Problem Solved With No Effort | People Stories

[@milky1234123]

The drug dealer story at the 9ish min mark really shines at how even "bad" people can help someone in need

[@VzDeath]

I think it was my favourite story. Just hearing the fact that just treating someone with some respect when most everyone else doesn't can get you in their good graces.

[@mrwess1927]

@@VzDeath everyone deserves baseline respect and kindness

[@indridcold8433]

It is extremely important to never ask for help from anybody. It is no longer safe to ask for help from anybody, nor receive it. If the person rendering help decides to rob you or gets hurt while helping, you could lose a lot or even get injured.

[@BREAKocean]

I don't even think of them as "bad people" they are survivors of circumstance. And they probably saw video store guy as that as well.

[@Solkard]

Was there a reason given that he didn’t call the cops?

[@throwawayaccount9150]

I did bake sales for my club and we had the idea to use a food cart to go around campus and sell the remaining snacks. I made the mistake (sort of?) of going to an area where druggy kids would hang out. These dudes were huge and buff for high schoolers and possibly had gang connections (Idk I heard rumors) they spot me and start gazing at my cart. They're high and craving so I sell a decent portion to them without being robbed. After a few times of selling via cart to them, one of them dubs me "oreo girl" since I had those six packs of them and he'd buy the rest of the stock every time. There were times where someone would mess with me, and out of nowhere you'd hear a loud "HEY!" And there would be that guy shouting at whoever was bothering me. All he would say was that I was oreo girl and others would immediately back off. I tried asking around and I guess that guy was the leader of his group and kept me safe as long as I kept selling him oreos. Never cheated me either or learned my name, paid all the money everytime along with his friends and kept calling me by that nickname, just REALLY liked oreos.

[@roomba4520]

This story made my day

[@partysuvius]

He’s oreo boy then 😆

[@britvica]

You were his sister from previous life

[@Cheezymuffin.]

Proffesionals have STANDARDS!

[@BREAKocean]

Oreo queen, and the oreo queenguard

[@thelonggame9166]

13:45 The dog might have been able to hear a barely perceptible sound of the hydraulic jack under strain.

[@ArcanineEspeon]

That's exactly what I thought.

[@TheOriginalFayari]

I was the friend, apparently. For context, I was part of the Taekwondo varsity team in college and was decently well-known as one of the Taekwondo guys in school. Anyway, one day a classmate thanks me out of the blue for saving her the other night. The thing is, I had no idea what she was talking about. Turns out, she had been getting followed by a couple of drunk assholes, and she had run into the nearest convenience store from our school's dorm buildings trying to lose them. They followed her inside but I just so happened to walk in right after the two guys, looking for a quick bite to eat. I saw her and walked up to ask her about a required reading that our Chemistry professor assigned. I didn't even notice the two guys, and after buying some stuff in the convenience store, my classmate insisted I walk her back to the dorm buildings.

[@merlink.7287]

That's awesome! The best good deeds are the ones you aren't even aware of doing

[@gnhun101]

Great job. Wish she gave you a heads up though, you could have easily been attacked before you could defend yourself or even recognize the threat.

[@suburbanmama0062]

Jack stands save lives. Please always use jack stands. My guess is that the dog in that story could hear the jack failing and alerted his person.

[@nixonsprguy3629]

Got to know an older dude when I was jobbing part time during uni, older dude was tattooed from head to toe, many localised motives tied to Liverpool, which is rare in Germany. Long story short: Dude was a big shot in the English organised crime during the early eighties and has spent decades on the run before spending 1,5 decades in prison. When we met, we really bonded and started a genuine friendship. He was somewhat glad to be treated as normal dude, without caution or fear and I enjoyed the stupid decisions his anecdotes spared me. One time I got into trouble with some rocker guys cause they didn't like me interfering while they harassed some girls. Yeah, stupid af. One of their superiors who regularly was a customer at my work came by incidentally and just slapped the loudest of them repeatedly while yelling stuff along 'If you idiots get me into trouble with the brit I'll mess you up worse than he will me.' Yadda, Yadda, some words of reconciliation and a few beers and confused me walks home trying to grasp what just happened.

[@Skips10]

that first one hurl got my respect

[@RobGradyVO]

Hurl the realest of Real for real man

[@boxedfender4810]

I'm wit Hurl.

[@goatsoldier7078]

Hurl is the hood jesus

[@WillLundyMusic]

I’m working in the Hough neighborhood today. I’m gonna ask some folks about him

[@beriagms6654]

@@WillLundyMusic and did u ask???

[@SmileyFace123Lolz]

That's coolest type of person. A chill badass or a gentle giant

[@cchastant8251]

I'm walking through the church to where my class is held, and pass the kitchen. In the kitchen, a woman is panicking because the oven is locked and on fire. Only on the inside, but still. Not sure why I was so very calm, but I pointed out that the air vent was under a back burner, and if she cut off the air, the fire would go out. She stared at me for a moment as that sunk in, dropped a towel over the correct back burner.... And the fire snuffed out. I calmly walked on, my work there complete. She managed to thank me, and all was good.

[@Kayenne54]

My eldest girl, 14 years, was grilling sausages under the electric grill on the stove. One of the sausages kind of popped and threw fat upwards, catching fire. She screams, waving her hands. Younger daughter, age 11 years old, walks in, turns off the grill, wets a tea towel, throws it over the stove top; gives her sister a disgusted look and walks out without saying a word; fire is out. True story.

[@paxhumana2015]

@@Kayenne54 , and older siblings say that they are the smart ones.

[@Ninetails2000]

"A procession of hoopties" is one of the most hilariously intimidating statements I've ever heard.

