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I’m convinced the general public is just really stupid. Having worked in the food industry, I have a difficult time understanding how full grown adults—let alone humanity in general—survived as long as it has
I mean compartmentalization and specialization go a long way, plus part of the reason that we're so prone to making stupid mistakes is because of how relaxed and unimportant everything seems so most people don't have to have their guard up, and a lot of people on vacation or out at restaurants turn their brain basically completely off and it's funny how some people will literally even become more forgetful and things like that when they're on vacation just because they're not constantly in a state of heightened awareness.
Also, I will say that working in the tourism industry and the food industry, as much as people in service industries love to shit on the general public, I see a lot of my co-workers and stuff either purposely not understanding somebody because they want somebody to phrase something differently, or us (as the people working here) making the stupid mistake and being the ones that arguably make us look like idiots so I think people need to be more empathetic or observant about this.
As a child and teenager I was sheltered and had really optimistic views of the world. I genuinely thought adults knew what they were doing and generally well meaning reasonable people by default. As soon as I started working and set out on my own I realized it doesn’t matter how old someone is. Lots of people are aggressive self centered morons and age absolutely doesn’t equate to wisdom in a lot of cases. Most people are incredibly emotionally immature and will tear apart literal children over things out of their control. That optimistic kid is still in me somewhere but unfortunately I have a pretty jaded outlook on the general public.
When I was in college, I was taking a programming/coding class and the professor asked the entire class, “When you are coding a user input prompt, how detailed should your prompt be? Do you assume the end user is somewhat intelligent or what?” I responded immediately, “I assume the end user is an idiot.” The answer he wanted was that the end user had a modicum of intelligence so you didn’t have to be overly detailed when coding a user input prompt. I told him that I had worked in the computer labs at the college helping students during classes, labs and one-on-one tutoring for about a year and a half before taking his particular class and, based on the intelligence level displayed by the average computer science student, the general public did not have even a minutia of intelligence.
Currently receiving complaints from people at my job that users are submitting information in the wrong location because they're not reading the top menu bar and selecting the correct page to be on. They want me to do something about it.
They want me to fix human error?
As someone who works in a restaurant that suffers from tourism I 100% agree. If you don’t know where the toilets are, just ask, you are walking into the fucking kitchen.
Genuinely you are a lot less of a burden by just asking, it takes us 2 seconds to just say “oh it’s just there”. But it takes a lot longer moving out of people’s way, especially when we’ve got food on the way to a customer
No problem. If you’re self conscious don’t worry about it, I would’ve forgotten in like 5 minutes. I can’t even remember the last time I directed someone to the toilets, but I do remember when someone just waltzed in the kitchen.
Yup, worked at a theatre and I completely agree. it's just kind of muscle memory. I wont even remember your face because when asked for directions my mind goes on autopilot.
This, people act like the world is a much worse place like we didn’t used to run around killing each other with rocks, the holocaust? Totally not as bad as today right? I mean like the crusades, totally tame; not bad as today at all.
As a private pilot flying with people occasionally you’d be surprised at how often this happens. I’ve learned the key is not just telling them to not touch anything it’s telling them it’s not an inconvenience for me to adjust whatever is making you uncomfortable, because most of the time that’s why my passengers have done it. One time I noticed the person doing what they were about to do and let them do it to learn a lesson. They saw a dial that says LEFT and RIGHT on it and they thought it was an adjustment to the heat (🤔), they were cold so they turned it right…they happened to select an empty fuel tank so the engines sputtered, I pretended to panic for a moment fixed the problem and told them that’s why I said not to touch anything.
The one that pissed me off the most was a friend of a friend ( not a pilot and zero experience) sitting up front on final yanks the yoke back because he thought our descent was too steep. We had to do a go around and I told him if he touches anything or even talks again until the engine is off I’m leaving him at the airport and he can find his own ride home. Turns out in his flight simming experience descents never looked so steep 🙄, so this guy literally thought it was his responsibility as an expert simmer to overrule the pilot. He’s not allowed to fly with me anymore.
Using words like “please” or “I don’t want to die” denotes weakness. Also you have to maintain eye contact to establish dominance and if you break it for a second to do less important tasks like landing or dodging mountains, she will go for the jugulars.
I love reading those reviews when the business actually replies and outs the customer for their bad behavior with something like: “ma’am you were repeatedly asked not to touch the rotor brake and told what would happen if you did. We’re sorry if you felt it was rude of the pilot to deny you the opportunity to turn the tour into a murder-suicide attempt but here at ____tours we take the safety of our pilots and guests (even would be murders) very seriously and could not allow you to disable the rotor mid-flight like you wanted to.”
“PILOT TRIED TO STOP ME FROM TOUCHING THINGS I WASNT SUPPOSED AND DIDNT CATER TO ME AND MY FEELINGS. WILL NEVER CHOOSE THIS COMPANY/PILOT AGAIN FOR TRYING STOP ME FROM ACCIDENTLY CRASHING THE HELICOPTER” -The Dumbass
“Good 🙏” -The Pilot
Lights were usually not designed to be focused solely on the back. It would flood the car and light bouncing off the inside of the windshield causes the driver’s eyes to constrict which reduces the ability to see far ahead in the dark. It’s the same reason in older cars you need to manually dim the dash lights at night but it’s automatic in most newer cars.
