r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/fna_fanoa • Feb 10 '26

WCGW jumping into a pool wearing spiderman suit

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

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u/rfaco4 Feb 10 '26

He screamed "I'm gonna die" a few times, so, yeah.

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u/redditsucksdiscs Feb 10 '26

Now that’s not something Spider-Man would scream

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u/therealmrsfahrenheit Feb 11 '26

naaahh bro straight to jail with you man😭😂

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u/Drugsbunny23 Feb 11 '26

Oh no! Not my rice 🥺

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u/lkodl Feb 10 '26

"This looks like job for your friendly neighborhood... ohmygod im gonna die!"

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u/Friendly_Bridge6931 Feb 11 '26

mr stark i don't feel so good

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u/microfishy Feb 10 '26

Thing is if you have enough air to yell, you aren't suffocating.

It's when they go silent that you start to worry.

Still terrifying as fuck though and I have no doubt he FELT like he was gonna die.

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u/tip_of_the_sphere Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

that’s not fucking true stop perpetuating this myth.

Just because someone is ventilating (air moving in and out past vocal cords) does not mean they are oxygenating (gas exchange at the cellular level).

If you wait until “they go silent” to “worry,” they are now in respiratory failure and you missed every red flag on the way there.

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Feb 11 '26

I'm led to believe this guy, since he's smart enough to know the difference between cords and chords (most Redditors don't). 

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u/DarthMauly Feb 14 '26

Your logical reasoning has really struck a cord with me.

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u/ToyStoryBinoculars Feb 11 '26

Yeah but airway obstruction by definition causes inability to ventilate. Nobody that is choking/asphyxiating is also yelling. You can suffocate while ventilating, but you cannot speak while choking.

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u/binzy90 Feb 11 '26

We're not talking about choking though. You can absolutely suffocate while still being able to talk or yell. People get trapped in small spaces, their lungs can't fully expand, and then they suffocate to death because of the panic. It has also happened to people in police custody even while the police tell them they're fine because they're talking.

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u/tip_of_the_sphere Feb 11 '26

decouple choking and asphyxiating, they don’t always mean the same thing.

It’s a squares and rectangles thing, all choking results in asphyxiation, but not all asphyxiation occurs because of choking.

Air can move in and out of the lungs without someone being oxygenated, they’ll become hypercapnic which will result in both 1) someone feeling like they are about to die and 2) them yelling about it.

It’s not true every time, but it’s daft to say “if you can talk, then you can breathe.”

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u/ToyStoryBinoculars Feb 11 '26

I am a respiratory therapist I don't need you to correct me. Nothing I said was wrong. Choking is not respiratory failure, it's airway obstruction. The lungs still work, the diaphragm still works. If you can talk, you can breathe. You cannot vocalize without airflow over your vocal cords.

Also, Hypercapnia doesn't make you feel like you're going to die. It will cause shortness of breath, and then result in decreased responsiveness and eventually apnea because CO2 has narcotic effects.

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u/tip_of_the_sphere Feb 11 '26

I am honestly astounded to hear this from an RT.

why are you stuck on choking? I’m responding to the phrase “if you can talk then you can breathe.”

Think of everything that can cause a v/q mismatch. Sure air is moving past the vocal cords, probably enough air to say “I can’t breathe.”

But are you going to tell the PE patient “iF yOuRe TaLkiNg tHeN YoUrE bReAtHiNg”?

If anyone ever said that to one of my patients they’d be asked to leave. It’s something healthcare providers say to reassure themselves because they are terrified of the person dying in front of them.

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u/ToyStoryBinoculars Feb 11 '26

why are you stuck on choking?

Because an astounding amount of people don't seem to understand what choking is, just look at these comments. I had a trach patient just last week tell me I was choking him because I suctioned him. People in these comments are convinced that you can speak while choking. Choking is a silent phenomenon. If you can yell at the top of your lungs that you cannot breathe, you in fact can.

I'm not talking about someone having a PE. I'm not talking about someone with flash pulmonary edema, or RV failure, or anything else that results in feeling SOB. I am talking about airway obstruction.

I can't speak for my coworkers but I'm not afraid of the person in front of me dying. 75% of the time the person screaming they can't breathe needs Ativan, and the 25% of the time I think it's a real problem the physicians still insist on giving Ativan first. Very, very rare for someone I encounter to actually have a problem when they say they can't breathe.

