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I dunno, the headline makes it sound like he pulled some real bullet-time shit and heroically jumped out of the way at the last moment. But instead he sauntered into a shop, presumably unaware that it was even coming, and then many seconds later the saw appeared.
That's like saying I have a miraculous near-miss every time I cross the road.
I guess it's miraculous in that he was extremely lucky in his timing, literally seconds from being killed.
Yeah but we're all seconds from being killed every single day. He had enough time between being in that spot and the blade arriving that he was able to saunter quite casually into the shop and probably make it several meters inside. In the grand scheme of things that's an eternity.
Put another way, considering all of the other places in the world he could've been stood at the moment of impact (and indeed was), he'd have been extremely unlucky to have been hit by it. It's like saying I almost won the lottery jackpot because I matched 3 numbers.
Sorry, I'm not attacking you. It's an interesting video, and I'm not saying you shouldn't have posted it. I'm just annoyed by the BBC's clickbaity, hyperbolic headline.
Meh this is a very unique situation.
Sure, if you stand in traffic you'll be hit, but it's normal to cross at the crossing time then be out of the road.
Walking into a shop such that you narrowly miss being defooted by a saw blade is certainly orders if magnitude more rare
But, how many times do you see a runaway sawblade...I haven't so far (good thing, it looks dangerous)
Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. Nobody realizes it until it's too late, and they're not arou
And I assumed it was going to be a table saw accident or something. Where that blade come from and why was it travelling so fast?
No idea, but if you take your time you will notice it left a perfet straight line on the upper layer of the asphalt pavement. A good deal of the blade got throgh the facade of the store and got stuck there. Idk, it looks line one of those anime superpowers like blade summoning or similar shit. There must be a workshop nearby...but still...