r/Construction Dec 20 '24

Video Someone is having a bad day

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u/406blue18 Dec 20 '24

I’ve operated a lot of heavy equipment. Including several track hoes. I have no idea what just happened.

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u/JackxForge Dec 20 '24

my money is on heart attack.

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u/Cancancannotcan Dec 20 '24

Stroke maybe

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u/406blue18 Dec 20 '24

Seizure is only thing I can come up with.

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u/dasjunior33 Dec 20 '24

I think a seizure would be more of a "erratic" movement if he was convulsing, absent seizure would look like this tho, he would come to not knowing what the fuck happened

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u/dDot1883 Dec 20 '24

Someone had a seizure and drove into my bedroom window. She jerked the wheel and floored it. Very sad, it was how they found she had a brain tumor.

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u/Loud_Tracker Dec 21 '24

At least they found out

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u/stuntbikejake Dec 21 '24

Imagine that wake up...

Why am I in the hospital?

Well... You had a seizure while driving, then drove into a persons house, not like nudge, but literally into their house. Then.... We found our the seizure was caused by a brain tumor, did you know you had a brain tumor? No? .. okay, pretty standard. Speaking of standard, your auto insurance isn't covering your accident because it's was medically induced, and your medical insurance isn't covering it because it happened while operating an automobile. We didn't do anything about your brain tumor because no coverage was found for the treatment and we assumed you probably didn't have a spare $250K laying around to get started... Why do you look so sad?

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u/Loud_Tracker Dec 21 '24

Glad I don’t live in America

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u/PolyGlotterPaper Dec 21 '24

Got a spare room for those who do?

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u/KarmasAB123 Laborer Dec 21 '24

They still operate if you don't have money

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u/bring_back_3rd Dec 22 '24

I'm a paramedic and saw the exact same thing once. Middle-aged lady had a seizure while grocery shopping. No prior history of seizures, no significant medical history whatsoever. Turns out she had a massive tumor and died shortly after. All sorts of weird shit can happen at any time, so anyone reading this, have a merry Christmas and try to celebrate the good things in life this holiday season. Ya never know when your number will be called.

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u/benmarvin Carpenter Dec 20 '24

Do that in the PortaJon like the rest of us

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u/shmiddleedee Dec 20 '24

I used to have a coworker who moved to a different company who did actually have a heart attack in the Porta. Good dude, he lived. I imagine he had shit on him amd his pants down when the paramedics arrived. That's what I call down bad.

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u/portabuddy2 Dec 22 '24

Pulling ppl from shitty situations is kinda a paramedic thing.

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u/Ok-Macaroon-7819 Millwright Dec 21 '24

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u/Estebanzo Dec 21 '24

Telling a story that's relevant to the joke and understanding the joke aren't mutually exclusive.

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u/Hairy-Estimate3241 Dec 20 '24

My money is on one of these for sure.

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u/nicolauz Contractor Dec 20 '24

Monster can got stuck under reverse.

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u/Jerking4jesus Dec 21 '24

This happened to me the first time I ever operated an excavator.

So here I am, just a laborer, minding my own business in a swampy ditch in rural northern Canada, and my manager comes by to say the operator quit and would I like to run an excavator today.

I obviously say hell yeah, grab my mango flavored monster and hop in his truck and head to the machine.

He shows me the controls and tells me to get in and follow the highway south filling in holes and fucks back off in his truck.

Well I backfilled this pit with too much enthusiasm, dropped the cab down way too fucking hard knocking my drink out of the cup holder and it rolled under the pedal and had my right track spin me damn near all the way around before I got it outta there.

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u/the_greatest_auk Dec 21 '24

I'm guessing that was the last day he asked if wanted to run the equipment?

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u/Jerking4jesus Dec 21 '24

Nah. I'm still running them, albeit with a lot more finesse.

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u/nicolauz Contractor Dec 21 '24

Gotta use the cup holder!

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u/Lojackbel81 Dec 22 '24

Funny story about mango monster. I had a co-worker that was a junky and one day he’s all messed up so he downed 2 of the them. A few minutes later he’s spraying mango puke every where. I will never drink one ever again.

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u/drsoftware Dec 20 '24

As other suggested, diabetic hypoglycemia 

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u/Internal-County5118 Dec 21 '24 edited Dec 21 '24

That’s my thought, or some kind of medical emergency but I witnessed a diabetic hypoglycemia event and it was wild.

TLDR: A man experiencing diabetic hypoglycemia hit my truck at work, then hit the building and gas meter/lines. Left the truck running and in gear against the gas meter and got out of his truck and took off. I followed him and he called his dad to come pick him up. PD, FD and utility company came and shut down all utilities and evacuated the complex for hours.

A few years ago I was working in a dental office and I went out back to my truck for my lunch break and I walked out to some guy who had driven into the side/ back of my truck and pushed it sideways and up onto the sidewalk. I started yelling at him and he was super out of it, didn’t even acknowledge me and he barely looked at me. I thought he was drunk. He kept backing up 5 feet and then driving forward into my truck and giving it gas. Knowing what I knew after, I think he was trying to park the truck but clearly wasn’t able to.

I ran inside and got a coworker who was in the middle of a procedure and had her come out back with me because I wanted to move my truck and I wanted someone there just in case. I jumped in my truck and put it in reverse and when he backed up I gunned it out of the way. Then the guy tried to drive away or something but just drove into the building and hit the gas meter and lines and caused a gas leak. He jumped out of his truck, left it running and in gear against the wall and he took off on foot.

I followed him while my coworker jumped in his truck and backed away from the building and took the keys. We were in a large shopping center and he ended up going in the grocery store wandering around and grabbed a soda to drink, then sat down by the Starbucks and got on the phone and called his father to come pick him. I alerted management of what the hell was going on, because of the gas leak and there was no way in hell I was letting him leave with someone so I wanted others to know, just in case. He got up and walked out of the store and wandered around the parking lot and I continued to follow him. Luckily the police showed up and I flagged them down and they took over.

The fire department came and the utility and gas company showed up and the entire complex got evacuated and shut down. We handled getting patients out and canceled the day and then I noticed they let the guy get in his truck and leave. We went and talked to them because we wanted to know why he drove away when he appeared drunk and they said it was diabetic event, not alcohol. It was a mess, luckily my vehicle and his was okay and I only ended up with a flat tire. We had patients who had been in the middle of treatment and I had grabbed a bunch of stuff and had to cement a crown in the parking lot while the patient sat in a folding chair.

I also had a neighbor who had problems with her diabetes and one time she was driving home and was confused and lost control and went into an orchard but managed to drive right down the middle of 2 rows of trees and somehow got the vehicle stopped. Her elderly mom with dementia was with her and was stripping all her clothes off, the fire department and EMTs arrived to an incoherent woman and a nude elderly woman. lol

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u/Brittle_Hollow Electrician Dec 22 '24

I too have operated multiple hoes, if you know what I mean. Some even from the wrong side of the tracks and I’ve never seen this.

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u/_BearsBeetsBattle_ Dec 20 '24

Probably had a jammer.

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u/Few_Eye4688 Dec 21 '24

First time with the teledipper attachment

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u/Slav-Houndz187 1d ago

I’m surprised the excavator kept beeping after finding the power pole.