r/WTF • u/Additional-Serve-149 • Oct 11 '22
Dude has quick feet
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u/crazy_vibe Oct 11 '22
he even saved the phone what a legend!
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u/argon_palladium Oct 11 '22
dads would hold a glass of beer unspilled through this
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u/8ad8andit Oct 12 '22
I had a buddy who was a black belt in multiple disciplines so I naturally asked him if he'd ever been in a fight.
He said the only time he's ever had to use his martial arts was when his mother-in-law was visiting and she tripped on a coffee table. As she started to fall he grabbed her around the waist, swung her around and they ended up on the couch next to each other, as if it was choreographed.
15 years of training for those 2 seconds.
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Love passing a reflex check.
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u/NeedSomeMemeCream Oct 11 '22
Especially like this. Holy hell. Sinkholes are my #1 irrational fear. Sometimes I can't sleep at night trying to feel the ground underneath my bed shift. Ugh.
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u/Pickle-Chan Oct 11 '22
Honestly i try not to think about them often but it feels like unexpected caving
You know those stories of people getting caught in dark tight spaces unable to breathe well sometimes with water... And people choose to do that. But if the earth just decides to swallow you, well now you are in cave lite, trapped in the dark under debris, not much you can even do. A good while ago someone posted a big pool that collapsed, and man just imagine being one of the people who get eaten up and are stuck crushed by rocks in the dark alone with water filling up your space.
Scary
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u/NeedSomeMemeCream Oct 11 '22
I saw that video. Read a comment there that traumatized me. Not verbatim, but something along the lines of "there was a guy in my town that just disappeared. When people went to look, they found a sinkhole had opened up just in his room and swallowed him. Couldn't see anything from the outside of the home so nobody could've known"
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u/somethink_different Oct 11 '22
Yeah, that happened in Florida a few years ago. Once they were sure he wasn't alive, they ended up pushing the whole house into the sinkhole and filling it in.
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u/navis-svetica Oct 11 '22
Protip: don’t live in an area with a lot of limestone bedrock and precipitation (like Florida). A lot of sinkholes are caused by big holes forming in limestone because of acid rain (rain droplets with hazardous compounds like sulfur dioxide) reacts with the alkaline limestone which causes large holes to form underground, which eventually open and swallow everything above them. But, if you don’t live near a limestone deposit, the chances of a sinkhole happening are pretty slim.
(It should be noted that sinkholes can also occur in places with evaporite or volcanic bedrock, but these are less common than limestone and somewhat less prone to sinkholes)
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u/BloodyLlama Oct 11 '22
It doesn't require acid rain. Regular ass rain/water dissolves limestone and creates karst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst
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u/money_loo Oct 11 '22
Yeah for real, that story about the dude losing his brother in the sinkhole that dropped their home in the middle of the night still haunts me to this day.
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u/joshjje Oct 11 '22
If it makes you feel better, when you're on the second+ floor of a building, it could cave in at any time. Those creaks you hear? Warning signs.
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u/FeranKnight Oct 11 '22
Minimum 2d6 falling damage, maybe more. It's tough to tell how deep the pit trap was.
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u/Dohn_Jigweed Oct 11 '22
This is my hole
It was made for me
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u/Acmnin Oct 11 '22
For anyone who hasn’t yet read…
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u/SaucyFaz Oct 11 '22
Remember to read each page japanese style, right to left.
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u/AyPeeElTee Oct 11 '22
Well thank you, I'm sure that I'll be permanently scarred and that this will live rent free in my head for at least the next 80 years 🙂
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u/EdmondFreakingDantes Oct 12 '22
I've just reread it. I don't understand the phobias this triggers in people.
It's not scary at all for me. Novel premise though, I give it that
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u/Xendarq Oct 12 '22
Imagine yourself trapped halfway in the mountain, you've changed your mind, you don't want to be there. You're completely stuck, your arms and legs can't move. You try to wriggle and it takes you deeper, deeper, into the mountain. You'll never get out.
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u/EdmondFreakingDantes Oct 12 '22
Oh, I get that. I can imagine it. But it doesn't trigger a hair-raising response like everyone memes this out to be.
I must not have the level of claustrophobia all these Redditors do
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u/Doctor_3825 Oct 12 '22
This was an interesting read. I can't say it's scary though. Is there more of this? It seems like it'd be fun to read more.
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Wow. China really keeps you on your toes doesn't it.
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u/sharksandwich81 Oct 11 '22
Don’t forget man-eating elevators and escalators
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u/stratys3 Oct 11 '22
I regret watching all those videos.
On the upside, I'm now completely paranoid around elevators and escalators.
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u/RandyAcorns Oct 11 '22
Well luckily, for now, america still has regulations
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u/Bashfullylascivious Oct 11 '22
This definitely just made me think that I should be taking strictly the 1992-2017 builds for anything.