[@tigerstrike7]

I was skiing back country with a couple of friends but they got ahead of my and the Binding on my ski broke. This resulted in me only having one ski to ski on, separated from my group, in deep powder, with no cell service, high on a mountain, in the fog. I started to panic as I definitely couldn’t walk down the mountain in my boots and I didn’t have the tool to fix my skis. It had been about 15 exhausting minutes of wading down the mountain in deep powder when I fell and tore my ACL. Laying there in the snow I thought I was going to die, cold and alone, lost in the mountains. When all of the sudden a stranger runs into me. He has the tool to fix my ski in his pocket, and he fixes it. I was able to ski through the pain of my knee and make it down safe

[@danielmizrahi9629]

goddamn melody, that sounds terrible. i hope your in good rythm now

[@regirock7313]

Dude was a guardian in disguise

[@dannyandeson6221]

if i’m ever in a bad situation i’m saying im wit hurl and hoping for the best

[@dayuttas9693]

😂😂😂😂😂 this had me Rollin idk why

[@eater_of_plastic4189]

Same

[@XyThree]

In ‘94, I was walking home from school. On the other side of the street, there was a girl walking along with about 5 other kids, maybe 15 feet behind her. I was in 4th grade at the time, they were from the local middle school, so in my mind they were in their 30s (children’s logic). Anyway, they start calling her name and taunting her. She’s steadily walking, carrying her books, head down, not responding. There were 3 girls and 2 boys in the group. The one girl starts gaining speed in her walk and says something like,” you don’t hear me talking to you ****!!!” Yup. I’m terrified at this moment. The group starts laughing. Now two of the girls are pushing her. She’s not defending herself in any way. Next - WHOP!! The one scutter bucket knocked her upside her head. She drops her books and IMMEDIATELY started crying. I’m steadily walking slowly on the other side of the street but screaming for her on the inside. Now they all right up on her. Laughing. Calling her names. And randomly punching her. Smh. It still makes me sad when I think about it. This older man pulls over, jumps out of the car and lays them out! Grabs the girl from harms way and tells her to gather her things. Tells them his address and says he’s got some youngins their age that love to fight and to meet him there since they have a lot of energy. He told the girl to point her house and either get in his car, or he’ll watch her home. Back then, out neighborhoods were like, if you didn’t know someone, 99% of the time, someone you know did know them. I felt so helpless and hurt for her. 27 years later, I still feel that same hurt for her. It was heart wrenching to witness and be so helpless 🥺😪

[@dragonpee]

I was a truck unloader and I was joined by someone who was very reckless. I saw cans at the top and they were pulling boxes from the middle. I quickly jumped onto the conveyer belt and caught a case just as they were about to smack them in the head. They yelled at me "what the fuck are you dooooing, do your job." I instinctively yelled back "OK, the next time I'll let the cans break open your fucking head." It wasn't until we were instructed to talk with HR that they realized that I saved their life.

[@CalebIsAnOldNerd]

I'm glad to hear the Littlest Hobo is still out there protecting kids still.

[@katlynklassen809]

Maybe tomorrow he will learn to settle down

[@jessemack6283]

Until tomorrow, he'll just keep moving on.

[@madkirk7431]

@@jessemack6283 but tomorrow, he will finally have a day off.

[@CooperAATE]

On that last story: What kinda idiot gets OUT OF THE CAR when they know there's a bear?!?!?!

[@PrajnaIsPrajna-exceptPrajna]

And there it was, a wild hippo, I then left my tank only to die

[@Fridelain]

Just drive away, let natural selection have its way

[@Xerdar36]

Hurl is a bad arse… We all need a Hurl in our lives.

[@paxhumana2015]

I might not be as big as Hurl, but I try to be like him attitude wise. My skin, hair, and eye colors might not be the same, but I will defend those that need it in their lives.

[@noranizaazmi6523]

@@paxhumana2015 you go my dude!

[@nicholasszabo5954]

@@paxhumana2015 username really does check out.

[@LINKINPARK262]

I just realized that I did something similar for a friend over 30 years ago. Never really thought about it that way until now. In 1988, everyone hung out at the arcade. A friend of mine and I were taking turns playing Galaga and my buddy went to get quarters while I played. About 5 minutes passed before I started wondering what was taking him so long so I killed off my last two ships and headed to the change machine. My friend is very obviously Native American and, as I approached, I saw 5 guys talking sh*t to him. You know, the usual 'we don't like your kind around here' stuff that always gets under my skin. So I walked around the guys, whose backs were to me, and slid in between them and my friend as I turned to face them. I said, "If you want him, you have to come through me." The look on the 'leader's' face was one of complete shock. He actually said, "You're going to defend him?" All 5'3" 115 lbs of me said, "Yeah, I am." I started getting loud about it and the employees seemed to take things a lot more seriously when a woman started getting loud than they did when 5 or 6 guys were. Got me as to why. The 5 guys were kicked out for the night. They came back on other days but I never could get my friend to come back there with me. Can't say that I blame him. For the record, I would've fought for him even knowing that I would lose. Sometimes standing up for a principle means taking an a** kicking so people know what you stand for.

[@paxhumana2015]

I prefer kicking the asses of the trouble making trolls that start shit with me because when someone challenges me to a fight, short of literal Divine Intervention, I will clamp down on a fight like a Tasmanian devil does to its prey and fight more viciously than a honey badger.

[@LINKINPARK262]

@@paxhumana2015 I couldn't fight my way out of a paper bag. Fortunately, when a tiny chick invites someone out to the parking lot to fight, most people will not take them up on the offer because A) they figure that, if you're initiating the fight, you must be a really good fighter B) engaging in a parking lot fight with a girl that's half your size isn't a good look for anyone; win or lose. I would've beeen screwed if anyone ever said, "Ok, let's go." Still, I would've gone through with it because you're not supposed to just sit back and let your friends get their a**es kicked, right?

[@carinahare9102]

@@LINKINPARK262 when I was younger my dad would take me to the pub with him after I finished school sometimes. One day there was a group of 6 black guys starting a fight with 2 white guys. One of the white guys was getting absolutely battered and the other was cowering away. Doorstaff came and beat up the six guys and the one who hadn't already been beaten because he didn't even try to help his "friend"

[@LINKINPARK262]

@@carinahare9102 I'm not defending the guy in any way but some people just freeze when something like that happens. I'm not saying that that's what happened here, just that it happens sometimes.

