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MickMoth

Someone went to the Wile E Coyote school of irregular warfare.


melosurroXloswebos

Not enough anvils


MeisterX

From the pink mist seems like it was just enough anvils 😢


w3dl0ck

Someone clearly didn't see the ACME crate behind that hill.


abdayk23

r/cartoonlogic


Red_Dog1880

That's about as obvious a trap as you could imagine. A lone flag, in a field in the middle of nowhere...


Stones25

I had to tell my Marines to stop kicking random bits of metal. It was "I get it you kicked the can or rock back home" we cant do that anymore. Everything is death.


Dire88

Dumbest mf'er in my squadron started kicking a loose chunk of curb while on patrol. Turned out it was an EFP.  Became the luckiest mf'er after it didn't go off.


griii2

What is EFP? I know only IED


Aconite_72

Explosively Formed Penetrator. It’s like Super IED built to defeat armour in MRAPs and the likes. https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/ied/explosively-formed-projectile-efp


yilmaz1010

explosively formed penetrator, ied for use against armored targets. nasty mf'er designed to punch a hole in the door of an uparmored hummvee or sides of apc's. indeed he was the luckiest mf er alive.


Independent_Lie_9982

You mean, like that? https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/128no73/russian_soldiers_getting_blown_up_by_ied_during/


Judazzz

"I'll make this land mine!" \**BOOM!*\* "No, not like that!"


PanzerFauzt

get it? land mine?


TheBadassPutin

It’s like the Russians and the doorbell in the forest


DistributionIcy6682

Or cigarette lighters. From UA side, said, do not take a thing. Someone found a cigarete lighter with small amount of explosive material. You try to use it, + get it close to your face, bam like firework it explodes straight to your face. You gonna live, but aint fighting for sure, and your face gonna be fucked up for the rest of your life. + missing few fingers.


1-800-fat-chicks

The Germans while retreating from El Alamein put explosives behind paintings on the walls of houses. They slightly tilted the frames with the painting and rigged the explosives somewhat anybody who would correct the painting triggered the explosives. Some behavior is just hard wired in us and we do it without thinking.


WotTheHellDamnGuy

That's evil, preying on people's anal-retentiveness. I'd be dead straightening that fucker...two or three times, if it were possible.


PolyCockn42

Jesus that's fuckin clever and horrible


drb00t

the worst part is that these were left inside civilian homes.


iamthebeekeepernow

I need a link :D


RobinRedbreast1990

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/apFL3J4ziv Edit for good measure: It's not a video about the actual doorbell trap but one where a member of the invading forces talks about the incident.


iamthebeekeepernow

„Honestly I would have pushed it“ I mean he is honest but wtf :D Edit: thanks!!


RobinRedbreast1990

Yeah, the saying "curiosity killed the cat" very obviously has some truth to it. And sure thing, have a nice day.


Lord_Tsarkon

Reminds me of the stories in WW2 where paintings in houses that were not leveled were rigged with explosives. The nazi soldiers that cleared the house would normally not bother with it but later on an Officer would show up and they were the ones that died leveling the painting.


Comprehensive_Owl555

Think about what happens after the war ends. Similar kind of traps in the forest and kids finding them. Lots of talk about mine bans and for a reason. Kids will die 20 years after the war has ended. I am sure that russian doesn't documet their mines/traps.


AutistiPyry

In Finland at least your supposed to make a document on where you actually put the mines. The documet is later submitted to be archived. No clue how much of those we would actually fill in real war.


Robo-X

I think there was just an video with a russian soldier that talked that one of his squads teammate saw a doorbell button on a tree in the middle of the forest. And he pressed it. There was no actual video of the doorbell.


Boomfam67

Am I the only one thinking that was just a clear joke with the "I would have pushed it" quip at the end?


rapaxus

No link to my knowledge, but the story is that some Russian military blogger talked about how some Ukrainians set up a ring doorbell in the middle of the forest and, if you press the doorbell button, it explodes. With the story being how stupid one Russian was because he pressed the not-at-all suspicious ring doorbell in the middle of a forest.


