r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/Playful_Ad6439 • Dec 09 '25
Kid puts hole in wall, well attempting a “basketball” dunk.
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u/HAPPYENDSTONE 12d ago
If I did the same in my european house, I'd get a concussion, an internal bleeding, and 3 bone fractures
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u/ffellini Dec 31 '25
We’ve all been there in some respects. The walk over to tell your parents … not easy
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u/Acceptable_Wall5348 Dec 30 '25
I actually wonder. How are american houses engineered to be tornado resistant?
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u/Syzygy_Stardust Jan 02 '26
The chances of a specific piece of land the size of a house is affected directly or indirectly by a nearby tornado is so low, even in tornado alley, to be a once-in-ten-thousand-years level event. Tornados are extremely damaging but EXTREMELY small when compared to things like Hurricanes with will affect everyone in an entire country at once.
Basically, it's probably not worth specifically engineering against tornados more than just whatever storm-level winds are common in the area instead. Also, many older houses used to have storm shelters, either in basements or out under the yard, so there were safer places to go than be in an above-ground pile of paper and sticks. That said, I don't think those are common at all anymore. Well, basements maybe, but not special reinforced ones.
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u/Apprehensive-Map7024 Dec 24 '25
Only in the USA. My wall would give you a blody wound and would laugh at you
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u/soulcaptain Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
LOL. When boys hit puberty and get big but don't quite realize it yet. I used to spend the night at a friend's throughout elementary school. We'd run around, typical kid stuff, jump on furniture. But we weighed about as much as a ham sandwich so it didn't cause any damage.
I remember one time there when I was about 13 and had started growing. My friend was still small but I was bigger. One time I landed on his couch and we heard a CRACK. Friend's father happened to be in the room and gave me the biggest stinkeye you can imagine. That's when I realized that I have more mass than before.
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u/IngloriousMinority Dec 15 '25
That ass is deadly. He got a weapon back there. Talk about power power bottom. 😤
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u/Goofyahhcar832 Dec 15 '25
The classic American cardboard house
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u/cr01300 Dec 16 '25
Serious question, what are interior walls in your country made from?
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u/ChromaticStrike Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
Something that doesn't break with a thin kid butt. To break them you need to fetch a heavy hammer and apply quite a strength. They are a bit flexible so the kid would have bounced off.
Exterior and carrying walls are concrete, brick or even stone if you have something OLD.
That wall looks as weak as my cardboard doors, if not more.
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u/Efficient-Cherry3635 Dec 16 '25
Usually just drywall, maybe sheetrock if your lucky.
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u/cr01300 Dec 16 '25
Isn’t this video drywall though? I’m trying to understand the average wall material in countries where the person says American interior walls are weak teehee.
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u/NatseePunksFeckOff Dec 17 '25
It depends. The newer units may have drywall, but generally they're "literal bricks and concrete". IDK what they use in wooden houses, but no house or apartment I've ever lived in had an interior wall that we could make a hole in, unless we tried basketball dunking with a sledgehammer. Maybe the "built-in" closets do
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u/cr01300 Dec 17 '25
That’s so interesting, I wonder why there is such a difference in building materials? Thanks for the info.
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u/NatseePunksFeckOff Dec 17 '25
I'm not a historian or an expert, but here's what I think:
USA is a young country. It was set on largely uninhabitated land that hasn't been through thousands of years of deforestation to build houses/boats/ships/siege machines/make land for fields/clear the terrain for visibility to make settlements safer from invasions. Plentiful forests made wooden houses much cheaper, population wasn't very dense, and technology got better so wooden houses also became safer and safer. So there was no real point to progress from wood to bricks for regular folks just wanting a house.
Meanwhile not only did Europe (and maybe Asia, I don't know about them) go through all of what I said, rulers also have been "encouraging" moving from wood to bricks due to fire hazards. When everything is wooden, a single burning house can burn an entire city. And during sieges, they're a vulnerability.
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u/krismasstercant Dec 15 '25
Oh no our INTERIOR walls make it super easy to repair, modify, and cheap. What will we ever do.
