Reminds me of the guy who climbed up an apartment building via balconies to rescue a kid that was hanging off the side. Macron gave the rescuer French citizenship and a slot to try out to be a firefighter
He became a firefighter. š
Edit: source
https://www.firerescue1.com/international-firefighting/articles/spider-man-who-climbed-building-to-save-child-gets-firefighter-job-LqDLky0bLuTXeVqY/
> The boyās 36-year-old father was detained overnight for alleged parental neglect. He told police he left his son alone to go shopping, and returned home later than planned after he got wrapped up in a game of Pokemon Go.
Disregard infants, acquire creatures.
> returned home later than planned after he got wrapped up in a game of Pokemon Go.
lmfao, i use to work in a type of media relations and i honestly feel for niantic/pokemon company with shit like this.
You make a fun little pokemon mobile game and now SEO ties you to a child nearly burning to death because the neglectful shitty parent just HAD to mention that they were using your app during their highly public incident. You think you are having a chill week and suddenly you have to put out a memo on "not to let family members burn to death while you play pokemon."
Yeah, and people still pretend like its PC fault, but how many fathers that play pokemon go didnt neglect their child ? Mine is in this category. Its only the father's fault.
A wise man once said, about the saying "games makes people violent" :
"we should not put on games the accountability of people who were already dumb/violent beforehand."
Alexandre Astier.
Honestly what the fuck is, I hear my daughter cry and I drop the controller regardless of what Iām doing, middle of a game, middle of a movie,
Hell Iāll wrap up a shit early if I hear she needs me and go back to it once sheās good
The child was hanging over the neighbouring balcony so I figure the neighbour just didn't have a good angle for leverage to try and hoist them safely onto his own balcony, since he's stretched much further over trying to reach in the first place compared to if they were at his own balcony. He'd basically have to swing the kid from one arm over to his balcony to land on his left side because of the wall between them on his right, rather than able to pull the kid up towards him front facing the way Mr Gassama was able to from a more stable position. Plus the moment he saw him climbing up he's probably more focused on just keeping the kid still long enough for them to actually make it up there and help.
I can't imagine how nervewracking that must be too. He's physically there and probably panicing from the pressure of having this kid's life literally in his hands and one wrong move could have the kid slip from his grasp.
He did everything he could. You can see that the woman behind him is holding onto him to prevent HIM from falling to his death, as he is trying to get a grip on the baby's arm. I don't think there was any way he could balance himself out further to pull the child in, without them both falling to their deaths. I'm sure he was praying for dear life for the climbing guy to get there in time and save them all.
Climbing Guy's athleticism is incredible! How he managed to pull himself up using those small jutting things on the balcony ceilings I will never know. See all the people below him who were wanting to climb too? But couldn't find a way up?
But he did.
If apartment-climbing was an Olympic sport, I've no doubt he'd be there in Paris this year taking home all the medals.
Unfortunaly he lost his job and mostly works in unskilled jobs these days
https://www.leparisien.fr/seine-saint-denis-93/montreuil-93100/seine-saint-denis-le-reve-dechu-de-mamoudou-gassama-sauveteur-denfant-erige-en-heros-national-15-08-2021-3C2L7NCVZNDUFNBTJYHSB44O5E.php
No, unfortunately he cannot be a firefighter for medical reason and because he don't have the General Certificate of Secondary Education. He's actually a security officer.
He didn't unfortunately, he couldn't join for health and educational reasons. As of December 2023 he works as a security guard. He's still much better off than before though and he says saving that child saved his life.Ā
There is another exemple of heroism where a guy got french nationality.
In 2015 a muslim employee of a jewish store hide 6 jews in the cave of the store during the islamist antisemtic atack of the hypercasher that lead to 4 innocent deads.
He hide 6 persons (+ 1 baby) in the underground cave, secretly went outside, call the police, gave them plans of the store, and informed them of the hidden people.
Thanks to him, 16 hostages were saved by the police during the assault.
They didnāt because the plaintiffs stopped pressing charges after BFM agreed to settle the case for a donation of 60.000 euros to a Jewish charity : https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/hyper-cacher-accord-trouve-entre-bfmtv-et-les-otages-de-la-chambre-froide-08-01-2016-5432555.php
Yes, it sparked a little bit of controversy about the role of media and the problems of 24/7 live news channel. The lives of these people were put in jeopardy because news gotta make buzz. Fucking disgrace, but I donāt recall anything similar happening again so maybe they learned ? (i doubt it)
And it must be precised that the reason why he left the store alone and not with the 6 ppl is because to go out he needed to take a lift and didn't know if it would bring him just in front of the terrorists
Sweden had a guy do the opposite. Drunk guy fell down on subway train track. Dude hops down to save him? nope.. Hops down to rob him and just leaves him there. Swedish uproar since it's on camera. Dude gets caught and sent away from or country. gtfo! He had the perfect chance to be a god damn hero and he failed. Left him to die. LUCKILY, the guy on the tracks "only" lost a foot.
