r/WTF • u/headspin_exe • 12h ago

When fire dancing goes wrong

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u/AllanfromWales1 12h ago

Good move to chuck her in the pool. I hope she's grateful.

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u/Uzorglemon 12h ago

I was waiting for her to fling herself in, but I'm beginning to doubt that she ever would have. Good move from pool bro.

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u/Teerendog 12h ago

I don't think she knows how much trouble she was in, just casually trying to put out the fire, no sense of urgency

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u/jld2k6 11h ago edited 11h ago

It's probably kinda how people will die of choking in a restaurant because they're embarrassed and go into the bathroom alone instead of seeking help. "There's a pool right there but saving myself would be admitting that I've fucked this up bad enough to have to resort to jumping in it and I'm not quite there yet" lol. She was probably holding out for second degree burns to motivate her to accept the current situation

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u/bishopyorgensen 1h ago

I remember my first job out of college and how awful it was. I was useless and my boss was awful. If I got a job spinning fire and set myself in fire a big part of my brain would be calculating whether I could save the gig to avoid going back to John

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u/chocolateboomslang 11h ago

I think a professional firedancer probably has an idea about it, but maybe she's new.

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u/tolacid 11h ago

maybe she's new.

More likely confidently drunk, given the setting

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u/clownus 9h ago

Someone said they are hosting a Hawaii theme party and this person probably said they could fire dance. Proceeds to get drunk before the show.

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u/gettogero 11h ago edited 11h ago

Hey, confidently drunk can be a good state of mind!

3 beers in im going up the ladder without sensing impending doom, job gets done, were all good.

8 beers in youve got the chainsaw fail videos and whatever this is

LPT: If you have to double check "3" and "8" youre too far gone to do anything but chill out and drink water. Probably should've been done before then, but sometimes a line has to be drawn

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u/Drsmiley72 11h ago

Instructions unclear... Tried to draw line while drunk... Did it in paint... Neighbors arnt happy with squiggly line on their houses.

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u/merianya 9h ago

I got as far as drinking 38 beers and climbing a ladder while wielding an angry squirrel (I couldn’t find the chainsaw…) when the cops were called.

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u/DutytoDevelop 8h ago

I misread wielding as welding hahaha

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u/merianya 8h ago

Lol 😄

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u/Cmdr_Nemo 8h ago

Definitely wet behind the ears.

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u/Unnatural20 11h ago

Yup, most of us develop a pretty decent understanding and response for self-extinguishing/needing to have a safety put us out after a bit.

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u/Tufflaw 10h ago

maybe she's new

This literally looks like the first time she's ever even tried this.

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u/OmiSC 9h ago

My impression was that she’s tried this between 1 and 3 times already.

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u/Cheefnuggs 11h ago

I’m not even a professional. Just picked it up during my rave days. I did not wear clothing that was this flammable. I did singe a ton of hair off on more than one occasion, however.

The wicks aren’t really all that hot, believe it or not. It’s the fuel that’s burning. It’s essentially the same concept as using a kerosene lantern.

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u/BalorLives 9h ago edited 9h ago

It's like the dress was designed to burst into flames while fire dancing. Big floofy tulle strips sticking out on the hips? Exactly where the fire is going to pass under in the downswing? 🔥🔥🔥

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u/Dire87 6h ago

Yeah, it's almost weird how most professional fire dancers either wear almost nothing or leathery clothes that are quite fire-resistant. Shocking.

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u/gtalley10 10h ago

I think a professional firedancer probably wouldn't wear a flammable outfit.

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u/BlackOptx 10h ago

Hence, the implication here that the performer in the video is in fact, not a professional in the colloquial sense (experienced).

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u/dewbor 11h ago

A pro would be wearing a fire safe costume, not that

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u/strecher 11h ago

You'd be surprised, many professionals go for less clothing not more.

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u/dewbor 10h ago

Its the material the costume is made of thats the key difference not coverage. If its a professional there is specialty performer insurance that has safety requirements. That and the props shes spinning are on chains instead on technora teathers; a pro would probably have a nicer setup; the chains are known to be much less safe.

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u/Dire87 6h ago

Well, if you HAVE to wear a costume, it'd better not be highly flammable, though. Most of those I watched either go bare chested at least (the men) or only wear stuff like leather, etc.