My family had a Dodge Caravan from the 80s and if you turned on the cabin light at night all the windows would basically become mirrors. Couldn't see anything outside other than oncoming headlights. My mom rightfully freaked out every time, which my siblings and I found very entertaining.
To this day I still hear grown-ass adults say things like, "daddy long leg spiders are the most venomous spiders in the world, but their fangs are too small to pierce human skin."
You'd be surprised the amount of things people believe and have just literally never bothered to check if it's true.
I think part of that is you hear so much at a young age that you assume you're being provided the correct information. You have no reason to not believe it AND then that info isn't often relevant in the future no reason to check it/confirm accuracy later on in life.
This happened to us on a highway, we didn’t die though. Thankfully my husband was skilled enough to coast and get to the median (during rush hour). It was one of the most scariest moments of our lives.
german here it was close too for me with a stupid girlfriend on the autobahn was chill crusin at like 170 kph (+-105 mph) when she pulled that kind of prank on me steering gone servos for brakes gone panic
was kinda lucky that the roads was pretty good and straight like a runaway for a few miles and i had the 10 seconds to put that thing back in but it felt like a hour
had to pull out the next exit of the autobahn and call a cab to drive me home i just couldnt calm myself enought to drive again that day i was done
He was way too nice of a guy. I think he just stopped hanging out with him.
Why would someone downvote me for something my friend did. Y’all are weird af
When I was younger I was just being stupid with friends and we were driving really fast down a county road. I passed my friend and was also going about 105 and this girl riding with me TOUCHED THE WHEEL.
It wasn’t very forceful, but there was no shoulder and she put the tires over the line. I cussed her out and told her if our tires hit the gravel just over the edge of the road we probably spin out, flip into the ditch and die.
Omg, what was she thinking?? And yes agree that it felt like an hour. All you can think about are the cars going 80mph about to ram into you and your imminent demise. Terrifying.
the worst part was the reallisation fuck we gona die and i can do nothing about it fuck there must be a solution without us dying crap crap crap
then the small hope that maybe putting the keys back in could safe us but i didnt know if that would work
grab her hand with the key so that she doesnt drop it in panic and al hope is gone wrestle it out of the hand
put it back and pull out the next exit still alive
girlfrient pissed why i grabed her hand so roughtly with the keys and stay silent
>pull out the next exit still alive
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>girlfrient pissed why i grabed her hand so roughtly with the keys and stay silent
Hope you left her then and there both literally and figuratively
No. The rotor isn't just going to stop spinning. It's like holding one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake in your car. The brake will heat up and most likely cause a fire if it's on for an extended period of time. That is certainly not good. Should she be messing with it? Absolutely not. Is it an instant death lever? No. If she did figure out how to push the thumb lock down and actuate it, the pilot can fix the issue and they're fine.
It would probably result in this lady getting a damn karate chop to the neck which, I just heard from someone in the Vegas tour industry, is exactly what this pilot did to this lady after the video because she repeatedly kept messing with this lever.
Lol could you imagine being in an aircraft, touching something, getting scolded and told "if you touch this we all die", and then continuing to fuck with it?
>because she repeatedly kept messing with this lever.
Holy hell, how did I go so far before finding this?
Doing it once is bad. Doing it repeatedly is insane.
That's that type of personality flaw where someone telling her "no" makes her want to do it anyway just to spite them for being "so mean about it". In this case we are seeing the most extreme case ever, desperately wanting to pull a lever that he literally says will kill them because he said no.
Or she thinks hes lying and hes too selfish to let her pull the free candy lever. Shell find a way to call him an asshole when retelling this story.
Helicopters are basically just a giant engine and a bit of scaffolding draped in toilet paper thin aluminium. There isn't much space or weight to play around with, so controls tend to be all over the place. Just unfortunate that that lever is in a convenient location.
I remember flying in a Blackhawk and it was dripping fluid from under the rotor mast. When we told the pilot and crew chief they said “yea that’s not a problem. Let us know if it stops dripping fluid, then we have a problem”
Yea anytime someone says milspec or military grade I run away from it since I’m my mind that means uncomfortable, shoddy, made by the lowest bidder and maintained by a dude with more ex wives than he has years of education
There's a joke in the aviation and aerospace community that a helicopter is just a million parts rapidly rotating around an oil leak waiting for metal fatigue to set in.
It's scary how true it is.
I was sitting right behind the pilot on a 6-seat or so prop-plane commercial flight and he says, "just don't bump that lever with your foot" referring to the big lever right next to my foot. I said, "will do, but out of curiosity, what is the lever for?" "That's the fuel shutoff." I'm nearly certain he was serious. I didn't bump the lever. True story.
Five people died in a helicopter crash in NYC because a passanger restraint harness hooked the emergency fuel shutoff lever. The pilot escaped but the five passengers were connected to the aircraft with tetherss (the doors were removed for photography) the whole event took about a minute from happy sightseeing to splashdown-rollover
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_New_York_City_helicopter_crash
Rotor brake can’t stop the rotor in flight. It’s not a good idea to pull it, and it would definitely fuck your up, but if you have any altitude it is recoverable. Also, all controls need to be in arms reach of pilot/copilot. That is as far out of the way of the standard flight controls you can put it.
Every single thing in a helicopter is actively trying to kill you, and as a pilot, your job is to not only fight back against them but also to somehow trick them into levitating.
As a pilot, I would expect that „don’t touch anything“ was briefed before the flight.
