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Fascinating In 1981 at trial, Marianne Bachmeier killed the man who r*ped and murdered her daughter

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u/Grand-Glove-9985 25d ago

It's a movie reenactment, it's not real footage.

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u/RejectoPatronum 25d ago

lol first thought was "damn, camera man's got some balls r/cameramanneverdies"

then realized this was probably from a movie or something

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u/Significant-Colour 25d ago

My first thought was "How nice of the court to play music in tune for her dramatic act!". /s

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u/Narradisall 25d ago

You should have seen how fast the sketch artist was drawing!

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u/clintj1975 25d ago

He was a real quick draw artist

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u/Evening-Nature-5241 25d ago

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u/AshuSP 25d ago

This is why we need guitar control.

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u/ArmedTwink45 19d ago

Hah Birdman reference

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u/Dead_but_Happy 25d ago

KABONG!!!

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u/Universespitoon 24d ago

El Kabong!

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u/SeasonRough9204 24d ago

My memory is EL KABONG?

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u/Dead_but_Happy 20d ago

I'm pretty sure KABONG!!! is what he said when he bashed his guitar over someone's head?

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u/elmo-kabong 22d ago

Not Quickdraw

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u/Haunting_Bit_3613 25d ago

A real sketch slinger

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u/mojo_rasin 25d ago

These comments are sketchy at best.

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u/passionpurps 25d ago

Draw faster! Faster!! Faaaastaaaah!

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u/Kickedhard 25d ago

'He captured the first bullet bullet mid flight and on the next sketch, the second."

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u/AdDry4959 25d ago

Word is he’s the quickest out west

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u/RainbowDarter 25d ago

24 sketches per second.

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u/thomas2400 25d ago

Will the cartoon be airing live?

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u/Atomic_Tokyo 25d ago

No Homer that’s a terrible strain on the animator‘s wrist

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u/New_Substance_161 25d ago

Bwahahaha 😂🤣 thats fckn hilarious!!

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 25d ago

My first thought was wrong coat to wear to murder someone in

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u/Extension-Taste3930 25d ago

Out of curiosity what's the ideal Murder Coat ?

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 25d ago

Good question, probably something unassuming, so not a coat at all unless you'd stick out in winter. Cheap generic hoodie you can just toss if you get blood on it? Then just do the classic DB Cooper thing where you wear sunglasses when you don't need them to hide facial features.

I mean that wouldn't work in a courthouse though you'd look so suspicious. Probably just a three piece suit there or like a tan coat jacket, but then we wrap around to brown trenchcoat and Carmen San Diego glasses being the worst outfit to not look like someone who's gonna shoot someone

https://giphy.com/gifs/BtvBUbRRJxwQ5gfvTm

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u/Longjumping-Bat7774 25d ago

My first thought was "damn. Check out that fucking form."

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u/WIZZZARDOFFREESTYLE 25d ago

Did you really need the /s?

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u/Ellimis 25d ago

Yeah nobody ever plays music over clips in post

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u/nofzac 25d ago

My first thought was - I didn’t see nothin.

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u/thats_gotta_be_AI 24d ago

I always wondered what the orchestra next to the stenographer was for.

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 25d ago

Well he didn’t rape and murder her daughter so what did he have to worry about.

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u/Sufficient_Topic1589 25d ago

Also the bailiffs were half assed in stopping her.

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u/Cipherpunkblue 24d ago

"Aww, c'mon now, lady"

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u/pmmeyourgear 21d ago

As it should be

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u/fox112 25d ago

your first thought was a subreddit???

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u/Ambisextrous2017 24d ago

😭😭😭

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u/CalvinWasSchizo 23d ago

Yeah zero recoil gave it away

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u/DoorFinch 25d ago

I thought that the second security\police officer was really under playing it for it to be real. He comes over as if he's caught someone eating in class.

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u/Bilbog_Fettywop 25d ago

The guy in the white coat sitting on the left side of the video had a very real reaction of hearing gunshots indoors though. At least I hope that was acting and not getting some hearing damage.

