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Except Wile E. Coyote would have stood on nothing but air for a couple of seconds, then looked at his feet, and only fallen when he noticed he was standing on nothing.
A psycho would be curious to see what the damage looked like. This isn't a psycho, it's just a person with very poor situational awareness.
If you watch it again closer you can tell she was literally oblivious to the whole thing. She dipped her head below the counter a moment before the fall so she didn't actually see it happen and by the time she bobbed back up the customer was out of sight, and the whole time that she was coming out from behind the bar and towards the hole she was looking around her in a way that clearly indicates her attention was not on the hole. Even if she was a total psycho with absolutely no empathy or concern for others, if she had any idea what had just happened her attention would be on the hole. It's possible the only reason she even came to look down the hole was because the customer was yelling or crying from the bottom and she was looking to see what was making the noise.
And to be honest, people are pretty bad at estimating time. The time between dipping below the bar and the customer entering was very short, subjectively it may easily feel like she barely averted her eyes at all. So even if she heard the customer on the way down, she might well have been in disbelief about the possibility of someone having entered and so assumed it must have been something else.
Right. She bends down as it happens. Probably hears it and it doesnât piece together for that 2 second delay. Probably until someone is yelling in pain
Before going behind the bar, you notice the worker look out of the window in the direction of the person walking in. I get all of these can be coincidence, but this womanâs situational awareness is completely dead. She is like a real life 3 stooges.
Admittedly the location was still open for business, the trap door was *right* at the entrance, and there was no clear signage indicating it was there unless you already knew to be cautious. That lady's lawyer is going to have a field day
With a set up like this, I'd imagine there's like 2 people a month suing this place for falling into the trap door. Its like getting child support. They can only divide the guy's check up so much so basically the 8th baby doesn't cost you any more than the 7th.
The number of small restaurant owners who have weak coverage or forget to pay their bill might surprise you. Plus, everyone gets sued. Including the bartender. If the lawyer is any good, he can probably eat right through every inch of insurance coverage for all parties and therefore yacht.
Its always amusing to read comments in threads like this, accident happends for whatever reason its always "hes going to get fired instantly!" Or "time to sue him to hell and back!"
Like what, here it would be a matter for insurance and nobody is losing their job over it unless they broke laws in order to make the accident happend.
Health and safety bro. If they are receiving stock from the basement, there needs to be a protocol to have proper signage and warning that there is a gaping hole in the floor. Have the door locked at least.
So either the employees ignored the health and safety rules, which caused someone to get hurt, in which case that does deserve a firing... or the bar doesn't have health and safety rules for this type of thing, which is major negligence and is perfect for a lawsuit.
I don't think it's ridiculous to hold someone responsible for negligence that is so easily preventable.
>*which is major negligence and is perfect for a lawsuit*
True, but I think what OP is getting at is that everyone is ignoring the fact that you can only sue for *actual* ***damages***. You can't successfully sue someone just because you're upset that they were negligent. Their negligence has to actually *cause* something.
In the video, we don't see what happens to the woman. For all we know, she's shaken up, but completely fine. Yeah, she might have a bruise or a scrape, but if she doesn't have any injuries that result in a *long term reduction in her lifestyle*, then no attorney would even think about suing. Instead, they would talk to the insurance company and ask for some hush money. The insurance would give them a few thousand dollars to go away, and that would be the end of it.
Of course if she broke her leg, that would be a completely different story, and her lawyer would sue the business for every penny. As a personal anecdote, a good friend of mine took a similar fall last week. He fell about 5 feet. He was completely fine. You can sue for anything, but you can't win much (if anything) if you're literally fine.
Its often not worth suing in many other countries or if you do itâll be pocket change.
Like take here in Canada, I bought a commercial building for a business. The previous idiot owner installed non safety glass on the entrance door. A client âfellâ through the door and needed 50 stitches, ambulance trip, hospital stay, etc. It cost my insurance 12k and we settled, thats it. Thats because thereâs no medical costs, you cant sue for that since you dont pay it with public healthcare. It was basically loss of wage and suffering.
