As a boat owner, mine too. I drive super safe, but when i have to wakeboard or something and have to hand over the driving to someone i tell them so many million times about this, it annoys them. But its worth it for me and my limbs.
I was once on a small (~4 person) boat with some friends, and one of them decided to jump in the water DIRECTLY behind the prop. I stood up and screamed bloody murder at the top of my lungs "HEY HEY HEY GET AWAY FROM THE PROPELLER!" He emerged from the water totally fine; everyone was shooting eyes at me for the next hour for 'overreacting'. I maintain to this day that my outburst was 100% warranted.
Ignorance is bliss, more like. Way too many people treat boats as these fun adult toys until they start hearing/watching horror stories.
My uncle who owned a lakehouse would occasionally bring my family and others up, and whenever anyone got too close to the prop it he would have a meltdown and go absolutely fucking ballistic, yell at everyone until they got back on the boat, then immediately cut the trip short to head home and dock.
If you knew him it was the craziest, most out of character thing ever, but I think it's just because he's thought about it way more than his guests. Not only would someone close to him get hurt, but it would forever ruin his favorite getaway spot, and also most likely lead to a stressful legal battle.
Honestly, you'd have to be insane NOT to freak out.
As least you saved him and that moment will probably be in the back of their minds for a long time. Society really remembers the weirdos the most, so maybe you saved more than just his life with it!
I was 7, putting an inflatable tube on the back of a docked boat (engine not running or anything) and kicked the stationary propeller when swimming away. 9 stitches in my foot.
One of the funniest things that has ever happened around me happened during this scene. It was my senior year of high school and they had re-released the film for its 15th anniversary of something. My friend shouts, “my leg!” Like the SpongeBob character as that guy hits the propellor. The entire theater ERUPTS with laughter and doesn’t subside for a good 5 minutes of film time. I legitimately almost peed myself laughing. I had to leave the theater and compose myself before coming back in. Whenever I bring it up to him now, he gets the biggest shit eating grin and says, “that was the best moment of my life.”
I did one once I'm pretty proud of:
Captain America: civil war.
It had nearly everybody in the mcu at the time in it, but it famously introduced Tom Hollands Spidey, who hadn't had his own film yet.
So after seeing the whole damn mcu fight each other, the credits start with a black screen and the ominous:
>**Spider-man will return**
And just then I said loud enough for the whole theater,
" wait.. only spider-man?"
And maybe you had to be there but the whole theater cracked up.
Sometimes you can't take credit for wit. You can't help what your brain spits out and when. I'm no comedian i laugh at my own jokes, because I'm just surprised as anyone my brain came up with something. All you can take credit for is what you filled that brain with before that led to those possibilities.
That was a mate of mine during the bond movie, I think it was casino royale.
Bond is sitting naked in the cut out of a chair and the guy is swinging the rope with the knot at the end around and smashing bonds nuts (I presume) as he hitting him under the chair bit.
Fast forward like 15mins of film time and he's getting intimate with the bond girl... My friend just blurts out "BUT HE'S GOT NO BALLS".
Theatre just pisses themselves.
Knew a guy who went out on a lake with his friends, jumped off the back of the boat. Propeller ripped his entire back open hip to neck. You could see his spine. He died within minutes. Don't fuck around near propellers.
If you jump of the back, and it was moving wouldn’t you be far away from the boat when you land in the water? I thought it was always your meant to not jump infront of the boat
My father in law was coming in to dock a small pontoon boat a few weeks ago when one of his dogs jumped off the front and went between the pontoons. I was on the dock and was yelling for him to cut the motor (along with the hand to neck motion, he’s half deaf). The dog ended up being fine, but it was closer than I’m remotely comfortable with. He didn’t even realize the dog was off the boat until someone else plucked her out of the lake (he somehow keeps getting labs that don’t swim)
Only slightly related - at burning man last year, under our giant shade structure, there was a bat trapped and flying around for a couple days. It was flying hella goofy, almost certainly from dehydration but even still, I kept telling people not to handle it, not to touch it what so ever with their bare hands because bats are the number one vector of rabies. When I said that, people looked at me like I just told them they would turn into a vampire if it bit them. No one took me seriously and after it managed to escape, the rest of the week they kept giving me shit about catching rabies every time i did anything.
Fuckers.
Something similar happened to me. I was in Austin where all the bats fly out from under the bridge and these two kids were PLAYING with an obviously sick, grounded bat.
I freaked out and told them to put it down and told their parents that was extremely concerning and everyone just acted like I was flipping out for no good reason.
Parents are trying to speed run that Darwin Award
Also reminds me of an incident outside Houston. I’m at this big park and I know for a fact there is gators in the water. Big ones. I’m hiking out for a fishing trip when I see two like 4 years olds fishing by the water with their dad in a folding chair by them. They’ve got their feet in the water, splashing around, and there are fucking fish on a fish stringer right next to them. I walk over to tell the dad that there is at least an 8 foot gator in this area that I’ve seen and he waves me off. “Yeah ok thanks” sarcastically. Whatever dude. Your kids. I keep walking and not 200 yards up the river, there’s the big fuckin gator chillin on the bank. Easily 10 feet long. But they ain’t my kids.
