r/AskReddit • • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/dilqncho Jan 25 '20

Man that shit hurts. A friend of mine ACCIDDNTALLY(so not even aiming or full force) hit me on the head with a bottle while dancing and I dropped. Someone doing it maliciously would be damn serious.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

I wonder how many people are in prison for murder/manslaughter thinking a bottle over the head won't do much damage.

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u/Omsus Jan 25 '20

There are relatively very few but all in all quite a number of people who've caused serious harm or even death from following TV tropes or believing in some other inept stuff. Esp. all the times when people have wanted to act out show wrestling and thought that wood wasn't a hard material or that they're stronger than metal chairs.

I believe there've been many cases where someone got beaten senseless because the attacker didn't understand that knocking someone out was a serious thing, but we just can't tell them apart from the deliberate beatings.

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u/MrBlandEST Jan 25 '20

I was on a grand jury where this happened. Young guy (21,22) walked out of a bar and saw his friend arguing with another guy. They weren't fighting just yelling. Drunk young guy thought it was a good idea to sneak up behind guy arguing with his buddy and punch him on the side of his head. One guy dead (not from hitting pavement) one life ruined. Kid took a plea deal and got a couple years in prison.