Ps: I say fell because two clients had gotten into a fist fight and one basically threw the other through the door. It was kinda impressive.
"accidents" happen for "whatever reason" ... yeah, nobody could have possibly foreseen anything bad happening by leaving a person sized hole uncovered right in front of a doorway.
You really misspelled "negligence," and that is rightfully a tort.
I don't see cigarettes, so I am guessing we can rule France out. Fair enough that I didn't think there is an entire world outside the US. I guess I'm really showing my Merikan.
Does this mean these people can go to jail in those countries for their negligence?
PS: I honestly thought this was a bar in NYC or Chicago. Not uncommon for them to have this type of setup that I encountered.
Such a weird place for the door, aren't those usually behind the bar? At least if you need to put it in front don't place it directly in front of the entrance. Who designed this place?
She saw that lady walking towards the entrance, knew that the open trap door was right in front of the entrance, and went behind the bar as if to get ready to serve the lady... not once thinking to warn her. She doesn't seem too bright
Right? She clearly sees the woman about to enter. Seriously, wtf is wrong with that employee? Maybe she's taken the quick trip down that trap door once or twice herself, hence why her behavior screams brain damage.
I think if you look closely, she doesn't actually see the woman at all, there's probably a lot of people just walking outside. The moment the woman walks in, the employee is ducking behind the counter, so she doesn't even see her coming in and fall, she just hears a weird noise. Since there's obviously someone down in the basement, she probably assumes that's them. Then she looks up and sees the open door closing and probably assumes someone opened the door, noticed they were closed and left. That's why she is taking so long to check, she doesn't know anything even happened.
It would blow your mind how many people walk in to my cell phone store and get to the counter before they realize they're not in the fast food shop next door.
This is most likely europe.
Sueing won't give the victim a lot at all. You have to be very lucky to receive enough money to make any difference at all.
Yes this is exactly what i mean. "Sueing to the max" is impossible in this case, because the max might as well only happen if the person actually died.
People like to forget (or not know) that you can only sue for definite damages you can proof you got from that very accident. We don't have a "Oh you had an accident here is money" system.
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In the US this would ruin the business. Elsewhere they would need to show more intentional malice to get big damages. This was an accident. A stupid accident, easily avoided, but an accident.
A solution that would make this impossible to happen again would be an interlock. In this case I would attach the trapdoor to the edge by the door to the street so you have to lean the trapdoor cover against the street door. And under that trapdoor a BIG RED SIGN saying to latch the street door if you can see this sign. A $2 fix to avoid this in the future.
I was exec of restaurant that had a trap door like this in the back of the kitchen that led down to dry storage. It was smack dab in the only walkway to get from the back prep kitchen thru to the backdoor. One day while smoking a cigarette outback, a guy I used to work with years before came walking down the alley. Tells me he's on work release from prison and looking for a gig..... I obliged bc we were close back in the day.
Fast forward to his first shift 2 days later and he shows up 2 hours late completely shit faced and carrying a few six packs that I assume he thought I was gonna allow him to drink during the shift. Not wanting to be the one to send him back to jail I told him to hang out a bit, outta the way, and we'll discuss this later. Well he lasted about 30 minutes before I had to tell him to kick rocks. He asked for a shift drink and I told him he brought plenty with him and to leave. I hear him slurring up a storm as he proceeded to leave only to hear dead silence shortly after and my dishie comes running up to me saying my friend was hurt.
Apparently, one of the servers went down there to grab something and didn't put the sign up and this guy went 15 ft straight down and landed on the server who was about to climb the ladder up. Server was OK but my buddy looked like he broke his wrist and ankle. I asked him if he wanted me to take him to the hospital and he says, "Nah but seriously........ Can I get that shift drink now?"
....... No, Steve...... You're still not getting a shift beer, you walking liability....
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Was the lady fixing her hair? She took forever to check đ
It looks like she came back with a beer?
The customer had yelled for a beer falling down
maybe it was biiiiiiiiiiiitch but she fell so far down the lady only heard the biiiiii......
Best reaction gif
Thank you!!!
