I’ll just say this: he kicked a gate thinking nobody was home and ended up getting scolded and fined
I have a technical job that sometimes deals with emergency response. I showed up to a building and needed to get in the mechanical room and the building manager couldn’t find the keys so I was trying to pick the lock but a firefighter pushed me out of the way and kicked the metal door with the metal frame as hard as he could. The door remained unaffected but the firefighter definitely injured himself and limped away trying to play it off and then his buddy started axing through the wall and said I hit something and I looked and said “that’s the 480 volt disconnect”. I successfully picked the door and handled to issue without further drama. Pro tip. Firefighters are great at handling fires but they’re not good at handling situations that deal with electronics or anything technical in fact they make the situation much much more dangerous
I once saw near instant karma on the highway/interstate in the US state of Georgia.
One of those super tiny and extremely expensive looking sports cars with a custom plate was making absolutely dangerous and ridiculous maneuvers to get through traffic. Literal lane splitting with their car, wild swings out into the shoulder to pass folks on the right side, driving literal inches/centimeters from the vehicle ahead of them.
Then they misjudged one of those highly, highly illegal and dangerous shoulder passes and ended up flying up a hillside, then spinning in literal circles, giant dust cloud and debris flying everywhere. From the looks of it, they somehow lucked out and didn’t hit any trees or signs.
Alright so at an old job it was pretty windy and I was pulling into the parking lot when a tree branch snapped off and hit a power line, leaving the line on the ground right in the middle of the lot.
I sort of angled my car (a decent ways away from the downed line) to block anyone from driving into/over it and asked to see if the building maintenance guy could put out some cones or barriers or something until the electric company could look at it.
The maintenance guy walks out, sees the downed line, and picks it up. Then proudly proclaims it must not be connected to the grid, otherwise he’d be dead.
he’s either out of fucks, or knows exactly what he’s doing
One of the most important verifications before surgery is to make sure the patient didn’t eat or drink. We can’t just superman-vision into their stomach, so we settle for asking them.
Ya guessed it: one guy lied about not eating breakfast that morning. He aspirated (threw up into his own lungs) shortly after the anesthesia meds kicked in.
The following several minutes were an absolute shit show. He was still alive when they wheeled him out of the OR, but he went straight to ICU, I’m assuming to get him on a vent. Never got an update after that, so no idea if he survived.
If you’re gonna get surgery, don’t lie to your team.
I imagine with our current medical technology, patients could be given an ultrasound or something to determine what is in their stomach and intestines before surgery, but I see why it would be less expensive and more straightforward to simply trust the patient and ask them. It’s their own life on the line after all. But maybe some patients don’t fully understand the dangers of having food in their digestive system when going under anesthesia.
But maybe some patients don’t fully understand the dangers of having food in their digestive system when going under anesthesia.
100% it’s that. I’ve heard patients say it’s just a power trip from the doctor, or because the nurses want your stomach empty so they don’t have to clean up if you vomit. Some people have a weird interpretation of what “NOTHING BY MOUTH” means (“No I didn’t eat - all I had was a handful of crackers / just one pancake / just coffee / etc”)
Pre-op instructions are really bad about conveying why we give that instruction, which is a complaint I’ve made at every hospital I’ve worked at. So then the patient gets to the OR, and we’re trying to give that lesson verbally, but they’ve already broken the instruction at that point. Easily the #1 cause of cancellations when that comes to light; but we do get the occasional moron who thinks we’re just fucking with them or something or decides its worth risking their life instead of dealing with the hassle of rescheduling… there’s some confirmation bias too: this might be the 4th surgery they’ve had where they ignored that instruction. Ate a full breakfast every time and nothing went wrong, so it becomes like a game to them. Then on #4 the odds catch up to them and suddenly they’re digesting their own lungs.
I wish they’d have to watch like a 1m video animation showing what happens. The long list of do’s and dont’s gets understandably overwhelming.
About 20 years ago I was working in the produce department of a supermarket, we were selling durians,we had one that had gone rotten and was sitting on the waste trollie, this dumb fuck I worked with looked at it and said " I’m gonna throw a knife at it", I tried to stop him, i warned him its not gonna go the way he thinks, he throws the knife, perfectly stabbing the durian and the second the knife pierced the outer skin, this long thick stream of white foam launched out of it and landed directly in his dumb laughing mouth, he stopped dead still, went green as fuck, legged it to the bathroom and spent the next hour throwing up, I ended up sending him, but not till after I asked, “So, you gonna listen to me from now on?” he mumbled a sheepish yes between throwing up.
He always listened to me from that point on.
