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Iowa fraternity hazing video - police discover 56 blindfolded pledges in basement

Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:21 am
Posted by Shexter
Prairieville
Member since Feb 2014
19964 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:21 am
Body cam video was released yesterday

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The footage coming out of the University of Iowa involving Alpha Delta Phi is the kind of thing that makes you rewind the video just to make sure you’re actually seeing what you think you’re seeing.



https://thelibertyline.com/2026/02/18/iowa-fraternity-hazing-video/

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Instead, officers walked into what can only be described as the weirdest team-building exercise of all time.

Down in the basement were 56 pledges shirtless and blindfolded, covered in what reports described as “various substances,” later clarified as food that had been thrown on them. They were all silent and not even moving, just standing there like they were waiting for further instructions from their fraternity brothers.

The bodycam footage has since gone viral, pulling in millions of views. And yeah, visually? It looks insane. Dark basement. Blindfolded freshmen. Cops asking questions. Nobody responding. It’s the kind of clip that makes the internet immediately assume something far more sinister than what was likely just embarrassingly lame hazing.



Posted by VolsOut4Harambe
Atlanta, GA
Member since Sep 2017
14161 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:23 am to
Still better than making your pledges frick a goat.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
16310 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:23 am to
more proof that frats are gay
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
18358 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:24 am to
The fire alarm goes off and these idiots stay in place, blindfolded?

Wtf?

Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
138184 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:24 am to
I'm amazed this stupid stuff still happens
Posted by KingofthePoint
Member since Feb 2009
10971 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:26 am to
I don’t understand the appeal
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
47658 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:26 am to
I saw a little snippet of it yesterday and it's weird as hell. The cops were basically telling them this is the type of stuff that gets frats shut down and all they could say was basically "it doesn't matter cause house daddy."

It's weird seeing a bunch of adults acting like little bitches.
Posted by LCA131
Home of the Fake Sig lines
Member since Feb 2008
77073 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:26 am to
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Still better than making your pledges frick a goat.


Don't be so judgey...
Posted by Shexter
Prairieville
Member since Feb 2014
19964 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:27 am to
Dude is dedicated to his frat brothers. Chill AF drinking his Busch

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Posted by bradygolf98
Member since Jan 2021
3581 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:27 am to
Imagine doing shite so stupid just so you feel like you're one of the cool kids on campus
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
38715 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:30 am to
Sounds like their voices are all fricked up from yelling at the pledges
Posted by joshnorris14
Florida
Member since Jan 2009
46766 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:32 am to
Jose definitely stays calm under pressure
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
38715 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:32 am to
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The fire alarm goes off and these idiots stay in place, blindfolded? Wtf?

Very well trained pledges.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
34959 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:33 am to
These are adults, correct?

Were they captive? Were they allowed to leave if they chose?

It's certainly OK to think hazing is idiotic, because it is. But I never understood the legal aspect. If adults choose to go through humiliation rituals, why should they not be allowed?

Is BDSM illegal?
Posted by vistajay
Member since Oct 2012
2867 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:35 am to
In the 80s this was just another Thursday night.
Posted by DeltaTigerDelta
Member since Jan 2017
13722 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:35 am to
Cops did not get a bid.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
38715 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:36 am to
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I don’t understand the appeal

The appeal is short term sacrifice for earning a place and it’s done in a multitude of circumstances like sports, military or even just normal peer groups, e.g., hassling and pranking the new guy. It’s just that here it is seen in a relatively extreme case.
Posted by TooFyeToFly
Athens, GA
Member since Nov 2012
2210 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:38 am to
Frats exist to allow the inbred offspring of the rich to secretly engage in sexual abuse against other men.
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
73741 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:38 am to
Greek like is dumb part 5857484794588585
This post was edited on 2/19/26 at 9:39 am
Posted by John Casey
New Orleans
Member since Nov 2016
3923 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:42 am to
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The fire alarm goes off and these idiots stay in place, blindfolded?


That’s on the actives and not the pledges.

The pledges obviously thought everything was a part of the ritual and actives fricking with them.
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