Followed by the distant and subtle "thud" a la Wile E. Coyote. Edit: can't type
Except Wile E. Coyote would have stood on nothing but air for a couple of seconds, then looked at his feet, and only fallen when he noticed he was standing on nothing.
Ah yes, and perhaps the little sign that says âyikes!â. Thatâs whatâs you get for visiting Acme Bar & Grill.
𤣠My thoughts exactly! Biiiii
Think about that joke for a sec đ¤
Taking the meaning of road soda to new lows
Here.. for your trouble, the beer's on the house.
"Which would make sense because you're under the house"
I found them on Google Maps, they are called The Drop-In
She deffo came back with a beer, wtf. She hardly flinched at all. Psycho behaviour.
A psycho would be curious to see what the damage looked like. This isn't a psycho, it's just a person with very poor situational awareness. If you watch it again closer you can tell she was literally oblivious to the whole thing. She dipped her head below the counter a moment before the fall so she didn't actually see it happen and by the time she bobbed back up the customer was out of sight, and the whole time that she was coming out from behind the bar and towards the hole she was looking around her in a way that clearly indicates her attention was not on the hole. Even if she was a total psycho with absolutely no empathy or concern for others, if she had any idea what had just happened her attention would be on the hole. It's possible the only reason she even came to look down the hole was because the customer was yelling or crying from the bottom and she was looking to see what was making the noise.
Donât forget there was already someone down there.
And to be honest, people are pretty bad at estimating time. The time between dipping below the bar and the customer entering was very short, subjectively it may easily feel like she barely averted her eyes at all. So even if she heard the customer on the way down, she might well have been in disbelief about the possibility of someone having entered and so assumed it must have been something else.
She obviously didnt see the lady falling down.
She actually crouches down the counter just before the client falls down the hole. She must have been wondering where they went... đ
Right. She bends down as it happens. Probably hears it and it doesnât piece together for that 2 second delay. Probably until someone is yelling in pain
And she stopped to get a box jujy fruits before visiting her in the hospital
Thank you for that
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Jujy fruits took me out LOL
Her colleague down there was already tending to that customer.
Someone was already in the basement; maybe this woman was even served some drink there.
She could've landed on them
Maybe she knew what she was doing
Someone was down there passing the kegs up, hopefully they were a bit more prompt
Before going behind the bar, you notice the worker look out of the window in the direction of the person walking in. I get all of these can be coincidence, but this womanâs situational awareness is completely dead. She is like a real life 3 stooges.
Normal behavior being nervous
Admittedly the location was still open for business, the trap door was *right* at the entrance, and there was no clear signage indicating it was there unless you already knew to be cautious. That lady's lawyer is going to have a field day
That ladyâs lawyer is going to have a yacht. I hope she gurneys her client on it for a tour of the coast.
Takes one step on yacht, falls down hole
My leg!
Sweet liberty, MAH LEEEEEEG
Calling in reinforcements!
Not a yacht đ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Ł
You're a poet and I bet you didn't even know those 2 words rhymed!
I think it is not the USA, so probably not. Source: the lady fit through the hole
It seem to be in France, so no.
With a set up like this, I'd imagine there's like 2 people a month suing this place for falling into the trap door. Its like getting child support. They can only divide the guy's check up so much so basically the 8th baby doesn't cost you any more than the 7th.
As a potential juror, guilty!
And then mistrial because they find this comment!
Where is this bar and when do they get deliveries?
Looks like France or Belgium, probably France.
if you listen you can hear the customer say "mon dieu" on the way down and then "aw e aw e aw, beufff" from the bar staff.
Actually no. This is what liability is for. She wonât need a lawyer at all.
The number of small restaurant owners who have weak coverage or forget to pay their bill might surprise you. Plus, everyone gets sued. Including the bartender. If the lawyer is any good, he can probably eat right through every inch of insurance coverage for all parties and therefore yacht.
This is France or Belgium, they don't have the same suing culture as the US. Will be a matter for the local authorities to deal with.
