Don’t Try This At Home

27 Replies to “Don’t Try This At Home”

1. That jerk is lucky they just didn’t shoot him.

   1. And the rest of us are unlucky, that we have to continue to share the earth with machete dude.

   2. Don’t make me a cop. I would have taken up the usual police challenge whether I could get in 15 shots before he hit the ground.

   3. Like Indiana Jones did to the sword guy in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”

      1. (RE: “Raiders of the Lost Ark”) : THAT is how things are done. 🙂

      2. Oddly enough, that iconic scene wasn’t in the script. Indy was supposed to fight the guy, but Harrison Ford had the flu and wasn’t up to it, so he asked Spielberg if he could just shoot the guy instead.

2. Like one of the other commenters said, “that cop just saved his life”.

   But you can tell that cop meant business, he was on a mission to take him down. He was very well trained, he not only took him to the ground, he also controlled his arm and the machete after he hit the ground. Bad@ssHomei will have to probably be in a cast for a while in the crowbar hotel.

   1. Yes, very well trained … and … lucky. Me? I’d have shot for center mass and kept shooting till my gun went … ‘cleek’ … to quote ‘The Jesus’ from The Big Lebowski.

3. Alpha male with bare hands is even better than a beta with a big machete.

   That cop was the boss and he knew it.

4. Love how the cop didn’t even break stride when the dickhead pulled out his machete.

5. The perp is lucky to be alive (in a general sense). The cop would have been justified in shooting him when he started swinging the machete. That’s a classic judo move, by the way. When the perp gets body slammed into the pavement, it’s usually the end of the fight.

6. I read on the Twitter feed that it’s a training exercise or some kind of a display

   If you watch the full length video you can see another copper doing the exact same thing to another “Perp”

   1. Do you have a link to the full video?

      1. Found it.
         https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=836205966713694

   2. Mr.G., yes,that was my first thought. The “perp” makes the classic overhand swing that is easy to defend, also, with four cops against one perp, and NONE of the cops drew his gun, you know this isn’t a real altercation.

      btw, wtf was with the guy sweeping the ground before he “attacked” with the machete?

      1. He was just giving it a final hone.

7. Looked like some BJJ training to me. Pretty impressive.

8. Amazing how efficiently policemen do their job when actually allowed to.

   1. Yes, AC we Canadians know just how efficient the cops can be,especially after High River.

9. This was a staged training video displaying the use of some kind of self-defense/combat martial arts. If it had been a real situation it would have been wise to have some weapons drawn in case something went wrong. They look careless and complacent to not be prepared for any eventuality. In real life the guy with the machete might have been more skilled or angry than this actor.

   Here’s a video from Nicaragua showing the damage a guy with a knife can do. He stabs 3 or 4 police killing one of them. Carelessness, complacency and poor training all seem to be factors here. (The video says it happened in Honduras but apparently it was Chontales, Nicaragua.)
   https://www.full30.com/watch/MDA2NDM4/graphic-this-is-why-you-shoot-someone-advancing-with-a-knife

   Here’s the full video. https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ab1_1470788189

10. that is . . . . . severely BOSS.
    wow. I mean WOW.
    it was that ‘macho’ thing mr machete did, scraping the ground in the ‘display’ that let the cop move in.
    that takes very very fast thinking and reflexes and training.

    I vote for the ‘Raiders’ solution.

    1. This was as real as Hulk Hogan’s moves on WrestleMania as you’ll see if you watch this longer video.
       https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=836205966713694

       1. lol !!
          ah the truth will out.
          Wm Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

          1. I too thought it was a real attack until someone put me wise. This was not the first time I fell for fake news and, sadly, probably not the last; and I try to be careful not to be taken in.

             Why, thou sayst well. I do now remember a saying: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
             As You Like It

11. it is sad that he did not shoot him dead

    1. ok now that i have read all comments, I get it, it was a training exercise

       but he slammed the guy hard on the pavement, didn’t he?

       without padding that must have hurt…that is the part that looks real,

       but yeah it makes sense that since not one cop had a gun aimed at the guy it was just an exercise,

       but slamming a guy on hard pavement like that? they do that as an ” exercise”?

12. Nicely choreographed ballet performed by well trained professionals on both sides. As others have pointed out in real life the guy would be ventilated … along with multiple bystanders who (if survived) would then be intimidated by the JBTs. Teaser appears to be the obvious solution here.