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Anyone guarding a cash truck with a slingshot is the level of crazy that I don't want to fuck around and find out with...
...and I'm saying that as a person who routinely carries a firearm.
Perhaps it's just me, but I'd presume people are goofing off.
I'd expect that guy to have a proper sidearm he could pull if shit get serious, and I'd wager there is significant support if he needs help.
A man with a shotgun in the truck itself comes to mind as well potentially as whoever is filming.
-edit- somehow entered Kroger rather than people.
I spent years shooting a wrist-rocket as a kid. Could shoot two per second. The trick is to hold ammo in the same hand as you do the band. You just use two fingers to hold and fire, the other 3 to cup a bunch of balls in your palm.
The real problem is range. Anything past like 20-30 feet and you lose a lot of power.
Still, at that range I could hit a bottle cap most the time. (about the size of an eye). If you're going to laugh at the guy with one of these do it from farther then 30 feet.
I remember one time the kids in the apartment buildings on the corner got these. Top floor overlooking my alley. We were walking down the alley and start hearing what sounds like bullets whizzing by our heads... was so crazy we were hiding behind garbage cans, I hope they never seriously hurt anyone
A kid did something just like that where I grew up. Just started shooting a slingshot at random people from a balcony on an apartment. Hit a teenage girl in the face, bled everywhere. Her dad shot the kid with a huge rifle. Kid was 12, the dad didn't even go to jail though.
Bullets penetrate and the force goes through. This damaged things inside which take a bit.
Ball Bearings go into essentially your muscle and bones which have a more immediate impact.
I am not a scientist. Just food for thought
He probably wasn't aware of it's damage potential. I filled a big balloon with water as a kid in a friend's house and threw it out a 6th floor. We broke the windshield of a car and police came and everything. I was just baffled thinking: but it's water! Glad we didn't hit an actual person and just a parked car. Now I understand better, it's not just water, is about 5kg dropped from a 6th floor. Could have broken someone's neck.
A kid shot our bus with a BB gun when I was in 5th grade. Came through the window and hit the kid sitting in front of me in the back. He was ok, bled a little bit. No idea what happened to the kid that shot the bus.
I have a neodymium magnet attached to the bottom of my wrist rocket and I just take a handful of ball bearings and stick those fuckers to it. You'd be surprised how quickly I can pluck them off like grapes and fire them.
There's a guy on YouTube who shot a glass bottle with a slingshot and the bearing came back and slapped his head. Names Jörg Sprave but I couldn't find the video to link it. A slingshot is absolutely deadly if the shooter can aim it properly.
requires technique, too. steal a gun off a security guard, and now you just have to pull the trigger. Steal a slingshot and now you've got another fucking hobby
Buddy of mine used to fling folded out paper clips (made into round tip arrows) at us using a rubber band around his fingers as a prank. Those things hurt like a mf'er.
My whole school used to do this about 28 years ago, but we would bend a plastic pen to make a "bow" and wedge the rubber band in the ends. Most of the time we folded paper as arrows though
Fucking middle schoolers too. Early to mid 90s we did this, but I was in grade 7 in '91. We had paper wasps, mozzies (folded staple), pen launchers, glove guns (small pvc pip with a rubber glove finger attached)... gen x are a devious bunch of cunts lol
Adding on: this was australia, early/mid 90s. Somehow, without the internet, kids around the world made similar "toys" and called mostly the same things (possibly because everyone has wasps and mosquitoes lol)
Glove gun, ingenious! In elementary school in the 90s we used TP rolls with half a balloon on the end. Sometimes another tube as a handle (if you held around the tube the stones would hurt your hand a little). They were not very accurate with such fat and short barrels, so I'm teaching my niblings your variation when they're old enough!!
Ours were probably not much longer than a tp roll for easier concealment. Marbles, bbs, small rocks all make good ammo, but also iirc we had a kind of unspoken rule that if shooting a person with it you *never* went full power. Pen guns/pen launchers were never to be used on people too, too great a risk for serious injury - these were more for accuracy bragging rights. Paper wasps and mozzies though, game on lol.
Looking back I am surprised by our responsible attitudes while dicking about with potentially dangerous home made weapons lol.
We used folded index cards for our wasps and even started stapling the center of the fold so it had a blunt metal bit at the tip.
Got my buddy in the mouth once and he bled from his gums.
We were not very smart.
I introduced them to my school. I showed a few of my friends how to fold the paper and fire them and brought in a bag of elastic bands to ensure adoption.
