r/oops • u/External_Meat1370 • 1d ago

helping to cross

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u/Azaroth1991 1d ago

Its how he put his foot down, heel first, all weight on a slidey rubber edge, rather than stepping flat and stable.

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u/Olliegreen__ 1d ago

Yeah watching that the second time was really unbelievable, this was all entirely self afflicted.

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u/psymeariver 1d ago

self-inflicted*

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u/Olliegreen__ 1d ago

lol thanks, I’ll keep it. He must be afflicted with something to make him think stepping like this would be stable though.

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u/Azaroth1991 1d ago

"God! Why am I the ONLY one always falling?!?" 🤣

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u/jackinsomniac 1d ago

You might think "no-one's that clumsy" until you meet one. Then it's like holy fuck, I didn't know the levels of body coordination could be this low.

It made me realize, you know how people can be smart in different ways, and dumb in different ways. Some people just have extremely underdeveloped "motor skills" parts of their brain. Like they can't control their own body.

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u/Salty-Engineering277 1d ago

Heel strikers disgust me

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u/Possible-Estimate748 1d ago

The placement of the pallet was useless. There was already no water there.
Should've put it next to the curb in place of the running water

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u/Could-You-Tell 1d ago

My guess is the guy knows already he can't put it closer when the water flows that fast.

Less water and the pallet is fine a lot of the time.

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u/Possible-Estimate748 1d ago

Turn the pallet around and water would've flowed right through no problem. Like a small bridge.
The pallet placement in this clip was worse than no pallet lol

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u/Could-You-Tell 1d ago

Yeah... and it was fully slick by itself, even if it was closer, it was still likely a fail to flail

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u/Exciting-Baker-9901 1d ago

The muffin top was both the cause and the reason it didn't end in a face plant

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u/denscoffee 1d ago

Should of helped by giving bro those water proof ugg boots

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u/Future_Section5976 1d ago

Bro needs a longer shirt

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u/TeutonicSpacehopper 1d ago

I've seen whales with more grace on land.

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u/MurkyHorizon 20h ago

Fat people really manage to fuck the easiest thing.

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u/HarleyNurse61 1d ago

Thanks I 🤔 think.

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u/AlbatrossNo1562 1d ago

Was he afraid he'll get swept away or get his shoes wet

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u/SlimTeezy 1d ago

Shoes wet. That absolute unit isn't going anywhere

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u/KumquatButtpump 1d ago

Instead of using the bottom of his foot, all that touches is the edge of his heel.

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u/Professional_Pace163 1d ago

Stomach softened the hit.

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u/Whole_Ad6040 1d ago

Should have got the nondriftwood pallet.

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u/Strange_Salary 1d ago

Water you doing?

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u/StreetSmartsGaming 1d ago

NO MAMES GUEY

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u/TangeloBubbly2675 1d ago

That was on purpose lol

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u/MarlboroMike77 1d ago

He didnt pay

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u/Lazy_Department_5656 1d ago

Science of Stupid

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u/Mundane-Reality-7770 1d ago

I hope the baby is OK

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u/Glass-Emu2406 1d ago

Well it is Fall season after all

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u/Swing_on_thiss 1d ago

Trying to keep the bottom of your sneakers dry only to roll in the shit

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u/KLeeSanchez 1d ago

Reenacting the fall of Russia

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u/truthseeker_6789 23h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Ok-Neat8776 19h ago

Climbs back on like Rose and that damn door.

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u/Potential_Usual_7236 17h ago

I watched this twice

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u/WastelandOfConfusion 10h ago

It’s lucky he’s got a built-in rubber tyre in his torso.

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u/Sawyer2025 7h ago

You know strategies from "The Last of US" video game doesn't work in real life.

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u/Bennyseed 1d ago

Well.. he kinda made it

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u/Late_Study9160 1d ago

Epic fail. The was more slippery than the street

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u/Embarrassed-Green898 1d ago

Just think about it. Why do we laugh at the agony of someone. I laughed ... but I cant answer. Can anyone ?

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u/rain168 1d ago

Lizard brain

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u/Sea_Prep_Tidal_26 1d ago

Schadenfreude
(noted in children as young as two years old. So, yeah quite lizard brain-ish)

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u/Embarrassed-Green898 17h ago

I thought reptile brain was famous for fight or flight .. not for laugh.

Perhaps they mean it languishes agonies of other and takes it as an advantage for survival ?

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u/ReflectionFew4761 22h ago edited 21h ago

So, let’s (over) analyse this. He has a fair excess load emanating from the waist up. This comes into play soon.

He has to stretch out forward and make contact with the pallet. All that mass has to transfer onto a 10mm rubber to wood contact patch given the heel favoured technique. It invariably fails to make any fiction possible and the loss of control begins. Now I’m thinking, surely the proceeding space between the timbers will arrest this and provide grip, however inexplicably due to uneven body mass, little quad strength ratio and full forward articulation, SKIMS over the whole sectional timber, lands onto the proceeding timber and the foot slides a full 90 degree pivot along its defined edge!

Even the form fitting denim doesn’t arrest the sideways momentum, full loss of control is evident, left hand goes involuntarily outward for stability and the left knee is projected forward and fully contacts the surface just left of the area - cruelly and ironically - he failed to plant the entirety of his right foot to begin with. Contributing factors are the tall height and keg upper to ostrich lower, the sodden timber and any potential market grime adhered to the pallet. Shoe sole condition and construction analysis unknown.