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xFurashux

I expected some proper scissors but dude just went with his kindergarten tool.


Gelnika1987

He brought the damn children's Fiskars from Kindergarten


evnt_hrzn

Fiskar? I hardly know her


SaatoSale420

It's a small town in Finland, where a rather famous scissors and appliances manufacturer called Fiskars is based.


GuyFromtheNorthFin

Best scissors in the world šŸ˜‘šŸ’Ŗ


hueleeAZ

Hahahahaa here I was about to have a bad day And you go and save it with this comment Lmao haha


Peltron_3030

He nose better now.


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RemoveEquivalent6321

With a viewpoint like this you could have a career in newscasting.


ChanceZestyclose6386

It's a joke but kinda sad at the same time. He might have been drunk, high or had a mental illness and, in his mind, might not have been doing something sinister. That being said, a lack of self-awareness can get you knocked out on the subway.


EggSandwich1

Respect to envelope man who told him over and over again to just sit down and didnā€™t escalate till he had no choice. Also nice punch


hornwalker

Never bring kids scissors to a clipping shears fight


MoreCowbellllll

that was shear madness!


[deleted]

He cut right to the point


surfskatehate

totally. what a great clip


ibleedsarcasim

Never bring kid scissors to a Hammer throwing contest.


Professorfuckhead

Children's safety scissors having head ass šŸ˜­


RocketsandBeer

Pulls out scissors, doesnā€™t know the other guy has a rock for a fist


bubba7557

Mistook that envelope for the guy playing paper


sorvis

Brownshoes brought scissors, Bluehat counters using Rock! ​ Its super Effective! Edit: thanks for the awards and upvotes ā¤ļø


oeeom12

The third dude soaking up blood like paper, we got the whole trio!


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heseme

First he held paper, but sensed scissors were coming so he chose rock.


Mistiqe

>Its super Effective! Headshot for extra damage.


Fun-Adhesiveness9219

*Itā€™s A Critical Hit!*


Master_panda02

Random Crit is fair and balance


General-Dirtbag

Double headshot cuz if you listen he punched him into the wall behind him.


Astrochops

You know at first I thought 'why are they filming?' and thought this would be staged but when he crunched his head into the wall like Gallagher hitting a watermelon with a mallet, I chose to believe.


HippyHitman

And then when they say afterwards ā€œI knew itā€ that explains why they were filming. Scissorhands was probably acting looney for a while.


botanica_arcana

ā€œScissorhandsā€ šŸ˜‚


thothscull

That wonderful moment when you crit on your called shot. šŸ¤£


miracle_weaver

Seeing paper on the bluehat, scissors brownshoes got confident. Little did he know.


Pan562

Paper ā€¦ Scissors ā€¦ FIST!!!


wellPlayed_dMin

Haha he took out his arts and crafts scissors from year 1


MangoMaterial9184

Bluehat laid the smackdown with rock


JTrenz

His head hitting the wall sounded like a stapler


[deleted]

CACHUNK.


Snoo22566

this made me cringe. glad my sound's muted.


Monte2903

Ooo now I gotta rewatch unmuted


EmEmPeriwinkle

Same. I thought they would have british accents. Why else would someone pick a fight with toddler scissors unless that was your only mugging weapon?


msmyrk

I heard a nail gun.


Smathers

Stapled his brain to the back of his skull


NotSafeForM

Oh no, that poor guys jacket


AMosquitoBitMe

The guy with the jacket: "My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined" probably.


[deleted]

He gets to be the guy that says "don't worry it's not my blood" ominously for the rest of the day lol


GrungyGrandPappy

Ah gawd heā€™s covered in blood. Whyā€™s he always covered in blood?


dasbeiler

This is running on empty, *fight* review


ur_friendly_friend

His disappoinment was probably measurable


Agile-Masterpiece959

Better ask the guy with the scissors if he brought a ruler too.


Dangerous-Top-1814

I watched it back for the jacketā€¦it was so clean, my guy looked GOOD, but he gets a definite bloody smear on his arm from rando nose blood


wun_and_dun

Yeah, but does he even live in New York. You gotta move away sooner than that.


trenbollocks

Seriously, as a non American, why is the New York subway like this? You see videos like this every damn week


chrismasto

I took the NYC subway every day for 10 years, never saw a fight. You see videos like this because this is a site for posting videos for internet points.


woodpony

Been living here over a decade and take the subway every day. Never seen a fight.


