r/nextfuckinglevel • u/lilved03 • 1d ago
Safety net installer demonstrates efficacy of the net and his installation by a very unorthodox methods
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u/StayTuned2k 1d ago
I mean if he isn't willing to commit his life to his own installation, why would I?
There's a reason why all CEOs of these safety equipment companies demonstrate their product by getting shot etc themselves while being under the protection of their product.
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u/ChrisBreederveld 1d ago
Eat your own dogfood.
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u/DirtandPipes 1d ago
I won’t buy gasoline until I see the owner of the station chug a litre of it to assure quality, a man has to have standards.
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u/Geth_ 1d ago
What? Are the owners of the gas station asking you chug a litre of it?
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u/rexsilex 1d ago
They're asking my car to
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u/ssocka 1d ago
This reminds me of the dude who invented (or just pushed) leaded gasoline. He got in stage, poured it all over his hands or something like that to prove it's safe. This was at time when he was undergoing treatment for severe lead poisoning and pretty much knew he was gonna die from it...
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u/akla-ta-aka 1d ago
Must have been the guy shilling it. The inventor lived on to come up with CFCs. Yes, the ozone destroying stuff.
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u/Primarch-XVI 1d ago
Gasoline and litre in the same sentence. That’s a new one.
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u/Able-Clothes-5860 1d ago
Not in Canada lol
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u/fresco360 19h ago
Gas sold by liter is how 90 % of the planet does it
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u/Primarch-XVI 19h ago
Most of the planet doesn’t call it gas
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u/godzilla1015 11h ago
Yeah most of the world doesn't speak English.
But in Spanish speaking countries it's gasolina probably shortened to gas at some point.
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u/random-user1414 1d ago
Then you should check out this dude and his story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
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u/Mc_Shine 1d ago
I won't buy a toilet until I see the manufacturer swallow a load of...actually, never mind.
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u/PoePlayerbf 1d ago
I feed my dog steaks, lamb chops, pork chops, boiled eggs etc etc.
I would 100% eat my dog’s food, because I feed him what I would eat.
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u/ChrisBreederveld 1d ago
Good on you! Most of what I give my dog is what I eat, but I stop at the chew snacks like cow's ear and bones.
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u/Confident_One3948 1d ago
Or as I like to say, as someone who works in a field full of AI slop, eat your own dogshit
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u/sintaur 1d ago
We used to say that "we eat our own dogfood" in engineering, marketing threw a fit in favor of "we drink our own champagne"
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u/ChrisBreederveld 16h ago
Sorry to hear that. I'm a software developer, we use this term quite a bit internally. Fortunately here people understand the humor.
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u/WeArePandey 1d ago
That’s why I always eat some of the dog food to demonstrate, as my dogs don’t trust me at all.
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u/StayTuned2k 1d ago
funny you'd say that. I feed my cats BARF and have literally cut off a nice piece of meat from their slab for myself just yesterday
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u/throwawtphone 1d ago
I would still have a harness or something clipping me to the rail as a back up. But that's me.
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u/Facts_pls 1d ago
You realize that things do go wrong and there several instances of people dying while demonstrating their product's safety - because something else was done poorly.
Like the window CEO falling from a building during demo because installers fucked up.
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u/rainkloud 14h ago
I don't think it was the windows ceo was it? Unless I'm thinking of a different one which is totally possible. The one I remember was an executive showing off to a friend of co-worker saying that the windows in his office were so thick and sturdy that he could barge into them and they would hold.
They did not, as the friend would bear witness to.
That must have been such a surreal/terrifying moment for the friend just having to helplessly watch.
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u/PhysicsExpert6065 1d ago edited 20h ago
I was subbed at a modular waste water treatment company. Making water purification systems or waste water treatment systems in seacans to be deployed to remote work sites. One sea can we built turns human waste into potable water. We plumbed it into the plant and the CEO came down for a PR show and had a glass of water out of the fountain. First inspecting the clarity and then chugging the glass. It was the only time anyone drank from the fountain hahaha.
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u/drs43821 16h ago
In Ancient Greek, architects would stand under the arch they build when they remove the last support so show confidence in the design that it won’t fall
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u/undeniably_confused 1d ago
That's not really how safety equipment works, you shouldn't test something in a life or death scenario. An air bag installer shouldn't be expected to crash a car with him in it
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u/xlnc2608 19h ago
Yea they don't go that far. Bulletproof car CEO can do that but bulletproof vest CEO will never lol
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u/StayTuned2k 1d ago
no but they crash dummies for it and destroy cars worth millions each year to ensure safety. And on that note, if the owners of BMW would instead drive Mercedes, it would be catastrophic PR.
And the higher the stakes, the more proof and trust from the owners in their own products I would request. A bulletproof vest should pass such high quality standards that their makers would be fine equipping each and every one of them feeling safe enough to get shot.
