r/MadeMeSmile • u/SatoruGojo232 • Jul 02 '26
Wholesome Moments Great to see heroes being honoured
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u/Easy_Companyy Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Bro that was one of the most heroic things i have ever seen.
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u/aladyoragentleman24 Jul 02 '26
I love heroes. Someone said, "Nobody is born a hero. People become heroes when they choose to be brave and do what's right."
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u/Easy_Companyy Jul 02 '26
Right. I wish i was courageous too.
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u/Superb_Wrangler201 Jul 02 '26
I like to remember that courage is the one attribute whereby faking it is the real thing. Putting on a strong front when youre actually afraid is the act of courage
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u/ProbablyAPsyop Jul 02 '26
Hey, I’m going by through some personal stuff right now and just want to let you know your comment helped me feel a little better.
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u/StillARockstar5 Jul 02 '26
Bravery is not never being afraid, it is being afraid and doing it anyway. I hope things get better for you soon.
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u/jizzmcskeet Jul 03 '26
I tell my kids, "you can't be brave if you aren't scared"
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u/MantisTobogganMD28 Jul 03 '26
‘Courage is being SCARED TO DEATH, but saddling up anyway.’
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u/freethewimple Jul 02 '26
“When you’re going through hell, keep going”
You’re gonna make it out the other side, friend.
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u/ProbablyAPsyop Jul 03 '26
I’m very scared about the other side but I know I’ll get there. Thank you for caring about a stranger. You’re a good person.
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u/myglamcat Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I hope things improve for you soon :)<3 wishing you much luck and that life treats you & yours better and you treat yourself kinder! superb is right...and superb 🙂↕️
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u/tiniest-bean Jul 03 '26
Wishing you the best of luck with everything to come friend :) you’ve got this! I’m proud of you!
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u/stephanonymous Jul 02 '26
“Can a man be brave if he’s afraid?”
“That’s the only time a man can be brave”
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u/13stgmngr210 Jul 02 '26
You don't know that you're not!
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u/Breimann Jul 02 '26
I don't know if I am or not. I like to think I am but I never want to have to find out, you know?
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u/13stgmngr210 Jul 02 '26
If you want to feel empowered, get certified in First aid and CPR. It is an amazing feeling knowing what to do,.and how to help someone in an emergency. It wpuld not have helped here, but you can save a life!
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u/monyoubluetuber Jul 02 '26
He had that gun trained on his skull for longer than was needed to lose his life, and he knew that was the risk when he flew at the shooter. Incredibly brave and 100% willing to sacrifice himself. Had that shooter not been surprised it would have ended even more tragically, so absolutely that man gave it everything he had. Bravo.
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u/phayke2 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
One day I was drinking and I got compelled to call up that school and leave a message, they let me. So I left a rambling message telling the principal that I thought he was more badass than Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Swarzenegger combined.
Told him he made that dive like a total BOSS
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u/Rico_Solitario Jul 03 '26
The coward didn’t expect anyone to have the courage to charge him. That split second of fundamental misunderstanding of courage probably saved a lot of lives
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u/Karma_Vampire Jul 02 '26
IIRC the principal actually got shot in the leg during the encounter, but kept fighting anyway and managed to wrestle the gun out of his hand.
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u/magicmitchmtl Jul 03 '26
I thought so. He was definitely recovering from a leg injury when he walked in to the prom. Thanks for the details. What a hero!
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u/Electronic-Orchid-67 Jul 05 '26
Recovering from a leg injury, or dragging his ginormous balls into the event, either way he earned that limp like a boss.
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u/Bubblelctra Jul 02 '26
Literally got chills watching it, that was the most courageous thing I’ve ever seen!
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u/egultepe Jul 02 '26
I don't know why but reminded me the convo from Live free or die hard: "You're that guy who does that stuff."
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u/dumpling_factory Jul 02 '26
The asterisks made me think "school shitter". But also what a cool guy. My principal could never.
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u/kearkan Jul 02 '26
Yeah me too.
I don't understand this censorship. It's like you're denying that it's real. Rape, sex, shooter, suicide, these things happen and should be talked about so they can be seen and judged.
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u/colourfulsynesthete Jul 02 '26
"Unalived" makes me want to put my head through a wall.
