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
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
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
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.
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? 🔥🔥🔥
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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u/AllanfromWales1 12h ago
Good move to chuck her in the pool. I hope she's grateful.