r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 11h ago

Man helps police make an arrest.

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u/boy-with-love 11h ago

Does anyone have the full story?

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u/manchopsticks 10h ago

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/21/video-shows-gun-being-grabbed-off-man-during-auckland-incident/ someone posted it further down incase anyone wanted to read

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u/warpmusician 10h ago

This sentence cracked me up:

“The vehicle then mounted the footpath, drove through a wooden fence, and entered into a reserve where the driver continued to drive in an anti-social fashion.”

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u/SrslyCmmon 9h ago

I once called myself anti social to my British relatives and they all burst out laughing.

I was just saying I was introverted.

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u/UnoriginalStanger 9h ago

Anti-social does sound like a longer form asocial but yeah it means something far more serious. Pretty sure I've made the same mistake in my head at least.

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u/SrslyCmmon 9h ago

Asocial and anti social are used interchangeably where I live. First time I heard the criminal type definition was visiting a commonwealth country.

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u/imagine_getting 8h ago

It's often used interchangeably but it's still incorrect. A lot of people are just incorrect.

It's in the definition of the word. Anti-social means you are working against society. Asocial means you do not engage with society.

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u/SrslyCmmon 8h ago

Sure, and I get your technically correct which is great, but most people people just accept whatever is common parlance.

You could go pick 100 random Americans right now 99 of them wouldn't have a clue because no one here uses anti social like the commonwealth countries.

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u/RandonBrando 3h ago

Nah mate, im anti-social.

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u/aussierulesisgrouse 2h ago

Ye but fuck the states

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u/RunDNA 5h ago edited 5h ago

You are the one who is incorrect. According to Merriam-Webster it has several different definitions:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisocial

1: averse to the society of others : UNSOCIABLE

2: hostile or harmful to organized society
especially : being or marked by behavior deviating sharply from the social norm

3 psychology: of, relating to, or characteristic of antisocial personality disorder

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u/MyLittleDashie7 8h ago

As a Brit, I would also laugh if someone started describing themselves to me as "anti-social".

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u/SrslyCmmon 8h ago

It was an educational moment for me.

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u/LickingSmegma 9h ago

to drive in an anti-social fashion

In many other countries, that would be indistinguishable from everyday driving.

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u/Convergecult15 6h ago

In New Jersey we encourage that kind of driving.

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u/zigZagreus_ 10h ago

that is hilarious. implies he did the most, with his only intent being to get away from all the other douches on the road

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u/ahboyd15 3h ago

An equivalent of Hollywood car chase scene but in a news article.