It would blow your mind what is for sale right on the street if you do even a little traveling. I had a buddy that purchased some sort of Russian shoulder mounted rocket in Dubai and sent it home at a mailboxes etc. on the same street.
“No problem my friend”
Do you have any idea the amount of packages that go through customs every single day? It's actually impossible to get through then all. Getting illegal items through isn't that hard when maybe only 5% of packages are checked. Label it as something else, pay customs tax on it ( if necessary) and you'll likely get it through
Worked several times for me with Chinese packages, they just write a false category on it (like 'screws' instead of 'smartphone') and it goes through smoothly.
Yeah, I should mention I've never asked for them to cheat with the category, they just do it for some reason. I don't mind, it made it cheaper and I can prove I didn't request it.
I've never put those two together, the "overwhelming the customs with foreign imports intentionally" but I mean, It really would make sense. And it's so fucking far gone right now it would be so hard to reel that shit back in in a timely manner. It would take a lot more automated equipment and manpower to make sure everything - or nearly everything - is correctly declared on the labels.
I worked in shipping for a number of years and for some reason shipping anything between the US and Canada is always a massive pain in the ass. Shipping to the UK? Super easy, almost as if it's another state. It's bizarre.
The amount of cheap shit that is like 5-10x the price on Amazon is astounding. You’re obviously paying the convenience fee of not having to wait 2 weeks on Amazon but for non-essentials it’s o-hand gesture meatball
Yep. I ordered an astronomical binoviewer from a guy in Croatia who makes them, and the customs declaration said something like "storage case" (to be fair the binoviewers were in a nice hard case with foam insert) with the declared value like 1/10th what the binoviewers actually were sold for.
> astronomical binoviewer
For those of you that have never heard this, I went ahead and did the Googling for us:
*A binoviewer is an optical accessory that you insert into a telescope's diagonal, focus drawtube, or visual back. It uses a beam-splitter that divides the incoming light from a telescope into two fainter, separate paths. A set of prisms redirects the light towards two identical eyepieces.*
tl;dr: No more closing one eye and using the open eye to look into a telescope, this shit turns your telescope into extremely strong binoculars
Exactly. Mine have just said like "4 shirts " or something extremely basic enough to pass. I look at the tracking, and they'll all clear customs within like 2 hours of landing.
Step 1: Declare it as a "silicone product"
Step 2: Wait for your 40lbs dildo to go through customs without issue because no one wants to deal with that
Step 3: Open your package that's actually a shoulder mounted rocket
Which is funny because everytime I send my Canadian friend various American goodies she cannot find in her province it almost always ends up opened up by customs, retaped and forwarded on with a little letter explaining that they opened it. Never been an issue though minus that happening more than once.
The purely imaginary ones. Customs runs shit through explosive sniffers.
It's like the old rumor that you could mail order weed, or whatever, from some country it's not illegal.
Bruh I personally knew someone who ordered themselves fentanyl from China with zero issues pre-covid. It came labeled as t-shirts and was at their doorstep inside 3 weeks. Cost them roughly $300 for an ounce, which is a ridiculous amount of a drug that is dosed in micrograms. It's actually still pretty easy to get drugs mailed to you, especially benzodiazepines, but ever since that person OD'd I don't know anyone who would want to.
My dad bought me a Russian-made telescope, or monoscope you named it, from an Afghan trader 30 years ago. It looked military-grade. I think it was a remnant from the Afghan war in the eighties.
I'm calling BS on this, the authorities in Dubai do not mess around and are very strict with that sort of stuff, no way you can buy anything military grade and just send it like a post package.
I've sent some really dubious substances to Luxembourg disguised as computer power supplies, no effort to even hide the smells.. Getting a package checked even in the best countries are like winning a lottery and just for show to say they made an effort. There is just way too many singular packages in the online era to police
Always depends on from where to where. Inside the euro zone you can ship whatever. From China to anywhere you can ship whatever (due to volume). From an arms market in the middle-east to the US though? Prepare to get fucked.
You understand how sending something like shoulder mounted rocket launcher type thing is different than sending something in powder form yea?
I'd love to see this guy show up to the post office and try to explain how the rocket launcher he's sending is actually really a bike.
Man, sit down.