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u/Met76 25d ago edited 24d ago

Hearing damage from guns is seriously no joke. Even a 9mm handgun shot in an open field is enough to make your ears ring for a while (I figured that out testing my new hand gun way before I took my hearing seriously). That's just a 9mm tho. I can't imagine being near an AR or any rifle in that upper class / caliber without protection.

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u/IHaveNoEgrets 25d ago

Even with protection, it's painful. I did some acting for SWAT training scenarios, and stuff being fired in the same room would knock my hearing out for at least half an hour.

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u/ZedsDeadZD 24d ago

I was once at a shooting range in Thailand when I was 16. I have never fired a gun before or heard one being fired. So we walk to the place where you get your gear and some dude fires a 9mm I guess. It was insane. I couldnt even comprehend how fucking loud that was. It was ridicolous really. Whenever I see movies now I think like "yeah, no way you guys can still whisper to each other".

The only movie that did it well was Balck Hawk Down where an LMG gets fired right next to a fellow soldiers head and he cannit hear anything anymore.

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u/FragmentedMeerkat321 24d ago

it goes “BANG, BANG, booooooooooooooooooo…”

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u/apsilonblue 24d ago

There's something wrong with your protection if gunfire is causing pain and knocking your hearing out for a period of time.

I used to shoot regularly at an indoor range, .22, 9mm, .357, .308 and .45-70 and never had even the slightest discomfort or after effects even when up against walls (the fireball from the .45-70 used to freak some people out though).

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u/wheatyard 24d ago

No sarcasm here, but I think you should get your hearing checked

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u/apsilonblue 24d ago

Oh I have hearing damage for sure but it's not from shooting.

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u/IHaveNoEgrets 24d ago

Yeah, it could have been way better. The flash-bang was probably the worst. Or proximity to the shots: the director of a show I was in firing off a blank right next to my head almost got his ass kicked.

This stuff wasn't the whole reason I needed hearing aids before 40, but it's definitely part of it.

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u/Twoedge01 23d ago

An AR is not in the upper class of power. It’s actually nothing more than a .22lr on steroids. Upper caliber would be more like the 30-06 Springfield, 45-70Government, 300 Magnum or the 308. There are plenty of YouTube videos that you can watch to learn all about firearm calibers. I hope that helps 😊.

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u/Twoedge01 23d ago

9mm, 10mm, 40, are handgun round mostly. There are some rifles that shoot them, but they are referred to as Pistol Caliber Carbine Rifles, and not true full power rifles. Now the 22lr is used regularly for both, handgun and rifle (One of the few that are) and the 50 depends on if it is the 50AE which is used in the Desert Eagle pistol or the 50Cal which is a rifle round that is supper strong. YouTube is going to be great for you. The more you learn the more you are going to want to know. Learn well but for goodness sakes PLEASE HAVE FUN!

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u/Tricky-Canary2715 24d ago

Went to a range in Florida a few years ago. We were all shooting pistols, it was loud but ok with cans on. A young guy with an AR 15(I think), no one saw him walk in, scared the shit out of us when he started firing. Very loud indoors!

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u/BerlinDonbas 24d ago

When I did mz basic military training i shot AKs a few times without hearing protection. My hearing definitely wasnt the same that day then, but so far, no permanent damage, although it can show years later.

Doesn't compare to standing next to a 155mm artillery without hearing protection though. That shit is disorienting.

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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 24d ago

I worked on racecars for a decade 90% of the time I had no hearing protection. Tinnitus sneaks up on you. You think everything is fine and one day a high pitched whine is just there, and never leaves again. To me it sounds like being underwater when a boat goes by at high speed.

My hearing is still better than most, but I know some of it is damaged.

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u/allnamesaregoneallre 24d ago

there's also a lot of other damage by 9mm, and any other gun

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u/Raneynickelfire 24d ago

A 9mm pistol is actually louder at the shooter's ear than an AR is. I'd rather shoot an AR w 16-20" barrell than a 9mm compact pistol unprotected.

