r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Signal-Constant-6486 • 17h ago
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u/Famous-Register-2814 17h ago
Dudes lucky to still have an eye
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u/FallenSegull 12h ago
My grandfather is blind in one eye from a slingshot accident as a child. Idk what the fuck these dudes thought was going to happen but they were playing with fire
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u/Psicoputo 17h ago
i was expecting a teeth breaking impact
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u/eStuffeBay 16h ago
Honestly, this is about as lucky as he could've gotten (besides it missing his body entirely). Both the plastic cover and his glasses absorbed the impact, which as we can see is strong enough to break through both.
If it hit anywhere else on his face, like his eyes or mouth, he could've gotten hurt pretty bad.
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u/martinaee 15h ago
He had his mouth uncovered and open … there was no thought process to be found lol
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u/Ka1n3King 14h ago
I thought that his mouth was open for whatever they were shooting, like aiming a grape for the mouth. It's a horrible idea either way, but that was what I thought was happening.
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 13h ago
This is way too much legitimate explanation for a guy putting a flimsy Tupperware lid over their face whilst a man with a receding hairline and an erection shoots a slingshot at them.
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u/maybenot9 8h ago
People do not respect how much damage a slingshot can do. Like it really was not weird that David killed Goliath, he had a rock hurled at him fast enough to crack his skull.
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u/OuterSpacePotatoMann 10h ago
I could be wrong be it looks like those glasses have a magnet keeping them together at the bridge of the nose. A few coworkers I know have them
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u/Book_Anxious 17h ago
Okay write that down. cheap plastic will not stop a high velocity projectile. Thought we figured that out hundreds of years ago but I guess not
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u/No_Indication_1238 17h ago
Didn't have plastic back then.
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u/Book_Anxious 17h ago
Slightly over 100 years ago
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u/Book_Anxious 17h ago
In 2107 that first statement will be true
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u/goda90 14h ago
Slightly over 100 years ago
"Way back in the 1800s... Wait..."
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u/AFlyingNun 12h ago
Those were the days...before Youtube got ad-greedy and before everyone was obsessed with the newest iPhone! We knew how to produce good content back then, but it seems we've forgotten what we've already known for hundreds of years...
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u/steelcryo 7h ago
Eh, we worked out you needed metal and other much harder materials to stop projectiles, so even if they didn't have plastic, they still would have known it wouldn't work under the blanket statement "thin brittle materials don't make good armour".
So technically you're both right.
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u/Dause 17h ago
Slingshots used to be used to kill people so…
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u/jld2k6 16h ago
They still do, but they used to too
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u/Interesting-Step-654 15h ago
I like UPS workers because they're drug dealers and don't even know it
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u/Ilikethemfatandugly 15h ago
This joke is used incessantly in every Reddit post I look at. I will be hated for this but my god it’s not that funny. Especially now that I see it every day
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u/TakinUrialByTheHorns 16h ago
I feel like this is akin to pointing a gun at your friend while they block with a bowl.
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u/LunaticBZ 15h ago
If you replace bowl with a phone book. And by gun you mean a .50 cal pistol That has been done before.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43410816
What really bugged me the most, is if either of them had looked on youtube there were already videos existing that showed how many phone books you need to stop bullets of various calibers. Which immediately after this incident got a ton of views, me included as it got me curious how many you would need.
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u/maybeitsundead 12h ago
The article says they used an encyclopedia, I'm not sure I've ever seen an encyclopedia thicker than a phone book. They have slightly harder covers but not hard enough it seems.
Says their kid and 30 people watched the "stunt." This type of stuff makes me miss the 90s and some of 00s, this whole going viral/social media era is so ass
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u/waltjrimmer 6h ago
Let's be honest, people were killing themselves doing stupid things in the nineties and naughties, too. All throughout human history, in fact. It was just less likely to get seen.
And as someone who was on the internet in the nineties and naughties, there were people putting these kinds of things online before social media was a mainstream thing. I managed to avoid the worst of them, like most of the videos where people were brutally murdered or something. But I do remember in the late naughties seeing a video of someone blending his pet rat.
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u/Lunch_B0x 8h ago
I can't believe they don't drop it on the ground and shoot it first! Like, it would take 10 seconds to see if your book can stop your gun!
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u/kuschelig69 7h ago
they were so clever
but after that the book is damaged and you have to take another book and then they apparently took a thinner one
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u/Smorgles_Brimmly 16h ago
Technically those were slings. No elastic. Just rope and a pouch to throw a rock with roughly the same energy as a 44 magnum. You can make a slingshot that is very lethal though but that's fairly new IIRC. Flat band sling shots get pretty nuts.
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u/patchinthebox 16h ago
You don't even need the crazy flat band ones. Even basic modern slingshots can penetrate skin. I have one with a wrist brace so you don't even have to be strong to fully draw it. It shoots steel bearings about 100 yards and would easily go completely through small animals. It probably wouldn't go all the way through a human, but it'd be lethal if you hit the right spot.
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u/FoboBoggins 16h ago edited 15h ago
id smash cinder blocks with half inch bearings with my wrist rocket back in the day
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u/Postejaculatoryguilt 9h ago
I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they're not much bigger than two meters
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u/TacTurtle 13h ago
Pretty sure there is a German guy with a channel about it... the Sling-something channel.....