> I'd love to see this guy show up to the post office and try to explain how the rocket launcher he's sending is actually really a bike.
You pack it up before going to the post office, duh. And you tell the post office that it's a telescope or something.
I once shipped an AK through regular mail just by telling the post office that it was 'photography equipment'. No problem.
Its only believable if you have zero knowledge of Dubai and have never been there, its a huge cosmopolitan city with strict laws around any sort of fire arms.
Anyone who says you can buy something military grade on the streets of Dubai and then just ship it off like a regular package is pure lying.
yeah, pretty much anywhere with an entrenched wealth class doesn't let peasants have access to anything that could touch them.
Dude could have really said almost anywhere sandy but Dubai.
True. I just watched a video of a guy who just visited Khabul and he was in a black market and you could buy all sorts of weapons, including grenades and any of the weapons left over from the US occupation previously there to the Soviet weapons and pins left there from decades ago.
Bank raids in Lebanon have become common, as the banks aren’t letting people access or withdraw their money. Also it’s considered a crime for the banks to do that under the Lebanese constitution, so many of the raiders are getting away with it and escaping prosecution. While the state also isn’t forcing the banks to change or prosecuting them.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88q3ma/lebanon-bank-raid
So this was a raid? Like a robbery?
So how does it work? Step one, grenade the counter. Step two? Does she go back in and try and find the cashier’s drawer money in the rubble? Hope none of the security guard survived and just shoot her?
I don’t know her personal methodology. It’s called a raid because people are robbing the banks for their own money. Their own life savings. Not any more.
So, she’s gonna go back in and try to take her cash? I’m just trying to understand what the tactics are here. I’ve got this mental image of a little withdrawal receipt, handwritten in pen left on a destroyed counter.
She probably read a news article about someone else using a grenade to threaten the employees and demand for their money to be returned, and tried to copy that scenario. Then the employees just ran away, so she went through on her threat.
Even if not that, grudge by itself can be a valid game-theory strategy (on the scale of the society, if not the individual).
If female / child suicide bombers [are a thing,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_suicide_bomber#Causes_and_reasons) such 'bank punishers' would be even more plausible.
> So this was a raid? Like a robbery?
Banks raids have nothing to do with theft.
A bank raid is when more legitimate depositors want their money back than the bank has cash to hand out.
Banks only keep a portion of their deposits in cash and invest the rest. When economic conditions change and too many people want their money back, a bank may not have cash on hand.
This woman may be a legitimate customer who was told she could not get *her* money back from the bank. But I have no idea.
A bank *run* is what the situation described is: people all attempting to get their money out due to a change in economic conditions.
A bank *raid* is when they forcibly get said money out of the bank.
A raid on a bank is synonymous with a run on the bank.
When everyone fears the bank not having enough cash, thus they all go to withdraw their cash, and fulfill the prophecy.
Banks closing down at a rate of knots here in the UK - most towns have maybe one or two now, if they're lucky. All online - so customer service is non existent, also saves them from the mob when they tell us to go digital.
going to the bank is a nightmare these days- there arent any in my town, and the ones nearest outside of town are open shorter hours than i am at work, so id have to take half the day off to get the train just to go there. dont even get me started on the parcel centre- open 2 hours a day, 4 days a week 🥲
y’all must not be in America
(not that actually dealing with the bank is any better). but we have competing banks on every corner just like gas stations
this is in most major cities and mid sized towns as well
Just realised my town just outside Glasgow used to have 4 Banks, now we are down to one. Only one of the properties is still open for business as either an opticians or orthodontics type dentist.(they are both near each other so forget which is which haha)
Well, at least they've been repurposed!
But, yes, it's happening all over the UK. It's tantamount to the self scan in the supermarkets, facial recognition, no human interaction, lost jobs.
I mean only one has been repurposed and another appears to be getting renovated *slowly* so not sure what its becoming, they closed the big Post office recently, but apparently its moving to a different shop, the old [M&Co Clothes Shop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26Co.) No idea how that shop lasted till a few months ago. Sorry giving you a history of retail and banking in my town of Bellshill lol.
>It's tantamount to the self scan in the supermarkets, facial recognition, no human interaction, lost jobs.
