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So in order to win his ex -girlfriend back, this cop shot himself in the leg.
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This story is wild.
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Now the cop's name is Thomas, and Thomas is about 27 years old during this time, living in West Hempstead, New York,
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working as a state trooper.
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And Thomas has a problem.
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A year before this, his girlfriend broke up with him, and he can't stop thinking about her.
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In fact, He would do anything to get her back, even if he has to break the law.
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And so one day in 2024, he gets an idea, a creative way to win over her love.
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Because he remembers a couple of years before he had gotten hurt in a hit and run while on duty.
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And from this, he got a lot of sympathy.
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I mean, everyone felt really bad for him and treated him so well for a while after that.
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So Thomas's big creative idea is that he wants to get injured on the job again.
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But this time, the injury needs to be way worse.
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Because in order to win his ex back, he doesn't just want her to feel bad for him.
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He wants her and the public to see him as a hero.
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So what's the most heroic thing a cop can do?
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Get shot in the line of duty.
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And how's he going to get shot in the line of duty? he's gonna do it himself.
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So he gets to work on this insane plan.
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First, he researches where to buy a gun online.
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I mean, he obviously already has a gun, a service weapon, you know, he's a cop, but he can't use that gun.
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It would be traceable.
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So he looks for a new one.
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He also gets online and researches ways to shoot himself without actually getting hurt that badly or leaving a permanent injury.
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Specifically, he wants to know the best place to have a bullet hit his leg and not bleed out.
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And he reads like all kinds of articles about this, like this one titled
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How It Feels to Get Shot.
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And once he has all the information he needs, he puts his plan into motion.
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One night, he drives over to a spot on the highway that runs through his assigned post,
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and he pulls over and he drops some bullet casings on the ground.
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Then he heads to the nearby state park, and he pulls out his rifle, and blam!
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He shoots himself right in the leg, which I'm sure doesn't feel good.
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Then he ties a tourniquet on his wound, his wound that he gave himself, and from there, Thomas drives back to his house,
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where he hides the gun in his personal car.
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Then he returns to the spot where he left the bullet casings, and he calls in over his radio,
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and says, shots fired, shots fired, I'm hit.
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Minutes later, police and first responders arrive, and they see that he's been shot.
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And at some point, he tells his fellow officers some bullshit story about how he was out on patrol,
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and he saw a Dodge Charger with temporary
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New Jersey plates stopped on the center median, and he tells them that he went to check it out,
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and that there was a black man wearing a ski mask there.
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And this mysterious black man had a gun and blam, shot him in the leg.
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Thomas also asks the first responders to make sure to take him to a specific hospital on Long Island.
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Why that hospital?
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Because the ex -girlfriend he's trying to win back works there.
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And she's on duty right now as a nurse.
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And he wants to make sure that she sees him in the state he's in.
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So this state trooper at the scene believes that his friend is dying
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and he puts him in his squad car and he takes him to the hospital.
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And his ex -girlfriend is actually there, but it's unclear how she reacts to him being shot.
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I actually don't have information on that.
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But I seriously doubt that she puts a medal on him and says, oh, my hero.
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Now, obviously a law enforcement officer being shot is a big deal and police aren't going to take this lightly.
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So immediately, hundreds of law enforcement officers get involved.
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State police, county police, the NYPD, the New Jersey State Police, Newark Police, even police from Delaware get involved,
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and they all start a manhunt for this mysterious black man who supposedly shot a fellow cop.
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And they are searching everywhere for this guy.
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And they can't find him.
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Because, you know, he's not real.
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Not to mention, it's extra f*ed up that he blamed it on a black man,
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because he knew that he was describing a person that the cops would actually go and look for.
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Anyway, later, Thomas recovers enough for the hospital to release him.
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So they release him, and he gets a hero's walkout, like a lot of officers get while injured in the line of duty.
