Firefighters, what's the dumbest person you've ever saved?
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The guy who wanted to print that report in the burning building...sometimes people will become fixated on a certain task, object, or thought in times of crisis.
I work in security. Even less than that.
I'm thinking his boss is an A-hole, & likely wouldn't take a fire as an excuse.
@@catherinep2034 His boss was absolutely an ahole. Like, Boss From Hell ahole. The kind that considers a spelling mistake grounds for demotion, especially if he's the one who can't read.
you know you're in a corporate dystopia when.....
People just kept working when the 1st plane hit the twin towers. I don't think they got how serious it was, but it's still crazy to me.
Okay story 3 is really cute tho. Like a guy clearly not from a cold environment who doesnt speak the language very well, just trying to make a living, thinking "okay, my walkway is frozen. I dont know how to deal with this. Well i have this phonebook, maybe i can figure out who could help me. Oh theres this thing called "a fire man" well since my walkway is frozen, fire would help, ill call them!"
It's possible where he comes from the fire department is in charge of iced over roads and walkways in winter.
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot Fire Dept used to handle random crap all the time (the cat stuck in tree trope). Don't know if de-icing was part of their thing, other than maybe some REALLY small towns, where the FD is pretty much all city cervices like that all rolled into one.
hey the firemen got free egg rolls for their trouble, so the Chinese guy was grateful for their help.
First story, your portrayal of the fireman sounded much like someone wearing a SCBA, and I understood what you were saying.
Thank you. I hate when these things extend their times with useless blathering.
That’s exactly what I thought, wearing an SCBA…..IYKYK !
@@kkerr1953which makes more sense than not because breathing apparatus mask would produce similar
@@zathtanksyou would think, but they don't even kind of sound alike, firefighter breathing gear has more of a hollow echo because of the filtration. This does sound like scuba but it doesn't sound like a firefighter. Like I understand why you were assuming this but you're very wrong
I could not even imagine how that man lived with himself after killing his son . I hope he found a way to forgive himself.
That gopher story is pretty much the definition of "f around and find out."
My mum once called 999 to ask them how to replace the batteries in the smoke alarm because she couldn't figure it out. In her defense, she did tell the dispatcher that there *wasn't* a fire, she just didn't know how to change the batteries. That didn't stop a whole ass firetruck from showing up at our house though.
I came home from school to a firetruck in our driveway, at least 3 amused firemen in our house being served tea and very kindly changing the batteries in our alarm, and one very flustered parent.
My brother is a firefighter and has responded to multiple calls for changing batteries if that makes her feel any better 😅
Reading this... It might be high time just to double check the batteries in the fire alarm here in my place. Thanks for the unexpected reminder! lol
@KitsuneYashaX48 Lol, no problem. Check your carbon monoxide alarm too, if you have one!
@charlottesearle7997 Don't think we do, grandmother built this house long before I was even a thought and the smoke alarm, even, is probably older than I am, but getting one probably wouldn't be a bad idea. Crap like that terrifies me.
@@KitsuneYashaX48buy one! They aren't that expensive
The bit at the end of the story with the Chinese restaurant owner, about firefighters not wanting to talk about the crazy stories, is that they tend to involve dead babies, dead kids, dead families. Please remember to change the batteries in your smoke detector when you change the clock on the oven and microwave for daylight savings, and replace the smoke detector every 10 years. If you have a gas furnace or water heater, make sure you have a working carbon monoxide detector as well, and test it when replacing those smoke detector batteries (and replace its batteries at the same time if battery-powered). Don't plug space heaters into extension cords or surge protectors (even empty surge protectors), and keep piles of clothing at least 6 feet away
Thank you, I wasn't aware of the no surge protector rule or the extension cord no no. Appreciated.
Our smoke dectors yell fire get out at you and they are all connected. We have a 3 story house that we had just moved into. In the middle of the night they go off. It's a old house we had no smoke or flame but that dectors would not stop. We called the fire department because I was afraid we had a fire in a wall. Turns out when a battery gets low it sets them off so once a year in July they all get changed. I guess the landlord had not done it before we moved in. At least the fire department was super nice about it.
@@brooke8248 It's possible to get extension cords and surge protectors rated for space heaters - but they're rare & expensive, and if you aren't 100% sure it's both rated for it and rated accurately, you should avoid it. So the best is just to avoid it altogether.
