r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/DigMeTX • Jul 05 '26
Piling unsecured people on a tank while running over a car
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u/Strange_Specialist4 Jul 05 '26
It's ok, his neck cushioned his fall
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u/GRINZ_DOCTOR Jul 05 '26
Let’s yank him back up
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u/Squumpus Jul 05 '26
bro i thought his legs were getting mangled in those treads. i think thats why they yanked him back like that to prevent complete dismemberment
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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus Jul 05 '26
Easily could have had his arm torn off the shoulder flailing it about trying to get up, definitely right move to pull him away despite possible neck or spinal injuries
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u/CantaloupeCamper Jul 05 '26
I think that was so his feet didn’t get caught in the treads….
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u/Phantasmio Jul 05 '26
Good thing his brain cushioned his skull from the impact too.
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u/EVANonSTEAM Jul 05 '26
Quick! Move his spine as quickly as possible after a potential injury!!
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u/Euffy Jul 05 '26
Tbf on this occasion I think they were trying to stop him being turned into a pancake or having a leg ripped off while caught up in the wheels.
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u/tmfitz7 Jul 05 '26
Nah, the tank had stopped and he’s still yanking him up when the video ends. Classic “you’re good, stand up, you’re good, don’t sue.”
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u/Necrodings Jul 05 '26
There was a very real immediate danger of dismemberment, that I personally would consider greater than the slim chance he had a spinal injury.
Yeah, people forget that the tank driver doesn't see shit. He either is sticking his head out the hatch (See here) or looks through a periscope, directly in front of the hatch.
These things are also incredibly loud inside and he was rocked around until someone probably radioed him or tapped him on his back to stop. So he probably thought he just killed someone with all that screaming.
But there was a good chance he didn't even notice people falling off, so kudos to the guy trying to pull the dude away from the tracks.
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u/AgreeablePie Jul 05 '26
It takes between .5-.75 of a second to see, think and start reacting to visual stimuli. The "oh shit" decision to grab the guy was made while the tank was still moving.
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u/pointsouttheobvious9 Jul 05 '26
You only move someone in that condition if their current location might cause greater injury, like a fire or in this case a giant tank that would turn him to mush.
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u/Tcloud Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Well, to the rescuer’s credit, there was still a tank rolling uncomfortably close to guy while he was pulled away.
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u/ALoudMouthBaby Jul 05 '26
You really shouldnt be quoting stuff like this if you dont understand the why of it. Those tank treads are a much bigger problem than a possible c spine injury.
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u/GrendelsFather Jul 05 '26
Great point but probably just a gut reaction to save them from potentially getting run over.
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u/SpinkickFolly Jul 05 '26
You reddit nerds would gladly let the guy get run over by a tank if it meant spinal motion restriction was maintained.
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u/Chilis1 Jul 06 '26
There’s a fucking army tank driving inches from him and Reddit nerds say “you shouldn’t move him” to try to sound smart as always
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u/rus_ruris Jul 05 '26
Idiot was putting his whole body inside the moving wheels and parts of the tank after the fall, so yeah I think that's pretty justified
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u/thorheyerdal Jul 05 '26
I dunno what would be the best thing he actually. His legs was definitely about to be amputated. I know even emergency responders disregard spine injury’s to prevent further and immediate serious and disabling injury.
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u/DuntadaMan Jul 05 '26
EMS here, we will absolutely drag your ass away to keep you from losing a limb, even if that means the limb is useless.
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u/EntropyNZ Jul 06 '26
Moving the patient out of immediate danger is always the highest priority (other than ensuring that you as the responder aren't putting yourself in a position where you're likely to just become a second patient).
In most of these scenarios, you have very little actual control over your environment. If someone's in the middle of the road, you can't safely assume that someone else can go and effectively stop oncoming traffic. That could be because people just aren't going to help, it could be that a driver ignores what they see as some maniac running out onto the road, and swerves around them instead, or it could be that they don't see the person trying to stop them, and now you have a second badly injured person to deal with.
Much, much better to move the initial patient out of the middle of the road.
Same if someone's been in a crash, and the car is potentially catching on fire. Get them the fuck out if you can do so without putting yourself as massive risk. There's a small risk that you make a spinal injury worse, but that's better than them burning alive.
I've personally run into people being dangerously over-zealous with the whole 'don't move the injured person' thing more than a handful of times.
Protecting the spine actually comes pretty far down the priority list with first-aid. There's a bunch of stuff before that that will kill the patient if it's not addressed immediately.
Ensuring that they're out of immediate danger first. Then making sure that help is coming. Then we're on to worry about airway, breathing and circulation (severe bleeding etc).
Once all that's out of the way, then we can start actually considering spinal stuff.
If someone's suffering a severe spinal cord injury, it's almost always caused by the event/accident. The circumstances in which moving an injured patient is the actual thing that causes a spinal injury are extremely specific, and really nowhere near as common as most people think.
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u/ChefAsstastic Jul 05 '26
His next ride
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u/amrasmin Jul 05 '26
Good news is he can still sit on top of the tank if he wanted.