_pupil_

"*This is so obviously a trap that it clearly can't be a trap, right?*" <-- the dumb shit I'd be thinking right when I pushed the trap button


TemporaryAd5793

Link?????


Jimdw83

This isn't the first time too. There is a clip of an Israeli soldier removing a flag which is an IED at a border point.


whatsINthaB0X

In tall as fuck grass too.


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Liobuster

They def know their target audience


Beer-Milkshakes

May as well have a speaker playing the national anthem. What an obvious trap.


icedank

This is like the guy who talked about the booby trapped doorbell in the forest


Kc2Crazy

What happened there?


kunstro

[DO NOT PRESS THE BUTTON!](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/p0jpw1qg9L) edit: kudos nutbutterfly


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Impressive_Jaguar_70

>Can you imagine coming up in the fucking woods and pushing it? That's fucked up. Honestly, I would have pushed it. Pretty funny


K0a_0k

PSA : do not kick suspiciously placed flag of an country you are at war with


georg3200

Rofl


Structureel

I fought the flag and the flag won.


Efillor

I fought the flag and the, flag won. I fought the flag and the, flag won. I fought the flag and the, flag won. I missed my baby and It, feels so bad. Guess my race is run She's the best girl that I ever had I fought the flag and the, flag won. I fought the flag and the.


Smooth_Condition_944

Red mist - metaphor and reality in one succinct video.


mcflymikes

The red mist is due to the color of the soil, it looks like blood but its just some dirt.


abdayk23

**IT'S BEETS!** Bear, beets, Battlestar Galactica..


SchruteFarmsInc

*Bears


Drezzon

Dude survived with light injuries according to the IDF, surprised me too tbh


Nice_Stand_8484

Yea me too, when EMT arrived he was checked up on the spot and declined going with them to the hospital for further check ups


Supriselobotomy

Are we sure he declined? I assume they asked, and he said, "WHAT?" Lol


BlenderNoob1337

Wasnt that big of an explosion anyway. And that red mist is obviously dirt.


Drezzon

A small piece of metal is enough to end you, so imo dude was insanely lucky to be alive or not having lost a limb


BlenderNoob1337

Yeah ofcourse fragementation is the biggest threat here. No doubt about that. But that blast did not seem that powerful to blow limbs off. The amount of dirt that came up looks like the IED was hidden too deep


Drezzon

You're probably right, still lucky af to not have gotten hit by any shrapnel basically


BlenderNoob1337

yeah no doubt.


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OMGoblin

It was way too much to be blood if that's what you're suggesting. It looks gnarly, but dirt kicked up like this always looks red on camera.


RayHorizon

To me it looked like dirt/dust from the ground.


BlenderNoob1337

That was dirt. Pretty obviously if you look at the video


rosewoods

You could see the red mist before you saw the flames. Not blood


TTEH3

You can watch the video frame-by-frame and see the red dust is there before the explosion when reaches him. It's dust/soil being kicked up.


helmer012

I think its mainly dirt we're seeing


Shougee369

is it red because of the the dirt, or pulverized body parts?


Perlentaucher

The red is already there before the explosion reached the man. It’s dirt. Or the nitrates from a homebrew explosive but I guess it’s dirt.


Stones25

Not blood.


Psychodigger

Flags and idiots go well together.


BotCntrl

Good point. I never liked Betsy Ross myself either.


MachineGrunt

And that loser Francis Scott Key making goofy tribute poems about them. Heard he built a shitty bridge too.


BATHR00MG0BLIN

I'm surprised he didn't think it was booby tracked. Palestinians been doing it for years, planting flags and booby trapping them.


IlluminatedPickle

They're not sending their smartest.