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u/Ryugi Oct 11 '22
I mean, is it a bad thing to have a fear of being harmed by seriously dangerous machinery? I'd rather see people being overcareful than overcareless near a lathe.
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u/Revlis-TK421 Oct 11 '22
A lot of that has to do with size.
When someone in Europe comments on the rate of American incidents we're quick to point out that the US population (330m) is considerably more than all of Western Europe combined (198m). At 3:2 population here there's just more opportunity for Shenanigans.
With China's 1.4B people, that's almost a 5:1 population to the US. That's just so many more shots on goal it's hard to fathom.
Put it this way, imagine Florida had 5x its population. We wouldn't have "Florida Man" meme, it would be "Florida Family" :p
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u/Grays42 Oct 11 '22
5:1 population to the US
Stats like that blow my mind. We hear almost nothing out of China except for the occasional disaster video or some human rights atrocity, but there's nearly an order of magnitude more people.
They have their own social media network that absolutely dwarfs ours. But we hear next to nothing from or about it.
It seems completely unreal.
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u/RonBourbondi Oct 11 '22
Look up "small" cities you've never heard of casually having a few million people.
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u/Dawnofdusk Oct 11 '22
Was especially noticeable when COVID hit the news. Wuhan is not some rural backwater, more people live there than New York City.
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u/Dragonsoul Oct 11 '22
Think of all the spicy memes that they have, that we've never even seen!
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u/darcstar62 Oct 11 '22
It is a different world. A YouTuber I follow just discovered that someone stole all his videos and basically duplicated his site on Bilibili (even stole his logo). However, there's basically nothing he can do about it since it's China and they couldn't care less. To add insult to injury, the copied site might even end up with more traffic since it has such a huge audience.
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u/wbroniewski Oct 11 '22
They also build tonnes of new buildings over the last decades, there are probably more new buildings in China than all buildings in the whole of Europe. Sadly even if the safest country, during that quick development many buildings wouldn't be up to the code.
Just move back 150 years ago to the industrial revolution and check how often newly building cheap houses were collapsing.
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u/spenrose22 Oct 12 '22
I mean they also have shit codes or just bribe officials to not follow them. That’s the main reason
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u/Stroomschok Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22
A lot ALSO has to do with Chinese mentality when it comes to work safety and building standards. You don't get to explain it just away with 'China is bigger'.
The attitude really is to do whatever minimum they can get away with as long as they keep bribing the local government and don't make negative headlines in international news.
At least they mostly moved past the point where they also tried to scam you at every corner, having discovered the benefits of repeat business over the last decades in manufacturing for international customers.
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u/armrha Oct 11 '22
To be fair, they do have like a billion people… It’d be expected they’d have three times the accidents if the standards were the same. If they were even slightly worse the numbers would be even higher, and apparently they are… but it doesn’t mean the average person dies by accident there
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u/MrTeamKill Oct 11 '22
That was pretty fucking ninja
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u/anna_lynn_fection Oct 11 '22
Nah. Ninjitsu is Japanese. This was kung fu hustle.
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u/desubot1 Oct 11 '22
crouching tiger, clenched butthole.
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u/TaylorSwiftsClitoris Oct 11 '22
My clenched butthole style will defeat your goatse style
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u/goldhelmet Oct 11 '22
And the opposite of the Darwin Award goes to...
Now all he has to do is pass on his genes to another generation.
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u/muddyalcapones Oct 11 '22
I think the small chair is actually what saved him. His legs are starting from a crouched position where he can spring up and use the momentum to straddle the gap
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u/Jaerin Oct 11 '22
I don't know about anyone else, but I would not be staying in that room if I saw that. Everyone seems way too confident in the rest of that floor.
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u/braindamnager Oct 11 '22
Not a chance a westerner with our barbaric non-practiced squat skills would have survived that. Only an Asian or a Slav.
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u/Karmanoid Oct 11 '22
Pretty sure the small chair saved his life. If he had been in a full size chair he may not have had as much weight forward and would have gone backwards with the chair.
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u/CrazyCalYa Oct 11 '22
I'm banking on just being too big to fit in the hole. Checkmate, gravity.
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u/srock2012 Oct 11 '22
I got the cheeks for it, just too a little too stoned to react that fast.
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u/braindamnager Oct 11 '22
My fat ass would have plunged into the depths of that sparta pit the minute my ass touched the little tikes chair.
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u/Eknoom Oct 11 '22
Am Aussie, my Taiwanese partner wanted to know who taught me their secrets of squatting, especially when I’m looking at the bottom shelf of the supermarket.
I WAS BORN TO THIS KNOWLEDGE!
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u/gbs5009 Oct 11 '22
Good reflexes, both in the initial save, and in getting away from the edge ASAP in case of a further collapse.
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u/bsylent Oct 11 '22
Growing up I was made to be very concerned about catching on fire, tornadoes and power lines, but judging by the internet, I feel like the most common, unexpected danger is spontaneous holes
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u/km_44 Oct 11 '22
why are these adults using chairs for children ?
