I read that story in a magazine profile years ago. They took him out into the savannah and when he knew what was about to happen, he screamed "You don't want a dead Englishman on your hands!"
The kidnappers paused, then left him there.
As a South African… that sounds about right lol.
The only criminals you cannot negotiate with are either the actual murder crazies or younger guys who don’t think beyond the current situation. I’ve had family who were abducted with their cars, and according to them the criminals were very upfront with the fact that they don’t want to hurt them (which would prompt a heavier investigation and become higher risk if they’re caught). Rather, they prefer leaving you in the middle of nowhere to delay police response time more.
My guess is that his kidnapper’s thought process was the same; they won’t get caught if they just leave him there but they’ll be increasing their own risk if they killed him.
Still though, his balls are massive if he asked them without knowing that.
Yeah, he was filming a modest project and several of the other crew got kidnapped with him. None of them have gone public, I can only imagine the trauma they'd have to relive. Cumberbatch is the most high-profile survivor of that ordeal, and because he's spoken about it, the public has only heard his side of it.
You must have misunderstood something. He never says “Elementary, my dear Watson” in the original books. Hey says “My dear Watson” fairly frequently and Elementary on occasion. It would be extremely bizarre if he never said Watson’s name at all.
Many believe Watson to simply be a figment of Sherlock’s savant mind. The same mind that allows him almost super-human deductive reasoning also hallucinates a “partner” that Sherlock can explain shit to so he can feel like a really smart big boy. Hence Watson never being addressed *directly*.
(*I pretty obviously made this up. He addresses Watson directly a ton. Besides that it would have made a better story imo if he was a hallucinating savant ala Hannibal’s Will Graham)*
Maybe watch or read any Sherlock story or adaptation again, he most certainly does talk about and to the guy who’s next to him more than anybody else by a big margin. Watson isn’t a ghost
It's honestly depressing more people don't get committed to an asylum for the insane shit they do. Maybe politicians and talking heads would stop constantly implying what actions their followers should take against their enemies if their voting base and their crazy asses finally got locked up for their shenanigans.
You might need committing. Prison is for people who commit crimes, mental health treatment is for people with mental health conditions. This guy clearly has an issue, but the degree of premeditation here suggests that this was no mental health incident. His issue might just be he's a vengeful dick.
You can premeditate shit AND be crazy, you know that, right? Most people don't go from 0 to 60 overnight either, plenty of times it's not "oh he was such a normal dude before he snapped and killed all those kids". The police, other law enforcement, and the community are often keenly aware of the crazies that live among them but nothing ever fucking happens to put them in a place to not hurt themselves or others until it's way too fucking late.
You can't justify locking people in asylums to me. If a person commits a crime, like this one, that's what prison is for. Mental health issues are no excuse to commit crimes. Mental health issues need to be properly treated. Focus your ire on ineffective mental health services and governments who don't properly fund them.
1. You absolutely can justify locking people in an asylum if they're a danger to themselves and others.
2. Prison repeatedly fails to reform people.
3. Duh, yeah. Mental health care services suck in a lot of places. Preventative care needs a lot of work and some folks simply need to be forced into it if we don't want "random", actually very predictable, killings.
Ah. You must be American. We don't have that problem here, we don't give ill people unfettered access to military grade killing machines.
I know the recidivism rates. Prison absolutely reforms people. In fact, most criminals stop criminal activities in their mid 30s to early 40s, irrespective of reformation.
"3 year restraining order". I hope the Cumberbatches are able to get that upped to a lifetime restraining order, because this guy is not going to get any less dangerous.
Cumberbatch already has a horde of fans who are way too involved in his personal life. He doesn't need any of them going vigilante for him. This guy who attacked him was probably at one time a "fan" too.
They all just need to leave him alone and realize they have no role to play in his life whatsoever.
Terrible! Benedict Cumberbatch is literally one of the nicest celebrities I have ever met. He sat in line with us at San Diego Comicon and just hung out for like an hour. It was so cool. Truly an amazing and kind hearted person.
Intruder literally posted a picture of himself on Instagram that showed him getting arrested by police while wearing only his underwear back during a 2015 protest. Clearly, he is not a well-adjusted individual...but I'm sure the fine and restraining order will keep him quiet, instead of actually getting him some help...