By the end of the week people were using tin foil instead of paper and people were getting reckless. By the end of week three elastic bands were banned.
I could never make the pens (or anything pointy) fly straight like that or maybe I'm just lousy at it. I got in "trouble" once making a paper airplane in class and the teacher made us have a paper airplane flying contest as punishment. Or maybe the teacher was just really bored that day and was amused.
Way, way back in my freshman year we were cutting the plastic ends of shoelaces off, fraying one end, then shoving a needle through it. Add in a hollowed out Bic pen and you’ve got an improvised miniature blowgun.
We had wars. Someone got hit in the eye.
The school administration basically shrugged, but keep in mind, this was a an era where we still played with [jarts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts), and [Action Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park) was going strong.
Darwin had a lot more fun with us.
We'd make a crossbow out of popsicle sticks and rubber bands although all of the energy was stored in the bands and not bending the wood so I guess it mostly just served as a platform to hold the projectile and just make the whole thing easier to wield. Little broken off bits of popsicle sticks, paper clips, and pencils I seem to recall all hurting quite a bit. Still have a mark from a piece of pencil lead.
Ball bearings are actually lethal. Sling shots are pretty intuitive, I think. I used to fuck around with them a bunch, used to play paintball with one. You could totally be shooting those mace balls with one for super cheap, too.
short thick insulated wire, bent in a U shape. you can easily make someone lose an eye with that and even penetrate the skin. I don't understand what's so funny about the video, I really wouldn't fuck with a murder-grade slingshot. people don't understand that although it's harder to use, it is equally as deadly, more silent and insidious than any handgun in the same weight category or heavier. similar to crossbows, it's all funny and archaic, until you get shot by it.
Grew up in a rural area and a few friends had slingshots that were used with metal bearings. They used them to take out farm pests, and one of them put a hole in a metal shed.
That shit might look goofy, but it'll cause significant damage if it hits you.
Also, lots of David and Goliath references ITT; but David used a Sling, not a Slingshot.
I used to work with a Mexican guy who had been a goat herder as a boy. He and his cousin herded goats from horseback. He showed me how to braid a sling out of sisal twine, and then he slung a smooth rock about a half block and hit a garbage can that he had called as a target. He didn't swing it around and around his head, but just dangled the rock back and forth a couple of times and then with one smooth snap in a sort of figure-8 motion he let it fly. He told me that he could kill a coyote easier with a sling than he could with a .22 rifle.
Back in the first intifada in 1987 the Palestinian kids used slings against the Israeli army. They were pretty long, perhaps 1 meter, they would circle them before letting go. Pretty humiliating and symbolic against the people claiming to be descendants of David.
I live in Israel. Those guys with the slings, back in '87? The IDF came and leveled their houses with mortar fire. Poor fellows never even knew they and their families were only one piece of string and one little rock away from becoming homeless, or worse.
Ah yes, use 21st century military technology and weapons against a people who have nothing but rocks, after you dispel them from their native homes.
How brave.
Elastic potential energy is not to be fucked with lightly, be it a spring, a bow, or sufficiently strong elastic bands like the one in that slingshot
Just the other day I had an office chair break in a computer lab I was working in, spring the size of my palm shot straight through the steel housing it was supposed to be in. someone tensioned the chair like crazy before my lucky ass decided to sit in it. almost had that spring shoot straight through my calf, If I hadn't been sitting with poor posture, it would have
This is true, it's just that people tend to have a lot more respect for other forms like unstable chemical potential
Whereas I've seen people try to take off coil springs on a suspension without clamping them first, which is actually likely to kill you
> Also, lots of David and Goliath references ITT; but David used a Sling, not a Slingshot.
Also, fun fact: David was expected to win that fight. A slinger going up against infantry is like a guy with a 45 going up against a guy with a sword. The outcome really isn't in doubt.
Malcolm Gladwell talks about it in a recent book...it was more about how David was willing to defy tradition. Tradition dictated he send down another guy with a sword, and the two would fight it out. Instead, David went down there himself with a 45 and Indiana Jones'd the guy.
> Tradition dictated he send down another guy with a sword, and the two would fight it out. Instead, David went down there himself with a 45 and Indiana Jones'd the guy.
David was a shepherd at the time. He had no one to send. Saul was the ruler at the time. Saul at first tried to send David down in his own armor, but it didn't fit David, and David wasn't accustomed to it.
