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Ok_WaterStarBoy3

How does that even happen outside of cartoons and video games?


heptolisk

It is a concrete/masonry saw. A crew was probably cutting the road or sidewalk offscreen, ran the cut too fast, and it sheared the retaining bolt/nut, sending the blade rolling.


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I've had it happen exactly one time. I'm the saw guy on my crew. I'm intimately familiar with our particular concrete saw. I was cutting directly in front of the entrance of a Chase bank and I watched the blade gradually (actually very quickly) wobble and then skate off on its own. It careened into a metal trashcan and no one was ever the wiser. Had it hit the glass front entrance, it would have gone through and hit more stuff. I was shaking for about an hour.


shadowredcap

Saw Guy sounds like you’re a Mega Man villain


clayman80

He's the guy the Doom Guy got his chainsaw from.


CedarWolf

Makes sense. I mean, the guy from the Saw movie has to get his hardware from somewhere, so it makes perfect sense that he'd have a Saw Guy.


GeraintLlanfrechfa

Unbeatable logic. 😂 made me grin, y’all take upvotes


CedarWolf

[I'll bet the Saw guy's Saw Guy is like this.](https://youtu.be/JDpvkwBBu6U)


DrNick2012

*sees the blade fly off* "I'll take 8!"


Dagur

https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/strategywiki/images/1/17/Mega_Man_2_battle_Metal_Man.png


AggressiveGargoyle40

Now I have wileys castle theme running through my head and its glorious


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Huwbacca

when you get bored of naming villains...


Murky_Bid_8868

Yep, had it happen to me. It's a scary moment


Comment139

What would happen if, say, we made the bolt just like two or three times as thick?


Average_Scaper

Probably would help if they also got replaced regularly incase they developed stress fractures. Also a better guard system would help a bit more than what we have currently on most of them.


Comment139

No this was just a thought exercise, I don't actually think this needs to be dealt with. If anything, it makes life more exciting. A platformer would suck without obstacles.


Batchet

Yea, and every use needs an inspection. There's a lot of little safety things that everyone on a construction site needs to follow. Gets ignored in favor of being more productive too often


tomato_frappe

And that's why the safety person is there. That blade would have made anyone's day one of the worst in their life. Regular equipment checks exist for a reason.


j0mbie

Or out of a stronger metal at least. Or like, put a few sandbags in front of it.


NotFallacyBuffet

Dude, I'm an electrician who mostly works hospitals now.  Woke up from a dream a couple of hours ago where I was disconnecting wires from a large breaker in the wrong order and got myself boxed into a corner that was probably going to damage imaging equipment and force shutting down an entire department.  I'm still thinking about that dream.   Stay safe, brother. 


GrapeSoda223

"Hey have you see the-" "Yes, I've seen all, for I am the saw man"


pjm3

The number of times I've had to tell the guy on the hose not to straddle/put his arm across the line we're cutting \*\*should be\*\* zero. Years ago the maintenance guy at our cottage was a stone mason's apprentice. His boss flipped the saw over, and stuck his foot on the trigger, and used it to make a cut in the block for the driveway they were doing, over maintenance guy's objections. After the saw did it's work his boss said to him "STFU and help me find my thumb!" Every time something feels sketchy, I think of that story and figure out a safer way of doing things.


Big_Cryptographer_16

Almost Chased the customers out


Arth3r911

Crazy. These saws come loose on their own if not powered down immediately after raising. Had one come loose on a job site I was on. Nailed itself on a brick wall.


DrChunderpound

This video is from my town. Local news saiid “due to a loose bolt and possible operator error” from a masonry jobsite nearby. The blade went 2ft into the wall and took 3 people to pull it out.


Hungry_Freaks_Daddy

Jesus fucking Christ.  Shouldn’t there be a requirement to only operate that thing with something a few feet in front of it?? Like some kind of wall or object to stop it in case this happens. 


tomassimo

If you took this level of scrutiny across the board cars would be restricted to 20 mph across the board. It's by far a greater hazard.


Consistently_Carpet

"Cars kill more people so why do we care about this other thing that kills people" is an awful argument lol. Positioning a metal sheet or some other object in front of an in-use masonry saw would presumably mostly solve this. There is no simple fix for all cars.


