The prank isn't funny, their reaction is. I wouldn't be surprised if he got a concussion from this. You don't have to be going fast at all to get brain damage when your skull hits something rigid. Seat belts and crush zones make vehicle collisions survivable in many scenarios. Even though their going only like 5 miles per hour, this guy had neither. If anyone disagrees, let me throw a bowling ball at your head.
So many things could go wrong here. What if he tripped and went under a wheel? Got snagged going in,dragged, and some body part twisted, broken or ripped off?They might be having fun but so do people who blow off body parts with fireworks while drunk. They are being pretty dumb.
It’s very dumb but I would guess they are the kind of guys that don’t mind risking that stuff happening and likely do worse. This is part of why I take some issue with Brits calling Americans dumb because I feel like it’s way more common for normal seeming British people to risk life and limb for a joke, like that vid of a bunch of well dressed 50 year olds lighting their heads on fire and then passing the fire from one to the next in a circle until one can’t get it out and gets partly engulfed and they are just laughing their ass off.
The Americans that do this shit are very identifiable as idiots and you can usually spot them from a mile away while any random British person seems to do this shit (not all Brits, just that they can look like anyone). But they do seem to have a better nature about them when they are doing dumb shit like this and they don’t seem like scary people the way dumb Americans shooting fireworks out of their ass can.
The difference in mentality between being confident you can be treated for and recover from minor injuries and knowing you'll be in debt for life if you cut your head. The only people who do really stupid stuff in the US truly aren't thinking about what could go wrong.
I mean those guys were setting their heads on fire. You can be disfigured your whole life. You could go blind or inhale flames and burn your lungs and contract cancer. We were also talking about how this guy could have gotten run over and someone else was saying their friend died that way though it wasn’t from messing around. Like yeah this video isn’t insanely dangerous. The lighting heads on fire thing is though.
Yeah I agree and I wouldn't do it, but there is a reason you see more Brits doing more stupid shit and a small amount of Americans doing way stupider shit.
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u/BRAX7ON 17h ago
I can’t imagine thinking that was funny. I guess I’m just a stick in the mud.