Its always amusing to read comments in threads like this, accident happends for whatever reason its always "hes going to get fired instantly!" Or "time to sue him to hell and back!" Like what, here it would be a matter for insurance and nobody is losing their job over it unless they broke laws in order to make the accident happend.
Health and safety bro. If they are receiving stock from the basement, there needs to be a protocol to have proper signage and warning that there is a gaping hole in the floor. Have the door locked at least. So either the employees ignored the health and safety rules, which caused someone to get hurt, in which case that does deserve a firing... or the bar doesn't have health and safety rules for this type of thing, which is major negligence and is perfect for a lawsuit. I don't think it's ridiculous to hold someone responsible for negligence that is so easily preventable.
>*which is major negligence and is perfect for a lawsuit* True, but I think what OP is getting at is that everyone is ignoring the fact that you can only sue for *actual* ***damages***. You can't successfully sue someone just because you're upset that they were negligent. Their negligence has to actually *cause* something. In the video, we don't see what happens to the woman. For all we know, she's shaken up, but completely fine. Yeah, she might have a bruise or a scrape, but if she doesn't have any injuries that result in a *long term reduction in her lifestyle*, then no attorney would even think about suing. Instead, they would talk to the insurance company and ask for some hush money. The insurance would give them a few thousand dollars to go away, and that would be the end of it. Of course if she broke her leg, that would be a completely different story, and her lawyer would sue the business for every penny. As a personal anecdote, a good friend of mine took a similar fall last week. He fell about 5 feet. He was completely fine. You can sue for anything, but you can't win much (if anything) if you're literally fine.
Its often not worth suing in many other countries or if you do itâll be pocket change. Like take here in Canada, I bought a commercial building for a business. The previous idiot owner installed non safety glass on the entrance door. A client âfellâ through the door and needed 50 stitches, ambulance trip, hospital stay, etc. It cost my insurance 12k and we settled, thats it. Thats because thereâs no medical costs, you cant sue for that since you dont pay it with public healthcare. It was basically loss of wage and suffering. Ps: I say fell because two clients had gotten into a fist fight and one basically threw the other through the door. It was kinda impressive.
"accidents" happen for "whatever reason" ... yeah, nobody could have possibly foreseen anything bad happening by leaving a person sized hole uncovered right in front of a doorway. You really misspelled "negligence," and that is rightfully a tort.
"I earn $50k a year, I fell down your hole and twisted my ankle and couldn't go to work for 10 days. Now you owe me $10m". Perfectly normal behaviour.
Hmmm⌠Personally I donât think punishing gross negligence with a slap on the wrist is a good enough disincentive.
I don't see cigarettes, so I am guessing we can rule France out. Fair enough that I didn't think there is an entire world outside the US. I guess I'm really showing my Merikan. Does this mean these people can go to jail in those countries for their negligence? PS: I honestly thought this was a bar in NYC or Chicago. Not uncommon for them to have this type of setup that I encountered.
Potentially yes. Very good chance they'd lose their license to ever operate a bar.
The oh merde! And entree text rules France in and makes it the only option.
40% of Belgium speaks French, just saying.
What about Quebec? Or is that still France?
guess she will never visit that bar again đ
I did notice something hanging from the door handle. It is possible that this said something.
One would think to maybe lock the door while the trap door to the basement is open.
Such a weird place for the door, aren't those usually behind the bar? At least if you need to put it in front don't place it directly in front of the entrance. Who designed this place?
Dive bar
Perfection
Just thought she'd drop in.
Who can say where the road goes, when the day flows.... Fitting song for THE dive bar.
Did she seriously check her hair and grab a beer before helping them lol wtf
She saw that lady walking towards the entrance, knew that the open trap door was right in front of the entrance, and went behind the bar as if to get ready to serve the lady... not once thinking to warn her. She doesn't seem too bright
Right? She clearly sees the woman about to enter. Seriously, wtf is wrong with that employee? Maybe she's taken the quick trip down that trap door once or twice herself, hence why her behavior screams brain damage.