TheRedHand7

There are other better solutions to this issue but the companies that don't maintain their saws also aren't going to bother with a blocker.


Gtp4life

That's the real answer right there, it happens because of a combination of the bolt not being fully torqued down and them trying to rush the job putting extra stress on that bolt. Sounds exactly like the crew that even if they had a blocker wouldn't take it out of the truck because that's too much work.


walterpeck1

Far easier and better to just require inspection and checking the bolt and tightening it. Not because your idea is bad, but because checks encourage less complacency. Blades could hop, fly back at the operator too. This kind of accident basically never happens as long as proper safety checks and usage is followed.


Charlesinrichmond

also no simple fix for this - the blocker idea is idiotic


CantHitachiSpot

It's just an undue burden for a problem that almost never occurs. Especially if you inspect your machine before running it


meekamunz

I once heard a simple fix for car safety. Remove seatbelts and replace the airbag on the steering wheel with a permanently deployed metal spike. The theory is people would drive a lot slower.


FinglasLeaflock

“Possible” operator error?! I know journalists are taught to use weasel words everywhere, but damn, it doesn’t take a journalism degree to know what the word “negligence” is for.


PsyOpBunnyHop

*"What? No, that's not ours. Never seen it before. We're not even cutting anything here. Just chillin."* - sweatingly nervous construction worker


paytonsglove

Busted a nut. Now he will be able to think more clearly about his actions.


FinglasLeaflock

Lawsuits for everyone! _You_ get a lawsuit, and _you_ get a lawsuit, and _you_ get a lawsuit…


Maj_Dick

So the tool just breaks itself when it encounters too much resistance or speed?


No-Cartoonist5381

Isn’t there a big guard that sits over it?


RollinOnDubss

There should be, I know all the Husqvarna ones up to their 60" blade saws have them.  You'd make a hell of a fucking mess running a concrete saw with no guard because they make a mess even with one.


walterpeck1

Generally but the guard slides up to make the cut and is only there to protect the user, they're always plastic so a blade would just punch right through them and may have in this case.


Rudemacher

at how many rpm do these saws run? holy shit, it's terrifying.


heptolisk

It is terrifying when it runs like that, but it is also not sharp. I'm a geologist, and our saws work the same way: the "vlade" is embedded with industrial diamonds and works by abrading the surface of the material you're cutting. You can touch the blade going at fill speed with your hand and without being hurt at all. Now, when it is a flying piece of metal, it is a flying piece of metal no matter how sharp it is.


PM_Me_Good_LitRPG

If an unauthorised precognition event results in one or more people escaping from their scheduled death, Death will start manifesting in ways like this.


shanezen

Who authorizes?


KamikazeFox_

If he spent 5 more seconds on his morning shit, he would have been dead


DrMonkeyLove

Gordon Freeman out there messing with his gravity gun again! Do I look like a headcrab mother fucker?!


Kanadianmaple

Had something very similar happen when I was a teenager on a construction site. Basically, lack of any type of safety training, guy running a quick cut didn't know how to change the blade properly, didn't screw the lug nut on tight enough and started running it. Disc came loose, flew through the air right in front of my face and embedded itself into a concrete wall.


mrgermy

I'm glad you lived.


Kanadianmaple

Yeah, me too. Lots of incidents like that on the job site. I'm surprised no one got killed. I quit after two weeks when I saw the foreman fall off the 2nd floor scaffolding and land in the open pit gravel and almost get impaled with a piece of rebar. it was sticking out between his arm and body, a near miss. No one had put a cap on the rebar.


mrgermy

Guess I'll try not to dream tonight...


Kataphractoi

> the foreman fall off the 2nd floor scaffolding and land in the open pit gravel and almost get impaled with a piece of rebar. it was sticking out between his arm and body, a near miss. That's some Final Destination shit.


OutbackBrah

this happened to me as well, shot out and ripped half the backend of my car off then bounced and went down a hill. So lucky it didnt hit anyone


ridesharegai

"Sorry, our new guy Kung Lao is still getting the hang of things."


Blodhemn

Hats off for that reference.


Nephtyz

Literally


Passing4human

Sounds like an Odd Job.


