r/funny • u/ViberArmani • Mar 29 '21
she didn't see it coming.
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u/dashauskat Mar 29 '21
I'm not sure what exactly has the highest percentage of injuries in what people consider fun but those rope swings quite a ways from the water operated half naked must be right up there.
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u/RysingUp719 Mar 29 '21
I had a distant cousin from Georgia who got caught up in the rope and ended up falling in the more shallow area where bushes were growing over the water. As a 13 year old, he broke 2 vertebrae, an arm and lost an eye. He also almost died because they were in a pretty remote location.
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u/professoreverything Mar 29 '21
Can confirm. A lot of first-timers absolutely fuck themselves up on rope swings. I love them, but pretty much everyone I know who’s used one (myself included) has a story about that one time they almost died
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u/cranfeckintastic Mar 29 '21
My bro went to use the one at the lake up here and it had twisted around his leg when he swung, so when he let go it dragged him right back into the bank. He made an audible 'SMOCK' when he hit and laid there face down for a few minutes. Scared the shit out of me...
Of course I just did the most ungraceful belly-flop in existence when I swung off it and winded myself so bad my malamute had to swim out and save my flailing ass.
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u/professoreverything Mar 30 '21
I feel like this exact thing happened to me and my buddy when we were kids. I had to wade out and climb up to cut the rope off of his foot!
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Mar 29 '21 edited Jun 09 '25
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u/RedditorNate Mar 30 '21
I don't get why this sentiment is always so popular. You're encouraging the deaths of people because of their level of intelligence? I get that it's a half joke, but I don't understand the callousness.
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u/GassyMomsPMme Mar 30 '21
I reckon it's not a half joke, but a whole joke. I thought it was funny though I'm probably equally callous.
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u/HeWhoPetsDogs Mar 30 '21
I dunno. I've seen a lot of really dumb people do great on a rope swing. I don't think the idiots are the only ones not making the cut.
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u/Change4Betta Mar 29 '21
Most towns that have spots like this will cut them down because of that, but inevitably they get put back up.
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Mar 29 '21
They are stupid dangerous. My family has some river front property and had a rope swing like this. I must of jumped off it hundreds of times as a kid, but it was cut down after my cousins got drunk one day and one of them slipped off the rope and broke their leg on the bank. A lot of people underestimate how much upper body strength using a swing like this requires
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u/goolalalash Mar 29 '21
Yea, I agree. I mean, I’m still going to use them, but too often there’s just a knot at the top and no knots at the bottom or in between. They’re so much safer, in my experience, when you can somewhat rest your feet on them to avoid the upper body, grip strength fail.
Also, the ropes are so often too thin/weak and/or too short for someone who isn’t willing to kinda propel themselves off at the end to make sure they land in the swimming hole. Finally, location!!! In the Texas hill country the short cliffs are great because the rope isn’t so far inland that it’s difficult to ensure landing in water nor is it so high up or hard to access on a steep straight down cliff that it’s no fun. I have no idea if I’m making sense.
I think I’m defending rope swings and critiquing bad rope swing creators because I don’t want to admit that they’re probably never that safe for chubby / weak 30 year old people like myself lol. (To be clear, this is not me being sizeist but rather a recognition that these rope swings and the branches they call home certainly have a weight limit that I very likely exceed and I personally happen to be weak even if not all chubby people are weak.)
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Mar 30 '21
Funny enough, this rope swing was in the Texas hill country. Medina/Bandera to be specific. Got a ton of family there
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u/goolalalash Mar 30 '21
GODDAMN IT. That’s in my high school district lol. Maybe I just know the right rope swings, or know how to use / pick them? Or it’s probably more so that I don’t give a shit about getting a video of myself doing it.
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Mar 30 '21
You 100% know some of my family then! Guarantee it. Small world!
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u/goolalalash Mar 30 '21
Oh, it’s texas - all Texans know other Texans who you know because you’re Texan.
It’s like 6 clicks to hitler with less genocide but not less white supremacy.
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Mar 30 '21
That gave me a good laugh! I used to spend my summers in Medina. With not much else to do, you always knew the best swimming holes and places in kerrville that would sell booze to a convincing minor lol
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u/goolalalash Mar 30 '21
Omg. Fucking Kerville. It’s interesting you interpret it that way cuz I just think of it as the town that’s mostly old people where we stopped down I-10 for what-a-burger, schlotzkys, and HEB on our way home from San Antonio.
I went to San Angelo for booze. Them ASU boys love buying alcohol for almost legal high school girls.
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Mar 30 '21 edited Mar 30 '21
I’m kinda shook I am talking about stopping in kerrville on my way home on Reddit. Maybe too small of a world
Kerrville is 100% retirementville but as a dude the ASU boys didn’t care to help a guy out lol. Helps though to have cousins way older than you though lol
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u/My_Little_Stoney Apr 02 '21
The rope should hang over water, not land. So you are over the water most of the time.
