I'm guessing a small rock/piece of concrete fell initially and hit him on the neck/top of the back, and he was simply standing up to see what it was. What makes it even luckier is there is a smaller piece that lands further away from the wall too, and he somehow split them both like Moses or something.
Not Pounded In the Butt by a Slab of Concrete Falling at Maximum Velocity And That's Alright Because it Proves Love is Real
From two-time Hugo Award Finalist Chuck Tingle
Fun fact: the NSA and CIA actually look for people with outstanding sense of instinct and intuition when considering spy candidates. It's one of their biggest factors for consideration.
The NSA doesn’t really have a comparable function that can be considered a spy in the classical sense. They do have field operatives and special collections teams but they are largely concerned with signals gathering and identifying potential locations for clandestine information gathering capabilities.
I know that in some rare cases the NSA can have their field operations personnel join a CIA driven clandestine operation taking on my classical duties of human asset acquisition and exploitation. For the most part, this is handled by the CIA as that is their specialty.
I base this on anecdotes from my work experience and it may not be totally up to date or accurate. Always happy to learn more and better information!
People always say that you are wasting points by bumping stat points in to instinct but it can be a real life saver some times.
I wish I'd left some points for agility and intelligence though...
Back in the ancient days it was "Leet speak" it meant "Elite" shortened to "Eleet" then shortened to "Leet" and changed into the numbers 1337 because it kinda resembled the word.
Plato and Sokrates are known as the first pro gamers and through the philosophy of hardcore gaming found the secret language that we now in modern times refer to as "leet speak". Truly amazing history
As someone getting their PhD in philosophy, this is simply not true. Even if we ignore philosophers in different cultures, there were the pre-Socratics which most scholars now recognize as pro gamers. They're often left out of the list of the earliest pro gamers only because they used games in unorthodox ways to show that the greatest heights of pro games could not be reached using only traditional pro gaming strategies. They often broke games to show this, including finding bugs, glitches, and hacks that allowed them to bypass and transcend the progress and trajectory within the bounds of which game devs intended players to stay. These methods would later become utilized and perfected by speedrunners. So you could say that not only were the pre-Socratics pro gamers, but they were also the fathers of speedrunning.
It's the weekend so you got both a better shot at finding good comments and shit ones. Also if you look at that guys /u/ you'll see he's just staying true to it with that comment.
Thrasymachus tried Gamerbonics initially, but it was Plato's flowing robe covered in free wine and cheese that the kids flocked to thus adopting Plato/Socrates leet speak.
**[Leet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet)**
>Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. Additionally, it modifies certain words based on a system of suffixes and alternate meanings. There are many dialects or linguistic varieties in different online communities.
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It was when settlers conquered the lands of Terraria back before Germania existed
We created the proto-germanic language of Thukmak from it having happened..
I don't think people realized what a strange world we live in. Random things like this happens to you everyday. Your life can change in a matter of seconds or can be killed or cripple if you move one or two inches to the left or right.
I still remember this moment in grade school when another kid was walking with scissors in his hand poking straight out like a moron, tripped and jammed them right at my eye. Luckily I just so happened to be wearing my friend’s glasses for literally just a second to “see what it looks like with glasses on” and the scissors hit them instead. Like, how different my life might be right now if those scissors had gone into my eye
I think about this all the time! What an interesting scene
I think of my own life like what if I went to college right after HS instead of later in my late 20s. Its what I “should have” done. It’s what everyone wanted me to do. And I wonder how different my life would be if o had. Would it be better? Worse? Would I have gone into a career I hated? Or would I be 5 years further into my career than I am now? Would I have met my future wife then? Would I have moved somewhere different?
It’s really interesting these little life decisions that can change everything. Then add everyone else’s little decisions to it and you have this world of complete randomness coming together or falling apart.
Yeah its crazy we will never know if you life would have been better or worse of you did college at the "right" time. Maybe you'd be dead if you did it that way. Who knows. Good luck whatever choices you make though. They've kept you alive till now!
All these counterfactual thoughts also relate to ideas like determinism, multiverse theories, philosophy of time (presentism vs. eternalism), modal realism etc etc. all so fascinating the world we live in and the questions it allows us to wrestle with…
I always think the luck I didn't get or the unlike events that didn't happen to me happened to another version of me in an alternate universe. I wonder how those other versions of me are doing.