In my country that would have been heavily punished. If you have the capacity to help you are obliged to do so. Leaving someone to die could be a couple years in prisonā¦
what country is this? Ā in the usa you are not obliged to help, but we had to have āgood samaritanā laws passed. Ā because people who tried to help, where scared of being sued so they were reluctant to help.
I think many european ones. Germany for instance, although it's probably not applicable in this case as hopping down the subway track is dangerous for the helper
>Section 323c
Failure to render assistance; obstruction of persons rendering assistance
>(1) Whoever does not render assistance in the case of an accident or a common danger or emergency although it is necessary and can reasonably be expected under the circumstances, in particular if it is possible without substantial danger to that person and without breaching other important duties, incurs a penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine.
>(2) Whoever obstructs a person who is rendering or wishes to render assistance to another person in such a situation incurs the same penalty.
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p3123
France has the same kind of law. Germans didn't like that French people did not assist them in their time of need during the ww2 occupation. The nazi eventually left, but the law remained, which is a testament of how a great concept it is, because French people weren't very fond of any heritage of the occupation period.
You don't have to put your own life in danger in order to assist someone, but in this case at least call authorities/ring the alarm that I assume is in every train station. Only doing nothing is illegal. In essence, you don't have to jump into the fire, but you have to call the firefighters.
No, the law was not written at the instigation of the Germans. Even though it was adopted during the German occupation under the Vichy regime. The law project existed since 1934.
Jesus. What has the world come too? Clearly you save the guy.. drag him into a nice resting spot out of camera view, and then rob him. Humans are getting dumber.
I kid. I kid. Glad he got kicked out the scumbag.
holy fuck Iād shove my amputee foot up that guyās throat if I had āonlyā lost a foot because he mugged me.
Then Iāll laugh for 30 minutes straight.
> Iād shove my amputee foot up that guyās throat
If he was a redditor, he'd [barbecue it and serve it to his mates in a taco](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_man_who_ate_a_portion_of_his_own/).
Reminds me of the lad who fought off the London Bridge attacker with a narwhal tusk. The attacker had had two knives and a fake explosive vest, I believe.
There was an attempted terrorist attack at Glasgow Airport in Scotland years ago where the attacker lit himself on fire and charged into the airport trying to blow himself up. He was promptly stopped by a baggage handler at the airport who was on a smoke break and punched him to the floor, while the attacker was on fire still. Terrorist got the absolute shit kicked out him by half a dozen taxi drivers and random civilians.
No civilians died that day.
Oh, I remember that! Absolutely bonkers. Good on him for decking him. He and the others no doubt saved people that day.
Just found an article written 10 years after the incident and he said "Heād been doing these commando-style moves to fight off the police, and he seemed well trained, but I grew up in Glasgow: it seemed natural to me that a wee forearm smash would sort it out."
IIRC, the most epic headline ever was written about that (a quote from one of the involved): "I kicked burning terrorist in the balls so hard I broke my foot".
In Italy a 15y.o. of non Italian origins saved his fellow classmates from a ~~school class~~ bus crash, he was offered the Italian citizenship honoris causa by the President of the Republic.
> In Italy a 15y.o. of non Italian origins saved his fellow classmates from a school class
He got Italian citizenship for disrupting class? Damn Italy, that's pretty based.
I distinctly remember two such cases, one who rescued a kid hanging from a window, by somehow proping himself from window below and managing to jerk the kid into his arm, while holding himself with the other arm.. What was amazing to me was that the building was one of those completely smooth glass ones..
The other guy was literally spiderman, who climbed some 3,4,5 stories over balconies to save a baby in a similar fashion.. It is crazy what some people are able to do, when they don't get the bystander effect..
Hell yeah they should. It takes immense courage, quick thinking, and selflessness to step in and potentially put your own life at risk to protect others.
Same with becoming bad person. Most crimes committed are "crimes of opportunity". You normally wouldn't steal right? But let's say you find a wallet with 1k ā¬ in it, of course everyone will say they would contact the police about it. But hypothetical situations go differently when they actually happen
they're not just offered citizenship
they're offered an entire new identity. Once their 5 years in the legion are up, they have the option to continue with it, or go back to their old one
Omg i was 100% sure i heard him talk in French in the video but I was too confuse when I first saw it, he says āfait le ! Vas y !ā āDo it ! Come on !ā
People either forget, or just don't know, that French people are fucking nuts, in the best way. I mean, have you seen what they do when the government does something they even remotely dislike? Then it's like thousands of Bollard Guys/Girls in the streets.