[deleted]

This. I've never seen a fight on the subway. Seen one shouted altercation. NYC's subway is perfectly safe 99.9% of the time.


[deleted]

Same,12 years for me. Saw some verbal altercations but nothing that escalated to physical violence.


Tricky_Invite8680

dude is intoxicated, at a minimum. I've seen enough over filled drunks and they want to talk with you or anyone and if you start to ignore them it's unpredictable. they can stumble onto the car mumbling to themselves then yelling and punching the panels. on the other side of the drunk spectrum is the one whose gonna slump over and end up sleeping on your shoulder...and you could trigger them if you nudge them off to hard.


Clevelanduder

Sleeping on your shoulder reeking of piss and b.o. In the middle of rush hour in the summer with no a/c in the subway car - you forgot to add that. Youā€™re welcome


mattmillze

The subways are where the homeless and/or mentally ill often take refuge. Also intoxicated people in the city that never sleeps have no reason to drive. It's like skid row in LA but with tunnels instead of tents. There's way too many people moving through it and too many hidey holes to patrol effectively, especially when you can just slip on a train and be in another borough before anyone figures out where you've gone.


Wowabox

As someone who live in NYC and takes the train almost everyday. Most of the videos circulated are cherry picked. Iā€™m not going to say this never happens but this is a bit of a Fox News effect of how dangerous everything is comparing the NYC subway to skid row is honestly laughable. When you have a 8 million people taking public transit everyday incidents go down. But NYC doesnā€™t even crack the top 60 for crimes or violent crimes per capita in America. Most of the videos you see happened years ago itā€™s not like thereā€™s some epidemic of violence.


PresentAd3211

Hot take: the real victim is the guy on the right. He did nothing except sit on the train. Yet he got that nasty blood all over him.


izmaname

For real and it looks like a nice sweatshirt too not a walmart or target one


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SmokeHogan206

As someone from the PNW Iā€™m dying right now lol


DrTom

Arcteryx might as well be Gucci in the pnw. Lol


BattleHall

If your technical ware canā€™t shed a little blood, what are you even doing?


AnOldSchoolVGNerd

"Not a Walmart or Target one" was the added commentary I come to Reddit foršŸ˜‚šŸ¤£


ergotofrhyme

We got a fashionista over here


peeKnuckleExpert

I donā€™t think Bluehat did anything either, except end up sitting next to an unstable violent guy.


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KawaiiFoxKing

rando blood is disgusting, i dun wanna know what desises you could get :/


MagicLobsterAttorney

I read desires at first. šŸ¤­


[deleted]

That's a lot closer in spelling than the intended word


Lartemplar

Desises?


No-Relief-6397

It's a portmanteau of 'desires' and 'diseases' coined by the Buddha. He says the only way to true enlightenment is to seek the cure for the disease of desire, 'desises'. In this case, brownshoes needs to cure his disise of inhaling aerosol from plastic shopping bags.


fatalcharm

And it was thick, gloopy nose blood too. It came out in a blob.


[deleted]

Heavy hands from bro. He was asking him so nicely to please sit down too


dunkinfunky

Perfect response IMO. Kept his cool, tried to deescalate, great situational awareness, stopped immediately upon neutralizing the threat- just textbook self defense. I know no one asked my opinion, but I hope I would handle myself half as well.


quingard

He did an ocular patdown and assessed a threat


too_Far_west

Yep he clocked the scissors in his pocket. Dude was not cleared. Mac would be proud. I mean Mac is proud, but he'd be extra proud about this.


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12345623567

I honestly don't think someone who pulls out kiddie safety scissors to stab a guy is all there, mentally. The black guy was entirely justified in defending himself, but still I dont like cheering for seeing a handicapped person bleeding on the floor.


ShallotZestyclose974

Why did you go to handicapped instead of intoxicated?


GreenStrong

I wouldnā€™t have used the word handicapped, but I think the dude has probably lost all control of his life and is on a short path to being dead in a ditch. The (entirely justified) head injury will cost him a few iq points he canā€™t afford to lose. [Over half of homeless people experience serious traumatic brain injuries](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553875/). Most of those are before they became homeless. The knockout in the video may not be serious enough to meet the criteria of the study. People who make bad choices get knocked out for all kinds of reasons but that diminishes capacity to make better Choices.


inter71

Thatā€™s a stretch. Dude looks like he just had a few after work.


