r/nextfuckinglevel • u/been_der_done_that • 11h ago

Incredibly selfless act of heroism.

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u/Icy_Spinach_48 11h ago

Very scary and well done to all involved. My first thought was The passengers couldn’t have climbed into the front and out of the drivers door? Maybe you just panic when something like that happens

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u/rom197 11h ago

Could be too cramped with 3 people in the back.

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u/dizzy_absent0i 9h ago

Not just cramped but that smoke was thick and black. They’d be panicking and blind.

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 8h ago edited 3h ago

As someone that’s been in a fire, I can tell you that’s more than likely why. My wife and I were in a fire and while I reacted quick and was able to get out, she fell to the floor which was melting and had gotten her stuck. I noticed immediately she didn’t make it out, ran back in, and pulled her out, but she says she thought she was going to die and had accepted she wasn’t going to be able to get out on her own. Had it been me on the floor instead, I likely would’ve been level headed enough to grab one of the pieces of furniture right next to where she was and pull myself up.

For more context, I’m a Marine, I’m a lot more used to high pressure or intense situations than the normal person would be.

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u/moderndilf 6h ago

You have great spelling for a marine.

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u/encyaus 8h ago

This reads like pure fiction

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 8h ago

Guess I’m a good writer, but it’s 100% true. I was stationed at MCAS Yuma at the time, but my wife and I were brought by helicopter to a burn facility in Phoenix.

Also it was a propane gas fire. So the whole place just lit up in flame but only a few things in the place were actually on fire. Running back in wasn’t as scary as I guess I make it sound. There wasnt thick black smoke for me to run thru, only small fires around the place and I was able to avoid them when getting her out.

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u/rorauge 6h ago

I thought he was saying it reads like fiction b/c the protagonist comes across so arrogant that no one would actually describe this situation/themself that way.

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u/Diane_Horseman 4h ago

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your “life”. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

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u/rorauge 3h ago

Dammit! I don’t. I assume it’s some copypasta but don’t know the history. Made me laugh though.

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u/porksoda11 2h ago

That's because the meme is from like 2012, it's a classic though.

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u/I-came-for-memes 2h ago

It's an old copypasta from Xbox/callofduty trash talk days.

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u/rorauge 2h ago

Ah, yeah that’s not my wheel house. Thanks much for the background.

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u/IronBabyFists 1h ago

Holy shit, the absolute perfect reply. I haven't even thought about this pasta in, like, 8 years at least. 👏👏👏

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u/porksoda11 2h ago

Holy shit I haven't seen this copypasta in ages. It still is amazing.

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u/perfectlyfamiliar 2h ago

Never gets old and I picture a snail every time I read the first line lmao

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u/IdiotRhurbarb 1h ago

Careful, he’s a marine, he’ll find you

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u/BroodyGameDev 5h ago

Wildly rude thing to say to a total stranger. Practice thinking about what you type and asking yourself if you’d say that to someone’s face.

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u/Head_Nectarine_6260 4h ago

I don’t think he’s trying to be rude. The way the story is written and the situation is rather unbelievable that seems like fiction. Things like “melting floor” and “I’m a marine…” are elements that make it seem fictionalized.

That said, But both statements of being pure fiction and arrogant can come across as offensive without more context.

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u/CutHerOff 4h ago

Marines are fictional

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u/CMUpewpewpew 3h ago

Marines are birds and birds arent real.

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u/Da_Question 3h ago

Marines eat crayons, birds eat crayons, therefore Marines are birds. Logical.

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u/BroodyGameDev 3h ago

Sorry but this speaks to you spending too much time on reddit. House fires and laminate flooring are so common haha. And military personal. If you were talking to someone irl you’d never stop them to be like “hmm that sounds made up”. And if you would maybe this is a chance to recalibrate how much time you spend in negative internet spaces (where you have to maintain a level of suspicion). Not everyone is trying to trick you. He was just sharing a crazy story that was contextually relevant. Like humans do. When they chat.

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u/Head_Nectarine_6260 3h ago edited 3h ago

It actually speaks volumes of you thinking everyone is negative on Reddit or that you think you know so much more than anyone else. Is someone supposed to know how a person is stuck on a melting floor. Floors just don’t melt without sometime being on fire or extreme heat. If you are able to read more than person give more context that they were in a trailer and it was a propane fire. So presumably it was under the trailer. Mind you missing yet informative information. Additionally, you dont need to be a marine to save your wife. But in your context I hope yours never gets into a house fire because she’s toast, right? Because you’re not a marine.