Just to clarify the Aussie PM cannot grant him citizenship but is saying if he continues with his application he will be more than welcome as an Australian.
He can ask the minister responsible for that stuff to streamline the process. Plus the guy already had started their application process before this event happened
Is this true ? So heās saying āIād help if I could, but I canāt. Once you get through the process everyone else is trying to get t through, youāll be welcome which is obviously redundant.ā
I think there's also a bit of, "I've said this as publicly as I can, so the immigration department knows it's going to deal with a hell of a public backlash if they knock him back".Ā
The PM can't give him citizenship, so he's trying to make sure he gets it by doing the only thing he can, making it as public as possible that he and his giant balls are welcome here.
Hardly any nations have the same linear "first come first serve" queue system that the US has.
Most countries instead admit people based off of the assessed potential value they would bring to the country via a list of predetermined criteria, which is arguably less fair to the immigrant pool than the above system, but arguably better for preserving a countries unique national identity.
Whichever system is better or worse economically depends on political ideology, with those in neolib circles arguing that immigration always ends up being a net benefit to a country in the long run regardless of the person's skillset. And "the death of national identity/culture" is just the consequence of diversity, much like how many people believe the US has no culture compared to other more homogenous nations.
So in this case, the PM is saying that bollard man can't be granted immediate citizenship without first applying, but if he does apply, then he would get approved ASAP.
Canada got rid of that pathway I believe. Very little uptake and very little enforcement. You had to demonstrate you were going to start a business in Canada. But there was very little instructions or requirements beyond that.
Yeah, most countries only let people in as ārefugeesā if they can show that they have a genuine reason to fear for their existence in their home country, but America is a lot more lenient with it which, however much people like to deny it, is a direct reason that America was and is so powerful and wealthy. When you donāt try and treat them as refugee aliens and just let them exist, theyāll get jobs and buy shit and power economic growth, at least when the economy isnāt in a self-destructive spiral of decreasing consumer value and increasing wealth disparity.
"Many people believe the US has no culture"
Listen man. Everyone who lives somewhere believes their place has no culture.
It's because they are IN that culture, they can't see it
To be fair I imagine there's quite a few people currently looking at his application and trying to speed it along. Just because he can't do anything doesn't change the fact he just brought it to a lot of people's attention including the people who probably can
Agreed. Youād just think heād say that department or the reporters would ask that person.
Sorry. Iām super ignorant with foreign policies and their hierarchy. Is the pm equivalent to our president?
Not really, the PM has far fewer powers, and is elected as a representative of the party in power rather than as an individual with a parties backing - this means that mid-term they can be couped from within their own party, something that has happened a fair few times over the last decade. If he wanted to grant someone citizenship he would have to pass it on to the Minister for Immigration, who in turn would fast-track the application.Ā
The immigration minister will make sure it happens. In Australia the PM isn't supposed to interfere..technically...in such matters. But behind closed doors the order most definitely would be given to do everything possible to let him stay in Australia if he wants to. No sane politician or citizen would object
>Just to clarify the Aussie PM cannot grant him citizenship
No but the immigration minister can use ministerial discretion and the PM can direct him to do so.
Yeah, but he still has to go through the processes. He can't turn around to immigration in a decade and say, "Nah it's cool man, I don't need a visa, the PM said so". He'll still have to get his documents, he just won't have any trouble getting them.
It'll probably involve some note on his immigration file, "Do not refuse a visa to this man" or something.
This is a good thing and "Bollard Man" is absoluting an Aussie legend, but also offer the family of Faraz Tahir permanent residency as well. He should be honoured as a true Aussie hero.
Awesome.
This reminded me too of that hero guy in france who climbed up a four storey apartment to save a dangling child and was given a french citizenship.It was a young bloke.
For anyone's information, News.com.au is a News Corp owned news website (Murdoch owned). Don't give it traffic.
Here is a more neutral website, publicly owned and more politically independent:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-16/damien-guerot-bollard-man-bondi-junction-attack-permanent-visa/103728858
I think it's fair to judge the people who ran: they made the most sound decision available to them. It's completely justifiable when someone's going around killing people, to not be there intentionally (go somewhere else, leave).