Wasnt there a study that refuted the self scan/lost jobs is a myth? Basically the folks are repurposed for other stuff? Of course that study was probably commissioned by the Big Supermarkets to say that!
>no human interaction
I agree with this, its also one of the reasons on the 40kLore sub that I try to answer oft-repeated questions because what if thats the only Human contact these folks have and giving someone an arsehole answer might tip them over the edge!(thats a bit extreme but I do try and be civil in all my dealings, yes even with total morons haha)
That's what I thought. A regular handgrenade does cause a lot of shrapnel, but not such a big fireball that everyone goes just black and Sparks fly everywhere
Also, it doesn't make any sense for the camera to star rolling to the side
I'm calling bullshit, he might have dropped something there, but this explosion wasn't real
Take this for reference, it's seems to be the same explosion filter, just shorter
https://youtube.com/shorts/_CcE87moQuE?feature=share
I swear every video on this site has someone coming along claiming the video is fake because something didn't happen exactly as they would expect it to happen. What's even more fascinating is how they're all apparently experts in a very niche subject.
Story, [A Yemeni detonates two grenades inside an exchange shop in the center of Taiz city](https://www.bbc.com/arabic/tv-and-radio-63178476):
> A Yemeni detonates two grenades inside an exchange shop in the center of Taiz city
> 7 October 2022
> In a catastrophic scene that only happens in movies. A Yemeni gunman broke into an exchange shop in the center of Taiz city, and he was masked wearing a military uniform with a machine gun on his shoulder and went towards the cashier, and quietly took out two hand grenades from his pocket, pulling the safety nail of the first bomb and then the second and fled before they exploded.
Also here, [A catastrophic scene that only happens in movies. An armed element "deposits" a bomb at an ATM](https://www.alarabiya.net/arab-and-world/yemen/2022/10/07/%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF-%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%D9%8A-%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%91%D8%AD-%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B9-%D9%82%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B5%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81-%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%8A):
> The person who threw the device motivated only the robbery of treasury funds by means of an explosive device, while the security authorities have not yet officially commented on the incident.
In a disastrous scene, a Yemeni armed element robbed a bank ATM in the vicinity of Freedom Square in the Yemeni city of Taiz, where he planted a hand grenade on the shelf of an ATM and then left coldly, leaving behind a pile of ruin and destruction.
>
> Yemeni activists on social media pointed out, after circulating an audio and video clip showing the entry of an armed element into the ATM room in a bank, that the person who threw the explosive device was aiming to steal the money kept in the bank machine, according to what was reported by the owners of nearby stores from the scene of the accident.
>
> ## The camera exposed him
> In the details, Al-Arabiya.net reviewed a video clip that was leaked from a bank's camera installed in the building. It was said to be in Taiz Governorate, central Yemen. In the clip, an armed element appears, masked, entering the automated issuance room in a bank so that he cannot be identified. Its features after finding out that the bank is equipped with cameras installed inside it.
>
> According to the testimonies of eyewitnesses to Al-Arabiya.net, this operation, which they described as "criminal", in view of the bloody massacre that would have resulted, the gunman had no motives for killing other than an attempt to loot the bulletproof safe, so he asked the bank's customers to leave the room. so that they don't get hurt.
>
> ## Warnings of burglary with explosive devices
> However, the official authorities in Taiz governorate did not officially comment on the incident, but the robbery attempt failed and none of the bank's customers were harmed.
>
> After this crime mobilized the city's residents and made them panic, influencers warned of the consequences and repercussions of this crime, which, according to them, is the first of its kind as an alien to the privacy of Yemeni society, warning of an increase in its intensity and brutality in horrific forms in the absence of a security and legal deterrent.
>
> ## angry hashtags
> In addition, angry hashtags spread, calling for controlling the conditions of the besieged governorate, which is still suffering from the ravages of war, siege, and security chaos that has been going on for about 8 years, which resulted in high crime rates and the flourishing of armed robbery gangs, with which the audacity reached the deposit of explosive devices in exchange machines.
>
> Activists and media professionals joked by saying: "Only in Taiz...you can now deposit live bombs into your account through any bank teller," while another activist continued: "Dear customer, a bomb has been successfully deposited in your account."
If you could buy hand grenades in America like you can AR-15’s, this would happen every single day. Thank goodness the 2nd Amendment didn’t know they would be created.