[@jdsimmons97]

I agree

[@Tarantio1983]

The only time I've had an experience like this I was working in a community outreach program, knocking on people's doors and asking them about how to improve the neighbourhood. Well, this kind of job is done in very deprived areas... so I'm working in this crappy housing estate, like properly known as a very rough area (as in the police will only go there if they have more than 3 officers in the area). So I'm supposed to go house to house and visit every house in the area, unbeknownst to me I happened to knock on the door of the biggest and badest drug-house in the area... The dealers weren't expecting me, didn't want some do-gooder trying to improve the neighbourhood and certainly didn't want me saying what I saw in that place ... weren't about to let me walk away! Randomly, a local motorcycle club with strong ties to first responders and military personnel rolls down the road (in their way to a famous biker bar in my town... They see crackdealers trying to drag me in the house, hear me shouting "I have to go back to the office and prep paperwork before attending the town council meeting tonight" .... They don't want bad shit happening because several are ex-cops, so the pull up and tell the dealers to drop me "or else", dealers try the "or else what?!" manoeuvre only to be told that 3 riders are ex-SO19 (high-end anti organised crime unit in London's Metropolitan Police) and could have the building raided in 5 minutes flat or they could put me the fuck down and get raided tomorrow... So I got turned over to the bikers, taken to a pub and given a pint ... Found out that an "anonymous tip" was called in about the house and some very heavy-handed armed cops raided it within the hour!

[@jdsimmons97]

Sweet.

[@madelinegarber7860]

That’s kinda badass.

[@ajarthatsred5649]

35:08 idk why but hearing “this is where things went wrong” back to back was hilarious

[@CooperAATE]

I'd never go ANYwhere with the dumbass friend

[@thaismagalhaes5928]

When I was 5, I got lost in a supermarket, I panicked and started to cry and run aimlessly, a lady found me and took me to the security booth where they called my parents.

[@hankogle6858]

I had a 5’6” stocky built Uncle. I never saw him being violent. I was what his crew would call a pretty boy. Well dressed more interested in hopefully picking up girls. When I would walk in a rough bar or place my uncle was. When I got the stare he would say “hey don’t even look at him “, I love love that kid. Then everyone was nice to me. I later started asking his friends why people were scared of him. They all said the same thing. If he can’t beat you,he will carve you with the smallest knife. To me he was just a great person. I loved more than any of my family

[@geeruturtle1859]

I was probably 5, we are in a family outing at a public swimming pool. My mom was preoccupied with my 1 year old sibling and my dad was probs drunk. I was looking at the deeper part of the pool thinking it wasn't really that deep when the truth was it's probably about 7ft. I jumped expecting I could handle the depth of the pool, but then started panic swimming when I couldn't feel the pool floor. So for awhile I was just waving my hand around in a failed attempt of swimming when suddenly a man in a standard, white and black, security guard uniform jumped in the pool and saved me. My mom told me that he even have his issued gun when he jumped in the water lol. My savior came in a security guard uniform 🙃 what a bro.

[@Raini_Water12]

"Go eat a Twinkie" is probably the funniest insult I've heard.

[@carinahare9102]

I could be reading into it but it might be a gay insult. Twinks is a name for more feminine gay men I think. Idk just my opinion

[@Garvant_]

@@carinahare9102 I think its pretty clearly a fat insult they say the guy was big in the story right, i dont think it has to do with gays at all

[@meghanconner3681]

@@carinahare9102 not everything is gay wtf is wrong with you

[@cchastant8251]

Could go either way, actually. Works for both.

[@ekiller5689]

R.I.P. Fine Doggo. You are a pure soul

[@brendawaggoner7555]

I was part of a ladies church group that traveled from our small desert town to LA for a church conference. Our bus was propane powered so we had to stop in a weird industrial area in a very scary part of LA. You know a bunch of nicely dressed church ladies are going to stand out like chickens in a foxes' den here, smiling around the parking lot. There was a very long wait for some reason, and some homie gangbangers started milling around picking a very young blonde lady to try and cut off from the rest of us. No one knew what to do, we ladies weren't going to start throwing punches with these dudes. Someone came up with the brilliant idea of linking arms and forming a circle around her. It was non confrontational just a show of solidarity and protection so the guys gave up and left. I was very proud to be a part of it.

[@shadowthehedgehog4737]

Dogs are much smarter than people give them credit for. I'm sure that jack was showing signs of failure, possibly dropping slowly.

[@carinahare9102]

Dogs are very aware of people's capability as well. My dog always used to sleep by my side because I was the youngest in the family and the smallest ( except my brother that she couldn't get to). They sleep by the weakest so they can look after them if something goes wrong. It always used to make me so happy that she was sleeping next to me

[@brandonjeffery8023]

@@carinahare9102 Dogs really are awesome. This sounds obvious, but I've never really experienced having a dog as a close friend until about a year ago. Someday I wanna get two or three dogs of my own. My dog belongs to my sister so I won't be able to care for her for much longer. In about three months she's moving 8 hours away.

[@rdred8693]

Hats off to Hurl. Hope you're still doing okay

[@Katharina-rp7iq]

I kinda saved a friend once by showing up. My friend was very drunk and called me because she couldn't find the train station at night after a party. She saw a street name and told me, so I drove there (30 minutes drive at 2 in the morning, I was sleeping in bed at home and just hopped in my car in my nightgown). When I arrived she was completely out of it and a guy had her half undressed right there in the entrance of a shop. He ran away as soon as I stopped the car and sounded the horn and I could take her back home before anything else happened (her pants were still on and she was asleep. I took her to an emergency doctor's just in case and it turned out someone had given her knock out drugs. She didn't remember any of this the next morning.)

[@colabama]

Thank goodness Miss K!

[@cherchikatilo3032]

I used to be a supervisor for Starbucks in SF CA. I made friends with the homeless people there by striking a deal. They left my customers alone and I would leave a bag of goodies down the block by a trash bin. Cool, deal was made. 1 night I had two bags and was walking towards the trash. I was going to leave one bag and give the other bag to my friends/family when this man tried to rob me. He held a stick at me and I threw my wallet on the floor. Yeah, I was going to kick his face in if he bent to pick it up , but what happened next was cooler. The homeless people ran from everywhere and flanked me in a phalanx! The lead homeless man was the one I had befriended two months prior to this night. They would be mugger took 1 look at me and ran. I took an espresso brownie from the bag, picked up my wallet, and handed both bags to the man. He smiled and said “you have friends.” I never felt so thankful 🥲 in my life.

[@frosttheweavile461]

Hurl is a cool guy. Always appreciate friends like him.

