r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ChargeEducational700 • 1d ago
Just making sure the barrels are empty
A flawless inspection method with absolutely no foreseeable drawbacks.
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u/DrSparta89 1d ago
He didn't have his safety sandals on
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u/EZ_Syth 1d ago
So he’s technically dead. Just doesn’t know it yet.
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u/Shiz_in_my_pants 22h ago
You may not be too far off.
The barrel shot up straight into his jaw/head with enough force to lift him up and knock him back. As he falls back down his head slams into the barrel literally bouncing off of it.
There's gotta be some serious neck/jaw/head injuries in there.
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u/AbbreviationsOne4963 1d ago
You see what happens Larry? You see what happens when you light a canister of gas?!
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u/theitalianguy 1d ago
What is genius?
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u/PuzzleMeDo 1d ago
Someone who didn't play enough first-person shooters in the early 2000s. Don't they know that most barrels are just an explosion waiting to happen?
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u/Random_Guy_47 1d ago
Nah. These barrels weren't red.
Everybody knows non red barrels are perfectly safe.
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u/Deafcat22 1d ago
Explosive barrels in doom are not red
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u/Joey_Kakbek 1d ago
That was before regulations were in place.
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u/Deafcat22 22h ago
Come to think of it, wolf 3d, quake, Deus ex still non red barrels though occasionally with red labels. I think regulations kicked in around Source engine, which standardized the red barrel safety standard in Half Life 2, possibly due to problematic industrial and health+safety pressures related to the Combine.
Just another example of how safety culture lags behind until a serious incident like alien invasion finally results in meaningful change for the average shooters health.
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u/alphabitz86 1d ago
Why do people do this?
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u/ES_Legman 1d ago
Because they are so unfathomably stupid that the only reason they survived until now is pure luck
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u/BOBOnobobo 1d ago
So I know some people who did this with gas tanks....
They genuinely don't think about it. When I asked what do they do if it explodes they say it won't happen.
Now, I will give them a bit of credit: a gas tank is build such that even if you light up a gas leak, it can't explode. So you will only see flame of you fought it early, and of you caught it late, it's usually smelly (because of the added mercaptan) so you know not to fuck with it. Still, you shouldn't do it, because there still a small chance of failure and you can just use soap to test it without the risk.
What I imagine happened in this video, is that the two idiots just learnt about this trick from someone who did it on gas tanks, and then applied it in a context where there are no safety checks.
It's also possible there gasoline, or some other fuel that normally would only catch on fire, unless it gets mixed with air, in which case it can explode. So they probably learnt the trick, tried it on a small bit, saw that it doesn't explode, and they just tried it again and again, until this video happend
They have permanent gear damage now, if not a lot worse.
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u/LankySquash4 1d ago
I don't think that was empty
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u/Nerdy_Valkyrie 1d ago
That's like checking if a gun is loaded by trying to shoot yourself in the face
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u/jackivorhirst3 1d ago
Incredible, his body knew it was a bad idea with all the flinching but he kept on going
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u/the_nebulae 1d ago
Red shirt on the right who gets knocked down actually died later. This was in my country. It wasn’t immediate…he walked on with his friend from the explosion, but right away and from then on he only ever heard a distant ringing, nothing else. At the clinic they brought themselves to, the doctor said red shirt looked fine initially, apart from the few scrapes he received when he fell. The CT scan revealed a different picture. The blast wave had produced a lot of problems internally. As the wave hit him, it imploded micro-bubbles inside his brain that, in turn, caused fluid to build up in the skull until he eventually had a kind of embolism I guess you’d call it. He made it only a few hours from the time of the explosion you see in the video here.
What happened to the other guy, though? No one really knows. Some people think it might have affected him differently. Someone I met even said they think there might be more to it than that. Maybe something with the nature of the trauma…he said he saw him out in the lake, just in the middle of it for hours, almost not even moving, just staring straight ahead like he was the only person in the world.
It’s possible that’s not how it happened, though. They say a lot of things where I’m from.
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u/rainer_d 23h ago
Got a kid in my neighborhood burned severely by pulling this stunt on a couple of barrels in a nearby quarry.