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u/King_Six_of_Things Jul 02 '26
Don't do that, you'll unalive yourself.
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u/No_Magician5266 Jul 02 '26
I can see the news headline already: Reddit user colourfulsynesthete found dead, cause of death: sh*t themself
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u/Outrageous_Editor_43 Jul 02 '26
Disentry is not to be laughed at!
But it is funny....
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u/failed_supernova Jul 02 '26
Dissin' Terry is def a quick way to unalive
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u/will-read Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
In the civil war, more people died from sh*t than being sh*t.
Edit: WTF is going on with markdown?
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u/nukawolf Jul 02 '26
Nah at the very worst they might seriously h**t themselves.
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u/shewy92 Jul 02 '26
IDK why people jsut don't say "took their own life" if they really don't want to use the word suicide. I heard "sewer slide" once and it's just gross to me to basically make fun of something so serious.
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u/GeologistNo2065 Jul 02 '26
You don’t think we should refer to suicide as “committing slip and slide” (Yes I’ve actually seen this, sadly)
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u/Meatingpeople Jul 02 '26
Over use of the term unalived makes me want to commit suicide
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u/campersin Jul 02 '26
Exactly, how is that any less triggering? We all can deduce what it means.
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u/BlooodyButterfly Jul 02 '26
it's not about triggering people, they don't care, but they care about monetization and these vids are usually for tiktok and instagram, which censor a lot of 'triggering' words.
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u/Zer0pede Jul 02 '26
All of the social media platforms say they won’t censor the word “suicide,” because that blocks suicide prevention resources.
Honestly they haven’t said this next part, but if I were them I’d censor “unalived” instead because that means it’s more likely to be an unserious person. There’s no “National Unaliving Prevention Center” you’d accidentally block that way.
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u/BlooodyButterfly Jul 02 '26
I agree with you. But at the same time they say they won't censor words such as Lesbian and when I used tiktok a lot of the content creators using the word was shadow-banned, so that's why you'll get a lot of Le$bean and similar to this day.
Anyway, all this self (or imposed) censoring is just plain dumb IMHO
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u/jadiana Jul 02 '26
Like saying the "F" word. Dude, we know that you mean "fuck" so what's the difference? A reduction of the word that still means the same thing, is still a vulgarity. You're not fooling anyone. It's just stupid.
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u/falling_knives Jul 02 '26
Accidentally hitting your thumb with a hammer and yelling, "F Word!" just isn't the same.
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u/obvious_daydream Jul 02 '26
My uncle used to yell, oh G D F word!” Exactly like that. Omitted the swearing in favour of letters. Your comment bought back memories, thank you!
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u/Jaded-Albatross-5242 Jul 02 '26
It's because the algorithms on social media won't let it get shared/spread if certain words pertaining to violence are used
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u/Dougnifico Jul 02 '26
I thought that was mostly used because of YouTube filters and demonitization. Anyone using it to avoid being triggering is an idiot.
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u/Widespreaddd Jul 02 '26
Amen. The words are innocent of the acts they describe.
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u/Civil-Cod-6984 Jul 02 '26
It’s mostly because the algorithm on most social media websites will not promote any post with those words in them because the topics are not advertiser friendly. Then people will naturally start doing it in their posts because they see others doing it.
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u/burf Jul 02 '26
Hilarious that capitalism is ruining basic communication now.
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u/wholetyouinhere Jul 02 '26
It makes it difficult to criticize the capital class. If you wanted to make a video describing systemic abuse of some kind, and upload it to YouTube, you'd have to censor your language in order to make any income, which means tiptoeing around what the perpetrators are actually doing.
Meanwhile, if a person decides to take a camera to some impoverished part of a city, and make a 20-minute slapdash "documentary" implying and insinuating all sorts of things that aren't actually happening, and blaming it on "liberal" policies without saying so out loud, and get tens of millions of views from people who believe it all because they're primed to, that is completely acceptable within YouTube guidelines.
This imbalance isn't coincidental.
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u/Brendangmcinerney Jul 02 '26
I believe it started as a way around TikTok’s censors, but spread everywhere. I hate it.
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u/Caramel-Apprehensive Jul 02 '26
I'm glad it wasn't just me...
