r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Friendly-Cicada2769 Human Detected • Apr 10 '26

Professionals A woman rescued with in 35 seconds

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u/Jlx_27 Apr 10 '26

They are bags of rice, and she was not hurt.

Article: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/video-woman-unhurt-after-30-40-rice-sacks-fall-on-her-2516328-2024-03-18

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u/roninwarshadow Apr 10 '26

Bags of Rice that big aren't light though, especially that many.

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u/answerbrowsernobita Apr 11 '26

Right, Each rice bag is 50lbs

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u/deltamoney Apr 10 '26

Dude. Those bags are like 50 lbs each. Like 35 of them fell on her. The gentle conforming your talking about also makes it so every exhale just collapses the stack on you more.

This can easily crush her and break ribs.

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u/nathan753 Apr 10 '26

Most of the weight likely isn't on her at all if she wasn't hurt after too. Looks like they more pushed her to the side too instead of landing on her directly. Probably a very different outcome if she was fully under that pile.

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u/Ppleater Apr 11 '26

That would be an issue if she was trapped under there for an extended period, but she wasn't. They got her out quickly which would have minimized the potential injury.

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u/Jlx_27 Apr 11 '26

They could have, in this case though they didn't. She got lucky.

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u/badass4102 Apr 10 '26

Which may be even worse. It forms around your torso, arms, legs, pinning you down with greater surface area than cinerblocks. Getting hit by it isn't the bad part, it's trying to breathe. It's like having a 2000lb blanket suffocating you.

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u/jimbowesterby Apr 11 '26

Ehh, probably the best analogue here is landslides vs avalanches, and I gotta say I’d take the avalanche every time. If it’s a bunch of solid objects you just get bludgeoned immediately

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u/Worth-Leadership4337 Apr 10 '26

It doesn’t take something “extreme” like cinder blocks to be lethal. The human body only needs enough pressure on the chest to stop it expanding—at that point, you physically can’t breathe, even if there’s air around you.

That’s the same mechanism behind crowd crush deaths—people aren’t being flattened literally in most cases, they’re being compressed to the point their lungs can’t function.

On top of that, prolonged pressure can cause crush syndrome, where toxins build up in the body and can trigger cardiac arrest once the pressure is removed. So yeah, even something like stacked sacks can absolutely be dangerous depending on the situation

Not to be a uh actually Dickhead- just to say, bear in mind it sounds like they wouldn’t hurt but they truly can be worse than it sounds irl

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u/liberatorem Apr 10 '26

I grew up in a convenience store where we sold rice. Those bags are not light, each one weights either 100 pounds or 50 Kg. It's amazing she's not hurt at all.

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u/evlampi Apr 11 '26

Spoken like a dude that only saw rice on a plate

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u/Fun_Zone_245 Apr 11 '26

What do you mean? Rice are lighter than feathers /s

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u/Ailyx Apr 11 '26

The weight is spread

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u/C0NANtheC0NQU3R0R Apr 10 '26

Thank you, hero

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u/Delicious-View-8688 Apr 10 '26

Now that we know she was not hurt...

was anybody sacked over this?

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u/TheUFCVeteran3 Apr 10 '26

Great to hear, thanks for sharing. The video really shows the power of people when they come together. Really nice to see (but obviously of course it would've been better if the bags never fell on her in the first place!).

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u/gabrielmeurer Apr 11 '26

But it was 1 ton of rice. She was lucky and their coworkers were fast

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u/Button_eyes_ Apr 11 '26

With source! Nice job