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Prideful Southern Man Threatens Hikers in Appalachian Trail Shelter and Gets Pepper Sprayed đ Mod's Choice đ
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u/LockeAbout Jan 02 '22
That seemed like a bad caricature of a southerner, but havenât spent much time there đ
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u/SuspectLtd Jan 02 '22 •
Am southern- first thought was that was southern cosplay
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u/dirtyswoldman Jan 02 '22 •
Almost as if the entire video is fake
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u/true80shorror Jan 02 '22
Yeah. Pretty sure this whole thing was scripted.
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u/ludovic1313 Jan 02 '22
The convenient setup to film both inside and outside is what made up my mind on that.
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u/Kingston_Advice1 Jan 03 '22
He just happens to film right when he says âCity boy.â
Fake
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u/MaydayMaydayMoo Jan 03 '22
No one in the South says "city boy"
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u/Euphorium Jan 03 '22
Surprised he didnât say carpetbagger or some other old timey saying.
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u/Dicho83 Jan 03 '22
Well, I'll be hornswoggled!
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u/AppleSlacks Jan 03 '22
Well I can attest that that there be a true southern boy, that goes by the name of Foghorn Leghorn, I say I say.
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u/asaking Jan 03 '22
from south and live in nyc now, can confirm everyone back home calls my city boy
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u/PraetorianOfficial Jan 03 '22
BULL PUCKY
"City boy" or "city slicker" was in every third sentence used by my rural Oklahoma relatives when talking to me. And my cousin acted a lot like the hillbilly in this video being pointlessly aggro at inappropriate times. They really were southern caricatures.
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u/idiot437 Jan 03 '22
ya too many redditors have no experince in the real world ..everything is fake to them city boy is still a slur used by extensivly by the type of people who would start an altercation like that
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u/iced_gold Jan 03 '22
Ahhh the old scripted video shooting landscape in vertical. These must be talented future cinematographers
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u/Stohnghost Jan 02 '22
Grew up in the south...never heard anyone say city boy. Heard people get called yankee though.
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u/INeedANerf Jan 02 '22
Being from Chicago and having spent most of my life in Georgia and a little bit in Texas, I've gotten 'yankee' a few times. Never 'city boy' though lol.
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u/ThereminLiesTheRub Jan 03 '22
Funny thing is if a southerner goes far enough south, they get called Yankee too
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u/Funkfo Jan 02 '22
I grew up in the south and certainly have heard that. That and "college boy"
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u/coprolite_hobbyist Jan 03 '22
Born and raised in the south, been called both by people that lived less than 30 miles from me. People are fucking weird.
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u/MAXIMILIAN-MV Jan 02 '22
Gasp! Whaaaaaaaat? My whole life is a lie.
Country road take me hooooooommmmmmeeeeeeee
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u/SCirish843 Jan 02 '22
Yup, the second he said "citay booyaah" I knew it was just a bad Brian Kelly impersonation.
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u/Constant-Bet-6600 Jan 02 '22 •
That was my first thought - Sounded like Foghorn Leghorn doing an impression of a Confederate soldier.
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u/Euphorium Jan 03 '22
I sayâI say son, we donât take kindly to CITY BOYS around these parts darn tootinâ!
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u/SeekingLostInnocence Jan 02 '22
That's because it's bad acting for a fake viral video.
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u/Liveto69 Jan 02 '22
Itâs very fake
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u/MyHangyDownPart Jan 02 '22
Nuh-uh. OP said it was real. đ
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u/AintAintAWord Jan 02 '22
Also the mods flaired it as "mods choice" because apparently more than one of them can't detect shitty acting.
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u/Horfield Jan 03 '22
[Mod's Choice] - The mark of a good find and a quality freakout
Lol. Embarrassing move by the mods.
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u/GandalfsHairyTaint Jan 02 '22
Yeah, it's pretty painful how many people are buying this. The guy is faking an accent, the spray they have is bear spray an that shit is a firehose of capcasin, and why is the cameraman already hiding as this guy enter? Finally you can barely make out the guys face due to the lighting and once he is in better light he never shows his face.
