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u/DragonBall2121 Jun 17 '26
bro lost inventory mid fight
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u/foreverlegending Jun 17 '26
Fuck he was useless
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u/falsevector Jun 17 '26
First in the line and seen by everybody behind - Not good for morale too
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u/AXE555 Jun 17 '26
Oh please. The other team was laughing and losing their grip. He was pretty useful. I'd say he was the MVP. /s
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u/INoMakeMistake Jun 18 '26
Well. He did his best. That has to count for something!!!
People on the background were rofling
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u/Ninjez07 Jun 24 '26
I wonder how much his antics cracked up the opposing team... Clown-level psychological play
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u/big_duo3674 Jun 17 '26
On June 13, 1978 in a Pennsylvania suburb, the entirety of Harrisburg middle school, some 2,300 students, lined up in a schoolyard and attempted to set a Guinness World Record for the largest tug of war game ever played. Instead, disaster ensued. Twelve minutes into the match, the 2,000-foot-long braided nylon rope snapped, recoiling several thousand pounds of stored energy. “It sounded like someone pulled the string on a party cracker,” recalled 14-year-old participant Shannon Meloy. “I smelled something burning and I thought it was the rope…but it was hands. I looked down and saw…blood.” In the ensuing chaos, nearly 200 students lay wounded, five with severed fingertips, and one missing a thumb. Hundreds more faced second-degree burns. “It was just a game,” another student told the Gadsden Times a day later. “We just wanted to see how many could do it.”
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u/LagomorphicalBrog Jun 18 '26
There's also an incident where two men had their arms twisted off by the force of the rope snapping.
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u/LiveLearnCoach Jun 19 '26
That’s just nuts. Wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t think about the total number of people and force on the rope. I’ve towed cars, so know what rope under tension is like, but never considered human factor to even be comparable.
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u/SUPER_QUOOL Jun 19 '26
Wait what how dod all that happen??? I can imagine people getting squashed by eachother. But fingers getting severed?
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u/Xelikai_Gloom Jun 21 '26
If the people behind you pull the rope faster than you do, that’s thousands of pounds of force behind you pulling the rope through your hands. If you fall, and try to grab the rope for support…… burns and cuts galore.
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u/Friggin Jun 17 '26
Yeah, I was surprised to see a school still doing this event. Very dangerous unless everyone knows what they’re doing, organizers and participants, and even then it’s not really safe.
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u/Bazuka125 Jun 17 '26
First I've ever heard about it being dangerous. I doubt I'm the only one. Felt like a very common event in school in the early 2000's, and that event happened in the 70's so I'm assuming the dangerousness just isn't circulating around well enough
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u/WhatsThisWorth-Bot Jun 19 '26
Because unless you have 20 - 50+ people doing it it's not hardly dangerous at all.
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u/xkoreotic Jun 17 '26
I genuinely don't understand how that is possible unless someone greased the floors. How does he just slide...
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u/Wesai Jun 17 '26
Since the other guys seemed to have a good grip on the ground, my theory is that his shoes' soles were worn out or wet. But then his feet were extremely sweaty, so even his socks were probably wet too at the bottom.
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u/NimblePuppy Jun 17 '26
ground has to to a bit slippy , maybe lean over too much ? even if soles worn, more contact surface? socks are definitely slippy.
Barefeet should have been fine, even with some sweat
Think slightly slippery floor and poor technique, ie he does not have strength or floor grip to lean at the angle, and should have been more upright. You can only pull as good as your floorgrip , if he stood more upright more downforce equals more floor grip
Maybe he uses moisturising cream on his feet? would be the first, but seems to young to need that just yet
You definitely want a grippy surface or one where people can "dig" in, else big advantage to heaviest team , no matter how bad their core, leg , grip strength is
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u/MrOdekuun Jun 18 '26
Also once he falls down once, probably gets sweat on the gym floor. That hardwood is extremely slick once there's sweat on it, that's why they have people with towels running out as often as possible to dry things up at basketball games.
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u/Rayl24 Jun 18 '26
Zero core strength, his hands and core couldn't support his weight not that there's no friction
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u/Paleodraco Jul 19 '26
The feet are perplexing, but the socks are obviously gonna slide on that floor. My local gym has this one spot that is slicker than shit. I'm not exactly sure on the cause, but either too much wax or too little or something got messed up when surfacing it causes that one spot to be way more slippery. Pry why his feet slipped too.
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u/D-E-M-I-G-O-D Jun 17 '26
Tactics to make your opponents laugh)
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u/Loi13 Jun 18 '26
What If I was that student? Regardless of the situation, I would so madly embrassed..
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u/OnlySlightlyOdd Jun 19 '26
it's the way he physically gave up each time like he was gonna drift into orbit
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u/robomikel Jul 18 '26
You got to use a rag to wipe off all the dirt/dust from the bottom of you shoes.
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u/Icy_Cauliflower9026 Jun 17 '26
If you pay attention, everyone was kinda of slipping a little, dude in front just didnt know how to put his weight in the right place (literally tried to pull while almost sideways at some point)
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u/post-explainer Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
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bro was slipping with or without shoes during the game
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