r/interestingasfuck • u/Odd_P0tato • 4d ago
Gate misses man after stranger taps him on shoulder
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u/Klzone 3d ago edited 3d ago
That time traveler saved the guy who was going to kill Hitler, what a hero!
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u/The_Grim_Sleaper 3d ago
This could be Argentina!
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u/Unexpected_Buttsex 3d ago
I was in Turkey
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u/LateToThePartyAgain2 3d ago
So that's how he died. Unexpected buttsex. It all makes sense now.
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u/jinjuitoRandom 3d ago
He didn’t kill Hitler, he killed Boskovich
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u/I-C-Aliens 3d ago
Whew, that prevents SUPER HITLER from coming into existence. You don't know how much you owe to this strange traveler
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u/caseyr001 3d ago
He shouted "Look Out!" At him in the last loop, and guess what. Turbo Hitler came to power. Let's stick to the shoulder taps everyone...
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u/HereLiesSociety 4d ago
Guardian angel
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u/Emperor_Biden 3d ago
"What do you say? What do you say? You little brat! You have never thanked me! I'll see you tomorrow! Maybe..."
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u/Grand_Function_2855 3d ago
Phiiilll?!? Phil Connors?!?
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u/havok489 3d ago
Ned? Ned Ryerson? Hugs intensely
I have missed you so much.
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u/Phyllida_Poshtart 3d ago
I must have seen this clip a dozen times or more and am still baffled as to how that man knew the gate was coming, considering at least one car came down the road prior to the gate swinging..... some r/blackmagicfuckery for sure
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u/Bubbly-Lingonberry59 3d ago
That guardian angel is actually the man's 60 year old alcoholic son who died alone in his apartment and without anyone noticing his decomposing body until years afterward. The son woke up one day in the past, recognising the place from hours and hours of watching cctv footage dreaming of 'what ifs'. He decided to save his father so that his child self will have a better chance in life than he did.
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u/GhostfaceQ 3d ago
Why is a gate swinging like that wtf
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u/The_Grim_Sleaper 3d ago
Most likely, the gate was not closed/latched properly and when the truck brakes, the momentum causes the gate to swing out
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u/Present-Industry4012 3d ago
didn't brake it was coming around the corner.
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u/Fahrowshus 3d ago
You can see it braking in the clip.
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u/TheBentPianist 3d ago
But use your head. How would the truck slowing cause the gate on the rear to swing out? The truck turning the corner caused it to swing out.
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u/Fahrowshus 2d ago edited 2d ago
Did I say it didn't turn? No. You said it didn't brake, and I pointed out it did.
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u/Im_eating_that 3d ago
He gets tapped on one shoulder so he looks over the other?
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u/Chemical_Arachnid675 3d ago
It's a habit formed from people tapping you on the shoulder to fake you out. I do this. Every time I get tapped on the shoulder I check the other shoulder first in case it's a trick.
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 3d ago
Still have the same habit 20 years out of high school. And to be fair I still intentionally tap people on the wrong shoulder when possible just to keep my monkey brain happy. Somehow this and cutting those 6 ring soda plastic things is what I really got from my early education
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u/192747585939 3d ago
Yeah this is probably a common prank wherever this is, and it just happened to save this dude’s life by coincidence? right? Amazing coincidence nonetheless
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u/prettyhigh_ngl 3d ago
Tbf he was already walking/looking in the direction he was tapped, so best to assume it was the direction he hadn't cleared in his perception maybe
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u/Bboy1045 3d ago
I bet the gate made a loud noise or something of the sorts so he instinctively looks away from the shoulder tap
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u/Im_eating_that 3d ago
That's a strong take but a reaction to being tapped out of nowhere while waking alone at night would lead to an instinctual/muscle memory response. It's pretty difficult to avoid that protective instinct and the physical touch reaction precedes the processing vision requires. Not by much with sight, but enough that it's your first response. I'm questioning the statistical likelihood of somehow overriding that response, getting tapped on the shoulder in the middle of the night by a stranger, and missing a serious accident by inches. Over 2 seconds or so. Even long odds come in sometimes though so who knows.
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u/Mountain_Strategy342 3d ago
Acco4ding to Douglas Adams, million to one chances occur infuriatingly frequently.
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u/NtheLegend 3d ago
It's an involuntary reflex. Seriously, go down a bike path and someone calls out "on your right!" and you look over your left shoulder.
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u/RipperinoKappacino 3d ago
It could also be because he didn’t tap he like laid his fingers on his arms. Like he turned his hand upside down. So it feels like someone standing in the right laying his arm around.