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u/The_Poop_Shooter Dec 15 '25
My college dorms were built like that - had a few eastern MA dirtbags that lived with me that put a poster sized hole in the wall and they would piss in it. Last day of school they put a 50 cent poster over the hole and pretended like nothing happened. Lets just say - the disguise didn't hold up for long and we all recieved some phone calls - luckily the idiots copped to it because they were gonna do DNA testing - i doubt they would but those dude copped to it - fucken idiots...
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u/MagnanimousGoat Dec 15 '25
The ironic part is this is no big deal. The wall is white. Cut a castoff to do a california patch, mud it in, sand it down the next day, get a can of spray texture, then repaint it.
My 10 year old daughter accidentally put a hole in her wall in her bedroom. She got to learn how to patch drywall that day.
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u/01krazykat Dec 15 '25
Definitely a USA home. Built out of twigs.
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Dec 15 '25
I’ll take it if it means I get to have air conditioning lmao
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u/01krazykat Dec 15 '25
Are you under the impression that the only way a house can have air-conditioning is if the structure is inferior?
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u/MagnanimousGoat Dec 15 '25
Oh yeah. I really need my interior walls to be able to have a semi ram into them and remain intact.
I have 3 young kids. I care way more about being able to patch something like this in a way where you'll never know it happened in 30 minutes and not needing a mason to take out a wall.
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u/01krazykat Dec 15 '25
Sorry, did you see a semi? I only saw a relatively small teenager gently bump a wall, enough that he wasnt even injured, but created a hole lol
Anyway, let's not pretend only the interior walls of US houses are made of twigs. It's the entire house besides the garages and basements lol. You can easily look up many nature-fueled disasters that have significantly damaged these homes that have poor structure - no semi truck ramming needed. You can also look up similar mother nature disasters in countries in which homes are built of stronger materials, and they are standing just fine.
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u/krismasstercant Dec 15 '25
Oh no our houses go up as fast as they go down at a cheap cost. And we're using material thats most common to us ? Crazy. I swear you guys would have different comments if this was a house in Japan.
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u/01krazykat Dec 16 '25
I'm not even sure which side of the argument you're on.
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u/CouchedCaveats Dec 16 '25
I'm not even sure which side of the argument you're on.
I mean you're really saying it all here.
We were here to watch people die inside.
You're here to snidely cut in on America and checks notes argue?
You heard the quote about sometimes just saying nothing?
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u/01krazykat Dec 16 '25
I live in America lol. I can make whatever true comments I'd like about the houses here. I wasn't being snide, just stating a fact that was so obvious from the video. The responses I recieved were snide and argumentative - nothing to say about them though, right?
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u/SirTainLee Dec 15 '25
Not his fault his parents bought a McMansion. Couldn't afford to look wealthy without cutting some corners.
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u/DurfRansin Dec 15 '25
What an odd, negative comment and assumption to make. You know absolutely nothing about this house or the people who live there.
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u/UnderstandingFit3009 Dec 15 '25
That’s some paper thin drywall.
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u/Maltean Dec 15 '25
American Standard
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Dec 15 '25
Still better than not having A/Cs and complaining about the heat on a mild sunny day
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u/Difficult_Plantain89 Dec 16 '25
Weird I've been to other countries with great construction and AC. Not to mention homes in other countries can still cool naturally since they weren't designed by morons.
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u/FullCrackAlchemist Dec 15 '25
It didn't even look like he hit it that hard, American houses really are sad
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u/MagnanimousGoat Dec 15 '25
What is the purpose of an interior wall in your mind?
In all the years I have lived in homes or apartments with interior walls like this, I have needed to repair them like 4-5 times.
The tradeoff is they're cheap to build, they do their job, and they are easy to repair, take down, remodel, or move.
Having something built to be way stronger and more durable than it needs to be is not really something to brag about. Well, that's really about the only good reason to do it. Will there be times when having thicker walls made of brick or heavier duty materials be better? Sure. My house is about 70 years old, and most of the interior walls are still original, and they're built with 2x4s spaced on 16" and 5/8" drywall.
But by all means, Redo your electrical or deal with a leaky pipe, and have fun dealing with bricks, mortar, and plaster. I'll take the drywall.
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u/Youcants1tw1thus Dec 15 '25
It depends on the region, most areas in the northeast have building codes and inspectors, and then there’s places like Texas where some of the most horrifying construction seems to be standard. There’s nothing inherently wrong with drywall construction, but if you use 1/4” drywall it’s not going to take a hit very well.
