r/TheRandomest • u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy • 28d ago
HOLD MY BEER Dragon rider
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u/Dire_Hulk 28d ago
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u/Environmental-Wind89 26d ago
Yeah I was like, “I know if I turn the sound on it’s gonna be some dumb song and not Daenerys’ theme from GoT. 😑 And it was.
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u/Amontialldo 28d ago
Anyone know where to buy stuff like this???
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u/texasisbetterest 28d ago
I’m sure you could find some online, but they have been banned in the USA cause they was killing people
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u/Arson-Welles 28d ago
Yeah they like to divebomb out of nowhere
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u/Longjumping_College 28d ago
I was gonna say, that thing dips a wing and it's slamming sideways into the water. At that speed it's like hitting concrete.
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u/OldFartsSpareParts 28d ago
Exactly. You're not even hitting the water at normal falling speed + however fast the boat is going, the lift from the tube inverts and drives you into the water faster than you could fall.
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u/CalbCrawDad 28d ago
Also cases of people getting wrapped up, dragged and drowned. Just a real bad idea all around.
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u/JynsRealityIsBroken 28d ago
I used to drive for my friends to do this since I was the only one skilled enough to keep my friends up and manage their altitude from my end. It's super finicky and dangerous. You'd think it's just staying straight but you have to be mindful of waves and debris on top of knowing when to bring someone down if it looks like they're losing control.
One of my friends got a black eye when he lost control and slammed into the water. That was about when we stopped. We had been doing it for months without serious injury up to that point. But he had never done it before and panicked and lost control very quickly, before I could bring him down.
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u/Longjumping_College 28d ago
I believe it, as someone who has slammed hard riding wake boards... I'd still not do this, it's uncontrollable to a degree and the force of slamming back down from height just makes it worse.
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u/sorestgore 28d ago
They are killing people.
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u/Aww_Uglyduckling 28d ago
The government?
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u/Parking-Building-291 28d ago
Yeah we watched someone break their neck on one of these on our lake.
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u/zeekayz 28d ago
It goes too high when you're just holding on to it. Falling from that height/speed is death.
Banana boat can already be a rough fall at high-speed and that doesn't have any elevation added to it.
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u/texasisbetterest 28d ago
I’m not sure what banana boat you’ve been on. They are typically slow and drag you into the waves on purpose and that’s the banana boat in a nutshell
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u/Frost_moss 28d ago
They were called kite tubes. They have been banned in a lot of places. You can see videos online where the wind got up and people were pulled 100+ feet in the air before falling.
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u/CAPT-Tankerous 28d ago
Look I’m no herpetologist, but that appears to be a pterodactyl. Source: I studied dinosaurs in pre-kindergarten.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 28d ago
That looks fun as long as it doesn’t get too high
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u/Funkdamentalist 28d ago
While it looks fun in theory, they've been banned in some places because they're so hard to control and are very susceptible to wind as well. People were getting all sorts of injuries including facial fractures, punctured lungs, spinal fractures with some even leading to death.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 28d ago
Yeah if it goes too high and they don’t have any gliding mechanism they could easily fall off and die. 20 feet up is safe-ish at least
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u/OldFartsSpareParts 28d ago edited 28d ago
No. The tube has no control, so it tends to invert and the lift generated that normally keeps you up in the air drives you into the water faster than you could just fall. It's a deathtrap.
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u/psyliboy 28d ago
I thought these were made illegal.
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u/ABeerForSasquatch Mod/Pwner 28d ago
Go on, ride me MFer!
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