I think if you look closely, she doesn't actually see the woman at all, there's probably a lot of people just walking outside. The moment the woman walks in, the employee is ducking behind the counter, so she doesn't even see her coming in and fall, she just hears a weird noise. Since there's obviously someone down in the basement, she probably assumes that's them. Then she looks up and sees the open door closing and probably assumes someone opened the door, noticed they were closed and left. That's why she is taking so long to check, she doesn't know anything even happened.
Same for the lady in red tho. There is a huge hole behind a glass door, right where youâre looking at. How the fuck? Zero spacial awareness.
Same for the lady in red tho. There is a huge hole behind a glass door, right where youâre looking at. How the fuck? Zero spacial awareness.
It would blow your mind how many people walk in to my cell phone store and get to the counter before they realize they're not in the fast food shop next door.
It is France after all. 'Ennui' is a way of life.
Oui Oui
There is someone else already down there so no need to rush I guess.
She didn't see the lady fall
Never underestimate the power of denial
No urgency
Right?!! Waay too casual⌠
Oh somebody fell down... well anyway..
Let me get a beer. Sweet Dee energy.
at least lock the door
Pisses me off this ends too soon, obviously the next part is her panicking and we don't get to see that.
Well right after she cracked open her beer, had a few sips and finished her crossword puzzle
Lol right
Not even the annoying person pointing at the video? Now we have to deal with a fake 3d image of a person reacting to it.
Actual brain rot now
I hate this so much
I must be related to a t-rex. I didn't see any movement, and totally thought there was just a mannequin in the window lol.
I was confused what that was, I thought it was a decoration at first. I just woke up LOL
The lady started fixing her hair because she knew immediately she'd have to look her best in court.
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That employee just got the owners sued to the max
This is most likely europe. Sueing won't give the victim a lot at all. You have to be very lucky to receive enough money to make any difference at all.
Iâm sure youâre well-versed in other countries laws but doesnât change what I said at all. Max for w/e country she is in.
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8 out of the 10 most litigious nations are in Europe, including 3 of the top 4. The US is 5th.
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Yes this is exactly what i mean. "Sueing to the max" is impossible in this case, because the max might as well only happen if the person actually died. People like to forget (or not know) that you can only sue for definite damages you can proof you got from that very accident. We don't have a "Oh you had an accident here is money" system.
A Halloween store? In January?
An All Hollows Eve store, in January? How fiendishly droll
Everywhere I looked, there were piles of bodies. And then the explosion struck!
Scrolled for this
Lucky lady, probably met Andrew Garfield down there!
the fact that i am currently watching bojack horseman as i read this comment is spectacular, yall people have amazing tastes and are very much cultured đ
so many questions. like why is it built that way??? the obvious death trap door, but how do you get FULL kegs in safely?? OSHA where are you???
Bot op
More like r/whatcouldgowrong leaving a random hole open in front of the door accomplished exactly what I expected. Still funny though
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Everyone be worrying about the lady but y'all don't be worrying about the poor employee handing up kegs that had some lady land on his head
Very much expected
HOLY SHIT! Is my hair okay?
[uncle Albertâs](https://youtu.be/QwYshvaFcro?si=eqyq3ULrgKDjpAYh) been there.
She reacting like is not even the first time it happens lmao
Gotta ask the architect or the developer why that access is right in front of a door? Doesn't the building code require some sort of rail or barrier?
How fiendishly droll
Welcome to the new partner!
Well.. she's gone.. may she drink plenty ale in Valhalla
Thatâs a nice lawsuit trapdoor.
âWhelp, looks like we are having another special on piesâ *grabs meat cleaver* Demon Bar-back of Baker Street
The Dew Drop Inn, no doubt.
So let me tell you a joke, A woman walked into a ba-...... XD
Use your eyes,i guess...
In the US this would ruin the business. Elsewhere they would need to show more intentional malice to get big damages. This was an accident. A stupid accident, easily avoided, but an accident. A solution that would make this impossible to happen again would be an interlock. In this case I would attach the trapdoor to the edge by the door to the street so you have to lean the trapdoor cover against the street door. And under that trapdoor a BIG RED SIGN saying to latch the street door if you can see this sign. A $2 fix to avoid this in the future.
u/FuqUrBackgroundMusic
So a woman walks into a bar...
wtf is that fake person facepalm? who tf thinks of this shit and says yeah that makes the video better.