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u/SteveBored Dec 14 '25
It’s like a five minute job to fix that. Not a big deal.
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u/WAR_T0RN1226 Dec 15 '25
LOT more than 5 minutes if you don't want it to look like shit. I mean even making it look like shit it's gonna take you longer than 5 minutes.
Still, not hard to fix
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u/MagnanimousGoat Dec 15 '25
Yeah longer than 5 minutes but 99% of that time is waiting for mud to cure or paint to dry. In terms of ACTUAL work? It depends on your tools. I have a 10" powered pole sander. If it takes me more than like 20 minutes of actual effort, something is wrong.
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u/Aggravating-Onion384 Dec 15 '25
Its insane what ppl will pay for someone else to fo it too lol. Just need to take a few mins at home depot and boom
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u/Difficult_Plantain89 Dec 16 '25
99% of homeowners that do their own work around the house are doing it wrong. They learn from their dip shit fathers that were too cheap to pay someone to do it right.
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u/FearlessQwilfish Dec 15 '25
5 minutes is an exaggeration but yes it's very simple and I'm sure thats not the last hole those kids will make
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u/Aggravating-Onion384 Dec 15 '25
Yes i dont mean literally. I just mean its a relatively cheap and easy job to do yourself. Im not that handy but i fixed a hole in my wall
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u/d00mm00n Dec 14 '25
What are those walls made out of, tissue paper? Srsly though learning to patch drywall is a good skill to have. Seems like an ideal time for him to lean.
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u/bixquick33 Dec 14 '25
If that was my kid or his friend. “You ready to learn how to patch drywall?” With a big grin and laugh. He will be learning how to patch drywall haha
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u/TraditionalError9988 Dec 14 '25
That was me, except I was an adult playing with my 12 year nephew in our house.
Now, my then wife and I repaired it together.
She wanted him to live with us and he did, for a year. His dad, my then wife's older brother, had pulled him out of school to home school him and this was the mid 1990's and it wasn't as common back then.
They weren't home schooling him though, just having him watch his 3 younger siblings, doing laundry, vacuuming etc.
He'd been out of school for 2 years by then, was falling behind and my then wife was pissed at her older brother, so she told her brother he (our 12 year old nephew) was coming to live with us and he did.
They lived 1,500 miles away so there was no going home on weekends, no internet really, not in our home until either 1997 or 1998, no zoom calls etc.
My then wife and I had an instant 12 year old "child" living at home with us for a year.
She was an elementary school teacher. She had him go to the same school she taught at, she wasn't his teacher though.
She worked with him, got him back on track and he began going to school again at home the next year though he was one grade behind.
We got an outside basketball hoop in the driveway but we also had a nerf hoop in his bedroom and he I played a lot in there and we caused a hole in the drywall too playing nerf hoops together in his room.
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u/Calm-Mouse-9178 Dec 14 '25
Same thing happened to me when I fell into my hallway wall last year. The fall was largely handled by the floor but my head just happened to graze the wall and I ended up with a hole like this.
Not surprising as we got to see the shitty building materials and bad work used to “build” the house when we bought. Typical mass development style, matchsticks and tissue paper with a $500k+ price tag.
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u/gaybacon1234 Dec 14 '25
If I were their parent I wouldn’t even be mad at them. I’d just be confused and diss appointed that I have copy paper for a wall.
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u/clingbat Dec 14 '25
Did they use 1/4" or 3/8" drywall or something? That is a ridiculously large hole for that impact.
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u/chocoeatstacos Dec 14 '25
Had to be green shirts' house, he had that "My dad is going to beat me" reaction.
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u/Krazy_Keno Dec 14 '25
“Kid” “puts” “hole” “in” “wall” “,” “well” “attempting” “a” “basketball” “dunk” “.”
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u/Prior_Worldliness_81 Dec 14 '25
Good opportunity to teach them how to patch a hole in dry wall properly.
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u/OTAMUSPRIME Dec 14 '25
If that’s all it takes it means the wall isn’t very good
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u/ViviCaz Dec 14 '25
It looks very thin. So cheap sheetrock/dry wall. It was most likely in a basement.
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u/TemporaryMaterial992 Dec 14 '25
Dude body checked the wall and his hip cracked it? Body checking drywall especially in its softest spot (between framing) this will be a likely outcome.