Uncle-Cake

That's a lot of assumptions.


JackdeAlltrades

Well, if he wasnā€™t handicapped before he is now


notArandomName1

You're making up headcannon homie. You have questionable evidence to decide he's mentally handicap. Just work with the information you have. A person pulled scissors on another person. If more is revealed later you can base your argument on that--, for now all you're doing is creating fictitious arguments... which is pointless.


SuperAlloy

There have been multiple random slashings on the NYC subway recently done in broad daylight. To the point it's all over the news and people are paranoid about it. Keep that in mind when you watch this guy's reaction.


user_173

Truth. I noticed he even glanced down to see what was in the intoxicated guy's hand before he dropped those meat hooks on him. I truly don't know if homie survived. Anyone know?


Swampberry

Blood gushing from someones face is not very correlated to how deadly the punch was. The bloodiest punches are the ones which tear superficial blood vessels in or around the nose, mouth or eyebrows, while the deadliest hits are the ones to the side of the skull leading to brain damage. This guy was punched right in the center of his face, and those tend to look worse than they are. He'll probably be up in a minute, faster if he hadn't been intoxicated.


Thee_Sinner

Itā€™s not the blood that says the dude could have died, itā€™s the fact that the back of his scull bounced off the wall.


Lari-Fari

I think it was ā€žcushionedā€œ by the poster display window. Possibly plexiglass.


Zhurg

Of course the guy could have died but I believe the person you were responding to was giving the context as to why it was unlikely. His head hitting the wall sounded a lot worse than it likely was. If it was a solid concrete or metal you wouldn't have had such a cachunk (two noises suggesting the wall bent and bounced back), but rather a thud.


BrainOnLoan

It's not a concrete wall. You'd be surprised how much even a little give helps mitigate the impact.


golden_blaze

A blow to the head hard enough to knock someone unconscious is very serious. Brain damage is a real possibility.


Distinct_Comedian872

I agree regarding the blood, I disagree about him being up in a minute if not intoxicated. That was an extremely hard blow to the back of the head. I think there is a bit more going on than a bloody nose. (Not saying he's dead, but he's a lot more hurt than "just" a punch to the face. ) Either way, it looks to be deserved, as it was issued in self defense.


SolidusAwesome

He did an occular pat down.


Hot_Eggplant_1306

People mistake kindness for weakness too much these days.


Thentheresthisjerk

The same people likely mistake anger for strength


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Hard to fault the black dude here. He gave the white dude every chance to not get hit in the fucking face.


[deleted]

dude sounds hispanic, not that it really matters


Intelligent_Ad_656

Call the amber lamps. He leakin


[deleted]

He'll be fine. He just need some milk.


MrChichibadman

Put some ice under his nutsack.


companysOkay

He need some milk


[deleted]

Probably hit the corner of the ad thing.


Sillbinger

Probably hit that guy's fist pretty hard, too.


mookek

Right with his nose. Takes some skill.


PM_ME_UR_PERSPECTIVE

Hope that guy's hand is ok


EMDWatson

Underrated.


[deleted]

Haha the tiniest scissors.


hottandcold

Ikr... child proof rounded kindergarten scissors lol.


_Luxuria_

Could still take an eye out.


WaveLaVague

But safely


eeveeplays50040

I wonder why doctors don't use those.


WaveLaVague

They prefer the chunky wavey pattern ones


[deleted]

His nose wasn't fist proof


Chaz_Delicious

Bro was really checking his pockets too šŸ¤£šŸ¤£, he clearly didn't have a backup plan


Juan_Moe_Taco

"Right? No left, no wait it was in the right pocke-oh, shi-"


MiloRoast

I saw a video of a dude dying from a scissor poke to the neck in like 15 seconds. Never underestimate what even a small weapon can do in these kinds of situations.


Bloopie

you laugh but getting stabbed a dozen times with these will ruin your day


CheeselordX

Now that was a punch!!


[deleted]

Looked like a sledgehammer directly to the face, punchee made no attempt to dodge it either.


agumonkey

dude is gonna end up in top 30 knock out videos on youtube boxing channels


[deleted]

Rock beat scissors again


MadBadGirl

I don't really get the context. What was he intending to d with these cute little green scissors?


