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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob trips and falls into a tall stack of canned goods. They collapse on top of him and give him a serious concussion and a few broken bones, putting him in hospital. He tries to sue the hospital to pay for his bills.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob trips and falls into a tall stack of canned goods. They collapse on top of him and give him a serious concussion and a few broken bones, putting him in hospital. He tries to sue the hospital supermarket to pay for his bills.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob only knocks a few cans off the pyramid.



** Bob careers into an ordinary shelf, and when the dust clears, he's knocked the goods into a perfect pyramid.

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** Bob careers careens into an ordinary shelf, and when the dust clears, he's knocked the goods into a perfect pyramid.



* '''Averted''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???'''Averted''':
** The display is not knocked over.
** There is no display.



* '''Lampshaded''': "Next thing ya know, it's just gonna go...boom."

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Next thing ya know, it's "I just gonna go...boom.knew this was going to happen. We shouldn't have stacked the cans so precariously."



* '''Defied''': "You are NOT riding the trolley down the aisle, you'll go straight into a stack of jars and I'll have to pay for all of them."
* '''Discussed''': "Oh god, they have one of those stack displays. £50 says it's fallen over by the time we leave the shop"

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* '''Defied''': The store opts to keep the cans on the shelves instead of displaying them in a precarious stack.
* '''Discussed''':
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"You are NOT ''not'' riding the trolley down the aisle, you'll aisle. You'll go straight into a stack of jars and I'll have to pay for all of them."
* '''Discussed''': ** "I don't think we should put a display of cans here. It may look nice now, but the next thing you know, some idiot will knock it down."
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"Oh god, they have one of those stack displays. £50 says it's fallen over by the time we leave the shop"shop."



* '''Implied''': Craig hears an OffscreenCrash on his way to the grocery store. When he enters the building, there are dented cans of beans all over the floor.



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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Alice stacks her cans, and Bob accidentally knocks them down. Alice re-stacks her cans, and again Bob comes along to knock them down. Alice re-stacks her cans again. She sees Bob coming and this time knocks down her own stack of cans. This time, however, Bob comes nowhere near Alice's cans. Alice, seeing as she's spoiled her own work for no reason, throws a hissy-fit.

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** An aerial view of the supermarket shows multiple stacks of goods all over the shop, arranged in such a way as to set up a huge domino effect.

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** An aerial view of the supermarket shows multiple stacks of goods all over the shop, arranged in such a way as to set up a huge domino effect. effect.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Bob says "Ooh, beans!" and takes a can from the bottom row.

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Bob says "Ooh, beans!" and takes a can from the bottom row.



* '''Deconstructed''': A new workplace health and safety officer [[NoOSHACompliance is horrified at the potential for injury and stock damage.]]
* '''Reconstructed''': The supermarket continues to stack goods this way, but with a framework underneath to stop it all collapsing.



* '''Averted''': ???



* '''Exploited''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''': A new workplace health and safety officer [[NoOSHACompliance is horrified at the potential for injury and stock damage.]]
* '''Reconstructed''': The supermarket continues to stack goods this way, but with a framework underneath to stop it all collapsing.






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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice pauses while stacking the cans, and has a FlashBack to all the times the cans have collapsed and caused somebody an injury.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice stacks them up again anyway, [[TheAntiNihilist with a sigh]].

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice pauses while stacking A new workplace health and safety officer [[NoOSHACompliance is horrified at the cans, potential for injury and has a FlashBack to all the times the cans have collapsed and caused somebody an injury.
stock damage.]]
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice stacks them up again anyway, [[TheAntiNihilist The supermarket continues to stack goods this way, but with a sigh]].framework underneath to stop it all collapsing.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Shop-o-Mart is having a sale on {{Priceless Ming Vase}}s!

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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Shop-o-Mart is having a sale on {{Priceless Ming Vase}}s!



* '''Inverted''': Bob careers into an ordinary shelf, and when the dust clears, he's knocked the goods into a perfect pyramid.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Bob careers into an ordinary shelf, and when the dust clears, he's knocked the goods into a perfect pyramid.
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* '''Enforced''': The cans are pieces in a puzzle stacking game.

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* '''Enforced''': The cans are pieces in a grocery-themed puzzle stacking game.
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* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???

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* '''Deconstructed''': ???
Alice pauses while stacking the cans, and has a FlashBack to all the times the cans have collapsed and caused somebody an injury.
* '''Reconstructed''': ???Alice stacks them up again anyway, [[TheAntiNihilist with a sigh]].



* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???The cans are pieces in a puzzle stacking game.



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* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': "Oh god, they have one of those stack displays. £50 says it's fllen over by the time we leave the shop"

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* '''Defied''': ???
"You are NOT riding the trolley down the aisle, you'll go straight into a stack of jars and I'll have to pay for all of them."
* '''Discussed''': "Oh god, they have one of those stack displays. £50 says it's fllen fallen over by the time we leave the shop"



* '''Played For Drama''': Bob trips and falls into a tall stack of canned goods. They collapse on top of him and give hima serious concussion and a few broken bones, putting him in hospital. He tries to sue toe hospital to pay for his bills.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob trips and falls into a tall stack of canned goods. They collapse on top of him and give hima him a serious concussion and a few broken bones, putting him in hospital. He tries to sue toe the hospital to pay for his bills.

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