The yelling through the phone i thought you were imitating the respirator gear firefighters use 😂
Definitely thought he was trying to sound like a fireman wearing an SCBA lol
Hey, it still sounds good, especially as a voice in the background. Mate should keep running with it.
I also thought that
He was.
@@HaYlEeXx19he later stated he was trying to make it sound like it was coming thru the phone check yo facts next time
I feel bad for the first person. It sucks when you have a boss that doesn’t value your well-being. Sure, they are an idiot for putting up with it, but I also don’t know the situation between him and his boss.
I've HAD bosses like that. I sympathize.
Dude really went looney tunes on that gopher. What the actual heck.
He really decided to go-pher it, huh? 🤣😂
I'm sorry, I know, I'll see myself out... 🙂
@@bubzilla6137 oh gosh 😂
If I had a nickel for everytime someone drove over a fire to put it out, i'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I can ALMOST see the panicked logic in it. You can stamp out a small fire with your foot in a panic so I can see the brain making the split second (wrong) connection that "driving car over bigger fire = bigger foot stamping it".
OOH I got one! I just moved out of an apartment building, and in my last year there, had to call the fire dept. We did some things wrong, but so does everyone in their first emergency. So picture this.
It's the middle of the night, and insomnia has me. I couldn't sleep. So when I hear one of my neighbour's fire alarms down the hall I perk up. "Lots of people work late, probably burned dinner." I thought. But it kept going. No one turned it off. Okay. Go time. I woke the husband, got the baby clothes out just in case, and hubby and I each take turns knocking on the door. We didn't smell smoke, and there was no heat or strange cold from the door. So we weren't sure if it was just a fluke, or if someone needed help. We call the landlord, no response. Keep in mind, it's been almost 20 minutes now. Hubby finally says "okay, get the kid outside, we're calling the fire dept." We don't see flames or smell smoke. We report this. The fire dept gets there, wakes the landlord (his phone died, which is why he didn't hear the call), opens the door, and yep. There's smoke, but no fire. The tenant fell asleep while cooking, and had a door jam in front of the door. Had he not had it there, the building's fire alarm would have gone off sooner. Or, we would have smelled it. The guy swears at the firemen, and without missing a beat one of them yells. "You got smoke there bud, that's not good!"
I learned two tings that day. 1: those door jams are dangerous. They keep out the draft, but they also keep in the smoke. 2: Even if you don't see/smell a sign of fire, a smoke alarm is a smoke alarm. Call as soon as that beeping takes too long to stop.
We had our smoke dectors go off in the middle of the night. My son who bedroom is in the basement hears a pop and then smoke but no flames. We call the fire department. They searched every where upstairs because that's where the smoke was the worst. They found the motor burned out down stairs on the furnace and it sent the smoke upstairs through the vents. Mind you our smoke dectors talk more like scream fire get out. If one goes off they all do. The first time we had the fire department out at 1 am was because we just moved into the house and the smoke dectors went off. No idea why this has to happen in the middle of the night. Mind you the smoke dectors will not turn off but there is no smoke or flames. Come to find out with these dectors if a battery goes dead in one of them they are go off. Landlord had not bothered to put new ones in . So every year I do them all. We live in a 3 story house. I felt really stupid but the fire department was really nice.
In addition to it not being good for his winkie, I think it's not good for the computer to finish into a hole in the back.
Story 17 with the Instagram model spraying the candle spider with raid reminded me of a friend’s tale. She was gone from her job as a ticket girl in the booth of a drive in theater. When she came back the night after she found the booth unusable. Her coworker who took her shift found a spider in the small booth. As a true arachnophobe she grabbed the nearest spray canister and emptied it on the poor spider. She had used the can of pepper spray kept in the booth for ticket Sellers’ protection. Took awhile to get the booth aired out. A long while.
I mean, Capsaicin can kill insects
I was a nurse working in A&E, in The UK the day that it became mandatory to wear seatbelts. We had an international airport and parts of two motorways in our intake patch. It was in force from midnight Saturday/Sunday. We had a major motorway multicar accident on the Saturday afternoon. Only two people wearing seatbelts, a very busy day for The Coroner and our plastic surgery guys. Sunday early evening, a retired couple were brought in. He was driving and had a minor heart attack, leaving one of our motorway exits. He was doing about seventy, the car careers across three very large front gardens, coming to a halt, radiator against a very large and elderly elm tree. The couple had rather bad seatbelt bruising, and a few cuts and scratches. I asked them if they'd worn seatbelts before the law compelled it. Of course they hadn't! 🙀
That law was like night and day, wear a seatbelt kids!