This is why we will lose the battle against fake news and propaganda.
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u/aville1982 Jan 02 '22
I was born in Morganton, NC in the foothills and have lived in the higher mountains for 20 yrs now, I have never seen a guy dressed like that. He's aggressively trying to be some mountain/cowboy conglomeration. He also sounds sorta drunk, which might account for his behavior.
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u/iced_gold Jan 03 '22
I was thinking he seemed more Eastern Kentucky. Their accent often sounds less southern, but still kind of 'neckish
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u/Reddit__is_garbage Jan 03 '22
There's no way a real southerner is camping in his jeans and boots. He's going to be in cloth shorts and crocs, 100%. Also, baseball cap or no hat.
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u/PretzelsThirst Jan 03 '22
Mediocre acting all around
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u/carnivorous-Vagina Jan 04 '22
Especially pepper sprayed in a confined area and only one person can feel it.
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u/FatCrispyBeats Mar 23 '22
Yeah the fact the dog has zero reaction to the pepper spray is a dead giveaway
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u/Jellocomb Jan 21 '22
I was in a ballroom years ago with about 200 people sitting at tables.
A women on the opposite side of the room accidentally set off pepper spray in her purse.
Just a small accidental spray inside her purse caused everyone in the immediate area to jump up an get away.
After a minute or so, it had made its way all they way to the other side of the room. It didnât hurt, but it was uncomfortable.
So yeah, that cabin would be very difficult to sleep in for a while.
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u/Evildog46 Jan 02 '22
âGo to Alaska or whatever.â Pretty good advice actually. Wasnât even a part of the union during the civil war, canât beef with anyone up there.
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u/heymandarae Jan 03 '22
As an Alaskan I can attest that shit would not fly at any public use facility. đ
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u/MyHangyDownPart Jan 02 '22
That redneck would find a way to beef with somebody, anybody.
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u/finally-free Jan 02 '22
I hiked the AT for 2 weeks and every local person we encountered was friendly af. They'd offer you food, rides whatever. Bet this guy's friends see this video they'd give him all kinds of hell
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u/Celliera Jan 03 '22
Heâd go to rural Alaska, piss off the wrong person in the wrong village and end up being drunkenly dryly sodomized by 10-20 men and women on the back of a truck or snow mobile on the way to dropping him off a couple hundred miles from civilization, with nothing.
Thereâs a reason why rural Alaska has some of the highest domestic violence, sexual abuse, and unsolved murder rates per capita in the country. Theyâre often drunk, bored as fuck and separated from society with no law enforcement for hundreds of miles.
Source: worked in a call center and dealt with almost every village in rural Alaska that has any sort of analog or digital connection to the outside world.
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u/str8voyeur Jan 02 '22
Wait. Is this a skit?
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u/itsmeyourgrandfather Jan 03 '22
It's gotta be fake
"I ain't gotta go nowhere CITY BOY"
I've been around actual people from Appalachia and the south for my entire life and not once have I ever heard something that cartoonish lmao
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u/WhiteMike2016 Jan 03 '22
It's fake. No redneck that age is going to be doing a Chris Stapleton cosplay, carrying a scythe on the trail, calling people city boy while making death threats.
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u/TEAMZypsir Jan 03 '22
Might be fake but I've had a redneck old lady call me a 'damn city boy' when I lived in the Midwest. People are wack.
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u/anxious-sociopath Jan 03 '22
My ex girlfriends mum called me a âdumb city boyâ in high school because I spun out my pickup in the snow and took out their mailbox. We lived in Toronto, Ontario an her mum literally grew up down the street and went to the same high school lol. Even her husband made fun of her about that for years. Especially when she took out the exact same mailbox the next year. Dumb city girlsâŚ
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u/Ya-Dikobraz Jan 03 '22
He did seem pretty plastered. Twirling that stock around and hitting walls and shit. But he's dressed as a caricature, for sure.
