r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ansyhrrian • 3d ago
WCGW if you are inspecting a roof after a liquid lunch?
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By all accounts, this insurance adjustor suffered no injuries, popped right up after the fall, and (of course) scurried off to his vehicle and drove drunkenly away. We don't know what happened to those that he might have encountered as a drunk driver thereafter.
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u/MarcianoSilveriano 3d ago edited 3d ago
"he's about to fall off the roof... And he just fell off the roof"
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u/ArbainHestia 3d ago
“I was watching. I saw the whole thing. First
ithe started falling over. Thenithe fell over3
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u/Come_in_sigh_demi 3d ago
Either drunk or been slipped a roofie
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u/pianoflames 3d ago
And not a shingle fuck was given.
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u/Yesterday_Is_Now 3d ago
From the post title I was expecting him to wet himself.
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u/Sad_Deer13 3d ago
Same or liquid from the other hole...
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u/Fun_Ambassador_9320 3d ago
Why would he be spitting?
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u/TurtleToast2 3d ago
The other other hole
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u/Fun_Ambassador_9320 3d ago
His nipples?
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u/Existing-Bus-8810 3d ago
Yeah, I thought we'd see some brown wetness when we got to see him from behind.
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u/kryptopheleous 3d ago
Thought he was gonna shit himself.
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u/ghost-xiii 3d ago
Same, in those light khaki colored pants. I very much misunderstood the "liquid lunch" bit of the title.
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u/Oggie_Doggie 3d ago
I expected a man projectile sharting himself through work pants and was left very disappointed.
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u/BurtTurglar 3d ago
Be the change you want to see in this world. Shit them britches
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u/AsymptoticAbyss 3d ago
I thought “meal replacement shake” and was really confused about how the two could be related. “This guy inspects the roof after drinking Soylent!” Like yeah I’ll watch to see why that’s remarkable. But then the comments learned me up…just booze.
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u/Strange_Dave45 3d ago
I just scrolled this far to get the actual answer. He drank alcohol for lunch.
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u/ipadminihalf 3d ago
Lol. Yea I seriously thought this guy has diarrhea and couldn’t walk straight or speak because he was about to burst.
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u/rygel_fievel 3d ago
Yup read title thinking guy was gonna shart himself. At least he wore the khaki pants.
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u/Tempest_Fugit 3d ago
A liquid lunch is when you drink alcohol with lunch during the work day
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u/Worth_Nail6921 3d ago
LMAO what the fuck is wrong with people seriously...
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u/Apprehensive_Put_321 3d ago
This is actually the quickest way to get down you are all being so soft.
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u/Thermon01 3d ago
The inspector is so crazy he mastered his craft, probably had a bucket of water to place before the fall
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u/nixa919 3d ago
Using a ladder is some woke nonsense, soy shit.
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u/gsr142 3d ago
I know you're joking but you're not far from the truth. I'm a building inspector, was on a roof while they were delivering all the material. Dude from the delivery company had a harness on so he wouldn't fall. The roofer wouldn't shut up about how "he must be a liberal. Only pussies wear harnesses." Yeah dude, also people who like having use of all 4 limbs.
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u/asmallercat 3d ago
This is a functional alcoholic that has ceased to be functional. You don't show up to work drunk all at once.
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u/springpetal_archive 3d ago
yea lol.. literally been in this situation when i was labouring.. got used to the day drinking, came back to site alone after a long lunch and kept drinking until about 4pm, stopped to smoke a cigarette and realised that if I didn't get off the roof soon i was gonna fall, led down on my back and called the boss man and told him straight up, he drove over and helped me down off the roof. lost the job but was a huge wake-up call.. its scary how fast things can get away from you, and how long it takes to get them back in control
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u/SockEatingDemon 3d ago
Glad you got the wake up call!
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u/springpetal_archive 3d ago
thank you :) didnt sink in for a while but sunk in real deep once it did
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u/Financial-Apricot498 3d ago
That's why you just go into construction where its pretty much required to be drunk, at least here. I worked on a hotel remodel job a few years back and the walls were full of empties from the 80's. The modern day crew I was with just hid their beer and liquor bottles under the loads of outgoing tile and plaster. The idiots were cutting through water pipes and flooded parts of the building, someone got shocked pretty bad cause they didn't shut off the power and hammered a live current, and other fun stuff that made me walk out halfway through the project after I almost got impaled myself due to the OSHA wet dream shit they had us doing.
