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PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT.
Dec 11, 2023 2:01 PM
WazertFromBlueSky
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PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT.
ThatDudeRich
#7 Dude.
bog015
Schadenfreude. Someone gets it
GTimgur
Schadenfreude post is a no from me.
Notthewatdabney
#2 Well, kiss my fucking ass!
paynoattentiontousernames
#1 "ok, next"
twelvoclocklevel
bummer
Wardonk3y
#10 phosphorous... The gift that keeps giving
RancidOrange
#6 there’s gonna be a lot more of these incidents in the next few years
koolerthanjinx
Good thing she had a parachute
DrMissAnonymous
#4 she fell so quickly right on her back, panties out… Jesus it was like a bride in her wedding night!
petepac25
MajorNikon
Probably should have used a bigger parachute
nikkococo1998
"We're gonna need a bigger parachute"
jt42
Seems horribly misthought, that parachute is going to snag sometimes at the beginning.
ExplosionFish
What was even supposed to happen?
sphericalworld
The parachute was only to provide drag so she didn’t go too fast on the zip line. The whole falling and fracturing her spine part was just the free bonus.
MySushi
I also came here looking for answer to this question. Like, what is the intended result of going off a zipline like that?
Bonesy84
Fun?
Going fast?
The littler chute was just to slow her down a little
NightGridRunner
michiyl
#3 Ah, yes, "laughing emoji" graphic over a seriously dumb idea. Did his spine ever heal from the 464°C explosion close to it?
LtcMaker
Spine was fine. Skin probably wasn't tho
TheobromineAddict
Mixed feelings about this dump. Some of these people were hurt through no fault of their own.
TheTechDweller
Shit happens. None of this was vile, just real stuff
bfreeze01
The only person who I would say was not at fault is #1 as it was the employee hooking her up who was responsible for doing it correctly. Everyone else was at their own fault either due to clumsiness, lack of experience or mostly just poor decision making.
alcaray
That line was rigged too low over those seats.
BlindGardener
Take. Shit. Off of the shelf. Move shelf. Then move shit.
xj4low
I don't know. Stupidity can be their own fault. Though with #1, I bet she had already signed a release saying she wouldn't sue if injured.
trinityj1
Signing a release doesn't cover negligence, it covers the inherent risk if everything is done correctly.
igobeder
#10. Man, that fast ball was on fire.
sturmhauke
It started out a stupid idea, but it really got brain dead when the dude kept going after his bat broke.
AbelardSnazz
If a rocket is heading towards you, the very LAST thing you'd want to do is smash it with a bat right in front of your face. I feel like that would have been disastarous even if he'd succeeded
Sheldonian
#1 At this point I've seen so many videos and heard so many stories of zipllines failing that I'm never getting into one of those things ever again
AJBEEED
This is a good rule to live by.
PuckerScream
All of these except #2 went exactly as I anticipated (didn't really know what that one was about). Thanks for not letting me down.
tadzilla
It's a YouTube prank video. https://youtu.be/P4BK84zBRWc?feature=shared
stouffer
They used a screensaver which looked like a broken screen, so the dude had to go get the spare telly. Judging by the dust he's wiping off it may have been in a loft or something. While setting it up they turned off the screensaver. Swearing ensued!
CapnExplosion
Thank you!
FraudulentPepsi
Why do people playing Richies Plank Experience always run at blazing speeds into the walls? I will never understand it
ThisismyconfessionTherearemanylikeitButthisoneismine
Isn't there a d-pad on the controller?
FraudulentPepsi
There's a joystick, but you don't need to use it at all for that. People just run at full speed and jump. It's so crazy.
Ricobe9
Because VR confuses the brain
FraudulentPepsi
Not like that
Sebastopol140
#5 I don't care about the stupid humans doing stupiud things or hurting themselves (if it not too bad) but I hope there was no fish in that tank or that Bubbles is ok.
BornOnAMonday83
Looked like a king beta in a way to small tank.
WazertFromBlueSky
I agree that the tank is too small, but it's betta than most I've seen.