Don't get me started on the strange things that men and women do in search of, mmm, sexual gratification.
I once turned up to A&E, to discover the patient was a friend with an old fashioned milk bottle stuck on his dong! That was almost impossible not to laugh, the poor thing was purple!
I've just remembered the guy and the hand held vacuum cleaner! That was nasty, and involved many hours of microsurgery. I made out like a bandit for over twenty four hours at triple time.
It makes me think about helmet laws (both bicycles and motorcycles). A few people point to the statistics that since they became mandatory, doctors have seen a lot more head injury patients after bike crashes
Thing is, before the helmet laws, those people were in the morgue instead. A lot harder to recover from that!
the lady who called 911 for attention is such a common occurrence. they’re usually just lonely older ppl
Yea but most call the local news station and ask about the weather. Annoying but not illegal
Yes, but after the second call the next day response is adult services, who will absolutely put her in a home, where she will have 24 hour care, and never be able to leave, other than in a box.
I work in a call centre. We had one customer who would call up frequently to complain about everything and anything or place huge orders (we have an website and app for orders) and was normally just very rude and entitled. We eventually worked out she was just lonely and she was calling just to have someone to talk to. She would also phone in at Christmas time when she was filled with "Christmas spirit" and would be overly nice and polite. Telling the advisor how great they were.
There are individuals who have a mental condition that causes this. It is a condition that is very devastating to personal relationships and requires professional help. It's sad, but real.
@@leifnelson6244 Histrionic personality disorder?
I don't think this is just a lonely elder.. and even if it is other lonely elders don't pull these stunts so not exactly an excuse. Not that I'm diminishing loneliness as a problem it definitely is.. but two fires only make a bigger fire.
First story, sounds like he's more scared of his boss than a fire.
Story 12: That is a prime example of why it is recommended that some sort of quick release mechanism is used. Both in case of emergencies like this, and also if the partner in question needs to safe word.
I was ALMOST the stupid call LOL. One night I was home with my infant daughter alone in our rental house. In fairness, we had already had 2 attempted break-ins. My husband parked his car in the back and we always came in through the back door. After I put my baby to bed every night, I'd turn off all the lights and the only light in the house would either be my laptop or TV because I just like the dark. I heard knocking so I got up to go see who it was. I peeked through the peek-hole and saw nothing. I went to the front door and saw nothing. I locked both doors and went back to watching RUclips. A few minutes later, I heard said knocking again. I grabbed the BB gun I'd gotten for Christmas (the Red Ryder one from A Christmas Story because I love that movie and my husband got it for me as a joke gift LOL) and cocked it before checking the doors and windows again. I saw nothing. Wondering if someone was trying to distract me, I had 911 predialed on my phone and my thumb close to the button should something not kosher happen. The knocking came a third time and I almost jumped out of my skin. It was then that I figured out what was actually happening: I had filled our washing machine a little bit too full in my desperate attempt to catch up with the neverending loads of laundry. The washing machine had become unbalanced and started to shake and rock, causing that knocking noise. Our house was mostly wooden paneling, walls and floor, and high-ceilinged so everything echoed which made the knocking sound appear to be coming from different areas of the house depending on where I was and which doors were opened or closed. After the adrenaline exited my system, I breathed a sigh of relief, corrected the problem, and had a good laugh at myself. My husband got a good laugh about the story when he came home from work and teased me mercilessly about rogue washing machines breaking in through the back door for weeks.
"What did we learn?"
If there's no give to it, don't see if it'll fit.
Or even better, don't use things on your privates that aren't made for them ^^'
The woman chained to the bed and husband getting knocked unconscious is a version of the plot of Stephan King’s Gerald’s Game. In the book her husband dies of a heart attack and she’s left trapped in a bed in a cabin in the wood with no neighbors. Glad the true story worked out better than the novel. 😂🤣😂
They made a movie with i think megan fox only theyre chained together, he killed himself and he called the cops. But they did make a movie about that from a few yrs ago. Really heart breaking.
It was a popular joke in a joke book from the early 80s. I never read Gerald’s Game, but if this was in that book, King took it from that old joke.
