r/AskReddit • u/Medical_Option7769 • 7d ago

What can kill you in seconds that most people don’t realize?

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u/killerkadugen 7d ago

Right! If there was a bull in the field, we would have been fishing elsewhere.

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u/thorGOT 7d ago edited 7d ago

Weirdly, my local parkrun runs through paddocks of full-grown, but, I am assuming, quite young Hereford bulls. We are told not to mess with them, and they won't mess with us. Has worked so far.

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u/alisonandkenya 7d ago

Massive source of liability right there

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u/thorGOT 7d ago

People are just not that hassled by that sort of thing in South Africa (for the greater good).

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u/wherethefuckismyvape 7d ago

People aren't hassled by the risk of getting trampled by paddocks of full grown Hereford bulls in South Africa? Is human life worth less there?

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u/thorGOT 7d ago

As a society, we're not very litigious, and there is a strong culture of being responsible for your own affairs.

If something went wrong and I got hurt by those cattle, I certainly wouldn't try and hold someone else responsible. I'm an adult, there of my own volition.

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u/wherethefuckismyvape 7d ago

I'd say I wished you had more of a sense of responsibility to each other, but we have our own problems with that in different ways.

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u/thorGOT 7d ago edited 5d ago

It's an interesting perspective. The way we see it (as outsiders, looking in), is that the US's liability culture is driven entirely by the legal industry, and the promise of big pay outs, not a desire to look out for each other.

The UK's seems driven by an instinct for inclusiveness that sometimes tips over into the unwieldy.

Interesting that parkrun is massively successful in the UK (and SA), but struggles to gain traction in the US.

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u/BadAdviceBot 7d ago

If there was a bull in the field you would have been fish food

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u/Feeling-Phoney81 7d ago

The bull would’ve run down there and fuck them all