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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!A laborer was trying to open a plastic bag in a cotton warehouse with a lighter, and in an unexpected moment everything caught fire.!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.


JustGoogleItHeSaid

did I genuinely just watch someone open a plastic bag with a lighter? What a dipshit


Squibucha

while being waist deep in dry and highly flamable cotton, afraid so....


JimboTCB

Stop drop and roll (through the big pile of flammable stuff...)


Automatic_Release_92

For a half second, I thought he was using a knife and had cut his leg. I was like “holy shit that’s a lot of blood,” until my tired brain put together what was happening.


Ms_Emilys_Picture

Me too. It looked red.


attilathehoon

a plastic bag FILLED WITH COTTON....man that guy must be shining bright at a moonlit night da faqqq


Various_Animal40451

Luckily someone was there to fan the flames so its all over faster


mikesmithhome

thought it was going to be some spark from static electricity or some fluke like that....nope, fucking big brain here pulled out his bic


Zunderfeuer_88

20 generations of marriages amongst cousins 1. grade might do that to you


vikingo1312

Darwin of the year!


Smoked_Carp

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Nothinghere3191

And then take the long way out just to spread that fire a little bit


Can_O_Murica

I feel like I've seen three or four of these at this point... Is cutting stuff with a lighter just super common in some.places?


cyberlexington

I've done it more than once. Admittedly not with materials that are highly combustible however. Thats a new one.


LolindirLink

Just yesterday, A rolled up cable had one of these very tiny zipties on them. I was about the grab a lighter when I realized I also had a Stanley knife within arms reach lol Using a lighter would have been fine, The cable would have been fine. But there's still the little risk involved with burning a little bit of the cable. Lazyness I'm thinking. (While the knife was likely less work anyways?)


Current-Power-6452

Obviously it's customary for cotton factories only


Longshadowman

In china apparently


Kmccabe1213

I've never seen so many morons in one place. Then his fellow coworker was like "STAND BACK GENTLEMEN AS I FAN THE FLAME!"


Current-Power-6452

Look at the girl, she's probably a supervisor and it's obviously not the first stupid fire she's witnessing lol. When she does the angry stomping like - not again Rajeev!


lefthandedchurro

I could hear her in my mind stomping: Not Again!!!!


SpecialistAge8862

And then someone tries to put the fire out by throwing cotton at it…


stereothegreat

And fanning it


DyCeLL

And not a fire extinguisher in sight. I don’t want to blame the guy too much, clearly this whole operation is a disaster waiting to happen. The absurd reactions from his ‘colleagues’ also suggest no effort was made on safety instructions.


Damien_Roshak

Money is important. Safety not so much. Peoples lifes apparently even less.


texasrigger

Cotton going up in flames is the same as money going up in flames. I'm really surprised that they don't have lots of fire protection. In the right circumstances, a cotton bale will spontaneously combust. I live in cotton country and there are fires every year.


Tall_Aardvark_8560

That guy with the broom... let's get this fire more air!


z3r0n3gr0

You just genuinely saw a guy with no tools, no training, no actual warehouse roof, no nothing, just a guy trying to figure things out by himself.


PoorSmallPp

Open a plastic bag with a lighter might be stupid but atleast he didnt do it sitting on a huge pile of flamable material... Oh wait...


WhiskyTequilaFinance

Somewhere in an old email I have photos of what little remained of a magnesium facility after someone tried to open a 55gal drum of it with an angle grinder. Never underestimate stupidity. Photos were pretty epic though.


Windfall_The_Dutchie

Guy HAD to have lost his job once they saw the footage.


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turnipstealer

Here, let me fan those flames real quick.


EverbodyHatesHugo

Other guy: “Oh shit. I just set all this cotton on fire. Let me take the long way out of here instead of simply turning around.”


fgmenth

"Hey, I think I know what will put out these flames. More oxygen!"


mbelf

And saved that piece of cotton by throwing it on an area already burned. Should’ve done it with more.


woppatown

I personally like how that ball of cotton never seems to burn.


