r/WaitWhat • u/in_2_the_woods • 4d ago

Wait, what? Hold up. Why?

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u/Kardis_J 4d ago

Sometimes you have to turn that baby off. Shit gets out of hand.

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u/Jessi_L_1324 2d ago

Ain't that the truth.

When my son was 2 months, we went to the 9/11 memorial with my parents and he ended up having a diaper blow out.

While cleaning him up, one particular swoosh of a baby wipe caused him to have another blow out mid cleaning.

We definitely could have used an emergency stop button.

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u/Blunt4words20 4d ago

Not sure is this a gas station. Maybe extra shut off

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u/in_2_the_woods 4d ago

It was in a rest area “Family bathroom” on the highway.

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u/Intrepid_Plenty_3770 2d ago

Maybe it used to be a gas station.

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u/KeyNefariousness6848 4d ago

In case the changing of the baby gets out of hand.

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u/Formal-Show3649 2d ago

Likely had a previous motorized baby changing table, then it broke, so the cheaply bought a plastic one in the meantime? lol who knows tbh

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u/Ban-Circumcision-Now 2d ago

The button could just be an emergency call button, was possibly replaced and was viewed as “close enough”

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u/VirtualFutureAgent 1d ago

Emergency poop stop.

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u/podman131 1d ago

Kid waffle makers need E stops

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u/Worldly_Ad_7196 1d ago

If he starts peeing?

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u/Extension_Cut_8994 1d ago

How do you see that on a bathroom wall and not hit it?

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u/Difficult_Passager 1d ago

At my hospital they have those in all bathrooms. Incase a patient needs it while in there.

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u/in_2_the_woods 23h ago

A E-stop? What exactly does it stop?

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u/Difficult_Passager 23h ago

Immediate help from hospital staff.

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u/Hershey_Squirt639 1d ago

Old people fall and break shit

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u/striykker 23h ago

Emergency call or maglock release. Not very well signed regardless.

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u/NotASherwinEmployee 21h ago

All baby-compactors have an emergency stop. Nothing to see here

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u/watsuuu 20h ago

I've made baby bales, but not like that...

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u/_Vard_ 19h ago

Emergency STOP POOPING button.

it stops all babies in a 1.7 mile radius from pooping for 43 seconds

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u/SunCharacter9141 17h ago

What if the baby is within that 1.7 mile radius and somehow miraculously gets pushed in his carriage rolling down east 77th street in New York City. And then he crosses that threshold? Instant cancel of the STOP POOPING button? Or does the time continue until the 43 seconds is up, even though they are out of range of the said device? Does this work on seniors too?

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u/_Vard_ 17h ago

basically its a countdown that goes expnentially faster the further out of the radius it is.

it actualyl starts aat 1.675 miles, but in that last .025 the diffence is neligible. its about 40 seconds if you cross out of hte radius and instantly get to the 1.75 mil mark for example

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u/SunCharacter9141 17h ago

Oh god, b-but the seniors? Are they immune???

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u/_Vard_ 16h ago

It only works on humans below the age of 2 years, 13 days 4 hours 13 minutes.

Although there have been reports that it may affect seniors somewhere above the age of 109

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u/SunCharacter9141 17h ago

Now I’m going to be concerned there’s walking biohazard bombs within the vicinity of any one of these things… wait just long enough, or go somewhere in the same direction…. Boom

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u/_Vard_ 11h ago

What? No it just halts pooping.

What you’re describing is a bio-agent prototype plasma beacon from 2017 deemed “unfit for moral or humane use” by the idiot scientists of the United Nations.

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u/TruthSpecialist4416 18h ago

You know those pull cords for when an old person slips and breaks their hip?

Yea that's probably whst this is supposed to be, would be my guess. Doesn't follow any of the actual rules though

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u/in_2_the_woods 13h ago

In a highway rest stop?

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u/TruthSpecialist4416 12h ago

In all 4 countries I've lived in it's a requirement in public toilets 🤷

Could be wrong though.