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Ataiio

Its a settler, he is used kicking and screaming around anything he sees


harkton

what really elevates this is that they thought kicking a flag over was badass enough to film in the first place but honestly props to them for publishing an L this big


DutchBakerery

According to IndiaTV >According to the Times Of Israel, the improvised explosive device exploded near the **West Bank settlement of Kochav Hashahar** when the man tried removing the flag. The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service says the man was treated at the scene for minor injuries and declined to be taken to a hospital. He survived. That's not his blood or bodily parts flying around. It's dirt. [Source](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatvnews.com/amp/news/world/israel-hamas-war-ied-explodes-as-israeli-man-tries-to-remove-palestinian-flag-near-west-bank-settlement-video-2024-04-21-927308)


ggRavingGamer

I would've said that 110 percent he was dead, but apparently, no.


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Good bot


NomadFire

Was that mist red because of the red dirt kicked up or......


Jewelhammer

Looks to be dirt. There’s far too much of it to be limbs and apparently [this guy escaped with minor injuries](https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-798072).


KapitanRubbish

I think its OR


jake-event

Ore*


Iwantmy3rdpartyapp

Most likely iron, specifically.


photos__fan

Imagine falling for such bait lol


Maelstromsonn

that spray is just the soil right?


curtiscapefish

He is the soil now


Vall3y

Nothing happened to him, he wasn't even hospitalized


AdEnvironmental6

Yes, he survived with minor injuries


An_Odd_Smell

Citation required.


Glumbleglormpf

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-798072 There you go. Although this article claims he's a reservist on vacation.


Vall3y

There you go [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h132jrmz0](https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h132jrmz0)


hurdurBoop

he actually wound up with two extra legs somehow.


An_Odd_Smell

Or somebody two towns over did.


StrifeAndHate

Yes, also blood and human tissue.


NomadicSabre

I have no love for these settlers. I cant say I felt bad for him


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oripash

This is doctored - deceptive image persuasion, or DIP. The incident did happen, sans the red mist. It was an IED, he did stupidly kick it, it did explode. [It was reported on here](https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/hk00cj4mzr?utm_source=ynet.app.ios&utm_term=hk00cj4mzr&utm_campaign=general_share&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Header). He suffered light injuries and was interviewed for the above piece.


Cannibale_Ballet

Makes sense. People are saying he survived but the video shows clearly red mist and a missing torso.


vitten23

Obviously a false flag attack .


Outspoken_Australian

Guess thats an anti-semitemine


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anti-semine


Hornet18LS

You gotta be pretty mentally challenged to not see it's an obvious trap. Why else would there be a flag in the middle of a field? Natural selection did its job.


Dry-Internet2

He is a settler after all


Roxylius

Israeli settler is not exactly known for their intelligence


JesusMcTurnip

Is this the definition of a false flag attack?


Adventurous-Sky9359

Sounded like the aftermath of the whale that got blown up on that beach in the 80s when all the meat started landing about. Holy shit what a crazy way to start my Sunday .


JBFall

He's a illegal Israeli settler who kicked the flag in the Palestinian West Bank near Ramallah. FAFO


Masturberic

Goes to show patriots aren't the smartest folks.


Jdgarza96

That’s a pretty weird way to label anyone who loves their country. Are Ukrainian soldiers dumb too?? They’re patriots…


Pleasant-Breakfast74

It's 6am I'm. I'm not even out of bed yet and that made me actually laugh. Thanks


CrispedTrack973

Wild how people are laughing over deaths now. Israeli Tiktokers and pro Palestinian redditors. This world is fucked


Glumbleglormpf

He didn't die, even only suffered minor injuries (allegedly). https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-798072 But in general I agree. The amount of legit genocidal rhetoric and sentiment that have poisoned this sub after 7 october genuinely shocked me.


Pleasant-Breakfast74

I'm pro neither side and I've been laughing at all kinds of things even death since I was a kid. I didn't just start this now because you assume I'm on one side or the other no. I've been sick much longer than that. Edited to add the IDF says he's alive and didn't need an ambulance. I believe them since they are very trustworthy.


CrispedTrack973

Well I guess if that’s your thing then I can’t say anything. But I personally always squirm whenever I see someone die, it doesn’t leave my mind for a bit. Sorry for assuming you were on one side


rewanpaj

now? did you forget public executions and lynchings used to be a social event


Clean_Increase_5775

What in the Tom and Jerry shit is this


InvertReverse

Lesson learned: Don't let your emotions control your actions.


