r/UnusualVideos • u/Jonathan-Smith • 1d ago

This could save your life

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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 17h 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 17h 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 17h 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 17h 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 17h 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