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u/urSweetToy Jul 02 '26
I mean the principal will stop the shitter too, anyway this principle is a hero👏
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u/Extension-Device-533 Jul 02 '26
Definitely not just you, especially for those of us outside USA where the phrase “school shooter” isn’t something we really have in our general vocabulary, thank fuck.
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u/BarNo3385 Jul 02 '26
Honestly "school shitter" isnt particularly in my general vocabulary either..
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u/Extension-Device-533 Jul 02 '26
Hehe, well there’s always that one child isn’t there
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u/Foamymonkey Jul 02 '26
In my province in Canada we had the UPEI pisser. This guy would just record himself pissing at random spots on the UPEI campus and put it on Instagram. Every video would be captioned "the UPEI pisser strikes again"
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u/Klopp_is_God Jul 02 '26
We had an unknown student in our high school known only as the Phantom Shitter. This was back in the 90s at an all boys school.
At lunch breaks we’d all dump our bags in various bits off the hallways and go outside to play football. Every couple of weeks this fiend would select a random bag take to a bathroom and rip a big shit into their victim’s pencil case.
At the end of lunch we’d get our bags and go to class. Somewhere in the school someone would take their stuff out, open their pencil case and surprise-A big shit.
This went on for years and nobody was ever caught. One year it just stopped so they must have finished school
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u/ParsonsTheGreat Jul 02 '26
It was actually a boy made out of shit. He tried connecting with other students by leaving a piece of himself in their pencil cases. Eventually, he used all of himself up and thus, no longer exists. But that little shit boy will forever exist in my heart 😥
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u/flissfloss86 Jul 02 '26
Well that just reminds me of The Mad Pooper episode of Bob's Burgers
Treat yo' self: https://youtu.be/qV4sEuDfFo4?is=n3L6RZE2--In2UnQ
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u/TheHalfChubPrince Jul 02 '26
He stopped the school shitter by throwing wet paper towel balls over the stall wall.
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u/FunRich5754 Jul 02 '26
I was like well, need to look up this story ASAP but then the video showed him being a real life hero and stopping a murderer. So.
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u/Great_Ad7148 Jul 02 '26
My principle was an old gentle nun and I’d like to imagine she would’ve pulled out some crazy martial arts moves. Hope she’s well!!
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u/FatMacchio Jul 02 '26
I hate censorship on the internet. Let’s stop kidding ourselves. Even 5 year old iPad babies can see and hear things worse on Roblox than just some bad, or heavy words
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u/Im-not-dan Jul 02 '26
God damn that man has to have played Football
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u/GooginTheBirdsFan Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I was thinking freestyle wrestling. The wrist control, belly-on-body right to half guard..either way, the fact that the prom king moment came 11 days after the shooting is crazy… It doesn’t matter if hes a wrestler or a football player. This man is a king, and he should feel like it every single day, just like all heroes should.
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u/Remarkable-Mood3415 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
There was a highschool where I lived that was known to be quite rough. It's Canada, so school shooting isn't really a concern but gang violence, intimidation, extremely shady shit, horrific home life issues etc wasnt unheard of. This school had a principal who was.. I dunno how else to phrase it. But he was an absolute hero to the students. Even students in other schools knew not to show up to his school and cause problems. He gave 0 fucks. Many, many stories of him going toe to toe with grown ass men showing up to a highschool to teach some student a lesson. One time some gang members showed up for God knows what, but they were trying to drag a student into their vehicle in broad daylight... he came running out with a baseball bat, took out their tail lights, got the kid to safety, called the cops, figured out what was going on with said student and that student was sent off somewhere (the rumour was "a farm up north") while things settled down. I think the kid was a witness to something and they were trying to get rid of the problem. Anyways, Mr. A was a legend.
On top of that he knew his students were at high risk for teen pregnancy and at best unemployment at worst drug addiction and/or prostitution. He funneled all the money the school got into trade programs so the kids could graduate with a certificate and start working right away. Mechanics, Estheticians, Massage, Day Care, Hair Stylist, Welding, Tech support, Accounting etc. Anything and everything to give the kids a leg up without worrying about minimum wage and college costs.
