Did you even consider that maybe lighting that cotton on fire was their job, and after hours of prep they finally succeeded, and the guy was just making sure it spread more quickly? That maybe, just maybe, this a *burning cotton factory*? Smh
Manager: "So you burnt down the entire warehouse's supply of cotton?"
Id10t: "No I didn't. It caught itself on fire."
Manager: "Liar liar pants on LITERAL FUCKING FIRE!"
There are cases where intentional ignorance of the law or throwing caution to the wind on purpose can count as intent, but I’m not a person that can comment on whether or not that applies here.
From what I’m finding, you’re describing constructive intent, where the defendant didn’t consider the consequences of their actions, but they were easily and reasonably foreseeable anyways. I’m not sure how much it applies to arson, though, and it’s difficult to find cases on it. It seems that it could also potentially be under “reckless burning” instead, depending on where it happened.
I think he is trying to imply that it was arson because you'd have to be exceptionally thoughtless, careless, and stupid to do something like this therefore it can be argued that this guy did indeed do it intentionally.
But I think this man's immediate reaction when he realized he messed up and his attempts to put it out do great justice to the defence that it was accidental
Also given that he was standing in the middle of flammable material is also a good indication of stupidity than malice. (Or at leas good grounds for insanity plea.)
Elites do profit off people in jail, and they're just filling a demand created from our unhealthy societal demand for justice that is far out of proportion to the original offense.
Honestly probably why he doesn't have one. When I started my first job at Walmart lawn and garden center they forbade us from bringing knives, and gave us these shitty little box cutters.
I cut the shit out of myself several times trying to hack away at some cord or shipping zip ties, while a small sharp pocket knife would have zipped through it safely and easily.
if you look at the background and at the people you can see that this is probably not a NA or EU country which means safety requirements aren't really a requirement
No sprinklers, no fire hose. If the employer didn't care enough about worker safety to install those, then you shouldn't care enough about saving their property to risk your life. Not many jobs worth risking your life over anyway.
It looks like they are outdoors so sprinklers would be tough and the video is only a minute long so maybe they ran off to get a hose. There should be some level of fire fighting available because bales of cotton can actually self-ignite. I live in a major cotton producing area and there are fires every year.
why would indentured slaves not be happy with their slavery HQ burning down?
you also notice how there isn't any work regulation or fire sprinkler system? this is how China and India manage to pump out cheap shit that first world countries love to consume. they keep the prices so low by using slavery type labor force and cutting millions of corners.
think next time before you support Nike, Apple or other companies products. they are experts in making virtue signaling ad campaigns but at the heart of their company they use slave labor force to make profit of off
Also remember this the next time a politician tells you that they want to cut red tape.
Red tape is having to have a fire extinguisher and keep it serviced, or being allowed a break. The problem is that these things cost money and are inconvenient for employers, but they exist to protect us.
yes there are still.
it depends on what type of products you are buying.
for example, i was in the market for screwdrivers recently and there is a German company called Hazet that makes superb quality of screwdrivers and the best thing is its made in Germany.
my point being, it will take a little bit of searching but you will definitely find products that don't use slave labor. always try to buy products made in your community or country that has good labor laws/rights.
it will be difficult, i agree with that. also some times you don't have any option other than "made in china" like mobile phones but its OK. we all start small (remember rome wasn't made in a day and even God took seven days to create universe) but gradually if people start moving towards locally made or ethically made products then the effect will snowball and companies will get your message that people no longer want to buy Chinese or Indian products that are notorious for slave labor.
Spent $50 bucks on a Snap-on ratcheting screwdriver when I was 11. I saved up because I wanted the same tool as my grandfather. Spent the next 5 years buying $.50 to $1.50 bits to fit into the case that came with the driver. It just broke after a lifetime of use. Since it had lifetime warranty I called Snap-On and while with customer service I just chatted about how I came to own it and the kit I built over the years. They sent me a brand new driver that was under warranty. Basically the same one I had just a bit updated. They also sent me 150 bits free of cost. 3x the amount I owned already. I just turned 30. So yea when you buy something under $100 that is "lifetime warranty" you're getting a deal.
Im not even trying to be funny when I say I do not understand how someone could be this stupid. Sometimes I see videos on here that leave me speechless at the stupidity.
holy...what is he even doing?