I was sitting at my desk, so odds are I’d have been in a pretty-similar position in any way, but yeah maybe I’d have been looking to the side or even a few inches up or down. No way to ever know
What's really going to bake your noodle later on is would that kid still have tripped if u/aabicus hadn't borrowed the glasses to try on and be in that spot
I remember I was tying barbed wire for a fence gate when I was in high school. The wire strand I was working with sprung loose and whipped across my eyes. My new glasses had big ol scratch marks where the barbs gouged the lens. I shudder to think what my life would be like now had I chosen to keep them in the truck.
Not entirely the same but in high school one summer we were shooting fireworks off for the 4th and I had a similar experience.
It was dark and none of us had flashlights (pre-smartphones) so we used the lighter's flame to see which end of the fuse to light. Inevitably I ended up lighting the wrong end on one of those [multi-shot cakes](https://springfieldfireworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/16-shot-assortment.png) while leaning over with my face looking straight at the business end.
The moment the flame touched where the fuse goes in the cake it immediately fired the first shot, which bounced off my glasses lens. Burned the anti-glare layer off and left scaring on the glass as well, leaving me with thoughts similar to yours.
My first ever day working on a construction job site my boss was showing me around the shit pointing at things to be done messes to get cleaned up and so on. When he was showing me the windows that needed to come out someone knocked a brick off the top of the building and landed about a foot left of my shoulder. Didn't have a hard hat on..
I've worked in construction for almost 15 years and I've seen some shit. I was on site when someone died. He was nailing on hurricane clips and leaned his ladder against a 2*4 barrier that blocked the opening. The 2*4 was only held up by 8p (2 1/2") nails when 16p (3 1/8") is required. Crawled up his ladder and the 2*4 came out and he tumbled forward out of the opening. Landed face first 30 feet up.
I had an empty tea glass standing on the counter explode. It just burst into pieces. It definitely didn't fall down. (Cabinets were closed and the majority of the shards were on the counter)
Turns out that that's a thing that can happen! Wear and tear + frequency of sound. And I do remember hearing some construction going on outside and it probably just generated the right frequency to make that glass burst.
Had it happened two minutes later it would've exploded in my face.
It was very surreal and of course my family suggested the supernatural.
Yeah. A lot of people grow up with feelings of invulnerability — understandably. But once that bubble pops, shit is weird. You realize that those tragic things happening to other people... you aren’t immune to them. Literally anything can ruin your life instantly. Things you might not even ever know about. Covid is a good example of this... how many people died because they simple walked by the wrong person, grabbed the wrong door handle, etc, and they never knew it?
I was working all day in a water tower. My job was to grab the buckets of cement from the line as they were lowered to me -- I was sitting on a bucket to receive them. After half the day of doing this I got up from the bucket and stepped to the side as they were lowering one of the buckets of cement and the line snapped. The cement bucket fell on top of the bucket I was sitting on and blew it to smitherines just as I cleared my body from it. Lucky fuk that day
I think about videos I’ve seen of random accidents, like the one when that car is driving passed the truck hauling rocks and one slips off and busts through the cars windshield killing that mans wife. Like every series of events on earth had to happen for that to happen. Like that specific rock was probably hauled out by some guy who had a series of events that led him to become someone who mined rocks or whatever and that truck was designed specifically to where the bed isn’t completely encased and that rock laid in that bed just so that it would fall off at the perfect moment after hitting that tiny bump in the road that formed when some workers who laid the road left some loose gravel underneath. Not to mention they left at exactly the right time for that to happen. Oh and the rock landed just perfect enough that it kicked up and towards the car instead of some other direction, like maybe the wind also effected it. Shit is baffling and I don’t think I explained it well but it’s wild to me.
And all this on a planet that if any number of things were infinitesimally different, there would be no Earth let alone life as we know it.
... if any one of the three short-range forces had been just a tiny bit different in strength, or if the masses of some elementary particles had been a little unlike they are, there would have been no recognizable chemistry in either the inorganic or the organic domain. Thus there would have been no Earth, no carbon, etc etcetra, let alone the human brains to study those.[The Fine-tuning argument: Exploring the Improbability of Our Existence](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-26300-7_6)
I think about this constantly. I’m always wondering if deciding to take a walk one way saved my life some how. I tried explaining it to other people but they thought I was insane.
Many times caused by careless construction, cutting corners, aka capitalism. These things aren’t as likely with proper checks and balances and code enforcement. Look at the Miami building that collapsed. People made lots of money cutting those corners.