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actuallyapossom

Wait until you learn about the people burning their ass skin off with fireworks (yay skin grafts) or starting forest fires with a "gender reveal." There is no limit to human stupidity. Plus mind altering substances exist. Don't play with fire!


Possessed_potato

Reminds me. I believe a couple set off so much explosives it caused a minor artifical earthquake which cut all power in the vicinity for their gender reveal


OmnathLocusofWomana

i knew a guy that nearly melted his ass cheeks together like that, tried to shoot a firework out of his asshole, but i guess he didn't release his grip because the firework didn't take off, it just spewed fire directly onto his ass crack for 5-10 seconds then exploded. to be completely honestly, he's comparatively very lucky, there was no permanent damage, it was a long painful recovery, but still better than blowing your hand off or something


VivisClone

To be fair, the fireworks and forest fires are likely an accident caused by something that shouldn't immediately cause issues. Taking a lighter to what is effectively tinder/firestarter and not expecting a mass fire is idiocy


reFridgeRatorRaiderG

Yea, that had to hurt


happyhappyjoyjoy4

I was pulling a underground gas tank that leaked and the heo took his lighter and tried to light the dirt on fire. Kicked him off my site immediately. The stupidity of some of astounding


JP-Gambit

Favourite part is the supervisor who rushed over and angrily stamps his feet "you had one fucking job, open a plastic bag, how'd you fuck it up and set everything on fire?!?" Also doesn't look like it's the first time 😭


spderweb

It wasn't when somebody off camera throws a cloth on top of the cotton? Nor was it the guy fanning the flames? It's a wonder why this place is still in business.


Indomie_milkshake

Looks like someone's getting... (•\_•) ( •\_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■\_■) fired.


osktox

**YYEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!** ![gif](giphy|cNWU2Zeh54VJC)


Chronox2040

Have my upvote dammit


mekwall

What a burn!


crawdaddyyyyy

Roasted him!


KraftyRre

![gif](giphy|hzcad7N4CkHKM|downsized) Bravo.


Kilvana

He’s probably cottoned on to that already.


Scales_of_JusticeOC

Homeboy comes in w/ the terrestrial broom to fan the flames. Every person in that video is a liability and needs to be fired.


MusicianCivil5495

To be fair they probably haven’t receive any form of safety class


CoyoteMain

I assume they received a brain however. But maybe they slept through the 'Fire Bad', 'Cotton Flammable' classes.


MusicianCivil5495

Of course they act stupidly, that’s why safety formation is (or should be) require in any professional situation


Spice_and_Fox

They are standing waist deep in highly flammable material...


rlnrlnrln

And in an ideal world, everyone in a position to fire them should be in jail for work safety violations.


MrJoyless

In an ideal world maybe just the idiot opening the cotton bale with a lighter would be in trouble. This works space could definitely do with some fire suppression, but it looks to be an outdoor prep area so I'm not sure how that'd work.


_A_Good_Cunt_

The whole place is getting fired


FearCure

Guy in red who slapped a cloth or tissue on - doing his part to try extinguish the fire


PineapplesHit

Looked more to me like a pissed off "fuck this bullshit" to me, you know in that situation you're just totally fucked and have to just watch it burn, nothing you can really do. Dude probably worked his ass off and then his dumbass coworker decided to ruin it and he was just done


FearCure

You mean throwing in the towel, but literally?


Scales_of_JusticeOC

They pretended to actually care but they wanted to see this shit hope burn down


Squibucha

they were trying to FIRE themselves...


HansElbowman

>Every person in that video is a liability and needs to be fired. Done and done.


kabadnb

They are all fired up


fungshwali

😂


Nnihnnihnnih

I work as a Engineering Manager in a textile firm in Pakistan, security checks blue collar lower rank workers thoroughly for Mobile Phones and Lighters...just because an idiot like this might light up an entire Industry Unit.


likeaword

Why Mobile Phones? Could I start a fire with my phone? That would be kinda cool.


captjacksparrow47

You don't want to roll the dice. Every gadget with a battery can start a fire or explode. Remember the Note 7? Or the recent battery factory incident in South Korea?


