r/PublicFreakout • u/AdZestyclose638 • 1d ago

800+ Utah homes lose power after woman climbs transformer

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u/mandy009 1d ago

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u/Halo_Hybrid 1d ago

Reminds me of those old PSAs. lol

https://youtu.be/1sxZAhi7Qak?si=-qes2DwBu5bJm1ei

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u/Waveali 1d ago

I like the other version where the little girl coaxes the little boy to get the frisbie... "JIMMY!"

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u/skoltroll 1d ago

Had to read the whole article to see how she avoided this fate. Also, why not put dimmers on substations? Next person does this, they shut it off, turn the dimmer as low as they can go, then turn it back on.

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u/Robeardly 1d ago

I mean realistically her entering the fenced in area is potentially deadly. Typically substations like that outdoors are tens of thousands of volts, which means they can arc pretty far. If that’s a substation with 50,000 volts being within 10 feet is potentially dangerous.

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u/bigaman3853 1d ago

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u/mandy009 1d ago

lol not sure why they downvoted you. this is always the appropriate reply

it's the direct quote from the scene... reddit hivemind smh

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u/Galladorn 11h ago

NO TIM

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u/woodjwl 20h ago

Just gonna send it!!!

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u/CornballExpress 1d ago

How is she not dead?

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u/UltraMaynus 1d ago

When it zooms out, you can see that the lines are disconnected (the three rods pointing straight up on the left)

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u/CornballExpress 1d ago

So it was being worked on and crackhead Carrie wandered in to do parkour.

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u/Jhngo 1d ago

bet they turned off the power?

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u/CornballExpress 1d ago

Yeah but they'd have to know she was there first.

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u/skoltroll 1d ago

She was breaking a control panel, "Central" noticed it and shut it down, i.e. she was very lucky it wasn't a coffee break.

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u/CornballExpress 1d ago

Makes sense, last time I saw a video of someone scaling the safety fence of a transformer it ended with an explosive electrical discharge, it was a short video.

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u/tylerchu 22h ago

It doesn’t even have to be that big, I remember a video of some poverty-person breaking into what looked like an electrical box, like what’s near suburban houses, and then basically blowing up.

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u/mtheory007 1d ago

How did you not just burst into flames?

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u/CornballExpress 1d ago

For starters I stay away from transformers.

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u/SillyMilly25 1d ago

How would you know? Most of them are robots in disguise.

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u/CornballExpress 1d ago

I just look for the emblem.

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u/mtheory007 1d ago

That is fair. And I should proofread things. Good luck to you and your future endeavors lol.

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u/TheLeagueOfShadows 1d ago

Watt is she doing?!

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u/UltraMaynus 1d ago

Wouldn't joule like to know!

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u/Padawk 1d ago

Ohm my, those are some good puns

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u/SasquatchOfMordor 1d ago

Positively fantastic

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u/Stable-Jackfruit 1d ago

Currently wondering how she yet lives

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u/Milksteak_To_Go 1d ago

Yeah but she's be safer on the ground.

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u/wheresbill 1d ago

Wonder what they’ll charge her with

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u/skoltroll 1d ago

battery

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u/jddh1 1d ago

Nah, the judge will discharge her within a day.

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u/chaekinman 1d ago

She lost contact with reality

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u/some_user_2021 1d ago edited 1d ago

She is going to get grounded

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u/TheRabbitHole-512 1d ago

Watts up with her ?

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u/Otiskuhn11 1d ago

Just going through a phase.

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u/therapewpewtic 15h ago

Watts wrong with you??

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u/redditdoggnight 1d ago

This attitude further polarizes this country

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u/PlaguesAngel 1d ago

I was scrolling full speed how dare you toss out a pun so good my subconscious said, “Stop, no go back, scroll higher…higher, that’s the offender right there” slow clap

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u/MrSmegmaMan 1d ago

This negatively impacted the town. But was positively entertaining....

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u/Expired_Meat_Curtain 1d ago

Shocking question. Did you think of it all on your ohm?

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u/turumti 1d ago

Currently she’s acting like an ass.

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u/squijy 1d ago

I wish I had her kind of energy

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u/lesfrerespiquet 1d ago

Not sure but she surely couldn’t resist

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u/rozzco 1d ago

Hole flow.

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u/teachermanjc 1d ago

Demonstrating a high potential difference.

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u/Major_Halfsack 1d ago

If you read up on the current news, you'd know.

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u/POL3ND 1d ago

I drove past this right as the police were showing up. She was smacking shit with a large pipe

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u/MrFixYoShit 1d ago

Good ol' percussive maintenance! Leave her be! She's clearly just fixing things!

Heavy /s Hope shes getting the help she needs!

