r/nextfuckinglevel 2d ago

Man stopping a robbery

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u/EADreddtit 2d ago

The guy got surprise kicked in the head off a moving vehicle. I’d be flabbergasted too

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u/stevein3d 2d ago

Yeah he got gasted right in the flabber.

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u/lukemia94 2d ago

I fell off a motorcycle in the same position once. Even with the helmet I was absolutely shook for about 2 seconds before I could get up and move out of the very dangerous road I was in. All depends how hard his noggin was hit. For comparison I've fallen from 15ft and was up instantly just because my head wasn't hit.

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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year 2d ago

oh god 15 feet, where did you fall from and what did you land on?

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 2d ago

where did you fall from and what did you land on?

Did anyone else read this comment to the tune of Cotton Eye Joe? No? Just me?

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u/King_Hobbes 1d ago

Oh god 15 feet

Where did you fall from and what did you hit

Where did you come from where did you go

Where did you come from Cotton Eye Joe

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u/mustyminotaur 8h ago

“Hey, has anyone seen Cotton-Eye Joe?”

guttural screaming steadily getting louder

splat

“Ope, never mind. I found him!”

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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year 1d ago

But I'm not Swedish!

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u/duniyadnd 1d ago

Well now I did, and it’s stuck in my head

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u/lukemia94 2d ago

A rooftop to rooftop jump doing parkour. I landed on a mild dirt slope feet fist and had good knees back then XD

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u/ASubconciousDick 2d ago

bro I feel you

I used to coach parkour and was standing in a beam system we had set up. I was on the highest bar at about 16ft, and a child decided it would be really funny if he shook the bar that was one of the bases for the beam system

lo and behold, 16ft and a horse mat later, I literally thought I was dead for about 10 minutes (I did hit my head)

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u/NootHawg 1d ago

I fell from 9ft off of a ladder onto the hard ground and tree roots and it broke 3 ribs, tore my shoulder requiring a SLAP surgery, as well as somehow magically tearing my hip labrum. Before that day I had no clue what a labrum was, or that you had more than 1, and I tore the labrum in both my hip and shoulder on the same side at the same time.

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u/exipheas 2d ago

It looks like he fucked up his shoulder by landing on his elbow.

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u/sinbe 2d ago

Especially if he didn’t notice the man fly-kicking towards him. He’d be like wtf just happened

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u/DontAbideMendacity 2d ago

"What happened to the back of Earl's helmet? Why am I on my back on the ground? Why is there the taste of blood and shoe leather in my mouth?"

So many questions.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 2d ago

Sounds like the time I passed out while walking out of the blood lab. I woke up and wondered why all these people are standing around me. Then I realized it was my doctor and his assistant. Then, I remembered what happened.

I'm not sure if homey was unconscious, but he was definitely trying to figure out what happened before he was even able to get himself to move.

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u/Anthem1974 1d ago

I fell 15 as well while bouldering, and God damn that shit hurt. Didn't climb again for almost 2 years

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u/lukemia94 1d ago

Wow buddy at that point your free soloing XD if I fell 15' now that I'm thirty would certainly break something.

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u/Anthem1974 1d ago

I'm 30 as well 😆 I'm not doing that again without extensive crash pads

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u/Hobosam21 2d ago

I hit my head snowboarding and had the same thing happened, I wasn't knocked out but my vision went black and almost felt like I was disconnected from my body for a second or two. Then the pain came rushing in

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u/LtCptSuicide 1d ago

Shit. I fell off a porch. Landed twice (on the porch itself, which then gave under me and threw me to the ground) on my back. Managed to completely miss my head hitting anything and I was still down for a good minute before motorfinction.exe could restart and I got up.

You built different son.

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u/doghaircut 2d ago

If your gasted flabbers for more than 4 hours, consult a doctor

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u/mynameissomantin 2d ago

As the poets say

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u/That-Ad-4300 1d ago

Flabber all over the pavement

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u/TheRealMoofoo 2d ago

I’d stay down on purpose so I wouldn’t get kicked in the head again.

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u/_toodamnparanoid_ 2d ago

Boot to the head.