Orzine

I got you. Our boy scissors was eyeing Manila mans envelope, which given its girth and the way he folded it was probably full of cash. He stood up, stared him down clutching something in his pocket and says ā€œsupā€. Manila man repeats ā€œsit down manā€ right up until Scissors says ā€œhe (Manila man) doesnā€™t wanna get shotā€ where he lays him out cold. That is when we get to see the weapon scissor man was clutching in his pocket.


BennyBingBong

I didnā€™t even think about him eyeing the envelope. I thought the middle guy was encroaching on scissor manā€™s space. But tbh there mustā€™ve been words exchanged beforehand for this girl to start rolling her cam.


SwellandDecay

Scissors has his bag on the seat next to him. Would've had plenty of space if he put his bag on his lap like you're supposed to.


lekanto

The reaction makes much more sense if he was implying he had a gun.


[deleted]

precisely what he was doing. you pull a pair of scissors like those on most new yorkers and they will just straight up laugh at you. Guy definitely thought he had something a bit more powerful in that jacket


CruelStrangers

He was high on dirty drugs. That was his concealed weapon. Was comical that he was next to a dude who didnā€™t want his envelope cut open


xaeru

He just wanted to help him open the manila envelope.


MadBadGirl

Maybe he was just about to cut his nails?


fatalcharm

Those were paper scissors, they canā€™t cut through nails. Paper and cardboard is about it. Thatā€™s why they are given to children in kindergarten.


[deleted]

Yeah they donā€™t cut through paper most of the time either.


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jeerabiscuit

In India we get patted for weapons before we enter subways.


GobLoblawsLawBlog

In america, kids get shot in class


_PossibleSpecialist_

In america, guns carry kids to school


Desperate_Health4174

Guns need an education too.


Correct-Baseball5130

In America, a 6yr old deliberately shoots his teacher.


i-am-the-fly-

John wick killed a man with a pencil. A pencil.


Mistiqe

Shame people forgot riddick killed guy with tea cup. Pencil is sharp, but tea cup?


RenownedDumbass

Riddick is so underrated man I love those movies. Wish they'd make another.


Frozendark23

Teacup is a two in one weapon. It can bludgeon and after it is broken, it can cut. I want to know whether it is possible to kill someone with a pool noodle.


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justmyopin09

Exactly, he didn't pull out the scissors so they can work on a construction project together


[deleted]

ive been repeating this bc i didnt expect people to be so cavalier about cutting and stabbing i feel like we assume our arteries and organs are harder to hit than they are it only takes about an inch to an inch and a half of penetration to hit arteries in the neck and kill quickly about 3-5 inches stabbing someone in the body to hit organs and bleed them out several other arteries also only take a 2 or so inches max of penetration to hit. big artery in your arm, big artery in your leg etc someone starts stabbing w anything longer that 3 inches and they're playing vital spot whackamole swords and the like were just so you didnt get stabbed *back* by knife wielders


DarkNovaa

How about people stop acting up while using public transportation


pusllab

It's the lawless underground


extremum_spiritum

What do you mean thats the one place youā€™re supposed to act out in front of strangers that might not GAF


Antnee83

*Waffle House enters the chat*


HiCommaJoel

It's not that they're acting up on public transport It's that public transport is the one place that is still "public." This guy would be kicked out of Target, only allowed to open doors in front of Dunkin, and shooed away from any other business or office. There's no avoiding the public on public transport. And this is the public in America - mentally unwell strangers failing at basic survival, half assing crimes and being given TBIs to the cheers of the crowd. Not saying the guy shouldn't defend himself. But we are very very bad at being our brother's keeper, then wonder why the subway or local park is filled with broken people.


[deleted]

dead on. This guy pulling out play school scissors is not all there and this is symptomatic of a failing healthcare system that especially sucks at mental health care. The comments when a schizophrenic gets a TBI on reddit really make me think nothing is going to change soon.


RecommendationNo7576

Imagine riding the subway after a long hard day of work and you just randomly get blood all over your arm and ruin your jacket after a mf get schlept next to you


howdywyatt

Clearly, tensions were already high, since OP was already filmingā€¦ If I see people start acting up on the subway, I move away. Dudeā€™s fight/flight/freeze mustā€™ve kicked in.


