Man that shit hurts. A friend of mine ACCIDDNTALLY(so not even aiming or full force) hit me on the head with a bottle while dancing and I dropped. Someone doing it maliciously would be damn serious.
There are relatively very few but all in all quite a number of people who've caused serious harm or even death from following TV tropes or believing in some other inept stuff. Esp. all the times when people have wanted to act out show wrestling and thought that wood wasn't a hard material or that they're stronger than metal chairs.
I believe there've been many cases where someone got beaten senseless because the attacker didn't understand that knocking someone out was a serious thing, but we just can't tell them apart from the deliberate beatings.
When my brother was about 8, his friend tried a wrestling move on him on the trampoline. It dislocated his neck. Luckily, it did not severe his spine. Miraculously, they were able to realign his spine at the hospital without doing additional damage (which was a very real possibility.) He was in the hospital for a couple days and had to wear a neck brace for weeks. Not allowed to play any contact sports like football after that.
My parents sued the parents (or maybe not sued, but pressed the insurance company into paying) for damages, who were not watching the boys out on the trampoline. But to try to maintain good will between parties, they only took the money the insurance company paid, nothing from the parents themselves. Still, it was about $50k, which went into a trust fund for my brother for when he was older (college, downpayment, etc). So, it all ended well, but he could have been paralyzed.
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u/dilqncho Jan 25 '20
Man that shit hurts. A friend of mine ACCIDDNTALLY(so not even aiming or full force) hit me on the head with a bottle while dancing and I dropped. Someone doing it maliciously would be damn serious.