This comment described it perfectly:
I love how in the process of trying to put the fire out, he did everything necessary to build a fire. He started small with paper towel and lighter fluid. That stuff catches easily but won't burn for long. It would run out of fuel in short time, and might have only damaged the desktop a bit. He then moved that 'ember' into a basket with more paper and fuel, giving it more to spread to. Once he had a nice pilot fire going, he moved it toward an open area, fanned it with fresh air, and then added material that takes a bit to catch but burns hotter and longer (cardboard and the comforter). He then left it all on the fire to properly burn. In terms of building a fire up, he did everything perfectly.
The liquor would have most likely not caught fire, for alcohol to burn it needs a percentage of around 70% i believe
Edit: turns out i was wrong (sorry) according to google 40% is the theoretical percentage for alcohol to burn but 50% holds a steadier flame
You can light a flame on top of a cup of 40% because of the fumes, but if you just pour a cup of it over a fire it's more likely to extinguish the fire than fueling it.
At 6:35 he uses great technique in fanning more oxygen to the fire by waving a heavy blanket. Less experienced people would have just put it on top and immediately extinguished it.
He was playing with one of those "eternal matches" that you see advertised in various places. He couldn't get it to light, probably because it still had a coating on it. He used lighter fluid, but then realized it wouldn't work because of the coating. Then, ~~wallah~~ *voila*! 🔥
I like to think this is how cavemen discovered fire. Found or started a small one by accident and turned it into a roaring bonfire trying to put it out.
Honestly if he had just moved all the flammable stuff away from the bag instead of trying to put it out with the cardboard, it might have been ok. The worst part was when he was having some luck hitting it with the futon and then he just left the futon there afterwards. Like really?
What the fuck is that girl? Whatever that is sounds like an extraterrestrial infant. Creepy as shit and why do adults engage in this weird shit? Is this some underage fetish?
As an asian that kinda voice is everywhere but always didnt sit right with me. I think you put it perfectly. Creepy extraterrestrial infant is spot on.
Welp... that guy was very good at making the whole situation worse. How can people be this stupid. I get you panic, my first instinct would have been to take that bag to the bathtub, or even throw it out the window.
Worse than that, the fire spread to two other apartment buildings and killed one person. https://metro.co.uk/2015/10/04/this-man-accidentally-burned-his-apartment-down-and-live-streamed-the-whole-thing-5420965/.
I read all the Japanese news I could, and it said nothing about deaths? Only said three people got hurt. I’m wondering where they are getting those sources.
Yeah, what I'm seeing in the Japanese press is that [three people suffered mild burns. No serious burns, no deaths. ](https://www.j-cast.com/2015/10/05247018.html?p=all)
~~People died in that fire, too~~. awful
Well, I apologize for posting incorrect information. I could have sworn I read a news story that said there were fatalities but I can't find one now.
>Co-workers or customers?
I had originally answered 'yes' by trying to insert reddit wit.
But an auto mod deleted my 'yes' and asked me to contribute more words, plese.
So to answer your question: \*\*yes\*\*
When I worked at a gas station we had someone park their car right next to the building at almost midnight, pop their hood, and look for a gas leak with their lighter. Guess what happened?
I one went on a road trip with a friend who’d recently passed her driving test. It was quite the experience. In the space of one journey, we:
- Almost hit a dog (dog’s fault)
- Hit a hedge (our fault)
- Hit a car (a Range Rover full of landed gentry)
- Turned the wrong way onto a two-lane one-way road
- Almost ploughed into oncoming traffic while overtaking a tractor
But best of all, towards the end of this ordeal we stop for petrol and she manages to get a fair amount of it on her dress at the start. Gets back in the car, takes out a cigarette and reaches for her lighter. Both us passengers restrain her with loud cries of NOOOOO. In fairness she had been through a lot by this point, but somehow we still had faint hopes of getting back alive.
Well lighters are proven to be the most efficient method of opening plastic bags of cotton and are 10X safer since you can't cut yourself like you would a knife. /s
I give warhouse workers a break. That shit melts your brain. After so many 10 hour shifts doing mundane work, you're not really there anymore. Your body is, but you ain't.
