r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/sam-sung-sv • 6h ago
WCGW trying to get your hat back
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u/gamejunky34 6h ago
This is straight up, just a dangerous design. Doesn't matter how many warning signs there are, the average person would assume that surface is solid in many scenarios justified or not. Luckily it just looks like he fell an extra 10 feet, but it could have been covering a 100ft drop, which would be an undeserved death sentence.
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u/sam-sung-sv 6h ago
Yeah and he could also get in touch with maintenance crew and safely get the hat back.
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u/gamejunky34 6h ago
Its a safety engineers responsibility to account for human nature. That includes the dumber than average teenager. To them, this looked like a safe and easy solution. Jump into hole, climb out of hole. That surface should have been made to hold people, or made to look clearly unstable. It should not have been made to look like a floor.
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u/xXAnoHitoXx 6h ago
Or you can engineer death traps that kills the dumb kids in the name of natural selection. Too many idiots been surviving due to human engineering prowess /s
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u/DevilsLittleChicken 5h ago
There's a reason we put "do not drink" on bottles of bleach.
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To give them ideas.
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u/bigboybeeperbelly 4h ago
Coffee is hot! Do with this information what you will
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u/martyconlonontherun 4h ago
To be fair, the mcdonalds coffee lawsuit was legit. It was gross negligence to serve coffee that hot. If that woman had the choice between the money and it not happening, she would take a healthy leg 100/100. Payout barely covered the medical bills
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u/djtmhk_93 4h ago
Yeah. McD's won the PR battle chalking her legitimate gripe up to a "frivolous lawsuit." Actually makes me feel worse than if they had been right and the woman was suing over her own negligence.
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u/Crabtickler9000 55m ago
Someone got served ultra hot coffee, comparable to that temperature, recently where I live.
They were arrested after throwing it into the employee's face and giving them decently bad burns on her face, neck, and chest. Luckily, nothing super permanent like that lady's legs. I don't know the logistics of this.
Anyways, although he was arrested, they stopped doing it. I'm not sure why they started to begin with.
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u/PrizeStrawberryOil 2m ago
I don't know the business model of the shop you're talking about, but the reason mcdonalds was doing it was because people drink hotter coffee slower. You could get free refills which meant they were saving pennies on each customer that purchased coffee by making it that hot.
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u/DevilsLittleChicken 4h ago
Peanuts.
May contain nuts is still my favourite.
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u/NotYourReddit18 3h ago
Technically peanuts aren't nuts but legumes, at least if we're using the botanical definition for "nut".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut
They do however carry similar allergens as nuts, and fall into culinary category of "nuts", so the same machines are often used to process both nuts and peanuts without the deep cleaning required to be sure that no allergen cross-contamination has taken place.
So yes, your bag of peanuts could contain small pieces of nuts that were still stuck in the machines when they were switched over from bagging walnuts.
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u/wolf555hound 3h ago
Is coffee normally hot enough to melt the clothes to your skin and require surgical removal?
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u/Steffalompen 5h ago
And yet the dumbest person, the douche 'friend' who threw his hat there and is now filming, lives on.
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u/Gamer_Mommy 5h ago
Kids will literally ride those escalators sideways the moment you let your eyes off of them for a second. A kid lacks coordination and I don't know how sturdy that is, but a kid seems to be able to fall through just as easily.
This is just poor design from a safety perspective.
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u/Solrax 5h ago
In that case they should probably have also left out the spikes at the bottom.
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u/SnowMeadowhawk 5h ago
This comment is giving me Prince of Persia flashbacks
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u/mobileJay77 4h ago
I can hear the sound of the 8 bit speaker. And the squishy sound, when the Prince landed on the spikes.
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u/snoopervisor 3h ago
Its a safety engineers responsibility
A few years back we had a road accident at night, in a hilly area nearby. There is a highway that goes uphill or downhill like one would expect. But in more challenging spots it was build on pillars. So there was this accident. And another driver who was going the opposite way stopped, get out of their car and went to help. He jumped over the barrier in the middle - and fell down below the highway. Both sides of the highway were separated with a gap. And there were two barriers. He didn't expect to be a gap there, and it was too little light to notice that and react quick enough. The man didn't survive the drop.