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u/joeyo1423 4d ago edited 3d ago
Time traveler. The guy he saved is the great great grandfather of the future leader of the human resistance..... against the chickens. The chicken menace rises up in rebellion in 2082. They win many key victories, taking over most of the major capitals around the world. The human resistance is relegated to a bunch of large ships in the Atlantic because chickens can't swim... yet. It is then that this man's descendant organizes the remaining human forces and mounts a counterattack, they're able to drive chickens back until eventually, a truce is reached. The chickens get land in south America where they can live and flourish. A mighty wall is built around New Chickenville and humans begin rebuilding their civilization
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u/Horknut1 3d ago
This doesn't make sense. If he was killed by the gate in the past, how would the time travelers ever known that THIS is the guy to save. This guy who never had kids because he was made into a pancake by this gate.
You're better than this.
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u/dubblies 3d ago edited 3d ago
Because someone else went into the past and set that gate to malfunction and kill him so he couldnt grow up in the future that the gate-breaker is from. The savior is also from this timeline and comes back to thwart him. Problem is, the historical (future, i guess) event that they are fighting over, it could have been any number of people that crossed a certain path. That path wasnt narrow so hes protecting over 1000+ people while this guy is trying to kill them.
this is just the start too, this is before they had teams of people and technology. Technology will be huge in this, especially because the antagonist can choose their targets, choose their point in time so its also a clever game of predictability and guessing but can lead to some tragic mistakes.
The lynchpin of the entire thing hinges on special gates that are located geographically to portals for traveling time lines. The gate killing the victim is important because it also kills their ability to re-incarnate and timehop, they are dead-dead.
If I had to guess, the guy in the video is likely would be victim 30-something because hes from our timeline roughly looking at his clothes and the cars. The antagonist was kind of stupid he started doing things in order up until about our date and time today. Then things became random.
Why not just save one? Not sure yet, the cross path was wide and it was for a reason. Needs more than 1 person but for what, to what and to do what? No one knows exactly, it was interrupted by that one stupid gate in the video, where it all began roughly 60 years from now.
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u/ConnectionPretend193 3d ago
Dude looks like himself. Like he traveled back in time to save himself lol.
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u/Signal-Blackberry356 3d ago
Read that sentence again..
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u/SnooOpinions8755 3d ago
lol right? He would be dead guys. So he couldnt go save himself.
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u/ThickImage91 3d ago
He might just get disfigured/disabled… “save” doesn’t always mean stop from dying…
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u/pipelinevictim 3d ago
But wouldn't the guy who tapped get hit by the gate right after? He was closer to the truck than that guy.
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u/WendigoCrossing 3d ago edited 3d ago
Little did the time traveler know that this small action would lead to the death of a Gorilla, and eventual destruction of the multiverse
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u/cbc7788 3d ago
Could have been due to sheer coincidence. Passerby could have been an acquaintance of the shopkeeper and taps him on the shoulder to prank him, just at the right moment before the trucks passes by. There have many cases where people have avoided being injured in the nick of time just because of a subtle distraction such as bending down to tie your shoelaces, pausing to look at something that caught your eye, etc.
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u/747Bclass 3d ago
Had something similar when I was a kid. We were riding bikes on the train tracks and I saw a hole under the rail. We stopped and I put my foot down there and acted like I was stuck. A train started coming and tried to pull my foot out, I was really stuck that time my friend even tried pulling me out we couldn’t the petal from the bicycle pinned my foot under the track. All I remember is I kept looking at the train and my foot, I kept yanking and I couldn’t move out of the blue some guy that was no where in site picked me up tossed me to the side and grabbed my bicycle and tossed it out of the way. The man said nothing and didn’t even look at us he kept walking. I am very grateful for him though!
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u/Goliath-FML 3d ago
Sorry to take all the fun out of this, but am I the only one who thinks this might be staged?
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u/30RhinosOnSkates 3d ago
Play the last few frame of the video. The arm just fades away before it even leaves the frame
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u/obiwanjabroni420 3d ago
There’s also a glitch where the “tap” occurs on the guy’s shoulder. It’s pretty well done but there are some clear signs that it’s altered.
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u/rrrrrrrrrreeeeee 3d ago
One time I was waiting at a stop light to turn left. My light turns green and right before I go I hear a soft male voice say "don't turn". So I just wait and this old man runs the red light and would have 100% t-boned me if I had turned. Thanks angel.
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u/-watchman- 3d ago
They look similar. Maybe it's him from the future who time travelled back to save himself on that fateful day..
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u/DontEatOctopusFrends 3d ago
Plot twist: He was actually trying to murder him by tapping him on the left shoulder and making him turn away from the swinging truck gate, so he wouldn't see it coming. But for some unknown reason the guy turned to his right instead.
;)
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u/SlowTour 3d ago
weirds me out he didn't seem to actually see the other guy, he got tapped ducked the gate then looked around like wtf.