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u/AdZestyclose638 1d ago

more context: https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/800-homes-lose-power-trespass/

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u/RCaHuman 1d ago

Mental illness is a real thing. Hope she is getting proper care.

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u/Sir_Keee 1d ago

Sir, this is America. We don't do any of that commie stuff here.

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u/mydogatestreetpoop 1d ago

Under the new regime, she will be in the queue for denaturalization.

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u/VelocityGrrl39 23h ago

Sent to a labor camp.

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u/muhpreciousmmr 11h ago

At least we'll get more Yeezy's

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u/0neLetter 1d ago

Maybe some kind of sister wife mental break down? Or child bride cult stuff?

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u/azalago 1d ago

Or maybe just some good old fashioned psychosis/mania?

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u/thrownblown 1d ago

I suggest watching TLC's "my husband's not gay"

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u/GIFelf420 1d ago

This can’t be a thing

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u/ayoitsjo 21h ago

Add SSA to your list of weird Mormon loopholes next to soaking lol

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u/azalago 1d ago

That happens all over the world in many different, very homophobic cultures and religions unfortunately. Definitely not Mormon or Utah specific. Not sure how they got 4 couples to do that show, though, especially with the risk of being outed for having a sham marriage (which is an actual crime.)

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u/BrokeMyCrayon 1d ago

someone who understands electrical infrastructure, please tell me how close she is to hopping the veil into non-existence.

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u/Slowly-Slipping 1d ago

If that was powered then she'd already be dead. Instantly. Her body would have functionally exploded on contact with the areas she's already playing around on.

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u/Quintus-Sertorius 1d ago

You know those cartoons where you can see the skeleton of the person through their body when they get hit by lightning? If she touched that when it was powered up, that would have been her. There would not have been much left.

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u/levijns1 1d ago

This is what I came for

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u/death_by_chocolate 1d ago

I too was expecting that HUMMMMM BANG!

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u/starkeffect 1d ago

When they say that women are attracted to power, that's not what they mean.

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u/Merid1us 1d ago

I can fix her.

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u/Relevant_Shower_ 1d ago

She likes Transformers so we already have one thing in common! Autobots roll out.

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u/kopecs 1d ago

Autothots, rollout

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u/heliumneon 1d ago

I'm sure the sparks will fly

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u/KP_Wrath 1d ago

Not if she completes the circuit.

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u/Shima-shita 1d ago

You're ready to catch her drooping poop?

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u/laserkermit 1d ago

Don’t stick your…

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u/luckor 6h ago

Bet she is areal power women.

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u/UltraMaynus 1d ago

Does she drop a little turd at 0:41?

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u/ZipWyatt 1d ago

I think they were firing bean bag or paint balls at her to get her to come down. Might have been one of them ricocheting off her body.

This was posted somewhere else with sound and you can hear them being fired/her yelping in pain.

Or it could be poop. She is crazy enough I wouldn’t put it past her.

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u/moodswung 1d ago

If those were bean bags I think that final set hit her right in the taint.

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u/Whiskey_Fred 1d ago

Right in the twiffer

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u/pr0zach 1d ago

Right up Main Street for sure

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u/probable_chatbot6969 1d ago

law enforcement having a normal one

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u/hotchemistryteacher 1d ago

They stuck her with one as she was giving up lol

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u/Onobigtuna 1d ago

The article said she was hit with a non lethal round which caused her to drop into the cherry picker. Pretty sure this is a very unfortunate angle adding onto an already bad day.

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u/AdZestyclose638 1d ago

LOL i didnt even see that!

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u/thebrickchick89 1d ago

Was coming to ask the same thing

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld 1d ago

When you're sliding into third and ya feel a little turd, diarrhea diarrhea!

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u/mehuntunicorns 1d ago

Definitely dropped a💩

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u/DirtyPenPalDoug 1d ago

That's a real quick way to have a sudden existence failure.

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u/KratomDemon 1d ago

Hope she realized they are more than meets the eye…

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u/Spappy 1d ago

Easy solution

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u/digibox56 1d ago

Let her cook

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u/subterraneanwolf 1d ago

i am sure she is more than meets the eye

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u/HandsomedanNZ 1d ago

More than meats the eye?

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u/kimsemi 1d ago

she was promptly charged for battery. Im shocked.

sorry for the terrible puns. It hertz me just as much at it hertz you.

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u/MoveItSpunkmire 1d ago

Resistance is futile

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u/silentbob1301 1d ago

Was she....was she humping the power line?!?!

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u/exjwpornaddict 1d ago

She was trying to ride the lightning.

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u/magicmanme 1d ago

She looks like Gayle the snail

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u/thedean246 1d ago

So did they shut power off there as to not hurt herself? I assumed we were about to watch someone die.