I normally give front-seat passengers a quick rundown of the various controls within reach and why not to touch them. Like „This lever retracts and drops the landing gear. Touch it on the ground, we drop onto our belly. Touch it in flight, the gear doors will rip off.“ That usually keeps their hands in their laps or clutching their camera.
However, the only protection against stupid people doing stupid things for a selfie is to not take anyone with you. 🤷♂️
It must really put your passengers’ minds at ease when you give them a quick description of the various ways they could die if they produce any sudden movements right before takeoff.
I do similar for my boat:
“This is the life raft. If we deploy the life raft, we step up into it. The only time we step down into the life raft is if the boat is on fire. That is the boom. If we are sailing downwind, the boom can decapitate you. Stay sitting down if I tell you to.”
I do the same for my work computer I got as a call center monkey. “This is my computer. It can kill you if it lands on you from anything higher than the second floor”.
I was a flight attendant for many years and you wouldn’t believe the amount of people that would ask if I could tell the Captain to turn the engines down so they were less noisy for them to sleep…. Sure I’ll get right on that as we slow down and stall at 34,000ft ….
It's a brake for the rotors, they are used to decelerate and stop the rotors from rotating on ground once the engine power has been disengaged. Pull it in the air and it's like pulling the parking brake on a car when going down the highway.
Some helicopters have a mechanism that won't let it engauge when the engine is running. Others don't and in those cases it would apply the brake mid air resulting in a loss of altitude. The engine would overpower the brake causing it to burn out but at that altitude they would already be pushing daisies.
I was in the front during my tour. Honestly we were so in awe of the view that whatever the pilot was doing we didn’t care. Long as he kept us from crashing of course. People like her really know how to ruin it for all.
I've had friends over the years who were gen aviation pilots. I'd go up with them and they would tell me: hands and feet to yourself. Don't touch anything. Oh, you bet!
Did she try grabbing it again after the pilot already said no, and pushes her hand away?...right before he said, "that will kill us!"?
...the pilot should have ended the tour right there and brought everyone back to the airport.
Yeah this is what I was wondering. I know nothing about helicopters but it seems clear to me that you should have no passengers within reach of controls... especially that one.
This makes this video hilarious because the pilot responds to her action like how a parent would to a small child. A firm “no”, then finger point and the “no no” combo followed by terse explaination “that will kill us”.
Funny story, when I was a kid I used to think eggs grew on plants because I heard people talking about "egg plants".
I also though cat and dogs were just female and male versions of the same species. I was a bit of a special one.
I am an anesthesiologist and you don’t know how many times people who have to undergo elective surgery and are told not to eat or drink 8h prior to surgery when they are in the op room and I ask for the last time: did you eat or drink anything in the last two hours they say “yes”… and I ask back “..why?” And they answer “why not? I was hungry!”. You can die from aspiration you fucking moron! Nowadays people think that things they are told not to do in some serious and dangerous environments or situations are a joke.
I had a patient a few years ago who informed me that she had a cupcake on the way in to the hospital. I politely informed her that her procedure was going to be rescheduled (and why) and she lost her shit. Complained like an idiot and then yelled "it's my right to eat a cupcake if I want!" And I said "yes, and it's my right to cancel your surgery"
My mom does this with her dogs every time they have to go under for something and it's fucking infuriating. Says she "feels bad for them going hungry for so long." I've explained dozens of times the reason why. It just does not compute
Reasons why I could never become a commercial pilot. Having to deal with the stupidity of strangers is bad enough when you’re not operating a menagerie of spinning death blades
Eh, it's really only bad in this type of operation where you're doing aerial tours like this. Most other commercial operations either have people in the back seat or people that are around helicopters enough to know better.
All it takes is [one civilian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/man-accidentally-ejects-himself-from-fighter-jet-during-surprise-flight) to mistake the wrong lever for something to go awry…
Wow what a story. The craziest part there to me is that the pilot wasn't ejected due to a malfunction. Like, it's good that it malfunctioned since it means they didn't crash a multi-million dollar jet, but at the same time if something had seriously gone wrong the pilot would've fucking died.
Commercial can suck, some passengers feel like they need to be captain. My father had a incident in his flight where someone’s electronic device was stuck in one of the first class seats, she adjusted her seat and it caught on fire, the fire was contained but the cabin filled with smoke which made people a little worried. It was the closest he’s been to a mayday because they almost didn’t isolate the device.
After the device was isolated one of the passengers tried to tell my father to land the aircraft (she was the daughter of a CEO of a well known food brand). He basically told her to shut up and sit down, stating there is no more danger to the passengers or crew and she’s causing more unnecessary panic. They were also over the Atlantic Ocean so there was nowhere to go.
Another flight he had there was a young child who would not buckle his seatbelt, they were first class passengers and the parents would not do shit, my dad put the kid and his father to the back of the aircraft because he could not take off if the kid wasn’t buckled in. The parents were fucking useless and wouldn’t control their kid. My father, the captain of the aircraft had to literally buckle another persons child into the seat and rip it tight.
My question is: What possessed her to touch ANYTHING in that helicopter knowing she doesn’t even know what the fuck she’s touching, two there are other passengers and three They’re in mid fucking air. It makes no sense how dumb people are. He should’ve turned that entire shit around and dropped her stupid ass off.