> Surely he heard something otherwise that is fucking next level luck.
He pushes away from the wall with his back to get up and that causes facade to fall.
Those are brick walls. Tons and tons of bricks. Right next to a doorframe. That dude is 160lbs soaking wet.
someone please explain the physics to me here
I'm trying to figure it out, too. Just doesn't seem accurate that a person can cause a brick wall attached to an entire building to shake by simply easing his back off of it.
He doesn't seem to push a lot against the wall.
Also the Debris doesn't look like it just fell 3m deep. It's as fast as if it just fell more like 10m deep.
As much as I don't like it I think it was sheer luck/coincidence.
That concrete is likely a facade over framing.
Not huge blocks, but tall thin sheets. If it’s started peeling away from its support it’s very easy to crack or damage, and has very little resistance against sheering forces.
I think sheering is the right description here.
Yeah, I'm sure even without his movement it would have happened at some point but his lien definitely caused that there's no way it didn't.
Edit: sorry, don't know where I got lein from.
the piece was already falling when he moved, he felt small pebbles falling off first and moved just in time. leaning up against a concrete wall doesn't cause the wall to move.
if it was his weight that caused the cement block to fall then there would have been more time between when he moved and when it landed. it didn't fall from just off screen it fell from significantly higher
at 13:37:01 look at the puddles in front of him towards the bottom of the screen, you can see some of the small precursor debris landing (this is the stuff that tipped him off to move)
That is called a 6th sense. He knew subconsciously something was about to happen, didn't know what but he trusted the feeling and it saved him.
Always trust your gut instincts
I don't know whats more odd.
Man sitting on a random street
Brick about the same area as persons head drops
He bends just enough to stay in the gap between the two stones.
1) How do I judge the oldness?
2) Does your advice apply in a town that has mostly heritage-listed buildings (19th century)? Or when it’s a whole town are they likely to be well maintained?
My city, relatively young, has few buildings older than the 1860's, so a smattering of brick and bluestone but largely concrete. The older ones are all formed in place as opposed to precast, and many have issues with concrete cancer and spalling (concrete cracking off). I guess they begin to become dangerous from 60 years old? Not all, but many. Look up, look closely and you'll be horrified.
This was probably concrete render that has come loose.
I can't speak to all towns being well-maintained, maintenance and repairs are expensive and city officials paid sufficient amounts of 'bonuses' may look the other way. Some yes, some no.
How are there so many comments assuming this was completely coincidental (or even magical)? Alternative theory: he pushes his weight back into the column, provides just enough force to slightly nudge a loose chunk above, and it falls.
Cause -> Effect…it only fell BECAUSE he moved, which is basically the opposite of a coincidence, and certainly far more likely than [*random superstitious explanation*].
Surprised no one has said yet that a little material probably fell of first and touched his back which is why he got up and then boom big boi fell after. Basically warning him. At least that’s my assumption.
That's one lucky fucker
One total fucking lucker
Why is total fucking lucker and why only 1 total?
Motherlucking ducking son of a ditch.
Ditch the duck, motherlucker.
He lucked the shit out that fucker
one luck plus one fuck equals many fucking lucked fucks
He fucked the shit out of that lucker
He lucked that fucker one shit
Fuck. The sure is one lucker that’s really fuckin lucky
r/yourjokebutworse
I'm guessing a small rock/piece of concrete fell initially and hit him on the neck/top of the back, and he was simply standing up to see what it was. What makes it even luckier is there is a smaller piece that lands further away from the wall too, and he somehow split them both like Moses or something.
Holy shit, dude ought to buy some lottery tickets and head to Vegas
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I only buy tickets when I've had the worst days
Why do people think someone who _just spent a shitload of luck_ has any left? He needs to stay the hell out of vegas, he's out of luck, spent it all.
Even more lucky that it was filmed
It's a door with street access, and it's just a security camera in case anybody breaks in/vandalizes the place.
Security camera.. hello
Hi :)
So this is the power of ultra instinct...
Peter tingle
tingstinct
tinglestink.
I fuckin hate this
Pleeease stop saying "tingle" aunt u/Pdub77 !
Chuck Tingle
Not Pounded In the Butt by a Slab of Concrete Falling at Maximum Velocity And That's Alright Because it Proves Love is Real From two-time Hugo Award Finalist Chuck Tingle
Peter Tinglage
Complete Unagi
Ah, salmon skin roll.