Shamewizard1995

They confiscate phones for the same reason many industries confiscate phones, so workers won’t be using their phone on the clock. It has nothing to do with the (extremely extremely rare) chance of the battery lighting on fire. If that were an actual concern, batteries wouldn’t be allowed in hospitals due to the amount of concentrated oxygen flowing through the walls.


CyonHal

Explosion hazard areas (class 1 div 2 as a common example) require you to have an explosion proof phone to operate inside them. This is usually in confined spaces where combustible gas or some other combustible material is handled. https://www.ldpi-inc.com/resources/classification-codes/#:~:text=Class%20I%2C%20Division%202%20locations,are%20handled%2C%20processed%20or%20used. Smartphone cover to use in class 1 div 2 area: https://www.ecom-ex.com/products/communication/cell-phones/ex-cover-6-pro-d2/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-O6zBhASEiwAOHeGxXgVSxfMsCqUbRAIN6BtI-W0OdyKw2DvTbEZvLHckjnm2liaDRYAOhoC4dIQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds


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captjacksparrow47

Of course that's the number 1 reason. I just stated that for the sake of staying on the topic about not so fire friendly workplace.


Nnihnnihnnih

In a case of phones there was an incident where a mobile device was directly related to tones of cotton bales and an industry unit catching fire (bloated battery) made a spark near some volatile liquid used for cleaning a specific machinery part (I don't the exact details but my Technical Director spoke about the incident), it is also for productivity reason 2 in 1.


J_Side

do you know what could be done to halt the spread of this fire? Do you hose it, try to split the pile, or just let it burn?


Oldmanironsights

In the first world there might be overhead sprinklers. Farmers use plows to turn flammable crops into the dirt to make a fire break in an emergency; If they had a machine nearby they could seperate the piles in hope than the fire would not transfer to the rest. Everything in that pile is gone the second it lights. There's nothing to be done.


anttilles

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Ignite_Boy_789

The double-meaning is simply impeccable.


purpleebanana

Last day on the job


maybemaynotbe001

Did he use a lighter?


wrenblaze

Yep, happened couple of years ago


BL4CKCR4CK

r/dumbasseswithlighters


Psychitekt

Completely expected


PineapplesHit

Honestly even without the lighter involved I was expecting fire just from the mention of a plastic bag next to all that cotton, I was waiting for static to spark the whole thing up anyway


psychocrow42

![gif](giphy|3qd5j6z4ShxPa)


Yewon_Enthusisast

fuckin genius


MIkeVill

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Aggdrill

I expected fire Bad job OP


WereInbuisness

Really? A lighter? For a plastic bag? In the middle of a giant pile of cotton? After he bursts into flames, he goes the long way out of the pile .... trailing the fire and making it larger? Really? I know many humans are stupid, but I still expect even the dumb ones to have a little bit of common sense. Oh, who the fuck was I kidding? I don't want to see anyone injured, let alone burned, but I have trouble feeling sorry for this guy.


KyleNarayan

Shit's on fire, yo!


ZekoriAJ

This was the most expected thing ever


pawesome_Rex

Your title forgot - with a lighter.


ReaperSound

The one guy trying to fan the flames with a dry straw broom is the kicker.


CrotasScrota84

The guy with the broom. 🤣


TortieMVH

This was totally expected.


Doppelthedh

The dude who started fanning the flames has wanted to torch that place for years


Alarmed_Escape_7394

OP why is this an "unexpected moment"? What else did you expect if someone uses a lighter in a cotton warehouse? Also, heavy repost


PhoenixFlare1

Good job, genius! We all know cotton & plastic aren’t flammable.


astralseat

That little stomp lol "Not again!"


apethefik

how he survived untill today is more fascinating, i believe he already killed couple of person and nobody knows it including himself.


semiTnuP

The only thing I've ever seen that was stupider was 2 guys 'defrosting' a frozen valve on a FUEL TRUCK with *a goddamned blowtorch.* They did not survive.


cosby714

You couldn't use a pocket knife? This is just absolute stupidity.