@@ladylilythere was a comedy series many years ago (70s?) set in a seaside hotel. The man was dressed as Spider-Man, I think, and was going to jump out of the wardrobe. The wardrobe tipped over, trapping them both. I wondered at the time if it was based on a real event.
@@sallyomahony1108 Honestly, I wouldn't doubt it LOL.
That's an old, OLD urban legend. Snopes dates it to 1986 in print, but I remember hearing it transmitted person-to-person in the mid-1970s.
PSA - Never put a body part in anything unless you're not afraid to lose it, yikes
I work in a call centre. A customer once got pissed off with one of my coworkers because they told the customer "im sorry but the fire alarm is going off and we need to exit the building so i need to terminate the call"
I knew someone who worked in a call center on an upper floor of a building and refused to leave his desk when the local tornado sirens went off. After a few minutes passed, the company sent out an email telling everyone to go to the basement and he finally went and was fine. The weirdest part was that it very clearly wasn’t a false alarm; he saw dark green clouds in the sky and everything.
Story 4: Had a blowout a few years ago and rammed into a guardrail doing 70(MPH). 9 days in the hospital; two broken legs, shattered knee, broken clavicle, fractured my pelvis, 3 ribs, and C-4 and even collapsed a lung. And that was WITH my seatbelt on. If I hadn't been wearing it, we would NOT be having this conversation right now...
damn im sorry about what happened to you. /gen
try not to break yourself next time. or just, don't drive unless you're 100% sure you can do it.
Jesus, dude! I'm glad you got out of that. People forget just how danger vehicles can be.
@@consumingkazoos Did you miss the part where I said 'blow-out'? Do you not know what that is? orrrrr, should I explain it to you very slowly? My driving skills were NEVER in question here. I was doing about 75 MPH when my left rear tire blew out unexpectedly. With the loss of one tire, I lost control of the vehicle, and was just a passenger at that point. Have YOU ever been in a vehicle that suffered a blow-out at 75 Miles per hour???? ...or are you just stupid?
@@consumingkazoos he said he had a blowout, which at least here means his tire exploded, so i dont imagine he could've prevented that
@@Eradikateu well i know nothing about driving so thanks for telling me
Story 12 is why you use knots with emergency release or belts with similar function.
Imagine what would happen when there is a fire!
Thank you for saying “ended” instead of “unalived.” I know RUclips’s censorship is stupid but I’m… SO tired of that word. It’s so grating to hear multiple times in one video.
To be honest, its use of censorship is about as inconsistent as the same thing coming from Microsoft, who from my experience definitely have no business making mobile apps and ESPECIALLY shouldn't be in charge of developing video games (in this case, Minecraft) whatsoever. Plus I kinda think "unalived" is funny even though it probably isn't a real word (IDK that for sure)
It can be kind of annoying. I especially hate when people talk about people "unaliving themselves", because that doesn't capture the tragedy at all. Personally, I use "opting out" even when discussing it IRL, because I feel that it does such a good job of describing both the action, and the motivation for it.
@@bow-tiedengineer4453 I also feel like there’s plenty of ways to refer to death without outright saying it already baked into the English language. “Passed/ passed away” “ended” “expired” “perished” “succumbed” “departed” “finished” that all kinda suggest different types of dying that “unalived” sounds like such a nothing word. I do like opted-out too tho lol
@@Sensansenkai I would use all of those terms except finished. If you use that one people with think there was a very different outcome to the story.
@@TripleBarrel06 I dunno, you could probably find a handful of stories where the double meaning would fit! lol
Story 5: I can imagine the guy’s expression as he realizes that “little joe” was a 500 pound gorilla who escaped the zoo as well as everyone else’s “wtf” expressions as he makes the call
What about the expressions of the people who saw the gorilla at that bus stop? That is all I can picture after hearing that story.
Not a fire fighter, but spent a lot of time around campfires as a kid. Dude had the great idea of adding gasoline to a fire that was going out. He and another dude had parts of their clothes and some facial hair set ablaze. Guy was in his mid 40’s and was the father to one of my friends.
My dad, in his 50s, did a similarly stupid thing with a 6' tall bonfire and a gallons of gas. I thought he was a Deadman, for sure. Burned all the hair off his arms, and eyebrows were gone, but otherwise unharmed. It was lucky! 😮
Oh the first story had me shaking my head when a firefighter who is wearing a breathing apparatus had to physically remove a idiot from a building that is burning you can't make shit up
Guess that one guy misunderstood what "cybersex" meant.
