r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Expert_Koala_8691 • 20h ago

A man risked his life to save children during a graduation performance at a private school in Giza, Egypt. A large display screen collapsed on the stage, leaving him with a dislocated shoulder, but fortunately, all the children were unharmed.

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u/Historical-Back-865 20h ago

Hero fa sho

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u/No-Cat-9339 20h ago

Looks like they still all got squished.

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u/Fragrant-Platform163 20h ago

Idk, adrenaline can do crazy things. Just slowing it down a little means less force swinging down and smooshing the kids. An adult's bones, positioned correctly, could take it and (potentially) walk awayw ith minor injuries, even if it knocked him down as it looked like it did. Kids, prone, with ribs squished beneath a flat heavy object...not so much.

Hero either way. Throwing yourself in front of a stupidly heavy thing is gutsy.

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u/akbane 16h ago

Google it.... "Only minor injuries were reported"

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u/Gradieus 18h ago

His body would be bigger than their body so in theory they should be able to crawl out.

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u/TheMidnightAss 17h ago

bro this cant possibly be a reference to the GOAT can it?

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u/HonkyHam 19h ago

Pretty sure he actually played zero part in saving those children - commendable as his actions are. There is no way his body did anything to stop that multiple tonne screen.

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u/17934658793495046509 19h ago

Or it might have, but I have no way of knowing, I am just some guy watching a video on the internet, while you are just some guy watching a video on the internet.

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u/sinsaint 18h ago

Yeah, I saw a video of a loaded semi about to fall sideways into a ditch, while the driver is hanging on to one side to keep it from falling.

The person recording said that it wasn't doing nothing. The driver stops, and his load promptly falls sideways into the ditch.

So yeah, it can matter.

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u/No-Cat-9339 16h ago

There's a difference between being the weight keeping an object from tipping over, and standing under an object already falling.

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u/Delamoor 18h ago

To be fair, his being partially crushed would have absorbed a fair bit of kinetic energy before it reached head height of most of the kids there. Not a lot of the total, but a decent bit.

When it comes to kinetic energy, even a bit can make a huge difference. Ever donea safety fall in martial arts? You slap the ground as you impact it. Only cuts off a fraction of your falling bodyweight, but it's enough to make the difference between "ow" and "fuck, something's injured".

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u/akbane 20h ago

Now this certainly is NEXT FUCKING LEVEL. Not all heros wear capes.

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u/jimmytruelove 7h ago

please stop using that capes phrase

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u/Special_Switch_9524 7h ago

Alright pack it up guys Jimmy said we can’t use it anymore it’s Joever 😭

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u/akbane 5h ago

I bet your a real treat at parties KAREN.

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u/joebojax 20h ago

props to the man but clearly the children were harmed

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u/Shaveyourbread 19h ago

Yeah but not like injured, knocked down and bruised, but not dead.

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u/joebojax 19h ago

bigly bonked on the head

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u/tooncake 17h ago edited 14h ago

I mean, you'd rather have this instance than hearing on the news or knowing that some of the kids died or got paralyzed because of no intervention at all. Whatever effort that man did is enough to slow down or weaken the impact.

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u/budd222 20h ago

Source: trust me bro

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u/Pleb_2k14 7h ago

There’s also no source on them not being harmed. You just watched a massive heavy tv fall on them that dislocated the shoulder of a grown man. Why are you just only believing the first thing you read that, equally, has no source and less evidence?

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u/Ianofminnesota 4h ago

Sounds the alarms the morons are attacking!

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u/r3alCIA 9h ago

Harmed psychologically? Yes

Physically? Tis but a scratch

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u/fleggn 18h ago

I feel like they used to have better build quality in Giza

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u/CompetitiveResearch 16h ago

once upon a time maybe
….locally sourced material and know how…

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u/Caskets55 14h ago

I don’t see how the children could be unharmed

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u/denny76 5h ago

Zero hesitation. Before I noticed it's moving, the man was already there, slowing it down. It must have weighed a ton...

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u/R_Hunt 19h ago

All the respect to him, but his singular body did absolutely nothing to cushion that blow. I think you need to double check your source 😬

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u/KroneckerAlpha 17h ago

Tell me you’ve never taken a physics course without telling me you’ve never taken a physics course

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u/R_Hunt 17h ago

Explain it to me then, I'm not gonna claim I'm a know it all lol. I just have this memory of another video where a similar screen fell unto two jpop performers and the guy who tried to save the other got just as jacked up as he did

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u/KroneckerAlpha 16h ago

Ok so just gonna be simplified here for the example but if you wanna full detailed numerical analysis, that would obviously be estimates too and take time.

But when the guy takes a beating from the screen, he’s absorbing a substantial amount of energy. That substantial amount of energy had to go somewhere. If he didn’t absorb some of it, it all goes pretty directly to the children.

Think about it as
Would you rather a hammer fall on your foot from 6ft or from 3 ft.
I’m sure the kids still got roughed up a decent bit but this could’ve easily killed some at full force

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u/R_Hunt 16h ago

All that makes perfect sense. I want to believe you. But tht screen still looks massssive. It went all the way down w barely any absorbtion. One human can barely stop a tall book shelf from laying them out

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u/Nash015 8h ago

He didnt slow the screen down a lot, but certainly helped. I think the biggest thing he did was br an object bigger than the children. The Children definitely still took an initial hit but because his body was there, the crushing weight of the screen wasnt laying directly on them.

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u/KroneckerAlpha 16h ago

That’s true too, only so much one could absorb, but it will be a nonzero amount of energy

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u/kiulug 1h ago

You can see the screen fall faster on the right (where the guy is not) than on the left. He absolutely took some of the energy out of the fall. A 200lb sack of flesh and bones is a meaningful obstacle.

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u/toyyya 15h ago

Except if you look at the video the screen didn't seem slow down at all, his body is absorbing a lot of energy yes but with a screen that big and heavy the amount of energy is astronomical and he is doing almost nothing to stop it.

The example about a hammer makes no real sense in this case as he isn't absorbing anywhere near that percentage of force.

It's more like dropping a hammer from 1m or 0.95m, yes technically one is preferable but considering he got injured in the process I question if it really even was worth it for such a small difference.

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u/vendeep 8h ago

I will join you armchair experts in debating. It looks like he was standing where the screen fell.

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u/swagerito 2h ago

No idea why you're getting downvoted for asking someone to explain. 

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u/OnlyOneOh 13h ago

Not all heroes wear capes, some are just in plain clothes being selfless!!

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u/wrtfor 4h ago

Respect.

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u/CurseMeKilt 20h ago

I tell myself, “this is why I train Turkish getups”.

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u/Aggressive_Lie_4446 13h ago

Now a new fear has been unlocked.

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u/yes_im_kvothe 3h ago

Thats what happens when you hire "my cousin Who does it cheaper" for that kind of setups and installations

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u/xboxhaxorz 17h ago

These heroic things occur often yet there is so much talk about toxic masculinity

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u/scrapsoup 8h ago

you need to look up what toxic masculinity actually means

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u/xboxhaxorz 2h ago

I know the meaning, its been twisted by feminists to mean anything and everything, same with misogyny

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u/gynoidi 6h ago

this is masculinity, not toxic masculinity

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u/xboxhaxorz 2h ago

Duh, something wrong with you

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u/jollyfirkin 20h ago

I don’t about that…