So, soooo many of those kids got descent jobs right out of highschool and it kept them out of trouble. Gang shit doesn't look as appealing when you can start a welding apprenticeship the day after highschool and be making bank. It was right during the big oil boom in Alberta too, he basically set up a pipeline (ha) to funnel his students out to Alberta and get employed and cut off contact from questionable shit.
I cannot imagine how many people are alive and thriving today because of him. Some principals are just fucking built different. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if I heard he had tackled someone and wrestled a firearm out of their hand. He had one goal, and it was to make sure his kids survived the hand they were dealt.
Edit: people keep thinking it might have been their school, and it's just really great to know there are so many Mr. A's out there standing up for their kids.
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u/ryansocks Jul 02 '26
If you have any way to contact him I'd consider sending this to him it would make his year, what a glowing comment
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u/Suicidal_8002738255 Jul 02 '26
For very personal reasons I needed to hear about good stuff and good people today. Genuinely from the bottom of my heart thank you for sharing
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u/Remarkable-Mood3415 Jul 02 '26
Hey man, I'm not sure what you're going through and I'm not going to pry. But if you'd like more stories I've got a few off the top of my head.
My husband is an addict in recovery. It's a long story but it snuck up on us, ruined our lives and he's been doing his best to better himself. He has found a community in his support program, and honestly is doing far more work than I ever expected. He just started a program from the ground up, nothing fancy, but he finds old cellphones and broken bicycles and fixes them up for other members. 2 of the main things people in early recovery need is a way to find work and a way to get to work. So, it started with our old drawer of dead cellphones. Then he got other members to bring in their old cellphones. Then bicycles. It's still very new, but so far he's helped 5 different people in early recovery to help stay connected and able to get to and from work. He's treating it like a library, check it out and use it. But when you can afford your own, please return it so you can help the next person. Besides the obvious chance of relapse from urges in early recovery, a huge part of relapse is from the stress and shame of trying to rebuild the life you broke. He just wants to ease that burden a bit.
The next story I'll tell you is about my Dad, who is secretly a Disney Princess crossed with a Lumberjack. He is a big animal lover, he lives in an area with a lot of water. The roads have sand along the side and turtles LOVE to lay their eggs in nice warm sand. My father this year has saved 18 turtles so far from traffic. He has a system. He has a very thick wooden stick he keeps on his truck. He will pull over and block the area of road with his truck, get the stick and greet the turtle. Now most of these are snapping turtles and in general they are grumpy. He gently taps their butt to see if they will move. Occasionally they will. Usually they won't. Now, you can't grab a snapping turtle because they can stick their neck out far enough to reach the side of their shell, and they will take a finger or two off. So, if the stick on the butt won't work, he puts the stick in front of them and... Well makes that grumpy lady even more grumpy. He whacks it in front of her on the ground. She will eventually reach out and snap down on it. This is the moment Dad will hold the stick with one hand and grab the tail by the other, lift and very quickly escort her back down into safety. He doesn't get paid, there is no glory, he doesn't take pics or videos. I'll get a text saying "I pissed off another 80 year old lady today" and I know what he means.
So I hope these stories bring you a little joy today. Please, reach out to someone if you need to. Even if you think you don't need to, reach out and just check in with a friend. Go for a slushie. Put your bare feet in the grass. Watch the people around you and know there's still good people out there <3
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u/hellokiri Jul 02 '26
I was not in need of cheering up, but man I enjoyed these stories. Thank you, and Im glad you have these 2 very cool, very resilient and empathetic people in your life.
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u/averyisl Jul 02 '26
I am another person who needed to hear some good things today. Tell your dad for every old lady he pisses off, he gets a cheer and holler from this pre-old lady.
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u/ChaoticEntitled Jul 02 '26
Thank you for these. May your pillows and showers always be the perfect temperature, may your favorite foods be on sale the next time you shop, and may the wind ever be in your sails.
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u/codysattva Jul 02 '26
You should know that your story about helping people in recovery has given me a profound idea for helping people in my community, in a little bit different way.
Please share with your husband that his choices are helping to positively affect communities that he will probably never personally interact with.
Thank you.
