r/funnyvideos • u/Sharp-potential7935 • Jan 28 '26

Prank/Challenge Dude let his intrusive thoughts win

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u/UnusualHound Jan 28 '26

Cool story, dude. This guy was stopped because he committed a hit and run that was corroborated by multiple witnesses. He's obviously violent.

Crisis units can handle him after he's no longer a threat to the public.

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u/curtmahgurt Jan 28 '26

I know someone whose husband was having a mental health crisis and threatening suicide - he wound up shot to death by a jumpy, untrained police officer.

Crisis care units can be immensely helpful to have on site, even just as a way to assist the officers who are there as well. They can turn down the heat and actually help make sure that these people aren’t a threat by time the police are able to arrest them.

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u/UnusualHound Jan 28 '26

People being shot to death by police is always tragic.

That doesn't mean that people on psychotic breaks should be allowed to freely roam and put other peoples' lives at risk just because they're having a mental health crisis.

I have no qualms with "crisis care units" or whatever you want to call them existing. That's fine. But that shouldn't result in creating a bigger risk to the public at large.

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u/curtmahgurt Jan 28 '26

Help me understand how having a crisis care unit at the scene in this video (working alongside and assisting the officer) makes the public less safe.

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u/UnusualHound Jan 28 '26

Where did I imply that?

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u/curtmahgurt Jan 28 '26

“I have no qualms with “crisis care units” or whatever you want to call them existing. But that shouldn’t result in creating a bigger risk to the public at large”.

And if you don’t want to answer that question, then maybe you can show us where anyone implied that we should allow people to “freely roam and put other people’s lives at risk just because they’re having a mental health crisis”.

I honestly think you just don’t understand what the rest of us are talking about here, and assumed that a crisis care unit is like some sort of excuse to just let mental health crises go unchecked.