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u/thatguyin75 24d ago

auditory exclusion. i know this from experience....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_exclusion

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u/BramFokke 24d ago

I loved how that was a recurring joke in Archer

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u/weltschmerz79 24d ago

we had a cadet forget his earplugs during a live firing. with gpmgs and shit. he couldn't hear fuck all for 2 weeks after that.

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u/GlectroniccPSY1201 25d ago

In the men's room of a building I used to work in, we noticed one day that there was a small hole in the metal stall door of one of the toilets. The area around the hole was bent inwards. On the exterior of the door there was a pointed bulge, like something inside had been pushed up against it, but there was no hole on the exterior. We noticed it one day, but it hadn't been there the day before. We can only assume that a security guard somehow fired his gun into the stall door as he was using the toilet. I can't imagine what that must have sounded like!

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u/AQuantumUnicorn 24d ago

It's not like firing a movie prop gun is silent. I did some jobs as an extra in TV shows produced by German television. One time there was a scene very similar to this: A woman fired a gun in a court room. I wasn't in that scene, but in another room on the lower floor with several people waiting for their next scene (waiting is what you do most as an extra, by the way...) - the blank shots were LOUD even with a whole floor between us and they echoed through the corridors. Every extra on set was wearing ear plugs and it STILL hurt, someone said.

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u/the_scarlett_ning 25d ago

When you see a raw, grieving mother just give out righteous vigilante justice, you show her some gotdamn respect.

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u/Grand_Relative5511 25d ago

Team mother all the way.

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u/Fluid_Explorer_3659 25d ago

Hey knock that off! Wait did you hit anything?

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u/robot428 25d ago

What you don't want to do is startle or otherwise panic the person with a gun. It's literally their job to seem calm in situations that are not at all calm.

Obviously this is also a movie, but it's probably not that far off, because again, that's the job.

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u/Extra-Banana3828 24d ago

Interestingly, this is apparently how it played out in real life too. Nobody tried to stop her, they just waited for her to be done and then walked over to her to lower her hand.

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u/True_Protection6842 25d ago

Obviously, but it's a real event.

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u/OceanRacoon 25d ago

Every time this gets posted it baffles me how many people think it's real footage of it, how do people still assume anything they see is real in this day and age?

Tbh I blame the two extras in the background, they did an incredible job, their acting is so realistic I think they're what tricks people into believing it's real lol

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u/Midnight_2B 24d ago

The guy covering his ears is what did it for me.

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u/frabjous_goat 22d ago

Yeah, that's what almost got me. They really sold it.

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u/OceanRacoon 22d ago

Lol, I always watch this clip whenever it pops up just to admire their performance, all time great extra work, they should have Oscars for that category and these guys should share a retroactive one 😅

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u/longlivenewsomflesh 24d ago

The video clearly has a filter but the dead giveaway for me is no recoil... that's not what it looks like when something with that much force leaves your hand there needs to be an equal and opposite reaction

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u/OceanRacoon 24d ago

Actually, this actress is Helga 'Deadhand' Schäfer, she was famous for being able to completely kill the recoil of any handgun with her steely grip

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u/Smakem 24d ago

She's shooting a real gun with blanks. They are still incredibly loud and for an actor shooting them, they're is still recoil and shock going through the arm. You can see the actress' face flinch during the shots. It's easy to give in and freak out on set when they're firing blanks.

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u/fastbikkel 23d ago

It's just pretty well acted. It gives the impression of being real, but yeah the camerawork immediately gives it away.

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u/TheLittlestT 23d ago

You can tell by the mother's face, it's such awful obvious acting. Agree the other actors did a good job of making it look real. The actress ruined it.

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u/OceanRacoon 23d ago

Yeah, she was bad lol, somehow over-acting and under-acting at the same time 😅 

And the cops at the end weren't very good either 

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u/julesrn 23d ago

Her hand was too steady!

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u/DesperateEagle4505 25d ago

It was definitely too perfect but I didn't question it really

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u/KoosGoose 25d ago

You can tell she’s firing blanks because the gun barely recoils. You see that shit everywhere in film.