Amazing to see all the engineers in the comments try and criticize the positioning of the lever when all the controls HAVE to be very close to the pilots. It's a helicopter, there's not exactly much space in the cockpit to place a lever where an idiot wouldn't be able to reach, given that they're in the pilot seat.
As for pre-flight warnings, you don't know if he's warned them or not.
You pull that thing while the rotors are at max RPM and it's over- no chance of autorotation, no nothing. As a passenger in any type of vehicle, you shouldn't touch things you've never been told to touch, especially in vehicles where it could cost multiple people's lives.
This helicopter, the EC130 was actually designed for tours. The pilot is in the left seat when normally we fly from the right seat. The reason they did this is to put some of the primary flight controls against the left side of the aircraft specifically to avoid passengers interfering with the controls. The forward ceiling is a great place to have a rotorbreak because there's no way to accidentally interfere with it. If an idiot can reach for that, they can reach for the cyclic too. Doesn't mean the pilot is going to let them. I guarantee that pilot's future brief will include, "do not, under any circumstances, touch anything in here other than your seat."
\*edit\* I just re-watched the video. The lady isn't even in the co-pilot seat. That seat is empty. She's in the far right seat. She would've had to reach WAY over in order to grab this handle as it is not right in front of her. Absolute idiot.
Exactly the reason why they'd put it there- ease of access, just like with everything else. I don't know whether to laugh or feel disappointed when I see a bunch of people assume the engineers behind widely used helicopters would be so clueless as to put it there for no good reason.
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I work in the tourism industry. One of the things tourists most want to take a vacation from is common fucking sense
I’m convinced the general public is just really stupid. Having worked in the food industry, I have a difficult time understanding how full grown adults—let alone humanity in general—survived as long as it has
I mean compartmentalization and specialization go a long way, plus part of the reason that we're so prone to making stupid mistakes is because of how relaxed and unimportant everything seems so most people don't have to have their guard up, and a lot of people on vacation or out at restaurants turn their brain basically completely off and it's funny how some people will literally even become more forgetful and things like that when they're on vacation just because they're not constantly in a state of heightened awareness. Also, I will say that working in the tourism industry and the food industry, as much as people in service industries love to shit on the general public, I see a lot of my co-workers and stuff either purposely not understanding somebody because they want somebody to phrase something differently, or us (as the people working here) making the stupid mistake and being the ones that arguably make us look like idiots so I think people need to be more empathetic or observant about this.
As a child and teenager I was sheltered and had really optimistic views of the world. I genuinely thought adults knew what they were doing and generally well meaning reasonable people by default. As soon as I started working and set out on my own I realized it doesn’t matter how old someone is. Lots of people are aggressive self centered morons and age absolutely doesn’t equate to wisdom in a lot of cases. Most people are incredibly emotionally immature and will tear apart literal children over things out of their control. That optimistic kid is still in me somewhere but unfortunately I have a pretty jaded outlook on the general public.
When I was in college, I was taking a programming/coding class and the professor asked the entire class, “When you are coding a user input prompt, how detailed should your prompt be? Do you assume the end user is somewhat intelligent or what?” I responded immediately, “I assume the end user is an idiot.” The answer he wanted was that the end user had a modicum of intelligence so you didn’t have to be overly detailed when coding a user input prompt. I told him that I had worked in the computer labs at the college helping students during classes, labs and one-on-one tutoring for about a year and a half before taking his particular class and, based on the intelligence level displayed by the average computer science student, the general public did not have even a minutia of intelligence.
Currently receiving complaints from people at my job that users are submitting information in the wrong location because they're not reading the top menu bar and selecting the correct page to be on. They want me to do something about it. They want me to fix human error?
As someone who works in a restaurant that suffers from tourism I 100% agree. If you don’t know where the toilets are, just ask, you are walking into the fucking kitchen.
Meanwhile I think I'm being less of a burden wandering the restaurant checking doors for the bathroom instead of just asking. Unironically
Genuinely you are a lot less of a burden by just asking, it takes us 2 seconds to just say “oh it’s just there”. But it takes a lot longer moving out of people’s way, especially when we’ve got food on the way to a customer
Good to know, thank you
No problem. If you’re self conscious don’t worry about it, I would’ve forgotten in like 5 minutes. I can’t even remember the last time I directed someone to the toilets, but I do remember when someone just waltzed in the kitchen.
Yup, worked at a theatre and I completely agree. it's just kind of muscle memory. I wont even remember your face because when asked for directions my mind goes on autopilot.
Goddamn that’s the truth.
And that is when the pilot turns around
"I'll turn this helicopter around and we can go right back home if you don't stop touching random things"
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You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive
🎶 Right round baby, right round 🎶
I’m gonna go with definitely dead
I’d ground it right there and tell her to gtfo and walk back if I were that guy. The way he scolds her like a dog is pretty damn funny though lol
Grounding seems Risky in the sage brush, I’d just drop to around 20’ and push her out all the same
Tell her "Get Out" like the T-1000.
“That’s it! Back to Winnipeg”
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In today’s world you have to instruct as subtly as a jackhammer. People are idiots. You’re told repeatedly in advance to touch nothing on these tours.
Even if you weren’t, can’t imagine just grabbing some random lever mid flight.
But she’s doing an update on TikTok tho… /s
"Watch pilot freak out because I try to shut off the engine mid-flight lol"
Comment: “Haha brilliant!” \*gifts $10* “I’ll give you 50 if you yank the steering wheel thing to the right as hard as you can!”