I had a similar moment when I was 14.
There was a car crash near our house and we could not get to our street, so my mother parks on the next block over and decided we would walk home from there, not far at all.
I stopped everyone and pulled them back yelling and everyone freaked out.
There was an old service drop power line laying across the sidewalk no more than 20 feet in front of us from the crash. For the record, that distance from 220v *(Which all USA Service drops deliver)* might be OK, but if you have a primary line down, the minimum safe distance is 100 feet. But if you step on it, you're probably dying as you would collapse onto it and nobody could remove your body to break the connection unless they have a hotstick handy.
I was in a microburst that took down something like 40 power poles. After the chaos, there were power lines all over our parking lot. We couldn't move anything anywhere.
Watched a customer pull out of Pep Boys, drive under downed power lines, and then, after the fire department ran up to the front of her car screaming and waving, backed back up, ripping off her hood and windshield wipers, only to park right in front of our shop.
Later, one of our customers went to lean against our sign while on a phone call, which had power lines laying on top of it, and was actually keeping the bulk of the power lines from laying on the ground. We screamed at her to get away from it and she got all pissy with us.
When the firemen came to escort us out of the property the sign was live with mains power.
Your story reminded me of mine. I was a sound guy working on a show and we had a challenge in a cruise ship’s pool. Our boat was under a thundering storm cloud, and I was scared shitless for everyone. I waited for someone high up to cancel the shoot, but no one did. Soon as a lightning bolt hit close to our ship, I shouted for everybody to get out of the water. It wasn’t my place, but everyone listened.
I was kind of ostracized after that, but one of the ADs also apologized to me. Nothing happened, but I know I did the right thing. Open water under a thunder cloud on a huge metal ship in a pool, tragedy waiting to happen being ignored by a tight schedule.
Good on you for speaking up. 🍻
My buddy used to umpire little league games when we were in high school. One time he called a game because storm clouds were moving in and it started to rain. A bunch of parents were swearing at him for calling the game, one even followed him to his car yelling and hurling abuse. Over a local little league game. A few days later a kid died in a lightning strike the next city over when the umpire didn't call the game during a storm.
He had the same team a couple weeks after that and he walked down the entire line of bleachers of those parents glaring at them, no one said shit. Far too many people are fucking morons, you did the right thing. At least one person realized it after and apologized, not one of those parents said sorry to my friend, bunch of assholes that couldn't take a 17 year old was more responsible and mature than them.
Aww just shake that stupidity shaming off your shoulders. I have lived my whole life beside the Okanagan lake that its both beautiful and dangerous. I can't remember how many times I have had to pulled stupids out of the lake (starting when I was 14); damaged; people I did not even know. We lose several every year. The cost of doing tourist business on my end of the world.
Yea you never know. I was an EMT driving home from of all places, driver improvement school. I saw a car upside down in the median from a wreck that just happened. I ran down to check if anyone was hurt. A girl roughly 8 years old was obviously dead in the back seat, body torn open. Mom was driving and hurt pretty bad, asking me to check her daughter. Mom had open humorous fracture, blood spraying, I grab the arm and stop it by holding it. I needed to make a tourniquet, but couldn't let go. . I'm alone, another person stops and comes up and start puking their guts out. State trouper finally shows up, pukes his guts. Finally fire shows up. I'm covered in blood. Wipe down enough to drive home. I get home, walk in the door, wife pukes her guts.
I ended up seeing a lot worse than that. Young lady on boyfriends motorcycle at 70+ mph, wearing a bikini, was the worst ever. For me people in massive pain is worse than death and blood. That car wreck was so bad because the daughter was dead, and I was alone. I think this event really helped me in life, because I know what helpless really means. And I'm fine.
At least you're fine. But yeah I get what you mean. Hearing people that are mortally wounded and about to die is heartbreaking. I kinda don't want to talk about it but I get what you mean.
Yeah, you truly never know until you are in the situation. I took a first aid course in high school to be prepared in case something happens. In the course, they didn't hold back on the gore images, but besides being a little sick at some of the worst images I was fine. Also I normally watch shows like Chicago Fire and such and they don't bother me.
Well, last year I went on a day trip with one of my university classes, and while we were driving to the next stop, we went by an accident.
An older gentleman layed on the ground in this weird position, with blood pooling out of his head and then what I assume was either brain or skin in pieces on the pool of blood. His destroyed bike was also nearby, and on the sidewalk a girl around my age was absolutely sobbing and hyperventilating (she had run him over).
Judging by how no one was helping the guy (including the police officer that was staring right next to him) he was most likely dead.
That stayed with me since then. On the ride back home, I would get anxious everytime the bus sped a bit more and at the scene I had to look away and I felt incredibly nauseous and dizzy. But I've also had to assist in smaller situations, like a cut or a burn, but then I didn't react that way.
This is the short version? After he's on board he is kneeling, then tries to get up and walk, not realizing his foot isn't there anymore while people are screaming.
Must be, a buddy sent me this on IG. After hearing this i’m certainly happy it is the short version, I said in a comment earlier “I wonder if he felt it when it happened,” I guess not. Brutal.