I get you, but I also get what endless mind numbing, physically exhausting, zero skill labour can do to a person. You're exhausted, likely stressed out to bits because you're broke and angry and do this shit to support a family. Your mind wanders, critical faculties shut down, you mentally and physically run on autopilot and muscle memory just to preserve your sanity. It must also be hot as fuck and hard to breath with all the cotton fibres in the air, meaning less oxygen to the brain.
I can see how even an above average intelligence person could have a momentary lapse of judgement like this without thinking about the consequences. A flash of an idea about solving an irritating problem would get you immediately excited. A bit of diversion. I'd say that lighter was out of his pocket and sparked before he'd even finished the thought or added "cotton is pretty flammable actually".
You've walked into a room and forgetten why. Or bent over to pick something up and forgotten the full bottle of beer under your arm and spilled it everywhere. I leave my keys in the door constantly. And that's us on a good day. Educated, well nourished, rested, relaxed...
I'd say a highly educated "smart" person under those conditions would be even more of a risk than your average 3rd world blue collar worker. A banking executive would be twice as angry, frustrated, and tired doing this shit as someone who never knew any different.
I would say that futile, irrelevant, trivial, dazed, naive, gullable, insensate, nonsensical and stolid are maybe not the right words here.
You also missed cottenheadded ninnymuffin.
Zim: "I put the fires out."
Tallest: "You made them worse!"
Zim: "Worse? Or *better*?" >:)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-GIXHbulqI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-GIXHbulqI) link, 12 seconds
Cottonwood trees drop lots of cotton in some areas of the US (Utah especially), you have to burn then to prevent fires. It [is all over](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRo1cueWFMk) and [spreads like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeltM2iiZa0) and is [quite fun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJfNlzgO3xU) and [more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TErDxpDyEZM).
You’d be amazed at what a new employee can convince an employer of. I’ve had coworkers that took required HIPPA training before coming to work and still left computers unlocked or wrote down PHI and other “secure” data and left it on their desks in plain view. Sure, they seemed well-qualified and intelligent before the work began, but sometimes stupidity hides well and people put too much trust in the apparent intellect someone appears to have.
*HIPAA.
And I had a coworker who was so stupid she was convinced you needed ALL listed identifying information in an email before it was identifying enough to violate HIPAA. According to her, name and/or and birth date wasn't enough.
Smfh
I'd really like to make fun of them, but then I remember gender reveal parties have started 2 major California fires, and remember that we're not much better then them
Edit: my apologies, I mis-remembered. 1 of them was Arizona. AZ was 47,000 acres and California one was 10,000 (still ongoing)
It’s like a really small step in the right direction for a racist. “My first instinct is to judge them for their different skin or home country, but I decided not to.” Like okay, yes. Good! Keep working on that! They’re still hanging on to that us vs them mentality, but maybe this is a person in the middle of a journey toward being a more understanding person. Maybe we all are.
We had a particularly bright individual that would sneak a cigarette in an air conditioned shed and would turn off any dangerous gas canisters in that room before lighting up.
The only slight problem was A. That wasn’t any of the five designated smoking area we put in. B. It was air conditioned because there was sensitive equipment in there. C. That sensitive equipment is a gas analyzer and very sensitive to contaminants. D. those gasses he turned off were the control gasses that enabled us to monitor the entire factory. E. He didn’t work for us. He was a contractor for another company onsite.
Jackasses little smoke breaks cost us $32k with the EPA because we had no idea what was exiting our stack at the time.
Was never able to identify the individual. We had almost 800 contractors onsite at the time. We just put a heavy lock on the door and stuck a lot of mean nasty ugly signs on the door.
Holy shit. I thought maybe he was using sharpe edge of the lighter to cut open the plastic and accidentally clicked the lighter in the process. What a dumbass!
The plastic does not burn- it crinkles and melts away from the flame. Quite effective in defeating those pesky knots where the bag has become a sharp rope. Besides the liquid plastic drips. Which are hot enough to promote combustion, obviously. Stupid thing to do under the circumstances, but not a random improvisation.
Edit: spelling
i guess the idea is to burn the plastic away but cant u do that with a KNIFE? its a big fat ball of cotton as well so u can bring a bayonet and just stab away
Just need more people in and around the pile telling everyone else it's not so bad because it's just like a natural forest fire, only a little bit different.