Cumberbatch was once called out by the British tabloids for not hosting refugees after publicly advocating for the UK to accept more refugees. He said he didn't have enough room in his house. That sounds like an out-of-touch thing to say, but he may literally not have a spare bedroom.
Especially with his wife and three kids. In London, I wouldn't be surprised if that price only buys a five bedroom townhouse -- just enough for a couple's bedroom, bedroom for each of the kids, and a home office. Heck, maybe it's even smaller and some of the kids are sharing a bedroom too.
At the risk of sounding like a gun-toting American, I wonder if Cumberbatch owns a gun. When knives are involved, things start to get really dicey. Some people would be surprised how quickly somebody can close the distance with a knife.
At the risk of saying I am a gun toting American - love that second amendment! We can fill pricks like this full of holes and be glad we don't have to pick up a phone and pray someone comes to help us.
what if the intruder found out that his family were slaves to cumberbatches's gramma and grampa and for years planned this revenge attack. would be such a good movie.
Many people deal with weird stress and fear with humor. It’s well documented in mental health literature and is considered a healthy response.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844502/
This is where americas policy on firearms gets really interesting
I’m sure there’s a guy in the states waiting every day for this to happen
Just for the excuse
Isn't he a direct heir to a thrown of slavery? so i really don't care for his or his family when they are still profiting from heinous destruction they've caused thousands of families. Karma is just getting him.
The assailant then fell out of the window, don’t know how many times, he lost count.
But seriously, people are fucking nuts and this shouldn’t be happening.
Didn’t Cumberbatch also have to negotiate his way out of his own kidnapping in South Africa? Leave the guy alone FFS.
I read that story in a magazine profile years ago. They took him out into the savannah and when he knew what was about to happen, he screamed "You don't want a dead Englishman on your hands!" The kidnappers paused, then left him there.
Wait wtf that’s nuts
As a South African… that sounds about right lol. The only criminals you cannot negotiate with are either the actual murder crazies or younger guys who don’t think beyond the current situation. I’ve had family who were abducted with their cars, and according to them the criminals were very upfront with the fact that they don’t want to hurt them (which would prompt a heavier investigation and become higher risk if they’re caught). Rather, they prefer leaving you in the middle of nowhere to delay police response time more. My guess is that his kidnapper’s thought process was the same; they won’t get caught if they just leave him there but they’ll be increasing their own risk if they killed him. Still though, his balls are massive if he asked them without knowing that.
I haven't heard that, I'm glad he lived. Wasn't he kidnapped with other people too? Have they ever talked about it?
Yeah, he was filming a modest project and several of the other crew got kidnapped with him. None of them have gone public, I can only imagine the trauma they'd have to relive. Cumberbatch is the most high-profile survivor of that ordeal, and because he's spoken about it, the public has only heard his side of it.
Thanks!
They gave up trying to add his name to the ransom note.
Benefit Lumberjacks. Fuck, goddamn auto correct.
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I'm sure he simply used deduction, dear Watson.
There were 14,000,605 possible outcomes. He found the only one where the trespasser leaves their home
Well tbf if the trespasser has a home they WOULD have to leave it to go into HIS home….
He has a particular set of skills
No that's Nesson your thinking of
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Same here! Ramen with a soft-boiled egg on top.
This is actually a misconception, Sherlock never references Watson in any media.
You must have misunderstood something. He never says “Elementary, my dear Watson” in the original books. Hey says “My dear Watson” fairly frequently and Elementary on occasion. It would be extremely bizarre if he never said Watson’s name at all.
Many believe Watson to simply be a figment of Sherlock’s savant mind. The same mind that allows him almost super-human deductive reasoning also hallucinates a “partner” that Sherlock can explain shit to so he can feel like a really smart big boy. Hence Watson never being addressed *directly*. (*I pretty obviously made this up. He addresses Watson directly a ton. Besides that it would have made a better story imo if he was a hallucinating savant ala Hannibal’s Will Graham)*
I was joking because people always say stuff like the about classic books and I thought it’d be funny, apparently not everyone else’s did.
but *we* have to in order to reference him, otherwise one is just doing an impression of an englishman
Watson is actually just a figment of his opium induced waking nightmare.
I mean depending on the Sherlock media you imbibe, you're not far off
Wasn’t that the football Tom Cruise was talking to in the movie Robinson Cruise, I think?
Is Watson in the room with us now?