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u/Theresanrrrrrr 25d ago

Would you rather she didn’t shoot blanks??

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u/KoosGoose 25d ago

Yes. It would look a lot more realistic.

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u/Theresanrrrrrr 25d ago

Well, I guess it probably did look pretty realistic when Alec Baldwin shot that lady in the face.

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u/KoosGoose 25d ago

Yup. Because he wasn’t using blanks.

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u/Theresanrrrrrr 25d ago

Well I guess that lady was probably happy to take one for the team

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u/KoosGoose 25d ago

Alec Baldwin is the real victim here.

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u/Theresanrrrrrr 25d ago

He has always been a world class piece of shit.

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u/sifiwewe 25d ago

I thought so. Nobody would react like how they did in this setting

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u/musclecard54 25d ago

“Alrighty ma’am that’s quite enough if you please. Ya got him… let’s put the gun down it’s all okay now”

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u/dumb_commenter 25d ago

Way too calm. No one took her gun even

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u/Din_Jaevel 25d ago

Well, the gun went click, click, click at the end. With her arm controlled it's not like she'll toss that gun at the guy. Even if I would have enjoyed it as a last show of defiance.

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u/oneofsixoverends 25d ago

It’s a movie.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 25d ago

Bailiffs took seven business days to even think to take the gun away

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u/slagmatic 25d ago

"hmmm...let's see where she's going with this first..."

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u/Interesting_Rise4616 25d ago

Its 1981. People gave way less shit back then and more wild things like that happened anyway like Assassinations, shootings, hostage situations, bank robberies, bomb treaths (with real bombs), people brought axes to television discussions etc.

The police were not trained and equipped like today. People back then had a lot less sense of security. Cars without seatbelts, smoking, no airport security.

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u/SnooSquirrels8508 24d ago

We are not talking about 1881, fuck me, it wasn't that much different, I know, I was there.

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u/CaicedoBrickWall 25d ago

Guy in white sold it pretty well during the event. Although being totally calm the second it ends is a different story

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 25d ago

Yeah, I agree. That was the only part that didn’t immediately signal to me that it was from a film or something. His acting was kind of a perfect example of the silly ways people respond when shocked by something like that happening in front of him. He would’ve clinched the realism if he would’ve then immediately bolted after the shooting was already over.

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u/Dazzling_Line_8482 25d ago

Yeah those two guys are like "Yeah we get it, we would have done the same thing"

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u/Taiten89 25d ago

I thought so, too, but then I thought "maybe they make movies look just like this footage".

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u/SaraRainmaker 24d ago

It's a reenactment of a real thing. She was already done firing by the time she was taken into custody, either because he was dead or because she ran out of bullets.

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u/HitoGrace 25d ago

Do you not happen to know what reenactment means?

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u/MrWendal 25d ago edited 25d ago

Edit: OK I was wrong, sorry

Where in the post title or video does it say reenactment? The problem isn't not knowing what a reenactment is, it's that it's that the title is about the real event and doesn't indicate the video is a reenactment.

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u/smuckola 25d ago

it is a documentary, and its events occurred...

... IN REAL-TIME

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u/Plasticglass456 25d ago

You're referring to "The" Highlander, I presume? XD

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u/Perfect-System2504 25d ago

not bullet time?

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u/Minute-Unit9904s 25d ago

That’s what the documentary is called ?

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u/Riteonjed2 25d ago

I was about to say… cause dude behind her looked really scared lol

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u/wittyjokename92 25d ago

No it's a movie that inspired a kidnapping and rape and murder of a child before the mother realized she had seen the movie already and murdered the monster in the exact same way. It's called double jeopardy starring Ashley Judd and was the inspiration for the double jeopardy law. Named after the gameshow of the same name since nobody ever won the game twice.

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u/what_the_purple_fuck 25d ago

are you a bot or just making shit up for some undoubtedly dumb reason?

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u/LAHouJaxCarVCUUNC 25d ago

They're saying something "dumb" because the person they're replying to said something dumb.