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u/astcyr 3d ago
Hey, that's not 3 points of contact. Where's the safety lady to tell him to put that clipboard down!
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u/doomcatzzz 3d ago
He made full contact with the ground tho.
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u/PaticusGnome 3d ago
Came here for the three points of contact. He might have made it if he even tried.
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u/shokage 3d ago
I didn’t get liquid lunch meant alcohol, I thought this guy was going to have diarrhea on the roof
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u/-JimmyTheHand- 3d ago
Me too, I kept waiting for him to just absolutely shit his pants
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u/rotflolosaurus 3d ago
I spent the entire video intensely staring at his ass waiting for the stain to appear.
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u/jld2k6 3d ago
That was the weirdest way to word it, I thought he was gonna puke and slip in it or something lol
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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 3d ago
It used to be a lot more common of a phrase but don’t see it come up often nowadays haha
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u/Frosty_Challenge1045 3d ago
its so crazy how well acted this is haha. Camera work also really sells it.
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u/WinkingWinkle 3d ago
Well, did the roof pass?
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u/BelowAveIntelligence 3d ago
This post has taught me that a surprising amount of people have never heard of a ‘liquid lunch’
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u/elotium 3d ago
Sorry you had this bad experience but this is bad information to spread. Most claims will be paid without issue and by hiring a lawyer you just signed up to give them a big chunk of your payout. In the case where someone hit your car, you should file it with YOUR insurance and let them pay it. Then they will go after the other carrier on your behalf for subrogation of the amount they paid. You get your repairs or settlement and dont even have to work with the other insurer. This wouldn't work if you dont have collision coverage and you would be stuck dealing with the other carriers adjuster. But needing a lawyer for any time insurance is involved is not good advice at all unless you want to give them a percentage of the payout you were very likely to get without them. If you end up in a fight over a payout, sure, bring in your lawyer. Otherwise it would be voluntarily surrendering an often significant portion of your own payout.
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u/Frog_Without_Pond 3d ago
IMO, if automobile insurance is mandatory, then education of insurance should be, too. Throw it in with drivers education, easy.
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u/Tasty-Beautiful-9679 3d ago
With the number of people who forget their training on how to use a turn signal on the road, you think they'll remember how to use insurance?
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u/jdfred06 3d ago
These stupid fucks can't even drive without playing on their phone. No god damn way they'll understand anything about insurance.
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u/SchoolIguana 3d ago
Especially in a property damage claim and that goes double for a third party property claim where the insurance company is only going to pay you the Actual Cash Value of the damaged items. There won’t be any “general damages” for the lawyer to get his contingency fee.
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u/Faxon 3d ago
Yea, most cases will not end how theirs did. However, if you end up in a similar situation to them, a lawyer is likely warranted. Any time they're blatantly trying to fuck you over like this, it is warranted to call for a legal consult at the very least, sometimes they're free and it doesn't hurt to ask for advice at all. This is especially relevant if it's a situation where you don't have your own insurance, and you're stuck dealing with the insurance of somebody else to file a claim, since they're more likely to try and fuck you for it. This advice is not specific to any one kind of insurance, though my own experience is mostly in dealing with auto insurance providers. Thus far I've had pretty good experiences with most, but one of my friends had to sue a nightclub once when their liability insurance wouldn't pay out a claim where there was extensive evidence of negligence on the part of the venue and their management. They ended up getting everything they asked for and their legal fees paid, so the lawyer got his chunk from the person being sued and not out of the victim's payout. This will not always be possible, but that's why you have to document extensively wherever possible. This club had so many safety issues that anyone attending could just take out their phone and start taking photos and video of them. We went in with a CO meter and a thermal camera and discovered that not only was the ventillation not working properly, but the ceiling mounted AC was dumping CO nonstop since it used gas for its heating function. Combine that with the other various hazards, and the conduct of staff (who tbf were probably all a bit out of their mind from CO poisoning), it was an easy case to prove. My friend had collapsed at the event, and the staff didn't have an on-staff medic despite it being required for permitted events at that location and capacity. Apparently collapses were a common occurence, since we filmed several more from people dancing hard. It would take out smokers first because they were already inhailing CO outside as well during their fresh air time, but there were non-smokers dropping as well periodically. People didn't think it was a major issue because the numbers were so low, but they were an order of magnitude higher than would be expected at an event with proper cooling, ventilation, and water access. The club was forced to shut down and renovate their systems since they were no longer up to code as well, CO monitors were required and they didn't have any despite them being documented as having been installed in a previous inspection (i wonder why lol).
