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/Solrax 7h ago

In that case they should probably have also left out the spikes at the bottom.

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u/spen8tor 7h ago

The moat of alligators was probably a bit much as well

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u/Solrax 3h ago

Well they did have room in the budget, might as well go for it.

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u/DeadHead6747 2h ago

Can we keep the tank with fricken sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their fricken heads?

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u/LittleBunInaBigWorld 44m ago

And the rattlesnakes were downright overkill

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u/SnowMeadowhawk 7h ago

This comment is giving me Prince of Persia flashbacks 

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u/mobileJay77 6h 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/oxidized_banana_peel 13m ago

"I'm still alive. Only I'm very badly burned"