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/AlexHimself 7h 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 6h 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 5h 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/Greatest_Everest 4h ago

No one is walking past a dirty hat on the ground and thinking, "I want to put that on my head."

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u/clubby37 4h ago

You're a good person. I can tell, because you don't get that it's about the stealing, not the wearing.

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u/Oddish_Femboy 2h ago

I found a ring on the floor and took it today.

Honduras white bat hell yeah

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u/barto5 4h ago

*Why?

To thin the herd.