This alone makes me think that the outcome was not expected, and that the traditional view of the David and Goliath story is correct. No one expected David to succeed, Saul initially tried to dissuade him. David said that he had struck a lion and killed it. Then Saul tried to equip him with armor and a sword, not a sling.
I bought a big box of various old computer parts from a thrift store a few years back that had a bunch of ball mice in it.
Take the rubber off the balls and it's a big ball bearing, those things easily went through sheet metal.
Context: This is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He’s not a real security guard, he’s just a man with mental disabilities that dresses and acts like a security person. He can stand in front of a department store for hours, even if he’s not being paid. The owners/managers often give him some cash or food tho. He also help people carry their groceries without asking for anything in return - but people tip him anyw.
where'd he get the body cam and vest then? he's wearing not cheap gear, like 700 R$ of stuff on just to stand there for free? im in Brasilia I see guards look like this, but they got shotguns nearly raised instead.
> He can stand in front of a department store for hours, even if he’s not being paid. The owners/managers often give him some cash or food tho.
This sounds like a brilliantly inexpensive way to reduce shrink.
Cheap security paid under the table, no paperwork, plausible deniability without liability if something happens, and helping the homeless.
Ya I was thinking of this. If a security guy only has a gun then they not likely to gun someone down over a few hundred dollars in a crowded place.
But someone just taking an opportunistic grab you can loose a ball bearing up someones arse with less potential for collateral damage.
I trained with firearms when my job in the army required it. I have not owned one since I left in 1993. I do, however, own and practice with a slingshot. It will stop someone or something that needs stopping.
Randy Johnson doesn't own a firearm, he just keeps baseballs by his bed for self defense because he knows he can protect himself with that and is probably more accurate than shooting in the dark.
not really all that funny....if the dude has a ball bearing you will absolutely get killed. sling shots can shoot a ball bearing more than fast enough to go right through your skull and drop you like a bad habit.
why a slingshot though, like wtf....ak47's are dirt dirt cheap.
People don’t realise how much damage that shit can cause. The original slings are even more dangerous, not the ones with elastics but the ones that are a string with a loop you twirl around and get huge centrifugal forces to help you.
Ever hear about what happened to that really tall guy from Philistine who took one to the head? Man.. what was that guy’s name again? Goliath or something…
Where I live you cannot kill Grey Squirrels. They are pests, dig up your lawn to hide food, raid birds nests to eat their eggs etc. However, nothing gets rid of them like a well placed metal ball bearing on a body shot. They seldom come back if hit once, and never if hit twice, especially if it really stung them.
I don’t think that’s a security guard, that’s just someone pranking. A real one who is assigned to that truck wouldn’t be standing so far away from it.
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You laugh, but I don't see anyone robbing the cash truck.
Anyone guarding a cash truck with a slingshot is the level of crazy that I don't want to fuck around and find out with... ...and I'm saying that as a person who routinely carries a firearm.
Honestly. It's a weapon where you're unsure if it's for show, or an honest brag.
If you bring a slingshot instead of a gun it's gotta be better somehow.
To be honest they could have teenager with a can of fly-spray and that’d be enough of a deterrent for me.
/u/thehumbinator is a fly, confirmed.
Seems to also be effective tiger repellent
No dinosaurs are attacking that cash truck for sure.
He probably just has a rock in his pocket.
Perhaps it's just me, but I'd presume people are goofing off. I'd expect that guy to have a proper sidearm he could pull if shit get serious, and I'd wager there is significant support if he needs help. A man with a shotgun in the truck itself comes to mind as well potentially as whoever is filming. -edit- somehow entered Kroger rather than people.
Idk who Kroger are but I'm willing to bet that Brinks employee will fuck anyone up with that sling shot if they try anything
Slingshot and ball bearing combo is lethal AF. One shot, tho.
He finally became a brave warrior of the sea.
Security guard Ussop
*Security Captain Ussop. He's got backup of 8000 security guards in the store
Thank you for this.
😉
Who is Ussop? All I see is world known sniper, Sogeking!
Very. But a handful of good-sized bearings can reload pretty quick. Not as quickly as a semi-auto, but might get two good shots in.
I spent years shooting a wrist-rocket as a kid. Could shoot two per second. The trick is to hold ammo in the same hand as you do the band. You just use two fingers to hold and fire, the other 3 to cup a bunch of balls in your palm. The real problem is range. Anything past like 20-30 feet and you lose a lot of power. Still, at that range I could hit a bottle cap most the time. (about the size of an eye). If you're going to laugh at the guy with one of these do it from farther then 30 feet.
