A Test Of Patience
A car is reported stolen. Police arrive. Liveliness ensues:
Bodycam footage has just been released of police visiting an American campus last year following the report of a car theft.
Unfortunately for them, the first person they meet is a cross-dressing student, who throws repeated and aggressive tantrums over his gender identity. pic.twitter.com/ividCN5VkI
— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) July 18, 2026
Needless to say, the situation does not improve.
“SHEEEE!”
[ Lunges. ]“JUST SAY THE RIGHT PRONOUNS!”
Readers may wish to imagine being a student or campus employee who, like the police officer, fails to discern by some telepathic means the expected fabulist pronouns, and who, as a result, is faced with similar behaviour. All that lovely shrieking and bedlamite lunging.
Behaviour emboldened, one assumes, by each new act of deference.
A YouTube version of the above can be found here.
Update, via the comments:
In the original thread on X, what struck me was the number of people claiming that the police officer was being needlessly aggressive and provocative – unlike our bewigged vision of loveliness – and that the use of pepper spray was “not fair.” “They could have just walked away,” says one.
Just walked away. As if you should be allowed to lunge at a police officer with impunity, and refuse to obey the law, with impunity, and be aggressive and disruptive to a psychotic degree – again, with impunity – provided you’re cross-dressing at the time.
The people saying these things don’t appear interested – at all – in the students and staff who will also be subject to this bedlamite’s tantrums and bullying. Seemingly at random, at the drop of a hat. Over and over again. As if the meltdown theatre seen above weren’t practised, a way to dominate others.
Again, behaviour emboldened by each new act of deference.
Oh, and I suppose I should ask the ladies here whether they feel an urge to invite Mr Jarrett Preston Vick – the chap shrieking more than seems strictly necessary – into their changing rooms, public toilets and so forth.
Answers on a postcard, please.
Update 2:
Commenter Aitch adds,
Well, quite. Again, imagine the possibilities should anyone object to Mr Vick’s intrusion in, say, ladies’ toilets or changing rooms.
There’s plenty more to ponder in those eight minutes. It’s hard to miss the repeated shifting from male bravado – clenched fists, lunging, “Just fucking try it,” etc – to girly shrieking, bag clutching and feigned helplessness – to literally stamping like a toddler. The words erratic and surreal scarcely cover it.
And then there are the repeated attempts by Mr Vick to frame his own behaviour as the fault of someone else. They pushed his buttons, etc. As if he shouldn’t be expected to exert any self-restraint in any situation. And all while refusing every opportunity to de-escalate the exchange by doing as he’s told.
This is someone who seems very much accustomed to exemptions and deference – presumably, from people who are fearful of similar domineering meltdowns. This perverse immunity from normal expectations of behaviour, and normal moral consequences, has been touched on here several times, with suitably vivid and rather sinister illustrations.
And I tend to think that such behaviour can only be corrected, however briefly and at least to some extent, when it collides with something harder, something that does not defer.
Police officer: “I’m going to spray him.”
Bewigged bedlamite: “Don’t say him. HER!”
Police officer: “I’m going to spray her.”
Bewigged bedlamite: “Thank you.”
He’s strong for a woman.
Heh. I heard a reference to calling “OPD” and thought…uh-oh…sure enough, UCF. In spite of his no-nonsense words, attitude…accent…that cop exhibited way, way too much patience.
Of course all of this could have been avoided if the cop had just used the right pronouns. Or deployed an effective taser. WTF has become of our taser tech? Seems they used to immediately drop the target to the ground. Cop should have just gone old-school stone age tech and bitch-slapped the hysterical nutcase to the ground then slapped on the cuffs (why two cops are needed is its own rabbit hole) on him, and hauled him away to a nuthouse. Though of course if such things were possible, this wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
Several people on X have assumed that the above must be a comedic skit.
Alas, no.
I suppose I should ask the ladies here whether they feel an urge to invite Mr Jarrett Preston Vick – the chap in the blue wig and shrieking more than seems strictly necessary – into their changing rooms, public toilets and so forth.
Feisty.
They don’t pay police enough- if he shot him a jury wouldn’t convict after seeing the!
So I thought it odd that grok, which never fails to “inform” me when some of the things I ask it about are not from “trusted sources”, would link to Kiwi Farms. So I axed:
To which:
Heh. One thing that amused me was the cop’s rather NY/NJ/etc. accent and attitude. Gee…wonder what brought him down to central Florida for a campus cop job, of all possibilities.
Added: Though I wouldn’t be so sure about that jury. The system probably won’t even convict the blue hair. Probably even make UCF apologize and pay the nutcase for the harm done to him….I say “make” as if significant entities at UCF aren’t chomping at the bit to make a payout.
The consequences of not slapping a toddler on the back of the legs when throwing a tantrum in the supermarket.
In the original thread on X, what struck me was the number of people claiming that the police officer was being needlessly aggressive and provocative, and that the use of pepper spray was “not fair.” “They could have just walked away,” says one.