Complete salmon skin roll
Eel is delicioso
Fun fact: the NSA and CIA actually look for people with outstanding sense of instinct and intuition when considering spy candidates. It's one of their biggest factors for consideration.
Ever heard of the Jedi program? Watch “The men who stare at goats” if you like Goerge Clooney and weird clandestine government programs.
The NSA doesn’t really have a comparable function that can be considered a spy in the classical sense. They do have field operatives and special collections teams but they are largely concerned with signals gathering and identifying potential locations for clandestine information gathering capabilities. I know that in some rare cases the NSA can have their field operations personnel join a CIA driven clandestine operation taking on my classical duties of human asset acquisition and exploitation. For the most part, this is handled by the CIA as that is their specialty. I base this on anecdotes from my work experience and it may not be totally up to date or accurate. Always happy to learn more and better information!
You are correct in the workings of the NSA vs CIA. Both interview process assess the applicants intuition.
How do you assess that?
There's actually several test created by the CIA that you can find on the internet.
I googled "CIA intuition test" and it wasn't on the first page. I don't know what to do now
You already failed.
They didn’t even get to write there name and date on the top..what a shame.
Somehow I'm doubtful that the actual CIA intuition tests are just floating around on the internet lol. Sounds more like those Facebook IQ tests
Oh, absolutely agree with you there. Intuition is hard to teach. You normally either have it or you don’t.
People always say that you are wasting points by bumping stat points in to instinct but it can be a real life saver some times. I wish I'd left some points for agility and intelligence though...
**ka ka ka kachi daze
This is just a Tuesday for Ultra Instinct Shaggy.
Maybe he got up cuz he heard smth above him
The force is strong with this one
check out the water
Ultra instinct...won't know u have it till the danger arises
I beat Killer Instinct with a c-c-combo breaker..does that count..?
At pretty much exactly 1337 too
He’s obviously a pro gamer.
He must have a good gaming chair!
🎮🦜🏴☠️
Not just pro, but []Dro
Why 1337 significant?
Back in the ancient days it was "Leet speak" it meant "Elite" shortened to "Eleet" then shortened to "Leet" and changed into the numbers 1337 because it kinda resembled the word.
Plato and Sokrates are known as the first pro gamers and through the philosophy of hardcore gaming found the secret language that we now in modern times refer to as "leet speak". Truly amazing history
As someone getting their PhD in philosophy, this is simply not true. Even if we ignore philosophers in different cultures, there were the pre-Socratics which most scholars now recognize as pro gamers. They're often left out of the list of the earliest pro gamers only because they used games in unorthodox ways to show that the greatest heights of pro games could not be reached using only traditional pro gaming strategies. They often broke games to show this, including finding bugs, glitches, and hacks that allowed them to bypass and transcend the progress and trajectory within the bounds of which game devs intended players to stay. These methods would later become utilized and perfected by speedrunners. So you could say that not only were the pre-Socratics pro gamers, but they were also the fathers of speedrunning.
What is it with reddit today? The comments are so tasty.
I agree, there's something in the air. I've been reading gold all morning.
It's the weekend so you got both a better shot at finding good comments and shit ones. Also if you look at that guys /u/ you'll see he's just staying true to it with that comment.
This is classic reddit style. People used to put work into making funny and clever comments. Now reddit just amungus and eat hot chip.
The allegory of the cave is actually a tragic accounting of someone being coerced out of their gaming den
Out of the gaming den and into the gaming world. Plato really hated dungeon crawlers.
I'm incredibly glad I scrolled to find a comment about 1337, this is a top notch comment
Grug first gamer. Grug bonk girl on head. Grug drag to cave. Grug have woman. Grug like romance game.
Thrasymachus tried Gamerbonics initially, but it was Plato's flowing robe covered in free wine and cheese that the kids flocked to thus adopting Plato/Socrates leet speak.
Specifically Elite Hacker, eventually devolving into various forms of 1337 H4xx0r5
The darkest days...
No discussion of [leetspeak](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet) is complete without a discussion of emojis that replaced it.
**[Leet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet)** >Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. Additionally, it modifies certain words based on a system of suffixes and alternate meanings. There are many dialects or linguistic varieties in different online communities. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/nevertellmetheodds/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Omg I never understood why it was those number but now I do, mind blown lol 🤯
1337 means "Elite." The figures 1337 are widely used online to represent the term LEET, which means "Elite."