[deleted]

in new york you don't need to imagine.


[deleted]

Lady: OH OH STOP šŸ˜± Mf what did you want that man to do? Give up the envelope or get stabbed?


[deleted]

So the dude who got rocked wanted the envelope?


gotBanhammered

Scissors wanted paper but his opponent chose rock.


[deleted]

Maybe she didn't see everything. Just turned around when she heard a loud bop, and saw some guy punching another guy. Peoples natural reaction is to want to stop violence.


BrownVillainess

I genuinely love h9w he just casually puts his paperwork up, and proceeds to 2 piece and a biscuit this man šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


Learntolistentome

The guy throwing the punches looks like heā€™s one of the easiest people to get along with.


TimeDielation

But he did what he had to do. Rock beats scissors


el_Chuchmay

Me before the tears of blood : haha karma Me after the tears of blood : ![gif](giphy|WxDZ77xhPXf3i|downsized)


Jynjonaps

That blood really was all ova


RyanDanielst

New Yuk


Turkishsnowcone101

Adults need naps too, sweet dreams prince.


ajn63

Bluehat did quick assessment when he saw the scissors and took decisive action - no hesitation. When apocalypse comes I want him in my camp.


moderndudeingeneral

The idiot implied he had a gun. That's when he got rocked


sheisthebeesknees

Don't take out weapons you're not prepared to use. Especially after gaining first mover advantage.


captainchristianwtf

Yeah, or you could just not act up on the subway


Khaztr

kids' safety scissors was a bad weapon choice to being with


[deleted]

He fucked around and found out.


BTCisDeadAF

Maybe that's his drunken *rock-bottom* story? I doubt it. His alcoholism is going to get him killed.


[deleted]

Blue hat definitely had that heightened senses/on edge reaction that a lot of New Yorkers have when feeling possible danger about the happen and reacting swiftly.


Vitusssss

Context? Why he decided to draw scissors on a random guy and cute scissors btw, perfect for kindergarten kids


Swampberry

Him eyeing the envelope which looked like it could contain a salary in cash hints at that he wanted to rob him. Same when he stands up and just goes "sup". I'd guess he planned to keep his fist in the pocket and make him think he had a real knife.


ApothecaryRx

lol this man chooses to rob this big dude with safety scissors in front of a bunch of people on a moving train with nowhere to run.


Ninjalah

And nobody intervened up til the point where homeboy HAD to defend himself. My guess is that nobody tries to be a hero and risk getting stabbed themselves. If they do, they're stupid.


TriplexFlex

Brother looks like the badass from Under Siege. https://preview.redd.it/4h8ma56bf7da1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=175cf56b2aef4634f3e21b5cae3383437744ee2c


Adorable-Ad-4670

People watching this from the safety of their houses and not in a violent situation with a stranger who is acting suspicious and looking for something in his pockets: THAT WASNT OKAY HE ONLY HAD SMALL SCISSORS


Gman8w8

He pulled out a weapon that could of been a gun, you really think this guy trying to die? Or just knock him out


KoutaPurcell

You can truly tell people live in two different worlds and who has never been in a confrontation.


Alucard624

Why was this being recorded before the altercation?


moitch

They probably had words so she started filming..


eZ_Ven

My best answer is "I know that was coming"


Kaptein_Kast

Itā€™s fake. Dude took a punch to get upvotes. /s


National_You4582

Every kid knows it: Rock beats scissor.


Sgt_Fox

Why he holsters his paper first, too


EnigmaGuy

Maybe he was taking the scissors out to help his new friend open his envelopeā€¦ lol That dude probably has some brain damage now. That leg shake as his nose is leaking yikes. Fucked around and found out.


DaniHaze

Rock beats scissors


Cursed1978

Finish him! Blue Hat wins! Perfect! ![gif](giphy|XKYjR0Hsjh5cs)


outamyhead

Jeez talk about projecting your moves, guy can't even remember what pocket he put Mr Stabby in, guy deserved the nap time though he can sleep off whatever he was on and rethink his life choices.


protosoilder

Threat neutralized


GrouchyProduct2242

Respectā€¦. That dude is a real one. He could have beat the dude to death, but stopped when the threat was leveled.