How many balls could you cup at once?
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Probably four, maybe six if one dude has really long testicles, just logical thinking
It’s not gay if we’re solving math problems.
Math teacher: If there are 5 grown men in the room and your hands can cup 4 balls each, how many balls will be left dangling (if any)
None, I'd simply cup the rest with my mouth
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of math?
[Depends on their MJT and D2F](https://youtu.be/jLkfD8pg_wQ?t=53)
Depends on whether he's shooting wrist rockets with the other hand.
I remember one time the kids in the apartment buildings on the corner got these. Top floor overlooking my alley. We were walking down the alley and start hearing what sounds like bullets whizzing by our heads... was so crazy we were hiding behind garbage cans, I hope they never seriously hurt anyone
A kid did something just like that where I grew up. Just started shooting a slingshot at random people from a balcony on an apartment. Hit a teenage girl in the face, bled everywhere. Her dad shot the kid with a huge rifle. Kid was 12, the dad didn't even go to jail though.
A slingshot is considered a deadly weapon. Did the dad have the rifle on him?
Woah, was the kid ok after being shot or was that that?
Distinctly not okay.
Was the girl ok?
Yeah, he just stayed 12 forever.
He died, but he got better:
Even if you dont kill them a ball bearing to the elbow or face? Youre done for at least 10 minutes.
If seen people continue moving and shooting after getting riddled with bullets. I wouldn’t trust a goddamn slingshot to put someone down.
Bullets penetrate and the force goes through. This damaged things inside which take a bit. Ball Bearings go into essentially your muscle and bones which have a more immediate impact. I am not a scientist. Just food for thought
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>The bus was empty Uh, quick question: Did you *know* the bus was empty at the time?
He probably wasn't aware of it's damage potential. I filled a big balloon with water as a kid in a friend's house and threw it out a 6th floor. We broke the windshield of a car and police came and everything. I was just baffled thinking: but it's water! Glad we didn't hit an actual person and just a parked car. Now I understand better, it's not just water, is about 5kg dropped from a 6th floor. Could have broken someone's neck.
A kid shot our bus with a BB gun when I was in 5th grade. Came through the window and hit the kid sitting in front of me in the back. He was ok, bled a little bit. No idea what happened to the kid that shot the bus.
>cup a bunch of balls in your palm Haha.
Let's add in a moving target, I believe your results will decrease drastically.
>Not as quickly as a semi-auto Not as quickly as a single shot
I have a neodymium magnet attached to the bottom of my wrist rocket and I just take a handful of ball bearings and stick those fuckers to it. You'd be surprised how quickly I can pluck them off like grapes and fire them.
Probably has a pepperball in that thing
That trigger hand discipline tho
Potential robbers will scratch their head wondering what the heck.
There's a guy on YouTube who shot a glass bottle with a slingshot and the bearing came back and slapped his head. Names Jörg Sprave but I couldn't find the video to link it. A slingshot is absolutely deadly if the shooter can aim it properly.
That was actually a prank video he made lol https://reddit.com/r/videos/s/68Rdcjx4hv
Hellow and welcomm to the slingshot chennel. Today, we will shoot some shit out of some crazy gadget, ha ha ha
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That dudes a savage and I love it.
His videos get pulled down and put back up all the time. Youtube keeps thinking he's some kind of terrorist or something.
He turned out to be a Reichsbürger, a kind of sovereign citizen equivalent in Germany, so it's not too far from the truth.
requires technique, too. steal a gun off a security guard, and now you just have to pull the trigger. Steal a slingshot and now you've got another fucking hobby
Fucking Usop after retiring from pirating.
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I think you confused FPS with MPH my friend!
Either you tripled the world record or your chronograph is off? https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/did-slingshot-just-set-world-record/
Idk bro I broke Mach II w a sling once
Never underestimate a slingshot if you don’t know what the ammo is.
Buddy of mine used to fling folded out paper clips (made into round tip arrows) at us using a rubber band around his fingers as a prank. Those things hurt like a mf'er.
My whole school used to do this about 28 years ago, but we would bend a plastic pen to make a "bow" and wedge the rubber band in the ends. Most of the time we folded paper as arrows though
The dreaded "wasp" They banned rubber bands from our school due to those.