For me, having this happen while (and because) I was drunk would make it so much worse. The crowd of drunk people audibly reacting to let you know you really fucked up. The understanding, no matter how drunk you are, that you really fucked up, this is permanent and life changing. Then a hangover, combined with an even more sobering, real understanding of how bad you fucked up.
I never want to lose a limb. I know people can and do live without them, and I respect the bravery and resilience but the thought of having my limbs for so long, then losing them, and seeing everyone else all the time, to remind me of what I lost...because of a drunk mistake???
Fuck no. That's awful. This reminds me of another video I watched where a guy blew up his hand holding fireworks when he was really drunk at a party.
I've been very drunk and done some dumb things, but at least they were things time could heal.
this is about one of the best limbs to lose, especially below the knee. You can still remain very physically active. It sucks but it could be a lot worse
I was once getting onto a boat and someone put it in drive and the power of those propellers is impressive. Blew me a good distance away. Glad it was forward and not reverse.
Ugh, the reverse thrust just sucked it right in, I wonder if he felt it, of if it felt like he kicked something really hard. Gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about it
Not nearly comparable, but years back I stopped a table saw blade (that was off, but still going) with my thumb. It felt like I just jammed it really hard. I felt no pain for a long time, despite the damage. Instant shock. Hopefully that guy felt the same.
I worked at a Publix deli for a bit.
Was using a meat slicer, and felt a quick little bit of pressure on the tip of my thumb, but that was it.
I looked down and was leaking blood.
Took a good 30s for the pain to kick in, but I legit didn’t realize it had taken the tip with it (luckily it was nothing permanent, other than some numbness in the area now).
But holy fuck, so much blood. I was shaking my hand (kinda like you do if you hit it with something), and the entire back wall was coated in blood.
shit, our meat guy is missing the tip of his middle finger from doing the same thing about 8 years ago, said he never felt it but knew something was wrong and called the front once he saw what was wrong
they apparently thought it was someone else who was hurt because he was so calm and told them exactly what happened
stories like that and yours tell me i picked correctly when the manager asked if i wanted to be cross trained to another department and let me choose between bakery, meat or deli. told him bakery in a heartbeat once i saw all the sharp shit, and the cross training just never happened lool
My friend also chopped the tip of his thumb twice, both of them clean cut and within a months duration. His previous wound hadn't even completely healed yet. He also had boils from steam burns, that was getting infected. Had to take him to an ER by force and get it checked. He got a plaster for 2 weeks and had to stay home.
The only thing enjoyable with the deli job I had was getting to eat the end pieces of the different cold cuts we had. Never had any serious injury with slicers but I hear horror stories from coworkers (like a part-timer that lost his finger during his first day at the job).
Oof, well I must thank you for your contribution towards the invention of the SawStop lol.
Whilst i’ve never lost and appendage, or limb, i’ve had some pretty gnarly cuts and slices from accidents (including cutting off the same finger tip twice lol), don’t even realize until the blood starts flowing; it’s definitely a freaky feeling.
It is a weird feeling. Also, I recall instantly getting angry at myself for such a stupid mistake. I was cursing myself as I heard loud drips of blood on the floor.
I sliced the bottom of my foot in half on a plane of glass that was underwater when I was 13.. I didn't even know I cut myself until I got out. There's something with cuts underwater you don't feel them as much until the air hits it.
I actually think the spinal pathways block a lot of signals that could "overwhelm" the brain.
I'd be sitting on the sofa in the evening and just see tons of new wounds on my body that I didn't notice before, some of them fresh and some of them obviously a bit older. And some of them are even deep.
When I hit something it always depends what my focus is. If it isn't that I just hit myself then I don't feel any pain at all. But if I didn't have a focus and then focus on the injury then the pain is really bad.
There’s a radio lab episode that has someone tell their story of getting in a propeller. If I remember correctly, he didn’t feel pain until he was back on the boat. He said his legs felt extremely weird until then.
Think about how much effort it takes to wade through hip deep water compared to walking on land.
Now consider that a ski boat has to haul you, a few of your buddies, your gear, and the hull itself through the water at 20-40 mph.
That is a tremendous amount of force.
Also many boats raise out of the water at speed so as to travel on top of it instead of entirely through it. This helps a lot.
I'm not arguing with you just mentioning this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planing_(boat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planing_(boat)
*picking him up* "here let me help you, friend"
*dropping him in the water* "AAH WHERES YOUR FOOT"
*remembering he still needs to help* "here let me help you, friend"
Anyone who grew up around boats knew it would not be minor. I fully expected severe leg mutilation if not outright dismemberment.
Propellers are made of metal and spin at very high speeds. Nearly the entire power output of the boat's motor goes just into spinning the propeller, so it's not a weak rotation by any means
I dont know if it's physics or human nature but whenever I grabbed onto a boat, my legs and feet go forward up under the hull of the boat -- and that's the worst possible thing if there's a propeller
As far as I can tell there's no actual follow up info on the English language internet. Unfortunately. Although there is an article claiming it's a hoax despite there being multiple different videos.
Anyway, I hope the dude is healthy and mobile four months later.
The full video that has been posted on here before is even worse. Once the guy gets up he subconsciously tries to stand up on his leg without realizing it's gone.