They had remnants of solvents in that that dispersed on the kid with the explosion, turning him into a living torch.
Scars for life over the whole face and arms.
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u/Next-Beat-2687 23h ago
had a friend do this in order to repurpose an EMPTY barrel that used to have oil in it.
barrel exploded, friend has now acquired a big scar across his face and lost 3 fingers
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u/mudssskipper 1d ago
Those barrels are damn heavy even when empty. And to see it knocked down that guy in green shirt, assuming it hits his whole frontal body, jaw & face with unbelievable speed…
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u/Rare_Ad_649 1d ago
They are more dangerous when they are empty, the fumes mixed with air is more explosive than the fuel or whatever was in there to start with
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u/Acrobatic-Lawyerr 23h ago
So weird that there is such a delay in when he lit it up and the drum rises from the ground, and then explodes.
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u/HeadofR3d 19h ago
Kid I grew up with was killed when cutting open an oil drum. Sparks ignited the residual fuel and the explosion caused his brain to swell.
I hope this is a wake up call.
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u/SysGh_st 1d ago
He checked it. It was not empty. It sure is empty now.
Mission failed successfully.
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u/UnusualAir1 1d ago edited 1d ago
Cautiously using a lighter to check for explosive gas indicates these idiots are at least minimally aware that gas and fire are a dangerous mixture. But when the idiot cells greatly outnumber the rational cells in one's brain, the more realistic outcome is just not predictable. 😄
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u/taylorhildebrand 1d ago
That might be one the most stupid people I’ve ever seen on the internet. Unreal.
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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul 1d ago
to be fair, whoever put these barrels full of flammable gas out on the curb like that (where people like these guys can come by and play with them) is equally at fault here
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u/create360 1d ago
Guy in Indian Hill (Cincinnati) just got really burned badly using a plasma torch on a barrel. I think the news said it was an old paint barrel.
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u/LordMorio 1d ago
For those wondering, the last barrel checked was not empty. The signs are subtle, but if you look carefully you will see it.
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u/elderscrollroller_ 1d ago
We might question his methods but he still found out which barrel had gas
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u/Tuomas90 23h ago
Okay, after checking we know:
- The barrel was not empty
- The barrel was highly flammable
- Our way of testing barrels for flammable liquids works
- The barrel is now empty
- We're gonna need another Timmy.
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u/bravemoney72 23h ago
And that made sense to him.....those kinds of barrels usually have residue leftover and closed it builds whatever gases waiting for proper cleaning or in this case....an idiot 🙄 hence.....
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u/ElginSparrowhawk1969 22h ago
Every welder knows to fill the tank with water then you can cut into it without blowing your lid off
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u/GhostSiX1Nine 22h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/Oa8WsCHwcfjk3S0sRb
The ACME label is clearly on the can, which we all know, including the coyote, that's not always a good thing.
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u/Melodic-Adeptness772 22h ago
I keep thinking about this one over and over and I just can't figure it out. Why would anyone do this other than wanting it to happen. Are they suicidal? There is no way in any hell anyone can be so absolutely fucking stupid they would do this. Not to be funny but how did they survive for this long? I just don't get it.
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u/Croat-Lcitar86 22h ago
Serious question.
How are they not dead? That seems like a life altering concussion at a minimum….
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u/Sam_The-Ham 21h ago
My dad tried doing this once except in the utility room in the basement when we thought we smelled gas fumes. My mom was telling him not to and saying “what happens if there is gas?” and he legitimately did not care. “If there is we’ll know it.” Nothing happened, since the concentration was too low, but then he never bothered looking into a leak, since it didn’t explode apparently.
Fast forward to the next day and I get home from work early with no one else in the house and I could smell the gas thick in the air the moment I opened the door upstairs. Fricken stupid stuff man.
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u/RosesandEternity 21h ago
He wasnt checking for gas... it was burning gas away. Unfortunately for him he didnt understand that gas + confined space = boom
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u/KurnolSanders 1d ago
There has to be a better way of doing that, fucking hell!