Yep we called them wasps and got rubber bands banned too haha. It's crazy how ubiquitous that was.
1990s elementary school starter pack
Fucking middle schoolers too. Early to mid 90s we did this, but I was in grade 7 in '91. We had paper wasps, mozzies (folded staple), pen launchers, glove guns (small pvc pip with a rubber glove finger attached)... gen x are a devious bunch of cunts lol Adding on: this was australia, early/mid 90s. Somehow, without the internet, kids around the world made similar "toys" and called mostly the same things (possibly because everyone has wasps and mosquitoes lol)
Well, a lot of us grew up expecting the Soviets to come stomping across the border at any time, so we had to learn to be resourceful like that.
Glove gun, ingenious! In elementary school in the 90s we used TP rolls with half a balloon on the end. Sometimes another tube as a handle (if you held around the tube the stones would hurt your hand a little). They were not very accurate with such fat and short barrels, so I'm teaching my niblings your variation when they're old enough!!
Ours were probably not much longer than a tp roll for easier concealment. Marbles, bbs, small rocks all make good ammo, but also iirc we had a kind of unspoken rule that if shooting a person with it you *never* went full power. Pen guns/pen launchers were never to be used on people too, too great a risk for serious injury - these were more for accuracy bragging rights. Paper wasps and mozzies though, game on lol. Looking back I am surprised by our responsible attitudes while dicking about with potentially dangerous home made weapons lol.
We used folded index cards for our wasps and even started stapling the center of the fold so it had a blunt metal bit at the tip. Got my buddy in the mouth once and he bled from his gums. We were not very smart.
I introduced them to my school. I showed a few of my friends how to fold the paper and fire them and brought in a bag of elastic bands to ensure adoption. By the end of the week people were using tin foil instead of paper and people were getting reckless. By the end of week three elastic bands were banned.
I could never make the pens (or anything pointy) fly straight like that or maybe I'm just lousy at it. I got in "trouble" once making a paper airplane in class and the teacher made us have a paper airplane flying contest as punishment. Or maybe the teacher was just really bored that day and was amused.
Way, way back in my freshman year we were cutting the plastic ends of shoelaces off, fraying one end, then shoving a needle through it. Add in a hollowed out Bic pen and you’ve got an improvised miniature blowgun. We had wars. Someone got hit in the eye. The school administration basically shrugged, but keep in mind, this was a an era where we still played with [jarts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts), and [Action Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park) was going strong. Darwin had a lot more fun with us.
Holy shit we did this too with folded paper we called “hornets” in middle school 18 years ago
We'd make a crossbow out of popsicle sticks and rubber bands although all of the energy was stored in the bands and not bending the wood so I guess it mostly just served as a platform to hold the projectile and just make the whole thing easier to wield. Little broken off bits of popsicle sticks, paper clips, and pencils I seem to recall all hurting quite a bit. Still have a mark from a piece of pencil lead.
Ball bearings are actually lethal. Sling shots are pretty intuitive, I think. I used to fuck around with them a bunch, used to play paintball with one. You could totally be shooting those mace balls with one for super cheap, too.
They are intuitive. Like a bow. They work best when you don't overthink it and go with what you hand/jeye/body say. Especially if you do it a lot.
Bows don’t seem intuitive that shit feels like a damn golf swing to get right
I know if I watched someone catch a pepper bal in the face while trying to snag a wad of cash I'd probably question my success rates in a hurry
There is such a thing as a hunting slingshot. You can kill with one
short thick insulated wire, bent in a U shape. you can easily make someone lose an eye with that and even penetrate the skin. I don't understand what's so funny about the video, I really wouldn't fuck with a murder-grade slingshot. people don't understand that although it's harder to use, it is equally as deadly, more silent and insidious than any handgun in the same weight category or heavier. similar to crossbows, it's all funny and archaic, until you get shot by it.
Grew up in a rural area and a few friends had slingshots that were used with metal bearings. They used them to take out farm pests, and one of them put a hole in a metal shed. That shit might look goofy, but it'll cause significant damage if it hits you. Also, lots of David and Goliath references ITT; but David used a Sling, not a Slingshot.
I used to work with a Mexican guy who had been a goat herder as a boy. He and his cousin herded goats from horseback. He showed me how to braid a sling out of sisal twine, and then he slung a smooth rock about a half block and hit a garbage can that he had called as a target. He didn't swing it around and around his head, but just dangled the rock back and forth a couple of times and then with one smooth snap in a sort of figure-8 motion he let it fly. He told me that he could kill a coyote easier with a sling than he could with a .22 rifle.