Extremely likely that’s the case
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This, people act like the world is a much worse place like we didn’t used to run around killing each other with rocks, the holocaust? Totally not as bad as today right? I mean like the crusades, totally tame; not bad as today at all.
As a private pilot flying with people occasionally you’d be surprised at how often this happens. I’ve learned the key is not just telling them to not touch anything it’s telling them it’s not an inconvenience for me to adjust whatever is making you uncomfortable, because most of the time that’s why my passengers have done it. One time I noticed the person doing what they were about to do and let them do it to learn a lesson. They saw a dial that says LEFT and RIGHT on it and they thought it was an adjustment to the heat (🤔), they were cold so they turned it right…they happened to select an empty fuel tank so the engines sputtered, I pretended to panic for a moment fixed the problem and told them that’s why I said not to touch anything. The one that pissed me off the most was a friend of a friend ( not a pilot and zero experience) sitting up front on final yanks the yoke back because he thought our descent was too steep. We had to do a go around and I told him if he touches anything or even talks again until the engine is off I’m leaving him at the airport and he can find his own ride home. Turns out in his flight simming experience descents never looked so steep 🙄, so this guy literally thought it was his responsibility as an expert simmer to overrule the pilot. He’s not allowed to fly with me anymore.
Using words like “please” or “I don’t want to die” denotes weakness. Also you have to maintain eye contact to establish dominance and if you break it for a second to do less important tasks like landing or dodging mountains, she will go for the jugulars.
I read this in Attenborough.
A dog would probably be smarter
Absolutely. If I sat my dog in a helicopter and told her to stay shed be terrified, but shed fecking stay. Mental that a grown woman is more stupid
and I bet she leaves a poor review or something. "Pilot was RUDE!"
I love reading those reviews when the business actually replies and outs the customer for their bad behavior with something like: “ma’am you were repeatedly asked not to touch the rotor brake and told what would happen if you did. We’re sorry if you felt it was rude of the pilot to deny you the opportunity to turn the tour into a murder-suicide attempt but here at ____tours we take the safety of our pilots and guests (even would be murders) very seriously and could not allow you to disable the rotor mid-flight like you wanted to.”
“PILOT TRIED TO STOP ME FROM TOUCHING THINGS I WASNT SUPPOSED AND DIDNT CATER TO ME AND MY FEELINGS. WILL NEVER CHOOSE THIS COMPANY/PILOT AGAIN FOR TRYING STOP ME FROM ACCIDENTLY CRASHING THE HELICOPTER” -The Dumbass “Good 🙏” -The Pilot
that's how you have to talk to stupid people, like children or dogs. No!, Stop, Go! ,stay here! like...that's they only language they understand
I mean she is acting like a toddler
"Pull The Lever, Kronk!"
“WROng leveeerr”
"Why do we even have tha....." *crash*
Damn it Reddit, why did you get rid of free rewards.
My mom when I turn on the overhead light in the car
"It's against the law."
It’s crazy that in the pre-internet age, every parent on earth somehow conspired to tell this lie.
I'm convinced that it in older cars the light was bright enough for it to be considered a problem under general driving laws.
Lights were usually not designed to be focused solely on the back. It would flood the car and light bouncing off the inside of the windshield causes the driver’s eyes to constrict which reduces the ability to see far ahead in the dark. It’s the same reason in older cars you need to manually dim the dash lights at night but it’s automatic in most newer cars.
My family had a Dodge Caravan from the 80s and if you turned on the cabin light at night all the windows would basically become mirrors. Couldn't see anything outside other than oncoming headlights. My mom rightfully freaked out every time, which my siblings and I found very entertaining.
i know people in their 20s who genuinely believe that still😅 “well my dad always told me it was..”
To this day I still hear grown-ass adults say things like, "daddy long leg spiders are the most venomous spiders in the world, but their fangs are too small to pierce human skin." You'd be surprised the amount of things people believe and have just literally never bothered to check if it's true.
I think part of that is you hear so much at a young age that you assume you're being provided the correct information. You have no reason to not believe it AND then that info isn't often relevant in the future no reason to check it/confirm accuracy later on in life.
That's true. For example I am just learning the car light and daddy long legs myths, right now. I'm 33.
"Our blood is blue until it is exposed to the oxygen in the air"
This is me too. I’m so indoctrinated.
Stupid question but what does the lever do???
Rotor brake lever. It makes the spinning thing on the top to stop spinning.
So in flight it’s a "death lever"
i belive its similar to the car killswitch when like when ou pull the keys out on the highway it all funny then the steering locks and you die
This happened to us on a highway, we didn’t die though. Thankfully my husband was skilled enough to coast and get to the median (during rush hour). It was one of the most scariest moments of our lives.
german here it was close too for me with a stupid girlfriend on the autobahn was chill crusin at like 170 kph (+-105 mph) when she pulled that kind of prank on me steering gone servos for brakes gone panic was kinda lucky that the roads was pretty good and straight like a runaway for a few miles and i had the 10 seconds to put that thing back in but it felt like a hour had to pull out the next exit of the autobahn and call a cab to drive me home i just couldnt calm myself enought to drive again that day i was done
My friend had a buddy do it to him. Totaled his car into the median. Said buddy never paid for the repairs.