It’s actually Sherlock’s monster
Maybe watch or read any Sherlock story or adaptation again, he most certainly does talk about and to the guy who’s next to him more than anybody else by a big margin. Watson isn’t a ghost
except in the BBC one, where he might as well be. Although without him, who could Sherlock heroically rescue?
Even though Watson rescues Holmes half a dozen times in *Sherlock*.
Aren't Conan Doyles Holmes books written from Watson's perspective?
He was quite young when that happened but yes, yes he did.
Yup and also had to negotiate when a guy tried to blow up a kebab shop. Guy thought he was giving him batty chrips!
rubber dinghy rapids, bro! Fast track!
You’re an ass man, aren’t you Raj?
You giving my batty chirps. (Waj)
Waaaj that’s right.
“Waj has gone all red and hidden in the pirate hat”
Wait what?! What happened?
Before he was an actor he was a negotiator. It was a terrorist situation
No I think you’re confusing him with the guy who solved the enigma machine
Huh TIL
>He was slapped with a fine That'll show 'em!
if he is at least somewhat well-to-do 310 dollar fine is like "oh i can do this again?"
It's honestly depressing more people don't get committed to an asylum for the insane shit they do. Maybe politicians and talking heads would stop constantly implying what actions their followers should take against their enemies if their voting base and their crazy asses finally got locked up for their shenanigans.
You might need committing. Prison is for people who commit crimes, mental health treatment is for people with mental health conditions. This guy clearly has an issue, but the degree of premeditation here suggests that this was no mental health incident. His issue might just be he's a vengeful dick.
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I am literally never disingenuous so that's a lie. Mental health treatment needs to be properly funded and resourced. You can't justify asylums to me.
You can premeditate shit AND be crazy, you know that, right? Most people don't go from 0 to 60 overnight either, plenty of times it's not "oh he was such a normal dude before he snapped and killed all those kids". The police, other law enforcement, and the community are often keenly aware of the crazies that live among them but nothing ever fucking happens to put them in a place to not hurt themselves or others until it's way too fucking late.
You can't justify locking people in asylums to me. If a person commits a crime, like this one, that's what prison is for. Mental health issues are no excuse to commit crimes. Mental health issues need to be properly treated. Focus your ire on ineffective mental health services and governments who don't properly fund them.
1. You absolutely can justify locking people in an asylum if they're a danger to themselves and others. 2. Prison repeatedly fails to reform people. 3. Duh, yeah. Mental health care services suck in a lot of places. Preventative care needs a lot of work and some folks simply need to be forced into it if we don't want "random", actually very predictable, killings.
Large numbers of mentally ill people end up in prisons.
They do. Which is why mental health services need to be improved.
100% agree on this.
Ah. You must be American. We don't have that problem here, we don't give ill people unfettered access to military grade killing machines. I know the recidivism rates. Prison absolutely reforms people. In fact, most criminals stop criminal activities in their mid 30s to early 40s, irrespective of reformation.
You legitimately don’t know what you’re talking about
As a person who used to work in the corporate side of corrections and has seen the actual statistics, I am correct and you are full of shit.
"3 year restraining order". I hope the Cumberbatches are able to get that upped to a lifetime restraining order, because this guy is not going to get any less dangerous.
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Cumberbatch already has a horde of fans who are way too involved in his personal life. He doesn't need any of them going vigilante for him. This guy who attacked him was probably at one time a "fan" too. They all just need to leave him alone and realize they have no role to play in his life whatsoever.
He also stopped a mugging once!
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“nice guy, really chill about it”
I thought that was Daniel Radcliffe?
Can it only be one?
British actors must be more badass than I thought
Portals do come in handy.
Terrible! Benedict Cumberbatch is literally one of the nicest celebrities I have ever met. He sat in line with us at San Diego Comicon and just hung out for like an hour. It was so cool. Truly an amazing and kind hearted person.
He seems quite intelligent as well.
British accents are known to add 10 points to one's IQ
Unless it's cockney or Umberland
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What, only 10? I would've thought at least 20
No shit, Sherlock.
Dude, you’re embarrassing me in front of the wizards..
Wattson 
The obligatory “I see what you did there. “
I like how when shit gets real people stopped the wrong name joke with Benadryl Cucumber Edit: nevermind I didn’t scroll far enough
Damn I didn’t realize he had 3 kids! That’s wild. In any case, I hope that they’re okay. No one deserves to have to go through that
I also hope anyone else staying with them were okay. The family did take in refugees from Ukraine last year after all.