I have listened to shit loads of your stories. I laughed myself silly at this one. Your snarky delivery was spot on.
My brother decided to get rid of a hornets nest that was underground against the foundation of my mother's house. He poured gas down the side of the foundation and lit it. He had the garden hose running nearby. My mother torn him a new one. Luckily, it worked and there was no damage to the house, but that could have gone VERY wrong for them.
Being ejected from the car reminded me of a time, my daughter a firefighter paramedic, made a scene where two teens, not belted in, were ejected. Both were killed with one striking a column holding up a porch broke it in half with his body. A girl n the back seat had her seatbelt on survived with minor injuries.
Why do I suspect the reason the report wasn't Printing is because the Network Cables between the Idiot's Computer and the Printer were burned up and that was why he couldn't Print the Report...
Either that or the Printer itself was on fire...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Story 13: I believe the technical term for that is "massive clusterf***."
awww that poor flaming gopher 😔 only a fucked up mind would think of something so cruel
Vietnam tends to screw with people
Oh man, the firefighter voice came thru and it was PERFECT!
that chinese restaurant man was actually quite nice i would say. ok binding resources because no idea about tasks but at least he gave them a bonus in form of some food for the effort.
Story 6: He didn't want to get in trouble, so he was very close to breaking the law. Pretty sure he did.
Bro went plankton on that computer 😂
I always love the people who say “I don’t wear my seatbelt because I want to be thrown clear of the accident”. They need to watch some of the RUclips car crash videos and watch some of these people violently ejected from vehicles that are obviously unalived! Also, lots of these people die from crush injuries because they will be partially ejected out of a car window, the car will roll over on them, and then back upright, jerking them back into the vehicle. They look like they should be OK but have severe crush injuries from the car rolling over them. Happens more often than you think.
15:25 as a former firefighter the situation may not have been life and death but that wasn’t stupid so long as the guy didn’t make the situation out to be something it wasn’t. granted it may become an issue if it KEEPS happening, but if that ever happens to you just give the none emergency line a call and explain that you need MAYBE two guys to come over to lend a hand
You sounded just like my mother when she used to wear her gear (she took up volunteer firefighting as a hobby for a few years when I was a kid)! You did a good job!
Eh, well, since that gopher story qualified, I guess this one does too.
Not a firefighter, and I wasn't the dumb call, but my dad was. He was doing that thing where you gather yard waste and burn it, but he threw gasoline on it (I think that's how it happened, it was a long time ago), and the fire started getting much bigger than it should have, he went to go get the hose, only to find in his wisdom he buried it under the yard waste he was burning...Oops...so the fire department had to be called...nobody hurt, but he got shit for it from my mom later on.
When will people stop dumping feul down groundhog holes and burning it? This is wayy to common. I knew a guy who did this while home alone and fortionatly only got knocked on his ass with singed hair. No dead groundhog tho.
During a hot and dry July day, a guy with one too many beers in him decided it would be a good idea to take a nap on top of a 6 foot high mound of dry mulch. Mulch is constantly decomposing so it's constantly undergoing a chemical reaction, and all chemical reactions generate heat. Mulch piles have to be lightly hosed down periodically so that the core of the pile where the heat is building up the most doesn't spontaneously catch fire, this is why whenever you buy a bag of mulch at your choice of garden and hardware store it's usually wet. However this mound of mulch, which had been sitting in direct sunlight for weeks since it had been delivered, hadn't been hosed down once, and it hadn't rained. You know exactly where this story is going. The drunk guy sleeping on the pile woke up to find himself engulfed in flames. First and second degree burns to 30% of his body.
I feel sorry for the fireman for some of the things they have to answer to. My nephew locked himself in my aunts bathroom and we could not get him to open the door and we had no idea what he was doing, except that we could hear him rummaging in the cabinet, so we’re worried about any pills he might get into. After about an hour of coaxing getting nowhere, we called the fire department. They assessed the problem and got a ladder to go up to the window. All of a sudden my nephew comes flying out of the bathroom because the fireman in the window scared him. he was 3 so trying to make him understand gravity of wasting 911 time wasn’t really possible, and fortunately for us his only interest seemed to be the toothpaste which he managed to spread decoratively all over everything. It did take a few years before he’d close a bathroom door.
