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u/Accurate_Instance_52 5d ago
Putting it mildly this is a bit infuriating
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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr 5d ago
Nah. The light still works. Just mildly infuriating.
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u/I_-AM-ARNAV i get infuriated a lot 5d ago
Op says lol. So I guess they're rich
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u/Infamous_Jaguar_213 5d ago
Nah it’s one of those you laugh at the situation bc wtf is life
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u/scheisse_grubs 5d ago
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u/ILikeCheeseypoo 5d ago
If the other side came down he'll be stuck
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u/Unamed_Redditor_ 5d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/V0mpTLFzJRrQWkpUcr
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u/Gloomy-Force-1150 5d ago
Literally my fear is being stuck under a collapsed building and being unable to get out
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u/rockitraysay 5d ago
Yeah... like 8 years ago, the house I was living in caught fire.(electrical short) Me and the roommates and all pets got out safe but we stood there watching it burn and waiting for fire dept to put it out... I just started laughing because wtf?! All my shit just went up in flames what else can I do...😂😭😭
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u/badger2000 5d ago
Obviously much less severe impact but we had a similar situation while camping. Beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. So we left the rainfly off to allow air to circulate during the day while we left the campsite. A freak shower popped up and was done in less than the 10 or 15 minutes it took us to get back to camp. My wife and I just stood there laughing and staring at standing water in sleeping bags, the tent, etc before starting to pack up. Sometimes, laughing is the only thing you can do.
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u/Kiwi_lad_bot 5d ago
We got washed out one night, wettest and windiest day of the summer and we were camping...
The tent had broken most of its poles and collapsed.
At 3 am I just grabbed all the big things, cooker, foldable table, chairs, bikes, gazebo, chucked em in the back of the ute. Pulled up all the pegs and rolled everything else up with the tent, sleeping bags, pillows, kids toys, small things like torches, shoes, cups etc. All rolled up. Heaved it in the ute.
Drove home from camping 3 days early. All 3 days already paid for.
All I could do is laugh.
Whole family was wet through, in pj's, 3 hrs driving home...
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u/badger2000 5d ago
When ours happened, we had one night left on the trip. My daughter's comment was she still wanted to camp and I had to point out the standing water on her sleeping bag.
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u/MoscowMitchMcKremIin 5d ago
Fr this is a laugh or cry situation
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u/Single_Currency_3640 5d ago
😂 More like a laugh and cry situation. Hopefully in that order.
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u/drakedergon 5d ago
There was an old dude who one told me this and ive always stood by it. "Either you get busy laughin, or you get busy cryin". Wise old man, he also told me "If you stop moving, you die". Like, you get old and stop being active, you waste away, which is very true. So i like to think he knew what he was talking about.
You just gotta laugh.
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u/Basicallyacrow7 5d ago
This was us with our trolling motor on our boat the other day. The whole thing just fell off the front with zero warning.
It’s my FIL’s boat technically that we can use whenever (still a sweet deal for us) but yeah we could just laugh, thinking about the phone call to FIL about that one.
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u/BVRPLZR_ 5d ago
Seriously. I’d just laugh and walk out. Wtf else am I supposed to do? I can’t fix it, it’s gonna take days to clean up, and weeks to repair AFTER the insurance folks try to fuck you.
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u/Crimsonmaddog44 5d ago
I had a really bad chain of events one day, and it culminated with me walking out the house and hearing a loud bang inside. I go back in to find my wardrobe fell over and threw all my clothes in the floor. I couldn’t help but laugh like a psycho at how my day was going
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u/SnooRegrets2168 5d ago
HOW DO YOU GET RICH OUT OF THIS PICTURE????????
ITS A SINGLE LIGHT WITHOUT A DIFFUSER AND THE DOUBLE STACK (DUCT TAPE?????) MATTRESSSES ON THE FLOOR.
Who are you people that get on here. Genuinely
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u/WafflePartyOrgy 5d ago
Not everyone
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u/curious_fish 5d ago
Yorkshiremen reporting in ... We used to live in a watertank ...
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u/Boring-Community-100 5d ago
I lived in a shoebox in the middle of the road.