[@arentol7]

I was in the Kansas NG after a few years regular army, walking down a line of command carriers. Just ahead on top of a carrier I see a private standing above a generator that has flames shooting out of the gas tank, still holding the gas can in his hands. I climb up, put my leather gloved hand over the gas tank opening. Wait about 20 seconds, remove my hand, glove now has a slight imprint from the top burned in. I tell him "always turn it off first", climb down and walk away. It was truly trivial to me, he was scared as hell.

[@cchastant8251]

So similar to when I was perhaps 17, and prevented my church from burning down! Woman was cleaning the oven, which caught fire. As it was a self cleaning oven, it locked to keep people from foolishly opening it as it ran the cleaning cycle. At this point, I casually cruise by, pausing as I see her panicking. I ask what's wrong, and she pointed to the fire, still contained. Never so glad my stepmom made me clean the top of the stove at home. Reminded her calmly of the vent under one of the back burners, and if she cuts off the air flow, the fire will die. She stared at me blankly for a moment, thanked me, dropped a towel over the correct burner. Seconds later, and the fire is out. Nodding, I left for my class.

[@QrowxClover]

Ok, so I was the friend in this scenario, and will probably never be the person in trouble, because I'm SUPER cautious since I grew up in a really bad area. Anyways, when I was a kid, I saw this kid getting picked on by other kids. In a physical way. Then, one of them pulled a knife, and that's when I intervened since I'm not having a death on my conscience. Anyways, because I grew up in a bad area, my mom trained me in martial arts. In standard terms, I was probably around 1-2nd degree black belt level back then, and I haven't trained in the art since because of the bad memories it brings up. Anyways, I obviously knew how to fight and disarm people with weapons, specifically knives, so I got in between them and told the bullies to stop. The other two(weren't with knives) weren't going to do shit. They were enablers, but not exactly strong. They really just egged the physical one on. So because of this, it was a 1v1 type of situation. I asked him politely to stop. He tried to stab me. I disarmed him and broke his arm with a common metacarpal takedown, and the other kids just ran off 🤣. Anyways, that kid is now my best friend for I think 17 years now. EDIT: The kid I saved, not the bully 😂

[@thenut7246]

Back in middle school I was walking home from school. In the winter two random kids started bullying me out of nowhere. I didn't know who they were, or what I had done, but one held me in place while the other shoves snow down my jacket, filled my hood with snow, and dumped it on my head. I struggled to get away but the first kid was taller and stronger. Some random guy driving by stopped and yelled at them to get off me. Surprisingly, the kids immediately complied. If you're reading this, thanks for saving a fat boy just outside Howard T. Herber Middle School back in 2000 random guy.

[@CurtisDrew1]

I was sitting in front of a house on a curved road in a residential street in my Service truck doing paperwork for my service ticket I'd just completed. I noticed a 5 yo kid riding his bicycle on the sidewalk and up & down the driveway of the next house on the side of the street I'm parked on. Then I see him roll into the street to make a turn around to go back in the driveway, but fell over in the middle of the street. About that time I hear a Car gun it coming up the street way too fast. I look in my trucks mirror and see two teenagers in a 70's Camaro with the drivers foot hard on the accelerator pedal. My pickup is on the inside of the curved street and I realize it's blocking their view of the kid laying in the street about 20 feet in front of my pickup. Without thinking I jump out of my pickup and looking at the driver, while standing in the middle of the street, I raise my hand like a cop telling him to stop. His eyes get big and he stomps the brakes and starts skidding at me. I think he's not going to stop in time, so I turn and run to the boy in the street and sweep him up in my arms and dive to the side of the other side of the road. As I grab him I catch the bicycles handlebar and instinctily flip it up in the yard a few feet away from where we land just as the car with it's brakes locked up slides past us. The little boy starts crying and his Dad comes running out of his house and see me getting off the ground with his kid. Then he catches the bicycle still bouncing on the grass and he loses it. Before I can explain anything Dad is screaming at me for throwing his kids new bicycle across the yard and starts threatening me for grabbing his kid. I look at him in disbelief and walk back to my pickup and just get back in to drive away. (I wasn't wanting to have an angry Dad confront me.) I see the neighbor across from the Dads house come walking out of his garage and starts calming the Dad down and pointing around and I assume he's explaing what just happened. The boys in the Camaro see we are not hurt so they gun it and are gone in seconds. Dad picks up his crying son and walks back into the house. Not even a thank you look! TRDL I see a boy about to be run over by a speeding car and jump in front of them and save the kid, but get cussed at for throwing his bicycle. Never heard anymore about the incident from my Bosses. Just glad I was there and able to react in time.

[@colabama]

I'll say it, Thank You Drew, you were MAGNIFICENT!

[@potatokitty]

I will happily be the defuser in random situations.

[@sokefunful]

The kid that roared and tackled that kid saying sexual terms had me dying of laughter.

[@darthlazurus4382]

I'm a Highlander. Used to live in Inverness about 10 years ago. It was the end of the month so the place was wild on Friday nite. I'd been drinking on my own and just wanted a wee walk before I headed home. I was just going by this small Tesco, when I found this Polish lad vomiting and looking miserable. I checked up on him, made sure he was okay and we wished each other a good nite. Little bit up the road, on the other side, there was a large group of drunk dudes, around 20. One sees me, and slowly walks towards me, arms wide taunting me in Polish. His mates were following him all grinning. I was in trouble and really didn't know what to do. Guy was getting closer and was looking crazy. Suddenly, angry Polish shouting from behind me. Sick man walks past me like a disappointed dad. I'm guessing it was "Stop being bastards and leave the guy alone", I dinnae speak Polish but that was the basic feeling. Wind just goes out the crowd and they sulk off. Another time, when I was about 12, I was killing time at this farm not far frae Glenelg and befriended this dog. Cannae mind the breed, like a collie, but with rich brown fur. We played fetch for a bit, dog actually throwing the stick back to me after I threw one to him. Was good Craic. Later on, I was walking by the farm when I heard the sound of Doom. A goose was charging me. I just fucking ran as that was my only option, goose chasing me. Dog saves me, bashing into the goose and throwing it back. Goose was unhurt, and I think they hae done this before. Dog was keeping between the goose and I, as I was the one the goose was going for. Dog kept goose busy while i got the feck out. I shouting "Good dog!" As i left.