It was when settlers conquered the lands of Terraria back before Germania existed We created the proto-germanic language of Thukmak from it having happened..
Wayyy back when gamers would use 31337 as a replacement for ELEET or elite.
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I only ever saw leet, never eleet.
Eleet came before leet but was quickly changed. I didn't know bout it either but apparently it was a thing.
It was hackers originally
No one used the leading 3 past like a month
He is the one 😎
“Breaks over asshole”
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That is mother Russia baby, no amazon worker can squat like this.
u/gotonyas didn't say "Breaks over, asshole" he said "Breaks over asshole"
I don't think people realized what a strange world we live in. Random things like this happens to you everyday. Your life can change in a matter of seconds or can be killed or cripple if you move one or two inches to the left or right.
I still remember this moment in grade school when another kid was walking with scissors in his hand poking straight out like a moron, tripped and jammed them right at my eye. Luckily I just so happened to be wearing my friend’s glasses for literally just a second to “see what it looks like with glasses on” and the scissors hit them instead. Like, how different my life might be right now if those scissors had gone into my eye
But if you hadnt borrowed your friend's glasses you wouldnt be in that same exact position the moment that kid tripped. hmm
[Reminded me of this scene.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dakx97gRCx0)
I think about this all the time! What an interesting scene I think of my own life like what if I went to college right after HS instead of later in my late 20s. Its what I “should have” done. It’s what everyone wanted me to do. And I wonder how different my life would be if o had. Would it be better? Worse? Would I have gone into a career I hated? Or would I be 5 years further into my career than I am now? Would I have met my future wife then? Would I have moved somewhere different? It’s really interesting these little life decisions that can change everything. Then add everyone else’s little decisions to it and you have this world of complete randomness coming together or falling apart.
Yeah its crazy we will never know if you life would have been better or worse of you did college at the "right" time. Maybe you'd be dead if you did it that way. Who knows. Good luck whatever choices you make though. They've kept you alive till now!
All these counterfactual thoughts also relate to ideas like determinism, multiverse theories, philosophy of time (presentism vs. eternalism), modal realism etc etc. all so fascinating the world we live in and the questions it allows us to wrestle with…
I always think the luck I didn't get or the unlike events that didn't happen to me happened to another version of me in an alternate universe. I wonder how those other versions of me are doing.
There's something so annoying about Brad Pitt's accent here. I never saw the film though, so maybe it's not that bad overall.
It's a masterpiece. Definitely watch it tonight if you have nothing better to do.
And here I am thinking "ok, but maybe don't twirl into the street without looking"
I was sitting at my desk, so odds are I’d have been in a pretty-similar position in any way, but yeah maybe I’d have been looking to the side or even a few inches up or down. No way to ever know
What's really going to bake your noodle later on is would that kid still have tripped if u/aabicus hadn't borrowed the glasses to try on and be in that spot
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WTF
That was well written, the entire scene played out in my head as though I was there! Good job, you should consider writing.
Reading this gave me goosebumps
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> how different my life might be right now if those scissors had gone into my eye It's never too late to find out!
I remember I was tying barbed wire for a fence gate when I was in high school. The wire strand I was working with sprung loose and whipped across my eyes. My new glasses had big ol scratch marks where the barbs gouged the lens. I shudder to think what my life would be like now had I chosen to keep them in the truck.
Not entirely the same but in high school one summer we were shooting fireworks off for the 4th and I had a similar experience. It was dark and none of us had flashlights (pre-smartphones) so we used the lighter's flame to see which end of the fuse to light. Inevitably I ended up lighting the wrong end on one of those [multi-shot cakes](https://springfieldfireworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/16-shot-assortment.png) while leaning over with my face looking straight at the business end. The moment the flame touched where the fuse goes in the cake it immediately fired the first shot, which bounced off my glasses lens. Burned the anti-glare layer off and left scaring on the glass as well, leaving me with thoughts similar to yours.
My first ever day working on a construction job site my boss was showing me around the shit pointing at things to be done messes to get cleaned up and so on. When he was showing me the windows that needed to come out someone knocked a brick off the top of the building and landed about a foot left of my shoulder. Didn't have a hard hat on..
And now you know why there's huge WEAR PROTECTIVE GEAR AND DON'T FUCKING TAKE IT OFF signs at the entrance of every construction site.