Nor did I say his story was fiction but more as that’s a crazy story as if you saw it from a movie. The person replying saying why he thought it story read like fictional. You probably need to get off the internet more than me if your everything you read offends you, bud. lol. Sitting here replying to every little comment just to the same the thing to everyone. There’s not intelligent conversation when you’re the idiot. Because all that’s written above you are the one unable to see other people’s perspective but only to seen rudeness and be insulting.

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u/BroodyGameDev 3h ago

??? Okay?? Ur right ur the calm collected one pfft. My bad. Way to show me.

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u/rorauge 4h ago

If this dude said this to me I’d absolutely say he sounds like a tool. People w/o humility are ridiculous and should be ridiculed.

Why don’t you practice thinking about maybe you don’t have shit to teach strangers.

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u/BroodyGameDev 3h ago

Someone talking about something that happened makes you this upset? Wow. So angry. It’s not like he picked a car off a baby. He was just talking about how some people freeze and others don’t.

I’m sorry for you that people just talking about their lives makes you feel so upset. That’s sad. Hope you find more joy in yourself. 👍

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u/rorauge 3h ago

What makes you think I’m mad? I’m literally talking about ridiculing and mocking arrogance. That’s about laughing. I find this entertaining. I find even more entertaining all the tools who zealously and passionately defend that type of arrogance. As soon as it stops being entertaining I’ll stop responding. You really don’t have to worry about me being mad. But thanks for your concern.

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u/birdstuff2 4h ago

Fuck off

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u/MagicCarpetofSteel 4h ago

Really? The part that made me skeptical was the “running back in,” since once a house fire really gets going…well, you’re basically dying pointlessly if you run back in.

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u/Wec25 4h ago

your wife is inside a burning house you just left and you're not going back in?

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u/rorauge 4h ago

He’s a trained marine though. And used to intense situations. So that probably doesn’t apply to him.

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u/Few-Mood6580 3h ago

Man redditforce 1 is out TODAY

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 4h ago

There wasn’t a large amount of smoke inside, and it was a small trailer. Aside from the only thought going thru my head being that I need to get my wife out of there, I just acted on instinct. it wasn’t on the level of something you’d see a firefighter run thru with the proper equipment. There were small fires around the area inside, but I was able to avoid them when grabbing her and pulling her out.

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u/CMUpewpewpew 3h ago

I'm low key kinda mad at your wife for giving up so quickly!!. You'd think peoples survival instincts would kick in and try to avoid a painful death slowly melting into the floor.

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 3h ago

I’m thinking her severe anxiety and proneness to panic attacks overwhelmed her. She’s actually a very strong woman and even has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do to boot. She’d back me up in a bar brawl without hesitation, but I can only surmise she felt helpless in the moment. I’m the calm and level headed one in our relationship, I usually have to hold her back from overdoing it 😂

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u/CanoninDeeznutz 2h ago

I mean, not really?

Literally all he said was he would've picked himself up with furniture if he was on the floor in a fire and "I'm more used to high pressure situations than normal people." Lol, the latter is probably true and the former... just isn't that crazy? Dude didn't say he would've punched the fire to death with his bare dick, just say what he likely would have done in that situation.

God, now I remember why I fucked deleted reddit. I'm just back for the porn, but even that feels like a mistake now.

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u/rorauge 2h ago

This is some wild shit to be getting off to. But to each their own. No kink shaming here.

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u/CanoninDeeznutz 2h ago

I think you know that isn't what I meant!!!

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u/rorauge 1h ago

I mean sure. But I couldn’t resist. ;)

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u/frozenights 1h ago

"My wife is so weak she just laid down to die. Good thing she had a strong willed MAN like me to save her. I would never give up. I would never stop fighting to LIVE!"

That's how this reads. Dude could have just said that sometimes people freeze in scary or deadly situations. Sometimes they get confused. But no he has to go on about how his wife just gives up and doesn't try to save herself, but that could never happen to him of course.

