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Found the only good cop. Too slow to catch you but still doesn’t shoot.
Hey…
How many good cops does it take to change a lightbulb?
I’ll let you know when a good cop changes anything!
Good on that police officer for not using deadly force.
wow, exactly how one would run away from a cop in a computer game; run so that he follows you then once far enough run back and get your bike
I thought he was going to get in the police car and drive off GTA style for a second
The bike guy seems to have watched Zombieland.
Wtf is going on :))
Look, we’ve gotten to the point where without backstory and evidence, police in the United States don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt, so until I find out otherwise, I’m not even remotely disappointed that the guy defeated the police officer.
In the country where I live, cops retire when they get old.
At least he didn’t get shot
Looks like the cyclist is white, so the cop might have faced consequences for murdering him.
Looks like the cop was trying to pepper spray him while he was fleeing.
More like taser, no?
No… It was pepper spray. Did you not watch the video?
After pixel peeking I agree on pepper.
But I wasnt (and still not) not familiar with the way cops hold pepper vs a taser so …
Now you see why they shoot in the back. Fat fucks can’t keep up.
The cop runs like when I try to run in my dreams
My cat doesn’t seem to be able to catch anything in her dreams either from the way she moves and the noises she makes. Happens to the best of us, I guess.
You have just made me realise that I am an incompetent runner in my dreams. Like I’m trying to run through jelly. Not saying I’m a good runner by any means, but not as bad as I am in my dreams.
It’s a common experience
I once told somebody about a recurring dream I have where I can’t control the speed of my car. Apparently your brain is fully aware that your legs aren’t responding to commands and it translates into your dreams.
In your case, not being able to run because your sleep cycle is deliberately paralysing your legs
I used to have dreams where driving was very difficult because the pedals would be positioned awkwardly close. It pretty much defied spatial geometry because it wasn’t like there was space behind them for my legs, they were just really close with the wall right behind them but it was only hard to access and manipulate the pedals; I still somehow fit fine into that position.
I can’t steer the car in my dreams because I can’t lift my head up to see over the dash and I can’t peel my eyes open more than slightly to see where I’m going
He literally used video game kiting strats to pull him away from the bike so he had enough time to sprint to it and mount it.
Hate to break it to you, but kiting was a thing before video games.
But yes that is also where I learned the concept.
So this post got me curious to the etymology of the term. And from what I’ve been able to discern, the term seems to in fact originate from gaming.
I mean, obviously the tactic pre-dates recorded history. But ‘kiting’, in regards to the term itself, doesn’t seem to be a thing before video games.
It’s funny because we seem to retroactively assign the term to ancient military tactics. I doubt they called it kiting. They’d probably call it ÖRGÛLŸK, and every Mongolian worth their salt would know how to perform flawless ÖRGÛLŸK.
Didn’t Larisa ÖRGÛLŸK play Alex Mack?
ÖRGÛLŸK
and now they sell them to anyone at Ikea.
They’re delicious and cheap, I don’t care if they have horse meat in them.
ÖRGÛLŸK
The fighting Uruk-hai!
Yeah i wasnt trying to say that word kiting was old, but for sure the action is old. Im there are predator animals that do it with poison or exhausting their prey before going in for the kill.
No, for sure. It was clear what you meant.
Apologies if my comment came across as “um ackshually”. I just meant it in a “TIL/interestingly enough” sorta way.
But it gained widespread knowledge worldwide as a tactic thanks to RTS.
Ask a kid what kiting is, and they won’t refer to Genghis Khan.
…lol I’m trying to decide if you’re informing me that kites predate video games, but also I find it hard to believe that you didn’t know what a kite was until you played video games.
Kiting, a verb, not kite a noun. Kiting is the acting of moving away from an enemy while they chase you.
I looked up the etymology on “kite”, and it’s quite interesting. Apparently, its original use was to describe a hawk whose call sounds kind of like “kite”. Then it was used more generally to describe all birds in that family.
The kite toy was named after the bird, because the bird tended to try to sit on some wind while hunting, so it was basically hovering like a toy kite.
The action of leading an enemy around is named after the toy kite, because a kite in flight is always the length of the string away from the person flying the kite. So, like if you tried to run from the kite, it would always be the same distance away chasing you. You’re leading the kite around on a string. And so you would kite an enemy in the same sense.
So wait…I was joking, but you’re literally saying that “kiting” before video games is just from actual kites. Lol like no shit, why did I get downvoted?
Because the term is from video games, meaning to lead an enemy around as if they were a kite that you are holding. Nobody is saying kites are older. And yes, you can say “let’s go kiting” and mean playing with toy kites in a field, but that is not the definition of the word that is being discussed here. The guy kited the cop in the way that your marine would kite a zergling, not the way a kid would fly a kite at the park.
This has got to be the dumbest thread I’ve ever been a part of lol
Lemmy, sometimes I just wanna…makes strangling motion, you’re a good kid.
I think it’s Paperboy
Haha still got pepper sprayed twice for it
Well, he had pepper sprayed in his general direction. Given the lack of reaction, I’d say it missed.
Or he was able to power through it. Depending on spice tolerance, some might see it as more of an unpleasant condiment than a weapon. He might have biked a couple blocks away and found a place to cry in peace once the adrenaline wore off.
Dude, you don’t eat spicy food with your eyes.
Thanks for taking the time to share a direct watch video instead of linking to YouTube. Most shared content still points to YouTube (for valid reasons but still).
He escaped by jogging lightly! Great job, Officer Stumbly!