[@sleepinghermit7778]

Start a story with "I'm a Highlander" and my only thought is "there can be only one"

[@darthlazurus4382]

@@sleepinghermit7778 That happens more often than you may think. I was actually at the filming of the Castle scene, behind the crew, with my Granny. I'd have been about two.

[@toakovika]

Yeah, it only took two words’ spelling to let me know you’re *definitely* a highlander.

[@BreadApologist]

As a professional coward, who put almost all his real life skill points in shyness and fear, I will never be the type who jumps in to do anything like these.

[@karlkarlson3502]

You're braver than you know! ;)

[@renaysari6631]

The one where the guys say's he wants to fight I love so much! That shit saved my ass many times. I grew up in Detroit, so knowing how to fight is a must. I can't tell you how many chicks would try to fight me, usually when I am by myself. Well I learned if you act crazy enough, they leave you alone. So whenever, I was approached like that, I would get this big smile and start jumping around yelling, "Eff yes, finally, come on bitches lets go.", then start putting my hair up, telling them I don't want ya'll to grab this shit when I am punching your face. LOL Worked every time. No one wants to deal with that crazy bitch that shows no fear in the face of three or four chicks.

[@paxhumana2015]

23:10, I knew that Jim Brown was awesome, but this makes him legendary.

[@ClamantesDaemonium]

I'm a simple camping enthusiast; I see moose carcass, I decide to leave ASAP

[@cchastant8251]

Your sense of self preservation is fully intact!

[@rene0]

So i was sailing with a friend, long time ago. He'd never sailed before but loved to try. Ofc i let him do as much as possible so he was at the helm and steering. Teached him how to take point on horizon, keep course. watch the wind etc. Well, this being late 90's or early 2000's, he had this new gadget. GPS device. His garmin was tracking the route. Well, all cool. But i tell him, steer upwind. No seriously, steer upwind. He ignored me. Kept watching his GPS. We were going more downwind and over, as he was steering a full circle. He was about to make an uncontrolled jibe. Him, sitting proudly on the backboard. Us in a small sailing vessel, the boom a feed lower than his head. I took over control. Moved 12 feet towards back of the vessel. Grabbed the helm, moved upwind while possibly controlling the boom. Took only a mere seconds to get the boat into safer condition. Not sure what was said after, me likely some like 'wtf you doing' but he, being insulted that _I_ decided to take control of _HIS_ helm and boat he was steering. Up to the day, dude doesn't realize i saved his life or at least a brain fracture and a possible drowning right there and then. With only very little seconds safety to go (actually already too late, blame me for being bad and unsafe instructor, usually i trust my friends). We didn't talk much ever since. He is such smart engineer yet fails to understand basic physics.

[@paxhumana2015]

Well, if he was so smart, then he would obviously not do something so stupid to not only himself, but also to other people.

[@nicholasszabo5954]

Hurl, Ed, Jim Brown and the Gang. Now that is a crew I wouldn't mess with.

[@209Twinz209]

What a video... I laughed, I cried a lot, i almost started even. Great batch of stories. Shouts out to all our guardian angels out there... saving our asses when all hope is lost.

[@alisterfolson]

I was boogie boarding off the coast of San Diego and current took me. 2 surfers out of nowhere got a lifeguard. Thank God.

[@waitwhat1029]

Went into a real close knit neighborhood to see a friend. Got lost. Went to the WRONG house. Got held at gunpoint. Friend walked up behind me and said nah it’s cool… That’s the end of the story. We went and got something to eat. I tried to pretend like I didn’t almost piss myself. 🤣

[@18videowatcher41]

I once had a (presumably drunk) guy come up to me and some friends at a bus station and he told me he didn’t like my hat, which had the logo of a sports team on it. I apologized and took it off, only for him to laugh, say that he was just kidding, and that it was a nice hat. Suffice to say, I was simultaneously relieved and weirded out.

[@mamasaurus4856]

*TL;DR - Chased off three intruding neighbors on other neighbor property while they tried to steal animals and their son was home alone.* Not a stranger, but my neighbor was out of state and called me, which she rarely did because she knew I hated calls, so I answered because I assumed something important was going on. Her son was home alone, and unable to stop our other neighbors (rural, neighbor meaning one or two miles apart each) from harassing and trying to steal their animals. Calling police would mean a long wait, and in Tennessee things often fall into the law of possession, so any stolen animals may not come home so easily. I *hate* when people harass and scare kids or animals, and when I got there, I couldn't find her son and the pig normally scared of me ran to me and "hid" at my feet. I spotted two women and one man, and flew into what must have looked and sounded like a nutjob rage. The women immediately got in one car and left, leaving the man to be chased off the property to his truck and livestock trailer by me after I grabbed the donkey he had hold of and had been spraying with a hose (she was elderly and blind, so she was frozen in place until I called her by name and let her smell me). The dude mock charges me with his truck while I continue to snarl insults at him until he leaves. I turned and went to find the kiddo, who had tucked himself away beside the house out of sight. Left him to put critters back in their places, informed his mother all was safe now, and sat on dull gaurd duty at the edge of the driveway until everyone and everything was locked up. Don't know how little me chased off three other adults by myself in less than three minutes, and with no violence, as those particular neighbors were known for anger issues, being mean drunks, and theft. But oh well.

[@kenny995]

Me and my friend had to stay in a sketchy hotel at midnight because her car broke down and it was the closest place. When we parked and a guy came up to the window and started talking to us, the window has already been slightly cracked. He was being rather creepy and insinuating. He asked so how old are you girls and without skipping a beat she said, I'm 16 😊 (we are in our 20s). Man said awe hell no and booked it out of there.

[@Karma-wm7rt]

Hurl was most likely high up in some way. You don’t offer the beer you are drinking to a random guy your friend knows…

[@sleepinghermit7778]

If you're from a getto or two you would know that there are always some guys everyone knows you just don't mess with. Not because they're connected in any way, but simply because they have already shown people what they can do all by themselves.

[@Mr420prophet]

❤"maybe he was waiting to apologize properly"

[@SI-ln6tc]

Yeah that would be pretty bad if that was his intention.

[@ManiacalBlueberry]

Though I highly doubt it.

[@slowfudgeballs9517]

Being nice to the "wrong" person can often change their life with that random act of kindness. Similar to the chef guy at the start. However, I'm not sure what the outcome of that man's life was but it doesn't change the philosophy. If they can respect you, they are not 100% gone.

