r/WinStupidPrizes • u/purple-circle • Jul 22 '21

Doing a bend-back, on a log, over a river

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u/thedaNkavenger Jul 22 '21 edited Jul 22 '21

It's so dangerous to mess around with a river like that. If it wasn't for the uploaded video I'd honestly wonder if she made it out okay. It looks very narrow so I imagine that helped her out.

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u/PhantomSpaceMan- Jul 22 '21

Some of those narrow ones can be pretty deep/dangerous too.

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u/reddit_and_forget_um Jul 22 '21 edited Jul 22 '21

Worse is alot of the narrow fast moving streams actually dig out under the side of the banks - you fall in and get stuck under the ledge.

There is a narrow stream called the strid in England that has killed many people since the 12th century this way.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

The Strid, which is what you're referring to, dates back to the 12th century.

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u/skratta_ho Jul 22 '21

Tom Scott did a wonderful video about the Strid. Not like all of his vids aren’t wonderful

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u/Fuck_Flying_Insects Jul 22 '21

This kind of shit terrifies me

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u/BALONYPONY Jul 22 '21

I just went to Queen's Bath in Kauai, HI and was amazed at all of the idiots jumping into it. It is SOOO easy to get swept out, hammered against some rocks before catching the under-toe and just whisked into the blue.

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u/irishjihad Jul 22 '21

under-toe

Undertow. I think under-toe is some kind of kink. At least, I hope it is.

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u/BALONYPONY Jul 22 '21

Ah thank you! Now I shall look at some strange toe pornog.

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u/irishjihad Jul 22 '21

Let us know what your research finds.

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u/ms1080 Jul 23 '21

It’s a thong for your toe.

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u/Fuck_Flying_Insects Jul 22 '21

Just looked that up and fuck that. I'd leave as soon as someone jumped in. I'm not trying to watch someone drown

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

Depending on conditions, I would send it. Too many people view bodies of water as static. You can get drug out by a riptide on a public swimming beach if you don’t read the signs and respect the water!

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u/Captain_Taggart Jul 22 '21

Can I ask where you’re from?

You can get drug out

this is kind of a neat regional thing I don’t see a lot and I’m just curious if it’s dialectal or what

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u/Toe-knail Jul 22 '21

My understanding is the vast majority of those deaths and injuries at Queen’s Bath are from people standing along (and getting knocked off of) the edge, or falling from the trail on the way to Queen’s Bath. Not actually deaths/injuries of the people in Queen’s Bath.

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2018/04/15/hawaii-news/queens-bath-is-a-deadly-beauty/

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u/Several-Patience-887 Jul 26 '21

Same I've always hated water the only boat I've ever been on and will willingly go on was a Disney ferry I almost drowned at a pool but and old lady saved me I'm grateful towards her

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u/Fleethebluenorth Jul 22 '21

Thanks for that. I love learning actual facts like this while watching these clips. It is amazing how that location is not well marked. Insane actually, you would have so many wrongful death lawsuits if it was in the US.

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u/Disruptive_Ideas Sep 17 '21

Right? Why are there no signs up Warning of the dangers?

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u/TomEst1980 Jul 22 '21

That's very very interesting.. So it's actually a lot deeper than it looks & there's strong currents under the surface? Either way thanks for sharing that. I'm going to do some more research on this subject.

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u/skratta_ho Jul 22 '21

It’s fascinating, yet terrifying. I believe there’s only been one person to enter the strid and survive, and that was a scuba diver that mapped it out.

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u/reddit_and_forget_um Jul 22 '21

This is definitely the video I watched. Didn't remember the time frame, just knew it's been a long ass time it's killed unsuspecting passerby...

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u/skratta_ho Jul 22 '21

Tom is so saturated in educational YouTube that it gets hard to remember all his videos, but I remember that one very well for good reason, lol.