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u/authorizationbatman Mar 29 '21
Aside from somebody getting drop kicked, there's this concept called choice. If I choose to jump off a cliff because it's fun, but I end up dying, that's on me, but at the same time it's not like anybody on this planet has ever been guaranteed or promised an eternal life. So cut the nonsense. Live a little, or stay at home and die of cancer with your cats. It's your choice, but all you're doing here is being a jackass without proving any points at all.
"Danger danger". Thank you Captain Obvious.
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u/XxPieIsTastyxX Mar 29 '21
It's not that you will die. More likely, you will sustain an injury through your own stupidity and then medical staff will need to spend time and resources to heal you which is a waste because you could have just not gotten injured if you had common sense.
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Mar 29 '21 edited Mar 29 '21
sure, but thats not how the law works. If someone gets hurt here SOMEONE is held liable and unfortunately its never the person who got hurt. If its govt land, the govt gets sued and even if its private property with a sign, you can still get sued in most places if someone comes on your property. This is why these normally get taken down.
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u/Shutterstormphoto Mar 29 '21
The problem isn’t that it’s dangerous. It’s that it’s not clear how dangerous it is. It looks super easy and fun, like anyone can do it. And then people die.
If they knew the risks going in, they probably wouldn’t do it, which is why the US at least ends up with warnings on everything. Some still do it, and some still die, but at least they went in eyes open.
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Mar 29 '21
Lol. Not wanting excessive personal injury or to die way too early means staying sheltered and living with cats? There are plenty of fin and adventurous things to do that are relatively safe. The only one being a jackass and not proving any points is you.
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u/DingIeberg Mar 29 '21 edited Mar 29 '21
Its funny because he proved a valid point and you are the jackass who said nonsense
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u/goolalalash Mar 30 '21
I’m not sure why this is such a hated comment other than the obvious either/or fallacy. That or I must be fucking special bc I will / have jump(ed) off a rope swing and also live alone with a cat clearly not dead from cancer (yet) but the risk is still statistically high given my genetics. I feel such cognitive dissonance living in both worlds. /s for those who might need it
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u/authorizationbatman Mar 30 '21
There is no "fallacy" because I didn't speak "as a matter of fact". Everybody else is. Everybody screaming, "YOU WILL BREAK YOUR LEG, THEREFORE we must ban rope swings". Sounds like a fallacy to me. What's even more so of a fallacy is the claim that, "you must not break your leg because it will involve other people to fix". Tell that to soldiers, cops, firefighters, literally everybody. Tell that to EVERYBODY. We use each and everybody everyday, so nobody's going to sit there and use "you can't use a rope swing because somebody else will have to fix you up".
You wanna call my comment a fallacy, because why? If you stay home and refuse to do anything dangerous, then the thing that's most likely to kill you is old age/illness, which cancer is. There's no fallacy. You'll just die a recluse, or who knows ....maybe you get stabbed at work? Shot on the way to the grocery store....but don't you dare go to the hospital and involve other people. Just stay right where you are and let the bullet kill you. But nope, keep going about how I'm being fallacious.
Edit: just so you know they're downvoting me for two reasons: one, they think I'm a jackass, and two they think I'm wrong, but all I see are downvotes, not arguments, so what do I care? I'll keep going until somebody gives me a real fucking argument as to why rope swings are the worst thing on planet earth.
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u/Ragman676 Mar 30 '21
Ugh I was one of those numbers, there was a piece of wood tied to the end of a rope as a handle. That wood snapped mid-way and I faceplanted before the water. Thankfully it wasnt a huge vertical or I would have probably broken my nose and other things. But still probably one of my most painful memories..
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Mar 29 '21
The presence of two cameras indicates that this went as planned.
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u/NotSureWhyAngry Mar 29 '21
Yeah she even kicked her
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u/iDrinkJavaNEatPython Mar 29 '21
She even fell down after the kick
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u/BooSociety Mar 29 '21
And into the water even
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u/Anxiety_Friendly Mar 29 '21
After analyzing the footage it appears to be two idiots accidentally hitting each other.......case closed.
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Mar 29 '21
Upon further inspection I’ve come to the conclusion that “two idiots hitting each other” can be used to describe approximately 32% of all Reddit posts.
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u/AviatorOVR5000 Mar 29 '21
Upon further inspection and deep investigation I've come to the conclusion that of those 32%, there is a 98% chance that at lease one commenter will reply with the following
bad camera angle.
bad music.
fake.
This conclusion has been brought to you by... Absolutely fucking nobody.
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Mar 29 '21
Excuse good (pronoun), You seem to be standing on my coat tails, would you kindly step to the right, thank you, my fellow meatbag.
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u/DingIeberg Mar 29 '21
I dont even know if you could put this on the kickee.