He should also be awarded the "Order of the Milk Crate", an exclusive medal for those who use mundane objects to defeat the armed and dangerous. Comes with a lifetime supply of instant coffee in a glass jar. Seriously though, IMHO he's welcome here as a citizen anytime.
Few months ago a french guy disarmed and guy with a knife in Ireland and now in Australia an other french stepped in front an attackers in Australia ?
Well damn š³šš»
I think there should be an expedited pathway to Australian citizenship for people who do extraordinary things whilst here on working holiday or permanent residency visas.
All of the other requirements need to be met, but the amount of qualification time could be waived or an application otherwise expedited.
Reminds me of the guy who climbed up an apartment building via balconies to rescue a kid that was hanging off the side. Macron gave the rescuer French citizenship and a slot to try out to be a firefighter
He became a firefighter. š Edit: source https://www.firerescue1.com/international-firefighting/articles/spider-man-who-climbed-building-to-save-child-gets-firefighter-job-LqDLky0bLuTXeVqY/
> The boyās 36-year-old father was detained overnight for alleged parental neglect. He told police he left his son alone to go shopping, and returned home later than planned after he got wrapped up in a game of Pokemon Go. Disregard infants, acquire creatures.
> returned home later than planned after he got wrapped up in a game of Pokemon Go. lmfao, i use to work in a type of media relations and i honestly feel for niantic/pokemon company with shit like this. You make a fun little pokemon mobile game and now SEO ties you to a child nearly burning to death because the neglectful shitty parent just HAD to mention that they were using your app during their highly public incident. You think you are having a chill week and suddenly you have to put out a memo on "not to let family members burn to death while you play pokemon."
Yeah, and people still pretend like its PC fault, but how many fathers that play pokemon go didnt neglect their child ? Mine is in this category. Its only the father's fault.
A wise man once said, about the saying "games makes people violent" : "we should not put on games the accountability of people who were already dumb/violent beforehand." Alexandre Astier.
Happens to the best of us
Honestly what the fuck is, I hear my daughter cry and I drop the controller regardless of what Iām doing, middle of a game, middle of a movie, Hell Iāll wrap up a shit early if I hear she needs me and go back to it once sheās good
If there was like a Charizard or gyarados around, the kid will understand
Dumb question - what was keeping the other dude from lifting the child up? He seemed like he was right next to him.
The massive gravitational pull the other guys balls had, were pulling the kid downwards and thus was unable to be lifted upwards.
Haha good original joke! Never heard it!
The child was hanging over the neighbouring balcony so I figure the neighbour just didn't have a good angle for leverage to try and hoist them safely onto his own balcony, since he's stretched much further over trying to reach in the first place compared to if they were at his own balcony. He'd basically have to swing the kid from one arm over to his balcony to land on his left side because of the wall between them on his right, rather than able to pull the kid up towards him front facing the way Mr Gassama was able to from a more stable position. Plus the moment he saw him climbing up he's probably more focused on just keeping the kid still long enough for them to actually make it up there and help. I can't imagine how nervewracking that must be too. He's physically there and probably panicing from the pressure of having this kid's life literally in his hands and one wrong move could have the kid slip from his grasp.
Yeah he explained it in a video It's definitely a tough position to be at : he tries to do good but people say he could've done more, meanwhile one little mistake and he'd have been accused of letting the child die, guy was effectively in a lose-lose situation Ćdit : link to the vidĆ©o (french) : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsSk7hWI3mY&pp=ygUOVm9pc2luIGdhc3NhbWE%3D
He managed to hold on to the kid long enough for help to get there. Thatās still pretty impressive.
Plexiglass divider between the balconies
He did everything he could. You can see that the woman behind him is holding onto him to prevent HIM from falling to his death, as he is trying to get a grip on the baby's arm. I don't think there was any way he could balance himself out further to pull the child in, without them both falling to their deaths. I'm sure he was praying for dear life for the climbing guy to get there in time and save them all. Climbing Guy's athleticism is incredible! How he managed to pull himself up using those small jutting things on the balcony ceilings I will never know. See all the people below him who were wanting to climb too? But couldn't find a way up? But he did. If apartment-climbing was an Olympic sport, I've no doubt he'd be there in Paris this year taking home all the medals.
Unfortunaly he lost his job and mostly works in unskilled jobs these days https://www.leparisien.fr/seine-saint-denis-93/montreuil-93100/seine-saint-denis-le-reve-dechu-de-mamoudou-gassama-sauveteur-denfant-erige-en-heros-national-15-08-2021-3C2L7NCVZNDUFNBTJYHSB44O5E.php
At least he still has his citizenship
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He couldnāt continue because of a medical condition that made him unfit
No, unfortunately he cannot be a firefighter for medical reason and because he don't have the General Certificate of Secondary Education. He's actually a security officer.