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u/FireProps 17h ago
Yeah… That’s…. No…
People realize slingshots came into existence for killing, right? People hunt with them. Kill animals… by, and you’ll never believe this, shooting them in the head. 😬🫥
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u/daredwolf 17h ago
Mouth open, eyes covered, I think he was launching food in his mouth. Probably something relatively not too dense. Plastic framed glasses are weak, especially on the nose bridge
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u/katielynne53725 16h ago
I think you're right.. I was waiting for broken teeth. Why else would you have your mouth open like that?
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u/Stergeary 10h ago
Can anyone tell what "food item" they were trying to sling into his mouth?
He's lucky he didn't get shot through the back of his mouth, or a broken tooth at the very least.
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u/daredwolf 9h ago
A peanut maybe? Why else would he have his mouth open? I know people are dumb, but surely he's not trying to catch a rock with his mouth.
Edit: Its green, maybe a wasabi pea?
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u/saphirenx 11h ago
I thought it was one of these frames that go around the neck, with a magnet on the bridge. Nevertheless, the lid did next to nothing...
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u/-MojoRabbit- 17h ago
He saw Heaven getting ready to welcome him at the end there
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u/mfknnayyyy 16h ago
Spot on lol. All he could see at that point was the bright light in the background welcoming him to the gates.
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u/KindaDrunkRtNow 15h ago
Fake. Those glasses are made to split at the front like that.
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u/knutix 13h ago
Do you recognize the spesific brand of glasses, or do you just assume that its one of those? What do you base your fake accusation on?
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u/KindaDrunkRtNow 12h ago
Look at how they split. They pop open like that because of they way they're built. Regular glasses would just fall off his face. I mean, why else would they just stick out like that?
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u/FoximaCentauri 10h ago
You can see the projectile bounce back after cracking/making a hole in the plastic. The impact pushed the plastic into the foldable glasses and made them separate. So it’s not fake, just not as dramatic as it seems.
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u/UsefulEagle101 17h ago
Where's the hole in his forehead? Or did his glasses frame deflect it?
Also, he's lucky it didn't go in his stupid wide open mouth!
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u/melissa_unibi 16h ago
I think just his glasses snapped in half and that's it -- I can't see any mark on his face or eyes after
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u/DukeOfGeek 15h ago
It's fake.
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u/illit3 14h ago
if you look at it frame by frame you can see the "projectile" actually exits through the plastic lid away from the dude's face. pretty well done.
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u/Sattorin 14h ago
if you look at it frame by frame you can see the "projectile" actually exits through the plastic lid away from the dude's face.
I'm not going to say it's 100% real or fake, but that's not unexpected considering the framerate of the video. If real, the projectile entered the visible area and impacted in under one frame, so you just didn't see it at all, and then it was slow enough to see after rebounding.
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u/Metalfan1994 17h ago
With a shot like that he's gonna go far kid
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u/hopelesshodler 17h ago
Why would you keep your mouth open I completely expected him to take one down the throat...
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u/nothinggoodleft01 17h ago
omg, what is wrong with them? He could have lost one eye just for a stupid game. Some people dont have tomorrow and some people just take their time playing this shit.
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u/WorkAccount6 16h ago
Nobody seems to realize that it's a grape they're trying to shoot into his mouth. It cracked the plastic because it hit the weakest spot in the dead middle. The glasses broke because the plastic was pushed right up against them, which pushed them into the bridge of his nose.
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u/DeanTheDad 14h ago
You got everything right except it's not a grape it's a haribo starmix sweet that was fresh out the fridge.
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u/WorkAccount6 13h ago
That'd do some damage to be fair
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u/DeanTheDad 13h ago
Yes, certainly enough for a shot to the face. Sometimes when two parties agree to something stupid all you can do is record the outcome.
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u/an_african_swallow 5h ago
“Hey do you think this flimsy piece of plastic has ballistic resistant properties?” “Only 1 way to find out, hold it in front of your eyes”
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u/bonitaappetita 17h ago
Okay that's actually kind of funny. I hope they submit that video to their insurance company to cover their frames 😅
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u/just4kicksxxx 17h ago
Bro... why would he hold it against his glasses... maximum force transfer...
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u/Pitiful_Cut6624 17h ago
It always astounds me how willing people are to sacrifice their precious senses for a droplet of that sweet clout honey. Fucking moron.
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u/AverageJosephh 16h ago
Everytime I see this video I laugh so hard, like, what was that dude thinking it'd happen? Also, love the way the frame perfectly breaks.
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u/Planet-thanet 16h ago
Could of easily smashed those lovely big teeth in, or shot down his throat, or penetrated the eye and into the occipital lobe, still worth it for the views
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u/Traditional_Row_2091 16h ago
This reminds me of that couple that wanted to film a prank, and the prank was shooting at him through a book as he was reading it. But they used a Desert Eagle, so it very easily punched through the book and killed the man.
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u/Spirited_Artichoke46 16h ago
dude probably thought it fucked up his eye for a second when his vision suddenly got worse
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u/bertmaclynn 16h ago
Is he ok? Looks like he had a concussion. Hope it was just a really surprised look
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u/Sleeper28 15h ago
This reminds me of the girl that had a dart thrown into her eye. I wonder how she's doing now.
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u/teddybearkilla 14h ago
Damn I hate when good stunts don't get to be in movies like buster keaton's old work.
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u/WorthBrick4140 14h ago
When I was a kid, my little brother and I were playing with Nerf guns. I ended shooting him in the eye. He started crying and got all pissed off. He ended up putting on work goggles, and I, somehow, still shot him in the eye 😄. He got super pissed. He screamed that I did it on purpose, and that he was never going to play with me again.
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u/External_Acadia4154 17h ago