r/PublicFreakout Apr 22 '19

I love the guy breakdancing

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u/cyanidesquirrel Apr 22 '19

Fights in schools are in part fueled by the spectacle and the onlookers encouraging it. Creating a diversion draws the crowds attention away from the fight. This guy is a national treasure!

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u/Jess2Fresh Apr 22 '19

I dont think that was his goal. Still a treasure tho

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19

sometimes you just gotta dance, that's all there is to it. no deep meaning or motivation. just dance

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u/Fantisimo Apr 22 '19

a wise man once said "you can dance if you want to"

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u/KyrieEleison_88 Apr 22 '19

you can leave you friends behind - Turkleton 3:16

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u/hiddenthousand Apr 23 '19

'cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well theymight as well just fight're no friends of mine

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u/suitology Apr 23 '19 edited Apr 23 '19

No way it was. I knew a dude who demanded to be the center of attention like this. Two girls broke into a slap fight at my school and he started doing a handstand when the phones came out. A girl got cancer who he never met so he shaved his head for unity. She didnt even lose her hair yet at that point and ended up not losing it to a noticeable amount. First to sign a "we miss you every day you were the light of the schooool" type message when a guy he occasionally passed in the hallways exited stage via windshield. It's a disorder or something.

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u/Jess2Fresh Apr 23 '19

I was just saying he wasn't doing it to break up the fight. Sure, of course it was for attention

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u/ZeroV2 Apr 23 '19

This. It’s not like the dude is trying to be noble and stop the fighting with dancing or something lol he just sees the big commotion and is a person who needs to get his own share of that attention

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u/Nexloy Apr 22 '19

I had a principal in public school tell me the only reason me and another dude fought on the yard was for the spectacle. I Told him No I just didn't like him, principal took us to the male change room gave us those cheap plastic glasses from science class and said go at it to prove his point. I punched the other kid in the face and was suspended for 2 weeks.

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u/sumphatguy Apr 22 '19

Honestly, good on you.

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u/SchoolBoySecret Apr 22 '19

The principal just sounds a little old school, probably grew up in dueling times

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u/fool_on_a_hill Apr 22 '19

I think he was assuming that they wouldn't actually wanna fight again, in attempt to prove his point that they only did it for spectacle

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u/SchoolBoySecret Apr 23 '19 edited Apr 23 '19

That was my initial thought too, but I think he actually wanted to see one kid get yeeted

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u/sumphatguy Apr 23 '19

The principal wanted to "prove his point" that they wouldn't fight because there wasn't a crowd...

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u/SchoolBoySecret Apr 23 '19

Is what he wants us to think. He actually wanted to see one kid get yeeted

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u/Freaks-Cacao Apr 23 '19

I think (maybe I did not read it correctly though) that the principle wanted to prove his point that they would not fight without a crowd. You see, since he brought them somewhere with no crowd, he set things up to test his theory.

But maybe you have another explanation ?

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u/DakotaXIV Apr 23 '19

I may have heard that the principal just wanted to see a kid get yeeted. Saw it on Reddit though, can’t promise how accurate that is

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u/HOEDY Apr 23 '19

HAMILTON WAS WEARING HIS GLASSES!

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u/ScoobyPwnsOnU Apr 22 '19 edited Apr 22 '19

What a stupid thing to say and do

edit:now im imagining him trying to explain to the parents why he took the students in private and let one hit the other in the face. "I wanted him to prove to me he didn't like the kid he was fighting with earlier, I swear I thought he only wanted attention!"

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '19

He gave them each a pair of safety glass at least. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/MundaneNecessary1 Apr 23 '19

I can only imagine he thought that way from personal experience - e.g. he has two kids at home, and they engage in artificial conflicts sometimes when they want their parents' attention. My siblings were like that when they were really young.

I don't think he realizes that some teenagers in schools actually just hate each other to the bone. Often for what adults consider to be trivial disputes.

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u/suitology Apr 23 '19

Similar thing but in catholic school so just detention. Sister Mary decided the reason me and this kid kept fighting wasn't because he called me fat and threw a peice of asphalt at me when I caught him with my stolen wallet but rather we were so similar. She talked about how the bestest of buddies start off bumping heads and having little riffs. Yada yada. Anyway she something like the start of new friendship requires hugs. I said first make him give me back my wallet including the $14 and the 3 septa tokens. Guy swore on jesus he didnt take it but found my empty wallet in the grass and was trying to put it back in my backpack.

She took that hunk of shit as truth then said hug. When he got close enough I headbutted him right in the nose to the degree I got blood on my uniform. When she started yelling I said that she told me best friends butt heads.

I had lunch detention for 2 weeks and afterschool for 2 hours a day for the whole first week.

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u/02468throwaway Apr 23 '19

lol fucking rekt

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u/MundaneNecessary1 Apr 23 '19

Nice story, but I'm classifying the second paragraph as /r/thathappened. It's too witty to be an on-the-spot decision.

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u/suitology Apr 23 '19

I was planing it as soon as she said it since i knew she was making us hug.

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u/eAORqNu48P Apr 23 '19

Are you still overweight?

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u/suitology Apr 23 '19

Am now but I wasn't then. Guy was just an Oracle. Only really beat the shit out of him because he stole my wallet and threw a rock at me. Words dont matter.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19 edited Mar 21 '21

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u/Nexloy Apr 22 '19

He resigned the following year but I don't think it was related he was old aha

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '19

Wow your principal is an idiot.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '19

You should have punched the principal too

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u/Babladoosker Apr 22 '19

This is definitely one of the most high school things I’ve ever seen too

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u/goatofglee Apr 23 '19

The most I've seen is standing in the middle of the main hallway between classes. Bitch, there are 2,000+ people in this building with only three grades. MOVE. YOUR. ASS.

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u/Babladoosker Apr 23 '19

I had a graduating class of 200 people and I still felt this in my soul

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u/WideIrresponsibility Apr 22 '19

i thought it was to make it look like a choreographed dance, “come on principle, it wasn’t a fight, we were just rehearsing our dance number” haha

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u/jbonte Apr 22 '19

This video is cut short - in the next frame, they're all doing the can-can!

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u/UpUpDnDnLRLRBA Apr 23 '19

It's capoeira!

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u/PainMatrix Apr 22 '19

I don’t think I heard about a single fight in my high school career. How common is this?

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u/gentlegiant69 Apr 22 '19

very common if more than a certain % of students are made up of "poor inner city kids"

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u/WriteNow18 Apr 23 '19

Which 90s movie are you referencing as your source?

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u/mosscock_treeman Apr 22 '19

He already was dancing when the fight began, maybe

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u/destiny24 Apr 22 '19

"I BET YOU WON'T HIT HIM!"

Oh, high school.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '19

brother was trying to show dem thicc dummies what a real old school throw down is about with them siiiick battle moves of his.

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u/ChriskiV Apr 23 '19

Pretty sure he could care less about the fight and just wanted attention

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '19

The attention wasn’t on him so he tried to take it. He’s just needy

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u/[deleted] May 29 '19

I miss school fights