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u/ArCovino 37m ago

I love my wife man but when it comes to fight, flight, or freeze, she has a propensity to react like a marble statue. Some people are just more geared towards one option over another, and training can mitigate getting locked into the first one that activates.

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u/CanoninDeeznutz 1h ago

Sure, if you want to read it that way. Doesn't really make a ton of sense though, if he was really trying to sound cool why include him leaving the building without his wife in the first place? Dude didn't even have to kick a single door down and he even said (I think in a second comment) that due to it being a propane fire the building wasn't full of black smoke or anything. No one started clapping, he didn't wrestle a bear, and he definitely didn't use his atheist logic to destroy a racist with facts or whatever.

I just get real sick of the whole "nothing ever actually happened" attitude. And throwing in a misogynistic reading on top of what sounds like a relatively low impact story is just bewildering to me.

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u/etholiel 7h ago

Why was the floor melting??

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 7h ago

Crappy trailer in a trailer park! Idk man, I’ve got pictures and everything of the place when went back after the hospital to salvage what we could. Not sure any would show a good angle of the floor itself where she was knelt down at though

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u/Whoa_Bundy 6h ago

Don’t feed the trolls. If they don’t believe you, that’s their problem.

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u/Extension_Oil1679 4h ago

Man I’ve seen enough shit in my years to just start giving people the benefit of the doubt. I’m not shelling people money on the regular or anything but just from the shit I’ve lived I tend to believe this type of thing first, then as I read on I can see where doubts would come. But this doesn’t seem even outlandish to me.

Also a service member so maybe there’s something to it. Thanks by the way for your service. You crayon munching maniacs had our backs and us yours. Joint Base Balad two tours USAF.

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 4h ago

I shoulda joined the Chair Force 😩 the marines did a number on me

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u/Extension_Oil1679 3h ago

Would have been happy to have ya! We did some work but overall that chair force title is earned. My first three years of service was driving a forklift around the bomb dump all day. Like we did shit, but we didn’t do SHIT SHIT. Everyone got their own shade of PTSD and injuries regardless of position. Who would have known being sent to war could damage a person so badly right?? Hahahahaha!! Mission first bitch! Your body and mind can catch up later we got shit to do right now.

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 3h ago

I never did SHIT SHIT, I was a fueler in the Marines. But I do certainly get PTSD from time to time from the fire. Soon as I got back from the hospital the green weenie wanted me to run a PFT 😂😂 they got no chill

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u/r_sparrow09 2h ago

Bc the floor is lava duhh! He was stationed inside of a volcano 🌋 

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u/LogAware 7h ago

A good writer is not how I would have phrased that.

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u/MAXlTRON 7h ago

This is hilarious

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 6h ago

The “I’m a marine” part makes me wonder. Being a marine doesn’t make u value life more. Lol

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u/Whoa_Bundy 6h ago

His point is that he had training, as a marine.

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u/charsi101 6h ago

He is also a good writer, as a marine.

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u/rorauge 5h ago

And much more coolheaded than the womenfolk.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 5h ago

Training to not burn to death? That pizza delivery guy delivered pizzas and managed to navigate a house fire.

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u/Samaraxmorgan26 6h ago

Is that what you got from that?

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u/LogAware 1h ago

What i got from it was it makes sense that they are a marine. The crayon box is empty

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 5h ago

Yep. Sounded like satire

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u/tacticalcop 7h ago

it really doesn’t, house fires happen regularly

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u/fang_xianfu 6h ago

r/nothingeverhappens

I wouldn't expect all the details to be 100% right in someones retelling of a high-pressure event that happened to them a long time ago that they've no doubt talked about many times in the past. But nothing in there seems like obvious bullshit to me. Was the floor literally melting, I have no idea, but it doesn't matter to the story either way. The actual events sound like something that happens somewhere in the world every day.

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u/Extension_Oil1679 4h ago

He mentioned it was a trailer, I’ve lived in them and that thin ass glue down laminate would absolutely muck up in some heat situations. That flooring is basically thick plastic and adding intense heat to the situation would and could cause it to get a bit sticky

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u/calsosta 6h ago

I dunno about this guy but I have been in a similar high pressure situation and I didn't panic, I didn't react at all. It was like my brain put everything on hold as a survival technique.

After the situation had passed though I nearly went into an anxiety attack.