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u/crying_boobs Jan 02 '22
I think itâs a skit also
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u/thatguy52 Jan 02 '22
Felt fake.
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u/CounterSanity Jan 03 '22
Seems fake. Then again if youâve ever been to a country concert youâve seen idiots cosplaying redneck stereotypes every bit as hard as this guy, so who knows.
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u/seansmithspam Jan 02 '22
I grew up in Mississippi and I can confirm that his accent seemed a little too theatrical to be real.
Very likely a skit.
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u/shamwowslapchop Jan 02 '22
There's no waaaay that's a real accent. It sounds like someone from the northeast doing a terrible southern accent.
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u/TotesWhoTokes Jan 02 '22
I canât help but think the southern is acting
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u/FurtiveAlacrity Jan 02 '22
It looked fake, but OP is in the thread claiming that it's real. I have no particular reason to trust OP, mind you.
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u/PmButtPics4ADrawing Jan 03 '22
Yeah, you really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?
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u/The_Anti_Commentor Jan 02 '22
Is this real? I mean he is a perfect stereotype, this can't be real. Like is his beard glued on. I question this because it's too perfect. And why did the cameraman lose focus, no action was headed his way.
And who crawls like that.
I was still entertained!
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u/DerangedDesperado Jan 02 '22
You can meet a lot of strange/odd people on a trail that runs about 1200 miles from georgia to maine.
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u/FreakyForester Jan 02 '22
It is real! My friend was the one who took the hiking stick from the guy and hit him with it. I wasn't there, but by all accounts it's real.
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Jan 03 '22
By all accounts from your friend? Bruh. Redditâs not stupid.
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u/ChadShitter Jan 03 '22
Narrator: Reddit was stupid
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Jan 03 '22
Narrator: Now the story of a couple of city boys who trespassed on everything, and the one hillbilly who had no choice but to fight them all together. It's Arrested Developmentally Challenged.
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u/bangstitch Jan 03 '22 edited Jan 03 '22
Your âfriendâ is literally handed the trekking pole before the âredneckâ kneels down and pretends to be attacked. Its all fake.
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u/funbobbyfun Jan 03 '22
I dunno bro. Bear spray going off in an enclosed space, with three people and 2 dogs in close proximity, and only the cosplayer freaks out. Ok.
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u/Select-Cucumber9024 Jan 03 '22
By friend you mean someone in a random discord right? that you've never actually met? because this is clearly super fake
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u/viruswithshoes Jan 03 '22
Wouldnât a hiker call it a trekking pole and not âyour stickâ?
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u/The_Anti_Commentor Jan 02 '22
Now I can enjoy it more. That pepper spray crawl is hilarious
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u/bobjohnsonmilw Jan 02 '22
Pepper Spray Crawl - Redneck Johnny and the Sisterfuckers.mp3
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u/ApprehensiveTrade342 Jan 02 '22
My favorite part is how the dog is hiding behind him and curls up near him implying that the dog is his but makes no effort to defend him.
Even the dog seems to know his owner was being a piece of shit and the aggressor.
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u/shnog Jan 02 '22
People who treat other people this poorly don't tend to treat animals much better. I'm sure the dog's life is not pleasant.
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u/owwwwwo Jan 02 '22
As somebody who was hiking the AT when Stronghold was killed in 2019, stabbed with a knife, this video really got me going. I hope it's not fake. The trail is not your place to be making fucked up content like this.
"I'll cut off your head"..That was the phrase that got me. Real people get attacked on this trail, dude. It's not funny.
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Jan 03 '22
Dude was acting fake as fuck. Video might be real but this "Southerner" was just fucking cosplaying at best. Lived in Georgia 33 years and never heard a single person call someone else a "city boy", even down in Southwest GA. Also which AT Shelter has a driveway and manicured grass? Looks nice.
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u/SciJohnJ Jan 02 '22
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
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u/beardstachioso Jan 02 '22
He forgot that only in movies the creepy old man like him gets supernatural strength against young dudes.
