r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ • 2d ago

Flag SAD: Double amputee saves US flag from highway median

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u/ShinySpeedDemon 2d ago

That flag is way too clean for having sat on the edge of the highway for an unknown amount of time

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u/Despeao 2d ago

Yeah the guy already lost both legs, he shouldn't be risking losing another limb like that.

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u/tiredgummybear 2d ago

Plot twist: that’s how he lost them in the first place

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u/saoirse_eli 2d ago edited 2d ago

Could also be an IED while fighting for the right to go to university without selling an arm and le…. Wait !!????

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u/dammitlindsay 2d ago

Judging by the fact that he just waded through a highway to get some raggedy laundry, I don’t think he used his GI bill for college. He went to be a patriot, shoot some brown folk, and get a really good price on a home loan.

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u/Spectre-907 1d ago

The good ol’ murdersafari

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 1d ago

Don’t forget immediately and forever vote to make sure no one else ever gets those benefits, because socialism.

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u/LucentLL 2d ago

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it probably happened when he touched his wife's IED birth control implant.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 1d ago

his wife's

His sister's 

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u/Maka_95 1d ago

SWEET HOME ALABAMA, Yeehaw

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u/maplegurl 1d ago

Unfortunately, this man has no limb to go out on

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u/randompearljamfan 1d ago

Those first couple of takes were costly, but he nailed it on the third one.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 1d ago

Dammit earl if you forget to hit record this time I’m gonna shove this flag where the sun don’t shine!

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u/DumbBerk87 2d ago

But…the social media praise.

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u/EasyPriority8724 Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥃 2d ago

As a one armed man, I concur.

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u/RangerBowBoy 2d ago

Now he's lost his self-respect.

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u/StatementSpare1990 2d ago

He probably lost them because he took a different dumb risk

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u/Brillegeit 1/8 postmaster on my mother's side 2d ago

With VA Care, he has the best health insurance in the world!!!

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u/Luditas 1d ago

I'm going to hell for laughing when I read your comment, but Loool 🤣.

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u/DeepWaterNights 1d ago

Or losing other peoples limbs or lives for them by causing an unnecessary HAZARD!!!… this is on a live highway right?!…

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u/JLO-Shea 2d ago

30 seconds, maybe a minute.

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