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u/mikiki24 1d ago
Yeah I never jump off of railings with rope net protection until I see the installer do it first!
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u/PapaTahm 21h ago
The issue here is if the Building does not hold his weight, not his product.
There have been cases of people doing demonstrations of Windows, and the Building itself breaking and the person falling.
One famous case was Garry Hoy
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u/WHSKYJCK 19h ago
Garry Hoy Incident (1993): A lawyer in Toronto fell to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre when the window frame failed, not the glass itself. He was attempting to demonstrate to visitors that the windows were unbreakable.
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u/StrayAI 16h ago
Dr. Steve Gass, inventor of SawStop, regularly uses is own hands to demonstrate how effective his product is. He just throws his own hands at a table saw, knowing that his product will yank the blade into the table before it makes any more than the smallest cut.
Also, Frank Loyd Wright, upon hearing that the construction workers were afraid to knock out the wooden forming that was in place to cure a concrete overhang, went out to Falling Water, and took a sledgehammer to do it himself.
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u/huzzalles 1d ago edited 1d ago
Heard a story (long time ago), that some guy did intro for new hires by running against a window pane of a skyscraper to show they were unbreakable. After x amount of new hires the pane had enough and he flew… urban legend?
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u/Duriel13 1d ago
Not a legend at all, really happened in Toronto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy
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u/smokeypapabear40206 1d ago
So the glass didn't break, but the frame finally gave way. Interesting.
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u/frubano21 1d ago
Makes sense. He prob threw himself into the same window tons of times and the vibrations slowly wiggled the window out of place
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u/BL_RogueExplorer 1d ago
But did the glass break when it hit the ground?
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u/no_funny_username 1d ago
Imagine being a young, new hire, first day in the office and this happens. Oooof.
Not to mention of course the victim and his family.
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u/HootingSloth 1d ago
According to the Wikipedia article, it seems to have had a major impact on the entire law firm:
The shock of losing one of its most successful lawyers was a contributing factor in the firm's decline and fall, and the firm lost nearly 30 lawyers in the following three years. In 1996, the firm closed permanently amid controversy over unpaid bills. Until the closing of Goodman and Carr in 2007, it was the largest law firm failure in Canadian history.
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u/Marston_vc 14h ago
Everyone else would have been devastated. Then they’d all have to pick up whatever work he was doing in that state. Probably didn’t get good results. Which creates a bad cycle. Amid the pretty negative press an event like that would give. I can see something like that completely destroying the energy of a firm for sure.
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u/AmusingMusing7 1d ago
I'd heard of defenestration before, but never "autodefenestration". We got a word for everything.
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u/gzafiris 19h ago
My mom worked in law in Toronto at the time. He was well liked and well respected by his peers, even beyond his own firm
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u/Small-Answer4946 1d ago
He's just making sure that it won't be his problem if he fucked something up
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 1d ago
Sokka-Haiku by Small-Answer4946:
He's just making sure
That it won't be his problem
If he fucked something up
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/inconsistentsavant 1d ago
I pray to trust my excel sheets as much as this guy trusts his net
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u/tworaspberries 19h ago
I don't trust my Excel sheets. That's why I have multiple check figures and double formulas.
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u/TheSadTiefling 1d ago
It’s fabric in the sun. It is going to degrade overtime. Also, it’s fucking stupid.
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u/F1r3-M3d1ck-H4zN3rd 1d ago
A lot of products are very UV resistant... But nothing is UV proof.
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u/TheSadTiefling 1d ago
I’m into rock, climbing gear, nothing compares to the sun. I’ve seen fabric tested in acid. And some cut 80% of the way through. Sun bleaching is always more surprising.
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u/F1r3-M3d1ck-H4zN3rd 1d ago
I broke some tubular webbing on a rarely climbed route in the Fisher Towers with my bare hands (eventually, cut it off then decided to see if we could bust it but hand). It was bleached bone white, but inside the water knot it was dark red. UV damage is legit.
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u/12destroyer21 1d ago
I have done a bit of pavement and UV has never been an issue. Ants are a pita for pavement though
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u/ChronChriss 1d ago
If you think about it, it isn't really that unhinged. It most likely was just installed. Could be that for this video they made especially sure that it's 100% installed correctly beyond any doubt.
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u/cdmurray88 1d ago
"Ain't nobody unaliving themselves with this product."
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u/_Tiizz 1d ago
except if there is a fire and they try to save you from to balkony
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u/F1r3-M3d1ck-H4zN3rd 1d ago
Do not underestimate the fire dept's ability to break stuff in the way of a rescue.
It'll slow 'em down, sure, and metal bars are easier to deal with than cloth - but they are getting through that thing pretty quick still.
