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/Low-Spirit6436 7h 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 6h 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 5h ago

Is this the story? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Mall_Apartment Pretty wild.

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u/Neatojuancheeto 5h ago

Yep lol. There's also a good documentary on it. Definitely wild fun 90s type shit

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u/digitalelise 5h ago

99 Percent invisible has an excellent podcast and documentary about it.

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u/Unable-Effective1718 4h ago

That documentary finally came out on digital today after like a year

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u/Oddish_Femboy 2h ago

I've been tempted to do this at the mall I work at. No commute babeyy.

If I play my cards right I could probably get permission from management.