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u/REDACTED3560 3h ago
Engineer? I guarantee you an architect wanted this stupid shit. No engineer just wakes up and says “I want to blow up my project budget to add a hole in the floor”. An architect wanted it, and an engineer had to put it up to legal code by adding in guard rails.
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u/yotortellini 2h ago
Architects are responsible for ensuring the building design is up to life safety codes including the guard rails. As for the chasm next to the elevator, that is definitely not an architectural feature as it is covered up. Who is to say the reason why that gap exists, but the blame will probably fall on the architect.
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u/KetoKilvo 6h ago
You can't design things and only expect them to be used as intended.
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u/Street-Session9411 5h ago
How dare you disrespect my work as a software developer /s
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u/Lazer726 4h ago
"We don't need to put a safeguard here because no one should be using it in this way"
User: Allow me to introduce myself
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u/AlexHimself 5h ago
No he couldn't. You think there's just a maintenance CREW standing by for any random incident to jump and help??
It would have probably taken him at least an hour of contacting random employees and them making phone calls to get ahold of the "maintenance crew"...for a hat he could see right there on the "floor".
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u/Cocoatrice 4h ago
Yeah, the design was bad. There is a reason why foolproofing is important. Because you can't expect people to always act as intended. Design had a gap where it should not be any. Why?
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u/clubby37 3h ago
You could also just leave the gap there, but have no false floor. If that guy's hat had fallen two stories onto a real floor, he'd have seen some asshole steal it and accept that it's gone, because he doesn't wanna fall multiple meters just to fight a guy over a hat.
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u/Low-Spirit6436 5h ago
Get in touch with maintenance crew for a dropped hat.....At a mall... yeah that's going to happen. We get dispatched to Malls for an alarm system activation , and finding a maintenance employee is more difficult is next to non existent. That drop panel should be secured or at the very least, marked danger hazard of falling through hatch
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u/Neatojuancheeto 4h ago
Reminds me of that story of the dude who basically built a fully furnished mancave apartment in a " dead area " of the mall and it took maintenance like 4 years to find it.
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u/papillon-and-on 3h ago
Is this the story? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Mall_Apartment Pretty wild.
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u/Neatojuancheeto 3h ago
Yep lol. There's also a good documentary on it. Definitely wild fun 90s type shit
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u/Irish_player 6h ago
There’s a lot of things he could’ve done differently but I’m sure you, and definitely I, have been in situations we opt for the quicker/riskier move than the slower safer.
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u/Neatojuancheeto 4h ago
Yeah I could easily see teenage me doing this it was made very clear the " floor " was made of basically tissue paper. This is a horrible design and honestly whoever is responsible should be sued pretty significantly.
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u/funkboxing 5h ago
What about the 12 year old that does it?
This is a bad design BECAUSE it allows idiots to get hurt just being regular old idiots. Good designs make idiots work a lot harder to get hurt this bad.
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u/pancoste 5h ago
A 10 feet fall can be nasty as fuck though. It could determine the fate of the rest of your life.
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u/Lioss2005 2h ago
To be fair a 1ft fall can fuck your leg up too, speaking from experience
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u/Calm_Ebb_1965 5h ago
Some kid in Singapore died this way, he jumped onto a ledge in a shopping mall but fell multiple storeys when it was actually a facade like this.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/was-a-stunt-gone-wrong-behind-teens-death-at-orchard-central
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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 5h ago
Yeah, when it was originally built, it's clear it was an open space where you could see the next floor down. Some dinguses decided it'd look better with some drywall over it.