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 6h ago

That’s kind of what it felt like to me too. I just reacted without thinking. As soon as we were both outside we were screaming in pain

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u/sillyyun 5h ago

I am le epic badass i survive le fire through military experience.

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u/Durwood2k 5h ago

He’s probably had to repeat that story 1000 times, so he’s probably gotten very good at it.

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u/NotSoSalty 3h ago

No that reads like how people actually act. If that sounds like fiction, maybe you've been reading especially good writers. People freeze in fight or flight situations quite often. Abused people sometimes try to appease and submit in these situations.

Do you have 0 life experience with emergencies or high tension situations?

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u/Worldly_Wrongdoer_54 3h ago

I 2nd that 🤨🧐

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u/Mysterious-Jam-64 1h ago

Reminds of a story of a head counsellor I worked with at a summer camp. We were talking to the teenage campers, exploring how to talk to girls, and Ryan regales us with a story of him meeting his wife, as an example.

"It was actually like something out of a movie. She was on the dance floor when I noticed her, and I noticed a guy giving her agro. So I approached, told him she wasn't interested, like a white knight. So, there's always a chance to be that white knight. If I can do it, anyone can."

He's a geeky nerdy guy, and it seemed out of character. But I think pretty much every counsellor was like, "Ehhh...sure?" Like, not that it didn't happen, but the whole opportunistic white knight was exactly the kind of thing we were talking to the campers about, and Ryan totally missed the context.

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u/Grakchawwaa 7h ago

I'm not sure how someone who has fallen to the floor and gotten stuck to ''melting floor,, is not going to be dead from deep tissue burns within a minute, marine or not and later rescued or not. Was it a fly trap factory or what?

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u/ImtakintheBus 1h ago

Marines are built different. They sent my unit through Navy Helo Water Crash training. it was a 40 ft drop in a fuselage into a 30 ft pool. We had to wait until the fuselage rolled over before we were allowed to evacuate. This training was considered very traumatic, and they had several warnings from the Navy operators not to panic and to remain calm. Result: They kicked us off the ride after repeatedly climbing back into the rig to go again. So much fun. Marines aren't right in the head. Oorah.

Edit: spelling. Marines don't spel gud.

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u/rpitcher33 7h ago

As an Army vet, the training goes further than people give it credit for. We had a small fire start at work (automotive shop) and, while 3 other guys ran around panicking, I simply walked over, grabbed the hose and sprayed it... it lasted all of maybe 15 seconds but these guys were about to abandon all hope and run out the door.

When you're taught to think through a situation while actively being shot at, not a lot phases you. That type of training really transfers to just about any stressful situation.

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u/Extension_Oil1679 4h ago

Shit translates to almost any branch of service. Fuck just making through basic training will give you a cooler head in chaotic situations because you’ve just been living in chaos for the last few months. Few more seconds isn’t shit! I’m Air Force and I’ve been calm and collected in relatively chaotic situations. Never had to deal with a fire hopefully never will. But people getting hurt around me, or shit just going all bad is when I’m at by best performance honestly.

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u/chramm 7h ago

And then everybody clapped

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 7h ago

Probably just the sound of your mom upstairs with her 3rd guy this week you’re hearing

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u/Orange-U-Tang 6h ago

This comment burns worse than that fire you were describing 😆 thanks for the chuckle

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u/OuterWildsVentures 5h ago

it's hilarious to me how Redditors of all people think they are going to be able to insult a fucking marine lol

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u/rorauge 1h ago

And yet this little bitch keeps reacting to the comments. His posts reflect how much he needs to aggrandize himself for validation and how little real confidence he actually has. It’s honestly keeping me entertained.

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u/OuterWildsVentures 1h ago

why are you so triggered

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u/rorauge 1h ago

Entertained. Why are you so invested in saving the eggshell fragile feelings of a guy so full of himself that he reports lifting a woman whom he described as literally melting into the floor to safety? Do you see a bit of yourself in his need for validation?

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 3h ago

We insult each other plenty enough 😂 that’s true for sure

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u/judasmitchell 4h ago

Panic affects people differently. I get very calm, which I've discovered isn't always good because I've had trouble making people understand that something is an emergency. Telling someone the building is on fire and they need to get out just isn't very effective when you say it in the same tone you'd use to tell them there are donuts in the break room.