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Which means there are a bunch of police there, And they cheer and they applaud this courageous officer for surviving everything he went through.
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Here you're looking at a bunch of pictures of him.
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During this hero's walkout, you can see that he's in a wheelchair because his leg is injured.
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Now, apparently, Thomas can't believe that he's actually pulling this off.
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People think he was courageous.
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They believe him.
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And so about a day after the shooting, he gets online and he starts looking up every article that he can find about him being shot.
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Two days after the shooting, he gets online and he starts researching
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Dodge Chargers because he said the shooter was driving a Dodge Charger,
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and he wants to be prepared in case the police later ask him more specific questions about the car he saw.
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Meanwhile, his fellow officers are still out there, still looking for the mysterious shooter.
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A guy they'll never find because he doesn't exist.
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And so at this point, Thomas, he's probably thinking, you know,
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his plan worked, And it'll only be a matter of time before his ex realizes what an absolute freaking chad he is,
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and she'll come crawling right back to him.
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Until.
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So, police are still investigating all this, trying to figure out why someone would shoot Thomas.
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And within a few days of all of this happening, these officers, they start feeling like the evidence is not supporting Thomas' story.
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Like, if this crime went down the way he said it did, there would be tire marks from the Dodge Chargers' quick getaway.
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Plus, they also can't seem to find any actual bullets at the crime scene, even though they find shell casings,
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which to them it just doesn't make sense.
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Not to mention, there aren't any eyewitnesses to the shooting, no video evidence, no record of any license plate matching the plate number he gave them.
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There isn't even any body cam footage they can look at,
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because their body cameras turn on automatically when the cop turns on the full light bar,
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and he never turned on the full light bar because he was never in any real danger.
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Needless to say, police are starting to get suspicious,
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and they're able to track the GPS in his patrol car to see where it went that night,
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and they can see that it traveled to his post, then to the state park, then to his home, and then back to the crime scene.
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And so they get a search warrant, and they go and they search Thomas' house.
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And there, police find the gun he used to shoot himself in the leg.
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They also search his electronic devices and his search history, and they find the gun website he was using to look for a new gun,
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and the research on what getting shot feels like, and everything else he searched for.
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So eventually, Thomas resigns from the force and a few days after that, he turns himself in.
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And so, bam, police arrest him.
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And I don't have a mugshot, but here he is being taken away in custody.
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And ultimately, Thomas takes a plea deal and he gets sentenced to six months in jail.
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And at the end of it all, his poor ex -girlfriend does not, in fact, think he is a hero.
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And she doesn't get back together with him at all.
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No, no, she actually gets an order of protection against his weird ass, which is like a restraining order.
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So he's legally no longer allowed to contact her.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “He's The Dumbest Cop I've Ever Talked About”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Thomas, shot, gun, officer, himself. Questo video contiene 103 frasi e 1448 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:24. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 172 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
bullet sostantivo/ˈbʊlɪt/proiettile
mysterious aggettivo/mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/misterioso, ignoto
enforcement sostantivo/ɪnˈfoɹsm(ə)nt/applicazione, imposizione
patrol sostantivo/pəˈtɹoʊl/pattuglia, pattugliamento
shooter sostantivo/ˈʃuːtəː/tiratore, tiratrice
courageous aggettivo/kəˈɹeɪd͡ʒəs/coraggioso
meanwhile avverbio/ˈmiːnwaɪl/intanto, nel frattempo
temporary aggettivo/ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/temporaneo
badly avverbio/ˈbæd.li/male
insane aggettivo/ɪnˈseɪn/insano, pazzo
nurse sostantivo/nɝs/infermiera, infermiere
medal sostantivo/ˈmɛdəl/medaglia
shell sostantivo/ʃɛl/conchiglia
arrive verbo/əˈɹaɪv/arrivare, giungere
cop sostantivo/kɑp/piedipiatti, poliziotto

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La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabeen shot · being shot · is injured
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaman who supposedly · ass, which is

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 23 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come can't, doesn't, aren't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shooter /ˈʃuːtəː/, shell /ʃɛl/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, supposedly /səˈpoʊ̯.zɪd.li/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: wheelchair /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/, heroic /hɪˈɹoʊ.ɪk/, manhunt /ˈmænˌhʌnt/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: bullet /ˈbʊlɪt/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/, enforcement /ɪnˈfoɹsm(ə)nt/, courageous /kəˈɹeɪd͡ʒəs/, nurse /nɝs/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: badly /ˈbæd.li/, mask /mæsk/, react /ɹiːˈækt/, chad /t͡ʃæd/, blam [ˈblæm]

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