18:36 fireworks explosions are scary, like a firework factory here in Denmark exploded and the footage of that is Wild and it just keeps going off. And you couldnt really go near it bc it just kept raining debrees bc of the explosions of firework they ended up evacuating the people Living in the area and just waiting out the fire
Instead of gasoline, my uncle likes to attach a hose to the exhaust of an old 2-tact engine moped and revv it for a while. Sure, the sound is annoying as F, but the mole or gopher or whatever caused the holes in his yard will have a REWALLY bad case of smoke inhalation.
On the last one, there's a method of picking locks where you put a light pressure on the lock, and then bump it to get the pins to line up right. If the wrong key was small, and the lock was cheap, I could see the small key acting like the lockpicking wrench, and the kid jiggling the handle just enough to make the pins jump while he was turning the key.
Computer dude was an idiot. They make tools for that. God people need more education I swear
Man... I live near the Franklin park zoo in dorchester but I don't think I've ever heard of that one. Damn. Apparently it happened in 2003!
I live on the North Shore and I remember hearing about this incident on the news when it happened. A witness who saw the gorilla standing upright at the bus stop was interviewed by the media afterward and said something to the effect of, "I thought it was a large man with a sweater on."
@@matthewcardello7938 I was born in 2002 so probably why I haven't heard much about it. Or maybe I have, but I just forgot. Sounds like a time for sure lol
If the report guy thought he might lose his job if he doesn't get the report, I can respect it. If I had a well-paying job and would lose it unless I stayed in a burning building, I don't know what I would do.
Thank god I doordash to your videos everyday 😂
I use to doordash hell yeah
If anyone needs this
In case of fire.
Pull fire alarm
Grab fire extinguisher if fire is containable
If not, evacuate.
Assemble outside.
Don't die.
-Avoid extraterrestrial invaders-
Good luck!
Not a dumb person or dumb firefighter story but a funny part of a story. Back in 2009, my sister accidentally left the fan in the bathroom on after taking a shower. Unfortunately the landlord didn’t clean it very well so it got hot and caught the toilet (yes, the toilet) on fire (small, thankfully). When the firefighters got there, they only had to use maybe a little water because the water from the toilet had already put most of the water out. They asked me outside if I’d been playing with matches (I was ten years old at the time; they were joking and trying to calm me down). I said, “No, I’d been playing with my dolls.” It was around 1am when the fire happened. Their asking me if I’d been playing with matches part of this story was the funny part. Unfortunately the entire experience caused PTSD for me (keep in mind that, again, small fire or not, I was ten years old). Started experiencing symptoms in high school (my therapist said that symptoms can stay dormant for years after the event). Was not officially diagnosed until September 5th, 2023.
your voice for the firefighter in the first story was actually really good. like i imagine that kind of voice in a high quality AAA game
The report guy sounded like he was working for Miranda Priestly in the movie The Devil Wears Prada
Story 1: I understood just fine. It was a nice effect.
Story 3: A firefighter in New York City in '99... Oof. Unless he moved at some point in the next two years, that means he was on-site on... THAT day. He had to see those towers fall in-person, with 343 of his friends still inside. When it comes to crazy calls, you can't top that. Yeah, there's a very good reason the ice incident is the only crazy call he talks about.
Story 6: Some people just aren't cut out for society. They need to be treated with kid gloves and can't be trusted with scissors (not even plastic toy ones).
Story 7: It would have cost you absolutely nothing to not include that. I'm so glad my brain is really good at not remembering stories like this.
Story 11 reminds me of the time I (emergency doctor) was dispatched to a "chest pain" complaint, only to find a distressed 60yo woman begging us to catch her cat who was hiding beneath the stove and vehemently refused to come out... I had to hold back tears of laughter as I sat there holding her hand, trying to comfort her whilst simultaneously hearing the firefighters in the kitchen dotingly chanting "kitty, kitty, come out baby girl" 😂😂
Edit : both cat and owner survived the ordeal
Edit : for clarity, I live in Europe where ER docs are routinely dispatched on field
As somebody who walked away from a car tripple rollover (passenger, all were wearing seatbelts) - nobody gets in my car if they don't wear a seatbelt - I dont care that it's 2 min down the road. Belt up or I don't start up.