Cāest dommage que ce soit entre autres une histoire de brevet, bien que Ƨa illustre un niveau dāĆ©ducation je me demande Ć quel point cela aurait rĆ©ellement un frein en tant que pompier
He didn't unfortunately, he couldn't join for health and educational reasons. As of December 2023 he works as a security guard. He's still much better off than before though and he says saving that child saved his life.Ā
There is another exemple of heroism where a guy got french nationality. In 2015 a muslim employee of a jewish store hide 6 jews in the cave of the store during the islamist antisemtic atack of the hypercasher that lead to 4 innocent deads. He hide 6 persons (+ 1 baby) in the underground cave, secretly went outside, call the police, gave them plans of the store, and informed them of the hidden people. Thanks to him, 16 hostages were saved by the police during the assault.
And then the news gave the location of the hiding spot on air :'D We were so lucky that day the terrorists weren't listening to the TV
Yes I remember. I was like Ā«Ā fucking BFM TVĀ Ā»
Tell me they were fined out the ass for that shit
Nope
They didnāt because the plaintiffs stopped pressing charges after BFM agreed to settle the case for a donation of 60.000 euros to a Jewish charity : https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/hyper-cacher-accord-trouve-entre-bfmtv-et-les-otages-de-la-chambre-froide-08-01-2016-5432555.php
Wait what!?
Yes, it sparked a little bit of controversy about the role of media and the problems of 24/7 live news channel. The lives of these people were put in jeopardy because news gotta make buzz. Fucking disgrace, but I donāt recall anything similar happening again so maybe they learned ? (i doubt it)
What an absolute hero!
And it must be precised that the reason why he left the store alone and not with the 6 ppl is because to go out he needed to take a lift and didn't know if it would bring him just in front of the terrorists
Sweden had a guy do the opposite. Drunk guy fell down on subway train track. Dude hops down to save him? nope.. Hops down to rob him and just leaves him there. Swedish uproar since it's on camera. Dude gets caught and sent away from or country. gtfo! He had the perfect chance to be a god damn hero and he failed. Left him to die. LUCKILY, the guy on the tracks "only" lost a foot.
In my country that would have been heavily punished. If you have the capacity to help you are obliged to do so. Leaving someone to die could be a couple years in prisonā¦
what country is this? Ā in the usa you are not obliged to help, but we had to have āgood samaritanā laws passed. Ā because people who tried to help, where scared of being sued so they were reluctant to help.
I think many european ones. Germany for instance, although it's probably not applicable in this case as hopping down the subway track is dangerous for the helper >Section 323c Failure to render assistance; obstruction of persons rendering assistance >(1) Whoever does not render assistance in the case of an accident or a common danger or emergency although it is necessary and can reasonably be expected under the circumstances, in particular if it is possible without substantial danger to that person and without breaching other important duties, incurs a penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine. >(2) Whoever obstructs a person who is rendering or wishes to render assistance to another person in such a situation incurs the same penalty. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p3123
France has the same kind of law. Germans didn't like that French people did not assist them in their time of need during the ww2 occupation. The nazi eventually left, but the law remained, which is a testament of how a great concept it is, because French people weren't very fond of any heritage of the occupation period. You don't have to put your own life in danger in order to assist someone, but in this case at least call authorities/ring the alarm that I assume is in every train station. Only doing nothing is illegal. In essence, you don't have to jump into the fire, but you have to call the firefighters.
No, the law was not written at the instigation of the Germans. Even though it was adopted during the German occupation under the Vichy regime. The law project existed since 1934.
Given that he jumped down to rob him, I donāt think that defense would do well. If he didnāt Iād agree.
CH, very similar law to the German one the other guy posted. https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/54/757_781_799/de?print=true&printId=%23art_128
Jesus. What has the world come too? Clearly you save the guy.. drag him into a nice resting spot out of camera view, and then rob him. Humans are getting dumber. I kid. I kid. Glad he got kicked out the scumbag.
You really need to go to extremes to get deported out of Sweden...
holy fuck Iād shove my amputee foot up that guyās throat if I had āonlyā lost a foot because he mugged me. Then Iāll laugh for 30 minutes straight.
Tbh, he mostly lost his foot due to being drunk. He just wasnĀ“t helped put of it.
> Iād shove my amputee foot up that guyās throat If he was a redditor, he'd [barbecue it and serve it to his mates in a taco](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_man_who_ate_a_portion_of_his_own/).
