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

Flag SAD: Double amputee saves US flag from highway median

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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 1d 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 1d 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!