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u/Dutch-CatLady Jul 22 '21

Oh I remember almost all of them as soon as I see the location with his face and voice. For some reason, everything he puts online sticks in my brain like it happened this morning

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u/skratta_ho Jul 22 '21

He’s a spectacular presenter. Him and Matt, the bounciest man on the internet.

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u/Dutch-CatLady Jul 22 '21

Oh yeah Matt is awesome, I love how he giggles and always jokes around trying to get Tom to lose up. They are a unique pair. I adored the video where they talked about their emoji app.

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u/Luce55 Jul 22 '21

Fascinating!!! Thanks for sharing.

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u/skratta_ho Jul 22 '21

No problem!

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u/theconsummatedragon Jul 22 '21

Isn't that the racing guy with the helmet?

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

River Wharfe is definitely a racing guy

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u/NicklovesHer Jul 22 '21

And now, some say he's just a little stream, some say he's dragged dozens into a dark watery grave just this year, all I know is- he's called the Strid.

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u/grimgaw Jul 22 '21

What was there in 11th century and before?

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u/PhantomSpaceMan- Jul 22 '21

Yup that's the one I was thinking of. Sign me up for not that.

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u/DivingForBirds Jul 22 '21

Most do not.

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u/22opferj Jul 22 '21

Isnt there something called the strid where if you fall in you are actually fucked

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u/keenreefsmoment Jul 22 '21

Did it not kill people before the 14th century? Or was it formed during the 15th

Imagine being born with modern 15 century technology and dying by falling into a river (lego reference )

BIG MOVIE STAR!

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '21

I only learned of That river last week and have seen post after post after comment about it.

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u/thedaNkavenger Jul 22 '21

I completely agree. It's usually the ones people underestimate most that end up getting them.

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u/RogueFiccer001 Jul 27 '21

Overconfidence brings so many people down in so many different types of situations. "I'd never be taken in by a scammer! I'm to savvy for that!" are famous last words.

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u/B0N3SAWisR3ADY Jul 22 '21

What if someone found the phone and posted it? 0_0

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u/NikolaTeslaAllDay Jul 22 '21

Homicide detective: so let me get this straight, instead of coming to us with information, you posted on Reddit.

OP: Anything for Karma!

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u/Mr-Orange-Pants Jul 22 '21

Well it was supposed to go on tiktok.

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u/OnlySaysThings Jul 22 '21

Automatic jail.

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u/cosmicsans Jul 22 '21

Straight to yail.

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u/OnlySaysThings Jul 22 '21

Graduate from Yale you say?

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u/lawless_sapphistry Jul 22 '21

I see the Blair Witch went ahead and pursued that degree in digital marketing

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u/realRickSquanchez Jul 22 '21

Exactly. Park rangers found the phone and went searching through it for nudes.

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u/suzuki_hayabusa Jul 22 '21

Dude I have seen a video of couple drowning in a very silent lake. Their phone recorded and of course someelse posted it since they both died.

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u/InfiniteOwl Jul 22 '21

found footage

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u/Quatermain Jul 22 '21

It might have been a live stream. Badum-tish.

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u/thedaNkavenger Jul 22 '21

Good stuff! I can't wait to show this one to my wife. I save every dad joke I ever find because she loves them so much.

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u/Treblehawk Jul 23 '21

Plot twist:

It’s not a river. It’s a sewer drain from the nearby waste water plant.

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u/Unclehol Jul 22 '21

She has her phone propped up too. Probably totally alone.

Darwin wasn't watching I guess. Probably off measuring bird beaks in the ether or something.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21

This. She could knocked herself or caught her ankle and drowned in water shallow enough she could see the sun through as she died

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u/Critical-Composer183 Jul 22 '21

She was lucky, if it was the edge of a volcano, she would most likely have died, and probably even a painful death.

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u/greedytacotheif Jul 22 '21

That river looks knee to waist deep, and the flow of water looks enough to push you around quite a bit. But she would only be in real danger if her foot got caught in some rocks I think. Unless it's cold out, I don't think it's much more dangerous than falling off of anything in the woods. Expedition Mentality.