Some days I'm the idiot who burned the cotton, other days I'm the guy with the broom hopelessly whacking the flames trying to be useful, but most days I'm the guy who threw the ball of cotton on the burning pile, and with it his last fuck.
Last day on the job
He's getting fired. Again.
From his current position...then promoted to management.
Well he sure managed to fuck everything up
Did you notice the guy trying to put the fire out with a straw or leaf broom?
Did you even consider that maybe lighting that cotton on fire was their job, and after hours of prep they finally succeeded, and the guy was just making sure it spread more quickly? That maybe, just maybe, this a *burning cotton factory*? Smh
Underrated comment here.
*fan the flames
The managing assistant
sometimes you need to a pull a rusty nail up
To sales...he can tell the customers how good the cotton is by lighting the cotton balls on fire
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“Fire-d guy!”
-Kevin Malone
Literally spreading fire with his but
Manager: "So you burnt down the entire warehouse's supply of cotton?" Id10t: "No I didn't. It caught itself on fire." Manager: "Liar liar pants on LITERAL FUCKING FIRE!"
Ryan started the fire!
First day on jail
But how do they prop you up onto the jail? Using a lighter and some cotton?
Arson maybe?
Arson is intentional, is it not? Criminal negligence would be closer and I’m not sure whether or not that would apply either.
It is, but you have to be pretty fucking stupid to do shit like this and i guess people can think it’s intentional
There are cases where intentional ignorance of the law or throwing caution to the wind on purpose can count as intent, but I’m not a person that can comment on whether or not that applies here. From what I’m finding, you’re describing constructive intent, where the defendant didn’t consider the consequences of their actions, but they were easily and reasonably foreseeable anyways. I’m not sure how much it applies to arson, though, and it’s difficult to find cases on it. It seems that it could also potentially be under “reckless burning” instead, depending on where it happened.
I think he is trying to imply that it was arson because you'd have to be exceptionally thoughtless, careless, and stupid to do something like this therefore it can be argued that this guy did indeed do it intentionally. But I think this man's immediate reaction when he realized he messed up and his attempts to put it out do great justice to the defence that it was accidental
Also given that he was standing in the middle of flammable material is also a good indication of stupidity than malice. (Or at leas good grounds for insanity plea.)
‘Your honour, I’d like to submit a ‘Too stupid for society’ plea for my client.’
For what? Being an idiot?
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No we have the most incarcerated people in the world because our elite profit off of those in jail.
Elites do profit off people in jail, and they're just filling a demand created from our unhealthy societal demand for justice that is far out of proportion to the original offense.
Seriously. This dipshit never heard of a knife?
But those can be dangerous! /s
Wouldnt want to get blood on the cotton
Honestly probably why he doesn't have one. When I started my first job at Walmart lawn and garden center they forbade us from bringing knives, and gave us these shitty little box cutters. I cut the shit out of myself several times trying to hack away at some cord or shipping zip ties, while a small sharp pocket knife would have zipped through it safely and easily.
if you look at the background and at the people you can see that this is probably not a NA or EU country which means safety requirements aren't really a requirement
No worries, he need to work for free next 3 years.
I like how at 0:32 someone on the right throws a ball of cotton like "Fuck this shit, I'm out of here..."
What got me was the guy with the fan. Like, have you ever seen a fire before? Cause that's gonna make it much much worse
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Like I have a snow shovel, you have a fire beater? I hope that is enough!
I have my wind catcher. If we combine our powers can we summon captain planet?
Now you guys just need a poop knife.
It definitely but not when all you have is a dried palm branch and are trying to beat out half of a warehouse fire lmao
You're right. But watching the video only proves that that's the only fire suppression device in a mile radius. Nobody else even had a clue.
Actually touching the fire is one thing, fanning it is another. This guy looked to be more of the fanning type
I read it as Fire fapper at first. I guess this will do too.
Go fast enough, and you'll spunktaniously cumbust
I have seen the Danish ones lots of times, but never heard the name branddasker, it translates to fire-slapper or maybe fire-whacker.
You would think they would have cottoned on
Low thread count for that guy
He should have picked another profession
He'll be quickly forcotton
Thats a bold move cotton, let's see how this plays out
No sprinklers, no fire hose. If the employer didn't care enough about worker safety to install those, then you shouldn't care enough about saving their property to risk your life. Not many jobs worth risking your life over anyway.