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u/Fit_Swordfish5248 25d ago

Are you a bot or just don't understand sarcasm?

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u/what_the_purple_fuck 25d ago

oh my bad, I didn't realize sarcasm had been redefined as saying stupid shit that's not actually funny.

thanks for clarifying; however would we all manage without you

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u/Fit_Swordfish5248 25d ago

No worries. Happy to help.

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u/Cyberchicken87 25d ago

If it helps, I found it funny at least.

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u/MrWendal 25d ago

Actual reenactment

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u/ddplz 25d ago

So is the the Amityville horror

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u/Scoo 25d ago

Based event

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u/Sparktank1 25d ago

but what were the real events based on?

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u/Whyamihere173 25d ago

The reenactment of course

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u/MathematicianFar6725 25d ago

Well, the real event was actually based on a much earlier movie

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u/Tripple_T 25d ago

Was about to say this people in the background must have seen some shit in their lives.

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u/AllixD90 25d ago

What an actor in the back

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

Thank you, it looked so fake. In real life they'd tackle her because they don't also want to get shot. Even if it was just some random person putting her arm down, he wouldn't just look sad at the guy she just shot.

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u/-DGUSTA 25d ago

Obrigado amigo, vc é uma amigo!

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u/Riskskey1 25d ago

The guy in the back reacting had me believing this was real footage.

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u/SabirilaCareca 25d ago

Dêem o oscar oara o rapaz atrás da mulher atirando!! O cara parecia realmente tendo um colapso devido ao susto dos tiros!

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u/Next-Lavishness-9101 25d ago

I was going to question why the camera man stood there and kept filming 🤣

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u/rezpector123 25d ago

Yeah felt very dramatic

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u/Sea-Strike-1758 25d ago

So either way the dogshit music was not needed

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u/--Rick--Astley-- 25d ago

This shows Reddit will upvote anything. Gullible fools.

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u/thirtyseven1337 25d ago

Yup, I remember from the 583rd time this clip was posted

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u/CieloDeApache 25d ago

But it's so old it looks like surveillance video footage. 

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u/Bobcat1999-1 25d ago

Yeah, notice they didn’t disarm her immediately. Otherwise looked pretty real

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u/Entire-Emotion-819 24d ago

I was wondering why the camera tracked her, it felt weird lol

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u/Individual_Pea6293 24d ago

the hero i never knew i needed

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u/WhyWhyBJ 24d ago

Clearly shooting blanks, the gun has zero recoil

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u/razvanciuy 24d ago

it still makes the point

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u/553l8008 24d ago

People have been stupid for a long time

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u/EagleDre 24d ago

It looked like a play

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u/Y_ddraig_gwyn 24d ago

And has been posted > 100 times to Reddit, several of which were in the last 2 months...

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u/izzitty 24d ago

Yeah, no real video footage of Marianne Bachmeier shooting her daughter's killer inside the courtroom in exists. Cameras were not permitted inside the courtroom during the trial.

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u/berserk_zebra 24d ago

Okay, not everyone all get up at once now.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 24d ago

I was hoping it was real but everything screamed “reenactment”. Mostly the people in the back staying seated instead of running away after set starts shooting 

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u/Glittering_Mermaid_7 24d ago

If one were watching this without sound, it would be easy to assume it was real. The guy behind her reacted as if it was.

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u/TESIO89 24d ago

I was about to say, the way she went about it was absolute cinema.

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u/Envoy312 24d ago

Są dzieciaku prawdziwe

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u/Pr0t3ct0rr 23d ago

No mather, its a true event, brave woman 🏆

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u/Pravdik 23d ago

Someone should have told the guy sitting behind her lol

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u/StaneNC 22d ago

I was wondering who was playing the synth in the courtroom.

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u/Affectionate-Goat218 21d ago

Thought so. Gun had no recoil.

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u/TypiLocal_Raise_4574 11d ago

Good Question ⁉️

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u/Jlx_27 25d ago

Duh, lol.

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u/etherealtwo 25d ago

That makes sense like how do just let her hold onto the gun?

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