Any1 who doesn't wear a seatbelt is a dangerous idiot
There is a website.. or was.. and I can't remember the name of it but it was stories from help desks, retail, service industries. This one story really got my attention. Some guy who worked on a computer help one posted it. He said the wait time for a tech to answer the phone was usually about 3 minutes. However, once a month they had to do some sort of maintenance and the wait time was closer to 20 minutes If the problem could not be diagnosed or helped over the phone they did have technicians that would make house calls.
So when this guy answered the phone during one of these maintenance periods she had to have been on hold at least 20 minutes. And the guy could not understand her for several minutes as she was in hysterics. When she finally calmed down enough to be understood she said the tech at her home had been working on the computer and must have touched some live wire and gotten knocked backwards and was lying on the floor. "Did you call the paramedics?" "No, he's your tech so I called you...".. "Ma'am... hang up and call the paramedics". fortunately the guy was ok..
Now I understand why any office that even remotely deals with health issues has the "If this is an emergency, hang up and dial 911" message as part of their voice mail recording.
Sounds like 16 just won a Darwin award!
People who are against seatbelts are basically the same mentality as anti maskers. You're not going to convince them that other people's safety is in any way their responsibility. Or they believe in "alternative" facts that have them convinced is a good idea.
I have a feeling that dad who smothered his kid thinks different now.
@@skyecoleman5449 You would hope, but I've known people who caused stuff like that that stayed in denial.
Not narcissist probably histrionic personality disorder. Can combine with narcissism for sure. But the diagnosis is they are driven to be the center of attention at all times.
10:33 the first time I’ve really heard you nearly speechless and i couldn’t stop laughing lol😂
how is it that a man sticking his joystick in the back of computer tower doesn't have me keelhauling with laughter, but going Operation Ranch Hand on a gopher does?
Ex volly here. Had a call for a kid with some wrapped around his neck. Rush to the scene, 5 year old had a potty training seat around his neck. He was wearing it as a hat sit big sister smashed it down. He was fine, freaked out a bit but not in any danger. Oh and dad was on a video call from IRAQ with us.
many people are under the influence of shock when desaster struck them , i wouldnt count that as idiotecy , just out of mind , but than there are often people doing stupid stuff when they arent really involved , or its not even a real emergency
The woman who called 911 for attention should have been taken away by the police or an ambulance and locked up.
I was in a one car accident when my car hydroplaned on a wet road, and went into the woods. At the hospital, I was asked if I had had my seatbelt on. I said I had. That’s when they told me, they already knew it, because I was bruised in the abdomen area where the belt had rested.
3pm deadline reminds me of the Portsmouth, UK Burger King that got a report of an old WW2 bomb being discovered only the GM told the Staff they "had to remain open" whilst SHE ran for cover, of course.
Long story short, she got arrested and chewed out by the Police, Royal Navy and the CEO of BK
On that last one, there's methods to lockpicking called bumping and raking which can turn locks with the wrong key if its cut is close enough
He should just tell his boss the report was printed, but the fire burned it, since they made him leave it behind.
My dad was called for a drunk lady ran herself over. She was trying to back up her car with the door open, fell out and car ran her over.
The last story... When I was a small kid I managed to get myself locked in in the bathroom. Dad had to kick in the door. Funny thing: exactly the same thing had happened 6 years earlier when bro was small 😂
The gasoline down the gopher hole would have been fine if he'd just made sure the other end of the hole was plugged and he'd had the hose ready. It's not that uncommon for people to fill a gopher tunnel with oxyacetylene gas and light it off. The difference is this creates an instant explosion rather than a lasting fire since the fuel is already fully vaporized. A crater (more of a sump line following the tunnels) is basically unavoidable regardless, because sooner or later the tunnels will collapse. It's just a matter of whether the tunnels collapse now, in a few weeks or months, the next rain, or possibly even when you or an animal is stepping on them with the potential for injury (this used to be a common way for horses to break legs). The immediate boom and collapse is the safest measure and ensures you know where the whole thing is, and you can fill it in before you reseed your grass. I just had to deal with burrowing mice in my yard. If it wasn't so close to my house, fence, and cable line I might have blasted them myself instead of resorting to poison (I'm at least smart enough to not screw it up), but I knew better than that.
LMAO I love the firefighters voice impression lolll
2:00 I think ya did will for a masked fire fighter, with a rebreather and stuff.
the Batman one is a classic EMS urban legend Every who works EMS know someone who swears thy saw it or their buddy they used to run with saw it...
Story: This is EXACTLY how Whistlin' Diesel burned down a Ferrari, a rental van, and a few acres of old corn stocks!!!