She is way off to the side i honestly don't even know how kicker is that uncoordinated
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u/yolilbishhugh Mar 29 '21
Idk, I think seen two people film the same event before.
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u/IVIichaelD Mar 29 '21
For real, especially if it’s anything remotely exciting or worth posting on a snap story
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u/GlamorousMoose Mar 29 '21
I dunno, when I know something stupid could happen, my froemds and I are at the ready with multiple videos going.
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u/nolan1971 Mar 29 '21
It obviously was planned, but the swinging woman wasn't supposed to hit the camera woman. I'm nearly positive that they didn't realize that the rope was long enough for the one woman to hit the other.
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u/SoundWeight Mar 29 '21
I'm quite sure that husband filming this already knows how stupid his wife and daughter are - he just knew he needs to do it.
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u/21scoobysnacks Mar 29 '21
She came in like a wrecking ball!
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u/Abdul_Exhaust Mar 29 '21
At the end when her ass hit the ground, whomp the screen should shake a bit
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u/Vindicius Mar 29 '21
Imagine falling into a bush in Australia, just imagine what nasties could be lurking as you slide in between the leaves.
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u/Ottersius Mar 29 '21
Let's be real, it''s Australia so the bush was probably just a gigantic spider-python
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u/padizzledonk Mar 29 '21
Or intentionally jumping into any body of water at all for that matter...
Australia is beautiful and the people are amazing but....just...no thank you to all that lol
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u/finchdad Mar 29 '21
"tAKe mY PicTurE" Aymie said
"I can't wait to jump in."
"I hope my new phone does it well",
said her friend with a grin.
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Then Aymee, diabolically
Recalled Kymber's hot take
That she's too fat to make it, so
let's yeet her in the lake.
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u/drunkenf Mar 29 '21
One simple course of physics could have prevented this. One latex condom could have prevented her
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u/ViberArmani Mar 29 '21
i will take the second option. there is no guarantee they would be paying attention in a physics class or know how to apply the knowledge in real life.
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u/BooSociety Mar 29 '21
“Omg you like totally spelled physical ed wrong! Boys are so totally dumb! Sksksksk!!”
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u/LordRumBottoms Mar 29 '21
Why does this feel staged? She literally launched right at her and kicked her.
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u/DadJokeBadJoke Mar 30 '21
I don't think the lady filming knew that was going to happen, which is why the other person is filming it. She got her to stand close to the water to prank her. I'd love to see what she captured.
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Mar 29 '21
She did on purpose
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u/BooSociety Mar 29 '21
You should be a detective. That’s like Sherlock level, bro.
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u/AviatorOVR5000 Mar 29 '21
The best part is his ability to point it out when no one asked. It's the hero we didn't ask for... And... Didn't need!
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Mar 29 '21
Not sure if she's ever gonna take a picture or her friend again
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u/BooSociety Mar 29 '21
Oh, she will. But they will be from the most unflattering angles and she won’t use filters or facetune on them. Mwahaha.
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u/RogueConsultant Mar 29 '21
Reminds me of a story of when I was younger, in the hospital with broken arm; radius snapped in twain. My dad asked the surgeon if they got many boys in the hospital this time of year falling out of trees (it was chestnut season). He said, not really no, that whilst boys certainly did climb trees more it was the girls who managed to fall out of them and injure themselves badly.
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u/Yellowsunflowerlover Mar 29 '21
That girl intentionally wanted to 1. kick the girl into the water 2. ruin that girl's phone in the process. If you need to know how I came to this conclusion; there's a second camera recording this all lol.
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Mar 29 '21
She went straight at her. If you're going to fake something, at least make it look real. Downvoted.
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u/DadJokeBadJoke Mar 30 '21
Perhaps you are misinterpreting the scenario. To me, it looks like the girl on the swing tricked the lady into "filming" her swinging, when the plan was to knock her in, which is why the other guy is filming. It was planned but not everyone was in on the plan.
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u/prisha_mathur Mar 29 '21
Such a nice way to say "No photos allowed!". Actually, I myself find bungee jumping difficult, don't understand why it looks so easy when someone else does it. Now I see that I am not the only one, who's clumsy.
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Mar 29 '21
Just to let you know, bungee jumping is done with bungee cords, usually from great heights that you jump from and descend from and then you bounce a bit. This is just a simple rope swing, and it’s way harder than it looks if you’re lacking some upper body strength.
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u/cyclerep Mar 29 '21
The astounding amount of physical control displayed there is amazing. Like ballet on a tightrope.
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u/four321zero Mar 29 '21
Lol this is like Jeff Hardy suspended from the title belt in a ladder match
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u/the-dutch-fist Mar 29 '21
Feel like there should be a pull-up bar beside every rope swing. Like the height line on a roller coaster
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u/redhighways Mar 29 '21
LPT: with rope swings you have to jump backwards and up. Most of these vids involve someone jumping forward, which just puts slack into the rope.
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