Sebastopol140
Badum, tsssss!
IMPICKLERICK
ComoSeIguana
#3
TheJomsborgViking
Needs more snail and hare
CanadianCyborg
#7 I've met a guy that ended up paralyzed doing this shit
RancidOrange
Was it this guy?
017renegade
A good friend spent month in the hospital. His soccer career had ended that day... :D
CanadianCyborg
+1 but that smiley face
sturmhauke
I saw a kid break his leg while trying to skateboard by hanging onto the back of a truck.
Chromentor
That is natures way to gently say "stop doing that".
Detacheddavid
That's nature cleaning itself
ParadosaArcticus
People die doing this
CanadianCyborg
#3
Iullabee
all of that is assuming the firework explosion didn't blow up his spine.
GabrielRRL
Tl;dr- Fire is the essence of catastrophe, don't fuck around with fire safety.
CanadianCyborg
It's just the mother star coming back to life to smack our asses back into submission. "Settle down my little zombies or so help me I'll send your asses into your sun myself"
sphericalworld
Boy, you just get to a certain part of that message and you kind of shudder and stop reading. Unreal.
CanadianCyborg
It is a god awful place to get injured let alone cooked. I've had trouble keeping a paper cut clean, let alone my asshole....
sphericalworld
100%. Can’t even imagine.
VentricularAnomaly
I know this is controversial, but I really do think that fireworks should require a license to purchase, especially in this day and age of rampant wildfires. Even an event license sub-category would do. Sigh.
CanadianCyborg
wouldn't be hard, go to your local Firehall every 5 years to write a small test. watch a small video, and get licensed to purchase fireworks. Getting properly licensed ( Level 1 ) for indoor and outdoor only takes a weekend.
VentricularAnomaly
Exactly, it doesn’t need to be hard, it just needs to be a minimum of effort that will stop the monumentally idiotic from accessing literal explosives
CanadianCyborg
I've grown tired of warning kids and adults alike about their dangerous practices. I dont want anyone to get maimed or anything but having to remind grown ass adults not to hold a Roman candle or worse, a mortar Multiple times every year has grown tiring and they have becoming more aggressive in their response. So go ahead, I'll warn you once if you seem semi stable, after that I'll walk away so I'm not compelled by law to provide first aid. They don't reimburse my personal first aid kit!
conniecpu
The bill is a US-specific dystopia hell, but the rest of it can happen to you no matter where in the world you live if you try that shit
conniecpu
*in certain areas far enough from a hospital with a level 1 trauma center you may just die instead
TheHuntedSnark
#4 Should have worn brown panties instead.
Brownie19
lucky she had any on!
madjo
#1 what the hell happened here?
Chromentor
She did not fart with enough force to inflate the parachute.
scissorxmextimbers
They fell.
EDoPur
The grounds for a lawsuit.
bfreeze01
They tied her in to a gear loop which is not meant to bear human weight instead of the two belay loops. Gear loop snapped.
arajad
Looks like they attached the support line and the safety line to each other instead of separately to her. So they had a single point of failure - which failed. Bad, likely negligent rigging.
SomeDetroitGuy
Looks like the connection at the bottom somehow failed.
melmboundanddown
They used a hamster parachute instead of a human one.
TheobromineAddict
#5 That's Ikea for you. Cannot be moved once it's assembled.
Brownie19
Rookie move - they needed someone pushing the other side!
sturmhauke
I measure the lifespan of Ikea furniture not in years, but moves. Some pieces are sturdier than others, but 2-3 moves is usually a hard limit.
schizznatt
Indeed. We have a bed that we’ve moved three times. It will not survive a fourth and ideally no one should do any sudden movements on it… it currently lives in our extra bedroom lol
xj4low
1st rule is don't use MDF wood furniture for fish tanks. That one looks like it could be a target or walmart $30 book case. Personally, I have a 5g tank on an Ikea book case but I have added in 2x4 bracing under it the cabnet area. 1 across and 1 on each side with L brackets connecting. All using 1.5" wood screws and wood glue. I also sealed the piece the tank sits on with paint and a few layers of shellac. (A 5 gal tank can weigh 60+ lbs filled).
