He ran faster than he runs his mouth.
A viral video on Facebook shows a drunk man causing a commotion in the middle of the road who only stopped bothering motorists when a truck filled with soldiers came driving by.
Facebook user Ranie Chuidian posted the video yesterday night. Netizens instantly found it amusing, as seen in the 2.5 million views it has already gotten.
Chuidian told Coconuts Manila through Facebook messenger that the incident happened last night at Castellano, San Leonardo in the Nueva Ecija province. He said that the man definitely looked drunk.
Well, that explains things.
The video shows the drunk man, who wasn’t wearing a shirt, in the middle of the road provoking motorists with what seems to be a metal shovel. In the video, you can hear him calling out motorists and trying to trigger any of those passing by, by hitting the pavement with the shovel.
“Someone’s going crazy out there,” Chuidian said in Filipino as he captured the incident. “We need the police.”
The drunk man seemed to think he was king of the road when he got a tricycle to go off-road to avoid conflict with him.
What he didn’t know was that an army truck filled with soldiers happened to be right behind him. After spotting the truck, he ran for his life — with the shovel.
And it. was. epic.
But he wasn’t fast enough as the soldiers got out of the truck carrying firearms and caught him.
They stayed there until police arrived at the scene and arrested the man.
The video had over 38,000 likes and 65,000 shares as of this article’s posting. Netizens shared their thoughts on the incident:
“He was just looking for a fight. What he got was a war,” Facebook user Jay Destacamento wrote in Filipino.
Dan Eric Tan cited a popular Mobile Legends catchphrase: “Initiate retreat.”
Sarah Jane Cadag Oshoppe said: “Where’s the courage [you had a while ago] when the troops started to get down the truck?”
A certain 한신비 noted how fast the guy ran.
Guess some people just want to learn the hard way.
