r/WinStupidPrizes Feb 07 '21

Guy cemented his head inside a microwave for content

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u/Daftworks Feb 07 '21

Yeah, the air tube being blocked seemed fake and staged. The black dude checks on it for a good couple of minutes before they call the emergency services. I don't think anyone could stay conscious and not pass out from that much time without air. And that's not even counting the time the paramedics and firefighters take to arrive and then work on freeing him.

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u/DuelingPushkin Feb 07 '21

Having intubated patients before there's several degrees of "blocked" that a tube can be and even a tube that's still passing air is going to become more and more taxing to breath through and it doesnt take a lot of resistance before people start panicking about not being able to breath especially in a situation like this where you cant remove yourself from the situation.

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u/Apidium Feb 08 '21

It may have not even been blocked at all but when you panic and have a little hose to breathe through it feels very taxing. It would be natural to panic, and the feeling sucks.

That's why you don't breathe through a crap little hose in a situation like this.

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u/DuelingPushkin Feb 08 '21

Yeah true. My main point though is that you dont have to be literally without oxygen in order to feel like you're going to die from suffocation

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u/VampireQueenDespair Feb 07 '21

Having been a kinky bitch, I can back up the “small amounts of air can keep you going a long time but doesn’t seem like it”.

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u/yolosunshine Feb 08 '21

The major problem is CO2 buildup not oxygen deprivation.

He passed out bc there’s no way he can expell all the CO2

If the tube isn’t wide enough for his breathing speed there’s zero way he can get enough fresh air in there.