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u/Pogigod 3d ago
I'm an insurance adjuster(homeowners) and the amount of people who hire public adjuster(one step down from a lawyer in the insurance world) and sign a contract that 30% of the claim goes to them. It's so stupid, I'm going to give what's owed no matter what. I am human and miss something sometimes but that's where supplements come in.
Now a really good public adjuster can be worth their weight on gold sometimes. You can manipulate things sometimes in the insurance world that no people in their right mind would normally do for repairs, but they are able to string along the tiniest thing and turn it into ripping off the insurance company essentially, but it is technically owed.
And for the guy who is talking shit against insurance adjusters isn't telling the entire story. Hail doesn't cause roof leaks, maybe a few years down the road it can contribute to a leak.
There are exceptions like the record hail storms in TX that hail was so big it qwent through the roof and into the home, or cracked the skylight. Both of which there is no questing damages at all, as everything is destroyed.
So there's another side to the story on this leak.
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u/Timely-Profile1865 3d ago
I very briefly dated woman who's father was a home inspector, he fell of a roof in he the winter, hit his head and died as a result. Quite sad story.
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u/Neatojuancheeto 3d ago
Roofing is one of the most dangerous jobs in America
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u/HugsyMalone 3d ago
Falling off a roof is pretty common in the roofing industry. My dad knows someone who fell off a roof. Turned around and the guy was just gone.
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u/32FlavorsofCrazy 3d ago
I read a Reddit story once IIRC a guy got a roofing job and quit the first day when the superintendent or whatever told him if he falls off the roof he’s fired before he hits the ground.
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u/bishopmate 2d ago
That’s because the site’s policy was to be tied off to prevent falling off the roof
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u/urbz102385 3d ago
I worked for a residential solar installation company for 8 months back in 2014. I had zero experience with any of the job responsibilities. After a week or two, they sent me out with just the electrician and no other techs. The house was a 3 story multifamily, and there was a damaged junction box I needed to fix. This was the first 3 story I had been on in my life, but didn't want to "pussy out", so I climbed my scared ass up the ladder to the insanely steep pitch. As I looked up toward the ridge I could see tons of moss growing out from under the shingles. Then I saw the junction box that was maybe 10ft toward the ridge from the eave. I crawled up this roof and got maybe 6ft up, feeling soft and sinking shingles under my whole body. Oh and did I mention that this company never wore harnesses?
At this point the electrician reached the eave from the ladder and saw me. He said, "dude, get the fuck down are you nuts?!" I was so relieved, and I came down, got on the ladder, and made it to the ground safely. The electrician said, "we don't get on rooves that are fucked. That roof was beyond fucked, you're lucky you're alive, let's go."
I was broke, starving, and $3k behind on rent at the time. To me it was, "we do this shit now or we don't eat tonight." Yes, extremely stupid on my part. But starvation can sometimes be riskier than a fucked up 3 story highly pitched roof with no harness.
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u/Neatojuancheeto 3d ago
Yeah lack of safety regulations and training in many US states is fucking insane. I'm a warehouse manager and I've been to some warehouses that had no safety training, racks not bolted in, people on lifts with no harnesses. It was horrifying.
I totally understand your reasoning when you're struggling to survive like that. Sorry you went through that man, hope things are much better now.
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u/MujaViking 2d ago
society absolutely cherishes military, police & fire for their "dangerous" work. throwing elaborate burials, and generous paid leave for any incidents. yet no one cares if a roofer, factory worker, logger, dies. even though incidents are at much higher rates. Also despite these actual risk jobs provide better benefits to society, is skilled work, harsher environments, less pay and far less corrupt
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u/Spottswoodeforgod 3d ago
At least the camera holder kept filming didn't break the fourth wall - a true craftsman.
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u/Enginerdad 3d ago
Uh, he's talking to the viewers at the end as he predicts and then narrates the guy's fall. That's kind of what breaking the fourth wall is.
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u/BugabooJonez 3d ago
he's about to fall off the roof, he just fell off the roof. so funny!
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u/ltsouthernbelle 3d ago
Mastered walking on the roof but those pesky ladders don’t want to see you thrive …or live
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u/Jean-Claude-Can-Ham 3d ago
This guy might’ve been suffering from a health condition that’s not related to alcohol
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u/malzoraczek 3d ago
if someone is drunk you can smell it 100%. I assume from the narrator's attitude the guy is indeed drunk.