Ah someone should have called CPS on those "moms" risking their babies lives, then the rescuers lives, and they come down laughing and flipping the bird... yep give them a huge fine and community service for wasting the money on their stupidity
"why are you late to work"
"A gorilla was in the streets of boston"
"Haha funny story, you're fired"
story twelve is a pretty old urban legend. I think OP is just messing with people
That first story almost gave me an asthma attack. Sadly, I can see that actually happening.
doesn’t really fit but after a tornado hit our street a few years ago the police and fire crew were told there was a gas leak underneath a completely collapsed house so their way of saving everyone was by putting tape around the neighbourhood and telling everyone they can’t leave BECAUSE of the leak. Didn’t really come to me then but that could have ended badly.
#12 about the woman tied to the bed was a literal joke. It was originally in a joke book from the 70s/80s, and yes, I had the book.
7:59 this guy is the s true example of a smooth brain
For that first story, your boss does not care about you. I'd be willing to bet actual money that that morning (before the fire started), the boss had said that he needed to get that report printed on his desk by 3 or he was fired, regardless of whatever desperate personal/family situation he was in, and that that same boss had *totally* been willing to fire people for unreasonable reasons (or no reason at all) in the past. So... pick between your life and your livelihood. Fun!
Wow, a manager once told me, if there's a fire just remember "Stop, Drop and Roll OUT of the building" funny but yea staying in a burning building for a report that your boss isn't going to read is just a symptom of a much worse problem, good on the firefighter for "convincing" the guy to go.
hows nobody talkin bout the dude who smashed the computer
I’ve heard that Batman outfit/wife chained to the bed story many times over the years. Pretty sure it’s just an urban legend or from a fictional work.
What a great video :) So many stupid stories. The cat story and the batman story had me laughing sooo hard.
The cat story sounds like something my cat would do, especially since he tends to get "trapped" in my bathroom a lot when the door is half open and he screams until i come in to "save him" lol.
And the batman story sounds like a situation I'd find myself in lol well I'd be the lady shouting out my window for help, but I'm sure you get what I mean.
Honestly with some of the stuff I'm into (especially with ropes and restraints) i do worry that one day someone will be telling a similar story about me, a story that starts "someone called 999 so we had to break into this ladies house coz she was tied up and..." Lol. Fingers crossed that situation never happens, altho it would be both hilarious and mortifying for everyone involved.
Be safe everyone, please, regardless of whether your fun is vanilla or k*nky just be safe. Oh and treat your pets well :) x
2:17 union. He needs a union.
I don’t know about yall but a pizza ain’t setting off my seatbelt ding. Gotta buckle that bad boy in. Can’t have it sliding everywhere and toppings come off
When I was 3 my parents were out of the country so my Grandmother was staying with me. I had just gotten out of the shower, and was insisting that you could lock the door from the outside, shut it, and it would lock. My Grandmother disagreed, so I locked my bedroom door on the way in. My grandmother did not have her phone with her. Now, as I was three I don't remember much, but I remember feeling guilty, my grandmother attempting to pick the lock with various hair-clips, and we eventually ended up shouting out my window to some neighbors who has to call for a lock man to come get us out.
0:04, My guess is that they wanted to prove a point on how ridiculous it is to who instructed them, even if it meant they didn't make it out with the fire being that opportunity to do it.
4:54, incidents like that should be considered 2nd degree murder at absolute minimum, if they aren't already. Cars should not be able to start without all necessary seat belts fastened.
13:20, In the position of the dispatchers, I'd blacklist her number, even if there was an actual emergency afterward.
23:41, I'm really hoping that picture is re-posted alongside the story so she can't escape the constant reminders of her shameful decision, no matter which platform she goes to.
The woman with the barn fire perhaps wasn't a narcissist per se. She almost definitely had Munchausens tho.
The cat story is hilarious. Silly fluff. I heard a story from this kind of post a couple of years ago that had me in absolute stitches though. There was an, um, a fellow with a similar mental capacity to Captain Computer-Dong or Whisk-Dude. He had decided to shove a toilet cleaner brush (handle-first of course) where the sun doesn't shine, so appeared to have a bunny-tail. Alas the handle had a hook on the end and got stuck. So OUCH, but good grief the mental image is funny.
There's no such thing as an adolescent silverback gorilla. Silverbacks are, by definition, mature males.