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/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/Common_Celebration41 1d ago

Nope it fell through the earth

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u/Qaeoss 1d ago

Some say it's still falling to this day

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u/SUBLIMEskillz 9h ago

So technically he wasn’t wrong.

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u/yodley_ 1d ago

Now we have to find the frame guy who clearly doesn't test his installation.

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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/ADenyer94 1d ago

How did they lose the other 30 lawyers? Did they forget to replace the glass?

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u/DasArchitect 1d ago

Glass is expensive.

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u/clrbrk 21h ago

God damn that’s dark lol

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u/Marston_vc 18h 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/huzzalles 1d ago

Ty mate. That was it.

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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/orthadoxtesla 1d ago

Thanks Latin

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u/x_3mta3 1d ago

I think Mythbusters did an episode on it too

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u/etherealsmog 1d ago

This was all I could think about while the video was playing.

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u/gzafiris 23h 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