Stupid Contrived Survival Stories

[u/MammothPenguin69]

1. 12 Feet Deep - Two idiots decide they absolutely positively MUST go swimming in a pool after it's closed. An incredibly contrived sequence of events happens so they get stuck in a pool. So the movie can happen.

2. Frozen (not that one) - Three idiots decide they absolutely positively MUST get on a ski-lift after it's closed. To the point of bribing the operator who for some stupid reason doesn't say anything. Do the movie can happen. Also, Wolves are not that aggressive. They are typically shy and avoid humans.

3. 47 Meters Down- Arguably the most believable scenario on this list. It's still really stupid.

4. Fall- Two idiots decide to climb an abandoned radio tower without proper equipment that would make escaping their predicament trivially easy. Stop me if you've heard this one before

so the movie can happen.

[u/2Beauty]

If a life-saving mechanism isn’t idiot proof, then people will die because of it.

[u/NCC_1701E → u/2Beauty]

And every time we invent better idiot proof mechanism, universe somehow manages to invent better idiots.

[u/Revolutionary_Lead28 → u/NCC_1701E]

Which both continues and halts progress all at once

[u/rudeangryletters → u/Revolutionary_Lead28]

I believe it’s called Risk Homeostasis- it happens when knowing there are protections causes one to take riskier behaviors- i recall there was a study in Munich where cabbies with ABS brakes accelerated faster, cornered at higher speeds, etc. Admittedly I do not know if that study was ever duplicated. If boats had automatic ladders , perhaps people would swim in riskier situations - swim solo, swim at night, swim in poorer conditions, etc.

[u/Vaya-Kahvi → u/rudeangryletters]

Risk Homeostasis, neat term, I've heard of the phenomenon with traffic lights, some intersections get safer without lights because people are more attentive that way.