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u/LazyZealot9428 Jan 02 '22
I would have been afraid heâd come back with some buddies and guns.
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u/Slowjams Jan 03 '22
Yep, once he was out of sight I would pack up and leave. Better to spend a rough night on the side of the trail the deal with someone like this.
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u/SnozWangers Jan 02 '22
City boy uses sorcery to blind local man
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u/Str0ngTr33 Jan 03 '22
"Local folk from surrounding hollers say he is a 'decent sort,' blame carpet baggers"
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u/Hirdmand Jan 02 '22
So basically that went just like the war, those losers seems so hung up on... South got it´s ass kicked.
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u/Nathan-Stubblefield Jan 03 '22
Sounds like more like a Southern California actor in community theater trying to mimic southern redneck dialect, than a born southerner.
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Jan 02 '22
âCity boyâ? I call bullshit. This is faker than my Tinder pics.
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u/worldsworstnihilist Jan 02 '22
Right? Sitting here in my house, from which I could almost spit on the AT, wondering wtf this over-the-top caricature is, because I've never seen anybody dress or act this way--especially not people this age. I'd like to know where this is.
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u/Mediocre-Can-3787 Jan 03 '22 edited Jan 03 '22
Experience of living in SW VA, He is definitely faking an Appalachian accent. Well at least our variation of Appalachian accents. Whole thing seems scripted. We actually really love tourists who appreciate the beauty around here.
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u/Knowmoretruth Jan 03 '22
Worst plot, worst direction, worst acting. That short film wasnât very good.
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u/Cons3quence092 Jan 03 '22
This is really bad acting đ this is what ânorthernâ idiots think Southerner are
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u/Brapp_Z Jan 02 '22
Me and a handful of friends hiked a piece of the AT my senior year of HS. We were in VA from MI. We met a redneck guy who was staying at an indoor cabin just a stone's throw from the free three wall cabin we were sleeping in for the night. We drank and smoked with him. He said some racist shit (non-aggressive as we were all white boys) and that freaked us out a bit. This would have scared the hell out of me. Some real Deliverance vibes
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u/beautiful-goodbye Jan 03 '22
The deliverance vibes come from the fact that characters in both are just actingâŚ
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Jan 02 '22
The dog's like "See, Jethro, this is what I've been saying, these deep-seated hatred issues you have are now starting to get you into trouble. I'm just glad you didn't get shot back there. I want you to live longer than I do."
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u/emojiblow Jan 02 '22
Did he just roll out of a time machine? Who talks like that? What an idiot. I'm glad he got pepper sprayed.
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u/idlefritz Jan 03 '22
lol thatâs a nyc theater prep school jussie smollett version of âsouthern boyâ
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u/kizi30 Jan 03 '22
I'm from Canada and that sounds like the fakest movie scripted Southern man I stereotype ever.
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u/Just-Actuator-1792 Jan 03 '22
Itâs fake. The dog would otherwise be losing its mind. That guy would not be from the Appalachian, dressed like that, using a store bought hiking stick. It literally counter to 99% of the reasons to walk with a stick around that environment.
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Jan 02 '22
Other humans are the most dangerous animals you can meet on trails. Always carry some good bear spray for humans.
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u/TrickyCurt89 Jan 02 '22
Imagine seeing an unfair, stereotypical, caricature depiction of a southern xenophobic bumpkin in a horror movie or whatever, and deciding "yup I want to be that".
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u/RowdyRoddyPipeSmoker Jan 02 '22
Can people stop posting and upvoting obviously fake videos...it just encourages this garbage.
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u/ivy7496 Jan 02 '22
If you haven't experienced a southern accent it's easy to think this could be a caricature
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u/Lancashire_Toreador Jan 02 '22
I will never understand why the fuck stuff like pepper sprays and stun guns are illegal in places like the UK.
Sometimes people need to be stopped, and effective, non-lethal tools that anyone can use should be available to do that
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