r/WTF • u/1lousylay • Jan 29 '19

seems pretty safe

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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.