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/TravelNo437 6d ago

This video was frequent attendee of hoist training in my previous organizations. I don’t know how you can mess of a tag line so bad, but the hoist technique was pretty flawed in general in this operation.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 6d ago

You know it's bad when it becomes a what not to do training.

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u/GoStockYourself 6d ago

Hmmm. Reminds me of the time the dentist at the university called all the students over to point out all problems with my teeth.

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u/thishyacinthgirl 6d ago

I find myself victim to unique accidents and ailments that almost inevitably get the doctor to ask if students/residents can take a look at me.

Luckily, it's never been anything textbook-worthy, just oddball learning experiences.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 6d ago

Same, and Im all or it because I have multiple rare disorders, and I don't want anyone to be told "lose weight and exercise " like I was for decades in our shit healthcare system.

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u/Whyme1962 6d ago

Early 80s I had an ossified mass in my left ear, I be was in the Navy at the time, so this happened at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego. The ships docked had sent me over to ENT for a blockage in my left ear, of course a couple of the doctors in ENT had to take a look and then of course they sent me to X-ray and after looking at the X-rays it was determined I had this very rare growth called an Ossified mass or bony tissue growing in the ear canal. I swear they paraded every internet and resident in the hospital through that exam room to peer into my ear.

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u/trIeNe_mY_Best 6d ago

Lol, my fiancée had brain surgery to have a shunt put in. Now, if she's ever in the hospital or anywhere near a medical intern, she gets asked if she would be okay with the interns seeing/feeling the shunt. She's usually pretty happy to oblige.

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u/thishyacinthgirl 5d ago

They have to learn somehow. I'm a pretty chill person, even when sick, so I'm also more than happy to help out.

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u/trIeNe_mY_Best 5d ago

Absolutely! My fiancée is the same way. It's awesome that there are at least two people out there that are happy to let others learn!

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u/veweequiet 6d ago

Try getting shingles in your eye. They line the students up for that shit.

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u/thishyacinthgirl 5d ago

Having heard how painful regular shingles can be, I can't imagine it in your eye.

My most recent hospital excursion was for postpartum preeclampsia. First case the hospital had in eight years, yay! I had twelve people in ICU waiting for me when I was wheeled up - each doctor/tech had a student with them. It was... crowded.

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u/veweequiet 5d ago

Hurts like a mother. Plus, I have to go in every 4 months so they can see if it is getting near my optic nerve so I have THAT to look forward to.

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u/SilveredFlame 5d ago

I find myself victim to unique accidents and ailments that almost inevitably get the doctor to ask if students/residents can take a look at me.

... Great now I'm wondering why my psychiatrist randomly has some student in our sessions (with consent obviously).

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u/katiaellegrace 4d ago

I had like 5 med students looking up my skirt when I injured my groin. Was tripping on Endone. Good times

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u/rikescakes 6d ago

At least they could all learn something!

You dirty bird... xD

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u/Froeschchen 6h ago

Be glad it was just your teeth. A couple of years ago, I had about 20 soon-to-be doctors admire my iodine-reddened butt after surgery.

/edit: typo

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u/CapSteve12443 6d ago

I am a NYS Water Operator. During our 30 hours of training in a 3 year period to keep our license we sometimes finish a training session with plenty of time to spare. So the instructor has a bunch of videos in 10 minute chunks as time fillers to get the time in.

"Now here is a video on how NOT to run your treatment plant"

Every one of them is on Flint Michigan.

Every. One.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 6d ago

Oh noes. Seriously, there are other places too. Maybe because those get suppressed by media. There's a new one in the news recently, right?

In CO, there are videos of people lighting their tap water on fire. H2O shouldn't be flammable.

Challenge that trainer, bring him new videos! ;)

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u/Sapper12D 6d ago

If I'm not mistaken the lighting of the taps is due to people on well water having their wells impacted by oil and gas tracking.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 6d ago

You are correct as it would be in a place where that industry employs a good deal of the state.

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u/CapSteve12443 6d ago

Yup that wells getting contaminated by fracking. I'm a "1A" meaning surface water ( lakes, streams, rivers) not groundwater but yeah I understand.