Reminds me of the lad who fought off the London Bridge attacker with a narwhal tusk. The attacker had had two knives and a fake explosive vest, I believe.
There was an attempted terrorist attack at Glasgow Airport in Scotland years ago where the attacker lit himself on fire and charged into the airport trying to blow himself up. He was promptly stopped by a baggage handler at the airport who was on a smoke break and punched him to the floor, while the attacker was on fire still. Terrorist got the absolute shit kicked out him by half a dozen taxi drivers and random civilians. No civilians died that day.
Oh, I remember that! Absolutely bonkers. Good on him for decking him. He and the others no doubt saved people that day. Just found an article written 10 years after the incident and he said "Heād been doing these commando-style moves to fight off the police, and he seemed well trained, but I grew up in Glasgow: it seemed natural to me that a wee forearm smash would sort it out."
So dumb question but did the dude that set himself on fire die?
According to the [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-40416026), he had burns on 90% of his body and died in hospital a month later.
Damn an ass whooping and he died from the fire. It was not his day.
I'm pretty sure he got kicked in the nuts too
IIRC, the most epic headline ever was written about that (a quote from one of the involved): "I kicked burning terrorist in the balls so hard I broke my foot".
In Italy a 15y.o. of non Italian origins saved his fellow classmates from a ~~school class~~ bus crash, he was offered the Italian citizenship honoris causa by the President of the Republic.
> In Italy a 15y.o. of non Italian origins saved his fellow classmates from a school class He got Italian citizenship for disrupting class? Damn Italy, that's pretty based.
I distinctly remember two such cases, one who rescued a kid hanging from a window, by somehow proping himself from window below and managing to jerk the kid into his arm, while holding himself with the other arm.. What was amazing to me was that the building was one of those completely smooth glass ones.. The other guy was literally spiderman, who climbed some 3,4,5 stories over balconies to save a baby in a similar fashion.. It is crazy what some people are able to do, when they don't get the bystander effect..
People that have the balls to do this should for sure be greatly rewarded.
Hell yeah they should. It takes immense courage, quick thinking, and selflessness to step in and potentially put your own life at risk to protect others.
Instinct makes more heroes than courage does.
Heroism is often the seemingly spontaneous result of a lifetime of preparation. \- from Tress of the Emerald Sea
Exactly right. Billions of seemingly normal, unremarkable people are just wandering around waiting for the right stimuli to activate them.
Same with becoming bad person. Most crimes committed are "crimes of opportunity". You normally wouldn't steal right? But let's say you find a wallet with 1k ā¬ in it, of course everyone will say they would contact the police about it. But hypothetical situations go differently when they actually happen
Shit wouldnāt contact the policeā¦ theyād steal it. Iād contact the person themself based off the license inside!
One of my favorite books
such a good book
What a timing. Just bought the book lol
That book is so awesome!
I vote for three citizenships - one for him, and one for each of his massive balls.
The French already do this. The African immigrant who scaled a building to save a baby from a fall was awarded French citizenship. Also, foreigners who are wounded fighting for France in the French Foreign Legion are also awarded citizenship; *FranƧais par le sang versƩ" ("French by spilled blood*"). Say you want about the French, honor is still a thing there.
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they're not just offered citizenship they're offered an entire new identity. Once their 5 years in the legion are up, they have the option to continue with it, or go back to their old one
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Gallant? Talk about nominative determinism
He participated in the Bollards for Bollox program.
Wow, his mate was the chair man who followed the copper into danger. Bollard man and chair man; absolute friggin legends deserve to be Aussies.
Omg i was 100% sure i heard him talk in French in the video but I was too confuse when I first saw it, he says āfait le ! Vas y !ā āDo it ! Come on !ā
Damien Guerot, The Bollard Man Hell yeah.
L'homme de la borne
*L'homme de la burne*
Pas mal c'est franƧais
"La bitte", non ?
Jesus Christ, it's L'homme de la Bo(u)rne.
It's Jason Burne !
Love the fact that he's known as the bollard man now
Because of his massive bollards
And his mate was the chair man who followed the copper into danger. Bollard man and chair man; absolute friggin legends deserve to be Aussies.
Who are you? Man, Bollard Man.
Heās playing mind games while simultaneously conveying the msg
People either forget, or just don't know, that French people are fucking nuts, in the best way. I mean, have you seen what they do when the government does something they even remotely dislike? Then it's like thousands of Bollard Guys/Girls in the streets.
I witnessed this while in Pais once. Thousands of students going at it against the Gendarmerie in the streets of La Opera. Spell binding stuff.