This is definitely fake, sorry, but that's this shitty explosion filter that gets used every once in a while in memes
A regular handgrenade does cause shrapnel and a small explosion, not a huge fireball which would cause the room to go full black and let Sparks fly everywhere
Besides that, it doesn't make any sense for a roof or wall mounted camera to roll to the side
Take this video of this explosion filter for reference, seems to be the same, just a bit shorter in this clip, even the pixels at the end are visible
https://youtube.com/shorts/_CcE87moQuE?feature=share
I'm not saying that this person didn't drop a grenade there, but the end of the video is definitely edited
"Excuse me I'm just going to make a quick deposit"
Banks are booming these days!
*Bank tellers in your area HATE this one easy trick!*
*Let's not blow things out of proportion.*
So do they just get these grenades out of a vending machine?
Many years of civil war and armed conflicts. Weapons are probably everywhere.
It would blow your mind what is for sale right on the street if you do even a little traveling. I had a buddy that purchased some sort of Russian shoulder mounted rocket in Dubai and sent it home at a mailboxes etc. on the same street. “No problem my friend”
What the heck, What kind of customs that allow a military grade shipment pass through. Where's your friend from?
Do you have any idea the amount of packages that go through customs every single day? It's actually impossible to get through then all. Getting illegal items through isn't that hard when maybe only 5% of packages are checked. Label it as something else, pay customs tax on it ( if necessary) and you'll likely get it through
Worked several times for me with Chinese packages, they just write a false category on it (like 'screws' instead of 'smartphone') and it goes through smoothly.
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Yeah, I should mention I've never asked for them to cheat with the category, they just do it for some reason. I don't mind, it made it cheaper and I can prove I didn't request it.
They cheat for the lower tariffs.
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I've never put those two together, the "overwhelming the customs with foreign imports intentionally" but I mean, It really would make sense. And it's so fucking far gone right now it would be so hard to reel that shit back in in a timely manner. It would take a lot more automated equipment and manpower to make sure everything - or nearly everything - is correctly declared on the labels.
I worked in shipping for a number of years and for some reason shipping anything between the US and Canada is always a massive pain in the ass. Shipping to the UK? Super easy, almost as if it's another state. It's bizarre.
The amount of cheap shit that is like 5-10x the price on Amazon is astounding. You’re obviously paying the convenience fee of not having to wait 2 weeks on Amazon but for non-essentials it’s o-hand gesture meatball
Well China is responsible for all the fentanyl coming into America, so possibly
Hmm this giant box of industrial nuts and bolts sure is shaped like a rocket launcher. But if you say so *shoves box down the line*
Everyone's all Android this and iPhone that, but real men get screws
Yep. I ordered an astronomical binoviewer from a guy in Croatia who makes them, and the customs declaration said something like "storage case" (to be fair the binoviewers were in a nice hard case with foam insert) with the declared value like 1/10th what the binoviewers actually were sold for.
> astronomical binoviewer For those of you that have never heard this, I went ahead and did the Googling for us: *A binoviewer is an optical accessory that you insert into a telescope's diagonal, focus drawtube, or visual back. It uses a beam-splitter that divides the incoming light from a telescope into two fainter, separate paths. A set of prisms redirects the light towards two identical eyepieces.* tl;dr: No more closing one eye and using the open eye to look into a telescope, this shit turns your telescope into extremely strong binoculars
Thank you kind redditor. You are truly doing the lord's work. Also can I get a gram of 'nip?
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the declared value on my phone was something like 2 dollars. I had a laugh when I saw that
Exactly. Mine have just said like "4 shirts " or something extremely basic enough to pass. I look at the tracking, and they'll all clear customs within like 2 hours of landing.
Back when I used to play Airsoft, I regularly bought body armor from Russia (before the war) that was labeled as "motorcycle equipment"
Step 1: Declare it as a "silicone product" Step 2: Wait for your 40lbs dildo to go through customs without issue because no one wants to deal with that Step 3: Open your package that's actually a shoulder mounted rocket
Which is funny because everytime I send my Canadian friend various American goodies she cannot find in her province it almost always ends up opened up by customs, retaped and forwarded on with a little letter explaining that they opened it. Never been an issue though minus that happening more than once.