PaulHavingABall
Of course that’s the first rule.
BlindGardener
1st rule is don’t move a shelf with shit on it. Take stuff off, move shelf, put stuff back on.
xj4low
The fish tank makes it at least a 20-25+ lb difficult item to move. Really can't just pick it up without draining the majority of the water out.
BlindGardener
I mean, there’s definitely tools that will help two people evenly lift a weight like that.
CanadianCyborg
#10 The fun thing about fireworks is they have an oxidizer so they won't stop burning while inside of you.
SteveTheEgg
Take a sparkler until it's red hot and stick it in slow like "tsss"
HandoB4Javert
nsfw?
SecondSince
Giggity!
TheWorldAccordingToAtlas
My friend got one caught in his shoe. Barely made it through without a skin graft.
CanadianCyborg
Those beautiful balls of light are hotter than Satans Anus on curry night.
TheOneAndOnlyButtStabber
just like cig paper. It creates oxygen while it burns so it doesnt stop burning.
MentalUproar
See I was wondering what made them so fun. I never expected a carrot-like answer.
BaconAlmighty
Same with gonorrhea
putadiminuta
Is this why I was able to fire bottle rockets into a creek and make pretend submarine explosions?
CanadianCyborg
Yes, mind you submerging them long enough will destroy them. Putting them in a bucket of water is actually the recommended disposal method (you should do this with spent fireworks as well). They will typically survive the amount of time it takes for a fuse to burn.
AbelardSnazz
Hotshot!
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IStillSleepWithMyStuffedAnimals
What is this from???
ThatOneRandomNerd
Dredd (2012) - an adaptation of Judge Dredd, pretty fun movie if you're looking for mindless action, much shoot bang bang and a passable plot set in a merciless dystopia. Wouldn't recommend for young kids tho, it's not really a family movie
IStillSleepWithMyStuffedAnimals
I love pow pow boom boom movies!
hotrodny
I am thinking of the guy in the restaurant that Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) shot in the mouth(?) with a flare or something.
ShiftingPattern
You mean the gif AbelardSnazz posted thirty minutes before you made your comment?
hotrodny
Oh, nice. I didn't see it :)
Notthewatdabney
Helps to cauterize the wound.
CanadianCyborg
"What smells like bbq?"
Notthewatdabney
Mmm. Long pig. Dibs on ribs!
jayman0123
Jim
ExpectedDickbuttGotDickbutt
i don't think your definition of fun and my definition of fun are the same AT ALL
ExplosionFish
A butt and a face wrote that comment
powerrangerpl
Clearly, we are not the same. I enjoy watching stupid twats hurt themselves. I could watch it all day long.
CanadianCyborg
In that case. Enjoy: /gallery/60Klf
powerrangerpl
Oh shit, that's on me. Should've beem more specific. I enjoy watching stupid twats hurt themselves w/o life altering injuries. The "bonk I hit my head in a funny way" kind of ouchies. I could watch it all day long.
CanadianCyborg
I was a licensed pyrotechnician for awhile and during our safety updates they would show us different firework injuries. One dude was holding a Roman candle shooting it off like a wand. Well you see Roman candles are meant to be buried for a reason. The Roman candle failed and shot backwards out the bottom. Proceed to bury itself into the guys forearm and continued traveling up to his bicep burning the whole time. DONT FUCK WITH FIREWORKS.
Sheldonian
JFC I shouldn't have read this after waking up
michiyl
ExpectedDickbuttGotDickbutt
ahh, i see, by fun you meant smoking biceps. But not in the fun, Arnie / bodybuilder way. The even more fun, internally on fire way. yep, FUN
CanadianCyborg
They showed photos from his operation, they had to open the bicep to get to the remnants of the star and get to the damage. It looked like cooked chicken breasts with some charing like it was done on a bbq..... and according to some reports it probably smelled similar
Aksuuuh
Romans were terrible at making candles.
