Marine veteran fights off teen carjackers ^⁠90%

6/5/2026, 9:01:29 PM

Topics: Video

BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Anecdotal, and Appeal to Emotion, with Self-Serving Bias as the most egregious example at 21.7% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 496 faulty-reasoning hits from 263 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 83.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠90% (2,252 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 89.70% of the video peer group.

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Jacob Borda was working on his truck in his quiet neighborhood in suburban Maryland when he noticed a group of teenagers walk by.

>> They start putting hoodies on. I like I felt something is going to happen.

>> Surveillance video from the Marine veterans home security camera shows one of the teens pull a gun and stick it in Borda's face.

>> I told him I raised my hands up and the keys are in, car is on, and he saw my phone.

He was like, "Give me your phone, too."

>> But then his hand-tohand military combat training kicked in.

It was that split moment when he moved his hand from my head to the side of my head.

That's when I grabbed him and pull it uh pull it my way.

>> You can see Borta wrestling the teen with the gun to the ground.

His brother rushes in to help.

Listen as the gun fires during the struggle.

In the midst of the melee, the teen's gun went off, but fortunately, no one was hurt.

The only gunshot ended up here in the truck.

Borta's father then charges in right behind. together.

The family subduing the teens.

Police say two suspects on the scene were taken into custody.

Was there anything in the back of your minds like maybe these guys messed with the wrong dude?

>> Nothing. That the first thing I thought was how am I going to work if they're going to take my car?

That's the first thing I

Confirmation Bias

Anchoring Bias

Availability Heuristic

5.7%

Representativeness Heuristic

3.8%

Hindsight Bias

10.6%

Overconfidence Bias

Framing Effect

14.4%

Loss Aversion

Status Quo Bias

Sunk Cost Effect

Optimism Bias

6.5%

Pessimism Bias

5.7%

Negativity Bias

20.9%

Self-Serving Bias

21.7%

Fundamental Attribution Error

Actor-Observer Bias

In-Group Bias

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

Halo Effect

Horn Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Recency Bias

Primacy Effect

Blind-Spot Bias

Ad Hominem

Straw Man

Appeal to Authority

13.3%

False Dilemma

6.8%

Slippery Slope

Circular Reasoning

Hasty Generalization

Red Herring

Bandwagon

Appeal to Emotion

17.1%

Begging the Question

5.7%

Post Hoc (False Cause)

3.8%

Tu Quoque

Burden of Proof

4.2%

Appeal to Nature

Composition/Division

Anecdotal

20.5%

No True Scotsman

Ambiguity (Equivocation)

13.7%

Gambler’s Fallacy

Middle Ground

Personal Incredulity

Special Pleading

Genetic Fallacy

Unattributed Quote

Quote-first Misdirection

Biased Writer Voice

Indoctrination

Politically Left Leaning Bias

Politically Right Leaning Bias

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service

263 words analyzed.

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Marine veteran fights off teen carjackers ^⁠90%

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Marine veteran fights off teen carjackers ⁠90%

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Marine veteran fights off teen carjackers ^⁠90%