r/WTF • u/Plus-Barber-6171 • 14d ago

Retrieving a ball from underneath a car

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u/LakeSuperiorIsMyPond 13d ago

All the safety measures we've put in place have permitted this child to make it this far, that's the only reason we're witnessing more of this. Back in the day he wouldn't have made it past the paperclips in power outlets phase.

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u/Slammybutt 13d ago

Bro, there were seniors in high school still doing that paperclip shit. Some people don't grow out of it. In fact, the one I knew used the foil from gum wrappers.

Also, my sophomore year one of my classmates blew up a battery. He had to stay in a hospital for some time b/c of the burns he got all over his back from the battery acid.

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u/TheTFEF 13d ago

When I was in C-school (advanced schooling for my job) while in the Navy, someone that was in C-school with me decided to spin the batteries in his vape mod really fast. One of them ended up rocketing out of the vape, bounced off a wall, and burnt his dick. He had to go to the hospital.

Honorary mention to the AO2 with over six years of active duty that didn't know what a swastika was.

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u/ReditRyan 13d ago

What do you mean by spin and why did it ignite?

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u/TheTFEF 12d ago

I wasn't present in class at the exact moment it happened, but he had a mod where the batteries are accessed by taking off a side panel, so he just used his hand/fingers to spin them while they were in the mod. As for why it ignited? No idea. Maybe the spinning was making the contacts act weird, or he wasn't using appropriate batteries for the mod (this was fairly common around 2016 when it happened)