11 Common Movie Tropes That Would Actually Ruin Your Life

5. Breaking Your Fall With A Dumpster

We've all been there: You're being pursued by an armed and dangerous Bad Guy, and your only chance of escape is a death-defying leap from a 7th storey window. Never fear, though, because there is a pile of garbage handily placed to break your fall.

You jump, heroically, and land in the pile of broken glass, tin cans and rotting food below. The pile of trash is either deep enough to have broken your fall, but rendering escape from its stinky depths a slow, laborious ticket to tetanus, or shallow enough to easily climb out of ... had you not just cleaved your skull on the hard concrete just below.

Alternatively, your flailing body slightly altered the trajectory of your fall, causing you the snap your spine over the edge of the dumpster.

There isn't really a safer alternative to this one, just don't just out of high things, not even into a pile of rotting trash, 'kay?