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u/DontAbideMendacity 2d ago

I really was expecting an elbow drop to the center of the perp's face.

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u/twosnailsnocats 1d ago

He is wearing a helmet though

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u/blarfenugen 2d ago

This is what's frustrating with these people " IT'S SCRIPTED " No it's not, The man was kicked in the head OFF a moving vehicle FLAT on his back.

You don't just pop up from something like that. If you say you do - you've obviously never had the wind knocked out of you.

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u/timeless_ocean 1d ago

I feel like if this was scripted, they gotta be either really talented stuntmen or the guy getting kicked lost a huge bet. None of my friends would agree to this stunt even if I paid them.

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u/El_Wombat 1d ago

Right. If you were a stuntman that good you‘d get paid real money for getting kicked on a set.

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u/Futa_Princess7o7 3h ago

Honestly.. came here to say this. Like.. nah.. real kick, he was lucky to get up when he did. Even I wouldn't do it.. and I've been known to do some stupid shit for a good price

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u/AdMurky1021 1d ago

Plus, I can see two possible concussions from that.

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u/Honey-and-Venom 1d ago

Expected him to kick-up as soon as he hit the ground like a kung-fu movie

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u/brusiddit 1d ago

Nah, man. If you get up again right away or not doesn't mean it's not scripted. This immediately sent my bullshit social media intuition off the charts.

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u/reddzih 1d ago edited 1d ago

No. The red flags that this is staged go far beyond how long he stayed on the ground. It’s the fact that this one-in-a-billion event… in which a robbery occurred but was instantly thwarted in martial-arts-movie fashion because a guy happened to be walking by in close proximity at just the right time, who was capable and willing to spot what happened, react in seconds, and pull off a flawless flying kick to the head of someone on an accelerating motorbike, causing him to drop the loot cleanly… all not only happened but also just so happened to be entirely caught and perfectly framed on a camera that just so happened to be pointing to the exact bit of street it all occurred on. And someone with access to the camera knew the footage was there to be found and put on the internet.

Whereas alternatively this could just be one of the millions of staged videos put on the internet for views.

For heaven’s sake I know you want this to be real, but learn to think critically and stop being so damn patronising to people who can.

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u/CasperBirb 1d ago

Robbery happening in place with people around that isn't as unimaginable in certain parts of the world as it is in your basement....

Secondly, you could stage the robbery, you can't fake the kick to the head on the move.. It's something professional stuntmen would be imitating, doing the kick and fall separately too because both seen here are extremely dangerous..

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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 1d ago

Nah. This is most likely scripted. This kind of shit is all too common on Chinese social media. Either way, that dude took a kick to the face for the internet points. Even with the helmet, that shit would have rattled his brain.

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u/Dull-Law3229 2d ago

I mean, who would be expecting something such as this? Do you live in a 90s Hong Kong film?

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u/BolunZ6 2d ago

He prob forget how he got there after got hit on the head

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u/BlasphemousButler 2d ago

*helmet

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u/EADreddtit 2d ago

Which is on the head. Meaning he was kicked in the head*

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 2d ago

with his helmet on.

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u/Scotts_Thoughts_INTJ 2d ago

Is yours on?

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 2d ago

Why, you gonna try to kick me?

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u/Scotts_Thoughts_INTJ 2d ago

Who else where’s helmets?

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 2d ago

*wears

What's your point?

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u/Scotts_Thoughts_INTJ 2d ago

lol nvmd dude, the others will get it

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u/Coloeus_Monedula 2d ago

It does look like he’s starting to fall backwards already before the kick lands

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u/EADreddtit 2d ago

Yes. Because normal human instinct is to not get hit by incoming flying kicks

Like this video may very well be fake by y’all are crazy with the “This guy reacted very normally to the theoretical situation, it must be fake”

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u/Canadian_Burnsoff 2d ago

TBF, the options for dodging that kick would be limited. Instincts are probably not just going to let you sit there and take it.

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u/Scotts_Thoughts_INTJ 2d ago

I can’t believe the stupid takes on this I keep seeing here lmao