Watch: Man's miraculous near-miss from runaway saw blade

Is there a mirror for the video? I can't be bothered to give the website enough permissions to work currectly.

Side note, go install uMatrix and be awestruck by how much crap modern websites load from external sources to function correctly.

And here is a mirror to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyhWf4YCpXA

I was using uMatrix in the past, but I thought the author said it was discontinued and he won't maintain it anymore.
- It is unmaintained, but still works fine.
Thanks! I clicked on 2 ads trying to get the video to work on the BBC page

"...they call it a near miss. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss! BOOM! Look, they nearly missed. Yes, but not quite!" - George Carlin

I dunno, the headline makes it sound like he pulled some real bullet-time shit and heroically jumped out of the way at the last moment. But instead he sauntered into a shop, presumably unaware that it was even coming, and then many seconds later the saw appeared.

That's like saying I have a miraculous near-miss every time I cross the road.

I guess it's miraculous in that he was extremely lucky in his timing, literally seconds from being killed.
- Yeah but we're all seconds from being killed every single day. He had enough time between being in that spot and the blade arriving that he was able to saunter quite casually into the shop and probably make it several meters inside. In the grand scheme of things that's an eternity.
  Put another way, considering all of the other places in the world he could've been stood at the moment of impact (and indeed was), he'd have been extremely unlucky to have been hit by it. It's like saying I almost won the lottery jackpot because I matched 3 numbers.
  Sorry, I'm not attacking you. It's an interesting video, and I'm not saying you shouldn't have posted it. I'm just annoyed by the BBC's clickbaity, hyperbolic headline.
But, how many times do you see a runaway sawblade...I haven't so far (good thing, it looks dangerous)
- Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. Nobody realizes it until it's too late, and they're not arou
- And I assumed it was going to be a table saw accident or something. Where that blade come from and why was it travelling so fast?

Who the fuck let a saw blade do that?

There's a Mega Man boss just off camera.
- I hate this level.
I blame its parents.
How can it even happen?!
- It must be against some law?!
Who's going to stop it?

That's some Final Destination shit right there...

He would never have saw it coming

That's a pretty cutting edge pun!
- If he was just 5 seconds later, things miter been different!

Now I'd like to know how a saw blade could actually run away like that?

I can imagine a lose saw blade rolling down a hill, but it probably won't gain that much speed. And within a saw, it is mounted on an axis and surrounded by a lot of other stuff, so even if the nut comes lose on the axis, it won't be going anywhere much, at least not while taking that much rotational energy.

The blade got spun up, then came off the saw, likely because the retaining nut came off. The blades aren't on some long mandrel, they're on a short bump of a shaft that the nut screws down to. Take a look at how discs connect to angle grinders and you'll have a good idea of how concrete saws do it
It is perplexing, because those usually have a guard over them aswell. Maybe the shaft stud snapped right at the blade, and machine had the blade without guard rotated down over it?

It’s also annoying that the site seemed to bump my volume up to max despite having turned it down before playing video.

How did it do that? I ask because my volume was also turned all the way down. Next thing I know I’m being blasted by a Saudi Arabia ad.

I've heard stories about those blades, there's a lot of inertia there.

To be fair, it would have been a cool way to die. Painful af, but cool. Of course we live in the worst timeline so he'd probably have lived with life-ruining injuries if he'd been hit. Regardless, good thing he wasn't 5 seconds slower.