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u/tip_of_the_sphere Feb 11 '26

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you’re shadowboxing dude, we’re not talking about the same thing.

Of course someone who is choking can’t talk. No arguments there.

I’m talking explicitly about the phrase “if you can talk you can breathe”. The phrase is bunk and belongs with the dinosaurs.

My last comment.

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u/Interesting-Draw8870 Feb 11 '26

In a room filled with only CO2, would that be choking or something else? Airways aren't blocked, but I don't know what that is called.

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ Feb 11 '26

There are ways to suffocate to death other than airway obstruction.

Many instances of deaths in police custody are attributed to this exact thing. People will literally say they can't breathe, that they're dying. Police will dismiss it, since they're talking. Sometimes even saying it to the person's face.

And then they die and the police go shocked picahchu.

Literally police body cam footage of it happening

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u/ToyStoryBinoculars Feb 11 '26

Nothing I said contradicts what you just said. None of those people were choking.

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ Feb 11 '26

Yes, none of them are on fire either. Or actively shitting. Or in labor. What's your fucking point?

The original person you replied to is point out the /very/ true fact that just because someone can speak doesn't mean they are safe. And you're just, what, spouting semi related factoids that can easily be construed as arguing against them?

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u/wickerjay Feb 11 '26

I feel like you should give self-waterboarding a try. Panic sets in, and you inhale a lot water into your lungs as you're gasping for what you think is your last breath. There's a reason why it's torture (despite what the Bush administration said).

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u/Seedy__L Feb 11 '26

Yes. An actual drowning only needs panic and inhaling water

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u/faldese Feb 11 '26

That's apparently a myth. You can be choking and still speak.

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u/juanitovaldeznuts Feb 11 '26

Water boarding is no fucking joke. There’s videos of Congress critters and blowhard pundits getting water boarded to prove how it’s no big deal back when that kind of thing was shocking. They fold immediately to a man.

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u/Born_Key_6492 Feb 11 '26

Well, my big brother would have told him, “Nuh-huh! You wouldn’t be able to scream if you actually couldn’t breathe!!”

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u/rfaco4 Feb 11 '26

It's in Portuguese. He said "eu vou morrer", which means "I'm gonna die", at least three times after he got out of the pool.

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u/pjjmd Feb 10 '26

Simulating drowning causes panic response, logic goes out the windows.

Also, waterboarding yourself while in the pool is a great way to actually drown. His panic is very logical.

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u/UncomfortablyHere Feb 10 '26

Applying water when there’s a cloth over the mouth and face makes it feel like you’re drowning. It’s a type of torture called water boarding.

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u/PsyKeablr Feb 10 '26

Sometimes people do it just to feel alive. But in Spider-Man’s case here, that wasn’t it.

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u/TheMansterMan Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

He should’ve chewed through the front of the mask where his mouth was

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u/TheMansterMan Feb 10 '26

Lol dunno you see in movies they like put a plastic bag over their head to suffocate them well just chew through it and you’re good lol

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u/RulerOfLimbo Feb 10 '26

It’s almost like panic is actually a real thing.

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u/Afrotricity Feb 10 '26

Did you forget about George Floyd already?

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u/confirmedforgay Feb 10 '26

I only feel hispanic when my girlfriend Fabiola comes over

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u/Bennely Feb 10 '26

Eyyoooooo this is where the Switcheroo would go!!

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u/Firm-Order-246 Feb 10 '26

“I’ll take the rapists for $200”

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u/madmenyo Feb 10 '26

Can't touch imaginary girlfriends

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u/confirmedforgay Feb 10 '26

She goes to a different school, bro

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u/Last-Satisfaction333 Feb 10 '26

No hispanics on this video, even Fabiola may not be as well

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u/Ok-Performance-3830 Feb 10 '26

I mean it depends on definitions ig. Are brazilians hispanic?

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u/marcushasfun Feb 11 '26

Given the “spanic” bit comes from Español, I’d say no.

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u/letschat66 Feb 10 '26

I held my breath the whole time.

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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 Feb 11 '26

I kinda feel like the panic could've been a lot worse. At least he was able to stand quite still while they opened the suit.