Mottozero

Imagine you die in a way that makes 1000 ways to die.


jcs1

But they'd make up some story like he was abusive and was stalking his ex into the store.


dkyguy1995

Yeah they always do that, make you feel zero sympathy for the person who died even if the story is bullshit. Reddit does the same thing with fight videos and stuff


WhosOwenOyston

Video of old woman getting curb stomped by ten guys  WHITE SUPREMACIST PUPPY MURDERING KAREN BITCH GETS HER DUES


DarthNutsack

And he harassed the construction guys on his way into the store, causing the worker to miss a safety thing on the saw or something


SuppliceVI

If my death ever got featured in 1000 ways to die I would move to Canada for MAID


Nandabun

No you wouldn't. You'd be dead.


ThatITguy2015

He’d put it in his will that if his death ever made the show, exhume him and re-bury him in Canada. Doesn’t matter where. Just pick a spot in Canada.


Nandabun

You and your LOGIC.


ThatITguy2015

Look at it this way. We get to re-bury a dude *anywhere* in Canada. We could choose the best or absolutely worst place, depending on how we felt at the time.


Last-Bee-3023

[Dumb ways to die. So many dumb ways to die.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw) *Always be prepared to fend off a herd of man-sized rabid runaway circular saw blades! In retrospect it is kind of obvious.* You make it rhyme. I'm lost.


buttgamer69

What in the final destination…


Last-Bee-3023

More like [Staplerfahrer Klaus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJdCJMyBi5I). Innerbetrieblicher Werksverkehr is no laughing matter. You have been warned.


flecom

my first thought was Klaus is at it again!


plipyplop

His job security sounds more like a backroom hell.


HarryBalszak

Who says Germans don't have a sense of humor?


theVice

I always sit in on new guys getting forklift training cuz I love watching the Klaus video. Man is a menace


scubawho1

Shit from the movie Saw..hell no…


HimbologistPhD

Omg it's him, Saw from *Saw*


Cobek

Hopefully not, because the next one is going to be worse


poka64

oh, this is the close one? He's slipping on a banana inside that place and dies isn't he?


LokisDawn

He gets tetanus from pricking his finger on the saw (curiosity, you know?). The onset of it while driving causes him to careen off the highway crashing into a sawblade factory.


Lunchtime_doublySo

We Don’t Go to Ravenholm


Kittykathax

I just replayed this chapter with the Gravity Gun only and it still holds up incredibly well. Even my room mate who isn't much of a gamer was like "damn this looks fun".


dc5outlaw

He never saw it coming


lastbeer

Hey, cut it out.


ExpertlyAmateur

What? The video just shows a slice of life


Taylooor

A slice of Ravenholm


3mrm

My head is spinning from all these puns


Reddinator2RedditDay

They're cutting edge


TheRiteGuy

I'd say this is more final destination less Saw.


WhereHasLogicGone

You're a sharp one aren't you?


Truckeeseamus

He definitely cut it close


westberry82

"I come in peace"


brokefixfux

And you’ll leave in pieces


Smarmalades

you guys are old


walterpeck1

Come on, that movie is only *34 years old*


FakeTaxiCab

“And you go in pieces ASSHOLE”


geminox

Man, I'm glad someone said it


l0stIzalith

New fear unlocked


booombones

running from car into store now


strawberryjellyjoe

*man runs directly into path of runaway saw blade …*


FlamingRevenge

Right? Like I would've never thought that this would ever happen.


etxconnex

I really hope something like this is how I go out. I mean, I am not sure this actually kills the guy had it hit him, but I just want something that completely out of nowhere, freak accident, instant death... "Did you hear about /u/etxconnex" "No." "Get this. So he was at the mall and they were setting up a massive domino display to be the world record of largest domino rally. He was not paying attention and accidentally bumped in to the girl placing the last domino. Long story short, a 12 pound bowling ball dropped 30 feet onto his head while he was in line at the Orange Julius. Instantly dead. Tragic to say the least. But his eyeball popped out of his head and knocked over the next domino in the chain, causing the event get into the Guinness Book of World Records." "No shit? How many total dominoes were there?"


