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This is hilarious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x2oJWQrd_Y

yakety sax music intensifies

"I'm too old for this shit"

He really wanted that bike back

See this is proof that police have to use lethal Force because they're so fucking lazy and worthless they can't even jog without almost dying

Looked like GTA except the cops didn't immediately open fire.

Didn't shoot him because he's white?

That’s cause he’s white

Isnt this why they supposed to have a partner?

He would've been fucked if the cop had gotten on the bike to chase him instead

That was almost over. He was way too winded to escape that taser shot when he did. But glad it ended happily

Cop is running like he just ran a marathon in waist high snow.

Because the cop would have had a heart attack and then he'd be charged with murder?

He would have, but the darn trigger was so heavy he wasn't able to pull it!

Cop is running like Frankenstein's mind was teleported into his body mid-stride.

GRR! ARGH!

OG gaming version

A lot of police departments moved away from two person patrols years ago. You’d have to look up the specific reasons but my guess is cost reduction.

He literally used video game kiting strats to pull him away from the bike so he had enough time to sprint to it and mount it.

It was pepper spray

This is a good example of why all y'all should be working out! When the revolution happens, you need to be at least so fit.

I agree except for one thing. should a revolution even happen, people will be fighting for their lives.

neither of these men were fighting as if their lives depended upon the outcome.

nothing motivates better than the real threat of death.

still, get fit and you only increase your chances of survival.

Hate to break it to you, but kiting was a thing before video games.

But yes that is also where I learned the concept.

Bro kited that cop away from his bike like it was an MMO, absolutely marvelous talent.

Haha still got pepper sprayed twice for it

Or at least be fitter than cops. Which as a 200lb guy who only eats KFC once a week, I already am. I shouldn't be.

Yet they have the money for military vehicles strange.

I don't think we as individuals have a choice anymore, it is being made for us as we speak. Everything is getting much more expensive and wages are remaining flat. There's a lot of hungry people, and a quick death is preferable to starving.

...lol I'm trying to decide if you're informing me that kites predate video games, but also I find it hard to believe that you didn't know what a kite was until you played video games.

A lot of those are surplus and likely given to departments or sold for very little. That practice has contributed a lot to the militarization of police in America.

That should all be taken away from them though. Most of their guns too. A country as developed as the US shouldn’t require an armed para military force to police its citizens and, arguably, the US doesn’t require one.

Kiting, a verb, not kite a noun. Kiting is the acting of moving away from an enemy while they chase you.

This is America. Cars, tactical gear, and military vehicles are cheaper than an employee with benefits like healthcare, workers comp insurance, etc. way way way cheaper.

And cops that were actually held accountable and had an actually legal duty. https://youtu.be/7muy6mMpp20

I looked up the etymology on "kite", and it's quite interesting. Apparently, its original use was to describe a hawk whose call sounds kind of like "kite". Then it was used more generally to describe all birds in that family.

The kite toy was named after the bird, because the bird tended to try to sit on some wind while hunting, so it was basically hovering like a toy kite.

The action of leading an enemy around is named after the toy kite, because a kite in flight is always the length of the string away from the person flying the kite. So, like if you tried to run from the kite, it would always be the same distance away chasing you. You're leading the kite around on a string. And so you would kite an enemy in the same sense.

So this post got me curious to the etymology of the term. And from what I've been able to discern, the term seems to in fact originate from gaming.

I mean, obviously the tactic pre-dates recorded history. But 'kiting', in regards to the term itself, doesn't seem to be a thing before video games.

Why does the cop, the more heavily-armed of the two, not simply shoot the other man?

Oink oink

The Frankenstein trope did the creature dirty. Both Dr. and creation were basically geniuses. The creature in particular taught itself how to speak and iirc read/write all by discretely observing some peasants, and how to cook by just experimenting with raw ingredients + fire. If the Dr. that made it actually nurtured and trained the thing, the pair would have been unstoppable. But, that's the whole spiel of the story - he got cold feet, treated his creation like shit, and that came back to bite him in the ass again and again.

If you can tolerate the oldish English, the Mary Shelley's original story still holds its own - definitely recommended, if for no other reason than to appreciate how Frankenstein in media since then has missed the mark fucking hard.

A country as developed as the US shouldn’t require an armed para military force to police its citizens and, arguably, the US doesn’t require one.

...we need an armed paramilitary force to police our politicians. I mean, on paper we have one, but in practice they seem to just follow a domestic enemy's orders with no thought at all so long as that enemy is holding an office like POTUS.

YES!

Whether he was actually guilty is besides the point, you gotta respect the game.

But it gained widespread knowledge worldwide as a tactic thanks to RTS.

Ask a kid what kiting is, and they won't refer to Genghis Khan.

It's funny because we seem to retroactively assign the term to ancient military tactics. I doubt they called it kiting. They'd probably call it ÖRGÛLŸK, and every Mongolian worth their salt would know how to perform flawless ÖRGÛLŸK.

Go sit at the pec deck for another 30 minutes you fat fuck.

He's running circles around him.

I think it's Paperboy

Seems fake

One for the good guys.

ÖRGÛLŸK

and now they sell them to anyone at Ikea.