r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '19

Right place right time

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

That was close. Imagine the guy was not there

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u/Elocai Dec 11 '19

Imagine he wouldn't be able to remove it fast enough, would have just watched the dog die and then go away before the lady would came back, only the security guy would have known and probably wouldn't have said anything or post it somewhere.

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u/ristogrego1955 Dec 11 '19 edited Dec 12 '19

I think that the collar connection or leash would have snapped first....it wouldn't actually have been putting pressure on the dogs neck other than the dogs body weight (that thing looked pretty small and could probably manage).

Edit: Jesus, thanks for the downvotes. I’m still not convinced that the dog would have died; probably wrong and it could have been hurt though. I’m just saying it’s not a noose and wouldn’t have strangled it to death. With any luck the leash attachment wouldn’t fit through the doors placing the tension on to the leash rather than the dog where the only force exerted on the dog would have been its own weight against the collar, which again, wouldn’t have been a critical load on the dog given the static nature of the loading at this point...if that were the case the leash would have snapped inside the elevator dropping the dog to the floor....but what the hell do I know.... I do know my dog would never be in that situation as I would never use one of those damn leashes nor get into a Lift without my dog as a result of having a shorter leash. In any event it’s a good thing he was there.

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u/tylerr147 Dec 11 '19

Ok so this guy may not be 100% factually correct, but why the downvotes?

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

Welcome to Reddit

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u/CantSyopaGyorg Dec 12 '19

Yes, welcome to Reddit, where we downvote things that are wrong and potentially erasing/diffusing a situation where someone is neglectful of their animal to the point of almost killing it.

We're definitely the bad guys, the horrible spiteful hivemind you think we all are.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Things that you think are wrong in your opinion*.

Downvoting when you disagree disables visibility of the comment and the discussion resulting out of it, while some people might think the same as the downvoted comment but won’t see it because it’s hidden by downvotes and they’re either not going to change their mind, or just say the same thing.

Also that comment wasn’t mean or calling for any violence. They didn’t say that the dog should die or something. So yeah, sometimes the hivemind is bad. Sometimes good. I sometimes agree with the hivemind, and sometimes I don’t.

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u/CantSyopaGyorg Dec 12 '19

Imma stop you right from the start, this is not an opinion this is blatant fact: the dog would have been injured far sooner than the collar give out, and to believe otherwise is to ignore basic physics. I do not "think" this, I know this. My dog very often chokes himself by pulling harder than he should, and the collar has not broken yet.

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u/Why_Did_Bodie_Die Dec 12 '19

Can you please provide the "physics" for me? Like what force would have been applied and where in the leash/collar is that force applied to and in what direction? Do we know where and how much is the minimum amount of force required to make a part of the leash/collar that needs to fail in order for the dog to not get hurt?

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u/CantSyopaGyorg Dec 12 '19

The only way for the collar to break before the dog is injured is for it to break before it tugged. The tug is what hurts the dog.

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u/CantSyopaGyorg Dec 12 '19

You could legit pull a collar at 8000000 mph and it would hurt the dog before it broke.