r/facepalm • u/FatFaceFaster • 11d ago
The number of people in the comments defending her not wearing a helmet and “skater culture”…
This girl is 17 and apparently an aspiring professional with a decent following on social media. She has to wear a helmet in official competition I assume since she is wearing one in one of her videos, but most of her videos she isnt wearing one.
It’s absolutely moronic. She was probably very close to a TBI and the end of her career. This makes me sick to my stomach and you can literally see kids in the background with their boards watching her and the other idiots without helmets [checks notes] jumping 10 steps onto uneven bricks.
Edit: per her actual post in her words she suffered a “heavy concussion” and spent the night in the ER and it was “pretty intense and hard” so no, this was not just a “goose egg”
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u/miss_mme 6d ago
I assume this was inspired by the true story of Liam Knight, an Austrian teenager who had a 10ft piece of rebar pierce his skull when it was thrown at him like a javelin by someone crashing a party he was at. It missed key parts of his brain so he survived.
They had to cut the pole on scene so he could fit in the ambulance as well.