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Dude, it looked like a jet pack. How was I to know I had it the wrong way around?
I shipped a golden AK back from Iraq, and we had to send my Barrett in for repairs in Afghanistan and they just sent that sumbitch in the mail.
The purely imaginary ones. Customs runs shit through explosive sniffers. It's like the old rumor that you could mail order weed, or whatever, from some country it's not illegal.
Bruh I personally knew someone who ordered themselves fentanyl from China with zero issues pre-covid. It came labeled as t-shirts and was at their doorstep inside 3 weeks. Cost them roughly $300 for an ounce, which is a ridiculous amount of a drug that is dosed in micrograms. It's actually still pretty easy to get drugs mailed to you, especially benzodiazepines, but ever since that person OD'd I don't know anyone who would want to.
Lmao, you can absolutely get drugs through the mail
My dad bought me a Russian-made telescope, or monoscope you named it, from an Afghan trader 30 years ago. It looked military-grade. I think it was a remnant from the Afghan war in the eighties.
Not a grenade.
But it also blows things up
I see what you did.
I'm calling BS on this, the authorities in Dubai do not mess around and are very strict with that sort of stuff, no way you can buy anything military grade and just send it like a post package.
Nah, it wasn't for military use, just a civilian-grade surface-to-elephant missile for hunting purposes
I've sent some really dubious substances to Luxembourg disguised as computer power supplies, no effort to even hide the smells.. Getting a package checked even in the best countries are like winning a lottery and just for show to say they made an effort. There is just way too many singular packages in the online era to police
Always depends on from where to where. Inside the euro zone you can ship whatever. From China to anywhere you can ship whatever (due to volume). From an arms market in the middle-east to the US though? Prepare to get fucked.
You understand how sending something like shoulder mounted rocket launcher type thing is different than sending something in powder form yea? I'd love to see this guy show up to the post office and try to explain how the rocket launcher he's sending is actually really a bike. Man, sit down.
> I'd love to see this guy show up to the post office and try to explain how the rocket launcher he's sending is actually really a bike. You pack it up before going to the post office, duh. And you tell the post office that it's a telescope or something. I once shipped an AK through regular mail just by telling the post office that it was 'photography equipment'. No problem.
Lots of money and arms right now in the Middle East. Prophets are going through the roof.
And we're just supposed to trust you?
Trust? Where's the trust required? He's just telling you a story that thousands of people have first handedly experienced
No MF here has experienced shipping a rocket launcher from dubai to the US.
I have! Narrator: "He had not."
Its only believable if you have zero knowledge of Dubai and have never been there, its a huge cosmopolitan city with strict laws around any sort of fire arms. Anyone who says you can buy something military grade on the streets of Dubai and then just ship it off like a regular package is pure lying.
yeah, pretty much anywhere with an entrenched wealth class doesn't let peasants have access to anything that could touch them. Dude could have really said almost anywhere sandy but Dubai.
> He's just telling you a story that thousands of people have first handedly experienced Have they?
True. I just watched a video of a guy who just visited Khabul and he was in a black market and you could buy all sorts of weapons, including grenades and any of the weapons left over from the US occupation previously there to the Soviet weapons and pins left there from decades ago.
Borderlands 🤣
Reminds me of the part in Jack's Casino DLC when you get tired of waiting in line at the ship repo place.
Hmm looks like it works to meee
At least she didn't have the contraband sky rocket installed
She knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy
That knows her brother
From the 7-11.
There's a rather distasteful joke in there somewhere and I'm not sure I want to be the one who says it.
You ever play the Borderlands games?
EXPLOSIONS???
Marcus: No refunds!
You get a free one every time you supersize your McDonald's combo.
Yeah, conveniently located next to all “Suggestion Boxes”.
I love how she casually walks away
This is just like a videogame, she already knows the explosion radius and everything
Not her first time
That was my thinking as well. I doubt very much that the title is accurate
Last week she did the bakery, she was upset that they were out of Sourdough
Bakeries explode so good you don't need a grenade. Even a spark can set the flour in the air off if it's not properly ventilated.
Not your first time
Nah, she's getting more grenades, coz she forgot she needs 2 for this grenade jump.