Minor: on a rough Channel crossing, a friend stepped outside to throw up, but was facing into the wind. Face covered. He looked like the shittest panda ever when he took his specs off.
Medium: back in my university days I hung around with some 13th century reenactment types. One of them was walking up a grass bank and stabbing his broadsword into the ground to give himself something to hold on to as he went. Then he missed the ground and stabbed himself in the foot, right through his boot. He threw the boot away in anger, but one of my housemates rescued it and put it in pride of place on our mantlepiece. The best part was when the guy realised he didn’t have any other boots to where so had to come around, ask for the boot back so he could stitch it up and wear it again. AKA the medieval equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.
Major: I once saw a car ignore the lights and sirens of a fire engine at a crossroads and drive into the side of it at about 40 mph / 65 kph. The fire engine was on its way to a fire so the water tanks would have been full. It barely rocked from the impact but the entire engine compartment of the car displaced into the passenger compartment.
I watched a guy pee on an electric fence! That was a fun day.
I had a school trip and someone dared another kid to touch an electric fence… so this kid touched it, but nothing happened.
Then they dared him to touch it again, but like touch it for longer, so he put grabbed the metal wire thing for like 5 seconds… again, nothing happened
I think the electricity was turned off.
Went to pour himself a glass of filtered water, but wasn’t sure which side of the tap was for hot water. He didn’t want to accidentally pour a glass of boiling water - so he put his hand in it to see if it was scalding hot. It was.
Looked down the barrel of a loaded gun, then flagged the range master.
It took me a second because I temporarily forgot flagged was the term for pointing a gun at someone so initially in my head this guy looked down the barrel then waved at the range master to get their attention.
“Excuse me sir, I’m too stupid to be on this range. May I leave?”
I had never seen someone ejected so quickly and angrily, it was quite entertaining.
Pulled his pants down below his butt because it was ‘fashionable’ at the time but accidentally pulled his underwear down also. So he was just standing there, in the main hallway of our highschool talking with his friends, mooning everyone behind him.
Throw a half-eaten pizza onto the floor right next to a bin.
I passive-aggressively bitched about it loudly to my friends and he eventually picked it up and actually put it in the bin.
How you gonna walk right next to a fucking bin and then deliberately not use it.
I had a fight with a dude who stood next to his car and threw an empty vodka bottle in the bushes, across the street of a kindergarten and with the bushes being in a private house area. It was morning. I am still baffled that he somehow assumed he is in the right because he forgot his keys. Eventually his girlfriend came, equally aggressive towards me, and picked it up. I am to this day scared of running into them at night but man, wtf what excuse to litter in your own hood is this. Forgot your keys my ass.
The class assignment was for each student to hook up their laptop to network equipment and run some diagnostics. I could see my classmate was having issues so after a few minutes I walked over to investigate. I advised him the usb cable will never fit in the ethernet port and that he should try the other ‘hole’ instead.
I advised him the usb cable will never fit in the ethernet port
Shows how much you know, they usually fit just fine, albeit not connected to anything
Saw a low speed car crash while i ate. So what do they do after they hit the side of a minivan hard enough to leave a hefty dent? Then they Switch drivers in their highly identifiable, heavily decorated car, and drive off. All of this in a highly visible part of a parking lot, under camera, in front of a dozen people.
I saw someone not even slow down for a very obvious near 90 degree turn and just barrel into a tree after driving straight off the road and explode at 50-60MPH. May not have been stupidest mistake of their life, but it was their last.
This was back at my home dropzone. The DZ owner actually owned the entire airport and the land it sat on. To help offset the cost he rented out the parts of the property to local farmers to grow crops. That year there was corn, really really tall corn as it was a wet year that bordered the north side of the landing area.
Not a big deal as the landing area was very large. Well, one of the local Skygods (idiot that thinks they’re cool, but they’re just an idiot and has an attitude about it) thought that it would be fun to do a hook turn in to the corn…
For those of you that have been in corn fields, yes you are guessing correctly on what happened next.
You see, do such a low and aggressive turn under a parachute generates a LOT of speed and he generated that speed… So he goes out over the corn, hooks the parachute dives into the corn. Those of us watching were highly entertained seeing a parachute traveling just above the tassels of the corn at a high rate of speed for an impressive distance. The guy burst out of the corn field onto the landing area rolling head over heels and came to a stop in a quivering lump.
He had multiple lacerations, contusions, and his gear was in such bad shape he had to send it back to the respective manufacturers for repair.
He never jumped there again and I’m not sure he ever went back to skydiving. Probably for the best.