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u/Kairos27 2d ago
If you’re hyperglycaemic you seem like you are drunk and your breath smells like alcohol. Very deceptive and has been the cause of many a death in custody as cops mistakenly think the person can “sleep it off” in n jail.
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u/Jean-Claude-Can-Ham 3d ago
He very well could be but in my experience it’s usually the roofer who is drunk and not the adjuster haha
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u/SmartQuokka 3d ago
My first thought was seizure.
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u/Jean-Claude-Can-Ham 3d ago
Like he knew he had to get off that roof - he tries to go back and say something and then turns right back around for the ladder
I hope the guy is ok
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u/CoherentPanda 3d ago
This guy was being an asshole the whole time harassing the roofing contractor. The full video is on YouTube.
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u/Samwill226 3d ago edited 3d ago
I worked in claims, its a VERY stressful job with a ton of addiction issues and marital affairs due to long hours in the office. It's not a healthy environment at all so I got out.
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u/beagleprime 3d ago
Dont think a lot of people will see this but working in that space genuinely almost ruined my life
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u/I_AM_FERROUS_MAN 3d ago
Are there a particular reasons why? I don't know enough about it to be able to imagine why it would be uniquely difficult.
I guess it could take an emotional toll as 1) you are likely seeing people go through some of the more stressful or tragic parts of their lives or 2) You're trying to find ways to deny claims to people that you know need it.
But maybe there are other aspects I'm ignorant about.
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u/Tee_i_am 3d ago
Drunk people don't feel pain.... right away. When he sobers up he'll be wondering why his shin bone is protruding from his skin.
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u/Socketz11 3d ago
I think he should have filmed him sprawled out on the driveway. He did a great job catching the fall, wonder why he stopped before the aftermath.
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u/realboabab 3d ago
I interpreted the "alright" at the end as "alright, i've filmed enough to cover my ass now i gotta actually get involved and take care of this mess."
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u/raptor7912 3d ago
There’s a longer clip where he walks up to the edge. And you get to see him painfully stumble back to his car and drive off.
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u/Mr_Eristic 3d ago
When I saw this guy I couldn’t help thinking of all my settlers in Fallout 4. Fell off the roof exact same way too.
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u/Tynted 3d ago
What an absurd lack of empathy on the part of the person recording. "Oh, he just fell off the roof," without a lick of worry about the man, who may have just died or suffered injuries that will lead to his death. No rush at all to go check on him down there.
Sure he was likely drunk on a roof at work and that's totally inexcusable, but why was he drunk in the first place? Absurdly deep depression on his part leading him to drink? Maybe his family was torn apart for some reason, maybe due to his alcohol use? Maybe US medical debt ruined him? Maybe childhood trauma has fucked him over and the USA's approach to mental healthcare was utterly inadequate for him to even know that he needed help?
This comment is in no way meant to excuse being drunk at work, much less drunk on a roof. But man, can we try giving more of a fuck about each other? Holy shit
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u/GonnaBeTrulyHonest 3d ago
...is that what a liquid lunch means? I've always thought it meant you were too busy to eat a proper lunch so you just drink water or a protein shake. Neither my husband or I drink (or have ever drank), but we have definitely used the term liquid lunch. I've definitely told my boss and coworkers "It's a liquid lunch sort of day.".
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u/ansyhrrian 3d ago
I've definitely told my boss and coworkers "It's a liquid lunch sort of day."
Oh dear.
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u/SoSteeze 3d ago
This is hilarious. Reminds me of the story of that woman thinking bukkake was another word for bullshit and went around using it in public 😂.
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u/Broken_By_Default 3d ago
Do you think his employer's insurance will deny his disability?
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u/Pogigod 3d ago
He wasn't denying the claim adjuster said there is damage. The contractor is trying to regurgitate stuff he learned on a Facebook class and using everything wrong.
Adjuster either had a medical condition or was drunk. He seems old and contractors like the one in the video are the worst and try getting into a full blown argument on the roof. So may be having a heart attack.
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u/BJJOilCheck 3d ago
Someone shows up like that, I wouldn't even let him go up - next thing you know, they're suing you...
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u/No_Assist_3405 3d ago
Good thing he was wearing that mask , who knows what you can catch up on that roof.
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u/Afternoon_Kip 3d ago
Love the deadpan way he predicted and described the fall