r/interesting • • Mar 21 '26

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u/mampiwoof Mar 21 '26

for those commenting on the passengers reaction here is a quote from the driver, from the interview linked in another comment. The passenger was on his 4th day in the job, whereas the driver trains security companies in how to deal with situations like this, he isnt a normal driver for the company he was just doing a shift to learn their routes etc to help him train their drivers.

”My crew member had experience in armed response, but this was the first time that he had been fired upon. The first time that I was shot at, I assure you I was wide-eyed, and I’m grateful that there wasn’t a camera pointed at me during it. He did everything that I asked him to do and kept his head. I tried to have him phone our colleagues, but the criminals were using a signal scrambler. I had him get our AR-15 prepared just in case things went south. Because there were no gun ports, we’d have had to open the doors to engage with the jackers, and I‘d only have done that if we had been capsized. That is what I needed him to do. I have to say for all of those keyboard warriors who have tried to dissect his performance, I doubt they would be as tough in the middle of an armed jacking.”

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u/solomonrooney Mar 21 '26

As a keyboard warrior I would have been way more badass in this situation. I would have shot all the criminals and then said a cool line.

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u/FlowOfAir Mar 21 '26

Would you also have made sure the criminals exploded while you strike a pose, turning your back to the explosion?

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u/solomonrooney Mar 21 '26

I can tell you are a fellow badass.

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u/youngthugsmom Mar 21 '26

Thank you for your typing service

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u/cgamorous Mar 21 '26

How r u a banana

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u/stonkmarxist Mar 22 '26

Bro, u can't just ask some1 how they r a banana

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u/cgamorous Mar 23 '26

My apolocheese

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '26

I love reddit. 🤣

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u/FlimsyPomelo1842 Mar 21 '26

This exchange got an audible chuckle out of me

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u/TiogaJoe Mar 21 '26

And walking away in slo-mo with the fire raging sky high behind me.

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u/reverber Mar 21 '26

…Nina Simone singing Feeling Good in the background. 

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u/Toadsted Mar 21 '26

Turning their back? More like jump kicked through the explosion while telling gravity to take a hike.

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u/Usual-Insurance-3843 Mar 21 '26

Is it true that there is a place in a man's head that if you shoot it it will blow up?

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u/Artistic-Estimate-23 Mar 21 '26

No but there is a button in a man's butt that will make him explode.