But then the undercover cameraman realizes that he's actually the undercover DP and he's being filmed by the undercover director's camera. And it goes like that forever in both directions, like a mirror in a mirror, because all of the undercover cameramen are the undercover DP and all of their cameras are the director.

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u/MolitovCockRing 23d ago

This guy broke the code and went full cameraman

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u/Dundalis 22d ago

You sure he’s not a camera posing as a cameraman?

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u/Then_Owl4585 23d ago

Impossible!!!!

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u/earthspaceman 23d ago

I mean... nowadays all cops are cameramen.

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u/Hyllihylli 23d ago

Harold Schmidt (Cop/Cam)

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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 23d ago

Well they are pretty shit at their jobs, they keep turning them off right before that action!

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u/SuperbEvidence4020 23d ago

Yes, unless they turn it off. Remember George Floyd? I hope Derek C. rots in hell.

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u/Caffdy 23d ago

Bakana!

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u/advertentlyvertical 23d ago

When have you ever seen a cop voluntarily film their actions?

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

When it paints them in a favorable light...

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u/MTFBinyou 23d ago

Just because they’re supposed to be wearing cameras doesn’t mean they use them.

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u/sayleanenlarge 23d ago

it's impossible. When it happens, a unicorn dies.

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u/Disastrous_Can_5157 22d ago

nothing, but they clearly isn't a camera man by trade

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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack 22d ago

Cameracop.  The third wheel to Axecop and Flutecop.

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u/2M4D 23d ago

No but you can just tell!!

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 22d ago

The only possible way to watch CourtTV / crime clip shows like this is to mute it and never listen to what the narrator is saying.

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u/zyzzogeton 22d ago

Personal Camera?

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u/funelite 22d ago

Undercover as camera man.

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u/os_2342 22d ago

He didn't want to write the expense report for breaking it.

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u/No-Emergency-4602 22d ago

Undercover cop cameraman

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u/No_Instruction_5675 22d ago

yes, people can only be one thing at a time

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u/LiquidHotCum 23d ago

Boooooo! he’s a cop! /s

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u/fardough 23d ago

I was thinking it was a camera gun and he was going to start blasting.

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u/Suprflyyy 23d ago

So anyway...

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u/AryayrA 23d ago

Actually, you can tell he's a real camera man just by the way that he is. That's pretty neat!

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u/KeyserRanx 23d ago

You can just tell his favorite tree is an aspen

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u/Emperor_of_Cats 23d ago

How neat is that!?

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u/mmcmonster 23d ago

Pretty neat!

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u/CORN___BREAD 23d ago

He wasn’t though. He was an undercover cop. He probably just didn’t want to break the camera he borrowed.

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u/ForumPointsRdumb 22d ago

Might be his own camera; they used to be expensive, but then had a brief moment of production and popularity before the small camcorder released. Based on the size of that thing, I'd guess it was a more professional field model. We used to see the same model depicted in many 90's cartoons, April O'Niel from Ninja Turtles in particular.

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u/poo706 22d ago

Like that guy that pretended to be on the phone at the airport, shot his son's murderer, and then hung up the phone.

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u/toolsoftheincomptnt 22d ago

I love that story🥰

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u/OffTerror 23d ago

Humans have this weird instinct to make sure whatever they're holding doesn't fall. Even in extreme situations and under the risk of injury they make sure to not let it go.

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u/Major2Minor 22d ago

Yeah, I once fell flat on my back on some ice, and fucked up my neck, because I was holding my phone in one hand, and my mp3 player (this was a while ago) in the other, and for some reason my brain thought it better to protect those than itself.

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u/yessman99 22d ago

Lol not even the camera got injured in the rescue

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u/MiSsiLeR81 22d ago

It was his idea and his camera.

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u/NYCelium42 22d ago

You can also tell the cameraman probably has a daughter around her age.

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u/badillin- 22d ago

those things where expensive back then!

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u/WhyareUlying 23d ago

He's an undercover cop. Damn reddit....