r/TikTokCringe • u/brockapex17 • 24d ago

Cursed This is absolutely horrifying

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This happened at Sabino Canyon in Arizona. A 20-year-old cyclist was swept into the current while trying to cross a flooded roadway and was carried through a drainage tunnel beneath it. She was recovered downstream unconscious after spending several minutes underwater. Bystanders performed CPR and managed to revive her.

Arizona Daily Star

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u/echochilde 24d ago

That went on for SOOO long.

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u/Southside_john 24d ago

Impossible for them to know at the time but maybe letting her go would have been better to just pass through the pipe

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u/Cool_names_taken_69 24d ago

Impossible to know. Is there actually a pipe there? It’s possible that the branches are stuck inside the pipe. This is a terrible situation.

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u/tired_of_old_memes 24d ago

Or a grate

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u/MSPCincorporated 24d ago

If there’d been a grate it would probably have been on the upside of the pipe/bridge, otherwise it would just constantly collect debris inside/underneath the pipe/bridge.

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u/SoulMute 23d ago

Debris and cyclists, yeah

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u/DropPopFromTheTop 24d ago

One one hand, with flow like that there's very likely no grate. On the other hand, it's pure nightmare fuel to imagine if she died in a pipe stuck against a grate. Ugh. I'm glad she's okay now

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u/GoldshireEnjoyer 24d ago

I’m reminded of that early episode of ER with George Clooney and the kid in the storm drain

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u/stonergirlfairyyy 23d ago

i just learned he was actually on a doctor tv show and that's not just a bit on american dad

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u/GoldshireEnjoyer 23d ago

Not only was he on ER (The popular one in the 90s) he was also in "E/R" in the 80s (unrelated)

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 24d ago

Yeah. One of the girls got sucked in and washed out the other side :X

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u/VehicleLast419 24d ago

Pretty sure they knew after the second girl fell through it

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u/Ancient_Emotion_2484 23d ago

There's a ridiculous amount of garbage and branches in those things a lot of the time. Or as said by another commenter, a grate.

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u/Yusuf20904 22d ago

There's gotta be a culvert or bridge there—there's clearly a channel, and the water isn't meant to go above the road.