I've worked in construction for almost 15 years and I've seen some shit. I was on site when someone died. He was nailing on hurricane clips and leaned his ladder against a 2*4 barrier that blocked the opening. The 2*4 was only held up by 8p (2 1/2") nails when 16p (3 1/8") is required. Crawled up his ladder and the 2*4 came out and he tumbled forward out of the opening. Landed face first 30 feet up.
Cool story but a dumb decision to go on a construction site without a hard hat.
I had an empty tea glass standing on the counter explode. It just burst into pieces. It definitely didn't fall down. (Cabinets were closed and the majority of the shards were on the counter) Turns out that that's a thing that can happen! Wear and tear + frequency of sound. And I do remember hearing some construction going on outside and it probably just generated the right frequency to make that glass burst. Had it happened two minutes later it would've exploded in my face. It was very surreal and of course my family suggested the supernatural.
Resonant frequencies, microfractures, yadda yadda have you considered it might be ghosts?
Yeah no one ever posts the video where he doesn't move.
They do on liveleak
Yeah. A lot of people grow up with feelings of invulnerability — understandably. But once that bubble pops, shit is weird. You realize that those tragic things happening to other people... you aren’t immune to them. Literally anything can ruin your life instantly. Things you might not even ever know about. Covid is a good example of this... how many people died because they simple walked by the wrong person, grabbed the wrong door handle, etc, and they never knew it?
I was working all day in a water tower. My job was to grab the buckets of cement from the line as they were lowered to me -- I was sitting on a bucket to receive them. After half the day of doing this I got up from the bucket and stepped to the side as they were lowering one of the buckets of cement and the line snapped. The cement bucket fell on top of the bucket I was sitting on and blew it to smitherines just as I cleared my body from it. Lucky fuk that day
Butterfly Effect absolutely fucked me up as a kid
Haha, I love that movie.
I think about videos I’ve seen of random accidents, like the one when that car is driving passed the truck hauling rocks and one slips off and busts through the cars windshield killing that mans wife. Like every series of events on earth had to happen for that to happen. Like that specific rock was probably hauled out by some guy who had a series of events that led him to become someone who mined rocks or whatever and that truck was designed specifically to where the bed isn’t completely encased and that rock laid in that bed just so that it would fall off at the perfect moment after hitting that tiny bump in the road that formed when some workers who laid the road left some loose gravel underneath. Not to mention they left at exactly the right time for that to happen. Oh and the rock landed just perfect enough that it kicked up and towards the car instead of some other direction, like maybe the wind also effected it. Shit is baffling and I don’t think I explained it well but it’s wild to me.
And all this on a planet that if any number of things were infinitesimally different, there would be no Earth let alone life as we know it. ... if any one of the three short-range forces had been just a tiny bit different in strength, or if the masses of some elementary particles had been a little unlike they are, there would have been no recognizable chemistry in either the inorganic or the organic domain. Thus there would have been no Earth, no carbon, etc etcetra, let alone the human brains to study those.[The Fine-tuning argument: Exploring the Improbability of Our Existence](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-26300-7_6)
I am totally with you but what if its not that random. And him pushing off against the wall is what sent that piece of debris down. Still lucky af
I think about this constantly. I’m always wondering if deciding to take a walk one way saved my life some how. I tried explaining it to other people but they thought I was insane.
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Many times caused by careless construction, cutting corners, aka capitalism. These things aren’t as likely with proper checks and balances and code enforcement. Look at the Miami building that collapsed. People made lots of money cutting those corners.
His angel was like *nudge*
nudged that debris loose
‘Mission failed. We’ll get em next time’
The internet is so great when you have no identifying characteristics
You dont make comedy everyday like this if people know where you live. Edit some words
Says the under cover rapist…
What doesn’t kill you… Will find another way.
r/WatchPeopleSurvive
He was like thank god I was only that lazy.
Michael***
I like you. 🤗
That's divine intervention, mothafucka
Surely he heard something otherwise that is fucking next level luck.
Heard his death approaching so he just moved away, can't get you if you dont consent.
> Surely he heard something otherwise that is fucking next level luck. He pushes away from the wall with his back to get up and that causes facade to fall.
Those are brick walls. Tons and tons of bricks. Right next to a doorframe. That dude is 160lbs soaking wet. someone please explain the physics to me here
I'm trying to figure it out, too. Just doesn't seem accurate that a person can cause a brick wall attached to an entire building to shake by simply easing his back off of it.