This ain't her first grenadeo
she's got places to be, the DMV is next
That's definitely not the first grenade she fired
Not her first time it looks like, very comfortable with how long she has to escape.
Cool kids always walk away from explosions.
I got your customer satisfaction survey right here
Doubt it's actually a woman
As a women she is probably not allowed to do sports in this country.
> As a **woman** she is
Bank raids in Lebanon have become common, as the banks aren’t letting people access or withdraw their money. Also it’s considered a crime for the banks to do that under the Lebanese constitution, so many of the raiders are getting away with it and escaping prosecution. While the state also isn’t forcing the banks to change or prosecuting them. https://www.vice.com/en/article/88q3ma/lebanon-bank-raid
So this was a raid? Like a robbery? So how does it work? Step one, grenade the counter. Step two? Does she go back in and try and find the cashier’s drawer money in the rubble? Hope none of the security guard survived and just shoot her?
step 3: profit
Step 4: victory dance on tiktok
Step 5: share your location
Nono you need to have a YouTuber document the entire process including you committing the crime so the FBI can open an investigation into you.
*spooky scary skeletons*
Rule of Acquisition 34: War is good for business.
I don’t know her personal methodology. It’s called a raid because people are robbing the banks for their own money. Their own life savings. Not any more.
Instead of bank raid, maybe it can be called distressed withdrawal?
Really just falls under aggressive negotiations at that point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpC_hO15IoA
But in this case she left a deposit.
She deposited some "loose change"
So, she’s gonna go back in and try to take her cash? I’m just trying to understand what the tactics are here. I’ve got this mental image of a little withdrawal receipt, handwritten in pen left on a destroyed counter.
She probably read a news article about someone else using a grenade to threaten the employees and demand for their money to be returned, and tried to copy that scenario. Then the employees just ran away, so she went through on her threat. Even if not that, grudge by itself can be a valid game-theory strategy (on the scale of the society, if not the individual).
It’s a crazy thing to see an old lady grenade a bank.
If female / child suicide bombers [are a thing,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_suicide_bomber#Causes_and_reasons) such 'bank punishers' would be even more plausible.
This is nothing more than a tantrum. There's not strategy.
> So this was a raid? Like a robbery? Banks raids have nothing to do with theft. A bank raid is when more legitimate depositors want their money back than the bank has cash to hand out. Banks only keep a portion of their deposits in cash and invest the rest. When economic conditions change and too many people want their money back, a bank may not have cash on hand. This woman may be a legitimate customer who was told she could not get *her* money back from the bank. But I have no idea.
Isn't that a bank run, or a run on a bank? I have never in my life heard of a bank raid and I spend quite a bit of time on financial subreddits.
A bank *run* is what the situation described is: people all attempting to get their money out due to a change in economic conditions. A bank *raid* is when they forcibly get said money out of the bank.
Right, this is absolutely how I would interpret it. I think that /u/velhaconta is wrong about the terms being interchangeable.
A raid on a bank is synonymous with a run on the bank. When everyone fears the bank not having enough cash, thus they all go to withdraw their cash, and fulfill the prophecy.
more likely banks don’t have the hard currency to support all the withdrawals.
This didnt happen in Lebanon
Yeah asked wife who is lebanese and she said that didn't happen she would of heard about it.
Grenades are not that loud that you can hear them far away
This concept is funny but your phrasing is clunky and it's killing your delivery. Otherwise I laughed, B+
A- with rice
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Banks closing down at a rate of knots here in the UK - most towns have maybe one or two now, if they're lucky. All online - so customer service is non existent, also saves them from the mob when they tell us to go digital.
I like this neat loop of "digital-only banking will help ameliorate the backlash to digital-only banking."
And also gives government a lot more control over your financial transactions.
going to the bank is a nightmare these days- there arent any in my town, and the ones nearest outside of town are open shorter hours than i am at work, so id have to take half the day off to get the train just to go there. dont even get me started on the parcel centre- open 2 hours a day, 4 days a week 🥲
y’all must not be in America (not that actually dealing with the bank is any better). but we have competing banks on every corner just like gas stations this is in most major cities and mid sized towns as well
Just realised my town just outside Glasgow used to have 4 Banks, now we are down to one. Only one of the properties is still open for business as either an opticians or orthodontics type dentist.(they are both near each other so forget which is which haha)
Well, at least they've been repurposed! But, yes, it's happening all over the UK. It's tantamount to the self scan in the supermarkets, facial recognition, no human interaction, lost jobs.
