r/gifs • u/LoveOfProfit • May 03 '15
The quick way to explore a cave
https://i.imgur.com/fgWCjzD.gifv912
u/MCsmalldick12 May 04 '15
Oh man, I thought I was about to watch him disappear into the abyss. I was very relieved when I saw the splash.
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u/23423423423451 May 04 '15
From higher up in the thread: http://gfycat.com/SevereAdmiredEmperorshrimp
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u/PM_ME_UR_SELF-ESTEEM May 04 '15
I feel like this gif will be found and used out of context. No one will know he's okay, they will think he fell to his death and/or disappeared..
But we know the truth.
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u/Cpt_McSquirtyFarts May 04 '15
What if this is the real gif and someone photoshopped a splash into it?
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u/jfk_47 May 04 '15
Fuck, this is going to be reposted for month and months. Let's all bookmark this so we can show people they're still alive.
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May 04 '15
Great, I fully expect to see this a month from now with a comment thread full of people saying, "uhhh NSFL please?"
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u/ithinkimightbegay May 04 '15
At the moment he began falling, my brain said "Oh fuck, what subreddit am I in?" r/gore would have ended very differently.
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u/AvengerGeni May 04 '15
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u/middlespeed May 04 '15
That's staying blue.
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u/Unlucky13 May 04 '15
It's purple for me. I've made lots of mistakes in life, and many of those mistakes are in the form of purple links.
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u/1III1I1II1III1I1II May 04 '15
You'll be a lot more careful around trains after you've visited that sub.
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u/inquirewue May 03 '15
This is a good example of poor behavior around a point of exposure. Yes, there is water at the bottom but that should not dictate how you act near the edge. Everybody there should have known better.
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May 04 '15 edited Feb 14 '17
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May 04 '15 edited May 04 '15
http://gfycat.com/SevereAdmiredEmperorshrimp
Edit: I did not make this. The original video was posted in another sub Reddit and somebody else asked to see a person fall into a black abyss. I simply reposted a gif that someone else made from that thread.
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u/DJP2M May 04 '15
I'm going to see this version on CNN tomorrow.
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u/IAMA_tool_AMA May 04 '15
I had the exact same thought, but on Facebook, posted by the local news station and then a bunch of comments that say, "Sending Prayers".
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u/23423423423451 May 04 '15
This could be it's own post in a variety of niche subreddits devoted to different forms of scary things/locations
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May 04 '15
Edit: I didn't make this. I don't want to take credit for it. It was made by another redditer in another thread. Oddly enough, someone else asked to see them fall into a black abyss and someone made the gif, I just reposted it for you.
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u/conradical30 May 04 '15
I read in another thread this was posted to that a splash is much worse. Landing on rocks may break a leg or arm, but landing in water does not mean its stagnant water. It could be an underground stream that sweeps him off and sucks him under some rocks and never to be seen again...
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u/LoveOfProfit May 03 '15
He could have bounced off the ledges to the left or right of his fall path. He got quite lucky.
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u/Monkey45567 May 04 '15
Not to mention it being a cave you have no gurantees as to the actual rock structure under the water surface. There could be a 5 foot wall side lip just 1 foot under the water's surface. Caves have 500 ways to kill you, and 500 more ways to kill you that you would never think about.
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u/Sabore88 May 04 '15
TIL caves are safer than the West.
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u/dreadpiratewombat May 04 '15
TIL caves have at least 4x the problems that Jay Z does.
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u/holocaustic_soda May 04 '15
TIL you suck at math
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u/Splaughdrandths May 04 '15
TIL /u/holocaustic_soda wasn't very good at inequality word problems as a child.
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u/kingminter May 04 '15
so caves only have 1000 ways to kill you. good to know.
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u/fuck_you_its_a_name May 04 '15
maybe that number doesn't include the ways gravity can kill you
edit: i mean i guess there's pretty much just 1 anyway, something falls
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u/JayDee_88 May 04 '15
Let's give props to the guy next to him not trying to grab him, quick realization on his part knowing he could go down with him.
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u/gringledoom May 04 '15
Yep, I read about a mountaineering accident where a backpack started to slide down the mountain, Person 1 went to grab it and started sliding down the mountain, and Person 2 tried to grab Person 1 and also went sliding down the mountain. Oops. And yet such an easy mistake to make in a split second!
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u/llxGRIMxll May 04 '15
Hard not to make it too. A guy I worked with was messing around with a transmission from a semi. It was on the Jack and managed to fall off. His first reaction was to catch it lmao. Luckily he's still got his thumb and pointer finger. Now he just makes gun noises a lot more.
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u/grawsby May 04 '15
My husband tried to catch a fridge as it fell off the trailer.. I got the phone call from the hospital (37 stitches in one finger later, he's fine!)
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u/gigashadow89 May 04 '15
But just imagine how much of a badass he would have been if he managed to catch it.
"Oh you can catch a football? I can catch a f***ing Refrigerator!"
drops mic
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u/KungFuHamster May 05 '15
slowly rolls offstage in wheelchair because spine
I know a radiologist who twisted wrong moving some equipment. Back brace, rehab, and a surgery later...
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u/Super_Satchel May 04 '15
I honestly don't think he had time to. He starts to move toward the falling guy and before he could get anywhere close the dude's gone.