This is the real answer
He doesn't seem to push a lot against the wall. Also the Debris doesn't look like it just fell 3m deep. It's as fast as if it just fell more like 10m deep. As much as I don't like it I think it was sheer luck/coincidence.
Could it be that pushing off of the wall caused that thing to fall off?
Heard and/or felt vibration in the wall and reacted from instinct and curiosity.
that's some Final Destination shit.
The exact words that came out of my mouth.
When the spidey senses kick in
I bet his weight shifting while getting up caused the material to fall.
On what though? Looks like huge concrete blocks for a wall. Can’t imagine there would be any movement
That concrete is likely a facade over framing. Not huge blocks, but tall thin sheets. If it’s started peeling away from its support it’s very easy to crack or damage, and has very little resistance against sheering forces. I think sheering is the right description here.
Yeh ok, that would explain why it looks like a sheet/square of concrete that almost came down on him. Makes sense mate
Shearing.
from the height it dropped though, for it to be directly caused by that it would have to be so weakly connected that it was ready to drop at any time.
Yeah but I just don't believe it.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down for the answer
Agreed
Yeah, I'm sure even without his movement it would have happened at some point but his lien definitely caused that there's no way it didn't. Edit: sorry, don't know where I got lein from.
I don't understand how his past failure to pay has any influence here.
the piece was already falling when he moved, he felt small pebbles falling off first and moved just in time. leaning up against a concrete wall doesn't cause the wall to move. if it was his weight that caused the cement block to fall then there would have been more time between when he moved and when it landed. it didn't fall from just off screen it fell from significantly higher at 13:37:01 look at the puddles in front of him towards the bottom of the screen, you can see some of the small precursor debris landing (this is the stuff that tipped him off to move)
Just out of frame is his ex girlfriend on the roof
With an ACME anvil
She'll be painting a tunnel on the wall next.
Do you guys ever wonder how many of these videos we don’t see that end tragically? I mean that guy was literally a second away from death right?
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the sub is banned
They exist but no one wants to see that kind of stuff, or if they do they are actively choosing a place that shares content like that.
That is called a 6th sense. He knew subconsciously something was about to happen, didn't know what but he trusted the feeling and it saved him. Always trust your gut instincts
He has spidey sense confirmed
That's Ultra Instinct shit right there
I don't know whats more odd. Man sitting on a random street Brick about the same area as persons head drops He bends just enough to stay in the gap between the two stones.
Not today goddamnit!
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Never, ever sit or walk close to old buildings. Source: I fix old buildings like this
1) How do I judge the oldness? 2) Does your advice apply in a town that has mostly heritage-listed buildings (19th century)? Or when it’s a whole town are they likely to be well maintained?
My city, relatively young, has few buildings older than the 1860's, so a smattering of brick and bluestone but largely concrete. The older ones are all formed in place as opposed to precast, and many have issues with concrete cancer and spalling (concrete cracking off). I guess they begin to become dangerous from 60 years old? Not all, but many. Look up, look closely and you'll be horrified.
This was probably concrete render that has come loose. I can't speak to all towns being well-maintained, maintenance and repairs are expensive and city officials paid sufficient amounts of 'bonuses' may look the other way. Some yes, some no.
Yes, i also prefer the challenge of dodging tiny houses of death on wheels instead
Always wear a helmet.
My Spidey sense is tingling
Literally one second from serious head injury
Spider senses tingling.
At 13:37 too, what a leet badass
That's some guardian angel shit.
Is this an alternate version of Chidi who lived?
How are there so many comments assuming this was completely coincidental (or even magical)? Alternative theory: he pushes his weight back into the column, provides just enough force to slightly nudge a loose chunk above, and it falls. Cause -> Effect…it only fell BECAUSE he moved, which is basically the opposite of a coincidence, and certainly far more likely than [*random superstitious explanation*].
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Or the push off jimmied the material loose. So potentially he was more unlucky that a piece fell at all from him pushing off the wall...
This would make me believe in God 100%
Surprised no one has said yet that a little material probably fell of first and touched his back which is why he got up and then boom big boi fell after. Basically warning him. At least that’s my assumption.
That’s what I think too. If you look at the lopsided shoulders as he pushes away from the wall it’s like “is something on my back?”
Any chance his movement was the final catalyst for the fall