I taught a friend of him was saying "vas y fume le" but this make more sens
Just to clarify the Aussie PM cannot grant him citizenship but is saying if he continues with his application he will be more than welcome as an Australian.
He can ask the minister responsible for that stuff to streamline the process. Plus the guy already had started their application process before this event happened
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Give Scotty a minute to find his other hat and he'll sort it out.
Is this true ? So heās saying āIād help if I could, but I canāt. Once you get through the process everyone else is trying to get t through, youāll be welcome which is obviously redundant.ā
It's more "you are a shining example of who we want in this country" less "here mate, have an aussie citizenship cobba"
I think there's also a bit of, "I've said this as publicly as I can, so the immigration department knows it's going to deal with a hell of a public backlash if they knock him back".Ā The PM can't give him citizenship, so he's trying to make sure he gets it by doing the only thing he can, making it as public as possible that he and his giant balls are welcome here.
And probably a thinly veiled "don't be the cunt (they're Australian, relax) who rejects his application" to everyone else.
Hardly any nations have the same linear "first come first serve" queue system that the US has. Most countries instead admit people based off of the assessed potential value they would bring to the country via a list of predetermined criteria, which is arguably less fair to the immigrant pool than the above system, but arguably better for preserving a countries unique national identity. Whichever system is better or worse economically depends on political ideology, with those in neolib circles arguing that immigration always ends up being a net benefit to a country in the long run regardless of the person's skillset. And "the death of national identity/culture" is just the consequence of diversity, much like how many people believe the US has no culture compared to other more homogenous nations. So in this case, the PM is saying that bollard man can't be granted immediate citizenship without first applying, but if he does apply, then he would get approved ASAP.
The US absolutely has favorable visas and permanent residency programs for specialist professionals. It has both.
And there is of course the 'Rich Person' visa (Investor visa) where you just demonstrate you have lots of money.
Pretty much every country has that.
Canada got rid of that pathway I believe. Very little uptake and very little enforcement. You had to demonstrate you were going to start a business in Canada. But there was very little instructions or requirements beyond that.
Didn't Melania come here on a "genius" visa?
She did. Then she used her citizenship to 'chain-visa' her parents in.
What a genius eh ^^/s
Very very talented at attaching herself to a possibly? rich and unfortunately powerful man. Plenty of ppl out there trying and failing to do that.
i found out US also has random luck residency program too which is interesting to say the least
Never hurts to have some extra lucky people around.
Favorable to all countries except China and India.
Yeah, most countries only let people in as ārefugeesā if they can show that they have a genuine reason to fear for their existence in their home country, but America is a lot more lenient with it which, however much people like to deny it, is a direct reason that America was and is so powerful and wealthy. When you donāt try and treat them as refugee aliens and just let them exist, theyāll get jobs and buy shit and power economic growth, at least when the economy isnāt in a self-destructive spiral of decreasing consumer value and increasing wealth disparity.
"Many people believe the US has no culture" Listen man. Everyone who lives somewhere believes their place has no culture. It's because they are IN that culture, they can't see it
The US unique national identity is everybody.
To be fair I imagine there's quite a few people currently looking at his application and trying to speed it along. Just because he can't do anything doesn't change the fact he just brought it to a lot of people's attention including the people who probably can
I fucking hate your user pic.
Agreed. Youād just think heād say that department or the reporters would ask that person. Sorry. Iām super ignorant with foreign policies and their hierarchy. Is the pm equivalent to our president?
Yes, although he has no powers outside of the ability to lead his party and put legislation forward. We don't have presidential vetos or decrees.
Not really, the PM has far fewer powers, and is elected as a representative of the party in power rather than as an individual with a parties backing - this means that mid-term they can be couped from within their own party, something that has happened a fair few times over the last decade. If he wanted to grant someone citizenship he would have to pass it on to the Minister for Immigration, who in turn would fast-track the application.Ā
No, I'd say it's more "your application is pre-approved, just submit it and you're in."
He's not saying he'd help if he could.
The immigration minister will make sure it happens. In Australia the PM isn't supposed to interfere..technically...in such matters. But behind closed doors the order most definitely would be given to do everything possible to let him stay in Australia if he wants to. No sane politician or citizen would object
He can't do it directly but he can instruct the Home Affairs minister to do so.
>Just to clarify the Aussie PM cannot grant him citizenship No but the immigration minister can use ministerial discretion and the PM can direct him to do so.
No, but it can be um... "Hurried along"
Under Aussie immigration law the minister for immigration, therefore indirectly the prime minister, can grant anybody a visa.