[@karenglenn6707]

I don’t know if this counts,but whenI was a stupid 14 year o.d I used to hitch bike a lot (this is Australia in the 70’s). I had an o,Def a pick e up and when we got to the area where I wanted to get out, he had a tight hold of my wrists d wouldn’t let me out, asking inappropriate questions. I was terrified,, he was talking about taking a drive up to the mountains. Just then, I saw my friends big brother (he was tall and muscular) and he saw me in this car and waved and started walking over. I told the creep that it was my brother and he virtually shoved me out of his car in fear. So Dale. Redman, where ever you are now, I don’t know if you remember a very hysterical girl just hanging onto you, but I have never forgotten. You saved me from being raped if not worse. So unbelievable to see him walking down this road at the right time. So lucky and I was an idiot.

[@jorgem368]

I know this is crazy but some of these stories say that they had someone just appear out of nowhere and then leave once they were helped out. Sometimes it makes you think if these are just angels that come to help you out. I'm not religious but it really those make me believe that they might just be real.

[@mrcthulhu47themad45]

Or bored demons

[@Fridelain]

Either people that get embarrased when thanked or in a hurry

[@wolfie1703]

It wasn't dangerous but i want to tell this story. I have a cool ring. It has a flower and on that flower is a black cat charm. My friend gave it to me, and it's super important to me. Me and this group of kids were helping put away some bikes, and in the middle of doing that i look down and see the black cat on my ring is missing. I get super scared and tell everyone in my group except for one girl to keep an eye out for it. 20 minutes pass and nothing. I was looking really hard and i still couldn't find anything. I was sad. Then i realize, i haven't told this one girl. I tell her and she's like 'okay i'll tell you if i find it' She walks over like 6 feet, and says 'ooh! i found it!'

[@tyrellhewitt5923]

Never thought Brockton would ever be mentioned 😭

[@indridcold8433]

I have no friends. I must solve everything myself, without help.

[@Kayenne54]

You WILL get help when you really need it. Usually a total stranger, though.

[@indridcold8433]

@@Kayenne54 I am isolated socially. I go weeks without seeing another person. It is doubtful there will be anybody to help. Thus, I am always figuring ways to do everything alone, including first aid.

[@indridcold8433]

@@Kayenne54 I was thinking of what you wrote a few months ago. You are correct. A stranger would likely assist me in a dire situation. First responders are strangers to most people and are constantly helping others. It is their vocation.

[@brandonjeffery8023]

Some of these stories make me respect gangsters more than ever.

[@Mustlehard]

14:28. Bushwick is nowhere NEAR as dangerous as bed stuy lmao

[@pianomanhere]

Really enjoyed this one. Very interesting and unusual.

[@aubriethegreat8175]

Well, I can't really remember a time a stranger helped my like that or when I was the stranger who helped someone, but I do remember a few times when I was in a situation where everyone else was freaking out and I just calmly figured out the best thing to do. There was this one time when I was about 5 or 6 years old when I was playing in a little blow up kiddie pool on my back porch. I decided to try to jump into it from as far back as I could. I missed, and my knee landed on a nail sticking out from the wood. Blood began to run down my leg. I sat down on the patio chair and asked someone to get me a bandaid. It barely even hurt, though it looked like it should have hurt a lot more than it did. My younger sibling and younger cousin were there too. My sibling just kinda stood and stared and didn't do anything or say anything. My cousin proceeded to completely freak out and scream at the blood running down my leg as if I'd just gotten mauled by a bear. My dad heard him screaming and came out and got me a bandaid. There was another time when I was about the same age. One of my neighbors had dogs that would roam around the neighborhood all the time. One of them was deaf. We were playing outside on our driveway, and my sibling notices the deaf dog sitting in the grass off the road looking at us. This dog was never aggressive, and we had seen it plenty of times before. It was just bored or curious. But my sibling got really scared because it was bigger than them and hid behind me. I told them to calm down and that it wasn't going to do anything to us. It walked up to us. I slowly put my hand out for it to smell, to show it we were friendly. Then it nudged my hand, trying to get me to pet it, so I did. Then my sibling ran away. It just wanted some company and love. I don't know why it freaked my sibling out so much. My dad used to scare me and my sibling and my cousin when we were playing together sometimes. Once he pretended to be the "rock monster". He had told us about the rock monster earlier that day. We went up to my Papa's house for dinner that night, then the three of us went outside to throw a ball around. There was a pile of small rocks to the side of my Papa's driveway which we were playing on, and it was dark outside. He creeps into the woods, methodically making noises as he heard us notice the sounds coming from the woods. He hid behind the pile of rocks and proceeded to growl like a monster and my cousin and sibling went sprinting towards my cousins house. We all live really close to each other. I figured that the sound was my dad and after a few seconds, followed the other two at a fast walking pace and tried to console them. He also scared the three of us one time when we were having a sleepover at my Papa's house. We had gone to catch fireflies in my cousins front yard. We were having fun when we heard a sound coming from a driveway about 15 feet away. There was some kind of creature. We heard it again, and my cousin began to speculate about it being a bear or some bad man with a gun who wanted to hurt us. I was a little freaked out too but trying to be a calming force I told them that it was probably just a possum and to not worry. But my cousin was already too scared for that to help and started screaming and beating on his moms door to let us in. It was locked, she was in the middle of doing the cat litter and didn't understand what he was saying and told him to wait. Apparently unconcerned that he was afraid for his life. My dad finally revealed himself and chucked as my cousin and sibling broke down sobbing. My aunt was annoyed with him for that. I'm pretty sure my cousin is still bitter that his mom chose the cat litter over him.

