Today, my dorm's fire alarm went off. In the rush to escape, I slipped and fell off my bunk bed, breaking my ankle in two places. Crying, I told my roommates I needed help to walk. They shrugged and left after mentioning that I would slow them down. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I woke up after being sick from the flu and tried to get out of bed. I forgot I was in a bunk bed and broke my ankle in the fall down. FML
Today, I was home alone in my apartment. I tripped over my dresser and fell and sprained my ankle. As I was laying there in agonizing pain, my downstairs neighbor shouted at me to shut up. FML
Today, at work, we had a fire drill. I was the first to run out of the building, but in my haste, I tripped on the stairs, and rolled down the flight. When I got to the bottom, I tried to stand up, but my ankle was already swelling. What felt like the entire office watched as I limped to the designated meeting point. FML
Today, I tripped while rushing to my classes. In a desperate attempt to regain my balance, I grabbed the nearest thing to me. A fire alarm. FML
Today, I fell down a flight of stairs at college. I was taken to hospital with a fractured ankle and had to call my parents to drive me home. They constantly made passive-aggressive remarks on the way home, because I'd "totally ruined" their plans to eat out at a fancy restaurant tonight. FML
Today, we had a fire drill in my dorm, and I live on the 7th floor of my building. They shut the elevators down and I had to walk down 14 flights of steps. I shattered my kneecap last week. They turned the alarm off when I got to the first floor. FML
Today, after slipping on my stairs and spraining my ankle, I got a brace and crutches at urgent care. When I went to get into my car, my crutch slipped on some paper and I fell. I crawled back into urgent care, only to learn that my sprained ankle is now broken in 2 places. FML
Today, I was docked and fined in my dorm building because of multiple noise complaints. What was I doing that was so noisy? I slipped in the shower and banged my head against the floor. Then when I reached for the towel rack to pull myself up, it broke and I slammed my wrist onto the ground. FML
Today, I went upstairs to scold my boys for running in the house because someone could get hurt. As I turned around to come back downstairs I tripped and fell all the way down to the landing at the bottom. I could hear them laughing in their rooms. FML
Today, I slipped out my bedroom window at night in an attempt to rebel against my parents. Then I realized that I have no friends and nowhere to go, so I tried to climb back in. I fell, broke my ankle, and laid in the dirt until my parents found me in the morning. FML
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interesting33 37
based on this it sounds like your 'friends' could have been charged with manslaughter had there been a fatal fire. they walked away from someone who could not get out. That is despicable.
Jerry Leberer 12
you had to "escape" from more than likely a fire drill or burnt popcorn? Calm and orderly fashion comes to mind, but then again I run into burning structures for free.
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interesting33 37
based on this it sounds like your 'friends' could have been charged with manslaughter had there been a fatal fire. they walked away from someone who could not get out. That is despicable.
RichardPencil 32
I think they would have been charged with “cowardice” instead. People aren’t required to be heroic when it might cost them their lives.
real life problems 26
Manslaughter for not helping someone? That's a new one. They may be assholes for not helping but its definitely not against the law.
MidnaLink 35
I’ll agree with both Interesting and Richard for a moment. For Interesting’s point, they’d KNOWINGLY have left someone in a burning building. To die. Sure, they wouldn’t be the only one’s in the building, but they’re roomates, and when someone realizes that OP is not among everyone else and asks what happened, what’re the roomates gonna say, “I didn’t feel like carrying someone out with a busted ankle”? For Richard, yes, it is not illegal to not save someone, but if you can physically do the deed, why not?
RichardPencil 32
MidnaLink: it would definitely slow someone down to help another with a broken foot. In the panic, many people wouldn’t be able to make the judgment that they could afford to exit more slowly. Morally speaking, one should help their fellow human, but that’s hard to codify in law.
Vanderdale 14
Depending on where you live, failure to render aid is actually a crime, and can land you a felony charge depending on the circumstances.
joeyl1990 28
Bull ******* shit. You are not required to risk your life to help someone else. But if there was a fire and they didn't inform the firefighters that the op was stuck in there that would be a different story.
interesting33 37
it does depend on were you live. apparently (disclaimer this was a five minute Google search) in civil law countries it is often law you have to help where you reasonably can. In Germany it is illegal not to help. in the USA it is not against the law unless you have parental responsibility or some sort of responsibility like they are your employee.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
Actually in many places you are specifically NOT supposed to help someone who is unable to walk for themselves if you are not physically able to just carry them down a set of stairs. You are generally supposed to try and get them near the stairwells, if possible, but then you are supposed to get out and inform the fire department that there are people still inside incapable of getting themselves out. It's because they would rather run in and rescue one easily located, disabled person, than to have to try and rescue you both.
aruden 25
As already stated you are not required to render aid or assistance legally speaking. The only time you could catch criminal charges are if you directly prevent someone from escaping ie locking them in a room. You have to had directly done something that indirectly caused them to die for manslaughter.
interesting33 37
depending on where you live though. we don't know where OP lives. though I would hazard a guess it's America
Jerry Leberer 12
you had to "escape" from more than likely a fire drill or burnt popcorn? Calm and orderly fashion comes to mind, but then again I run into burning structures for free.
amora1219 10
tyfys
Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20
Hello there fellow firefighter
NostalgiaFreak9 43
Time to find new roommates.
RichardPencil 32
Hopefully, your view of humanity has been clarified. Your cowardly, selfish roommates are not outliers, they are the norm.
Kruxon 11
Just fire *****
Kaili McCoy 6
You must be a freshman. Get used to it going off constantly. Be prepared that it will happen in the middle of the night so don’t sleep nude. It is an inevitable they’ll be a shower alarm. So get a robe. Don’t ignore the alarm, but do proceed calmly.
Charlie Given 28
Wow that's some assholes I'd report them to the school 😤
LadyRen 20
This is why you’re told to CALMLY exit the building.
Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20
Try to get other roommates?
Chazzster 32
And this lesson illustrates the difference between friends and roommates.... But seriously, that was a really shitty thing for your roommates to do to you! And alarm or no alarm, for your own sake get yourself under control before jumping off the top bunk! That’s just dumb. If you injure yourself by panicking then your chances of survival go way down. When I was 11 years old our house burned down. The front end of the house was fully engulfed in flames. My dad sent me next door to have our neighbors call the fire department while he got out what he could. It was this time of year and I slept in just my underwear. But I did what I was told and woke the neighbors and they called the fire department. Then I got to watch the house and nearly all of our stuff burn before the firemen got there. Dad was able to save most of our clothes, the family photos and some other items. In an emergency, you do what has to be done and you do it promptly. But panic leads to destruction!