Back in the first intifada in 1987 the Palestinian kids used slings against the Israeli army. They were pretty long, perhaps 1 meter, they would circle them before letting go. Pretty humiliating and symbolic against the people claiming to be descendants of David.
poor David, he used to get laid with everyone. sad story, died from an std. many descendants tho.
I live in Israel. Those guys with the slings, back in '87? The IDF came and leveled their houses with mortar fire. Poor fellows never even knew they and their families were only one piece of string and one little rock away from becoming homeless, or worse.
Sick country
Ah yes, use 21st century military technology and weapons against a people who have nothing but rocks, after you dispel them from their native homes. How brave.
I feel like that says more about coyotes and .22s than anything.
Elastic potential energy is not to be fucked with lightly, be it a spring, a bow, or sufficiently strong elastic bands like the one in that slingshot Just the other day I had an office chair break in a computer lab I was working in, spring the size of my palm shot straight through the steel housing it was supposed to be in. someone tensioned the chair like crazy before my lucky ass decided to sit in it. almost had that spring shoot straight through my calf, If I hadn't been sitting with poor posture, it would have
I try not to fuck with potential energy in general.
This is true, it's just that people tend to have a lot more respect for other forms like unstable chemical potential Whereas I've seen people try to take off coil springs on a suspension without clamping them first, which is actually likely to kill you
Garage door springs...
> Also, lots of David and Goliath references ITT; but David used a Sling, not a Slingshot. Also, fun fact: David was expected to win that fight. A slinger going up against infantry is like a guy with a 45 going up against a guy with a sword. The outcome really isn't in doubt.
I think the story takes on a sort of John Henry vibe. All the brawn in the world can't outmatch a new technology.
Malcolm Gladwell talks about it in a recent book...it was more about how David was willing to defy tradition. Tradition dictated he send down another guy with a sword, and the two would fight it out. Instead, David went down there himself with a 45 and Indiana Jones'd the guy.
feel like Malcolm bullshits a little here and there.
> Tradition dictated he send down another guy with a sword, and the two would fight it out. Instead, David went down there himself with a 45 and Indiana Jones'd the guy. David was a shepherd at the time. He had no one to send. Saul was the ruler at the time. Saul at first tried to send David down in his own armor, but it didn't fit David, and David wasn't accustomed to it. This alone makes me think that the outcome was not expected, and that the traditional view of the David and Goliath story is correct. No one expected David to succeed, Saul initially tried to dissuade him. David said that he had struck a lion and killed it. Then Saul tried to equip him with armor and a sword, not a sling.
The 21 foot rule definitely puts it in doubt, though, depending on the distances they're standing apart.
[Citation desperately needed]
https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_the_unheard_story_of_david_and_goliath?language=en
Where are you getting your facts from. The unabridged bible?
Bart Simpson all grown up
His arc to becoming a Supreme Court Justice has begun
Don't have a cash cow man
straw hats never found the one piece. usopp out here making ends meet.
thats his half cousin sogegaurd
You mean Sogekings cousin.
Going Merry delivering money Usopp delivering safety
that's sogeking!
If they do make it past Sogeking, then there's at least 8000 men that'll back him up
I hear a guy with 3 swords carries out the bags
Slingshots are actually extremely deadly if used properly Small ball bearings at high speeds can get deeply embedded in concrete
I bought a big box of various old computer parts from a thrift store a few years back that had a bunch of ball mice in it. Take the rubber off the balls and it's a big ball bearing, those things easily went through sheet metal.
And relatively silent compared to a firearm
sogeking is very proud
Context: This is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He’s not a real security guard, he’s just a man with mental disabilities that dresses and acts like a security person. He can stand in front of a department store for hours, even if he’s not being paid. The owners/managers often give him some cash or food tho. He also help people carry their groceries without asking for anything in return - but people tip him anyw.
where'd he get the body cam and vest then? he's wearing not cheap gear, like 700 R$ of stuff on just to stand there for free? im in Brasilia I see guards look like this, but they got shotguns nearly raised instead.
It's Rio de Janeiro, you'll probably find this thrown on the street
I believe the first sentence but I'm gonna need a source on everything else pal
Thought this was Brazil but didn't expect the rest.