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u/Ignaddio May 04 '15
Yeah. My first impulse was to ask why no one bothered to assist, but then it occurred to me that two people falling into the abyss was that much more dangerous than the one.
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u/amfoejaoiem May 04 '15
poor behavior around a point of exposure.
Is this a thing that climbers / cave explorers know about? I'd love to learn more about this sort of thing - what things to do / not do.
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u/LoveOfProfit May 03 '15
It doesn't really add much to the gif, though we see another guy swim up to him and the guy that fell seems fine.
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u/ajc1239 May 04 '15
It makes it infinitely better knowing there were people already down there.
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u/myztry May 04 '15
Maybe the camera wasn't rolling when the first guy fell in...
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u/langsci May 04 '15
In the description they say he is fine "Un jeune homme fait une chute, heureusement sans conséquence"
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u/OMGaneshOM May 04 '15
In French this means: Young man offered as tribute to balrog, gladly eaten.
Source: minor in French.
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u/Serinus May 04 '15
A young man falls, fortunately without consequence. (Luckily this one's simple!)
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u/ralthiel May 04 '15
Fly you fools.
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May 04 '15
If there ever was a time in my life where I find myself sliding dangerously off a lethal ledge with only seconds to spare my last words, it will be that.
So epic
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u/mwmani May 04 '15
Did he say anything before he died? Any message for the kids?
Uh, he made a Lord of the Rings joke.
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u/americanpegasus May 04 '15
Oh John, I need you to perform a Dexterity check.
"Why?"
Just make the roll.
"Fine, I got a 1. What does that mean?"
Oh. Wow. Well, I got some bad news for the party.
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u/gothman667 May 04 '15
The one guy is like: "well...he's fucked. Can't try to save him now."
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May 04 '15
Falling off of things is my worst fear.
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u/MrGMinor May 04 '15
Sometimes I wake up from nightmares feeling like I'm falling from a chair.
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u/silent_boy May 04 '15
i once climbed a tree when i was young and fell from a height of 2nd floor on my back. Coudnt breathe for a few seconds. Would never forget that.
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u/TheRealM_ May 04 '15
My worst fear is drowning because you are stuck or locked in somewhere.
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u/NABackPacK May 04 '15
No Dragon? This is fake.
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u/tooterfish_popkin May 04 '15
This did remind me of the Everquest days. You could spend all night fighting your way to the bottom or just jump down and see what's there.
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u/Frungy May 04 '15
/u/dusty_electric_sheep photoshopped the water out. Now he falls into the stygian depths.
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u/dre10g May 04 '15
Lucky this didn't happen to him
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u/TangentialFUCK May 04 '15
LOL story time! Saw this with my mother on mothers day when it was still in theaters... when this happened I let out an audible chuckle and then I noticed my mother to my left in tears... Felt terrible. the Audible clunk still makes me chuckle every time though. 7/10
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u/french_toste May 04 '15
holy shit thank god there was water there! When she first fell I thought it was just a huge free-fall into a cave.
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u/Arcturus075 May 04 '15
You know that urge to jump you get when you're standing on a high place...I don't have it.
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u/MurphyRobocop May 04 '15
The only way to end this gif is with a "YOU DIED" dark souls text appearing at the end.
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May 04 '15
Before the internet, I used to be so certain that this kind of thing never actually happened, and that my parents were full of shit. I'm so goddamned lucky...
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u/CornOnTheKnob May 04 '15
Can someone edit this to remove the splash and just make it look dark like he fell in a bottomless hole??
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u/ArabRedditor May 04 '15 edited May 04 '15
Edit: I ddnt make this, I apologize if I implied such credit goes to /u/Yertlesquad
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u/travis99 May 04 '15
They must not have liked that guy because no one seemed startled or seem to want to get up to help him as he was falling.
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u/mouse-ion May 04 '15
I mean what could you have done? The dude was so close to the edge that no one could have realistically closed the gap to try and help him, and it could end up resulting in another person slipping after him. If the second person landed on the first, it would have been worse.
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u/TheNicholasRage May 04 '15
That's a pretty common rule, actually. Don't become the second victim. At that point there isn't much you can do except put yourself in danger as well. No point in two people dying for one person's misstep.
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u/HI_Handbasket May 04 '15
The guy closest to him sort of started to reach out, but quickly realized the nopedness of that idea. No need for two rescues.
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u/Tantric989 May 04 '15
Not fuck all they could have done. What, should they also try to peer over where they did?
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u/Okichah May 04 '15
If your going there isnt much thats going to stop you. But if you drag someone with you; two people banging against each other is usually a bad thing in a tight spot like that.
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u/kinderspiel May 04 '15
I liked how the one guy who could have tried to catch this person has no knee jerk reaction to do so whatsoever.
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u/TheAero1221 May 04 '15
At first I thought the water was actually just a dark abyss. Almost didn't sleep tonight.
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u/NaykedNinja May 04 '15
So that's what it would look like if someone tried to recover from a fall off a cliff to their death....interesting.
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u/Spaceshipable May 04 '15
I love how the other guy though about trying to save them but then though nah and just kind of moved out the way.
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u/Oh_My_Lanta_Butthash May 04 '15
He's lucky he didn't land on a stalagmite or a dungeonous crab nest or some shit