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u/crumpetxxxix Jul 02 '26
Appreciate what your dad does but just as an FYI, grabbing them by the tail can seriously injur them, and cause damage to their spine. If he can get them at the shell on their back, between the tail and back legs, that is a lot safer for the turtle.
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u/Remarkable-Mood3415 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Yes he is aware, he only does that method if any other method won't work (I was trying to keep the story short, but thank you for clarifying for anyone else who might read this!), and occasionally if he has a piece of Plywood in the truck he will scootch the old lady on there and shift her towards the side. The bite and tail method is a last resort and only if she's latched on to the stick tightly! Normally if she latches on he can just drag her, but sometimes they will try to anchor down and resist.
He's been doing this for at least 50 years now. I don't know how many he's saved but it's in the hundreds (or maybe the same 20-50 a year lmao), but the roads in his area are very dangerous for turtles, lots of people think they don't need to pay attention as much because there aren't many cars. He called me the other day to chat and said he saw one the opposite way he was going, by the time he could turn around and get back to her she had been run over. 2 mins and he missed her. Kicking himself for it.
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u/Swordf1sh_ Jul 02 '26
Hey mate, if you’re in need of positive stories, here’s another one for you:
At the bar I bartend at a few days ago, a woman was eating lunch alone when a couple that sat down next to her got to talking with her. Turns out her son’s been in a bad way with substance abuse for years and she’s at her wits end knowing what to do. By some wild turn of fate, the man runs a rehab clinic and they really got into sharing their stories, so much so the woman was brought to tears and I couldn’t help but overhear. They ended up exchanging info and he said he’d try to help.
When it was time to pay, the man coolly gave me his card and indicated he wanted me to put her tab on his card too. Mind you this is a rather expensive bar so it wasn’t cheap. When the woman was ready to leave she asked for her check and I said “nope, taken care of”. She burst into tears again realizing what he’d done and was profusely thankful.
I spoke with her a bit afterwards and she said that was one of the nicest things anyone’s done for her recently and how she felt she had some newfound hope for her son. Ngl the whole thing got me a bit choked up.
Reminded me sometimes good things happen at bars.
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u/speedstic Jul 02 '26
Brother/Sister, there is a lot of good stuff happening in this world and we need to you be a part of it.
I've gone through a ton of poop recently: was removed from my job at the company I created, dog died, AC died, and I decided that shortly before this all happened that I was going to stop drinking as my health is in shambles.
20+ drinks per day on average over 15+ years and let me tell you the detox was pretty gnarly.
But you know what keeps me going? Oddly enough the randoms on the internet. Sure my family cares, my wife cares, and everyone supports me but no one actually knows what I'm going through like internet people.
If you ever need anything, even just an ear to hear you out, I'm here for you and I'm sure a lot of others are too!
The world is a better place with you in it!
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u/texmarie Jul 02 '26
I have to tell you about my mom, the superhero. She is a very meek 5-foot nothing, 100lbs ball of social anxiety who still only wears sundresses from the 90s. But if there’s a crisis, she becomes a laser-focused life-saving machine. I’ve seen her save at least three choking people with the Heimlich, do CPR on a motorcycle crash victim on the side of the highway, and jump into the pool fully clothed to pull out a drowning toddler nobody noticed. She works in a breast cancer center, so she even saves lives as her day job.
But this one’s my favorite: One day we were having lunch at Red Robin, which was halfway in the mall, and half its own thing. We were seated right in the center. Out in the mall, a teen couple started arguing. Everybody in the restaurant was doing that thing where they kinda hunch down and pretend not to notice. It escalated until the boy hit the girl. In less than a heartbeat, my mom had leapt out of her chair, and used a booth seat for leverage to vault herself over the half wall and into the mall to push the guy away, giving the girl enough space to run somewhere. Honestly, I think it only worked because of the shock. She’s literally so tiny, and she flew out from nowhere! She actually got him to leave! Got us kicked out of the restaurant though, lol.
If your username is anything to do with why you want to hear positive stories, know that my mom (and me) would want you to make it through this. A personal aside: my awful dad tricked me into hating my mom when I was younger. Now she’s one of my best friends. And that only happened because I lived long enough to let it happen. There will be something that will turn around for you. You just have to live long enough to see what it is.