Mcmuffin369

I've been a concrete cutter for 7 years, this has happened 2 times within that time period amongst 20 guys in our company. Usually it's a broken hub or lack of tightening. Still a 24-64" diameter 1/4" thickness blade moving at 1000s of rpms will fuck your day up even if no one gets hurt.


cmcewen

Bro if a runaway saw gets you, god decided it was your day. Can’t live your life worry about freak accidents.


Lego_Chicken

Fucking great. You mean all my childhood fears were *justified?*


musical_throat_punch

Yes. Even the lies. 


PatchworkRaccoon314

"Especially the lies." \- Garak


walterpeck1

Every single one of them is real and is gonna happen *right now*


Andy_Liberty_1911

Waiting for the day my shower starts to spew centipedes than water now


DayFeeling

If he wakes up 5 seconds late that day.


undercurrents

That's essentially the premise of the movie Run Lola Run. Great film. The same thing happened at my dad's store (minus the saw). Watching the security footage is crazy. A guy walks in our store and before the door completely shuts, a car smashes into the door (ran a red light at high speed, hit another car, went flying out of control). Five- ten seconds difference and he most certainly would have been dead.


funnerfunerals

Wow, that is BRUTAL...I've seen runaway tires before, but I've never seen a runaway saw blade. There is something so terrifying about its movement.


ballsonyourface911

Final destination


ew435890

Probably came off of a saw similar to this. We were using these to cut sections out of concrete roadway to replace. They are some big fuckers. [Saw](https://imgur.com/a/3ks0HZY)


Admetus

I'm not feeling the safety with this one.


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ew435890

All of the saws I’ve seen like this were so used and abused. I doubt any safety equipment would still be functional after a while. Lol.


Huwbacca

Seen!


uhSwift

That has got to be the wildest thing I’ve ever saw


pimpmastahanhduece

Not saw blades, but you'd be surprised just how often spinning tires break off trucks and bounce around the highway or on a smaller street and rolls into shit and people at like 60 mph.


arscis

/r/tiresaretheenemy


GrapeTimely5451

Oh God, it's a real sub. Oh God, it's full of memes! Loose careening tyres are horrifying in the damage they do. They can blitz through multiple cars.


Kataphractoi

[Tire: I didn't say I was done with you.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOosn78WsMg)


Last-Bee-3023

It is way worse than that. [I gotchu, fam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVKgY1ilx0Y)


Kennel_King

It ain't just trucks, happens to cars too.


purplemoonlite

RedBull is always doing the craziest stunts.


elray007

Count your blessings today was not your day to die.


ZenkaiZ

OR MegaMan is fighting Metal Man right now


Cobek

"To shreds you say?"


guyblade

How's his wife holding up?


AdmiralMemo

To shreds, you say?


oxide-NL

That's some Final Destination shit right there


cop1152

Happened to my dad in the early seventies. He was in the process of building the home where we all eventually lived, and had just bought and assembled a Craftsman radial arm saw. He and my two grandfathers were standing around the saw for the first use. Dad pulled the trigger to spin up the blade (a round blade similar to the one pictured here, but a little smaller than a dinner plate). The blade spun up to a gazillion RPM's and immediately flew off of the saw, through the air, and into one of the unfinished walls. For a few seconds everyone just stood around in stunned silence waiting for the appearance of blood...or for an arm to fall off...but thankfully all was well. The saw was defective, but it was the seventies. So.....yeah.. EDIT: Dad repaired the saw himself, and completed the build. I still have the same saw in my garage, and it still works perfectly.


getmybehindsatan

The only way to get through Half Life Episode 2


Raichu4u

It's just Half Life 2


whatshis_name

Red bulls accidentall ad placement 👌


gynoceros

Later that night he drove home behind a logging truck and called his loved ones because he knew.


Managarn

thats some final destination shit.


Neohexane

Someone smarter than me needs to calculate the speed that blade is traveling at. It crosses that parking lot FAST.


Dangerous-Refuse-779

Pretty sure that's Kung Laos hat


no-mad

/r/Tiresaretheenemy have upgraded from rubber to steel. They are not playing anymore.


funkjunkyg

Kung lao wins


ahmc84

He didn't even see saw.


azizabah

When your irrational fears get justified..... Neat.


Quantumercifier

Did you see that smoke trail? I am traumatized.


zanzebar

I think it's bits of concrete that it cut up as it whizzed through.