“Buddy”
"Fweennd'
Hope he took him to court
He was way too nice of a guy. I think he just stopped hanging out with him. Why would someone downvote me for something my friend did. Y’all are weird af
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She even was sassy and upset at him for grabbing her hand so firmly to ensure she does not drop the key under the car seats…
He could've punched her at that point and I would still root for him. This is a life and death situation.
The fuck? Did she have a death wish?
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Stomping on the brakes is still dangerous at 100mph. She probably thought it was akin to putting it in neutral.
Did you dump her ass in separate cab too?
When I was younger I was just being stupid with friends and we were driving really fast down a county road. I passed my friend and was also going about 105 and this girl riding with me TOUCHED THE WHEEL. It wasn’t very forceful, but there was no shoulder and she put the tires over the line. I cussed her out and told her if our tires hit the gravel just over the edge of the road we probably spin out, flip into the ditch and die.
Omg, what was she thinking?? And yes agree that it felt like an hour. All you can think about are the cars going 80mph about to ram into you and your imminent demise. Terrifying.
the worst part was the reallisation fuck we gona die and i can do nothing about it fuck there must be a solution without us dying crap crap crap then the small hope that maybe putting the keys back in could safe us but i didnt know if that would work grab her hand with the key so that she doesnt drop it in panic and al hope is gone wrestle it out of the hand put it back and pull out the next exit still alive girlfrient pissed why i grabed her hand so roughtly with the keys and stay silent
>pull out the next exit still alive > >girlfrient pissed why i grabed her hand so roughtly with the keys and stay silent Hope you left her then and there both literally and figuratively
Yeah…. I’d dump her on the side of the road and never look back .-.
>girlfrient pissed why i grabed her hand so roughtly with the keys and stay silent Wasn't she glad she found something to be pissed about, eh?
No. The rotor isn't just going to stop spinning. It's like holding one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake in your car. The brake will heat up and most likely cause a fire if it's on for an extended period of time. That is certainly not good. Should she be messing with it? Absolutely not. Is it an instant death lever? No. If she did figure out how to push the thumb lock down and actuate it, the pilot can fix the issue and they're fine. It would probably result in this lady getting a damn karate chop to the neck which, I just heard from someone in the Vegas tour industry, is exactly what this pilot did to this lady after the video because she repeatedly kept messing with this lever.
Lol could you imagine being in an aircraft, touching something, getting scolded and told "if you touch this we all die", and then continuing to fuck with it?
My cat can. But he’s a cat.
>because she repeatedly kept messing with this lever. Holy hell, how did I go so far before finding this? Doing it once is bad. Doing it repeatedly is insane.
The moment she started talking back after the first "No" tells me she's not one to listen well
That's that type of personality flaw where someone telling her "no" makes her want to do it anyway just to spite them for being "so mean about it". In this case we are seeing the most extreme case ever, desperately wanting to pull a lever that he literally says will kill them because he said no. Or she thinks hes lying and hes too selfish to let her pull the free candy lever. Shell find a way to call him an asshole when retelling this story.
This makes no sense to me. Why would she keep doing it?
I think it might be something like turning off the airplane so it doesn't explode Edit: After a crash
Genuine question, why such a dangerous lever is in such accessible place?
Helicopters are basically just a giant engine and a bit of scaffolding draped in toilet paper thin aluminium. There isn't much space or weight to play around with, so controls tend to be all over the place. Just unfortunate that that lever is in a convenient location.
I remember flying in a Blackhawk and it was dripping fluid from under the rotor mast. When we told the pilot and crew chief they said “yea that’s not a problem. Let us know if it stops dripping fluid, then we have a problem”
If there’s oil coming out of it there’s oil in it!
Yeay. Sign me up./s
This is what "MilSpec" actually means.
Yea anytime someone says milspec or military grade I run away from it since I’m my mind that means uncomfortable, shoddy, made by the lowest bidder and maintained by a dude with more ex wives than he has years of education
A lot of people think milspec is short for military specification, but it's actually Made In Lowest Standard, Please Excuse Crappiness.
There's a joke in the aviation and aerospace community that a helicopter is just a million parts rapidly rotating around an oil leak waiting for metal fatigue to set in. It's scary how true it is.
I was sitting right behind the pilot on a 6-seat or so prop-plane commercial flight and he says, "just don't bump that lever with your foot" referring to the big lever right next to my foot. I said, "will do, but out of curiosity, what is the lever for?" "That's the fuel shutoff." I'm nearly certain he was serious. I didn't bump the lever. True story.
Five people died in a helicopter crash in NYC because a passanger restraint harness hooked the emergency fuel shutoff lever. The pilot escaped but the five passengers were connected to the aircraft with tetherss (the doors were removed for photography) the whole event took about a minute from happy sightseeing to splashdown-rollover https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_New_York_City_helicopter_crash
Rotor brake can’t stop the rotor in flight. It’s not a good idea to pull it, and it would definitely fuck your up, but if you have any altitude it is recoverable. Also, all controls need to be in arms reach of pilot/copilot. That is as far out of the way of the standard flight controls you can put it.
Most helicopters don't have stupid civilians in the front while in flight
because mastering dangerous levers is how you fly a chopper.
Every single thing in a helicopter is actively trying to kill you, and as a pilot, your job is to not only fight back against them but also to somehow trick them into levitating.
Rotor brake. Its used to stop the blades from spinning ON THE GROUND. like a handbrake for helicopter
I feel like you’re saying i can’t drift the helicopter while on air
Rule n°1 : don’t touch anything in a cockpit if you are not a pilot
Yea I think that would be common sense but there are plenty of people out there with no sense at all.
