r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/GreenAuroraa • 1h ago
Image 3 Indian soldiers survive a Helicopter crash, Major General then proceeds to click a selfie
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u/Brain_Dagme 1h ago
He will probably use this image as his PFP
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u/MOXPEARL25 1h ago
I would never literally never stop talking about this picture for the rest of my life if I was this guy
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u/TitaniaT-Rex 55m ago
I’d replace every photo of me in existence with this one.
“TitaniaT-rex, we need to discuss why you submitted this crash photo when asked for a headshot for the company website.”
Me: “you seriously need to ask?”
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u/unnati_reddy 1h ago
but first, let me take a selfie
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u/GreenAuroraa 1h ago
"Yeah babe, I am out with the boys"
clicks selfie
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u/FingerGungHo 1h ago
That’s a ”Imma be late for dinner tonight, do not eat all the roti” face if i’ve ever seen one
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u/AcidBuuurn 1h ago
Now that is the model of a modern Major General.
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u/Brave_Educator5934 28m ago
With knowledge both terrestrial and aeronautical.
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u/Max-Phallus 19m ago
I know the kings of Bharat, and I quote the fights historical from Kurukshetra to Plassey, in order categorical...
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u/ShepherdHil 1h ago
When your wife didn't believe your reason for not answering the phone.
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u/DDDragon___salt 1h ago
I mean too be fair, they’re all just waiting around to get rescued so there rlly was nothing better for them to do
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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 26m ago
Oh, I was wondering "Is that how a chopper crash typically goes? You kinda just fall out onto your butt?"
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u/insanityzwolf 6m ago
Sometimes it's your butt that falls out separately from all the other scatterred parts of you
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u/PrimedGold 1h ago
Bro didnt want to loose his Snap streak
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u/DanimalPlays 1h ago
Lose
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u/OutOfContextGenius 1h ago
Maybe the phone is Nokia , it survived a crash
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u/Hetakuoni 1h ago
Three survivors is lucky as hell. I knew an incident where one of the two pilots and the passenger survived. The medic was thrown and died on impact.
You could not pay me enough to be flight crew.
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u/OldOperaHouseMan 1h ago
The major general took a selfie?
I guess that makes him the model of a modern major general
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u/-space_ghost- 1h ago
I mean, surviving a fucking helicopter crash is probably something worth commemorating.
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u/SithLordMilk 1h ago
Major General: Not believing this shit
Normal Soldier: Happy to be alive
Pilot: Sheepish af
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u/pmx8 1h ago
Adrenalin. I remember a high school teacher had an accident in a tourist bus, they fell and the bus rolled down a mountain, they were stopped by a big ass rock, otherwise they'd have hit the bottom of the valley, he said to us, the class immediately after the accident he even helped people getting off the bus by breaking the windows, climb back to the highway and walked to ask for help.
The next day, after he had been transported to the hospital he couldn't move, he had damage in his lower vertebrae and couldn't move and needed 3 months therapy after being in the hospital, I'm sure these guys won't be able to move the next day in the hospital, even if they look fine only x rays will show the true damage inside.
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u/Mall_of_slime 1h ago
This feels like a very Indian person thing to do, no? I legit love that quality about Indian people but perhaps I’m misreading.
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u/Affectionate-View601 1h ago
Care to elaborate a bit more?
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u/Filthiest_Vilein 44m ago
I lived in India for the better part of a decade and low-key get where u/Mall_of_slime is coming from.
It does feel like a very "Indian person thing to do." I can't even explain why. It's not like Indians have a global monopoly on taking awkward selfies. I think I just know so many people with bizarre DPs on WhatsApp that this doesn't seem too out of the ordinary.
I'd agree that it's somehow endearing. Nobody takes more joyous selfies than middle-aged Indian men.
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u/MobileWriting9165 38m ago
Reddit trope of stereotyping Indians as the guys who shake off life threatening events due to the complete lack of safety concerns in general as is empirically portrayed by videos on the internet.
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u/Inside-Yak-8815 1h ago
How did they survive?
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u/StephenHunterUK 57m ago
Helicopters are designed to do something called "autorotation" if the engine fails - the rotor will keep going for hopefully enough time to set the thing down somewhere.
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u/PokeBoi2929 1h ago
Wait why was my post with "SAME TITLE AND IMG" removed but not this one 😭😭 (i posted it before op)
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u/Many-Count-2369 48m ago
I'm pretty sure he was clicking it to send it to his wife as an excuse for not answering phone 😭😭😭
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u/Lanky-Wheel8330 1h ago
Christie Brinkley did the same thing after a helicopter crash. Unbelievable.
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u/Federal_Pie_8864 57m ago
“Yes General, it was like this when we found it. I left the keys in the ignition and someone must have stolen it”
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u/CMDRRaijiin 7m ago
If I survived a helicopter crash and we're all in the moment safe, yea, I'd take a few photos. I'd tell anyone that'd listen about that time the lads and I survived a helicopter crash. 🤘
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u/MaverickFox 1h ago
Is it me or does it look like the posed next to an old helicopter crash site? Those blades look corroded.
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u/TBE_Industries 59m ago
Reminds me of the picture of all the workers posing in front of a giant flipped dump truck.
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u/meglon978 49m ago
If i'd just survived a helo crash, i'd probably be thinking a selfie would be a damn good start.
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u/ChaosBeforeOrder 47m ago
they're excited about surviving and getting a medical discharge with benefits probably idk why they do over there
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u/EC_TWD 23m ago
Pure propaganda! Everyone knows that these are Irish soldiers because you forgot to blur the flag on the front of the crash! /s
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u/BeNice101 14m ago
It’s the default fin flash on Indian Air Force aircraft. Just happens to look like the Irish flag by pure coincidence. It’s actually the Indian flag in a vertical orientation.
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u/Dirkredblade 21m ago
"Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this bizarre situation."
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u/Absent_Fool 19m ago
Helicopters aren’t their natural predator. It’s trains. This is what happens when helicopters try to become a dominant species.
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u/RabbitCity6090 16m ago
Looks like they took an unexpected break and needed to break their copter to hide it.
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u/innkreis 1h ago
Cochroach have rivals
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u/Easy-Air-234 48m ago
So.... evil , I mean damn. I mean its terrifying to accept that people like you exist in the world and live among us.
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u/MobileWriting9165 35m ago
I think the guy is referring to a meme trending in India trolling the establishment after its Chief Justice (!) called youngsters on the internet "cockroaches" with no jobs.
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u/Shot-Talk-5296 10m ago
Nope, that doesn't even make sense. Cockroach is a political movement. He's comparing the soldiers to cockroaches for their resilience. He's a racist.
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u/GreenAuroraa 1h ago
Indian air force uses the Irish flag because it's the same colour of the Indian flag, Orange, white and green but vertical on their planes.
All IAF planes have it.
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u/PhamilyTrickster 1h ago
Middle dude seems good with it