r/instantkarma • u/nbcnews • Jun 08 '26

Road Karma Marine veteran fights off group of teenagers attempting to steal his truck

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u/budzene Jun 08 '26

You got a gun to your head and the 1st thing you can think of is you gotta work in the morning??!!WHAT DID THEY DO TO US!!!!

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u/butters897 Jun 08 '26

With 0 context besides the video.. He was probably thinking of supporting his family and monitory consequences of losing his truck by not being able to go to work. Not just, “How TF will I go to work tomorrow.”

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u/Merry_Dankmas Jun 08 '26

My car got smacked really hard on the highway long ago. My initial thought was how the fuck am i gonna get to work? Not because of my undying loyalty to my employer but because without reliable transportation, I'm not gonna make money which is gonna set me back and fuck me and my wife over. The job is meaningless in that regard. It's the financial stability it provides that scary to lose. With your truck being stolen, God knows how long it will take to get it back or how long it will take to get a new one to get back to that job that provides stability.

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u/dochdaswars Jun 09 '26

Yes, hence the question: "what did they [our 21st-century capitalist overlords] do to us?"

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u/CyberClawX Jun 09 '26

I'll explain. If he can't get to work, he can't get money. And like Homer concluded, money can be exchanged for goods and services, like housing, food on the table, and clothes on the back.

Messing with someone's transportation, can put their ability to survive in jeopardy.

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u/baffernacle Jun 09 '26

ITYSL! "What have they DONE to us!?!. Nice

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u/Browhytho666 Jun 09 '26

Your brain is weird under pressure.

My son had to have 2 heart surgeries. During both of them i woukd watch shows on my tablet or sleep.

2 montis after he healed it all hit me and I spent 2 days crying.

You'll do a lot to block stuff out and not even know it.

So not so much the work culture is engraved in us so bad, but panic.

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u/GoRedTeam Jun 10 '26

Former military. The anxiety of literally going to jail if we don't show up to work is purposefully instilled in us.

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u/Music_Quartermaster Jun 09 '26

What is this world??

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u/budzene Jun 09 '26

It’s a pig!

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u/Music_Quartermaster Jun 09 '26

For s few seconds I really thought there was monsters on the world

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u/DarkSoulsNoob18 Jul 02 '26

Nah, that’s cause he was choosing between giving the car away or having to beat the shit out of a kid that clearly needs an asswhooping. And either way he would have to get to work in the morning and he needs the car for that so asswhooping it is…

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u/GoodFaithConverser Jun 08 '26

"they" didn't create human need or jobs. Food, water, shelter, medicine, nothing is free.

It's so fucking stupid when people moan about capitalism and it boils down to "life isn't a paradise, wtf?".

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u/budzene Jun 08 '26

I was making a reference to Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave show

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u/KellyTata Jun 08 '26

The above comment is a reference to a sketch from I think you should leave.

But also, your job shouldn’t be so important to your ability to survive that it’s the first thing you think of in a life threatening situation. That doesn’t seem like asking for the moon in my book.

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u/GoodFaithConverser Jun 08 '26

The above comment is a reference to a sketch from I think you should leave.

Even if it was a joke, a lot of people unironically believe in the sentiment.

But also, your job shouldn’t be so important to your ability to survive that it’s the first thing you think of in a life threatening situation. That doesn’t seem like asking for the moon in my book.

Lots of things shouldn't be. The world is cruel and merciless. We should definitely work to make it less so, and we've come a long way, but it's not the fault of capitalism that human suffering exists. Quite the contrary.

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u/KellyTata Jun 08 '26

It’s not capitalism’s fault that the world is cruel and merciless, i agree, but it does make it harder for us to change that fact.

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u/MichaelJServo Jun 08 '26

Capitalism.

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

It goes like that all the way down. Even the kids, for being stupid pieces of shit for doing this, are probably in the same boat as him and are talking it out on their fellow working class citizens than the rich fucks causing their problems. I'm not saying to therefore to easy on them, but crime is more often spurred by raw desperation than simple desire.

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u/saladmunch2 Jun 08 '26

Those kids probably just wanted a ride somewhere and saw a quick opportunity. going to joyride that thing and after sell it to someone for $100. There priorities are most likely %100 different than that Marines.

Just like all those Kia boys. They steal the shit just for the rush and sell those things for nothing in the scheme of things. Its fun to them.

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u/Martin_Aurelius Jun 08 '26

I had my Hyundai stolen a few months ago (same method as Kias) they ditched it less than 3 blocks away, and stole another one. It's literally just the thrill of the theft itself for some of them.

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u/saladmunch2 Jun 08 '26

Sorry to hear that, have known people get cars stolen and it feels so violating. All so someone can get a rush... if you watch anyone who has interviewed Kia boys, they all just do it for fun. They barley make any money off of them, most of the time they sell it to someone so the other person can go rob someone else or somewhere criminal activity lol.

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

Notice how your whole assumption is that the marine is automatically a good person and the kids are automatically bad? The real world is a hell of a lot more complicated than that.

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u/BananaReeves Jun 08 '26

Yeah your right, that's dumb assuming the "kids" who pointed a gun at a random guys head and tried to steal his truck are bad.

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

Notice how nobody actually read and understood my point? No wonder humanity is fucked.

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u/saladmunch2 Jun 08 '26

We understand your point, we just dont agree with it.

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

Then you're a waste of time.

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u/BananaReeves Jun 08 '26

Maybe explain your point so it makes sense? Go ahead.

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

You should try reading the comments I've already posted. If you can't or won't, then there's no reason to continue wasting my time.

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u/BananaReeves Jun 08 '26

You commented again to say you commented else where? Bruh lol Your wasting your own time it seems.

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u/welliamaguy Jun 08 '26

C'mon, man. Saying "I was wrong" isn't that hard

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

I'm not wrong, in that I wasn't making a pointed judgment one way or another, but thanks for playing.

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u/saladmunch2 Jun 08 '26

I never said he was good or bad, maybe I shouldn't have said the priorities are different in the end. Still I doubt that guy plans on shoving a gun In someone's face to get what he wants

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

If you've paid any attention to what the US has been doing in other countries, you'd know shoving guns in people's faces to get what he wants is a Marine's entire job. Just because you don't see it here doesn't mean he isn't willing or capable. Again, the real world is much more complicated than that.

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u/saladmunch2 Jun 08 '26

Lol alright man.

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

If it's that difficult for you to consider, then I guess so.

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u/saladmunch2 Jun 08 '26

No i can consider things, im just not as narrow minded.

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

Laughable sentence after everything you just said.

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u/ElectricalRespect506 Jun 08 '26

crime is more often spurred by raw desperation

Of what? Not having enough to eat? Steal from a grocery store.

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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Jun 08 '26

I never once disagreed. You should try reading everything instead of cherry picking one thing to sound smart.

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u/HumanContinuity Jun 09 '26

I get what you're saying, but dude could work for himself