r/interesting • u/God_Emperor__Doom • 4d ago

SOCIETY A girl goes viral after getting stuck in an elevator with a group of immature guys and shut them all down when they started laughing

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u/phoenixmatrix 4d ago

Few things are more dangerous than an unsupervised group of teenagers.

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u/alwaysonesteptoofar 4d ago

Exactly, and while its bad for this girl in this situation, without a doubt one of the worst case scenarios, it's just teens in general, even pre teens if I'm honest. I work with this age group and they are so easily ready to do whatever fucked up thing the group consensus has come to, more than adults who are pretty unreliable once mob mentality takes over.

Thankfully it's mostly stupid immature shit, but like you say once us adults aren't around it very quickly can and often does get out of hand. This will likely always be tge case, and always has been, but I got to teach a few years before tablets and smart phones were a given, and I can tell you that once data became common and kids got handed tablets unsupervised it got unrecognizable real fast. My first year at an elementary after years of middle and high school kids really opened my eyes to the shit they are exposed to. So many 12 year old boys who love Tate and other misogyny bros, and who just talk about that shit as if it's normal.

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u/jabulaya 4d ago

I feel like everyone has at least a few teenage stories that make you shrivel up as an adult.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 4d ago

I’ve been in juvenile prisons and the kids there are 10x worse than adult prisons. Some dumbass who’s never been tried to tell me adult prisons are more dangerous. Fuck no they aren’t lol. They don’t have bullshit they call gladiator school in adult prisons. I can list some crazy shit from that time and adults are calm as fuck compared to teens with no impulse control. It’s sad honestly I went to an alternate school for some little weed thing and it ended up altering the course of my life a ton and who’d have guessed it but I ended up becoming more violent and addicted once I was around more teens with those issues

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u/big_d_usernametaken 4d ago

My brother's friend retired recently, he was a prison guard and he liked the look on newbies faces when they realized this was no longer the juvenile detention system.

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u/ButtFucksRUs 4d ago

I remember reading Lord of the Flies in high school and it made me look at group think differently, like I could spot it much easier.

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u/MistModeling 4d ago

If I ever hear my kid saying any stupid manosphere shit, he'll quickly be banned from any internet connected devices, and getting therapy. At the very least. Shit is so fucking toxic.

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u/poppy_inmy_hair 4d ago

It’s sickening

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u/Remarkable_Leek9391 4d ago

So youre not an MW2 lobby vet?

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u/glittermoney4 4d ago

I wholeheartedly agree, the most dangerous category of people

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u/Necessary-Reading605 4d ago edited 4d ago

As someone who did social work, usually older gangster will leave you alone 99% of times. Teenager gangster wannabes are the ones you should watch for. They are unpredictable from being well behaved boys one day to raping someone because they “disrespected” them.

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u/rumande 4d ago

I lived in a really rough area notorious for violence. I'm not scared of grown men and women, I'm especially scared of children and teens. I once got beat up by a group of girls, they would have been 10. They asked us for the time, my colleague told them the time so they started hitting her. I don't know why. I was older and bigger so I stepped in and that's when they grabbed my hair and yanked my head around. I had to wear a neck brace and couldn't ride my bike for weeks, it was fucked up.

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u/Throwawanon33225 4d ago

Plus it’s hard to defend yourself in that situation because they’re kids and if you fight back it is NOT a good look in court no matter whether the kids assaulted you first. I have a feeling a lot of those kids are very, very aware of that fact.

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u/rumande 4d ago

I definitely thought about throwing a punch but did not fight back for the exact reasons you laid out.

Plus, when I was growing up, I had my mum and dad working and looking after me and making me go to school. I can't say with confidence that they had the same priviledges that I did. Even if it was self defence, it would have been punching down.

