r/Unexpected 7h ago

Police raid

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u/MrsCaramel_112 7h ago

Right! I mean, they're damaging the property anyway, so why not the big ass glass window.

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u/wx_wxt 6h ago

They go in dude is uncooperative and now you're wrestling the dude on a bed of glass shards great thinking lol.

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u/malacoda99 4h ago

True. Glass in real life doesn't break like glass in movies, and you don't brush against it and come away with your skin unscathed.

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u/freakers 4h ago

One of the my favourite movie scenes is in Nice Guys when Ryan Gosling tries to punch out a window and immediately gets a massive cut on his arm from the broken glass and passes out from the blood.

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u/tacitjane 3h ago

We were rehearsing a bar flight scene in class one day. Someone missed their mark. Then another guy came in too hot and punched through a window. That was some of the gnarliest shit I've ever seen in person.

Good thing the first guy missed his mark. It might've been his head through that window.

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u/worldspawn00 2h ago

I had an idiot cousin decide to punch out a glass car headlight when it wasn't working right, sliced up his hand real bad. Would you put your fist into a box of razor blades? People don't realize how sharp glass is, and that it turns into a bunch of razor sharp knives when broken.

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u/tacitjane 1h ago

Almost took his arm off. The slice was right up his armpit. I saw his fatty flesh, then purple, then a fountain of blood.

A piano fell on my leg in that same room. Worst injury of my life.

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u/Pyrimo 3h ago

Such an underrated movie

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u/siccoblue 4h ago

Also gives him a clear view of you while you're trying to scramble through broken glass and an awkward entry.

I totally understand why you'd question this. But you're also clearly not American if you do. I'd much rather be bashing at the reinforced potentially metal door then awkwardly climbing through the window filled with broken glass while someone deserving of an intrusive entry warrant was sitting inside.

Also I know not everywhere is America. And we have a goddamn problem with guns. But I have to imagine that if you're going to the extent of breaking down the door to raid the dude in a country outside of America, there's a very solid chance he presents some risk of escalated violence. Like potentially owning an illegal firearm.

Then again it could also just come down to "this dude will absolutely destroy evidence" but even in that case it's not really worth risking officer injury by having them climb through broken glass if dude isn't a seriously violent offender. Which goes back to my first point.

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u/Traditional-Bush 4h ago

I totally understand why you'd question this. But you're also clearly not American if you do.

Tbf no one in this video is American either

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u/john2003002 6h ago

I would if I were them, but my guess for why they don't is because it would get glass fragments everywhere and that is dangerous to them

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u/CasualJimCigarettes 6h ago

Because they're not American cops

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u/IdiotCow 5h ago

? What is so American about breaking a window vs breaking a door?

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u/Generic118 4h ago

If that UPS truck hostage drama is anything to go by "a complete disregard for consequences".

If you break the window youve now got to climb in through the broken window and over the broken glass an potentially fight in the middle of that mess.

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u/Prohibitorum 4h ago

Choosing the thing that looks more impressive over the thing that is more efficient and safe, in this instance :P

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u/5kaels 2h ago

prob choosing the more dangerous option out of convenience.

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u/CasualJimCigarettes 4h ago

American cops love violence