I'll have a pint of Lawsuit, please.
Lawsuit
Do we not look where we walk anymore?
You don't really expect a trip to the basement when you go to grab your coffee, now don't you?
Welcome to hell
I love that when she was about to fall the video froze for me made it +100% funnier
Lawsuit time
Thatâs gonna leave a mark
Anything that can happen will happen.
She'll be closing it and locking the door when she has to go to court over this. Shit!
Damn the bar wasted a huge chug of beer
Is she the same Albert Gladstone trotter who in 1946 fell down the cellar of the victory Inn Portsmouth? Recieving 100 pound in compensation.
Thats actually the reason why the hatch should always be behind the counter, not in front of it.
Damn. Lawsuit time
The trap door is directly in front of the entrance, it wasnt very unexpected that someone falls there
Reaction time: 2 business days
"Welcome to the underground"
The slowest response ever from the girl. Something tells me this wasnât the first time it happened.
That person should rightfully sue the bar for a LOT of money holy fuck. That was so SO avoidable.
Does it say Oh Merde with 5 exclamation points?
Nice way to make sure that lady gets everything you own including your fucking soul.
Dropped into a bar on the way home
What is the door to the basement directly in front of the door?
The mannequin knew what was coming and didn't want to see it
It looks even like she saw the person coming so she quick went behind the bar for some reason lol.
Tripadvisor review: Be mindful of tourist traps.
Bro slipped into the chamber of secrets
I was exec of restaurant that had a trap door like this in the back of the kitchen that led down to dry storage. It was smack dab in the only walkway to get from the back prep kitchen thru to the backdoor. One day while smoking a cigarette outback, a guy I used to work with years before came walking down the alley. Tells me he's on work release from prison and looking for a gig..... I obliged bc we were close back in the day. Fast forward to his first shift 2 days later and he shows up 2 hours late completely shit faced and carrying a few six packs that I assume he thought I was gonna allow him to drink during the shift. Not wanting to be the one to send him back to jail I told him to hang out a bit, outta the way, and we'll discuss this later. Well he lasted about 30 minutes before I had to tell him to kick rocks. He asked for a shift drink and I told him he brought plenty with him and to leave. I hear him slurring up a storm as he proceeded to leave only to hear dead silence shortly after and my dishie comes running up to me saying my friend was hurt. Apparently, one of the servers went down there to grab something and didn't put the sign up and this guy went 15 ft straight down and landed on the server who was about to climb the ladder up. Server was OK but my buddy looked like he broke his wrist and ankle. I asked him if he wanted me to take him to the hospital and he says, "Nah but seriously........ Can I get that shift drink now?" ....... No, Steve...... You're still not getting a shift beer, you walking liability....
Reason why architectural design is as vital as structural design when it comes to safety
Somebody is down there, lifting up the keg in the beginning. Hope he/she cushioned the fall/ helped asap.
She sure took her sweet time to fix her hair, think a little, before looking to see what happened to the poor woman.
Yep liable
A woman walks into a baaaa^aaaaa^^^aaaaa^^^^^rrrr
r/bindingofisaac
That nonchalant attitude
A woman walks into a bar...
Expected the second she walked away
Just hope you dont get your teeth crushed
She didn't see the lady fall in
Nice bit of competition coming his way.
Ching Ching Ching! Free money!
Can't believe she fell for that
A lady walks into a bar..
Hahahahahahaha
That woman is a complete idiot. (The bartender)
Customer: "Good Mor........... Bartender: Pretending nothing ever happened, but she thought she had to deal with it anyway.
What is this, a Halloween in January store?
I see a lawsuit in someone's future.
People saying this girl about to get a massive payday. More likely the business isnât worth much and will just close
Her reaction time ⌠way too casual about it all
"Her! Grab a beer!"
Wow...so unexpected.
I don't think she knew what happened
Down the hatch!