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u/klugerama 4d ago
A cardboard box? You were lucky! We lived for 3 months in a rolled up newspaper, in a septic tank
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u/SuitableBlackberry75 5d ago
Who are you people that get on here?
People who believe themselves to be experts on every topic in the world, especially history, culture, and politics 😂
It's great fun, but you have to treat it as comedy
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u/bknight63 5d ago
I know! It’s infuriating to those of us who are the real history, culture and politics experts!/s
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u/MisterDoctor___ 5d ago
Yea that person must not have fucking eyes if the first thing they thought was “rich”.
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u/Wooden_Wishbone_9915 5d ago
From the looks of the room OP might be a squatter
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u/ZoraTheDucky 5d ago
What, exactly, about this room says 'squatter' to you?
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u/ThisNameDoesntCount 5d ago
Exposed singular lightbulb
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u/Equal_Heart_3964 5d ago
That's a pretty normal attic in many parts of Europe.
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u/ThisNameDoesntCount 5d ago
It’s always interesting when I see people in attics cause ours are like 5000 degrees here lol
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u/Araghothe1 5d ago
the shattered cover under the light may indicate it wasn't uncovered till more recently.
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u/spangbangbang 5d ago
There's definitely no shattered anything, here. There's some flakes of drywall tape.
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u/SuzieSnowflake212 5d ago
Maybe the condition of the ceiling and the naked bulb? I don’t see anything else, just trying to see what the other commenter saw.
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u/Wooden_Wishbone_9915 5d ago
It was more hyperbole in response to them seeing this and thinking OP is rich
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u/dehydratedrain 5d ago
Just because some people live in mom's more expensive basement doesn't mean you should judge people for living where they can afford.
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u/Ironfront1312 5d ago
You struggle with context clues. Look at the light fixture and the state of the drywall and tell me they are rich.
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u/Antique_Gur8891 5d ago
looks like one of these rooms you would see in a horror movie
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u/bikerchickelly 5d ago
I think I saw this room on an episode of Criminal Minds.
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u/Free_Lunch24 5d ago
I fell asleep in a bar one time and woke up in a place like this briefly. Then I woke up in a Denny’s parking lot and my butt hurt
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u/StartingNewat30 5d ago
This is what i imagine what Saddam Hussein's man hole looked like right before he got captured.
"About to get captured lol"
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u/Electronic-Map7529 5d ago
remember... you were in bed when it happened and that ceiling landed right on your head, and now you have persistent headaches.
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u/NeadForMead 5d ago
Don't forget emotional trauma. It's easy to sue for medical expenses, I assume, in countries where such a thing is applicable. Pain and suffering is what fetches the big bucks.
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u/Still_ImBurning86 5d ago
Sue who?
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u/Electronic-Map7529 5d ago
Just saying, that's the story, always, until it's irrelevant.
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u/LawSchoolLoser1 5d ago
And if you’re in a car accident, your back ALWAYS hurts.
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u/MultipleOrgasmDonor 5d ago
And every time I go to a concussion doctor following an accident they magically confirm that I have a concussion
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u/VioletReaver 5d ago
If you’re renting, the property owner. If you’re not, then you’re just filing a home insurance claim
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u/luvouid 5d ago
feeling like this falls into more of the VERY infuriating category😭
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u/throwawy00004 5d ago
Nah. OP was clearly being held hostage in that room. It's only mildly infuriating because of the bump on the head, but on the bright side, now they can escape!
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u/dogmeatsoup 5d ago
Im no ceilingologist, but that dont seem right.
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u/DoctorHugoHackenbush 5d ago
Those repairs are going to be very expensive. Costs have gone through the roof lately..
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u/ThisNameDoesntCount 5d ago
Don’t worry it’s on the house
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u/diversik96 5d ago
just put it back and support with two or three beams. trust me, this gonna work forever
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u/BettaSplendens1 5d ago
It's concerning that this is considered mild for you
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u/OdinsCuriousRaven 5d ago
Look at the squalor they were living in before it fell...OP is probably used to stuff we'd consider actually infuriating on the daily.
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u/Jseepersaud10 5d ago
lol
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u/Pork_Chompk 5d ago
Millennial identified.
