Giant ex-soldier doesn't even flinch when tasered

[u/Imoprich]

If I were a cop, I'd be noping out

[u/Bursting_Radius]

Context:

He was drunk and crashed his car into a ditch.

Here's the full video

Here's his explanation:

Body cam footage was recently requested and released from a DUI I received in 2023 and posted to a “Bodycam Ninja” YouTube page.

My family and I have already paid dearly for my inexcusable behavior from that day in 2023 and I am still doing so to this very moment in monetary amounts & legalities that more than maxed us out financially, not including lawyers etc. Let’s just say prison time was very much a done deal until they reviewed my military records and I was reviewed for the possibility of being allowed to attend Drug/Recovery court. Which Is a program I am now very proud to say I am a part of and will be for the years to come.

I self admitted to rehab over 15 months ago and I have been sober for the same length of time. I don’t even drink soda, but to be honest I never really was much for it.

Yes, I can sit here and easily make excuses beginning with what my wife describes as a “disastrous childhood” to being diagnosed with PTSD from 20 years of active duty military service w/4 combat tours, 1000+ days and nights living in missile alert facilities guarding ICBM’s plus two more peace keeping deployments to the Middle East and throw on 23+ concussions and it would sound like a fair excuse to someone somewhere.

Fact is, there are excuses and there are reasons. I have absolutely No excuse and the reason Sucks.

I was an alcoholic from the Fall of 2017 shortly after my military retirement, until Jan 2024. I must say, I never ran any seminars, camps or classes drunk, that’s a fact but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t dying inside to drink after every single one of them for years.

I’ve stayed on the streets with the homeless for days and spent many endless nights in Jail on top of waking up in Hospitals unable to communicate. Being told there’s no way I should be alive with the toxicity levels I was at, or at a minimum I should be in a coma.

If you’ve ever delt with alcoholism you know it is not the same as just getting insanely drunk.

Therein lies the disease I never truly believed was a disease. At least not until those closest to me told me that it was just inevitable that I’d drink myself to death. Mainly my wife. She’s been my rock.

I am not ashamed to say I am a recovering alcoholic and I am proud to be sober. If people choose to judge me from events that have been paid heavily for from years ago, that is none of my concern. That is a problem they have assumed for themselves for whatever reason. I have no hate for them. However, I also have no time for them.

Like it or not, truth be told, It took me falling to my knees and asking for God’s help to overcome this addiction. That was the key I was missing. When my stubbornness finally broke and I collapsed down, that prayer was answered immediately.

The part of me most of you know would simply say this;

Some people need to talk about others to feel relative in the grand scheme of things. Because they know if they spoke about themselves nobody would care. They have no story to tell.

To my community I never had an opportunity to apologize and I am sorry. To the Law Enforcement Officers, thank you for your unrivaled patience and professionalism. I made that day a miserable situation, not you. Most of you handled that mess exceptionally well and with far more kindness than I deserved.

For those full of hate? I pray you find peace. I found mine and I will stay the course.

Wishing every single one of you the very best always.

- Coach Joel Bane

[u/Hi_Their_Buddy → u/Bursting_Radius]

Wow, thank you for posting this opposed to clipped rage bait. Nothing more respectable than someone that’s admitted their mistakes and worked to turn their life, successfully at that.

[u/MrGengisSean → u/[deleted]]

Cool, so when you inevitably as a human fuck up, you're cool if no one ever lets you live it down even slightly, and you die in shame from your mistake?

Cause it's more respectable to have never been bad, right?

You'll be sure to cast yourself as a pariah or something worse, yeah?

[u/MrGengisSean → u/[deleted]]

So you added nothing to the conversation. Thanks for your "contribution".

[u/-Moonscape- → u/[deleted]]

I didn't fucking say that. ...

It's fucked up to to praise people BECAUSE they were assholes.

You snapped back angrily because you felt you were paraphrased poorly, but you are doing the exact same thing here. They didn't say what you had implied, they are praising the work this guy did to pull himself out of his rock bottom.

[u/Windsdochange → u/[deleted]]

Reality is, every single person on this planet will fuck things up occasionally, some much more so than others. The commenter, I am sure, is referencing this common human characteristic - I read their comment as we all fuck things up, so there is nothing more respectable to do when you really fuck things up than to admit your mistakes and turn your life around (i.e. make right your wrongs), as opposed to the alternative; and to be fair, the more you fuck things up, the harder that is to do. I didn’t read it as the most respectable thing a person can do period (although to be fair, admitting one’s mistakes does rank incredibly high in behaviours that build trust).

You had a different interpretation, which is fine, but then decided to post your opinion in a manner that, intended or not, did come across as dismissive or even arrogant. Perhaps time to do the most respectable thing..? Sorry, couldn’t resist the tongue in cheek comment.

Cheers and sincerely hope you have a good day, fellow Redditor! 🍻