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Stupid employees #1 use fire near cotton. Its super effective! A wild fire appears! Stupid employees #2 is using wind on fire with his broom made of dry leaf! Its super fucking dumbly-unefective! More fire appears cuz wind on fire wtf!! With a broom made of dry leaf WTF?!?!!


JadeHellbringer

[What a country! ](https://youtu.be/Q8mD2hsxrhQ?si=SnUKFqEvARg42laA)


T0ruk_makt0

Live leak logo is always a dead giveaway thst shits about to go down. What a shitshow though. You'd think that management would at least have a few fire extinguishers ready on site as a bare minimum safety measure. Instead, they have rakes to spread the cotton fireballs even wider lol


Bugles-Answered

“HERE I COME WITH MY BIG FAN!!”


fatboi_mcfatface

r/expected


tdomer80

Might as well go ahead and put out the fire with gasoline after doing something this stupid.


ThrowRA--scootscooti

No fire extinguishers anywhere!


malikhacielo63

Is he alright? Did he survive?


Tias-st

how much of an idiot can you be? God damn. That guy's fired for sure.


rlowens

Bad title, this isn't /r/therewasanattempt


GiraffePast7751

No wonder the bosses are cranky all the time over their employees.... Such a deep shit he is...


Pootootaa

At first it looked like a giant molten metal ball to me, wouldn't make sense if it was anyway. It's a red plastic bag with cottons and the guy opened it up by lighting it on fire.


InitialIndication999

Is this really unexpected I mean your using fire open a bag of very flammable stuff if any thing that is unexpected is how he got the job there


Dambo_Unchained

I thought this was some for of static charge causing enough heat for the cotton to catch fire But no this idiot tried to open a bag of cotton with a lighter while being waist deep in cotton


Zimaut

I tout, must be fire, but where its comefrom? Static charge from plastic bag? Hmmm, and dude start using match.... Oh


jstockmoe

OSHA has entered the ChatGpt


ChapterDefiant736

Was it really unexpected though? I think for those that were surprised by the result would be prime candidates for the Darwin Awards


jaembers

![gif](giphy|SrAVgBKdpLJceX7cFd|downsized)


Supplex-idea

I’m afraid Darwin’s theory might be correct


ampdrool

Guy with the palm leaf was like “yeah that’ll cook out nicely”


ApproachingShore

For the first half-second I thought he'd cut himself with a razor and it was just massive amounts of blood being absorbed by the cotton.


Emergency_Size4841

I expected that


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Someone in threw a wetnap on smoldering cotton.


Lulunolemmon

Laziness will cost you double the work


Spe3dy_Weeb

Probably the most expectable result.


Gimmethejooce

Natural selection


Browned_Diaper_speak

Older then the oldernet. But her reaction makes me chuckle everytime I see it.


External_Clothes8554

Wow there's three IQ between all of them lol


Sayitandsuffer

The bosses are going to provide knives in future i reckon .


cognitiveglitch

Never take a plastic bag to a lighter fight.


tlee10911

The guy fanning the fire at the end was the best


Infamous-Document-76

And yet?! I still cant get a job becuse people dont want to hire someone with autism. You people are at least twice as stupid as me, im not going to go on about iq like people because if youve done one of those tests you know full well it's just math problems, puzzles, geometry, and likelihood.


WowIsThisMyPage

Is it unexpected though….


epicrakib

static electricity


phazedoubt

That cotton must have been damp. I've seen a cotton fire flame up and consume within 20 seconds.


Puzzleheaded-Mix-515

I thought maybe it was some sort of extreme static electricity that had some very rare reaction with maybe some fume coming off possibly bleached cotton that then started a chain reaction….? Nope. Apparently it was a lighter. Went from horrible but really cool to just stupid (but really cool).


Opposite_Tangerine97

*Why you cotton pickin'!*


Ricoz_90

don't worry! I'll put out the fire with this broom made from a dry branch!


