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"We'd much prefer to have him pay restitution.." Bullshit, this is a much better story for them. |
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You should watch this it's funny. |
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I was thinking that too. That was most amusing. |
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...and everyone reckons Canadians are so chilled compared to Americans. |
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You don't think they'd want a heartwarming story about a man finding god and paying back the wrongs he had done before he was saved? ...eh you're probably right. |
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that door to the head was pretty brutal. yay city tv. |
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i bet is/was (bless him) made up of only the letters O, C and D. |
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poor guy was probably suffering some sort of internal pains. |
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Yeah. Well, I wouldn't call him poor so much, but he has some psychological issues. It looks like he is about to or has had a breakdown. Is it just me or did they only show what he did as a result of them trying to contact him. It seems that maybe he just wasn't used to having to deal with the style american newspeople seem to want to work in. They could have been harrassing him for weeks prior and not shown that. But to defend my own country, that is an extreme example. However, he is nowhere near as scary as many of the americans that I have met in person while I was living in the beautiful state of florida. |
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isn't aggro a german product ? |
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What kinds of lovely people did you meet in Florida? |
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Well, there were all the crazy veitnam veterans, all the crazy gun nuts who would talk about killing people if they tried to take their guns away in casual conversation, a whole heap of other kinds of people. They were just generally all kind of scary. They all seemed so intense about everything they did. I remember once filling up the truck with my dad and this group of black guys started angrily yelling at us from across the parking lot, for no reason at all. Stupid racial tension. |
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I was almost certain that this was some stupid skit spliced in place of an actual report. It seemed staged, and the guy seemed like he was projecting a performance for an audience for comic effect. But when the cops and swat team came I was truly shocked. That man is really nuts. |
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i thought it was kind of funny "you gonna hit me? huh?" old people |
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Seriously. They only showed the end. American news is like the tabloids. They were probably provoking him for weeks and he finally just snapped. |
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yeah but why would he call them back and then flip out again? it's obviously not just that he's being pestered; there's something wrong with the guy. i'd like to think i could restrain myself from committing assault even if some reporter was bugging me. |
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yah, i'd like to think that too....but i'm not sure i could. |
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the 50 cops was funny. fucking idiots. |
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Not saying this happened, but if you had some people calling you insessantly making demands and promising to put you on the news and ruin your business you would probly be that pissed too. This is americans that are doing it. They will do anything to get drama for their newscast. |
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I would really like to see what was happening before. The fact that they only show the end of the two weeks makes me suspicious. |
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You certainly seem to feel strongly about this even though you don't know all of the facts. That seems like a very stereotypical "American" thing to do. The link above is obviously a CNN report of another news report that was conducted in Canada. The original report was conducted by the Canadian television station Citytv. The old guy in the video is who is the host of a feature called Silverman Helps which is a program aimed at consumers. It is true that the end part of the Citytv report is all that is shown in the CNN report. There were at least 4 other reports put together by the Silverman Helps program before the outcome. I've been able to track down and neither are, in my opinion, exceptional enough to make international news. The final one, with numerous police officers, fire department officials and emergency medical personnel going in after a lone "optometrist" does seem a bit odd enough to be reported across borders. Considering that the original report was put together entirely by the Canadian television station Citytv, without any involvement from the United States of America, I am a bit confused by your tin-foil hat allegations of "This is americans that are doing it." This behaviour of stupidly and vehemently pointing the finger without knowing all of the facts is one of the things in the world that causes so many problems. Is it really that difficult to be a decent human and restrain from doing this? |
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Admittedly, I based it off of assumption, but I stated that right from the beginning, so its nothing to get confused over. I also stated that americans are scary people that overdramatise their news to get ratings, and they do. If you want to accuse me of overgeneralization you are free to do so. I am tired of the way the US is pushing its weight around internationally for its own stupid ends, so I will use my freedom to express myself as such. But I did not read anywhere that it was made by city tv, so point taken. All I saw is that it was CNN, and that is about as reputable as the national inquirer as far as I am concerned. |
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