Fhant
Or Empires.
HenryLongfellowIII
tbf it lasted 1000 years. It was a pretty good empire.
UnattendedDeviant
#1 She's lucky the connection failed when it did, and not a second later.
DoomsdayMelody
That’s a weird way of saying she should be thankful for only being dropped down the 15+ feet into the walkway between the bleachers and concourse.
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Everything about this is 100% sketchy. Nobody involved has any idea what they are doing.
RandallKavanaugh
#1 was so bad, I skipped the rest to come right to the comments section. She was lucky to survive.
MAN9000
!!!
ShellPhish
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/moment-terrified-13-year-old-29003497
mikeatike
I have so many questions about this. Like first, why are they ziplining in a stadium?
GTimgur
Make money off the otherwise unused space. Also I've learned that a lot of city people are straight up uncomfortable in countryside/woodlands.
pgdave
It's generally a lot easier to get to a stadium in or near a city than it is to get to the countryside.
mikeatike
Well I suppose it's better than the cross-river zipline they wanna do from Mt Washington to the casino in Pittsburgh.
Solusek
With city living in the modern world not everyone has their own backyard that they can go ziplining in anymore.
Illinifan88
This is why I won't do shit like this. I'm not a thrill seeker, so it does nothing for me. All it is is risk that the people operating and maintaining these things are fucking morons or just don't care.
CaverExtrordinaire
Thats the thing, I'm a caver and instead of relying on others, before going anywhere, your are taught all the safety measures you need in order to be safe, from your own gear to each others knots. rope access training is one of the most niche yet most valuable skills I feel I have
capnadorable
I’m with you lol, I like to keep my feet planted firmly on the ground, thank you very much. Sure, everyday there’s risk of dying, you could get struck by lightning into walking out your front door, but why would you want to add additional risk on top of what’s innately there? Roll additional dice to what you already are required to roll each day? lol no thank you.
Illinifan88
Right, there's risk in doing things that give me something back, whether it's a pay check or seeing friends or whatever. The sensation of possible death from doing something I don't care for does nothing positive for me.
capnadorable
Idk why that “into” was added, iOS’s faulty recent keyboard update has caused me all sorts of problems, and look at that, as I’m typing this I noticed it added “faulty” into the message, I definitely didn’t type that, but it definitely is faulty though. They literally broke their phones, typing has been a nightmare.
justadudewholovescats
do you just decide to cancel the whole message sometimes? I sure do!
Elstt
She'd have been even luckier if they'd tied her to the belay loop, rather than one of the gear loops.
Tarmaccian
Yet another example of why it’s important to understand what’s happening instead of blindly trusting anyone else with your safety…
powerrangerpl
Tell me you are from the US without telling me you are from the US?
Tarmaccian
Oh, I can assure you that incompetence is a global problem.
Djinterrobang
Also a good reason to only participate in extreme events in countries with robust insurance systems.
downvoteifyouhatekittens
I haven't got time to become a structural engineer if I want to go to a theme park. Sometimes you have to put trust in others otherwise you'd never do anything. By that logic you couldn't even drive a car.
ShiftingPattern
Hint: The roller coaster shouldn't look like/do this:
Tarmaccian
You don't need to be a structural engineer. You should be aware of the structure of roller coasters and the safety mechanisms in place, so if you see something wrong (like a lap bar that doesn't lock) you can avoid putting yourself at risk. Likewise, that's a part of driver's education courses: to provide a basic familiarity with car functions and expected behaviors.
Frederf
awareness requires engineer levels of knowledge meaning you need to be one.
WillLickNudibranchsForBUzz
Nah, you are exaggerating. Cars are tested to certain standards, and most accidents are caused by user error. Just as the harness was tested to a certain standard and accident happened because of a user error. Trust in the product is usually fine, it is the operator you have to be wary of.
downvoteifyouhatekittens
It may seem obvious to you but not everyone is going to understand how the connection works in that video, you should be able to attend a ride like this and put all your faith in the instructor. You shouldn't have to learn how to correctly attach a harness yourself.