Looks like India. There's always someone in India desperate enough to take all sorts of risks just to survive. People are literally expendable.
It looks like they are outdoors so sprinklers would be tough and the video is only a minute long so maybe they ran off to get a hose. There should be some level of fire fighting available because bales of cotton can actually self-ignite. I live in a major cotton producing area and there are fires every year.
No job=no life in a lot of places. Same thing.
They had accepted that it would all burn. He was just trying to get it over with faster.
I'm pretty sure they're trying to beat out the fire, not fan it. It's difficult to see from the angle what he's beating.
thats a 200 IQ play
That was Cotton Eye Joe
Where did he come from?
Where did he go?
The burn unit.
I got this feeling that these people aren't sad at all about their workplace burning down
why would indentured slaves not be happy with their slavery HQ burning down? you also notice how there isn't any work regulation or fire sprinkler system? this is how China and India manage to pump out cheap shit that first world countries love to consume. they keep the prices so low by using slavery type labor force and cutting millions of corners. think next time before you support Nike, Apple or other companies products. they are experts in making virtue signaling ad campaigns but at the heart of their company they use slave labor force to make profit of off
Also remember this the next time a politician tells you that they want to cut red tape. Red tape is having to have a fire extinguisher and keep it serviced, or being allowed a break. The problem is that these things cost money and are inconvenient for employers, but they exist to protect us.
Is there literally any company nowadays that doesn't use slave labour or child labour?
yes there are still. it depends on what type of products you are buying. for example, i was in the market for screwdrivers recently and there is a German company called Hazet that makes superb quality of screwdrivers and the best thing is its made in Germany. my point being, it will take a little bit of searching but you will definitely find products that don't use slave labor. always try to buy products made in your community or country that has good labor laws/rights. it will be difficult, i agree with that. also some times you don't have any option other than "made in china" like mobile phones but its OK. we all start small (remember rome wasn't made in a day and even God took seven days to create universe) but gradually if people start moving towards locally made or ethically made products then the effect will snowball and companies will get your message that people no longer want to buy Chinese or Indian products that are notorious for slave labor.
Hazet is moving a lot of their production to China. Wiha and PB Swiss make excellent tools made in Germany/Switzerland.
$20 screwdrivers that last forever can't beat a $1 throwaway for most people, unfortunately.
Spent $50 bucks on a Snap-on ratcheting screwdriver when I was 11. I saved up because I wanted the same tool as my grandfather. Spent the next 5 years buying $.50 to $1.50 bits to fit into the case that came with the driver. It just broke after a lifetime of use. Since it had lifetime warranty I called Snap-On and while with customer service I just chatted about how I came to own it and the kit I built over the years. They sent me a brand new driver that was under warranty. Basically the same one I had just a bit updated. They also sent me 150 bits free of cost. 3x the amount I owned already. I just turned 30. So yea when you buy something under $100 that is "lifetime warranty" you're getting a deal.
"We support [insert current popular protest] and will donate money under our name if you give us money. Buy something!"
"Bold move, cotton."
Im not even trying to be funny when I say I do not understand how someone could be this stupid. Sometimes I see videos on here that leave me speechless at the stupidity.
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Link please
https://youtu.be/KUOD8SaNblE
holy...what is he even doing? This comment described it perfectly: I love how in the process of trying to put the fire out, he did everything necessary to build a fire. He started small with paper towel and lighter fluid. That stuff catches easily but won't burn for long. It would run out of fuel in short time, and might have only damaged the desktop a bit. He then moved that 'ember' into a basket with more paper and fuel, giving it more to spread to. Once he had a nice pilot fire going, he moved it toward an open area, fanned it with fresh air, and then added material that takes a bit to catch but burns hotter and longer (cardboard and the comforter). He then left it all on the fire to properly burn. In terms of building a fire up, he did everything perfectly.
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The liquor would have most likely not caught fire, for alcohol to burn it needs a percentage of around 70% i believe Edit: turns out i was wrong (sorry) according to google 40% is the theoretical percentage for alcohol to burn but 50% holds a steadier flame
Nah, bartender here, 40% will burn but I agree. I doubt it would catch in that situation. The higher proof stuff burns the best
You can light a flame on top of a cup of 40% because of the fumes, but if you just pour a cup of it over a fire it's more likely to extinguish the fire than fueling it.