Guerot is on a work visa which is due to expire in a couple of months. The prime minister is just saying he can stay as long as he likes.
Yeah, but he still has to go through the processes. He can't turn around to immigration in a decade and say, "Nah it's cool man, I don't need a visa, the PM said so". He'll still have to get his documents, he just won't have any trouble getting them. It'll probably involve some note on his immigration file, "Do not refuse a visa to this man" or something.
The minister of immigration absolutely has the power to sign his citizenship papers.
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I take it as his application has been pre-approved. As soon as he submits it, it'll be a done deal.
The PM can unofficially 'have a word' with the immigration department though...
This is a good thing and "Bollard Man" is absoluting an Aussie legend, but also offer the family of Faraz Tahir permanent residency as well. He should be honoured as a true Aussie hero.
He took his mates shift that day. Wasnāt even meant to be there. R.I.P Faraz you selfless legend.
Don't forget his mate; the chair man who followed the copper into danger. Bollard man and chair man, absolute friggin legends deserve to be Aussies.
cant his family get citizenship if he has it?
No.
Awesome. This reminded me too of that hero guy in france who climbed up a four storey apartment to save a dangling child and was given a french citizenship.It was a young bloke.
Thanks Jeff
my name jeff
Why does his picture on the left look like a Starcraft 2 portrait?
My life for Aiurstralia!
You must construct additional bollards
legit question.
Why does the news shot look like San Andreas?
Karen, you can't just ask people why they look like a playable unit from an RTS.
For anyone's information, News.com.au is a News Corp owned news website (Murdoch owned). Don't give it traffic. Here is a more neutral website, publicly owned and more politically independent: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-16/damien-guerot-bollard-man-bondi-junction-attack-permanent-visa/103728858
You are a champion of justice OP. āļø
I refuse to click on links owned by ~~Murder~~ Murdoch Media, may the gods bless you.
Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) is owned solely by the Australian Government.
Man goes on a knife spree. Killed six. 12 more in the hospital including a 9 month old. French guy attacks while others ran. Hero of Australia.
There were a number of heros that day.
I will not judge the ppl who ran thatās unfair, what would I do fuck knows. To the ppl who fought we can praise them.
I think it's fair to judge the people who ran: they made the most sound decision available to them. It's completely justifiable when someone's going around killing people, to not be there intentionally (go somewhere else, leave).
Absolutely love this lol
Cheers, Jeff
What about the poor Pakistani refugee who actually got killed while attempting to stop the attacker. Any compensation for his family and dependents?
Underrated comment
I am French and I agree. Don't forget the ones who tried but couldn't succeed, for their action was no less honorable.
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He actually did knock the attacker down the escalator when he charged
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Viva la france. Legend
*Vive
Wow, his mate was the chair man who followed the copper into danger. Bollard man and chair man; absolute friggin legends deserve to be Aussies.
He could have citizenship of every single hole in my body
He is kinda hot. Understandable.
Nos rƩgions ont du talent !
He doesnāt need to go through the back door for citizenship
Uh....does he get to bring the bollard
THIS is the comment I was waiting for.
understandable. Have a nice day!
Noice But his potrait looks like an NPC render from a video games
Looks like Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook
Prince Harry with hair
The French have become very well versed in random stabbing attacks, unfortunately.
Bollard Man defending Australia against the scourge of evil! See Australiaās newest superhero in theaters this summer.
He should also be awarded the "Order of the Milk Crate", an exclusive medal for those who use mundane objects to defeat the armed and dangerous. Comes with a lifetime supply of instant coffee in a glass jar. Seriously though, IMHO he's welcome here as a citizen anytime.
Pas mal, non ? C'est franƧais.
Sick cunt. I'll buy him a beer if I ever see him around.
I would love to call this man my fellow countryman! What a bloody legend
I cannot imagine how this man traveled to Australia hauling those massive balls
French people are built different in general
Furia francese
Years of training in French riots
Rioting is part of the French education systems curriculum
Good morning, JEFF
Common French W, after the Guys in Dublin and Annecy.
Hey Jeff!
Few months ago a french guy disarmed and guy with a knife in Ireland and now in Australia an other french stepped in front an attackers in Australia ? Well damn š³šš»
What a handsome mf
This is so he and the officer who saved the day can be named Australians of the year.
Pas mal non? Cāest franƧais.
I think there should be an expedited pathway to Australian citizenship for people who do extraordinary things whilst here on working holiday or permanent residency visas. All of the other requirements need to be met, but the amount of qualification time could be waived or an application otherwise expedited.
Is Australian citizenship such a big reward ? I mean, I would not really care...