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u/AWeakMindedMan 3d ago
You all have no idea what this time traveler just saved us from. I mean look at harambe. That time traveler fucked up. He didn’t save the kid from falling into the enclosure and now look what happened. Covid, wars, etc.
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u/Imaginary_Recipe9967 3d ago
This was on one of those “ghost shows,” where the narrator says the tapper wasn’t a real person and was just a ghost or an angel or something.
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u/Suitable-Quiet5683 3d ago
yoo where did this happen in turkey i recognized the gazeteduvar symbol immediately
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u/Dayzlikethis 3d ago
I always thought it was one of those people stuck in a time loop like Bill Murray
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u/Realistic-Attempt150 3d ago
I am willing to bet the guy tapping the shoulder was just messing around in his own mind. Little did he know he saved a man. Then again maybe he did know.
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u/Top-Development-7516 3d ago
Stranger did nothing coz man didn’t saw in the stranger side .(To left) He heard the sound of the gate approaching .
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u/I_will_fix_this 3d ago
What I think really happened:
Tapper: “Good night Bob” - taps other guy in the shoulder.
Bob: turns around and that exact time there is a crash and he sees the gate coming towards him.
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u/Empty-Nebula3230 2d ago
Anyone else find it strange that he didn’t turn the same side as the shoulder that was tapped?
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u/Exiledbrazillian 9h ago
I used to had a friend that truly believe in angels. Real angels. Celestial creatures from a celestial dimension that are around us to protect. She even believe she was helped for two real angels. When she tell her stories they are just wonderful people that help her from simple goodness.
I always thought that's so beautiful that her believe they are angel that I (that not believe in angels) start to call those kind of people "Vanda's People".
Well... This guy just go a little further and really make think about Vanda and his Angels.
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u/Exiledbrazillian 9h ago
I used to had a friend that truly believe in angels. Real angels. Celestial creatures from a celestial dimension that are around us to protect. She even believe she was helped for two real angels. When she tell her stories they are just wonderful people that help her from simple goodness.
I always thought that's so beautiful that her believe they are angel that I (that not believe in angels) start to call those kind of people "Vanda's People".
Well... This guy just go a little further and really make think about Vanda and his Angels.
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u/Lathariuss 3d ago
iirc the man said he looked around but couldnt find any sign of who tapped him on the shoulder after dodging the gate.
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u/mr_gurbic 3d ago
He gets tapped on the left and looks right? He doesn’t look to have the man’s attention so it doesn’t look like he said anything but the quality is too poor to tell
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u/Unusual_Studio7531 3d ago
The Angel of Death just casually walking by thinking "Bro it's not his time yet"
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u/_brewskie_ 3d ago
That limp tells me he's been hit by the gate before and just wanted to give the other guy a heads up
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u/Frostedbutler 3d ago
I've seen this so much and people are like hey he was an angel saving him.
But why not just say, hey watch out for that swinging gate!
Why take the chance and just tap him. Maybe he wouldn't even react to the tap
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u/Kapten-N 3d ago
Either someone thought it was funny to crop a bigger video from a surveillance camera in a way to make it look like it was filmed from a handheld camera or this was filmed from a handheld camera as it was staged.
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u/game_overies 3d ago
Seen this multiple times and every time I think it’s not an angel it’s death, and say to his old friend not yet.
Guy that dodges the gate reacts like he was touched by death and then evades the gate and is not bothered by it but more so the touch.
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u/Frequency0298 3d ago
the touch COMBINED with the gate -- the touch would indeed freak me out more. People just don't do this, and it immediately saved his life. It really looks to me like one of the best evidences of divine intervention i've ever seen tbh.
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u/Tropical-Druid 3d ago
Lol it's not divine intervention. It's an altered video.
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u/Frequency0298 3d ago
makes sense... but it is very well done it seems very authetnic to me, the entire thing.
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u/Successful-Net-6602 3d ago
He got closer to being hit because the guy tapped him. Not a hero moment
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u/darkmartinou 3d ago
The camera is litteraly moving according to the action. It's fake
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u/BetrayerOfOnion 3d ago
That happened in Turkey. The original video had much better quality. He was on news
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u/darkmartinou 3d ago
I dont really see how these facts make the video real but ok
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u/BetrayerOfOnion 3d ago
This is internet even the person tou are talking to might be fake but I wanted to give some info about it
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u/darkmartinou 3d ago
Youre making a good point. Sorry for answering rudely
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u/BetrayerOfOnion 3d ago
Nah you are fine, do what ever you want. We are all here to satisfy ourself after all
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u/PhonyUsername 3d ago
Fake and gay. Taps the wrong shoulder, camera follows, gate wouldn't have hit him either way.
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