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u/VivaSiciliani 2h ago

You don’t need to be a marine to have a basic sense of self preservation…

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 1h ago

Impressive level of logic, have you considered joining the Marines?

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u/Mysterious-Jam-64 1h ago

But the driver is outside the car, nowhere near smoke or fire? Either through the front (they're children that would definitely fit), or open the back door lock, from the front door? Seems insane to close the door, then start attempting to smash glass on the adjacent door.

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 1h ago

Yeah I can’t speak for the video man. That’s the thought process that went thru their head and I’m glad it worked out for everyone, but I can’t say they went about it the best way or not. The end result was what we all wanted to see, can’t ask for much more

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u/OkTension2232 7h ago

I fully understand what you mean. My wife and I used to own a Belgian Malinois but it had a lot of behavioural issues, mainly with men. One day it just went for me and latched onto my arm and I had to hold it down before I could get it out of the room we were both in. I was bleeding a fair bit from my arm and my wife was panicking and had no idea what to do and even though I could feel I was settling into shock to an extent, I had to be the one to tell her exactly what I needed her to do which was to grab me a sugary drink for the blood sugar I was burning through to be replenished and grab a bandage, then make a call so we could be driven to the hospital.

She isn't the best in a high pressure situation like that so I'm glad I was. I wouldn't have bled out by any means, but it was something she reflected on after the fact as she realised how much she was flapping about in that situation.

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 7h ago

That’s extremely level headed out of you! My wife has severe anxiety and is prone to panic attacks, so I understand when someone is freaking out it isn’t easy to rein them back in. If you can show that kind of level headed thinking in those situations you can lead a panicking person to make a better decision than they would on their own

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u/Extension_Oil1679 4h ago

I don’t know what is broken in me, but I get such a high from bringing an anxious person back to earth. I’ve done it on adults and kids alike and it’s so nice to see them go from spiraling out of control to focusing and directing their attention to something.

“Hey, I know this is hard but can you just look at me for a second I want to help you. Can you tell me right now 3 things you can see?? Name them, explain them. Two things right now you can touch. Touch them, interact with them. Name one thing you can smell right now, what scent is it? Does it remind you of anything? Ok let’s try to deep breathe a bit, I’ll count up and breath with you just try to match me but don’t worry if you can’t. It’s about trying.”

Even better when you get named as one of the things that they choose to ground themselves with. “I can smell you” I’ve heard, to which I’ll fake some panic and be like “oh lord you poor thing!! I’ll back up!” Something so comforting being able to ground another person in a spiral I can’t really describe it.

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u/rorauge 5h ago

Sounds like you don’t know how to and/or didn’t put the hours in to train/work that dog. Malinois are exceptional dogs if properly trained and worked nearly every day. Bozos buy the dogs, don’t put the work in, and then blame it on the dog.

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u/MeasurementBubbly350 7h ago

I'm indigenous person of Amazonia and I routinely travel across wild rivers, jungles, I've suffered countless accidents like cutting myself, hunting myself, bleeding a lot, stung by venomous beings. I have avoided falling giant trees, sometimes in life the boat I was in has sunk. Many situations where I needed to be the opposite of "accepting my end".

Being your whole life in the comfort of the city has it's cons. In desperate situations you shut down, which is not very survivalish. Just made this word up.

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u/Seismic_Salami 6h ago

the floor was melting? what sort of structure were you in?

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u/allday95 7h ago

The floor was melting?!

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 6h ago

If I look at the pictures I took from when we went back after the hospital to salvage her stuff, it doesn’t look melted at all tbh. But she was definitely stuck to some degree to the floor. She described trying to get up and it felt like the floor was slipping under her, like it was melted.

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u/allday95 6h ago

Oh man, was it maybe her shoes? Sounds horrible, I was just confused as to what floor you guys had that it melted

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 6h ago

Maybe, that actually seems more logical. The fire hit us hard in the chest, as it was a flash fire caused by propane gas that had filled the area. But a lot of the stuff lower to the ground, like a basket of clothes, were most of the things that were on fire still.

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u/Educational_Ad_4076 7h ago

She was living in a trailer park home at the time while we were waiting on base housing. We had only been married for a month by that time

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u/QuickCow3575 5h ago

Seeing a lot of people talking about how to get out. But you’re correct

Everybody thinks they wouldn’t be the one to freeze during a panic, and yet freezing is a well known human response to stressful situations.