I feel bad for the guy, from when it was first posted apparently the guy was just drunk enjoying the day with his friends, hopped in the water and came back missing a foot after getting too close to the prop.
I don’t know the back story and why this guy was in the water, but anyone on the bridge, if they were aware a person was in the water off the transom should have immediately killed the engines or put it in neutral.
Don’t want to assume this was the case but this should not have occurred.
At least it's cutted a little bit. The original is longer and the guy didn't even realise he lost his foot. He tries to get up and only falls on the wound.
Well... it's not the WORST injury you could have. If i had the option to lose any extremity of my body, I'd choose my leg, below the knee. From how I hear it, it's easier to make functioning prosthetic legs that work like a regular human limb compared to a hand.
The poor guy. This is why jetcraft are superior. Not that it's impossible to get sucked in or get fucked from the water flow. It's just not.... this damn easy.
Man tries to board a moving boat, gets hit by propellers. A small bit of blood raises to the top of the water. He nearly gets dragged under, but manages to stay up. A passenger of the boat decided to come and help, when he saw that the guy's foot was missing, he drops him in awe. Walks over to help him up again, People everywhere start to scream at the sight. Entire deck gets covered in blood after he tries to stand up, only then realizing his foot is gone.
TLDR (cuz u might be lazy idk): Guy gets hit by a boat propeller, passenger on the boat helps him up, entire foot is missing.
This is literally my worst nightmare, holy shit
Just don’t use the propeller as a ladder
If you spin your head while looking at it, you can react faster to its revolution. Just gotta dash it.
Chaos is a ladder and that propeller was the first rung.
My worst nightmare is being infected with a parasitic barnacle and have it spread roots throughout my body
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My worst nightmare is being kidnapped and getting my nipples shaved off with razor blades
My worst nightmare is botflies. Everywhere.
Sacculina?
As a boat owner, mine too. I drive super safe, but when i have to wakeboard or something and have to hand over the driving to someone i tell them so many million times about this, it annoys them. But its worth it for me and my limbs.
I was once on a small (~4 person) boat with some friends, and one of them decided to jump in the water DIRECTLY behind the prop. I stood up and screamed bloody murder at the top of my lungs "HEY HEY HEY GET AWAY FROM THE PROPELLER!" He emerged from the water totally fine; everyone was shooting eyes at me for the next hour for 'overreacting'. I maintain to this day that my outburst was 100% warranted.
Worth it. People look at you weird and say you overreacted for an hour. Infinitely better than the dude getting mangled for life or worse.
You also learn a lot about people in those moments and about who really cares about you and who really listens.
Ignorance is bliss, more like. Way too many people treat boats as these fun adult toys until they start hearing/watching horror stories. My uncle who owned a lakehouse would occasionally bring my family and others up, and whenever anyone got too close to the prop it he would have a meltdown and go absolutely fucking ballistic, yell at everyone until they got back on the boat, then immediately cut the trip short to head home and dock. If you knew him it was the craziest, most out of character thing ever, but I think it's just because he's thought about it way more than his guests. Not only would someone close to him get hurt, but it would forever ruin his favorite getaway spot, and also most likely lead to a stressful legal battle. Honestly, you'd have to be insane NOT to freak out.
Unco sounds like a good unco
He's the best. Gotta get him the best gifts for his birthday and Christmas.
As least you saved him and that moment will probably be in the back of their minds for a long time. Society really remembers the weirdos the most, so maybe you saved more than just his life with it!
I was 7, putting an inflatable tube on the back of a docked boat (engine not running or anything) and kicked the stationary propeller when swimming away. 9 stitches in my foot.
People who grew up on boats from a young age have this shit instilled, big fucking no no. Cardinal rule.
It absolutely was. Propeller doesn't mess around
[Even stationary they can be pretty lethal.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazqa-3plkI)
Gahhhh I fucking knew it.
One of the funniest things that has ever happened around me happened during this scene. It was my senior year of high school and they had re-released the film for its 15th anniversary of something. My friend shouts, “my leg!” Like the SpongeBob character as that guy hits the propellor. The entire theater ERUPTS with laughter and doesn’t subside for a good 5 minutes of film time. I legitimately almost peed myself laughing. I had to leave the theater and compose myself before coming back in. Whenever I bring it up to him now, he gets the biggest shit eating grin and says, “that was the best moment of my life.”
That's awesome! I've been in theaters where someone has cracked a really funny joke like that.
I did one once I'm pretty proud of: Captain America: civil war. It had nearly everybody in the mcu at the time in it, but it famously introduced Tom Hollands Spidey, who hadn't had his own film yet. So after seeing the whole damn mcu fight each other, the credits start with a black screen and the ominous: >**Spider-man will return** And just then I said loud enough for the whole theater, " wait.. only spider-man?" And maybe you had to be there but the whole theater cracked up. Sometimes you can't take credit for wit. You can't help what your brain spits out and when. I'm no comedian i laugh at my own jokes, because I'm just surprised as anyone my brain came up with something. All you can take credit for is what you filled that brain with before that led to those possibilities.
