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Continuing on with today’s theme of curious responses by onlookers who are present at a crime scene…
Maybe you’ve already seen our video of a mafia-style hit on a guy with a mafia criminal record. It’s pretty strong stuff, and also fairly surprising.
A guy is smoking a cigarette outside a bar, a dude in a baseball cap walks into the bar, then comes out and kills cigarette guy with several shots.
Meanwhile, a woman checking out her scratch-off lottery ticket just keeps on doing that, then walks away. Even the hitman just walks off.
For those of us trained in human behavior, this raises a number of questions:
- This new get-tough initiative on smokers, is it working?
- Why are baseball fans suddenly turning so violent?
- Are lottery officials allowed to use this footage in an ad campaign along the lines of, “Hold the noise down boys, I think I won the lottery!”
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That was brilliant on the woman’s part … she knew what was going on and her cool, calm reaction may well have saved her life.
Oh and remember … second hand smoke kills …
I quit smoking about nine months ago. I was sort-of forced into it…. Right now, I would KILL for a cigarette.
…and why are we sure the woman wasn’t part of the hit?
Hmmm… Baseball, cigarettes and lottery…. could be the plot of an upcoming Hollywood movie… Any clues on the name?
Johnny, if she was, I am sure she wouldn’t be buying the lottery!!
wow! by the comments, it just goes to show how numb our society is!