r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bendubberley_ • 1d ago

A police officer in Mexico prevents someone's suicide attempt, on a bridge, with no safety equipment.

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u/Goldglove528 1d ago

Most police do good. You only hear about the bad ones because they get more views.

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u/armpitchoochoo 1d ago

Next time you see one of those do gooding police, ask them when was the last time they arrested a bad apple

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u/EveningOperation1648 1d ago

Everyone likes to say it’s just a ‘few bad apples’ but fail to realize the actual quote they are referring to: ‘one bad apple spoils the bunch’.

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u/AffectionateCrazy156 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's amazing how often quotes get bastardized. I think the most common is "Money is the root of all evil," instead of "The love of money is the root of all evil."

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u/InnocentPossum 1d ago

"Blood is thicker than Water." Family ties are more important than anything...

Except, it's "Blood of the Covenant is thicker than Water of the Womb" which is the exact opposite. Those bonds you goose to form are stronger because you chose them.

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u/Dewut 22h ago

Sorry, but that one is bullshit. Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but we have instances of “blood is thicker than water” that date much, much earlier than the alternate version.

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u/AffectionateCrazy156 1d ago

I forgot about that one. It's definitely more common than the money one.

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u/Lemonface 21h ago

It's also wrong

"Blood is thicker than water" came first by hundreds of years

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u/AffectionateCrazy156 20h ago

Well, nobody was talking about which came first.

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u/Lemonface 20h ago

It's amazing how often quotes get bastardized.

That was the context in which it was brought up... Idk, at least to me, the implication of the word "bastardized" is that it got degraded and changed over time. Which is not true in this case. "Blood is thicker than water" was not bastardized from anything, it's always meant exactly what it still means

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u/BananaBunchess 1d ago

Well I personally think money is pretty evil too. Would be nice to not deal with coins ever again and just have paper money.

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u/AffectionateCrazy156 1d ago

The only time I pay cash for anything now is when it's a cash only transaction, which is pretty uncommon. So I keep a couple of bucks in change in a coin purse, just in case. I can't even remember the last time I had to pull it out, though, thankfully, because I can't stand it either. I was sooo happy when we got rid of pennies, too. It made a big difference in how much change you had to deal with.

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u/Bobanchi 14h ago

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is supposed to be a joke phrase. It's impossible to do.