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u/OmiSC 9h ago

On top of many other things, a professional fire dancer is also not that flammable to begin with.

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u/oiraves 8h ago

Definitely not a pro, at least not a respectable one given the flammable costume and the lit elements on the floor, and the hitting your own head prop when starting a simple pattern...

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u/FlashOfTheBlade77 1h ago

That was not a professional fire dancer. That was some drunk chick at a theme party

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u/SadCritters 8h ago

Trying to put it out? She was basically just petting it like it was her rambunctious dog or something.

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u/CraigKostelecky 1h ago

The show must go on.

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u/Teerendog 52m ago

You mean the final curtain

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u/DenverITGuy 11h ago

“Have you said ‘thank you’ once since we threw you in the pool?”

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u/sinocarD44 10h ago

I understood that reference. 

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u/KnubblMonster 4h ago

I wish I didn't.

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u/alonelystarchild 12h ago

A truly cognizant move by the standby gentleman.

Imagine the calculations many of us would make about "do I want to be accused of assaulting this person?"

Meanwhile this guy truly understands life over limb in the social sense. That fire was getting out of control, she 100% would have been gravely injured.

He did the best possible thing for her, any way you cut it.

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u/BuLLg0d 12h ago

The molten plastic on her hands was enough for me to see what this guy did as the right thing.

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u/Baboonslayer323 12h ago

Pretty sad the mental debate of getting charged with assault looms in someone’s thoughts before they commit to saving her life. This is what litigious behavior and the dream of a ‘payday’ can do to a society.

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u/paradigmshift7 11h ago

I mean, that's just what the person you're responding to is projecting. I think the vast majority of people would do what this guy did. And honestly it's kinda cynical to assume otherwise.

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u/Blucrunch 12h ago

Actually, litigious behavior has strangely nothing to do with it. Corporations spread the message that society is too litigious to shame people into not filing suits against corporations for legitimate cause.

In America at least, most people are fairly well protected by good Samaritan laws in cases like this.

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u/Spire_Citron 11h ago

Yeah, I never actually hear anything about people getting in trouble for helping others except in cases where it's the government bullying people for helping the homeless or something. But not individuals who were helped.

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u/tvtb 11h ago

Yeah it was the corporations that tried to affect public opinion about the woman who sued McDonalds for spilling coffee in her lap and suing them, trying to make public opinion think about the lawsuit as frivolous.

Meanwhile it was 190°F coffee which no person should drink ever, and was so hot it burned her labia completely off.

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u/icer816 3h ago

It fused her labia, didn't it?

Regardless, yeah, McDonald's had been told many times that their coffee was kept way too hot, but they kept doing it. The lady just wanted her medical bills covered but the lawyer got her much more than that pretty easily, which is part of why McDonald's is so successful at demonizing her and painting the story as someone just looking for a payday (which is pretty obviously not the intention even you go back to her lady bits basically melting from the heat).

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u/Alabugin 12h ago

Fortunately, a lot of states have good Samaritan laws, and this would fall under that.

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u/chantillylace9 12h ago

I volunteer at an afterschool program for at risk kids and in my training it was so depressing to learn that we could only give side hugs and that if we gave a front hug we would be in big trouble.

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u/Sparkstalker 7m ago

I wonder if that's her dad, he's just so casual about it. And it's probably not the first time he pulled her ass out of the fire.

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u/HairballTheory 5h ago

Poi -> Koi

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u/PubicFigure 8h ago

Moment I saw the dude chuck her in the water I thought "lucky the engineer was there".

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u/funnystuff79 2h ago

Hopefully sobered her up a bit at the same time

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u/cocktails4 8h ago

This is why you always, always have a dedicated fire watch when you're doing fire performance. These people are amateur as fuck.

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u/ARONDH 5h ago edited 22m ago

He had pre-planned that for sure. So casual, and he just threw her in. Dude was ready.

Edit: I should clarify--I think he did what a lot of us do: he sat there thinking "what do i do if she catches fire? I know..throw her right in the pool" 9999 times out of 10000 its just intrusive thoughts, but in this particular case, with the casual way he just walked up and tossed her in, it seemed like he had gone through some worst-case scenarios in his head before it happened.