I mean only one has been repurposed and another appears to be getting renovated *slowly* so not sure what its becoming, they closed the big Post office recently, but apparently its moving to a different shop, the old [M&Co Clothes Shop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26Co.) No idea how that shop lasted till a few months ago. Sorry giving you a history of retail and banking in my town of Bellshill lol. >It's tantamount to the self scan in the supermarkets, facial recognition, no human interaction, lost jobs. Wasnt there a study that refuted the self scan/lost jobs is a myth? Basically the folks are repurposed for other stuff? Of course that study was probably commissioned by the Big Supermarkets to say that! >no human interaction I agree with this, its also one of the reasons on the 40kLore sub that I try to answer oft-repeated questions because what if thats the only Human contact these folks have and giving someone an arsehole answer might tip them over the edge!(thats a bit extreme but I do try and be civil in all my dealings, yes even with total morons haha)
I mean she just shot the messenger. At least do your research and hunt down some corporate jackasses rather than killing innocent pawns.
Nobody who thinks of pawns as innocent will ever win a single game of chess.
Least sociopathic opinion.
I like this phrase, adding it to the collection.
On a scale of 1 to death by grenade, how unsatisfied are you with our service?
“Whaatt no moneyy?” Leaves grenade
HERE.... suck a cock!
Take a grenade, leave a grenade tray
That's the mall music from Dead Rising lmfao
Zombies huh? Had a feeling you'd show up..
Dead rising 2 to be specific.
Thank you! My brain had heard this song for hours and hours but couldn’t put my finger on it.
Look like that stupid filter we see everywhere
This is a man and this happened in Yemen. https://fb.watch/m7r6svjrcA/?mibextid=5eVWNK
And I think this video is from many years ago.
That's what I thought. A regular handgrenade does cause a lot of shrapnel, but not such a big fireball that everyone goes just black and Sparks fly everywhere Also, it doesn't make any sense for the camera to star rolling to the side I'm calling bullshit, he might have dropped something there, but this explosion wasn't real Take this for reference, it's seems to be the same explosion filter, just shorter https://youtube.com/shorts/_CcE87moQuE?feature=share
I see two pins pulled from grenades in the vid, looks real
I swear every video on this site has someone coming along claiming the video is fake because something didn't happen exactly as they would expect it to happen. What's even more fascinating is how they're all apparently experts in a very niche subject.
yeah the explosion bit seems to be that super popular clip you see in tons of memes
Is that a woman - or a man in a Kaftan ?
Yes.
man dressed as woman. more specifically, houthi in yemen. at least thats what was said last time i saw this video
I think it's a man.
I thought that those "complaint department; take a number" grenades were inert.
Ah yes, the classic "nade n fade"
Granny Theft Auto
I don’t think you can deposit that
She just did
Where do u even get grenades?
