Guy Decides to Pick a Fight With San Jose Mayor’s Security While He’s in the Middle of an Interview
Seemingly every week there’s another viral video of people getting into a public spat or altercation that inevitably turns physical.
Published 1 year ago in Funny
Seemingly every week there’s another viral video of people getting into a public spat or altercation that inevitably turns physical. People have a lot of pent-up aggression, it would seem. Perhaps one of the strangest and most inexplicable examples is a recent video of a man getting into it with the mayor of San Jose’s security team while the mayor was recording an interview on the street.
In the middle of an interview with San Jose's mayor, a random guy starts fighting the mayor's security.
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The man walks past their setup while talking to someone on the phone, swearing all the while, prompting Mayor Matt Mahan to say, “We’re doing an interview sir.” The man then gets annoyed, swearing and getting aggressive with the security guard, telling him, “I will fuckin’ smack you, do you wanna get smacked?” before proceeding to smack him, resulting in a truly ridiculous-looking bitch fight as the man and the security guard tussle for a good couple of minutes, while bystanders, including the mayor, look on in what is probably a mix of horror and confusion, and one aide calls the police.
The man was subsequently arrested, with the San Jose Police Department releasing a self-congratulatory statement about the actions of Mahan’s security officer, who was reportedly a plainclothes San Jose cop, calling him heroic and describing his actions as “a testament to the de-escalation training that makes our officers effective, compassionate and stewards of community trust.”
The president of the NAACP’s San Jose chapter criticized the officer’s actions, however, writing in an email to acting Police Chief Paul Joseph, “Upon viewing the video of the incident, I was troubled by the rapid escalation of the situation into a physical altercation. The officer involved in the altercation did not clearly identify himself as a law enforcement officer, and it appears that there was no legal basis for instructing the pedestrian to move from his location in a public space. The pedestrian’s reaction, although stating a warning, should have been met with a more measured response from the officer, considering the circumstances.”
The man’s bail has been set at $26,000, and he was released on the condition that he stay 300 yards from both Mahan and the officer involved and that he submit to random searches for weapons possession.
Firefighter Demos Proper Door Control for Fighting a House Fire
Being a firefighter is an insanely difficult and risky job
Published 1 year ago in Ftw
Being a firefighter is an insanely difficult and risky job. Luckily for them, though, it’s not all life and death situations. Just take this video of a firefighter demonstrating how fire escapes through doors during a house fire using a diorama and a squirt bottle.
@vtkubala75 Understanding the importance of Fire behavior and door control demonstrated by FireFighter/instructor J.Kitt
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For a crowd of onlookers, firefighter and instructor J. Kitt attempts to open the front door of a model house that’s currently on fire in order to show them how quickly fire can escape through any opening, as well as demonstrate how much water might be needed to counteract the worst of the fire. After the fire burst through the first time, he went in the second time spraying with water as he opened the door, but the fire still flashed (or flared up) on them, suggesting he wasn’t using enough water.
As he explains, you need to be using a continuous stream of water to put out the flames and ensure the fire doesn’t flash so firefighters can continue to fight the fire raging inside the home. Kitt uses the spray bottle for the remainder of the video, but the fire only gets worse, which suggests to me that a spray bottle might not be the most effective tool against house fires. Thank god firefighters have high-pressure hoses, I guess.
Fortunately for us plebs, our main priority when there’s a fire is to get as far away from the flames as possible, but being mindful of the fact that opening doors can feed fresh oxygen to a fire, causing it to flare up and continue its rampage.
Or perhaps your main takeaway from the video was the same as the commenter who wrote, “The only thing I learned from this video is, I need to get a bigger spray bottle.”
Touché.
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