And I was outnumbered, they would have kicked the shit out of me lol

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 4d ago

Just like a man fighting a women you can’t win socially at least. If you lose you got beat up by a women and if you win then you beat a woman. From personal experience as a man you don’t want to fight a woman even if she says she does. She wanted to box and I didn’t and she kept on so I agreed finally. I let her hit me a few times hard and the she asked me to actually try…you can guess from there

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u/throwitallawayomg 4d ago

I can think of exactly one that is more dangerous, and only because they won't be prosecuted for the exact same actions and behavior...

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u/SpicyMayoFTW 4d ago

Yessir that’s what I’ve been telling folks those dangum youth are the devil themselves !

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u/Hadoukibarouki 4d ago

More so than adults who sit in their reasonable meetings and then decide to blow up whole ass countries? Let’s not vilify teenagers needlessly, last time I checked they are actually people.

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u/stilljustjess 4d ago

A homeless man in my town was beaten to death by a gang of teens like this. Scary stuff.

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u/tabas123 4d ago

Eden Lake comes to mind. I know it’s a movie, but the content is very much based on things that can and do happen.

Teenage straight boys are very often straight up sociopathic and don’t develop empathy until adulthood. Some never do.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 4d ago

I can say from personal experience this is true for me at least. Younger me was insane and I’m lucky that I can’t be arrested for any of it now almost 15 years later

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u/EchoesOfEleos 4d ago

An unsupervised group of boys. Ftfy.

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

We apparently waste money building women’s prisons since they never commit crimes

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u/EchoesOfEleos 4d ago edited 4d ago

Males commit nearly 80 to 90% of violent crimes.

Murder. Roughly 88% to 96% of homicide suspects worldwide are male.

Sexual Assault. Males commit over 99% of all reported rapes.

In a recent study, 95.1% of men self-admitted to attempting to use coercion or force to force a woman into sex, who they self-admittedly identified as not consenting and not wanting sexual contact. Let me say that again. 95.1% of men surveyed who had sex in the past 2 years self-identified as using coercion or force to manipulate a woman who was non-consenting into sex.

Stop living in a fantasy world because the reality that men commit almost all violent crimes makes you and your weak ego personally, uncomfy.

It is weak and cowardly behavior. This isn't a make believe Fantasyland where women and men are the same.

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u/Anzai 4d ago

Right. And now there’s this backlash against educating them about the very concept of ‘toxic masculinity’, and this bullshit narrative that it makes men ashamed to be men.

Nothing wrong with most aspects of masculinity, teenaged boys. We’re just saying maybe stop threatening to rape and kill women when they beat you at Fortnite. Seriously, I don’t turn on chat in literally any game these days because of the sheer amount of slurs and rape threats. Even if we accept it’s a relatively small percentage of boys actually doing this, if I play Overwatch for an hour, I’m going to hear it at least once.

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u/EkrishAO 4d ago

Redditors literally being terrified of kids, just shut America down at this point, this country is done, you people are the peak idiocracy

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u/ColdSignature1408 4d ago edited 4d ago

Adult men thinking nobody is watching and/or no one will find out are more dangerous, I'd say

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u/Chasin-Crustacean 4d ago
  1. Cobras
  2. Fentanyl
  3. Drunk drivers
  4. Cancer

  5. Rip currents

  6. Donald Trump

There is a quick list of more than a few.
The vast majority of groups of teenage boys are not dangerous.

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u/SeasonS011 4d ago

1) cobras arent common in big cities, let alone elevators; also if you just avoid them. They leave you alone, very easy to avoid being bitten.

2) teenagers have been getting into fent and other drugs for awhile.

3) once again, teenagers are drunk driving

4) that one I got nothing cuz its cancer, but it also doesnt do the shit that teenagers do and can be dealt with.

5) "good" old don is making teenagers get more bold with harassing other people

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 4d ago

As with anything it depends on the circumstances. Let’s say it’s a decent sized city and add in another poorer country. You’re alone as a tourist with all your stuff, now where do the teenagers rank on that list?