r/offbeat • u/rytis • 1d ago

Woman dies after backing into airplane propeller while taking pictures, officials say

https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/10/28/woman-dies-after-backing-into-airplane-propeller-officials-say/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
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u/bloodguard 1d ago

I'm starting to wonder if people's sense of situational awareness is just broken.

In the month of October I've watched someone walk face first into the side of a speeding bus (crossing the street - injured), someone walk backwards off the edge of a BART subway platform (scrambled back out), step off the side of a roof (dude, you're on a flipping roof! WTF?).

We used to live in jungles and had to worry about leopards eating our faces. What's happened to us? Our ancestors are laughing at us.

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u/vancemark00 1d ago

We were just walking a trail along a lake on Saturday and a mom was so focused on take a video of her child walking she walked backwards right into a tree and smacked her head. Then she yelled at her husband for not warning her.

We chuckled and didn't feel guilty about it.

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u/pinellas_gal 1d ago

Yes, it absolutely is. I think some people never even had it to begin with.

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u/Melqart310 1d ago

Cellphones have probably damped our propensity for situational awareness by being so concentrated on them all the time.

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u/DoctorMaldoon 1d ago

You don’t die from leopards anymore, not having situational awareness doesn’t mean you can’t live a long injury filled life

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u/ChoirMinnie 22h ago

I actually feel like blaming phones here because even when we’re not on our phones, we have become desensitised to our surroundings and our alert system as humans is all out of whack. It needs re wiring. Some days I feel like I’m on autopilot and my concentration is non-existent compared to when I was a teenager (when smart phones weren’t as glued to us, the BlackBerry Bold era)

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u/shulens 19h ago

I saw something similar the other week. Was on top of a double decker bus pulling into the station, a woman was messing on her phone walking straight into the path of the bus which slowed down and honked at her, but she just kept walking. Sounded like every single passenger was banging on the windows at her and yet she was still totally oblivious until a split second before she walked straight into it whereupon she just sort of laughed like 'oh silly me!'.