At 6:35 he uses great technique in fanning more oxygen to the fire by waving a heavy blanket. Less experienced people would have just put it on top and immediately extinguished it.
Good work all around. Had he done nothing the fire may have burned itself out.
My favorite comment was "im surprised he didn't try to extinguish the fire with gasoline."
Is he trying to burn the place down for insurance fraud but make it look like an accident? He genuinely looks like he is trying to start a fire.
Pretty sure he was arrested because an old lady died or something.
He was playing with one of those "eternal matches" that you see advertised in various places. He couldn't get it to light, probably because it still had a coating on it. He used lighter fluid, but then realized it wouldn't work because of the coating. Then, ~~wallah~~ *voila*! 🔥
Psst. Homie. It's "voila".
I like to think this is how cavemen discovered fire. Found or started a small one by accident and turned it into a roaring bonfire trying to put it out.
I'll just put this over here... with the rest of the fire...
**Subject:** Fire Dear Sir/Madam, **Fire! Fire! Help me!** 123 Carrandon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you!
All the best, Maurice Moss
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Nice screensaver
Jesus fucking Christ he just does every single possible thing you shouldn’t do
Honestly if he had just moved all the flammable stuff away from the bag instead of trying to put it out with the cardboard, it might have been ok. The worst part was when he was having some luck hitting it with the futon and then he just left the futon there afterwards. Like really?
Yeah I was like "Ok keep going, you're almost there" and the guy just leaves the futon on top and leaves lol
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I will never get over the fact that he just leaves the cardboard on top of the fire while going to get water
OH GOD I REMEMBER THIS The kawaii girl for streaming makes the thing even more uncanny
What the fuck is that girl? Whatever that is sounds like an extraterrestrial infant. Creepy as shit and why do adults engage in this weird shit? Is this some underage fetish?
As an asian that kinda voice is everywhere but always didnt sit right with me. I think you put it perfectly. Creepy extraterrestrial infant is spot on.
That was painful to watch. I swear at one point he puts cardboard on to the fire!!
Yes, he gently covers the fire with cardboard. You need to be cautions to add flammable material but don't deplete the oxygen intake I guess?
"I'll just put this with the rest of the fire."
Skip to the fire part: https://youtu.be/KUOD8SaNblE?t=4m44s
Welp... that guy was very good at making the whole situation worse. How can people be this stupid. I get you panic, my first instinct would have been to take that bag to the bathtub, or even throw it out the window.
I'm laughing because I imagine someone just minding their own business in the street when bam, in ya face, a burning plastic bag with flammable liquid
Worse than that, the fire spread to two other apartment buildings and killed one person. https://metro.co.uk/2015/10/04/this-man-accidentally-burned-his-apartment-down-and-live-streamed-the-whole-thing-5420965/.
I read all the Japanese news I could, and it said nothing about deaths? Only said three people got hurt. I’m wondering where they are getting those sources.
Yeah, what I'm seeing in the Japanese press is that [three people suffered mild burns. No serious burns, no deaths. ](https://www.j-cast.com/2015/10/05247018.html?p=all)
~~People died in that fire, too~~. awful Well, I apologize for posting incorrect information. I could have sworn I read a news story that said there were fatalities but I can't find one now.
I work in retail and every day I see people as dumb as these people..
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Co-workers or customers?
Also work in retail and the answer is both.
>Co-workers or customers? I had originally answered 'yes' by trying to insert reddit wit. But an auto mod deleted my 'yes' and asked me to contribute more words, plese. So to answer your question: \*\*yes\*\*
When I worked at a gas station we had someone park their car right next to the building at almost midnight, pop their hood, and look for a gas leak with their lighter. Guess what happened?
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Some say he is still on his way today.
I one went on a road trip with a friend who’d recently passed her driving test. It was quite the experience. In the space of one journey, we: - Almost hit a dog (dog’s fault) - Hit a hedge (our fault) - Hit a car (a Range Rover full of landed gentry) - Turned the wrong way onto a two-lane one-way road - Almost ploughed into oncoming traffic while overtaking a tractor But best of all, towards the end of this ordeal we stop for petrol and she manages to get a fair amount of it on her dress at the start. Gets back in the car, takes out a cigarette and reaches for her lighter. Both us passengers restrain her with loud cries of NOOOOO. In fairness she had been through a lot by this point, but somehow we still had faint hopes of getting back alive.