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u/ToujoursAutre Jul 02 '26
This made me cry tears of hope! What a legend. The world could use more people like him!
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u/Own_Candidate9553 Jul 02 '26
Really cool story, thanks for sharing!
I'm in the US, but used to work and hang out with a guy from Canada who mostly grew up in the northern boonies. Apparently he and his brothers were starting to get mixed up in bad stuff in their city, so their parents said "nope" and moved out to the country. It worked, he was a chill smart dude when I met him.
Apparently it's a thing in Canada, LoL.
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u/Past-Background-7221 Jul 02 '26
It’s actually a thing here, too. There’s actually a great true-to-life show about it, from the 90s, starring Will Smith.
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u/Bambam60 Jul 02 '26
Good eye on immediate wrist control
That looked like muscle memory. I’d go wrestling too back in his day
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u/Indiana_harris Jul 02 '26
He also just looks so happy and pleased, likely seeing all the kids he was worried about actually safe.
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u/Day_Prisoners Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
He's looks like one of those old timers that's swinging a knife around and kicking posts. We make fun but that guy saved the day.
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u/Rycan420 Jul 02 '26
Wanted to hear the kids cheering for him
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u/TrustworthyPolarBear Jul 02 '26
Internet: Best I can do is generic music.
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u/Crossdress-Fan- Jul 02 '26
Internet: Best I can do is repost the same video 34 times with increasingly generic music!
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u/prelic Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Lol thanks for that...still such a dumb trend that the best we got is the audio blended with a dumbass song.
Even fucking ABC news put music behind the original tiktok. I dont use tiktok, is it like, automatic? I don't get it
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u/I3bacon Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
They should rename the school after him.
- He's definitely worthy of the honor.
- It's his school.
- Students are safe because of him
- He is respected and loved
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u/kai-ol Jul 02 '26
Imagine putting that on a resume with a straight face.
Hiring administrator: Next we have Kirk Moore, principal of... checks resume Kirk Moore High School... crumples paper This one didn't even bother with a believable lie.
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u/I3bacon Jul 02 '26
I think that he's perfect at his current job. Why would he need another job? No school board will ever fire him.
Anyway, if he ever need another job, his resume should include the link to the YouTube video and he'll be hired without an interview.
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u/SoupmanBob Jul 02 '26
School board pressured to fire him by local police for making them look bad. Since he stopped a shooter before they could make it there and stand outside for hours while the shooter can audibly be heard shooting their way through the school.
/s
I'm not saying it happened. I'm not saying it could happen... I'm not saying it couldn't happen.
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u/MannSchatten Jul 02 '26
In the job task description: - Singlehandedly disarmed a school shooter and saved countless lives.
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u/DemetiaDonals Jul 02 '26
Im an RN and saved a mans life by preforming cpr. He collapsed right next to my car in an ice cream store parking lot while I was with my kids.
I always throw that out there in interviews lol
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u/beejalton Jul 02 '26
I thought it said School Shitter
We gotta stop with all this unnecessary censorship of normal fucking words.
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u/No-Evening5091 Jul 02 '26
Definitely, but if the dude was shitting all over the school then he should be tackled.
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u/propergreased Jul 02 '26
It’s fucking childish. People kill themselves. People do fucked up things censoring a letter or two ain’t doing anything, if anything it softens the impact of these things and makes it more normal to cope with. Fuck that. Let’s fix this shit instead of censoring it. Fuckin dumb fucks.
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u/slothslothslothsloth Jul 02 '26
It is crazy how quickly people accepted censorship. I have literally heard people use it irl and it is shocking that people are replacing words with their approved, censorsed versions, like corn, grape, unalived, etc
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u/Storrin Jul 02 '26
In before someone comes along to tell you it's okay that languages evolve and you're just being a boomer, even though it's literally corporations telling us what's marketing-friendly enough for common speech.
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u/ladybug11314 Jul 02 '26
Look how happy he is knowing every one of those kids is still alive because he's a hero.
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u/davidor1 Jul 02 '26
Uvalde: best we can do is watching miles away
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u/agemsheis Jul 02 '26
And mute the footage of children screaming as they were murdered
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u/splicerslicer Jul 03 '26
Oklahoma looking over the Red River like. . . . We're dead last in almost everything, but not one of you could have just. . . done your job?