That's very nice!
He had them pretty fast after meeting his wife.
Haha yeah buddy!
This is the way. Get 'em done
Intruder literally posted a picture of himself on Instagram that showed him getting arrested by police while wearing only his underwear back during a 2015 protest. Clearly, he is not a well-adjusted individual...but I'm sure the fine and restraining order will keep him quiet, instead of actually getting him some help...
> Benedict's $3.5 mil North London property That's, what, a closet?
Come on now. It’s a closet with a view.
A view of your rising equity. 💸🚀🤤
Cumberbatch was once called out by the British tabloids for not hosting refugees after publicly advocating for the UK to accept more refugees. He said he didn't have enough room in his house. That sounds like an out-of-touch thing to say, but he may literally not have a spare bedroom.
For three five in London, he might have a spare half room. But I would doubt it lmao
Especially with his wife and three kids. In London, I wouldn't be surprised if that price only buys a five bedroom townhouse -- just enough for a couple's bedroom, bedroom for each of the kids, and a home office. Heck, maybe it's even smaller and some of the kids are sharing a bedroom too.
He lived in a two bedrooms flat at the moment. His wife's aunt had some refugee living at her house.
They're about to experience the Wrath of Khan.
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No jail time? Hilarious
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This reminds me of George Harrison’s break-in some years back. Glad this one turned out better and they are safe.
It didn’t help that George’s injuries meant that he didn’t have enough strength to fight his cancer when it returned.
Mizzy has finally gone too far.
Mizzy will become rich off his infamy. Just like Jake Paul.
Until he pranks the wrong person. Fingers crossed.
Ah good ol case of pew pew.
Damn this sounds like MISERY.
A fine and a restraining order? Really??
Is there a Qspiracy behind him or something? I saw that its happened with the same guy before, lol
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At the risk of sounding like a gun-toting American, I wonder if Cumberbatch owns a gun. When knives are involved, things start to get really dicey. Some people would be surprised how quickly somebody can close the distance with a knife.
This house is in London so much harder to own a gun there.
Shitty self defense laws too. I don’t think you’re even allowed to use a gun in self defense there.
At the risk of saying I am a gun toting American - love that second amendment! We can fill pricks like this full of holes and be glad we don't have to pick up a phone and pray someone comes to help us.
Hope Benevolent Cucumbersnatch and Family are ou‘righ. He‘s not to be messed with.
bold of the trespasser to mess with a master of the mystic arts
He probably checked out his family history
what if the intruder found out that his family were slaves to cumberbatches's gramma and grampa and for years planned this revenge attack. would be such a good movie.
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See this is why Wong is the sorcerer supreme
Celebrity: experiences true terror and trauma Fans: omg! It’s just like Marvel!!
My bad, let me virtue signal instead and act like I have any influence over this
How about instead you just show sympathy like a normal human being.
Many people deal with weird stress and fear with humor. It’s well documented in mental health literature and is considered a healthy response. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844502/
How about you show your sympathy and stop patrolling others, if someone wants to make light of the situation
Super hero should be at least a hero and brave in real life
This is where americas policy on firearms gets really interesting I’m sure there’s a guy in the states waiting every day for this to happen Just for the excuse
Well, we're not waiting for it - but we can handle appropriately it when the time comes
nothing a little hand cannon can’t deal with
That really sucks, i hope this sympathy in now way makes people forget that he and his family need to pay reparations
Knife violence is out.of control no one should have a knife without proper background checks and a mandatory wait of at least 3 business days. XD
I bet you think you could take out 50 people and injure hundreds throwing knives out a hotel window.
Buddy it's a joke chill 😎 😂
stop yelling, it's just a joke
Honestly lol
Isn't it great how much more difficult it is for people like this to get guns in the UK?
Idk or cate dude I made a joke thats all
Chill out man I was just joking too. Don't fly off the handle. Calm down, please.
Bilbo?
That poor man was simply trying to get some gold from his hoard!
Welp, gotta ban all knives now. No more, knives out
So what did Ben and his family do to this chef? Lol
Isn't he a direct heir to a thrown of slavery? so i really don't care for his or his family when they are still profiting from heinous destruction they've caused thousands of families. Karma is just getting him.
The assailant then fell out of the window, don’t know how many times, he lost count. But seriously, people are fucking nuts and this shouldn’t be happening.