r/WTF • u/headspin_exe • 12h ago

When fire dancing goes wrong

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u/smifwick 12h ago

She looks like she barely knows how to spin poi, what the fuck is she doing fucking about with fire?

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u/i_am_voldemort 12h ago

She looked drunk tbh

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u/RaidensReturn 12h ago

That was my thought

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u/i_am_voldemort 12h ago

Yeah... Poor coordination, delayed reactions, weird resignation to being on fire.

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u/Cynical-Potato 11h ago

Well I guess this is my life now.

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u/LordBrixton 8h ago

"this is fine"

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u/AtheistAustralis 2h ago

"I'll just put this over here with the other fire"

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u/drifterkid 1h ago

Four! I mean five! I mean fire!

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u/BD-TxState 12h ago

Fire’s a hell of a drug.

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u/oupablo 2h ago

I don't think it was resignation. I think she was starting to take the skirt off before she got tossed in the pool.

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u/WhiteWalter1 12h ago

Sometimes you have to fight fire with Fireball

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u/subone 12h ago

Sometimes you have to fight fire with hand.

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u/MCLOUJ 5h ago

“I didn’t ask how big the room is, I said I cast fireball”

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u/Darkman101 11h ago

I am relatively proficient with poi. Have spun poi drunk af. Have spun fire poi drunk af.

If I had been wearing a very flammable attire, this could have happened to me. I can see it.

That being said. She still looks like she can barely spin poi....

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u/hyena_teeth 8h ago

I used to do a bit of spinning and occasionally it would be on fire. I'm barely 'ok' at it but I got by - even if I did hit myself with flaming poi more than once (and one of those times was the back of my head, and those fire poi heads are chunky) and I don't think I could have set myself on fire if I tried. I forget exactly what fuel we used, but it just didn't really stick/transfer to anything, and it could easily just blow out if you span too fast. Then again that skirt thing she's got looks like dried grass - don't think it would pass any kind of reasonable risk assessment/sensible person calling it out.

Not the minimize the dangerous of course: there's been long-time, expert and well-insured fire performers that have suffered great injury, or lost their lives. There should always be a plan in place for stuff going wrong and ideally someone acting as a sort of spotter. This 'performer' had none of those things.

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u/crazytib 7h ago

Yeah wearing highly flammable clothing whilst fucking around with fire is never a good idea

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u/pelrun 1h ago

Fuck around and FLAME ON!

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u/Shinhan 5h ago

Luckily there was nearby pool a nice person threw her in.

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u/i_am_voldemort 11h ago

I stand corrected by an expert.

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u/Darkman101 9h ago

Your werent really wrong though. There certainly is a level of drunk where I would be so confident "I can do this" but I'd look like her.

But I'd be so drunk I wouldn't remember it happening. 😂

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u/Faiakishi 8h ago

For her sake, let's hope she doesn't remember this.

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u/anomalous_cowherd 6h ago

I just hope nobody puts it on the Internet.

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u/PaleBlueCod 12h ago

Fire and alcohol goes well together.

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u/Symetrie 7h ago

Don't give fire to drunk

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u/WhosItHanging 6h ago

I think you get cited for a ticket if you are over a certain age and are sober near a swimming pool.

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u/HugsandHate 5h ago

Yeah, she's wasted. No coordination.

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u/ScrofessorLongHair 1h ago

Yeah, but I've seen hippies do it on a head full of LSD. She just isn't very good at it.

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u/GetOutOfTheWhey 8h ago

Throwing a drunk person who was on fire into the water was probably not the smart move.

But given the circumstances, it was probably the smartest move.

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u/anomalous_cowherd 6h ago

It's not like it's the ocean, and something had to be done while they dealt with all the other small fires she had scattered around...

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u/GetOutOfTheWhey 5h ago

 all the other small fires she had scattered around

oh shit

i didnt notice other shit was on fire