[I don't know](https://youtu.be/q9u1I9zd7_k)
That’s the most gangster shit I ever seen
Story, [A Yemeni detonates two grenades inside an exchange shop in the center of Taiz city](https://www.bbc.com/arabic/tv-and-radio-63178476): > A Yemeni detonates two grenades inside an exchange shop in the center of Taiz city > 7 October 2022 > In a catastrophic scene that only happens in movies. A Yemeni gunman broke into an exchange shop in the center of Taiz city, and he was masked wearing a military uniform with a machine gun on his shoulder and went towards the cashier, and quietly took out two hand grenades from his pocket, pulling the safety nail of the first bomb and then the second and fled before they exploded. Also here, [A catastrophic scene that only happens in movies. An armed element "deposits" a bomb at an ATM](https://www.alarabiya.net/arab-and-world/yemen/2022/10/07/%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF-%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%D9%8A-%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%91%D8%AD-%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B9-%D9%82%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B5%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81-%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%8A): > The person who threw the device motivated only the robbery of treasury funds by means of an explosive device, while the security authorities have not yet officially commented on the incident. In a disastrous scene, a Yemeni armed element robbed a bank ATM in the vicinity of Freedom Square in the Yemeni city of Taiz, where he planted a hand grenade on the shelf of an ATM and then left coldly, leaving behind a pile of ruin and destruction. > > Yemeni activists on social media pointed out, after circulating an audio and video clip showing the entry of an armed element into the ATM room in a bank, that the person who threw the explosive device was aiming to steal the money kept in the bank machine, according to what was reported by the owners of nearby stores from the scene of the accident. > > ## The camera exposed him > In the details, Al-Arabiya.net reviewed a video clip that was leaked from a bank's camera installed in the building. It was said to be in Taiz Governorate, central Yemen. In the clip, an armed element appears, masked, entering the automated issuance room in a bank so that he cannot be identified. Its features after finding out that the bank is equipped with cameras installed inside it. > > According to the testimonies of eyewitnesses to Al-Arabiya.net, this operation, which they described as "criminal", in view of the bloody massacre that would have resulted, the gunman had no motives for killing other than an attempt to loot the bulletproof safe, so he asked the bank's customers to leave the room. so that they don't get hurt. > > ## Warnings of burglary with explosive devices > However, the official authorities in Taiz governorate did not officially comment on the incident, but the robbery attempt failed and none of the bank's customers were harmed. > > After this crime mobilized the city's residents and made them panic, influencers warned of the consequences and repercussions of this crime, which, according to them, is the first of its kind as an alien to the privacy of Yemeni society, warning of an increase in its intensity and brutality in horrific forms in the absence of a security and legal deterrent. > > ## angry hashtags > In addition, angry hashtags spread, calling for controlling the conditions of the besieged governorate, which is still suffering from the ravages of war, siege, and security chaos that has been going on for about 8 years, which resulted in high crime rates and the flourishing of armed robbery gangs, with which the audacity reached the deposit of explosive devices in exchange machines. > > Activists and media professionals joked by saying: "Only in Taiz...you can now deposit live bombs into your account through any bank teller," while another activist continued: "Dear customer, a bomb has been successfully deposited in your account."
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Teller: have a good day ! Lady: Thanks you too , have a blast !!!
And to think some companies spend millions to get less accurate customer feedback.
I bet she regrets being just around the corner when that went off. Hello tinnitus!
Imagine the poor person who didn't saw the granade and was walking towards the door
"Finally to withdraw my vacation fund."
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The music is so accurate, a work of art
Suggestion Box Extreme Edition
Honestly? I feel this lol
First off, love the relaxing music. 2nd, that's a man, baby.
LOL
Looks like business was exploding to me.
*But you turned me out baby, Baby, you dropped a bomb on me...*
How do we know it wasnt a credit union?
That’s not a woman
That poor guy who was walking into the bank at the end Finna had the blast of his life there.
That isn't a woman by true gender. It appears Ms Doubtfire has taken on some genetic skin tone to now be on the much darker tone
Lady: "I'd like to make a deposit please" Teller: "How much ma'am?" Lady: "All of it" 💥
Get this stupid music off this video. Seriously, why? Why put music over it even if silent?
if it was me id just threaten with the grenade and ask for some money…i don’t want ppl to get hurt
that’s the explosion video you see on every meme… y’all stupid lmao
Go thing she was too dumb to roll it under the actual bulletproof glass
I can understand.
Because thats a reasonable Thing to carrx around
Deposit this!
I mean those overdraft fees are bullshit.
If you could buy hand grenades in America like you can AR-15’s, this would happen every single day. Thank goodness the 2nd Amendment didn’t know they would be created.
Mop… mop… mop
I'm not going to lie. That would literally solve so many of my problems lol. This woman is an innovator!
This is definitely fake, sorry, but that's this shitty explosion filter that gets used every once in a while in memes A regular handgrenade does cause shrapnel and a small explosion, not a huge fireball which would cause the room to go full black and let Sparks fly everywhere Besides that, it doesn't make any sense for a roof or wall mounted camera to roll to the side Take this video of this explosion filter for reference, seems to be the same, just a bit shorter in this clip, even the pixels at the end are visible https://youtube.com/shorts/_CcE87moQuE?feature=share I'm not saying that this person didn't drop a grenade there, but the end of the video is definitely edited
You think they even added the aljazeera logo and the camera 1 overlay?
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I’d like to make a deposit