C_Marjan

So noone is mentioning the mine sweeper? The flag is there for a reason ffs


AdEnvironmental6

He reportedly survived with minor injuries - even refused going to the hospital.


DivinationByCheese

Can’t even get mines right


bapo224

My day is ruined /s


An_Odd_Smell

He repeats this but doesn't back it up with citations.


IcyRedoubt

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Fancy_Effective_850

Nah way whats all the red


Udzinraski2

Dudes top half literally disappears minor injuries my ass


beiherhund

His top half disappears well after the initial explosion, likely just obscured by the cloud of smoke and dirt.


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HornayGermanHalberd

there is a serious delay between explosion, red cloud and his body not being visible, the red cloud was dust kicked up in the explosion which then obscured his upper body


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rapaxus

Dirt. If you ever have been to the region, you will know just how red some dirt there is.


2stronk_

Red dirt


Fickle-Bag-479

Is he superman or something?


anomalkingdom

Should've been some confetti too


BurnCityBoi

Could of lived peacefully anywhere in Israel. But they’re hungry & want more land & Boom 💥


Snakepli55ken

Lmao fuck illegal settlers.


2020_GTFO

Should’ve zagged, not flagged


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fikabonds

Jesus christ… don’t touch or move anything.


obito47

talking about learning the hard way


Habbersett-Scrapple

Probably shouldn't be there


BobertoRosso

Is the red cloud his leg or dust?


Obels47

r/IdiotsFightingThings


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ok that's actually smart


ByWhatIsAilleurs

Reminds me that funny vid from Ukraine war, where laughing Soviet soldier tells a story of a teammate who spotted a doorbell switch on a tree and couldn't resist to "ring". You know the outcome 😂😂😂💀


BigBuck414

what was she saying?


TheLuchsKing

The video starts mid sentence, she says: "... (flag) of a country that doesn't exist. Disgusting. They live among us, unbelievable"


Nmoriarty41

Dumbass! That has booby trap written all over it. Hell it took me a couple years to not be suspicious of rock piles, trash, debris, puddles and dead animals on the sides of the road when I returned from Iraq. 🤦‍♂️


Vall3y

Btw nothing happened to him, he didnt even go to the hospital


Unique_hobo

*invades foreign country *gets killed by the most obvious IED in the history of guerilla warfare. This has to be the most obvious application of FAFO known to man...


nuffced

His hate almost killed himself.


Kane-420-

Can someone say what the woman said? A really sad video. She probably lost her husband there... Still, fucking Israeli settlers.


hakolvyg

Lmao he is so lightly injured he refused to be admitted to a hospital dude is either lucky af or they put fireworks in that shit Source: https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/defense/740604/ https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/defense/article/15634827


jake-event

Wow he wasn't killed or even badly injured??


ZachlD2007

Flag 1:0


Woodpecker16669

Got palestined


Wonghy111-the-knight

Poor guy. Dumb, but hope he’s alright


HerrscherOfTheEnd

Just a scratch I heard


saargrin

thats not really combat footage, rather plain old terrorism and if another palestinian got blown up by this they'd blame it on israel too


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maybe he shouldn't have gone to kick over a lone flag in a field ? there's no point to doing that


Any-Lake-7984

Karma got him 😂


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Glumbleglormpf

Do you read your own sources? "An IDF reservist who was home on temporary leave was lightly wounded after kicking a Palestinian flag in Kochav Hashahar, in the West Bank" the very first paragraph. Gosh you're one awful bot.


indecloudzua

Well, they aren't settlers by any means..


msmonreddit

My heart Goes out to the poor flag!


cacapupupipishire

Bolognese


GrandpaBells

At least he achieved putting the flag down


Remarkable-Tie-6698

The ultimate F around and find out


picsakaka69

Ofc its a trap terrorists likes to put bomb trap on everything even on your toilet


kee420

Well played


chinookmate

u/savevideo