[@pr0xZen]

When I was 16-17 or so I was a very scrawny kid. Mild mannered, friendly, in no way a big mouth or anything like that. There was a military base just outside of town with about 200-500 American soliders stationed there. The day before was the conclusion of a big winter NATO exercise (this is a small'ish city in the arctic, not NA), and some of the Americans from the base were out partying, blowing off steam I guess (because unlike the 15-20k other soliders at the exercise from all corners, these guys were stationed nearby so they weren't shipping back home). I didn't have a lot of friends growing up. I was always bullied (at times very violently so) by "everyone", so making friends was hard. The few I had were either other victims of bullying, or other social rejects from out of town, that were never "in" with the local social culture so they didn't have much to lose to the stigma of being my friend. At around 15-16, through several oddball circumstances, I _did_ find social "home" with a group of other social rejects and troubled youth. We would party together, very hard and very regularly. But we were mid teens, we had no places of our own, so these parties would often happen at the apartments and houses of _the suppliers_ for these parties. And thorough that, I somehow gained social acceptable and inclusion with a very different crowd. Of adults. What one might (rightly) call the seedy underbelly of our little city; It's adult drug dealers, torpedos and other hardened criminals. In my mind I was still a timid outcast with no one to turn to. Sp when I left one of these parties to go to a friend's dorm to fetch some spirits, and ran into these drunk American jarheads on the street, I felt quite helpless. Without provocation they pushed scrawny, timid 17 y/o me into an alley, and beat me down. After regaining conciousness and returning to the party all bloody with a broken nose, split lip and two black eyes, it turned out I did actually have more friends than I realized, that would stand up for me. Some of them big mountains of men, who literally roughed up other shady men for a living. A gang of probably 30 hardened adult troublemakers and as many teens of similar nature, flooded onto the streets to find these jarheads. They didn't find them that night, but they were identified, and kept eyes out for. Word of what kind of determined people were looking for them got spread back to their base. Upon hearing of why, what they did to some random scrawny kid in the nearby city of a different country they were guests of, it quickly became clear that none of the other American soliders on base were going to have their backs, and most wanted nothing to do with them off-duty. As technically it is constitutionally illegal to host foreign military on our country's soil in any permanent manner, American soliders stationing there are on an 11 month rotation. And being such a relatively small base, there's not much to do there to pass time (this was before owning personal computers and having internet access became common among the general public). As a result of this situation, those 3 coward a-holes didn't dare leave base after that incident, until they rotated pit of there 5 months later. And they don't return for the next rotation. After that, I never had any issues with bullying, nor did anyone get in my face again.

[@adamchmielewski6162]

A bully about to punch me, my hunk of a friend just pushed him away like a bulldozer.

[@ThornUponARose]

I'm the friend who solves it with apparently no effort lmao

[@potatokitty]

Are you good at sudoku?

[@ThornUponARose]

@@potatokitty I just so happen to have absolutely no clue how to do sudoku

[@karmakameleon113]

Same. Lol A lot of the time, all it takes is a non-threatening person or a person who's removed from the drama or accident to talk potential attackers down or give level-headed advice.

[@katyl8487]

The hero German Shepherd was the lil'est hobo.

[@pirategirl1588]

I got dragged to a bachelorette party, because I was a bridesmaid in the wedding. We went to a bar and I don't drink alcohol, because I have a ventriculoperitoneal shunt in my brain and a few sips of alcohol give me a horrendous migraine, because the shunt causes the cerebral spinal fluid to drain out of my head so slowly. Anyway, this dufus who is 30+ years my age comes over and starts flirting with me. I have a fiance and no interest in trying to hook up with anyone else. The people in this bar were crammed in there like sardines and after flirting with me, he goes across the crowded bar, and comes back 8 minutes later, with an open bottle of beer. There is no telling what he could have put in that beer to try and take me home, on top of the fact that I don't drink alcohol. He set the beer down in front of me and I ignored it. After a few seconds he points out that he bought the beer for me. I told him I don't drink alcohol. He says he bought it for me. I tell him I don't drink. He asks me why. I told him I have a ventriculoperitoneal shunt in my brain. Those 10 syllables blew his drunk mind! He pushed the beer closer to me and I pushed it out of his reach. One of the ditzy bridesmaids (who was already drunk after being in the bar less than 30 minutes) comes over, plops down at the table, picks up the beer, and chugs it. The man hitting on me, the other sane bridesmaid, and I all looked at her in disgust. (The ditzy bridesmaid drank enough that night to wash anything that may have been in the drink out of her system). From there, the man grabbed my lower arm, with his hand, and continued trying to sweet talk me. When I tried to pull my arm back, he used his other hand to grab my arm further up, and pulled me out of my chair. He had a huge beer gut and was taller and stronger than me. I started to panic, because I thought this creep was going to abduct me! Thank Heavens, the other sane bridesmaid realized that this creep was trying to pull me away! She jumped up, grabbed the man by the arm, and calmly told him that we needed to go find the bride and the other bridesmaids, but we'd be right back. He let go of my upper arm, I yanked my lower arm out of his hand, we ran out of the bar, and didn't go back, nor did we let the bride or other bridesmaids go back. I'm so thankful she was there to rescue me!!! In short: Much older and bigger creep tried to pull me away, inside a bar I was dragged to for a bachelorette party, and as I panicked, the other calm and rationale bridesmaid in that wedding calmly pulled the man's hands off of me and we ran out of the bar!

[@ibotygo598]

Harold = "Hurl"? Just as The Walking Dead. Carl = "Curl"?

[@Ninetails2000]

27:51-Once is cool, twice is a coincidence but three times? At that point its destiny bringing you two together as buddies. If it weren't for the hot girlfriend, I'd say that was even destined boyfriend material.

[@abw1317]

I remember the hood of my car flew up and smacked my windshield while I was on the highway. I pull over since its halfway hanging by a piece of metal and in 2 hours from home 4 from my destination, but cant drive because of the hood. Rusted beater of a truck comes barreling towards my car, stops, cuts the hood off with some tools and ask if he can keep it because scrap is 50 cent a pound lol. I drove the rest of my trip with no hood praying that it didnt rain.

[@drakardmexigun7280]

Dog saving his master was directed by an angel.