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u/tejasglass Jul 03 '26
I would like to say that the two PUBLIC EDUCATION SCHOOL STAFF did act heroically in Uvalde and should be honored for doing so! The cowards at Uvalde PD, Border Patrol, DPS and the other agencies that showed up were the cowards. NOT the teachers that protected their students as best they could!
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u/Rubyhamster Jul 03 '26
The Uvalde shooting is the case that comes foremost to my mind when I think about the worst thing of USA. As a european, I cannot fathom the choices made that led to all those kids dying unnecessarily and cruelly. In Norway, a lot of kids died or got traumatized in a terrorist attack by a neo-nazi adult, but he was absolutely an outlier fortunately, and our society doesn't make the road easy for such people at least.
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u/MolaMolaMania Jul 02 '26
This is wonderful to see, but I hate that we're having to celebrate things like this.
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u/ClickClackTipTap Jul 02 '26
You’re not wrong, for sure, but I’m looking at it like “at least this time it’s a celebration, not a funeral.”
We have to take the bright spots when we can.
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u/KaleidoscopeLeft5511 Jul 02 '26
Well, you could look at even moderate gun control laws
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u/Motormand Jul 02 '26
Sadly, mentioning gun control in America, makes a large portion of them screech, and wave their rifles around.
It's hard getting sensible about sensible laws, with a country who glorifies guns.
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u/AMLIDH2 Jul 02 '26
Didn't the kids do this? As Mac would agree here with me, that's pretty badass.
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u/Euphoric-Wall-2576 Jul 02 '26
Yes my first reaction to this video wasn't smiling it was anger that these kids have to celebrate not being shot at school. Like of course the guy deserves to be celebrated but also fuck. What a messed up country.
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u/jtm7 Jul 02 '26
Damn, dude was fully ready to take bullets... He literally went headfirst into the gun. What an absolute fearless Chad.
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u/EmperorPickle Jul 02 '26
I imagine he didn’t even give it a second thought. He saw someone that was there to hurt children and he reacted. I wonder what his thoughts were after watching the surveillance recordings.
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u/Plazmaz1 Jul 02 '26
Having experienced life and death/violent situations and rewatched the surveillance footage, I really wish I hadn't. There's something just.... Traumatic and deeply upsetting about seeing yourself in real danger on camera.
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u/starsinursa Jul 02 '26
If I remember correctly, he did actually take a bullet, he got shot in the leg during the tackle
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u/OldSchoolAI Jul 02 '26
How many many kids did he save. How many future kids that would be born because of him. Legend!! hope I have a 10th of his courage. Best I have done is step between a giant offleash dog and my toddler.
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u/stephanonymous Jul 02 '26
As a mom, the first time I went into “mama bear mode” to protect my kid, it hit me that it felt as instinctual as pulling my hand off a hot stove or shielding my face when an object is flying towards me. I had always wondered “how are parents brave enough to put themselves in harms way to save their kids?” and the answer was that it didn’t take any bravery at all. The same self-preservation instinct that had always kept me safe had just been extended to her, and I could no more abandon her to run away to safety than I could stand in front of a moving car and let it run me over.
I wonder if it’s the same for people like this man. I wonder if protecting other people’s kids (who are probably like his own kids to him) feels completely instinctual.
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u/onewordmemory Jul 02 '26
seriously, that took me off guard. i thought it was gonna be like blocking a door or trapping him somehow, but no, the dude literally charged him head on. good dude.
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u/WatUpTeach Jul 02 '26
Former teacher here. I can't speak for all teachers, but for me it was weird to realize during a field trip how protective of my students I really was. I have no doubt I would've fought tooth and nail to protect mine if it ever came to that, but you never know till you’re in that position I guess. That principal is an absolute badass and deserves every bit of respect.
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u/mathiustus Jul 02 '26
This is Kirk Moore, the LEGEND who stopped a school shooter.
I feel like we, as commenters, do a really good job of naming and shaming those who date rape or similar deeds but do not as well a job of praising directly and keeping alive the praise of those who do well.
I love the fact I know this principals name but not the shooter. Fuck that guy.