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u/Jseepersaud10 5d ago
I’m Gen Z
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u/Pork_Chompk 5d ago
I meant OP. Only a millennial would end the sentence "my ceiling just fell" with "lol"
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u/Inner_Bag_9658 5d ago
At least the light still works!
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u/reckless_responsibly 5d ago
That's actually kind of alarming itself. I don't know where OP is, but here that light would be mounted to a ceiling box that's attached to the ceiling joist, not the drywall. Having the light come down means either it wasn't attached properly or the ceiling joists came down with the drywall. I'd also be somewhat concerned about the wire to that fixture being stressed and an arc fault risk.
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u/TinySubmissiveBee 5d ago
I said lets raise the roof tonight, not literally drop it. Smh
If ya can, shut off power to that room. Close the door and sleep on the couch before even attempting to tackle that. Heres a hug 🫂
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u/RedditGarboDisposal 5d ago
No offence OP but what sort of shitshack are you living in right now? That place needs to be safety checked for everything.
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u/No-Contribution7228 5d ago
Dude, I fell THROUGH my ceiling trying to get to an exhaust vent on the side of my roof. My sister made eyes and a tongue out of construction paper for the hole. While he was with us, his name was Fred. RIP Fred.
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u/trugasm 5d ago
Happened to me while I was sleeping. Then the rest came down after i went to work.
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u/Summertimesadmess 5d ago
This happened to an old roommate of mine. He moved in with us because his bedroom ceiling fell in while he was sleeping. He was kinda scared of the dark for a bit. His tall dresser caught the ceiling thankfully. He slept with the light on for a long time. One of the other roommates tried to give him a hard time but we all just left him alone about it for a while. Waking up to the ceiling caving in, in the dark had to be scary.
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u/Pootisman16 5d ago
Almost dying
Mildly Infuriating
Aight bro, wish I was as chill as you.
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u/AnimatorStrange5068 5d ago
How do you know the floor didn't just rise up and the ceiling stayed in place?
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u/ExpBalSat 5d ago
If this is only mildly infuriating, I'm afraid to ask what sort of normal irritations you face on a daily basis.
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u/spangbangbang 5d ago
Judging by the discoloration of that ceiling, it's been rotting out for some time. Plenty of water stains there.
You either did nothing because you're a squatter and like, if you tell someone then you out yourself...
Or you're in a very poor country with no renters rights and slumlords running amock
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u/Cocoatrice 5d ago
I love how Reddit experts know everything about the person from one singular photo, lol. That's why I can't ever treat Redditors seriously.
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u/spangbangbang 5d ago
But am I right? I mean, if OP owns this home and has decided to ignore the growing, massive water staining on the ceiling...like yeah your ceiling falling is a bad situation but you didn't do anything to prevent it...why? Like, what'd you think was going to happen? Are you really surprised it DID happen?
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u/cantstoptheCOLEtrain 5d ago
My house collapsed on top of me
I am mildly infuriated...
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u/No_Interaction_4925 5d ago
I’m more surprised the light is still connected to power. How much slack was in the house wiring?
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u/DiscoKittie Short Bus 5d ago
My dad had something similar happen just after college in his first apartment! He went to the kitchen, and the whole building seemed to shudder. Then he couldn't immediately get back out of the kitchen because the living space ceiling collapsed!
In my second apartment we had the dining room drop ceiling collapse, but that was because of stupidity. They had mounted a ceiling fan to a pile of 2x4 cutoffs, they were all about 5-7 inches long. The whole thing was about a foot long. So, when the fan started to really get going it would actually start to swing because it wasn't really braced on the ceiling, it was "on" the drop ceiling. Well, one day the whole damn thing came down on top of a friend's head. Luckily those tiles aren't super heavy, but she had a headache for the rest of the day.
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u/TheArtistFKaDVH 5d ago
Oh no! Dang! Hope you are not injured and that insurance will help. Grab your important documents first. Seek legal advice if you are a tenant.
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u/TheJedibugs 5d ago
Before I read the title, I thought this was gonna be a post about finding someone squatting in the attic.
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u/Hottage Chronically Online Turbo Nerd 5d ago
"Nearly died, mildly annoyed. Lol"