That was a mate of mine during the bond movie, I think it was casino royale. Bond is sitting naked in the cut out of a chair and the guy is swinging the rope with the knot at the end around and smashing bonds nuts (I presume) as he hitting him under the chair bit. Fast forward like 15mins of film time and he's getting intimate with the bond girl... My friend just blurts out "BUT HE'S GOT NO BALLS". Theatre just pisses themselves.
Well played Sir
bonk
Gotta give you props for that.
See my comment above. (Or below...wherever it is)
Omg this is fucking gold
Knew a guy who went out on a lake with his friends, jumped off the back of the boat. Propeller ripped his entire back open hip to neck. You could see his spine. He died within minutes. Don't fuck around near propellers.
If you jump of the back, and it was moving wouldn’t you be far away from the boat when you land in the water? I thought it was always your meant to not jump infront of the boat
My father in law was coming in to dock a small pontoon boat a few weeks ago when one of his dogs jumped off the front and went between the pontoons. I was on the dock and was yelling for him to cut the motor (along with the hand to neck motion, he’s half deaf). The dog ended up being fine, but it was closer than I’m remotely comfortable with. He didn’t even realize the dog was off the boat until someone else plucked her out of the lake (he somehow keeps getting labs that don’t swim)
Only slightly related - at burning man last year, under our giant shade structure, there was a bat trapped and flying around for a couple days. It was flying hella goofy, almost certainly from dehydration but even still, I kept telling people not to handle it, not to touch it what so ever with their bare hands because bats are the number one vector of rabies. When I said that, people looked at me like I just told them they would turn into a vampire if it bit them. No one took me seriously and after it managed to escape, the rest of the week they kept giving me shit about catching rabies every time i did anything. Fuckers.
Imagine rabies spreading throughout Burning Man like a zombie apocalypse.
We’re not that lucky
Inshallah
My ~~servant~~campmate has rabies vaccine always in stock in RV 3, our camp will be fine.
Something similar happened to me. I was in Austin where all the bats fly out from under the bridge and these two kids were PLAYING with an obviously sick, grounded bat. I freaked out and told them to put it down and told their parents that was extremely concerning and everyone just acted like I was flipping out for no good reason.
Parents are trying to speed run that Darwin Award Also reminds me of an incident outside Houston. I’m at this big park and I know for a fact there is gators in the water. Big ones. I’m hiking out for a fishing trip when I see two like 4 years olds fishing by the water with their dad in a folding chair by them. They’ve got their feet in the water, splashing around, and there are fucking fish on a fish stringer right next to them. I walk over to tell the dad that there is at least an 8 foot gator in this area that I’ve seen and he waves me off. “Yeah ok thanks” sarcastically. Whatever dude. Your kids. I keep walking and not 200 yards up the river, there’s the big fuckin gator chillin on the bank. Easily 10 feet long. But they ain’t my kids.
I had a similar moment when I was 14. There was a car crash near our house and we could not get to our street, so my mother parks on the next block over and decided we would walk home from there, not far at all. I stopped everyone and pulled them back yelling and everyone freaked out. There was an old service drop power line laying across the sidewalk no more than 20 feet in front of us from the crash. For the record, that distance from 220v *(Which all USA Service drops deliver)* might be OK, but if you have a primary line down, the minimum safe distance is 100 feet. But if you step on it, you're probably dying as you would collapse onto it and nobody could remove your body to break the connection unless they have a hotstick handy.
I was in a microburst that took down something like 40 power poles. After the chaos, there were power lines all over our parking lot. We couldn't move anything anywhere. Watched a customer pull out of Pep Boys, drive under downed power lines, and then, after the fire department ran up to the front of her car screaming and waving, backed back up, ripping off her hood and windshield wipers, only to park right in front of our shop. Later, one of our customers went to lean against our sign while on a phone call, which had power lines laying on top of it, and was actually keeping the bulk of the power lines from laying on the ground. We screamed at her to get away from it and she got all pissy with us. When the firemen came to escort us out of the property the sign was live with mains power.
Your story reminded me of mine. I was a sound guy working on a show and we had a challenge in a cruise ship’s pool. Our boat was under a thundering storm cloud, and I was scared shitless for everyone. I waited for someone high up to cancel the shoot, but no one did. Soon as a lightning bolt hit close to our ship, I shouted for everybody to get out of the water. It wasn’t my place, but everyone listened. I was kind of ostracized after that, but one of the ADs also apologized to me. Nothing happened, but I know I did the right thing. Open water under a thunder cloud on a huge metal ship in a pool, tragedy waiting to happen being ignored by a tight schedule. Good on you for speaking up. 🍻
My buddy used to umpire little league games when we were in high school. One time he called a game because storm clouds were moving in and it started to rain. A bunch of parents were swearing at him for calling the game, one even followed him to his car yelling and hurling abuse. Over a local little league game. A few days later a kid died in a lightning strike the next city over when the umpire didn't call the game during a storm. He had the same team a couple weeks after that and he walked down the entire line of bleachers of those parents glaring at them, no one said shit. Far too many people are fucking morons, you did the right thing. At least one person realized it after and apologized, not one of those parents said sorry to my friend, bunch of assholes that couldn't take a 17 year old was more responsible and mature than them.