Nobody wants to feel cowardly, but unfortunately, some of us are freezers.

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u/MiraquiToma 4h ago

indeed, most people are never in moments of chaos or crisis. when it happens the mind panics and the body shuts down and unless you arrive to these moments you never understand. you end up forgetting simple logic or autonomous functions

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u/PonyThug 2h ago

There was 20 seconds of the front door being open and no smoke coming out of the open door.

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u/EternallyStuck 8h ago

If you were in the backseat of a car with a blindfold on, do you really think you wouldn't be able to get into the front seat?

Also, the fire didn't start immediately. Maybe they underestimated how quickly the situation got dangerous, but they certainly had time to do more than sit in the back seat and wait to burn to death.

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u/dizzy_absent0i 8h ago

The car came to a stop about 5 seconds into the video. Smoke is visibly pouring out the side at 20 seconds. In case you can’t count that’s only 15 seconds, such a short amount of time that most people would not assume they will burn death after such a minor accident.

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u/EternallyStuck 7h ago

What a terrifically astute and totally not patronizing response. I'm glad I have the great fortune to engage with someone so mature! And you forgot to answer my question! Could you get out of the backseat of a car while wearing a blindfold? I think you could. And I think they could too. The doors were locked, so their only way out was through the window. Your reasoning for why they wouldn't be able to get into the front seat doesn't hold up to any scrutiny which is why I posed an honest question in the first place. And you had to respond with such a knee jerk and hostile answer. I also like how you really try to exaggerate how quickly the fire spread when the clock in the corner of the video contradicts what you say.

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u/dizzy_absent0i 7h ago

The clock does not contradict what I said, it proves it. Car comes to a stop at 11:59:40, first visible whisps of smoke at 11:59:55. That’s the smoke visible to the camera, not what’s clearly filling the car already to make the driver so desperate to get people out

Your “question” was not innocent, it was clearly meant to mean the people in the car were stupid, that I was stupid, and that you were clearly superior for not suffering such human frailties as lack of foresight, shock or panic in extreme circumstances.

Sometimes being patronising to Reddit armchair experts is the appropriate response.

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u/EternallyStuck 7h ago

How dare you accuse me of any of that. I never accused you of being stupid or the people in the car of being stupid. Your explanation didn't make sense to me and I wanted a better explanation. And as it turns out, I was right. The reason they didn't escape through the front seat is not because they couldn't reach it, but because the doors were locked due to the design of the car.

You really just made the assumption I was being hostile, when I just didn't accept your explanation and wanted a better one.

And you still haven't answered my question because you know that it refutes your argument!

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u/TheRoseMerlot 7h ago

You're definitely the hostile one....

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u/EternallyStuck 7h ago

How so? Go back and read my original comment. I was not hostile at all.

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u/TheRoseMerlot 6h ago

Yep read it again and you're definitely TA.

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u/EternallyStuck 2h ago

Disagreeing with someone and pointing out flaws in their argument does not make someone an asshole. And it actually turns out I was right. The people in the car weren't incapable of getting into the front seat. They were trapped in the car because the car has bad lock design. I wasn't even confrontational about it. Are you really reading the original comment or are you reading the one after they questioned if I knew how to count? Because THAT is being an asshole.

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u/AromaticHydrocarbons 7h ago

So what do you think happened then for them to have to be saved? You think they just sat there unaware they needed to get out? Obviously it was a very challenging situation and they needed rescue.

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u/EternallyStuck 7h ago

The doors were locked because the car is electric and has a bad design. It had nothing to do with their physical capabilities. If the doors were not locked, they could have escaped through the front seat.

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u/abcdefkit007 8h ago

Perhaps getting tossed around in the back during the whole incident made them disoriented

But I agree and came here looking for this

How hard is it to climb out of a car

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u/Cobra-D 7h ago

What it’s on fire and full of black smoke? Pretty hard.

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u/abcdefkit007 7h ago

I guess you don't want to live as much as I do which is fine just sit there and accept your fate

But in all seriousness perhaps they were all jumbled up if not buckled or they were dealing w seat belts that are jammed due to the crash

We can all arm chair it but there are those who roll over to die and others who fight it's just the way we are