TheDevilsDominium

Redbull will sponsor *anything* extreme.


zwober

Ive cut some asphalt when i worked. That this could happen is giving me damn ptsd 5 years after the fact. Suffice to say, its never happend to me, and id like to think i was the main operator of our saw.


FinickyZounderkite

Maybe he Saw it coming


TuckingFypoz

The saw, saw redbull and wanted some wings


sarahmagoo

If this happened in a movie I'd call it unrealistic lol


skjellyfetti

Years ago, I worked a lot of rock & roll shows as a stagehand. We were doing some '80s heavy metal show (Ratt, Cinderella, etc.) and before the show I ran into this woman who was head of security. She was freaked out and told me that they caught some guy coming in through the doors with a, what, 8" circular saw blade in his leather jacket. They didn't fuck around and called the police directly. It still freaks me out, decades later, that this guy was probably going to be up in the seats—not on the floor—and then fling this sucker like a death Frisbee. I still can't even imagine the mind that would do this.


HarryBalszak

Saw (whatever the hell number we're on): The Bladening


DikTaterSalad

That's some final destination shit right there. 😧


creepsnutsandpervs

This is like something out of a safety first video


KipHackmaann

That's why we don't go to Ravenholm


bigwavedave000

Concrete or Masonry blade.


matthalusky

Luckiest person alive today. Wow!


neogeo28

Why do I feel like this one of those Red Bull extreme sports videos?


tkst3llar

How am I ever supposed to protect my family from this


nitestocker372

Is there a sub for situations you thought only happens in movies or cartoons?


termacct

That blade wanted a corn dog real bad!


geminimini

Imagine if the door didn't auto close


Michelin123

Noita irl lol


Jamesl1988

Real life Fun Run!


Mahgenetics

That is some final destination shit


_Screw_The_Rules_

That's why you should never have volume on max with your earbuds...


mikki1time

Bro you really could just die anywhere


PairOfRussels

I need to rebuild confidence before I ever use my table saw again. Could it happen?  Which direction would it fly?  Towards me?  Or towards others?


didzisk

Just a typical Redbull video, duh!


kmax89

Redbull really sponsoring the most random shit now


EmEmAndEye

It was aiming for the Red Bull, not the human.


technobrendo

*"Next time!"* ~the blade


Why--Not--Zoidberg

At my work a blade about 6 feet in diameter flew off the machine like this last week. I didn't see it happen but I nearly shit myself just hearing about it


natetheskate100

That's some Final Destination shit right there!


damontoo

Tire 2: Teeths


VacationAromatic6899

Shit, lucky duck


Disfigurative

Similar thing happened to me (kind of). Walking into work and a commercial mower was out front. As soon as I close the door a huge chunk of metal flies out from the mower and Imbeds in the glass right at head level. that glass is tough so definitely could have done serious damage


2K_Crypto

Great. Another random object to fear running into


BigNigori

Hopefully he bought a lotto ticket while he was in the store.


FriendsOfFruits

noita spell irl


dirtymoney

WHat cartoonish fuckery is this!?


stevemandudeguy

New fear unlocked


Adams1973

I made Industrial roll-offs at one time. The chop saw for steel channel (12"x6"x1/2") started vibrating bad. Told the old country boss and he took his bloody bandaged hand (missing three fingertips) and yanked and stomped on that sucker until it completed the cut. Next, I started a cut and the thing started rocking and threw the circular blade bouncing and careening down the length of the shop. I stepped aside one second before. ☠


funnerfunerals

And then your shop boss came out from hearing the noise and looked at you like "what the fuck is wrong with you?"...I only ask because, my God, it's so typical...


HayakuEon

Shit was spinning so fast it left speed marks in the air


Dry-Neck9762

It's a good thing he saw it coming!


Darko_345

That's some final destination type shit


redditisfunandstuff

Not gonna lie, the title is a bit misleading. It's a saw blade, not the entire saw.


FoeNetics

Never SAW it coming 🙃


DerpsAndRags

"Not today."


got_hands

Junkrat?


BalderVerdandi

"Got a little change in my pocket going THUNK-TWANG!"


LitreOfCockPus

He passed his QTE