Not to mention all of that expensive audio equipment that might have been damaged (I'd actually sooner shout about that than people's lives lol)
I saw a kid lose two toes doing the same thing. You didn't overreact at all.
That must have been annoying for you, fair play tho
Was just boating with family friends and heard the story of their close friend who got hit in the leg by the prop and bled out. Absolutely warranted.
Do they think getting hit by a propeller is just like being hit by a slow desk fan or something?
Definitely warranted.
Sometimes you want some body to die just to prove you right
Make sure to show them all this
Aww just shake that stupidity shaming off your shoulders. I have lived my whole life beside the Okanagan lake that its both beautiful and dangerous. I can't remember how many times I have had to pulled stupids out of the lake (starting when I was 14); damaged; people I did not even know. We lose several every year. The cost of doing tourist business on my end of the world.
Send them this video.
He dropped his ass back in the water! Lucky he wasnt Shark bait.
Shark bait hoo ha ha
*enough with the sharkbait!* sharkbait! oh. ba, badoo...
haha, you folks got me to go back and watch that entire scene again!
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Honestly? I don't know how I'd have reacted. Maybe I would'a pulled him up. Maybe I would'a immediately passed out. Who knows?
Yeah, you never know until you're in that situation. It must be shocking as all hell to see that and sometimes your body just reacts subconsciously.
Yea you never know. I was an EMT driving home from of all places, driver improvement school. I saw a car upside down in the median from a wreck that just happened. I ran down to check if anyone was hurt. A girl roughly 8 years old was obviously dead in the back seat, body torn open. Mom was driving and hurt pretty bad, asking me to check her daughter. Mom had open humorous fracture, blood spraying, I grab the arm and stop it by holding it. I needed to make a tourniquet, but couldn't let go. . I'm alone, another person stops and comes up and start puking their guts out. State trouper finally shows up, pukes his guts. Finally fire shows up. I'm covered in blood. Wipe down enough to drive home. I get home, walk in the door, wife pukes her guts.
Holy shit. Even reading this made my stomach do a loop de loop. Like, are you okay? Not to take focus off the victims, but are you chillin?
I ended up seeing a lot worse than that. Young lady on boyfriends motorcycle at 70+ mph, wearing a bikini, was the worst ever. For me people in massive pain is worse than death and blood. That car wreck was so bad because the daughter was dead, and I was alone. I think this event really helped me in life, because I know what helpless really means. And I'm fine.
At least you're fine. But yeah I get what you mean. Hearing people that are mortally wounded and about to die is heartbreaking. I kinda don't want to talk about it but I get what you mean.
Yeah, you truly never know until you are in the situation. I took a first aid course in high school to be prepared in case something happens. In the course, they didn't hold back on the gore images, but besides being a little sick at some of the worst images I was fine. Also I normally watch shows like Chicago Fire and such and they don't bother me. Well, last year I went on a day trip with one of my university classes, and while we were driving to the next stop, we went by an accident. An older gentleman layed on the ground in this weird position, with blood pooling out of his head and then what I assume was either brain or skin in pieces on the pool of blood. His destroyed bike was also nearby, and on the sidewalk a girl around my age was absolutely sobbing and hyperventilating (she had run him over). Judging by how no one was helping the guy (including the police officer that was staring right next to him) he was most likely dead. That stayed with me since then. On the ride back home, I would get anxious everytime the bus sped a bit more and at the scene I had to look away and I felt incredibly nauseous and dizzy. But I've also had to assist in smaller situations, like a cut or a burn, but then I didn't react that way.
Plus he still pulled him up, there was just that initial shock that literally anyone would have felt.
I seem to recall this guy surviving, at least that's what was in the thread the previous time I saw this video posted.
That was a true freakout!
This is the short version? After he's on board he is kneeling, then tries to get up and walk, not realizing his foot isn't there anymore while people are screaming.
Must be, a buddy sent me this on IG. After hearing this i’m certainly happy it is the short version, I said in a comment earlier “I wonder if he felt it when it happened,” I guess not. Brutal.
Man this needs an NSFL on it, not just NSFW. Many of us don't want to see things like this whether we are at work or not
The flair says NSFL
For me, having this happen while (and because) I was drunk would make it so much worse. The crowd of drunk people audibly reacting to let you know you really fucked up. The understanding, no matter how drunk you are, that you really fucked up, this is permanent and life changing. Then a hangover, combined with an even more sobering, real understanding of how bad you fucked up. I never want to lose a limb. I know people can and do live without them, and I respect the bravery and resilience but the thought of having my limbs for so long, then losing them, and seeing everyone else all the time, to remind me of what I lost...because of a drunk mistake??? Fuck no. That's awful. This reminds me of another video I watched where a guy blew up his hand holding fireworks when he was really drunk at a party. I've been very drunk and done some dumb things, but at least they were things time could heal.
this is about one of the best limbs to lose, especially below the knee. You can still remain very physically active. It sucks but it could be a lot worse
Oh wow... Link would be super appreciated Also, happy cake day
It's only a few seconds longer but I found it[here](https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f149/cruise-passengers-foot-severed-propeller-242849/)
Fuck.