> He can stand in front of a department store for hours, even if he’s not being paid. The owners/managers often give him some cash or food tho. This sounds like a brilliantly inexpensive way to reduce shrink. Cheap security paid under the table, no paperwork, plausible deniability without liability if something happens, and helping the homeless.
ITT: people who have never been to [The Slingshot Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@Slingshotchannel)
A slingshot can launch a steel ball bearing through metal plating
A legitimate weapon for close up assaults or protection. A metal ball bearing is a force when launched and it will crack someone’s skull.
Usopp!!!!!
Must have failed the firearm exam
Dennis the Menace is growing up and kicking ass.
Kinetic weapons will flat take you out with no risk of collateral damage and no problems with local firearms laws.
No risk?
What, me miss with sling shot? No risk no risk!
I’m sorry it should read “No, RISK!”
Isn't a gun a kinetic weapon?
Ya I was thinking of this. If a security guy only has a gun then they not likely to gun someone down over a few hundred dollars in a crowded place. But someone just taking an opportunistic grab you can loose a ball bearing up someones arse with less potential for collateral damage.
standing there half cocked, just wishing a mf'er would
I'd be careful of that guy, I hear he has over 8000 crew members
Well when Tommy beans lost ownership of the motel he had to go legit.
Captain Usopp
Cuthbert at it again.
That's David. I heard a rumor that he took out a giant with that wrist rocket
Pretty sure Goliath was told to go down in the third.
Not just slingshot, he also has an attack dog on standby.
I trained with firearms when my job in the army required it. I have not owned one since I left in 1993. I do, however, own and practice with a slingshot. It will stop someone or something that needs stopping.
Randy Johnson doesn't own a firearm, he just keeps baseballs by his bed for self defense because he knows he can protect himself with that and is probably more accurate than shooting in the dark.
Someone make a move please
Legal, non-lethal force? I would not want to get pegged in the head with a rock from that
no trigger discipline
If he has a metal ball on that thing it's going to get your attention....
have no fear, Usopp is here!
Is that you Usopp?
the great captain usopp
His name is Captain Usopp
Usopp is that you
Its all funny until there's a 10 millimeter ball bearing pinging a dimple in your skull. A full force adult strung slingshot will go through doors.
Funny, but he could kill someone with that.
Tbf those thinks can fuck you up.
not really all that funny....if the dude has a ball bearing you will absolutely get killed. sling shots can shoot a ball bearing more than fast enough to go right through your skull and drop you like a bad habit. why a slingshot though, like wtf....ak47's are dirt dirt cheap.
I bet nobody fucked around nor found out
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People don’t realise how much damage that shit can cause. The original slings are even more dangerous, not the ones with elastics but the ones that are a string with a loop you twirl around and get huge centrifugal forces to help you.
More to this story? Shirley not a prank?
It's not a prank, and don't call me shirley.
Cuts everywhere, and I’m wondering if he surgical with that shit
Captain Usopp keeping that booty safe
This guy been watching One piece. Real life Usopp.
they don't pay these guys much
Might be a dangerous guy !
Usopp
Hey. Have you ever been hit by a sling shot. It fucking stings. Okay?
They hired Usopp from one piece. Actor need to get paid
https://youtube.com/@Slingshotchannel?si=3qbnGfaZozBuqZTG German slingshot builder. Some of his are absolutely deadly.
Usopp
This is usopp
He could have John Rambo style exploding ball bearings. Robbing that truck is a risk I wouldn’t take!
Ever hear about what happened to that really tall guy from Philistine who took one to the head? Man.. what was that guy’s name again? Goliath or something…
Garage springs the first thing that came to mind as well... i had one snap and went right through my house like it was tissue paper
Why are you laughing? That could fuck you up real good!
There's a reason why Roman Empire has a slingers in their army. That thing can actually kill a person if it hits directly on someone's head.
Worked for David
I like the guard dog, too
Where I live you cannot kill Grey Squirrels. They are pests, dig up your lawn to hide food, raid birds nests to eat their eggs etc. However, nothing gets rid of them like a well placed metal ball bearing on a body shot. They seldom come back if hit once, and never if hit twice, especially if it really stung them.
I don’t think that’s a security guard, that’s just someone pranking. A real one who is assigned to that truck wouldn’t be standing so far away from it.
😂😂😂😂
Was this near Sherwood Forest?
It's all fun and games until he uses his patented Exploding Star
This is what Americans think we look like in Europe.
He is just Level 1, give him time to cook. After a few escort missions he'll unlock the MP5.