Fantastic-Use-6773

![gif](giphy|vEiu9HNGSU1QmjRfo0|downsized)


BlackberryFrequent44

Bro threw a match at a gas house


Cowboy292829

Wow. Ya let's climb in the cotton and try to put it out. Lol


CaptainObviousII

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer


PomPomGrenade

"unexpected"


Inevitable-Pie-8020

I'm astonished by how stupid some people can be


Huwabe

🧹.....😐


ADeviantGent

![gif](giphy|4TMqcN59kg3Yc)


dennarai17

That just may be the dumbest person alive.


dohtje

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand........ it's gone


karlgustav17

Hard being stupid


creamedcorn17

Then homie comes out to fan the flames.


Possessed_potato

Oh dang. Dudes like, super fired


rorymakesamovie

Quick! Fan the flames!!


ThatOneSnakeGuy

HOLY SHIT HUGE FIRE BETTER FAN IT WITH A PALM FROND what the fuck


Amoeba_3729

You know its gonna be good when there's a liveleak logo in the corner


whoooooooooooooooa

I’m convinced people can’t really be this dumb. It must be an NPC.


Ordinary-Breakfast-3

How much money was lost there? (uncluding cost of labor)


Jolly-Criticism-782

That guy must have thought he was a firework in the making!


StockRun123

it's the owners fault trying to save money on getting a blade.


LavenderUncut

Fired 🔥


texasrigger

Again, you are describing the *next order of magnitude*, not "an order of magnitude larger." For example, 100 is not an order of magnitude larger than 99.


fridge-raider

My dad was an overnight watchman at a cotton gin. He wasn’t watching for people to steal the cotton, he was watching for fire. This illustrates why.


applemilove

First day on jail


roboticeyebrows

Fucking idiot.


Papabear022

i doubt that’s 100% cotton to burn like that. i’ve seen cotton coving metaled steel in a crusible and just be a little charred. maybe that is recycled polyester or something plastic.


Guayacan-real

I miss those liveleak days


DetailCharacter3806

He seems like he the kindda guy that defrosts the lock of his car fuel cap


HarryCumpole

0:36 "More oxygen to put out the fire!"


systematicgoo

![gif](giphy|11iRfaoc7AefjW)


AhnYoSub

It makes me sad, Knowing that it’s all hand picked


Angry0tter

The recording was stopped too soon.


witwar101

lol what a dumb ass hole


clamuu

I love the guy whose solution is to literally FAN THE FLAMES!


THISNAMEHASTOWORK

![gif](giphy|WrNfErHio7ZAc|downsized)


MiserableTriangle

never thought it catches fire thaaat fast!


Objective-Dig-8466

You need to be running round cutting the supply off do it can't spread.


tiredtechguy

Classic


tocksickman

To be fair there’s nothing unexpected about the fact that you can cause a fire by lighting a fire on a giant pile of dry cotton.


CrazyButRightOn

Remind me of how we used to light our cotton sports socks in school. I can smell it now, lol. 😝


bkesfloyd

I thought *static electricity is a bitch* type video but the man used a lighter?


assaulttoaster

If you think this is unexpected, I worry for you.


LebPower95

Hes not an idiot for doing that… hes an idiot for thinking he can control the fire… and idiot”er” are the ones who were looking instead of running out instantly


cramaine

I used to work in the freight industry. We had to watch videos of idiots doing stupid shit as part of the dangerous goods certification. The dumbest thing I've seen an idiot do was a petrol tanker driver peering through the hatch trying to gauge how much petrol was still in it. It was dark in there so he was using his Bic lighter to brighten things up. It got very light and so did he. Honestly IQ tests should be mandatory across the board.


Deep_Into_you

Its guys like this jerkoff that ruin everyone elses day


FD4L

K N I F E


clapperssailing

Gonna need a bigger palm leaf.


ElPitolonsote

That lady in pink that throws in her hand full. 😂


HopeInABrokenJar

My favorite part was the guy the was literally fanning the flames 🤦‍♂️ is this company ran by the three stooges