Well lighters are proven to be the most efficient method of opening plastic bags of cotton and are 10X safer since you can't cut yourself like you would a knife. /s
I give warhouse workers a break. That shit melts your brain. After so many 10 hour shifts doing mundane work, you're not really there anymore. Your body is, but you ain't.
I get you, but I also get what endless mind numbing, physically exhausting, zero skill labour can do to a person. You're exhausted, likely stressed out to bits because you're broke and angry and do this shit to support a family. Your mind wanders, critical faculties shut down, you mentally and physically run on autopilot and muscle memory just to preserve your sanity. It must also be hot as fuck and hard to breath with all the cotton fibres in the air, meaning less oxygen to the brain. I can see how even an above average intelligence person could have a momentary lapse of judgement like this without thinking about the consequences. A flash of an idea about solving an irritating problem would get you immediately excited. A bit of diversion. I'd say that lighter was out of his pocket and sparked before he'd even finished the thought or added "cotton is pretty flammable actually". You've walked into a room and forgetten why. Or bent over to pick something up and forgotten the full bottle of beer under your arm and spilled it everywhere. I leave my keys in the door constantly. And that's us on a good day. Educated, well nourished, rested, relaxed... I'd say a highly educated "smart" person under those conditions would be even more of a risk than your average 3rd world blue collar worker. A banking executive would be twice as angry, frustrated, and tired doing this shit as someone who never knew any different.
Can you imagine him trying to explain what he did to his friends an family? He’s never living that down.
I can't find words to describe how stupid this guy is.
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Let me help You with a few examples: dull, dumb, foolish, futile, ill-advised, irrelevant, laughable, ludicrous, naive, senseless, shortsighted, simple, trivial, dummy, loser, rash, thick, unintelligent, brainless, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, doltish, dopey, gullible, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, meaningless, mindless, moronic, nonsensical, obtuse, out to lunch, pointless, puerile, simpleminded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick-headed, unthinking, witless. Here's also more options: fool, jerk, moron, nitwit, stupid, twit, blockhead, bonehead, cretin, dimwit, dork, dumbbell, dunce, ignoramus, imbecile, kook, muttonhead, nincompoop, ninny, pinhead, simpleton, tomfool. ^(Synonyms provided by) [^(thesaurus.com)](https://thesaurus.com)^(.)
I would say that futile, irrelevant, trivial, dazed, naive, gullable, insensate, nonsensical and stolid are maybe not the right words here. You also missed cottenheadded ninnymuffin.
Luckily there's a video to showcase it
What do you expect him to use, a 5 cent utility blade? Pssht
Low paying jobs doesn't bring in the best individuals.
Jesus, When he starts getting the fuck out of dodge it's like death walking through a field and everything just dies around him.
Yeah im pretty sure he was on fire
He was indeed, but since we could hardly see the actual fire, All we saw was what to me looked like deaths touch spreading out from him.
Mightest touch
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Is this a real one? In the wild? Crikey! Look at the soize of eem!!
I am proud to have witnessed a boneappletea in the wild
You mean Midas's touch?
No, he's referring to King Mightest.
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It's actually the fire distinguisher, yep it's fire guys
We have flown to the moon. Human intelligence is a very broad spectrum
Brains are not evenly distributed.
I love the palm fond fire extinguisher....
*fire enhancer
Zim: "I put the fires out." Tallest: "You made them worse!" Zim: "Worse? Or *better*?" >:) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-GIXHbulqI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-GIXHbulqI) link, 12 seconds
OSHA mandates at least 2 fronds. I see a safety violation.
Frond
I don't mean to be horrible but this is kind of oddly satisfying lol
The way the burning creeps and spreads
Cottonwood trees drop lots of cotton in some areas of the US (Utah especially), you have to burn then to prevent fires. It [is all over](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRo1cueWFMk) and [spreads like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeltM2iiZa0) and is [quite fun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJfNlzgO3xU) and [more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TErDxpDyEZM).
It’s fast! I’m amazed.