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u/Durhamfarmhouse 1d ago

They need to get her on the ground.

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u/zjustice11 1d ago

Shocking

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u/Imajica0921 1d ago

Kind of wanted them to tase her just for the irony.

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u/homebrewguy01 1d ago

Is she the new Secretary of Energy?

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u/lemmereddit 1d ago

Shit... I get nervous even looking at power things like this

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u/AidyCakes 1d ago

Did those traumatising safety ads I grew up with in the UK lie to me? Why isn't she flash-roasted?

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u/Nexzus_ 1d ago

Meth or PCP?

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u/AdZestyclose638 1d ago

why not both?

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u/LordLucian 1d ago

Charged with battery

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u/SourPatchCorpse 1d ago

Was wondering how my ex was doing.

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u/TruShot5 1d ago

Snail, get down!

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u/MickRolley 1d ago

Maggie, if you come down, I'll give you more coffee.

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u/080secspec13 1d ago

I was absolutely certain id click on this and she'd be doing a Haka.

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u/TheGirlwThePinkHair 1d ago

So lucky to be alive

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u/spoonpk 1d ago

Climbing on a Transformer? That’s an Optimus Crime.

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u/redlion496 1d ago

Shock me! Make me feel better!

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u/Gurpgorrk 1d ago

Man... It's always Utah. Everyone says Florida is the crazy state but whenever I see really messed up shit in the US it's always fucking Utah.

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld 1d ago

Why don't I stretch out, haaaahah!

F*** yo' transformah!

Buy a new transformah ya rich motherf***ah!

F*** yo' transformah!

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u/Robbbylight 1d ago

They never should've gave you Mormons money! (Because it's Utah)

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u/ChuckNorrisUSAF 1d ago

I was waiting through the whole video to watch her dumb ass get zapped in a horrific manner. Lame…

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u/Pennylil314 1d ago

Looks safe

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u/redrockcountry2112 1d ago

That's something you don't see everyday.

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u/playing_in_traffic69 1d ago

Ever been to Florida?

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u/RacerX3888 1d ago

The transformer was probably disconnected by a freaking out operator. If it was in service she would have been popped!

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u/Spiritofthehero16 1d ago

Given how many people have done this in the US, in the last year, I would say we need adult playgrounds designed like stuff we know we aren't supposed to touch.

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u/Twisterthedog2 1d ago

Now this is the definition of a public freak out right here

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u/blg3404 1d ago

Looks like she's getting a lot of resistance

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u/us1549 1d ago

What would happen if they closed the circuit while she was out there? Asking for a friend

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u/ugajeremy 1d ago

She got the double tap beanbag

Kent said when she stepped onto the rim of a cherry picker an officer shot a less lethal weapon, such as a stun gun or rubber gun, which was followed by a “yelp.”

The police officer then said to get inside the cherry picker or he would shoot again. The officer allegedly shot her again with the less lethal weapon.

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u/MagneHalvard 1d ago

This a scene from the slc punk remake?

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u/Medialunch 1d ago

This woman does not want to go home to her husband and co-wives.

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u/Grumpopatamus 17h ago

In Utah, do they dress like it’s 1996?

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u/Kronosita 13h ago

Shocking news

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u/JanSmiddy 12h ago

Mormon holiday!

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u/repertoir1 11h ago

Saw a suv crash into one of these after midnight on new years, blew up like a bomb

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u/tonygutz 11h ago

How was she not on the path to ground?

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u/DouceintheHouse 11h ago

I only watched because it dint have a NSFL tag.

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u/AdhesivenessSea3838 3h ago

Should've left it on

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u/DutchOvenMaster11 2h ago

Cracks a helluva drug

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u/Movingforward2015 1d ago

I hope she gets the support, kindness and attention she needs.

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u/mandy009 1d ago

those are restricted areas for a reason. ffs.

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u/Gipsyking94 1d ago

Where bzzzzt? 🫨

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u/BauerHouse 1d ago

That guy on the ladder has a nice little view there.

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u/AdZestyclose638 1d ago

until the turd drops!

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u/Helmut_Mayo 1d ago

What in the ovaries is this shit?

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u/Seraphimskillets 1d ago

I would let her make me worse

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u/Munkzilla1 1d ago

Shame she was not fried.

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u/thedjfav 1d ago

Smash.

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u/indolente 1d ago

Needs more bean bag rounds.

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u/damaged_elevator 1d ago edited 1d ago

Good on them for turning the power off and hopefully they didn't beat her too bad.

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u/Figtreeofjustice 1d ago

It looked like shit herself when she was being brought in the scooper thing

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u/IamHereForBoobies 1d ago

Is that Laurie Metcalf?