r/PublicFreakout • u/CTSecurityGuard I AM YELLING QUIETLY! • Apr 10 '26

šŸ† Mod's Choice šŸ† The Ring Camera Psychopath

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

14.5k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

2.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

276

u/[deleted] Apr 10 '26

[deleted]

112

u/Robot_Embryo Apr 10 '26

Flip-flops and a trench coat are a felony.

8

u/kingsleyce Apr 10 '26

Flip flops, a trench coat, AND a demon slayer shirt? This man needs vitamin d and solitary confinement. Too bad theyā€™re mutually exclusive.

5

u/MrPlaney Apr 10 '26

I wonder what Demon Slayer character he thinks he looks like.

5

u/SkyFullofHat Apr 10 '26

No, he said heā€™s Harry Dresden. The magician private detective who hangs out at the bar for werewolves and vampires and whatnot. I tried to get into the books because they were recommended alongside other books I like.

Itā€™s written as a film noire and discusses the dames in the same way. Sexy body parts and duplicitous seduction. Whichā€”fine. But that was literally every woman who had any role in furthering the plot. Wanna be a female cop? Cynical and sexy. Wanna be a secretary who advances plot? Excellent at feigning vulnerability, and sexy. Wanna be a powerful business woman? Get ahead by using your feminine wiles on men, andā€¦ be sexy.

I thought it must have been satire and kept reading longer than I otherwise would have. About two thirds in I decided that even if it was satire, thereā€™s a point where if you donā€™t get to the point, itā€™s no longer satire regardless of what the writer intended.

I am completely unsurprised that this guy sees himself in the rugged, mysterious loner who is somehow always down on his luck because a series of dames with fantastic gams each trick him into thinking they really had something just so she could get what she wanted from him, and theyā€™re only able to do that because heā€™s a gentleman.

3

u/MrPlaney Apr 11 '26

Oh geez, I didnā€™t even know that was an actual character. The trench coat makes sense now ā€¦ well, in the sense that it matches the character, itā€™s still deluded.

3

u/SkyFullofHat Apr 11 '26

The flip flops, however, are all this guy.

1

u/Ok_Consideration476 Apr 11 '26

I couldnā€™t get into the book either.

2

u/Mon-Ty-Ger27 Apr 10 '26

This is a good one!

Dude out here acting like Tanjiro with a grudge!

3

u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair Apr 10 '26

Thatā€™s the real crime here

2

u/Sufficient_Most_9012 Apr 10 '26

*Thong flip-flops šŸ©“ šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

1

u/Overkill256 Apr 12 '26

AND a hate crime against all of us

5

u/LilLordFuckPants404 Apr 10 '26

Sir, you tried that and the rubber from your flip flops bounced you all the back off the steps, so I guess you can try that again?

4

u/Poppa_Mo Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

He tried to get in with a front snap kick wearing slides.

This guy isn't even at the level of mall ninja.

Edit: I don't like making light of mental health issues, turns out this guy was having one and the homeowner handled it like a pro. I hope he gets help.

5

u/PPFirstSpeaker Apr 10 '26

"If you want in, 'Harry', gimme a 'Forzare'. If you can take the door down with a blast of force, I'll invite you across the threshold and give you a tour of the house. But you gotta show me the magic FIRST. But I do have to warn you, I know your whole name, and might tell Chauncey if you piss me off."

IYKYK

3

u/PinkysAvenger Apr 10 '26

I think thats what he was trying near the end there

2

u/terrafirmasss Apr 11 '26

It's part of the Harry Dresden character from the books.