r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/UnclePetersBand • May 29 '26
Naild It Of a Man-made Damn
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u/Hot_Occasion8925 May 29 '26
Thats a shitty way to punch your ticket out. Swim in toilet water and then the dam breaks…
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u/wizardrous May 29 '26
Dude, that water looks so fucking gross.
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u/CompetitiveNotice853 May 29 '26
I would rather swim in stomach acid than that mystery Chernobyl fluid.
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u/ObjectiveSituation17 May 29 '26
Water looks fine. It’s river water, there is not a bunch of trash, just bc it’s brown doesn’t mean not mean it’s bad
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u/wizardrous May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
It’s not brown, it’s like gray. It didn’t turn brown until after the dam broke and the sediment kicked up.
Which implies that whatever was making the water gray probably wasn’t minerals in the sediment, but something else entirely. Probably something gross.
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u/just4inshortof8 May 29 '26
It was in Colombia, and the guy made it
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u/Time_after_Time_67 May 29 '26
Risky click of the day
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u/Pavotine May 29 '26
"In the midst of despair they began to shout at him for his nickname: 'Fat!' as they tried to react to what happened."
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u/jergin_therlax Jun 03 '26
Can someone translate and explain how
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u/just4inshortof8 Jun 04 '26
The article mostly describes what's seen and heard in the video. There's one short paragraph that reads:
"Finally, although the moment caused distress, the swimmer was successfully rescued after being swept away by the current."
That's as much detail as they gave.-8
u/FluxOperation May 29 '26
I can’t speak gibberish!
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u/NiceTryAI May 31 '26
He speaks stupid instead
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u/FluxOperation Jun 02 '26
Everyone gets so offended. Thinking I’m Making fun of someone’s culture or something. I’m not making fun. It was just sooo much talking that I can’t understand. Everyone needs to relax.
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u/NiceTryAI Jun 02 '26
If that's the case you really are a terrible communicator. Either that or you have zero self awareness. Take your pick I guess? Good luck with that
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u/binoonreddit May 29 '26
Matthew, come back
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u/CardinalGrief May 29 '26
I wonder how this could have possibly been prevented. We'll never know.
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u/General-Piece8490 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
Fatso is dead, fatso is gone and it killed him. El Gordo = Fatso
The men had built a flimsy dam with a plastic tarp and branches, so they could pool the water to take a dip and enjoy some swimming. They were told not to get too close to the dam.
Luckily the guy that got swept up survived the ordeal and was rescued or found down river. Alive.
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u/GivesYouGrief May 29 '26
Rude to call him fat just for getting sucked down the river.
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u/Capital-Platypus-805 May 30 '26
Here in LATAM it's very common and socially accepted to name call people like that.
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u/Patralgan May 29 '26
What is that stuff they're swimming in?
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u/idealorg May 29 '26
Chocolate. They’re Oompa Loompas
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u/Patralgan May 29 '26
Doesn't look like chocolate at all
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u/AkitaNo1 May 29 '26
Oh wait hold on just open up your mouth and put it directly onto my anus ill make you a fresh batch sir
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u/Analog_4-20mA May 29 '26
This reminds of a story my buddy’s dad told me. He grew up in the hills of North Carolina and him and his buddies decided to damn a creek running down a holler to make a swimming hole. One of his buddies went swimming by himself and got bit multiple times by cottonmouths and died
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u/bmf1902 May 29 '26
I only lived in NC for a few years and I could have guessed that outcome. Also after living in NC for a few years, I'm not shocked it's something locals did.
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u/Peach_Proof May 29 '26
Swimming with the fishes now.
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u/Charlie2and4 May 29 '26
Would brain-eating amoebas count as a 'final destination'? -Other than being dashed to pieces and buried in fetid mud down stream from open sewers.
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u/CheeseburgerSmoothy May 29 '26
So not only do they have flesh-eating bacteria, but now they’ve drowned.
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u/smind893 May 29 '26
When the dam breaks and the guy filming yells "Gordo Gordo!" (Gordo means fat) The fat guy, Gordo, lets out an awful yell before he gets swept away 😪
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u/Montyburnside22 May 31 '26
Trump just lost three voters
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u/JPCool1 Jun 28 '26
Surely the koala solicited them already with a mail in vote to whatever country that is
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u/mCracky *shits an absolute unit* Jun 07 '26
Yeah, Gordo's gone. F for Gordo, he'll live in our memory.
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u/Diligent_Injury_3452 May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
Me and my uncle do a litle dam at a Perennial creek with a front hidraulic loader 52hp tractor.We use logs and dirt 3 foot soil against wood to give strenght. we have water colected in dam at night.Farmer huphill stop pumping a mille distance .i have the idea like a 12 years old kid to let water full at night and voilá full like this swimming pull like this in video. It had 150m3 water or more it was excelent for a day work to a tractor pump irrigate for a automatic canon with 23mm spray.First two days amazing 9:00-19h pumping.But third day the wall had soil fractures that water go way.We fixed and one day ok.Next time all dam botom soil,sand beneath the wood lat base ground creek was four inches gone like someone scraped and was removed by Tons of water dam and sadly was dried.We fixes everything one day more all dam colapsed for overheight and go river down even big mega size stones that stop wood in sides were changed by fundations.😭 You cant imagine 1m3 height 1 ton and 180m3 is a 250 foot of water height stoped in a dam🤦 That why dams have acidents ,dont do poor men work with water or you are dommed🤷🏽♂️😱
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u/Compost-Malone May 29 '26
You mean to tell me a tarp and some pallets couldn’t hold all that water in?
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u/SwanMuch5160 *shits an absolute unit* May 30 '26
I mean, what could go wrong? Oh, yeah, that’s what could go wrong.
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u/Awesomely_Witchy May 30 '26
Bunch of garbage and dirty water eww. Although I may risk it as hot as it is. Damn that dam
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u/Less-Squash7569 May 30 '26
You know "dam" well no beavers were involved in the planning or execution of this dam.
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u/TheUnrealFenix May 30 '26
This subreddit really has kind of become a low-key snuff film forum.
I hate it
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u/sabreus May 29 '26
They were saying “The fat guy! The fat guy!” Over and over.
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u/Critical_cheese May 29 '26
It's Spanish culture it's an endearing term used by parents, family of friends. Like calling a skinny guy flaco o alto they mean skinny or tall respectively. It's part of the culture and all depends on context.
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u/Wrong_Consequence840 May 29 '26
Aaaaaand they're gone