As if you should be allowed to lunge at a police officer with impunity, and refuse to follow the law, with impunity, and be disruptive to a psychotic degree – again, with impunity – provided you’re cross-dressing at the time.
The people saying these things don’t appear interested, at all, in the students and staff who will also be subject to this blue-wigged bedlamite’s tantrums and bullying. Seemingly at random, at the drop of a hat.
The Unspanked, a possible series.
For some reason this came to mind.
I see what you did there.
[ Indignant muttering. ]
Suicidal insanity:
(via)
Is he the final boss of pronouns?
Consider what fraction of the populace should be wearing Collars of Obedience.
[ Notices a fantastic business opportunity. ]
The helicopter meme is spreading. For some reason.
Well as I said in X in reply to one who has “Gender Atheist” in his nickname I find it interesting how many people who claim to be atheists have an unshakable faith in angels. They expect cops, military, anyone who’s job ultimately relies on force as backup to have supernatural abilities, to read minds, to foresee future events, to have infinite patience, all the while these atheist aligned people are working every day to make the job of a LEO or other person working at the margins of civilization increasingly harder.
[ Knees buckle. Collapses to floor. ] Everything I believed was wrong.
Poe’s Law: Without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
We have reached the point in society where we actually need an inverse law, to describe people assuming real events must be parody, but are actual reality.
Teaser.
As Beavis of Beavis and Butthead would advise the officer: “Use the Taser, THE TASER! Zap him! Zap him in the butt!”
This is why I couldn’t be a cop. 👮🏻♂️ The Billy club would be pulled out and applied liberally to the aggrieved’s noggin. Repeatedly, with vigor.
And then I’d be in jail.
It’s cute that you think “He may be a functional member of society in ten years.”
This may explain New Orleans.
Just thought you ought to know this, David.
Every time you say you love America, these get a little bigger.
The company you keep.
“I think of a man, but take away reason and accountability.”
Can’t lose what you never had.
I loved that novel. I am not sure why. I don’t know how they’ll show the girl with blades for eyes.
So many men wondering aloud if they’re bigger than usual.
So many women knowing that she’s wearing a push-up bra, so the answer is NO.
Given his practised glee in malice, in terrorising random people for social-media clout, that seems unlikely.
The cop is also highly sensitive to words. He immediately threatens arrest. Not well done.
[ Post updated. ]
Computer says no.
It does seem likely that if the police had “just walked away” – rather than, say, enforcing the law – then Mr Vick would be free to continue his deranged pronoun bullying on an indefinite basis. Presumably, by having aggressive meltdowns when random strangers fail to indulge him.
Not sure that’s a better world, frankly.
Surprising for a French commercial – children are usually better behaved in France.
Oh dear. This is going to suck, isn’t it?
Mr Vick’s very first words to the police officer, who has literally just arrived, are a screeched accusation, an attempt to blame the police for his situation. This is followed by another belligerent challenge. And then we get the lunging and shrieking about fabulist pronouns.
Yet we’re expected to assume that those on X excusing or minimising this instantly hostile behaviour – after the fact and from a safe distance – would have easily resisted an urge to apply some physical correction.
Let’s say I have my doubts.
Yes. Yes, it is…the cop who is highly sensitive to words. Yes. Yes indeedy. Because of course. That’s the most rational way to view this encounter. Yes.
If he behaves that way to a cop…
Well, quite. Again, imagine the possibilities should anyone object to his intrusion in, say, ladies’ toilets or changing rooms.
And there’s plenty more to ponder in those eight minutes. It’s hard to miss the repeated, quite vivid shifting from male bravado – clenched fists, lunging, “Just fucking try it,” etc – to girly shrieking, bag clutching and feigned helplessness – to literally stamping like a toddler.
And then there are the repeated attempts to frame his own behaviour as the fault of someone else. They pushed his buttons, etc. As if he shouldn’t be expected to exert any self-restraint in any situation. And all while refusing every opportunity to de-escalate the exchange by, you know, doing as he’s told.
This is someone who seems very much accustomed to exemptions and deference – presumably, by people who are fearful of similar domineering meltdowns. And I tend to think that such behaviour can only be modified, at least to some extent, when it collides with something harder, something that does not defer.
All three men were convicted of the attack. . . None of them were subsequently deported: all three are currently at large in the United Kingdom.
It was published so long ago that I don’t remember either.
Blades under her fingernails. Surgically implanted vision-enhancing mirrorshades.
Clean your links!
On that note…
That one reminds me of this one:
Most of the time, I can’t watch these videos of sufferable people past a few seconds.
But this fellow was… hypnotic. Quite entertaining.
When seen through a small pane of glass in my hand— rather than up close, in my dorm, in my classroom, my restaurant, my four-hour flight.
I wonder what that could possibly mean.
Also avoiding the obvious,
Of course that would be the entire county outside of places like LA, but you will be surprised that our philosopher totally doesn’t fit a stereotype. Nope, not at all.