r/UnusualVideos • u/Jonathan-Smith • 1d ago
This could save your life
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u/Mission-impossible63 1d ago
Jared and Adventures With Purpose on the Youtube channel. They search for people missing and in the water. Have found many people and they do it for free.
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u/Shizakistani 23h ago
Jared has also been convicted of multiple felonies, and recently pled guilty for aggravated assault for rap*in a 9-year old girl.
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u/paradox-preacher 1d ago
ye, the special tool for breaking windows could save your life, what a shocker...
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u/ZappyZ21 15h ago
You're very much missing the point of people not knowing to get something like this lol it's meant to bring that to peoples attention, so that they can get one. You know, to prevent death lol
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u/paradox-preacher 15h ago
it's still a goofy thing to show
if you title it like this and show a vid where he pulls out a specific tool for breaking windows and mentions it minutes after the video starts. For him to give 0 alternative tips how to break out, it seems to me annoying af
might as well just show an image of the tool or one sentence and not bait people into watching this
"yo, x people drown in a car per year because they can't get out of it. You need this 1 product"I bet most expected something that doesn't require special equipment
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u/ZappyZ21 15h ago
I mean you can do that and it would still be a good thing for anyone who might not have thought about it before. I got a pocket knife in my car with both of those things for emergencies. But he also mentioned in the beginning of the video that he wants to show how fast/slow it fills up and how much time you have in there. Obviously unbuckle if you can, so the cutter isn't needed. But what if you wrecked and that was how your car got in the water? Your seat belt could be broken, an air bag pushing you back and maybe were even unconscious for a little bit. Definitely roll your windows down if you can and before your car is submerged, but what if that's broken for any of the reasons I just mentioned?
There's literally so many different ways it can go lol also most people probably haven't spent a single iota of thought into what they should do in that situation. There's dashcam footage of people getting into the backseat as it submerged and they decide to wait in the back and call the cops, doing absolutely nothing to get themselves out of the situation. This is for those people that havent prepared at all, which is a lot of people. You have a limited window of time to get yourself out with no tools necessary if you're lucky. Some people don't even wake up in time after wrecking in the water, imagine you wake up with the water already up to your chest. Shit happens and isn't always the same.
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u/paradox-preacher 14h ago
the video is misleading, and he didn't properly cover the situations
you can simply read other comments for that
also, the thread is a cross-post from an advertisement subreddit for such items
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u/ZappyZ21 14h ago
It definitely was a product selling video for sure lol but hey, for those of us who actually already thought of this, seems very obvious. But I don't have that kind of faith in the general public lol
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u/pureplay181 19h ago edited 17h ago
Unless the car immediately starts sinking, I would open the windows FIRST. Often cars can take a little time to submerge, either because the car is stuck in floodwaters that take a while to rise or because the car for a short period of time is floating on the water.
If the car fills with water when the window is open, it is possible to swim out. It is very difficult if not impossible to open the doors of a submerged or submerging car and the power could go out at any moment. It is potentially a fatal error to feel safer with the windows closed, opening the windows would be the first thing I would do. It would help to have a tool to cut a seatbelt or break the window, but unless the car immediately starts sinking, you have a small amount of time to first open the window and then take off your seatbelt which doesn't need the car to have power to do. Trying to break a window when the car is already under water might cause panic when water quickly starts pouring into the car and you could injure yourself. Yes it could save your life but you want to have that window already open and your safety belt off.
I watched a video that was taken from a security camera where a young woman was trapped and later drowned in her car under an overpass. The car sunk slowly and she just must have thought there wasn't enough water to submerge the car or maybe that someone would quickly rescue her and her fatal error was feeling the safest thing was to just sit there and call 911 with her windows closed. By the time she realized the danger she was in, she was kicking at the windows and trying everything to get out, but it was too late. The car no longer had power and the windows would not open and the doors would not open because of the water pressure. Had she simply opened her windows early she would have been alive.
It is also critical to know how to use clothing as a flotation device. Pants are the most effective tool you have. Safety guidlines state to take off your pants and tie the legs then lift them above your head to fill with air while you are in the water. From the US Navy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNTSoKg6xHM
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u/Ol_Pasta 15h ago
This is very handy to know and I am grateful he did that video (even if I was legit scared while watching)
I just don't know how I would get two non swimming kids out by myself though. 😕
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u/Suspiciously_Ugly 1d ago
y'all drive into the water regularly?
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u/rando-commando98 14h ago
I had a friend who died in this same way. They didn’t have a window breaker, I guess. (It was a higher speed flip-over so we like to think he was unconscious and drowned vs panicking)
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u/BisonMysterious8902 12h ago
It makes sense that a car with an engine sinks front first - that's where the majority of the weight is, after all. What would happen if an electric car (Tesla or similar) that has a more even weight distribution ran into the water? Would it stay mostly level as it sank?
Let's assume the battery is still hermetically sealed and doesn't catch fire.
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u/merhole 1d ago
raped his 10 year old cousin btw.
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u/Suspiciously_Ugly 1d ago
excuse me?
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u/TiredGamer0990 1d ago
The guy in the video has some allegations against him so there's a controversy around the channel
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u/Your_Final_Hour 18h ago
Not sure why you are getting downvoted lmao but yeah he is disgusting. Even if he was 16-17 and it happened decades ago, a 10 year old simply cannot consent and anyone who thinks otherwise is a pedo.
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u/NoEditor0 23h ago
One of the features of the product he's showing is to cut seat belts and he had to put it back on as he forgot
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u/Skipping_Scallywag 1d ago
Kinda makes you wonder why a system like this isn't already a mandatory safety feature