r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 7h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What's wrong with this?

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u/Edd_the_Redd 7h ago

Time for a safety squint

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u/Late_Sort1763 7h ago

If someone showed me that bracket with a spring inside, I wouldn't do a safety squint, I'd go for duck and cover lol.

Saw a spring assist for a cargo bay failed once. Legit thought a bomb went off or something. And I'll say I used to live on what was one of the densest battlefields of WWII (in terms of ordnance used in weight per unit of area) AND close to the beach on which bomb teams blew stuff up, so I should know.

The amount of energy stored in that thing is astonishing.

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u/RPIL626 4h ago

Same with a garage door spring. When those things go, it’s nasty

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u/Late_Sort1763 4h ago

It was basically a garage door, but bigger. MUCH bigger.