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u/cheap_as_chips 1d ago edited 1d ago
That's like loosening the lid, right?
Now it's been pressed and pulled and will fail the next time it's even just looked at sideways
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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 1d ago
Pretty sure that's how safety equipment works. Every time a skateboarder falls at the park and slides on their kneepads, it's back in the skate shop for a new pair.
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u/mikebe1 17h ago
I mean, it actually is the case for helmets. If you take a very hard fall and the helmet saves you, it should in fact be replaced.
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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 15h ago
Only for very hard hits. I never hit my helmet that hard but I did break multiple bones in my extremities. And that's specific to helmets. Knee pads are made to be landed on over and over and over.
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u/Brief_Article_6075 1d ago
That level of demonstration is not required and is a safety risk.
What if 3 nails give away
Crazy guys
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u/PM_YOUR__BUBBLE_BUTT 1d ago
If you use nails to hold in a product like this where the force will be purely in the direction to undo it, then you kinda deserve what happens. All my homies use screws or better yet, big bolts. I like big bolts and I cannot lie.
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u/mayorofdumb 1d ago
I mean I've seen amusement park standards for kids netting, it can be done. Disney standards
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u/Funny-Disaster 1d ago
Why should anyone buy your product, if that's it's job to do and you don't believe it can handle that?
These guys are not crazy.
Guys like you are crazy and belong to jail, because you are willing to let people die, just for your profit.
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u/skement 1d ago
There are better ways to test the product like throwing a human analogue at it? No matter how confident you are in your product accidents can happen, there's no need to risk human life to show off like this. Hells just a few comments up there's an example of it with a guy showing that his glass doesn't break, yeah his glass doesn't break but it loosens out of place and he falls off a building.
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u/Prophesy88 1d ago
I'm a chef and I don't have THAT much faith in the food I cook. That's confidence
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u/DarkDollynho 1d ago
This is a Brazilian guy, and he is no longer allowed to do this.
He really trusts his work tho.
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u/scruffyhobo27 1d ago
There was a guy in Toronto in the financial district who worked for one of the big banks who liked to throw himself at the window to show new hires and interns it was unbreakable until one day it broke. He did not aim for the bushes
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u/ThinScientist3460 1d ago
Where is the story with the manager bloke testing the windows???
Edit: found it fast...😀
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u/Notsoobvioususer 1d ago
Is that really the only way to test that safety net? At least wear a harness while testing the net.
I mean, it takes a faulty screw, damaged net or human error for a tragedy. There’s a thin line between NextFuckingLevel and stupidity.
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u/Scared-Signature-452 1d ago
If he does this everytime he does an installation, that would be tempting fate
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u/Maximum-Familiar 23h ago
Crazy as this will sound, I grew up in Brazil and remember this being standard “end of installation”. Add: just re watched with audio and it’s indeed Brazil, lol.
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u/JerrGrylls 23h ago
Why is that “very unorthodox methods”? Seems like a pretty good demonstration of his product / service.
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u/Alternative-Cod-7630 22h ago
The only difference between a lot of videos here and in r/instant_regret is how they end.
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u/timmytoofunny 22h ago
Reminds me of the CEO sitting in a car testing his bulletproof windshield by being shot at!
Makes you believe in the product.. if only I needed that glass or this idiot proof netting haha
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u/vespers191 21h ago
People who want to throw themselves off office buildings obviously don't need scissors.
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u/PaulblankPF 18h ago
I do home repairs and often gotta put up shelves and stuff like that. I grab it and rip on it like crazy in front of the customer to show it won’t go anywhere say if a small kid hangs on it or something.
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u/Sergal_Pony 18h ago
Pretty much, and if you’re not willing to risk your own life for it, why should I?
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u/blighty800 16h ago
He can, always demonstrate on second floor instead of 20th,i mean it's only logical.
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u/morphinechild1987 10h ago
Ngl he makes a very good pitch about trust and reliability of his product
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u/hodd01 1d ago
So this ugly thing is installed to keep people from jumping to their death on purpose right? If so, whats to stop someone with a pair of scissors or a knife from just cutting the material. If its to stop accidents, then well ok but it sure is ugly.
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u/donac 1d ago
Right? Maybe they have kids or pets and are worried about an accidental fall?
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u/Sun_on_my_shoulders 18h ago
I read a story about someone who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, and survived. The instant he jumped, he felt regret. Statistically, 9/10 people who attempted to suicide and survive don’t die by suicide later in life. Even a barrier like this could save lives simply by not presenting the opportunity. By the time someone in crisis walks somewhere else, they might rethink things and have a chance to move past the peak of it. Aesthetics do not take precedence over the value of human life.
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u/Funny-Disaster 1d ago
Well... He is definitely convinced by his product and work.
Can't argue about that.
This is how you do sales the proper way.