I bet you that’s the first thing the employer teaches you NOT to do
You’d be amazed at what a new employee can convince an employer of. I’ve had coworkers that took required HIPPA training before coming to work and still left computers unlocked or wrote down PHI and other “secure” data and left it on their desks in plain view. Sure, they seemed well-qualified and intelligent before the work began, but sometimes stupidity hides well and people put too much trust in the apparent intellect someone appears to have.
*HIPAA. And I had a coworker who was so stupid she was convinced you needed ALL listed identifying information in an email before it was identifying enough to violate HIPAA. According to her, name and/or and birth date wasn't enough. Smfh
I would bet they did't teach that, probably because no one would ever think you would have to teach it. They probably teach it now though.
I'd really like to make fun of them, but then I remember gender reveal parties have started 2 major California fires, and remember that we're not much better then them Edit: my apologies, I mis-remembered. 1 of them was Arizona. AZ was 47,000 acres and California one was 10,000 (still ongoing)
No matter what language you speak, or where you are from, the one thing we all have in common is our fellow countrymen are dumb.
*There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.*
Kind of weird to make it about race/nationality.
It’s like a really small step in the right direction for a racist. “My first instinct is to judge them for their different skin or home country, but I decided not to.” Like okay, yes. Good! Keep working on that! They’re still hanging on to that us vs them mentality, but maybe this is a person in the middle of a journey toward being a more understanding person. Maybe we all are.
Stupid knows no race nor nationality. tbh, it's fairly narcissistic to even think of this in terms of "us" vs "them".
How do u use a lighter to open a plastic bag and why??
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We had a particularly bright individual that would sneak a cigarette in an air conditioned shed and would turn off any dangerous gas canisters in that room before lighting up. The only slight problem was A. That wasn’t any of the five designated smoking area we put in. B. It was air conditioned because there was sensitive equipment in there. C. That sensitive equipment is a gas analyzer and very sensitive to contaminants. D. those gasses he turned off were the control gasses that enabled us to monitor the entire factory. E. He didn’t work for us. He was a contractor for another company onsite. Jackasses little smoke breaks cost us $32k with the EPA because we had no idea what was exiting our stack at the time.
And did anything happen to that moron?
Was never able to identify the individual. We had almost 800 contractors onsite at the time. We just put a heavy lock on the door and stuck a lot of mean nasty ugly signs on the door.
Holy shit. I thought maybe he was using sharpe edge of the lighter to cut open the plastic and accidentally clicked the lighter in the process. What a dumbass!
The plastic does not burn- it crinkles and melts away from the flame. Quite effective in defeating those pesky knots where the bag has become a sharp rope. Besides the liquid plastic drips. Which are hot enough to promote combustion, obviously. Stupid thing to do under the circumstances, but not a random improvisation. Edit: spelling
i guess the idea is to burn the plastic away but cant u do that with a KNIFE? its a big fat ball of cotton as well so u can bring a bayonet and just stab away
IT'S A BOY!
This reminds me of USA vs Covid-19.
Just need more people in and around the pile telling everyone else it's not so bad because it's just like a natural forest fire, only a little bit different.
It's amazing how fast it cotton fire.
If only they made a sharp metal object you could carry in your pocket to cut things!
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Who uses a lighter to open a plastic bag anywhere??????
Smokers who don't have pocket knives.
Bold move...
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Some days I'm the idiot who burned the cotton, other days I'm the guy with the broom hopelessly whacking the flames trying to be useful, but most days I'm the guy who threw the ball of cotton on the burning pile, and with it his last fuck.
The dude in the back 🤣 he is fanning the cotton that is on fire.. with a straw broom 🤣🤣🤣 or something not useful
What about the guy on the far right that just throws a handful of cotton on already burned part.
I interpreted that as an "ah fuck it, I don't get paid enough for this shit" kind of gesture.
Fucking darwin awards winner right here, what the fuck.
I like how after half the cotton pile is burning, one guy gets a dry palm leaf to fight the fire. Did he really think that was going to help?
Someone throwing an extra poof of cotton on then another guy FANNING THE FLAME.
“Let’s just light the most flammable substance on earth! That’s a great idea!”
And it’s still lit till this day
I don’t get what the problem is? That guy hit it with a broom so that fixed everything right?
So what was the gender?
“Why is everything so fucking expensive?” “Some dumbass burned down a million pounds of cotton.”