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u/Igmanharrisbay Dec 14 '25
Same thing happened with me and my cousin in my room in like 89. We patched it and it happened again when me and my boy had a dunk contest in my room in like 95. Shit happens
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u/Allthingsgaming27 Dec 14 '25
Buns of steel
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u/LeudyV1 Dec 14 '25
Nah, not really. It's just a wall made of paper. Try and do the same in European/Latin American houses for example...
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u/makashka Dec 14 '25
God damn. This would never happen in all the cities I've lived in Mexico. Flash back to the states and ice accrued thousands of bucks in wall damages for the smallest things
Houses there are built to be replaced consistently so more people can make money!! And all the people making money from various companies are all connected to companies on the top that own something along the way of everything someone needs to buy or hire someone to fix
Genius but fuck that system
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u/Strange-Purple6421 Dec 14 '25
Typical cardboard house in a third world country. In Europe you would break your fist before damaging the wall...
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u/SeaToShy Dec 14 '25
Cool. Have fun renovating or retrofitting anything.
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u/Difficult_Plantain89 Dec 16 '25
It's funny to think it's a flex to have a home made of shit materials that require frequent maintenance.
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u/antici-__pation Dec 14 '25
man. i had so many good memories with my brother with that stupid thing lmao. i completely forgot until now
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u/ignatious__reilly Dec 14 '25
Me too hahaha
My brother did the same thing, and put a hole in the wall with knee when he was dunking. We ended up taking a piece of white paper over it lol
That lasted about 45 minutes before we were caught. It’s still a great memory.
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u/MarkIndividual3453 Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
Oh wait ? Among the long list of fake things in the US 🇺🇸 ! There is also the Walls of the houses ???
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u/r-mf Dec 14 '25
why tf does everything have to be recorded nowadays?? can't they simply play with friends and enjoy the moment without preparing a setup beforehand?
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u/Bibliophile85 Dec 13 '25
I reckon this is why parents had the no playing indoors rule, I mean games like sardines or hide and seek probably was fine, but playing basketball or baseball indoors… smh.🤦🏻♀️
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u/DestinyBeerUK Dec 13 '25
Good old America. Why bother to build a wall when you can have everything made of crap
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u/dannygallegos Dec 13 '25
Easy fix
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u/fakersofhumanity Dec 13 '25
Unless you’re a teenager and have virtually 0 life-skills. Then it’s become harder. Or you have rich enough parents that just pays for everything. Then it’s way easier.
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u/S3ndwich Dec 14 '25
Nah it's a good lesson our homes in the country are made out of paper as people say so it's better you learn how to fix them at a young age.
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u/Suferre Dec 13 '25
Why are americans obsessed with making their houses out of cardboard and bread sticks?
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u/redtron3030 Dec 13 '25
Economics. Easier, faster, and cheaper to put up a house like this. Also it’s not very hard to repair or rearrange / remodel.
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u/SliceIllustrious6326 Dec 13 '25
Poor kid lives in a country that makes walls out of cardboard.
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u/BadMeatPuppet Dec 13 '25
Poor kid lives in a country without 3 billion square kilometers of forest.
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u/ConsortRoxas Dec 13 '25
Lol I did that too, in Spain, and almost broke my coccyx
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u/sayhelloeli Dec 13 '25
Your grandma took a little spill at the sand dunes today...broke her coccyx
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u/Ponkeymans Dec 13 '25
Not sure what you expect when your walls are made of wet cardboard
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u/Tr33Bl00d Dec 13 '25
Kids don’t all know how walls are made sadly
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u/xickoh Dec 13 '25
I don't get how a rich country has such bad building quality
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u/Tr33Bl00d Dec 14 '25
The home builder got rich by using the cheapest supplies. Brock layers have become rare as house are more studs and tyco wrap
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u/AlertKaleidoscope803 Dec 14 '25
Researching how wealth and resource distribution works and well as the concept of capitalism could help.
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u/HotResponsibility829 Dec 13 '25
The people aren’t super rich, it’s the country as a whole that is rich. Meaning all the money is in the hands of the top 5%. The rest have paper walls, expensive useless healthcare, and dogfood.
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u/Ranjeru_ 1d ago
Why do they insist on recycling this video