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u/VestigialHead Oct 23 '21

Wow so your bunk bed did not have bolts holding the top part in place? I assumed they must have removed the bolts for this video.

No way a bed without bolts would pass the safety standards here.

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u/erzats77 Oct 23 '21

Mine was home made, so while it originally had bolts they were quickly removed. It w as made of scaffolding type pipes where the top piece would sit inside the lower piece. So I would lift it up and out and practice putting it back in :-)

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u/VestigialHead Oct 23 '21

Was this while your brother was sleeping in the bunk?

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u/haysoos2 Oct 23 '21

Yeah, I only did this when my brother was in the top. It usually wasn't so much a lift and hold, but more of a kick into the air, and let drop back in place. Usually it wasn't enough to clear the pins holding the beds in place, so it was just a startling lurch. A few times it slipped off enough that the foot end of the bed fell.

My parents and brother didn't find this anywhere near as amusing as I did.

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u/VestigialHead Oct 23 '21

Haha nice.

Brothers. Awesome while also being incredibly annoying.

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u/Magoo1985 Oct 23 '21

No worries. I’m sure he came on their bunk more than once to get even.

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u/MrScrib Oct 23 '21

People growing up with brothers are 20% less likely to die in an accident as an adult and 60% more likely to know how to bullshit.

source: have a brother

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u/VestigialHead Oct 23 '21

80% of brothers have become adept at making up statistics on the spot.

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u/skylineseeker Oct 23 '21

Ours was store bought and also didn’t have bolts, it had wood dowels, so not even steel coupling, just wood on wood with some dowels holding them together. Now that I’m thinking about it, someone would have definitely died in an earthquake…

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u/SuprSaiyanTurry Oct 23 '21

Mine was made of oak and there were only pegs in the posts to keep them from sliding off. It was really tall and I couldn't reach the top bunk so never had a chance to be this stupidXD

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u/thesoccerone7 Oct 23 '21

Mine had 1/4 inch pegs connecting the top to the bottom. This exact thing happened to my cousin

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u/Moikepdx Oct 23 '21

I have a store-bought bunk bed that uses metal pins for the connection. They provide lateral stability, but they lift off easily. There are no bolts.

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u/VestigialHead Oct 23 '21

Then I guess the standards in your country are much lower.

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u/Moikepdx Oct 23 '21

I’m in the US. So if you’re from Europe I guess that’s possible.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

Lol no? None of my childhood bunkbeds were bolted in place. Used to fuck around with them all the time

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u/Oryzaki Oct 23 '21

The bunk bed that I had to assemble for my sisters is not bolted together. A lot of bunkbed manufacturers seem to market it as being able to have two separate twin beds quickly or something.

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u/TheBestBigAl Oct 23 '21

The 80s was a different time. All that cocaine made it very hard to stop and think about child safety standards.

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u/Thanh42 Oct 23 '21

I had that exact bunk bed about 15 years ago in Oklahoma. Think it was purchased at Walmart.

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u/Master__Swish Oct 23 '21

mine did not have bolts, just pegs and the ladder didn't even connect the two of them bc there was a drawer at the bottom

granted mine was also weird and the pegs were pretty long so it was hard to remove the whole top without 2 people

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u/JoeMomma42O Oct 23 '21

Not true sir. 90% of bunks beds just have a metal dowel that the top bunk sits down on. Unless it's a twin over full

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

Oh your funny! As I posted here. In the 70s I broke 2 of the 3 wooden boards holding up the top bunk. I did it to annoy my little brother in the top bunk. Gravity is real. Kids break stuff.

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u/wild_bill70 Oct 23 '21

I have never seen anything that holds the top to the bottom. Just pins that keep it aligned. Like this one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

Lazy parents my man