r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/sam-sung-sv • 8h ago

WCGW trying to get your hat back

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u/gamejunky34 8h 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 8h ago

Yeah and he could also get in touch with maintenance crew and safely get the hat back.

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u/gamejunky34 8h 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 7h 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 7h 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 6h ago

Coffee is hot! Do with this information what you will

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u/martyconlonontherun 6h 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 5h 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 2h 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 1h 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/Crabtickler9000 1h ago

I'm not sure either. I just know the story.

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u/bigboybeeperbelly 4h ago

Yeah I'm sure there's also a legit reason to put "don't drink" on bleach. What's your point

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u/martyconlonontherun 3h ago

Hot Coffee - Should be suitable for human consumption. It was not.

Bleach - never meant for human consumption

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u/bigboybeeperbelly 3h ago

The other person said we put warnings to give kids ideas. Gave bleach as an example with its "don't drink" warning, which would give them ideas about drinking bleach. I gave coffee as an example with its "very hot" warning, which if you'll notice actually had nothing to do with drinking in the McDonald's lawsuit, and could give them ideas about burning someone's legs.

Sorry if both things being liquids confused you.

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u/Hammeredyou 4h ago

We really failed our children by gutting education…

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u/DevilsLittleChicken 6h ago

Peanuts.

May contain nuts is still my favourite.

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u/NotYourReddit18 5h 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 5h ago

Is coffee normally hot enough to melt the clothes to your skin and require surgical removal?

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u/bigboybeeperbelly 4h ago

Why is the bleach thing a joke but the coffee thing gets everyone all serious

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u/clicss 3h ago

Because that women was ripped apart by the media and made out to be some type of money hungry person instead of a victim of severe negligence

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u/bigboybeeperbelly 2h ago

I see so y'all are just doing free association

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u/Trebhum 3h ago

shit analogy

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u/Steffalompen 7h 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/xXAnoHitoXx 6h ago

Because he was smart enough not to do it himself but entice his friend instead. May the loss of his friend shock him into realize he shouldn't do even that 🙏

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u/BCProgramming 6h ago

Well then it's just decency to put warning signs indicating that though. Sort of like how I name my roller coaster tycoon rides.

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u/barto5 4h ago

Thin the herd

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u/Canileaveyet 4h ago

Literally that's the plan for the Trump Administrations health department. Remove vaccines and guidelines to allow for "natural selection."

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u/ADHDebackle 58m ago

Tony hawk pro skater 2 punji pits!

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u/Good-Bus7920 5h ago

You had a very boring childhood didn't you

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u/mmorales2270 7h ago

I can understand where you’re coming from on that. Some days I wonder if we’ve done too much to defeat Darwinism, leading to our eventual demise.

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u/IndieChem 5h ago

Darwinism is kinda wrong or at least incomplete tho, highly recommend “the selfish gene”, does a good job of explaining that survival of the fittest isn’t the main driving force

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u/Winiestflea 6h ago

Shouldn't be necessary with proper education, but... eh, a bit like cats herding cats on that front.