[@S_mitty]

Too often it sound like their grandpas ghost "i turned around and he was gone"

[@get_lost6227]

I don't know if this would count, but I was at the bus-stop with my guy bestfriend cause I was a nice day outside, and it's not like buses come around since it's a Saturday and the stop is only for school. Anyways so I'm sitting and he's standing. And some guy walks up and sits very close to me. Some guy in his 50s. Mind you I'm a teenage girl in shorts and a tank top, because it's hot outside and the only person with me is my bestfriend. Anyways so I obviously get creeped out, and then the man starts involving himself in our conversation. I eventually fake look at my phone and declare that my dad had texted, saying that I had to be home in 5 minutes or he'd come get me from the stop. Letting this guy know A. I don't live very far away at all, and B. My dad knows where I'm at. So I get up and my and my friend have to go separate ways, and I'm halfway down the hill to my house when my flip flop breaks. My dumba** tries to fix it, because I'm white and that's what we do in horror situations apparently. I try to call my friend but my brightness is very low and it's sunny outside, so I can't pull it up. He calls ME and says he waiting at the top of the hill, and asks me why the hell I'm trying to fix my flip flop. He also said the older man was staring at him, as if waiting for him to leave, and later my mum found that guy passed out drunk in his yard. I am convinced that if it wasn't for my male friend there, who's pretty sturdy in figure, something would have happened.

[@paxhumana2015]

33:49, wow, that is an awesome story.

[@fufufuaru]

5:07 this made me laugh the most 😂

[@maureenlaneski2802]

Love the Kurt Russel story!

[@carinahare9102]

I have bad depth perception so I often misjudge the amount of time I have to cross the road before a car gets to where I am. I've almost been hit quite a few times and every time it's been my friend next to me who's tugged me out of the way

[@sleepinghermit7778]

Please use the crosswalk, your life isn't worth the few minutes you're saving by not.

[@nuclearsimian3281]

25:15 Holy shit, its just Ed from Ed, Edd n' Eddy.

[@sleepinghermit7778]

Don't know what you're talking about double d.

[@13vatra]

I bet it wasn't a coincidence for that jack breaking story. I bet the dog could hear the jack was starting to break. Obviously the dog didn't know what it meant, but figured his human shouldn't be near it while it made a sound imperceptible to humans. Dogs are oddly intuitive.

[@VzDeath]

Bet it was the same gangster that stopped both of those Karachi stories. That he was just really nice to anyone from that one family.

[@sandman0127]

My late best friend was at a Wendy's when two fully grown adults came in and were harassing him (he was only 16) they said they had guns and this and that so he called me and my dad from ironically a female friend of mines phone so I answered the phone "hey baby" and it was my best friend 😂😂 we ended up grabbing some bats and I grabbed a gun we went up to the shop and escorted him home like a couple of F16s

[@Xanderfied]

12:13 you only knew he was a German Shepard, because after rescuing you, he goose-stepped back to where he'd come from.

[@JoJohXD]

How TF people don't know to not mess with a bear! WTF

[@orutakawatenga8820]

Who hear thinks "Hurl" hurled someone bad in a fight earlier in life?

[@ajarthatsred5649]

Nah prolly a lil bit worse

[@Aztesticals]

Pro tip. As stupid as it may sound. No matter where you live in the usa. Check laws outside of us. In the usa many states may try to charge you with assault for using bear spray on someone but in most cases if it is in self defense it will be dropped. And bear spray is much more effective than traditional pepperspray especially if you are dealing with multiple assailants and are alone. With a knife you gotta be able to use it and have to get into an arms length of your attacker. That's stupid as Noone is as badass as they want to think. Same with a gun you gotta actually be able to hit each attacker and not kill them if possible. You arnt as good a shot as you think. Now bear spray will soak everything up to 40ft away in blinding burning, ungodly pain inducing juice. It is made to make a 500+lb predator run off in pain and confusion. It will put entire gangs of people on the ground

[@ShiOrYeh]

Was living in KC with my roommate at we went to take my car to the shop (looking back, I think someone tried to jack my car by breaking the steering column, so it needed fixed). We walk in and immediately the whole place goes quiet. My friend and I are 20yo white-passing girls and this place was just FULL of big, rough looking guys (about ten or twelve men) who are just eyeing us up and down. The guy at the counter tiredly asks what he can do for us, I explain that I need a repair the best I can, and he replies that they are all booked up and he's sorry he cant help us. We dejectedly leave, find another shop, and I called my dad later to complain about the whole thing. As a police officer, he slowly tells me that I probably walked in on a gang meeting and the mechanic probably saved me and my roommate's lives.

[@landopeezy2382]

Hurl is the friend everyone needs

[@YeetusthatFEETus]

Listening at 18:40 reminds me of those parents you see in stores. Their kid is standing up in the already small seat and literally making the basket move, so you tell them and they're just like "oh okay" or "yeah they're fine". Yes, because when your kid cracks their head I'm sure you're going to keep that same energy.

[@pelotubies8280]

I swear half of these reddit users will believe anything but an angel was the the one who helped them.

[@Tyfu39944]

12:10 sounds like someone’s guardian angels have had enough of their bullshit

[@yukitai9063]

7:37 "Man this place sucks" *notices knife* "Hey man, I know they're service is not sufficient, but that's no reason to demand everyone's money" Personally, I'd be the one always being saved (I'm a dumb bum who lacks situational awareness)

[@matthewirizarry8467]

The dog heard the metal fatigue

[@Kayenne54]

Yes, but how did he know that meant something would crash down on OP?

[@matthewirizarry8467]

@@Kayenne54 how do some dogs know to escape buildings during earthquakes?

[@markrowland1366]

A car with four young me in it had forced another to stop and three were quickly half out. I stoped across the street. This wasn't friendly , I climbed out and stood, full Hight. My lungs are double normal volume and I'm six nine with a fifty four chest. I told them to get back in the car, so loud they rushed off. No other words were spoken.

[@larapalma3744]

The dog heard the jack loosening, they hear 40,000 times better than we do.

[@salbahejim]

One thing I really like about watching your videos is whistling along with the music at the end. Please don't ever change that.

[@samiamgreeneggaandham]

12:00 I love finding people who are in car crashes, and helping them in ways that would definitely have potentially save their life or whatever. Then as they thank me I say, praise the Lord Satan is good and then walk away. I've done that probably five or six times and it is certainly entertaining each time.

[@mm4894]

The kid in the video store could have also called the police.

[@maija_]

The second that one story said "Brockton" I already knew what was up. That place is crazy....

[@Neutral_Tired]

13:40 dog could probably hear the jack straining/breaking

[@shaw8071]

When my friend was in downtown Chicago when I was living there he texted me that some guys were messing with him. What he didn't know was that I lived in o block so I gathered some of my homies that everyone who has been in Chicago for years knows (OGs) so we went there and as soon as they saw them they ran faster than I have ever seen. He was never bothered ever again.