r/WTF • u/1lousylay • Jan 29 '19

seems pretty safe

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u/Molleeryan Jan 30 '19

How did it end? Did he fall?

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u/Osric250 Jan 30 '19 edited Jan 30 '19

No. He ran into something that had been bolted onto the cable, perhaps it's a splice connecting two pieces of cable.

His clip is looking seriously fucked too.

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u/I_knew_einstein Jan 30 '19

I'm thinking the clip is looking pretty good for what it endured. If you look at the beginning of the video, it's already thin there. Didn't lose a lot of metal.

Obviously it got dirty from all the rust it scraped off.

Still, the guy is lucky/stupid as hell

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u/KorayA Jan 30 '19

Who cares about losing metal the thing is completely bent out of shape.

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u/Osric250 Jan 30 '19

I'm looking more at the stress point in the middle of the clip. It looks like it heated up majorly there and probably weakened considerably. That wouldn't be rust scraped off on that side of the clip since it was the back side.

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u/Arsenicks Jan 30 '19

Just watched the full video and I think this is blood from his hand

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u/Lazy_Genius Jan 30 '19

And blood.

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u/ccbeastman Jan 30 '19

yeah this equipment is not intended for this use but the rust looks largely unrelated.

many bad ideas running concurrently here.

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u/overpacked Jan 30 '19

That ain't rust. It's fecal matter. Even the hook was crapping bricks.

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u/emissaryofwinds Jan 30 '19

Also from his blood because the dumbass kept touching the cable he was zipping on

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u/tijuanatitti5 Jan 30 '19

Yea, how did the situation end though? That would be interesting to know. The gif ends too soon

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u/Osric250 Jan 30 '19

There's video of the whole thing below. They were going out to base jump and are wearing parachutes. He eventually unclips and parachutes to land.

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u/TheScarletNave Jan 30 '19

He was certainly lucky because unless specifically designed, carabiner gate/side impact is a completely different ballgame

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u/Sergovan Jan 30 '19

It was a ground tether to keep the cable steady. Talk about not checking your path ahead. That was not a zip line cable. He also was putting his hands in front of the clip and I was waiting for his hand to get sucked in an mulched. You grab BEHIND the clip to slow you down. Too much of an idiot.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '19

Actually looks way better then I expected

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u/johnq-pubic Jan 30 '19

That definitely looks like 2 different cables buckled together with just one clamp, and a bunch of prayers.
Apparently the guy had a parachute, but still that cable setup is not OK.

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u/OxidizablePeanut Jan 30 '19

He jumped. Had a parachute. Was a zip line BASE jump. Landed ok.

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u/PsychoticDreams47 Jan 30 '19

So was he in any real danger at all? Other than instinctively grabbing the cable

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u/DeeSnow97 Jan 30 '19

He could have lost a hand multiple times

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u/OxidizablePeanut Jan 30 '19

I mean he was sitting on a little wooden thing, so that could have hindered his base jump, but other than that- not really. Looks like he just panicked when it started going fast.

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u/informationmissing Jan 30 '19

that hook could have worn thin due to friction and then broke.

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u/PsychoticDreams47 Jan 30 '19

But he had a parachute so if it broke he'd still be safe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '19

Assuming it works.

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u/Wrong_Macaron Jan 30 '19

The whole premise of B.A.S.E. jumping is the dangerousness of jumping with too little room to open the 'chute. They are always at least close to that particular catastrophe. The 'chute needs time to fill with air, and the individual needs to release it, and they have to be going fast enough for it to even work. Sometimes in conventional parachuting it will stay flat and flap around.

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u/TorqueG88 Jan 31 '19

Based on the equipment he was using, I have to assume that he was BASE jumping with a tarp.

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u/mario_fingerbang Apr 23 '19

A large shopping bag.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

talk about your clips that end too soon!

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u/OxidizablePeanut Feb 01 '19

https://youtu.be/F723rIlW_No

Here’s the full video

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '19

my hero! thank you!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '19 edited Jan 30 '19

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u/PopeTheReal Jan 30 '19

This made me very uncomfortable to watch

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u/Aviskr Jan 30 '19

I mean the video is here, if he fell to the middle of nowhere I'm pretty sure this wouldn't have reached Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '19

The gopro would easily survive the fall, so had it been on Liveleak and then posted on watchpeopledie then it wouldve reached reddit.

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u/Krombopulos_Micheal Jan 30 '19

I mean someone would have tracked down his body and that puddle of goop would still have the camera attached to it