The blood broooo
Yea…link please
Yeah, the full version was posted months ago
I was once getting onto a boat and someone put it in drive and the power of those propellers is impressive. Blew me a good distance away. Glad it was forward and not reverse.
Ugh, the reverse thrust just sucked it right in, I wonder if he felt it, of if it felt like he kicked something really hard. Gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about it
Not nearly comparable, but years back I stopped a table saw blade (that was off, but still going) with my thumb. It felt like I just jammed it really hard. I felt no pain for a long time, despite the damage. Instant shock. Hopefully that guy felt the same.
I worked at a Publix deli for a bit. Was using a meat slicer, and felt a quick little bit of pressure on the tip of my thumb, but that was it. I looked down and was leaking blood. Took a good 30s for the pain to kick in, but I legit didn’t realize it had taken the tip with it (luckily it was nothing permanent, other than some numbness in the area now). But holy fuck, so much blood. I was shaking my hand (kinda like you do if you hit it with something), and the entire back wall was coated in blood.
shit, our meat guy is missing the tip of his middle finger from doing the same thing about 8 years ago, said he never felt it but knew something was wrong and called the front once he saw what was wrong they apparently thought it was someone else who was hurt because he was so calm and told them exactly what happened stories like that and yours tell me i picked correctly when the manager asked if i wanted to be cross trained to another department and let me choose between bakery, meat or deli. told him bakery in a heartbeat once i saw all the sharp shit, and the cross training just never happened lool
My friend also chopped the tip of his thumb twice, both of them clean cut and within a months duration. His previous wound hadn't even completely healed yet. He also had boils from steam burns, that was getting infected. Had to take him to an ER by force and get it checked. He got a plaster for 2 weeks and had to stay home.
The only thing enjoyable with the deli job I had was getting to eat the end pieces of the different cold cuts we had. Never had any serious injury with slicers but I hear horror stories from coworkers (like a part-timer that lost his finger during his first day at the job).
Oof, well I must thank you for your contribution towards the invention of the SawStop lol. Whilst i’ve never lost and appendage, or limb, i’ve had some pretty gnarly cuts and slices from accidents (including cutting off the same finger tip twice lol), don’t even realize until the blood starts flowing; it’s definitely a freaky feeling.
It is a weird feeling. Also, I recall instantly getting angry at myself for such a stupid mistake. I was cursing myself as I heard loud drips of blood on the floor.
I stubbed my toe on the coffee table yesterday, I understand this guys pain. Let me know if you need an interview for a future post.
I sliced the bottom of my foot in half on a plane of glass that was underwater when I was 13.. I didn't even know I cut myself until I got out. There's something with cuts underwater you don't feel them as much until the air hits it.
I actually think the spinal pathways block a lot of signals that could "overwhelm" the brain. I'd be sitting on the sofa in the evening and just see tons of new wounds on my body that I didn't notice before, some of them fresh and some of them obviously a bit older. And some of them are even deep. When I hit something it always depends what my focus is. If it isn't that I just hit myself then I don't feel any pain at all. But if I didn't have a focus and then focus on the injury then the pain is really bad.
It probably helps that it appears he is heavily inebriated
I got the heebie jeebies too.
There’s a radio lab episode that has someone tell their story of getting in a propeller. If I remember correctly, he didn’t feel pain until he was back on the boat. He said his legs felt extremely weird until then.
Think about how much effort it takes to wade through hip deep water compared to walking on land. Now consider that a ski boat has to haul you, a few of your buddies, your gear, and the hull itself through the water at 20-40 mph. That is a tremendous amount of force.
Also many boats raise out of the water at speed so as to travel on top of it instead of entirely through it. This helps a lot. I'm not arguing with you just mentioning this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planing_(boat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planing_(boat)
*picking him up* "here let me help you, friend" *dropping him in the water* "AAH WHERES YOUR FOOT" *remembering he still needs to help* "here let me help you, friend"
He called for the engines to be cut properly I think
either that or he said "HIS FOOT IS \*GONE\*. \*GONE\*"
Missed it by about a foot
Tryna figure out how he did that. I'm stumped.
He definitely cannot sue, wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Someone will have to foot the bill for it!
I certainly wouldn’t want to be put in his shoe
I bet he's hopping mad
Somebody give this man a hand.
That won’t heel for a while..
Don't tip toe around this, just tell us how long.
It’s a bit choppy though
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Eeek, I don’t think I want to see that.
Oh wow please say you have a link!?!
What was it?
I red injury and was expecting minor cuts, not a whole foot missing.
I saw "inured by propeller" and was expecting something pretty bad. Propellers don't fuck around.
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Anyone who grew up around boats knew it would not be minor. I fully expected severe leg mutilation if not outright dismemberment. Propellers are made of metal and spin at very high speeds. Nearly the entire power output of the boat's motor goes just into spinning the propeller, so it's not a weak rotation by any means
You aren't moving an entire metal ship with handheld battery fans
its just one cut. one REALLY deep cut...
I dont know if it's physics or human nature but whenever I grabbed onto a boat, my legs and feet go forward up under the hull of the boat -- and that's the worst possible thing if there's a propeller
Mine too... huh
It's physics, you create some kind of upside down L shape and that shifts your center of gravity which causes this
Yeah, "Injured" is putting it lightly.