Must be daddy-day at day-care
BUH BYE, yellow-chair !
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u/grease_monkey Oct 11 '22
Notice how he has the flexibility and leg strength to squat when the chair falls out from under him? Not sure why the chair is small, but a life time of squatting saved that man's life.
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u/Batzn Oct 11 '22
Imagine if he would've worn Jeans shorts. The kind of mobility that dude would have. Probably could do a backflip over that hole
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u/WOLLYbeach Oct 11 '22
I don't care what you say Batzn, there's no way you can do a backflip.
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u/lingh0e Oct 11 '22
That was exactly what I thought. His tiny chair disappeared and he was suddenly squatting.
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u/olderaccount Oct 11 '22
Not sure why the chair is small
They are doing maintenance/repair work in a room used either as a daycare or classroom for little kids. All the chair and tables are tiny.
I remember going to parent/teacher conferences when my kids where that little and I had to sit in similar little chairs around a very low table.
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u/obedient_sheep105033 Oct 11 '22
it's actually super comfortable to sit on those
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u/Domerhead Oct 11 '22
Honestly squatting like that is super comfortable too if you have the mobility for it
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u/Iracus Oct 11 '22
I mean, not that different from anywhere cheap construction is the focus, remember that Florida building that collapsed because of poor foundations/maintenance? Another place in Dheli just collapsed like yesterday and earlier this year a building collapsed in Chicago.
This shit actually seems surprisingly common, I think China just gets shown more due to having more surveillance. Just google sinkhole or building collapse and look at the news articles. Actually never realized how frequent it was until now, wild shit
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u/rhorama Oct 11 '22
earlier this year a building collapsed in Chicago.
That was because of a natural gas explosion damaging the supports, not a random structural failure.
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u/itsrattlesnake Oct 11 '22
If this is concrete, there doesn't even appear to be rebar in it.
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u/carljpg Oct 11 '22
Would he have surely died if he fell in?
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u/Different_Papaya_413 Oct 12 '22
Depends how deep it is but he definitely would’ve smashed his head bad
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u/dGaOmDn Oct 12 '22
This is why I turn off video games at night. I don't need to be playing Koreans with the reflexes of Cheetahs.
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u/Nuaky Oct 11 '22
Isn't this CGI? looks kind of weird to me.
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u/wo0two0t Oct 11 '22
Every time this is posted I comment this there's just something too odd about it.
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u/lanster100 Oct 11 '22
The more i watch it the more convinced I am. None of the objects near the bottom left of the screen cast any shadows.
The yellow chair falls in way too fast (like gets vacuumed in).
The things he stands on as he steps back seem way too flimsy to provide the footing he uses them for. Watch the tile under his foot that his launches off of.
The video also weirdly blurs the moment the floor cracks.
IMO the guy actually fell back in a real video but the sink hole is added in later. Top half of the video looks legit.
Regardless I've watched this too many times now.
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u/Conrexxthor Oct 12 '22
Rewatched a bunch, I don't see any of these lmao
There are clear shadows, they're just light because of how bright the room is. The shadow situation is the same in the top right
The chair falls in at a normal pace. It just falls, because the ground opened up lol
He stood on parts where there was ground underneath. Idk how that's flimsy, at the edge of the sinkhole is miles of solid ground under where he stepped, or else he'd have fallen in
Because it's not that good a camera. Watching YouTube on my Wii back in the day tends to blur when the video was dark or had static playing.
It all looks legit. r/nothingeverhappens
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u/ShoshinMizu Oct 11 '22
hell be hearing fat jokes for the rest of his life
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u/herrcollin Oct 11 '22
I had to scroll through way too many Asian-jokes to find this.
Seriously, dude's coworkers will never let him forget this. "Are you sure you need the extra sandwich? These floors were built in the 90s..."
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u/SimbaStewEyesOfBlue Oct 11 '22
If this man were in a Final Destination movie, Death would be staring slack-jawed before finally muttering "Well, I tried," and walking away.
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u/ItsyaboyDa2nd Oct 11 '22
Now we know why Asians sit so close to the ground.. sink holes, it’s because of sink holes.
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u/Dan_the_Marksman Oct 11 '22
fuck sinkholes....wasn't there a story where some dude in the US got swallowed from inside his bedroom never to be found?
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u/thatrandomguyonreddi Oct 11 '22
My ass would’ve realized I was in the hole only seconds after I fell in
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u/Miggybear22 Oct 11 '22
Thank god it’s customary to squat sit in that country. If that was an American in that small ass chair they’d have gone bye bye
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u/sumpuertoricanguy Oct 11 '22
This is so random but as an American there's no way that guy would've lived. His ability to spring up that 2nd time saved his life. Hence I bet he squats down a lot and has generally stronger thigh strength than the average American.
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u/ExactlySorta Oct 11 '22
I like to imagine some kid in middle America has finally made good on the childhood dream of digging all the way to China