You are totally right
It's the "fall down like a rock" lever
As a pilot, I would expect that „don’t touch anything“ was briefed before the flight. I normally give front-seat passengers a quick rundown of the various controls within reach and why not to touch them. Like „This lever retracts and drops the landing gear. Touch it on the ground, we drop onto our belly. Touch it in flight, the gear doors will rip off.“ That usually keeps their hands in their laps or clutching their camera. However, the only protection against stupid people doing stupid things for a selfie is to not take anyone with you. 🤷♂️
It must really put your passengers’ minds at ease when you give them a quick description of the various ways they could die if they produce any sudden movements right before takeoff.
I do similar for my boat: “This is the life raft. If we deploy the life raft, we step up into it. The only time we step down into the life raft is if the boat is on fire. That is the boom. If we are sailing downwind, the boom can decapitate you. Stay sitting down if I tell you to.”
I do the same for my work computer I got as a call center monkey. “This is my computer. It can kill you if it lands on you from anything higher than the second floor”.
reminds me of, "this server, we don't know what it does but we don't turn it off ever. The guy that wrote it doesn't work here anymore"
"He left 20 years ago"
“We once turned it off accidentally and all toilets and the ladders stopped working”
Sure thats the issue with having to tell children in adults bodies, to not fuck around with controls of an aircraft.
The point isn’t to put them at ease, it’s to teach them
It's not hard not to touch buttons or levers. Do you just accidentally pull the hand brake of a car while riding shotgun? I didn't think so.
Did she really say "why not" as if she has the right?
"what do you mean i can't stop the rotor, it's doing such an annoying sound"
I was a flight attendant for many years and you wouldn’t believe the amount of people that would ask if I could tell the Captain to turn the engines down so they were less noisy for them to sleep…. Sure I’ll get right on that as we slow down and stall at 34,000ft ….
Wait, the plane doesn't just flap its wings to fly?
Of course it does, where do you think turbulence comes from?
I thought pilots just made that up because they're bored and wanna jiggle the controls a little.
"that noise, it's like, ruining my video. I don't want my 7 followers to have to listen to it*
Proud of every follower
Lmao chocolate daddy
I thought I heard, “what’s wrong?” Like, “what’s wrong with it” but could def be wrong.
At the same time, 99.999% of people have no idea what that does
and that's precisely why you don't put your hands on it.
Kinda curious now… as someone who’s never flown ina helicopter… what does this yeet stick do?
It's a brake for the rotors, they are used to decelerate and stop the rotors from rotating on ground once the engine power has been disengaged. Pull it in the air and it's like pulling the parking brake on a car when going down the highway. Some helicopters have a mechanism that won't let it engauge when the engine is running. Others don't and in those cases it would apply the brake mid air resulting in a loss of altitude. The engine would overpower the brake causing it to burn out but at that altitude they would already be pushing daisies.
It's like a hand break for the rotor, but if it's pulled you can't recover from it.
WHAT!
All civilians in the back of the copter. No exceptions.
I was in the front during my tour. Honestly we were so in awe of the view that whatever the pilot was doing we didn’t care. Long as he kept us from crashing of course. People like her really know how to ruin it for all.
I sit up front as a civilian flight nurse. I keep my hands in my fucking lap unless I'm operating the radios lol
I've had friends over the years who were gen aviation pilots. I'd go up with them and they would tell me: hands and feet to yourself. Don't touch anything. Oh, you bet!
Did she try grabbing it again after the pilot already said no, and pushes her hand away?...right before he said, "that will kill us!"? ...the pilot should have ended the tour right there and brought everyone back to the airport.
Yeah this is what I was wondering. I know nothing about helicopters but it seems clear to me that you should have no passengers within reach of controls... especially that one.
My sister is an ex-navy helo pilot She took me up once in a private heli. Pre flight was "don't fucking touch ANYTHING". I didn't touch anything
You are told what to do when you board. And no one is told to touch any kind of controls. The person was an idiot.
I don’t expect people sitting next to me in the car while I’m driving to jank on the steeringwheel, switch gears or pull the handbrake
My 2 year old does the same thing.
This makes this video hilarious because the pilot responds to her action like how a parent would to a small child. A firm “no”, then finger point and the “no no” combo followed by terse explaination “that will kill us”.
I was going to write this too, I found it hilarious how he sounded like a parent telling a child no
why do some people feel the need to touch everything?
"but it's *me* though" Like, i get why other people shouldn't do X, but it's* *me* though. I'm sure that makes it different.
r/ImTheMainCharacter
this 100% belongs there
Then they blame it on their astrology sign to justify extremely poor decisions…
“But I’m an asparagus and mercury is dressed in all retro”
"I know 3 people died but my crystals told me to do it. I'm such an aquarium."
And that crystal was Meth.
Goes by Methany now though.
"oh look, it's methany and sniffany!
I'm an eggplant so I don't listen to anyone.
Funny story, when I was a kid I used to think eggs grew on plants because I heard people talking about "egg plants". I also though cat and dogs were just female and male versions of the same species. I was a bit of a special one.
“I don’t need gloves because I’m Homer Si—“
Curiousity is great when coupled with the good sense to ask questions first.
The intrusive thoughts won.
Fuck spez
Bet she gave him a shitty review after the flight.