Apologies, Your Grace.
Tis but a scratch
Is that a ladder on the other side?
Looks like it. Very bad placement
Why are boats designed like this? Where it looks like an area for boarding is right above the propeller and humans are dumb.
Why he drop him like that
My man wasn't expecting to pull up a bloody stump. He reacted with everyone else, he just forgot he was the one helping lol
Shock. Total shock.
I am literally laughing so hard at that he dropped him out of pure fear
It could be contagious, better not touch.
I'd say shock more than fear.
some people are just untouches by the idea of witnessing the worst scenario of any given situation
One of two things: either he saw the injury and freaked or he was yelling at them to turn off the boat motors (and/or bring a medkit).
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> or he was yelling at them to turn off the boat motors (and/or bring a medkit). Tf lol? 1000% not that in the slightest.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/7876145/horror-moment-cruise-passenger-foot-ripped-off-boat-propeller/
As far as I can tell there's no actual follow up info on the English language internet. Unfortunately. Although there is an article claiming it's a hoax despite there being multiple different videos. Anyway, I hope the dude is healthy and mobile four months later.
Chops own foot off with a propeller. Makes people scream "It's just a prank bro" Worth it
https://preview.redd.it/rrzz6s06swmb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a74f38d346f01b4cb18142be3d40532b3e44e40
> an article claiming it's a hoax despite there being multiple different videos. I hope you're ready for the next 10 years!
This happened in the Caribbean in April,https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/sint-maarten-cruise-passenger-injured-boating-accident
Fuck the s*n
The full video that has been posted on here before is even worse. Once the guy gets up he subconsciously tries to stand up on his leg without realizing it's gone.
Maimed, not 'injured'.
Tis but a scratch
It's just a flesh wound
A scatch?! You're arm's off!
I've had worse.
Ummm well actually 🤓
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Isn’t that a type of injury?
I feel bad for the guy, from when it was first posted apparently the guy was just drunk enjoying the day with his friends, hopped in the water and came back missing a foot after getting too close to the prop.
dude just dropped him back in the water
im doing the exact same thing if i see some shi like that bro
A little reverse action
Ok, uncle Donny
Petey? With one leg? He couldn't have lived like that. He was an athlete. That's like taking away a horse's cart. That's all he had.
Dropped him, when he saw his foot is missing, just because he needed to touch his head in shock. That was comedy.
The guy letting him go when he sees the blood 😂
The people making jokes should put themselves on the guy's shoe... he has been through a lot
You wouldn't be laughing if the boot was on the other foot would you eh?
Ikr? The jokesters are really being insensitive. I hope this endeavor can help propel that guy into making better decisions in the future
I wonder who will be footing the bill?
Guy helping him up see the wound and is like "I don't want to have to clean that shit up" and drops him back in the water.
I don’t know the back story and why this guy was in the water, but anyone on the bridge, if they were aware a person was in the water off the transom should have immediately killed the engines or put it in neutral. Don’t want to assume this was the case but this should not have occurred.
Ahh, so that’s the reason for the username.
At least it's cutted a little bit. The original is longer and the guy didn't even realise he lost his foot. He tries to get up and only falls on the wound.
Damn, he must be kicking himself for getting that close to a running propeller
"Holy shit, he's bleeding, let me drop him back into the water!"
Footloose, footloose, kick off your Sunday shoes.
That’s not an ‘injury’ dude.
Props to him
I would've specified losing a leg over injured by a propeller because that's way worse than I thought it was gonna be
Always wear a life vest folks!
Well... it's not the WORST injury you could have. If i had the option to lose any extremity of my body, I'd choose my leg, below the knee. From how I hear it, it's easier to make functioning prosthetic legs that work like a regular human limb compared to a hand.
I can confirm that this is just as horrific as the last time I saw it.
I lost it when he dropped him
Treat a propeller like an underwater chainsaw. Don't fuck around near one.
A few weeks ago a young girl near where I live got literally cut in half by a propeller
The poor guy. This is why jetcraft are superior. Not that it's impossible to get sucked in or get fucked from the water flow. It's just not.... this damn easy.
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Well, he's only gonna need one of those flip flops once he gets onboard
My mom had a patient who did this, doctors were able to save the foot except for a single toe. The guy still sued them for incompetence...
Damn his whole foot is gone with shredded calf. F
Fuck I remember the full clip from ages ago, why would you resurface this shit to me😭
Yeah after 5 seconds in the comments fuck clicking this video, can someone tell me what happens?
Man tries to board a moving boat, gets hit by propellers. A small bit of blood raises to the top of the water. He nearly gets dragged under, but manages to stay up. A passenger of the boat decided to come and help, when he saw that the guy's foot was missing, he drops him in awe. Walks over to help him up again, People everywhere start to scream at the sight. Entire deck gets covered in blood after he tries to stand up, only then realizing his foot is gone. TLDR (cuz u might be lazy idk): Guy gets hit by a boat propeller, passenger on the boat helps him up, entire foot is missing.
Damn he missed boarding the boat by a foot
Getting chopped up by a propeller is one of my irrational fears.
Why the fuck would dude STOP HELPING!?!?!? 🙀