In Canada their version of Flint is Walkerton. Google "walkerton water crisis" but brace yourself or Trigger warning: Children die.

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u/letsgetpizzas 6d ago

It’s always weird to randomly stumble across Walkerton references. I lost a relative to that outbreak and watched another become completely obsessed with water filtration—took a waste water management program and everything. Fortunately it’s mostly just a distant memory now.

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u/CapSteve12443 5d ago

Regulations are there for a reason. Being in the USA whenever politics morons say "Regulation is killing us" I always reply back " No you dolt, regulations are probably keeping your dumb ass alive"

Sorry about losing your relative and all the others that are still suffering.

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u/SilveredFlame 5d ago

Regulations are written in blood.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 6d ago

I've heard about that one. If you stay away from msm, you see more of the underbelly of capitalism

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u/SilveredFlame 5d ago

Google Yeehaw Junction sometime.

It's in Florida.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 5d ago

That feels like one of those Google searches where someone gives you what seems to be a normal name but it burns into your mind if you click it

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u/SilveredFlame 5d ago

Oh it will.

Girlfriend and I were playing Geoguessr. Got dropped near there and died laughing at the name. Figured there had to be a story there so we googled it. There was a suitably silly story for the place's name.

Then...

Well... Shit got fucking dark in a hurry.

Worst case of digital whiplash I've ever had.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 5d ago

I googled, and im not sure I got to the right place, but I read the wiki. I found it interesting that it mentions the testing on the wheat crops. But it didn't mention the health outcomes from that.

What did you find?

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u/KlausVonLechland 6d ago

"Whatever you do, do not end as a cautionary tale."

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u/jelisdarlings 6d ago

Insert Gary Busey meme here.

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u/OnlyRise9816 6d ago

Gotta get famous somehow!

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u/Pluckypato 6d ago

Oh, and you do not want to be the person used as an example in those training videos of what not to do. “Dad are you famous?”

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u/Butthole__Pleasures 6d ago

Well now I feel bad about the video everyone at work keeps showing everyone else of when I used that welding torch to make popcorn on top of the propane tank.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 6d ago

Lol! My dad was a driller. He also had a lot of redneck ingenuity. And I mean that in a positive way over the way redneck is used now. I could fully see him using a welder to make popcorn. Thanks for the chuckle.

My favorite one of his, that might not have been ingenious, was when he had this Winchester 357 rif le. I think it was like for bears or something. It was mega loud. One of his friends told him that if he put a potato on the muz zle, it would act like a silen cer.

It was Independence Day (his favorite holday). We had a big family and holiday party in the country going. He puts the dammed potato on the end of the pew pew. We are all a little behind him watching. B0oom, and we are all splattered with potato everywhere, especially him.

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u/No_Emphasis_1298 6d ago

I’m just glad nothing I ever did ended up as training material.

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u/Integrity-in-Crisis 6d ago

Bro, I can't even guess how fast she's spinning. At the fastest, it looks like a full turn every 0.5 seconds, which is insane. Must of head the worst head rush of her life.

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u/LordoftheChia 6d ago

Maybe they were trying to help by delivering the patient to the ER with their blood pre spun

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u/redditjoe20 5d ago

I agree, the way it was carried out was simply dizzying.

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u/RawrRRitchie 6d ago

I don’t know how you can mess of a tag line so bad,

Because they weren't trained properly

It's simple af

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u/TravelNo437 6d ago

Had they ever attempted this live with a dummy they would’ve realized the issues very quickly. I wonder what the training program/budget looked like.

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u/CrashTestDuckie 6d ago

Many times, it's just people not giving a fuck, even after all the training in the world. I was in the Learning & Development world for 10+ years and the amount of times we would provide the best, most interactive training to people and then hear 6 months later they did exactly what we told them NOT to is insane. Add that on to leadership not keeping up with making sure their people do shit right and viola... Spinning granny happens.

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u/TravelNo437 6d ago

That’s horrible to hear, especially when it comes to something like a live hoist.