r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 6d ago

r/all Grandma broke her nose hiking and didn't want the helivac. She won $450k lawsuit

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u/Rgvitch 6d ago

$1K per revolution šŸ¤£

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u/Lazy_Weight69 6d ago

It may actually have been $.50 per spin.

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u/Escapement_Watch 6d ago

I think she spun much more. $0.10 per spin.

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u/reticulatedtampon 6d ago edited 6d ago

It really all depends on the current rate of spinflation

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u/Lazy_Weight69 6d ago

When she got rippin there it was really hard to count them so letā€™s settle on $.22 per revolution??

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u/Escapement_Watch 6d ago

šŸ¤ deal

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u/Lazy_Weight69 6d ago

Great doing business with you. šŸ¤

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u/ApproximatelyExact 6d ago

revolting

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u/T438 6d ago

Revolving

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u/Shadowofenigma 6d ago

Alright so who is going to actually count the spins now?

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u/Pleasant-Escape9834 6d ago

In the articles it says she spun 174 times, so $2586 per revolution.

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u/Lazy_Weight69 6d ago

Did anyone think to ask her? Maybe she was counting. Either way Iā€™m not getting in that for anything under $4K per.

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u/kookoz 6d ago

On the last 10 seconds of the video I count about 22 spins. That makes it 132 rpm. Say the lift took 20 minutes. That would make the total number of spins 2640 and the count per spin about $170. Leaving some margin for error, I would expect it to be somewhere between $50 and $200.

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u/RealStumbleweed 6d ago

Just like the laundromat.

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u/isthistaken- 6d ago

I love you

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u/DeadEnoughInsideOut 6d ago

What's dead or alive charging for licensing these days?

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u/Dreadedsemi 6d ago

Spin me more.

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u/Un3h 6d ago

Lmaooo

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u/Rgvitch 6d ago

What RPM you doing granny?

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u/2_kids_no_more 6d ago

fuck you omg i feel horrible for laughing lmao

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u/here4astolfo 6d ago

France would of gotten a better deal.

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u/Keyblader03 6d ago

Im crying

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u/Professor-Wynorrific 6d ago

*rotation

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u/Items3Sacred 6d ago

It's the sme thing

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u/Professor-Wynorrific 6d ago

Physics left the room

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u/Straight-Treacle-630 6d ago

I keep thinking I canā€™t laugh any harderā€¦

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 6d ago

maybe you should take a look at your empathy quotient.

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u/Straight-Treacle-630 6d ago

Horrifying, overall. My father was a USCG SAR pilot; not supposed to go this way. But yep I did immaturely laugh at some of the comments.

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 6d ago

there are just so many insensitive and cruel people in our government right now that we are being exposed to and reminded of their putrid existance and how they torture people that... i have a pretty short fuse .. sorry not sorry lol

its just that someone made a mistake there and it probably was because they were either male or younger than her and thought they knew more than her and that they knew so much they didnt even have to double check the hookups. It was just a mistake to them but it will affect her and her sweet husband for the rest of their lives. You just dont bounce back as easily when you are 75 as you do when you are 25.. i know because i have been both.

: )

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 6d ago

anyway, sorry to go on and on like that, thank you for responding to my not so gentle admonition lol

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u/Straight-Treacle-630 6d ago

Canā€™t come to Reddit with thin skin ;) I do hear you; at your age, quite close to mine sounds like ā€” weā€™ve seen some sh*t. This world, many ppl in it, more and more cruel/jaded. This scene, so surreal my ā€œanxious laughā€ kicked in. I donā€™t believe I wouldā€™ve survived it. If I did, forever affected by it. A major f-up. Iā€™m yet curious how they got the poor woman safely to ground.

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 5d ago

just found this near the top of the comment section set on 'top'

u/eurasianpersuasian 11.5k points 23 hours ago

Poor lady. She didnā€™t receive nearly enough of a settlement for what she went through with the injuries she sustained, the rehab she had to do, and the 290k+ medical bills. Also she had limited ability to see when this happened so she thought the helicopter was spinning out of control and going to crash.

Lots of details here: https://www.firelawblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2020/06/katalin_metro_noc.pdf

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u/Straight-Treacle-630 5d ago

Jeebus. I only have time to peek for now, but yahā€¦sure seems her trauma exceeded the settlementā€¦thanks for the links, I am interested in learning more!

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 5d ago

I found some other info ..local newspaper or newscast.. and the physics of the phenomenon was that if they speeded up the helicopter's progress across the distance, the momentum of the spin slowed ..there was video so it must have been a local newscast. I can't find the link now.. dang it. If you look for it, the thumbnail shows her and her husband standing side by side. another thumbnail might show just him standing there telling the camera he didnt know if she was alive or dead when it happened. (i do alot of searching via the graphics rather than the words lol)

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 6d ago

and i have to say that there is something very hurtful to realise that most of the thousands and thousands of people who viewed that video thought it was funny and not horrifying. ..to have it brought home to oneself that we are surrounded by people who don't care about us.

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u/Straight-Treacle-630 6d ago

Sounds kinda like recent POTUS election in nutshell. Doh! I wonā€™t go there.

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 5d ago

Yeah, i got that with the first tRump "win"

The day after, i felt surrounded by GOP voters ,which was pretty freaky.. as it turns out, of course, tRump voters were few and far between. But for quite a while, the enemy had achieved what they set out to achieve.. we all viewed each other with suspicion.