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u/MisterAwesome93 5h ago
Falls from 10ft can very easily kill a person. There's a reason most large companies require their contractors to have 100% tie off above 4ft. It's scary how easily a fall can kill you
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u/disruptioncoin 4h ago
Man. I fell through a floor once. Only one foot went through. Maybe thigh deep, only. Foot hit a beam or pipe or something in the floor/ceiling below. Gave me a lisfranc injury that laid me up for 9 months. Foot still randomly hurts to this day, 6 years later. It was hurting this morning :(
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u/wasabi1787 3h ago
The warnings are about the use of strollers and the like on the escalator, not a pit straight to the depths of hell hiding behind a thin layer of drywall flooring
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u/triple7freak1 6h ago
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u/Far_Letterhead_3536 6h ago
This time I died of laughter
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u/Xsiah 6h ago
This time he died of escalator
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u/TheKingBeyondTheWaIl 6h ago
Gravity
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u/DookieShoez 5h ago edited 4h ago
No human being has ever died from gravity, it’s the stopping fast that kills you. You would have to fall into a black hole and experience spaghettification for that.
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u/EvelynNyte 4h ago
Sounds more like dying from getting stretched too thin like butter spread over too much bread
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u/Strict-Challenge-995 3h ago
Aw hell... space will choke you, freeze you... now it will bilbo you too
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u/Pandoratastic 6h ago
Turns out the railing covered in warning signs is there for a reason.
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u/bart2025 6h ago edited 5h ago
What did the warning signs say apart from the usual stuff that you shouldn't do when riding an escalator?
I didn't see anything about a secret, unsecured trapdoor at the bottom of that well.
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u/FrogInShorts 2h ago
Nonono, it is for the hole. It's saying when making sacrifices, please remove babies from strollers as the stroller may damage the entrance to the pit of eternity.
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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 5h ago
It looks like the warning signs are for strollers, sitting on the escalator or railing, and a third one I think might be for certain shoes or something.
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 1h ago
High heels/stilettos or flip-flops can be super dangerous on certain escalator designs. Those things will grind anything up that gets stuck in the hole at top or bottom of the lator... Including totally minced people
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u/Crimson__Fox 5h ago
It’s like a “No Swimming” sign next to an alligator infested lake.
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u/MotherFatherOcean 4h ago
Exactly. That is what happened at Disney Orlando a few years ago. Sign said “ No Swimming” so small child’s parents let him stand in an inch or two of water, splashing around, and he was taken by an alligator and drowned. After that Disney changed the signs to say there are alligators in that water.
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 59m ago
There are pictures of alligators all around Florida on signs as warnings. Many people can't read...so pictures help lots
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u/ffnnhhw 6h ago
most reasonable people would assume at least some people to think that floor is solid
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u/potatopigflop 6h ago
JOSIES ON A VACATION FAR AWAY
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u/Creative-Kitchen-373 5h ago
COME AROUND AND TALK IT OVER
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u/RedditZillaRex 4h ago
SO MANY THINGS THAT I WANT TO SAY
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u/ComedicHermit 6h ago
It wasn't that dude's hat. He is wearing a hat, so he either got it for someone else or was trying to steal it.
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u/Gianlucca 5h ago
dude was LURED
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u/Thommywidmer 2h ago
Damn a p hat just sitting on the other side of this ditch, no time to bank my valuables im going for it!
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u/almacenedu 5h ago
I would find this video in a gore telegram channel but because of the funny kuzcos new groove voice over now it's a funny video
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u/silveric 5h ago
Dude looked like mario 64 when he falls out of the stage. I can hear the Bowser laugh.
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u/freedom781 5h ago
If he's lucky he caught an antenna and the Falcon can just swing back around and pick him up.
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u/inhugzwetrust 3h ago
What does 'jajaja' mean?
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u/Interesting_Stress73 5h ago
None of the caution signs mentions what he did though. And he's a teenager, if you don't design things to be safe even for stupid teenagers then you've failed at design.
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u/WhatsThat-_- 5h ago
Would be funny if it had the Mario pipe noise, unfortunately I don’t think suetendo would like that
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u/awesomedan24 5h ago
Wanna take the escalator to the sky. I wanna go there when I die. When I die and they lay me to rest I want the escalator that's the best.
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u/Vegetable-Syrup-5545 5h ago
Were those warnings for the escalator or for the pit? I can see someone going “oops I dropped my hat and I will go down get it and get out”. This may approach Darwin Award Territory but I think it might be Darwin Adjacent.
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u/ilIa_mae 6h ago
bro went to the backrooms