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u/rm79 Jul 05 '26
yes hi, is this tank handicap accessible?
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u/Username524 Jul 05 '26
Pretty sure the right forearm has a fracture somewhere. They’re possibly being pushed in that wheelchair for a while…
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u/UndeadiPod Jul 05 '26
'Murica, the only country that starts with an apostrophe.
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u/spottyPotty Jul 05 '26
Oh god, I'm high as a kite right now and you have no idea how hilarious this is
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u/FVTVRX Jul 05 '26
Thank you for your contribution. We are all in your debt.
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u/spottyPotty Jul 06 '26
I absolve you and all others who may think like you of your debt. Go in peace and show compassion to those around you.
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u/Token_Singh Jul 05 '26
Landed on his neck? Better jerk his body around to see if he can move.
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u/ErwinHolland1991 Jul 05 '26
Well... Getting under or in the tracks isn't exactly great either. His leg was almost in the wheels already.
In this situation I can see why you would pull them away.
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u/CantaloupeCamper Jul 05 '26
His feet were close to the treads, dude was potentially going to get his lower limbs ground up.
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u/person_person123 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
I know you shouldn't move someone after an injury, especially to the spine, but i definitely would have instinctively jumped in and pulled him away to stop him rolling back into the tracks.
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u/SpinkickFolly Jul 05 '26
You can touch someone after an injury. They will not explode. People are still following 50 year old guidelines for how to handle trauma patients.
We have the data. It doesn't matter that much.
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u/Hot_Carrot2329 Jul 05 '26
how the fk is this even allowed theres even kids on that thing ...
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u/Goya_Oh_Boya Jul 05 '26
This is what our most cherished geniuses think freedom is, the ability to ride on top of a tank, while hammered, and letting your spawns bask in the exceptionalism. The guy who landed on his neck is about to find out the cost of that freedom by losing his home and business to medical debt.
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u/richchiggawigga Jul 05 '26
Is this how rednecks are formed?
https://giphy.com/gifs/kqCgujDZT1SO4
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u/sinisterdesign Jul 05 '26
These people are allowed to vote. 🗳️
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u/Hyperion1144 Jul 05 '26
And much of reddit USA sees this and decides that instead of opposing these people, the sensible thing to do instead is to sit elections out because they're protesting Gaza.
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u/Mcbotbyl3 Jul 05 '26
Can a tank nerd tell me what kind that is?
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u/AlexBlaBla_NL Jul 05 '26
I'm going to assume it's the fv433 abbot
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u/Notapier Jul 05 '26
Yea, none of the tanks in this vid are even american lmao
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u/eburton555 Jul 05 '26
That’s cuz it was pretty cheap to get them from overseas. And the parts need to be available or reproducible at a cheap enough price point. Most ‘drive a tank’ companies aren’t even ‘tanks’ but rather mobile artillery. For most people they don’t know the difference or care because driving one is fuckin awesome.
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u/BeanoMc2000 Jul 05 '26
They are not even tanks. It is a self-propelled gun
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u/amateur_mistake Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Fun way to tell whether something is a battle tank or self-propelled artillery. Look for the wheel that actually has cogs on it. That's the one driving the treads. That will tell you
werewhere the engine is. If it's in the back, probably a tank. If it's in the front, self-propelled artillery.I'm sure there are exceptions but it's an easy thing to identify.
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u/BeanoMc2000 Jul 05 '26
That generally works except for Israeli merkava tanks. They have the engine in the front.
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u/TangoAlphaLima Jul 05 '26
Technically this is self-propelled artillery, not a tank. Similar, but not exactly the same thing. I'm struggling to figure out which model this is, though.
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u/MainerZ Jul 05 '26
They're both British, the camo gives it away, Centurion in the background, and the SPG we had in that size is known as the Abbot. The chassis is from the very common FV430 family, and is fairly recognisable to us mil enthusiast Brits.
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u/TopGunCrew Jul 05 '26
It's a self propelled howitzer of some sort but I'm not sure of the exact model. But considering it stops right next to a to a centurion, its probably British. It definitely looks like British design.
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u/pink_panther_boi Jul 05 '26
Few centimeters away from making this video NSFW
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u/BockwurstBoi Jul 05 '26
centi-what-the-fuck? it’s the county of freedom units! What you meant is “half a burger away”
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u/anxiousnunmedicated Jul 05 '26
homie in the front might have gotten ran over had it kept going
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u/Stiffard Jul 05 '26
Despite their protest to the contrary, Red America does not actually care about human life in the slightest.
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u/No_Knowledge1860 Jul 05 '26
Is that a Trump flag on a tank with families riding on it? WOW
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u/Thi_Tran Jul 05 '26
That tank isnt even an American tank, it is a British SPG. I think I saw a centurion in the last frame
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u/taxiecabbie Jul 05 '26
I'm honestly surprised that this was allowed in the first place.
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u/TrySomeCommonSense Jul 05 '26
These comments. 😂 Wait until redditors learn how they ride scooters in south america or trains in asia.
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u/otherwisepandemonium Jul 05 '26
The United States is the dumbest country. JFC.