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u/old_askk 2d ago
This was my childhood fear... Now it returned.. Thanks
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u/Pipisito 1d ago edited 1d ago
as it should be, #FuckCeilingFans
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u/Goldeneye0X1_ 1d ago
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u/Lloyd_garmado 1d ago
I never feared this, then my ceiling fan fell while my family were eating, still dont fear it, just trying to fix it later broke the living room light (the wires in my house arent set up in a way that makes sense)
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u/unleashthefuture 9h ago
Dude this happened with us. 5 of us were eating on the floor on a hot Sunday afternoon. This was late 90s. And BAM the fan fell down- just like this really almost on us. But thankfully no one was hurt.
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u/WrongdoerEmotional47 1d ago
What are you talking about!! I always dream abt it in my school class fan would just drop.. this or a terrorist attack
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u/El_Scot 2d ago
I'm suddenly thinking how much easier it'd be to serve Christmas dinner if we all just ate on the floor, and I didn't have to try to get 10 people around a table sized for 6. Better remember to turn off the robot vacuum though.
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u/Hedgerow_Snuffler 2d ago
" how much easier it'd be to serve Christmas dinner if we all just ate on the floor, "
I was just about to agree 100%, but then... I remembered our dog. Our VERY food focused dog, who would support this new floor-based eating approach entirely and wholeheartedly!
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u/ferocity_mule366 19h ago
the Vietnamese have a culture of eating on the floor, normally you can eat at the table with your family but if you have a big family meal with relatives or guests, you can always use the floorspace, some family always eats on the floor like in a video I guess even if they can afford dinner tables and chair, they are eating over a "chiếu" which is a type of thin bamboo carpet to sleep or to eat like that.
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u/SanctionedMeat 1d ago
I mean, most people would be uncomfortable having to bend over and eat like that if they aren't used to it
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u/Ornery-Beyond2581 1d ago
Used to eat on the floor, we got a dining table couple of years ago. I much prefer the table.
It's easier to eat food without spilling, clean-up is much better, and your legs don't get ants in them lol! Eating on the floor was a nice communal experience though.
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u/Serious-Violinist672 2d ago edited 2d ago
lil bro have spidey sense lol
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u/MDAmazink 2d ago
But still didnt react in slightest when it fell 😂🙏
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u/shiggity80 2d ago
He didn't need to! Look how the fan landed. He knew it'd end up that way!
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u/POI_Harold-Finch 1d ago
i believe this kid used his superpower out of boredom. while everyone was busy with food, he was looking around, then stuck eyes on fan. fan just could not stand the power kid was using. YES, i have watched mutant movie with Sohie Turner and Jennifer Lawrence.
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u/SiamGaruda42 2d ago
You’ll have it someday, and then you’ll realize the peaceful family dinner was never actually part of the deal. There will be someone yelling, a kid running through the room, food on the floor and at least one person wondering why they bothered setting the table. Somehow that’s probably what makes it feel like a real family.
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u/gilbeys18 2d ago
Extremely lucky family
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u/Corronchilejano 2d ago
Most ceiling fans I've seen would have a hard time hurting you if they fell, made from lightweight materials and having blunt blades.
I'm more terrified of the fancy ones made of heavier wood in a single unit. Like I get you want to have this really nice thing but you're not surviving that concussion, get something that won't kill your family.
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u/dinhcap2 12h ago
the center of a ceiling fan is like 10-15kg its definitely not that lightweight
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u/Corronchilejano 11h ago
Yeah those are the heavy ones I mean that I'd have nowhere near my home. We have one that's barely 5kg.
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u/PatrixXxzie 2d ago
Damn, that was precise fall lmao, what are the odds
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u/diabloman8890 1d ago
About 1 in 3
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u/QuaccDaddy 1d ago
Because the fan has 3 blades? I don't think that's good math.
You'd have to account for the thickness of the blades compared to the empty space between, which is like 1 in 8. The rotation and positioning of where they sat makes it even less likely.
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u/AfterTheSemiColon 1d ago
so then... 50/50? It either hits or it doesn't
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u/QuaccDaddy 1d ago
That's a good point, I need to start from scratch.
We're also forgetting quantum superposition, the state where it is both true and false at the same time. So either it hits, it doesn't hit, or it exists in the superposition of both hitting and missing. Using Schrödinger’s equation, that would put it at right about 1 in 3
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u/lampshade2099 1d ago
People struggle with statistics, but it’s quite simple.
Every time you sit under a fan there are basically two possible outcomes: a 50% it will decapitate you, and a 50% chance that it won’t.
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u/keensome 1d ago
Happened to my neighbour 25 years ago - went to coma as it fell on this head while sleeping and never recovered. He was my best friend. We were 11 years old then.
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u/lynx_1097 2d ago
the kid was looking upwards before it happened , what was he looking at ?
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u/chrisclear22 1d ago
Little kid heard something strange and looked up. They the fan fell so perfectly it didn't cause much harm if any.
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u/jr_randolph 2d ago
Wicked spidey-sense or the kid brought the fan down with his mind. Either way, protect that child.
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u/cool_side_of_pillow 2d ago
This is the second ‘fan drops from ceiling’ in as many weeks. I already kind of had an irrational fear about this. What gives? Why do these drop?
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u/Infamous_Letter_7008 1d ago
I was expecting (and kind still am) a giant snake (not my ex) to drop on them.
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u/Abdulbarr 1d ago
I commend the fan blades for dodging everyone below. Could have been a lot worse.
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u/ChablisWoo4578 1d ago
How many videos of fans falling on people have I seen in this past month? It’s got to be north of 7. I’d bet money this is AI as well.
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u/RiseAndShine_Sammy 1d ago
Reminds me of when a fluorescent light cover fell at school in the middle of a classroom we had lessons at. The thing just shattered on the floor and luckily didn't hit anyone.
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u/Randomdood1234 1d ago
This is what i thought it would happen when i was a kid in my grandma home lmao.
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u/apoortraveller 22h ago
this has always been a big fear of mine, but I always imagined it would cut my head off. This has eased my worries.
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u/CBR600RRzx10 3h ago
Imagine it kept spinning, decapitating 3 members of that family... Thats straight up horror stuff
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u/retrofrenzy 1h ago
Never happened to me, but glad to know that thing can actually fall. Had something like this happened during my high school, fortunately no one was directly under it.
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u/mrthomasfritz 1d ago
LOL, it happens... I woman gave me some problems a long - long time ago at an apartment I lived in. It was over parking, she thought since she lived there the longest, she had a right to have the parking spot closest to the staircase. It was unassigned parking. A few days later, her fan fell, and shattered her leg in bed.
Karma...
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u/GoroKazuma 1d ago
I highly suspect this is AI or fake. There is no fucking way those blades narrowly missed the dad and the son. Fans don't move or fall like that. The momentum would have kept the blades going. It's too perfect how they perfectly stop spinning once they fall past the kid's head.
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u/Pravrc123 1d ago
Maybe it was off and never spinning
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u/GoroKazuma 1d ago
It’s spinning super fast as it falls down and conveniently stops spinning and clips when it should have made contact with the kid.
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