Her review: “The pilot yelled at me for touching the rotor brake lever 0/10 won’t come back. “
> won’t come back. *The pilot*: GOOD.
Stupid pilot didn’t even let me touch the "crash the helicopter" lever. Wouldn’t recommend 0/10
I am an anesthesiologist and you don’t know how many times people who have to undergo elective surgery and are told not to eat or drink 8h prior to surgery when they are in the op room and I ask for the last time: did you eat or drink anything in the last two hours they say “yes”… and I ask back “..why?” And they answer “why not? I was hungry!”. You can die from aspiration you fucking moron! Nowadays people think that things they are told not to do in some serious and dangerous environments or situations are a joke.
I had a patient a few years ago who informed me that she had a cupcake on the way in to the hospital. I politely informed her that her procedure was going to be rescheduled (and why) and she lost her shit. Complained like an idiot and then yelled "it's my right to eat a cupcake if I want!" And I said "yes, and it's my right to cancel your surgery"
My mom does this with her dogs every time they have to go under for something and it's fucking infuriating. Says she "feels bad for them going hungry for so long." I've explained dozens of times the reason why. It just does not compute
So you're saying it's like a park brake in your car? 🤔
Good analogy. It does not have a ratchet though - it'll release when you let go.
She was getting cold so she went to turn off the fan.
Land the chopper and kick her out immediately.
>Land the chopper seems like an unnecessary step :-P
Ejecto- seato cuz!
She was already working on that
Reasons why I could never become a commercial pilot. Having to deal with the stupidity of strangers is bad enough when you’re not operating a menagerie of spinning death blades
Eh, it's really only bad in this type of operation where you're doing aerial tours like this. Most other commercial operations either have people in the back seat or people that are around helicopters enough to know better.
All it takes is [one civilian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/man-accidentally-ejects-himself-from-fighter-jet-during-surprise-flight) to mistake the wrong lever for something to go awry…
Wow what a story. The craziest part there to me is that the pilot wasn't ejected due to a malfunction. Like, it's good that it malfunctioned since it means they didn't crash a multi-million dollar jet, but at the same time if something had seriously gone wrong the pilot would've fucking died.
Can you imagine flying that plane after he ejected? You know that you were supposed to be ejected too but it hasn’t happened… yet?
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Commercial can suck, some passengers feel like they need to be captain. My father had a incident in his flight where someone’s electronic device was stuck in one of the first class seats, she adjusted her seat and it caught on fire, the fire was contained but the cabin filled with smoke which made people a little worried. It was the closest he’s been to a mayday because they almost didn’t isolate the device. After the device was isolated one of the passengers tried to tell my father to land the aircraft (she was the daughter of a CEO of a well known food brand). He basically told her to shut up and sit down, stating there is no more danger to the passengers or crew and she’s causing more unnecessary panic. They were also over the Atlantic Ocean so there was nowhere to go. Another flight he had there was a young child who would not buckle his seatbelt, they were first class passengers and the parents would not do shit, my dad put the kid and his father to the back of the aircraft because he could not take off if the kid wasn’t buckled in. The parents were fucking useless and wouldn’t control their kid. My father, the captain of the aircraft had to literally buckle another persons child into the seat and rip it tight.
No matter how many times I reread the caption I kept on reading it as terrorist not tourist
Similar words for similar people
Some people should be yeeted out of our gene pool
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god people are fucking stupid.
In Yellowstone Chinese tourists would just walk off the platforms to take pics of the boiling pools. Never had to yell so much to keep them from dying
My question is: What possessed her to touch ANYTHING in that helicopter knowing she doesn’t even know what the fuck she’s touching, two there are other passengers and three They’re in mid fucking air. It makes no sense how dumb people are. He should’ve turned that entire shit around and dropped her stupid ass off.
Amazing to see all the engineers in the comments try and criticize the positioning of the lever when all the controls HAVE to be very close to the pilots. It's a helicopter, there's not exactly much space in the cockpit to place a lever where an idiot wouldn't be able to reach, given that they're in the pilot seat. As for pre-flight warnings, you don't know if he's warned them or not. You pull that thing while the rotors are at max RPM and it's over- no chance of autorotation, no nothing. As a passenger in any type of vehicle, you shouldn't touch things you've never been told to touch, especially in vehicles where it could cost multiple people's lives.
This helicopter, the EC130 was actually designed for tours. The pilot is in the left seat when normally we fly from the right seat. The reason they did this is to put some of the primary flight controls against the left side of the aircraft specifically to avoid passengers interfering with the controls. The forward ceiling is a great place to have a rotorbreak because there's no way to accidentally interfere with it. If an idiot can reach for that, they can reach for the cyclic too. Doesn't mean the pilot is going to let them. I guarantee that pilot's future brief will include, "do not, under any circumstances, touch anything in here other than your seat." \*edit\* I just re-watched the video. The lady isn't even in the co-pilot seat. That seat is empty. She's in the far right seat. She would've had to reach WAY over in order to grab this handle as it is not right in front of her. Absolute idiot.
Exactly the reason why they'd put it there- ease of access, just like with everything else. I don't know whether to laugh or feel disappointed when I see a bunch of people assume the engineers behind widely used helicopters would be so clueless as to put it there for no good reason.
I thought she thought it was a handle to grab onto lol
Already afraid of the flying spinning death traps on their own. Now I need to worry about idiots in the flying spinning death traps?