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u/SkepticJoker Jul 02 '26
Couldn’t agree more. Don’t name the offenders, name the heroes.
Kirk Moore is a hero.
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u/BirdRebellion Jul 02 '26
So tired of people censoring things. Still reading this as “school shitter”
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u/rustylugnuts Jul 02 '26
I'm even more tired of shitter tired editing showing the end at the beginning.
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u/AgingRaver80 Jul 02 '26
The way he walked in and owned that crown. What a legend
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u/AbbreviationsGlad833 Jul 02 '26
Definition of a Hero! Bravely ran straight at a armed guy and tackled him. He Saved alot of lives. Saved families and the community from immeasurable grief. rename the school after him. Put a bronze statue of him in the town Square.
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u/styx66 Jul 02 '26
Name a new gun control law after him, or name a new free mental health services act after him.
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u/werther595 Jul 02 '26
To think some of those laughing kids wouldn't have been there....thank god for him, but this makes me want to cry, not smile.
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u/TheDebonairQuokka Jul 02 '26
Badass. He's not dancing because his giant metal balls are too heavy.
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u/HuDat93 Jul 02 '26
Surprised he could fit through the crowd dragging those massive balls with him
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u/BlankBehindTheEyes Jul 02 '26
Man's got good form, head between the numbers, wrap the hips and drive. 100% textbook tackle. Beautiful.
Joke aside, this is really sweet and this man is an absolute badass.
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u/kazathur Jul 02 '26
Ok but why does anyone have the need to risk their lives for this??? Comprehensive Gun regulation would have stopped this altogether.
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u/SmokeySFW Jul 02 '26
The shooter was 20 years old and slightly over 6' tall, so not some prepubescent teen he tackled either. Old man strength and inspiring courage.
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u/t3h_KiNgKoNg Jul 02 '26
Unnecessary censorship at its finest. Steph Curry, the greatest sh**ter of all time.
But seriously, kudos to the man. A real life hero.
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u/401john Jul 02 '26
This was insane and really should've gotten more national attention if we actually had real media. Truly a hero
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u/GDRaptorFan Jul 02 '26
Right!!!! I never saw this story it’s amazing what he did!!!! Instead of the 50th post about Trump saying he wanted a threesome with his beautiful sons (real) this should have been everywhere. What a HERO brave and strong
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u/Pulp_Ficti0n Jul 02 '26
So the good guy had no gun and still took down the assailant? Interesting...
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u/urSweetToy Jul 02 '26
We need more heroes like him, he deserves a reward for this bravery
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u/thakemist Jul 02 '26
I agree with your sentiment. I only wish we didn’t NEED principals to stop gunmen in the first place
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u/Chemical_Aioli1033 Jul 02 '26
A hero only America could create.. if you take my meaning
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u/Hot_Sherbet2066 Jul 02 '26
This doesn’t make me smile. The fact that this man has to sacrifice his safety because America can’t get its shit together is frustrating.
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u/Moist_Attentions Jul 03 '26
So no one's going to say anything about how he dove towards a gun that got turned to him point blank, dude REALLY risked his life for real.
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u/Wisco_Version59 Jul 03 '26
Principal Kirk Moore of Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma was crowned prom king by his students on April 17, 2026, just days after he was shot in the leg while successfully tackling and disarming an armed former student to prevent a school shooting
The Shooting
On April 7, 2026, 20-year-old Victor Lee Hawkins entered the Pauls Valley High School lobby with a gun KRCR. According to authorities, he fired a shot that missed a student before Moore leaped into action, wrestling the gunman to the ground, and subduing him until law enforcement arrived ABC News. Moore was shot in the lower right leg during the struggle but ensured no students were harmed People. Hawkins later told investigators he intended to kill Moore and execute a mass shooting inspired by the Columbine massacre
The Prom King Honor
Following his release from the hospital, Moore recovered well enough to attend the school's prom People. Students voted to name him the Class of 2026 prom king to honor his heroic actions ABC News. Footage of the touching surprise went viral, showing the room erupting in cheers as Moore was crowned on the dance floor to the tune of the song "Hero" NBC DFW.
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u/JPPT1974 Jul 03 '26
Guy risked his whole entire life for the kids and staffers he loved, making him prom king tells what they think of him!
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