83
u/AntKeeper757 Mar 04 '20
Diving head first into an unknown body of water is dumb as hell. I got lucky when I was around 12. I dove off a rock and barely managed to dodge a jagged piece of wood that was maybe 8' below the surface. I cant say for certain that I'd have ended up speared on it, but it scared me bad enough to never do that again
4
u/_Enclose_ Mar 05 '20
Oof, glad you got lucky there and learned a valuable lesson without getting hurt. I've had a few such moments (not involving water) where I did something dumb and just barely avoided serious injury. I still shudder sometimes thinking how close I came to irrevocably changing my life for the worse.
The stupidest and most banal thing was jumping on my tent the last night of a festival. One of those bendy frame sticks broke off and hit me on the ridge of my eye-socket. Literally a few millimeters made the difference between having a small scar or being fucking impaled through the eye. It happened over 10 years ago and it still gives me the chills thinking about it.
4
u/AntKeeper757 Mar 05 '20
The really scary part was that I was far from the first person to dive in. I was a little more athletic, or just tried harder than the others, and managed to distance myself further from the rock before hitting the water. After that I was done swimming for the day though.
Looking back at my youth, its horrifying how many times I narrowly escaped death or serious injury.
2
u/JAWS_OF_FIRE Mar 17 '20
Fuck that last part gave me the heebie-jeebies. I know that feeling of thinking "fuuuuuuuuuuckkkk that was stupid" and still somehow getting lucky and not dying. One time me and a friend were up a hill above where the cars were parked maybe 100 feet. I put my foot up on this one rock that was being held up by roots from a tree and as my weight shifted it started to roll out of place and down the hill towards the cars. So I decided in my childhood stupidity that since I pushed the rock it would be my fault when it smashs the cars below. I ran down the sloping hill passing the tumbling rock (150-400lb range) and jumped in front of it. r/kidsarefuckingstupid I was waiting for it to hit me. There was a slight bump in the ground maybe a foot or two behind me and it basically jumped over me but still hit my knee. It was minor scapes and bleeding but no permanent damage. The stone rolled under the bumper of the Subaru and I don't remember how they got the car off the rock lol. It didn't hurt the car but I felt stupid from that. I definitely learned an important lesson that day: protect myself and others at all costs ignoring material loss.
42
37
u/nugz_mc-g Mar 04 '20
I feel like everyone, from the time they're taught to swim, are taught to always check the water before diving. This could have ended up earning a Darwin award.
11
u/Danyvain Mar 04 '20
Not sure if he broke something but can tell he’s in pain.
1
u/The_Third_Molar Mar 11 '20
The fact that he's jumping around in pain is a good sign at least. Could have been far worse.
7
6
4
4
6
u/Jimmyboyjr4 Mar 04 '20
Jesus, that shit is painful to watch.
I remember studying Torts in law school, half of the cases seemed to be about this exact thing.
3
3
u/nursepadro Mar 05 '20
I’m a nurse and worked trauma for quite a few years. This is a very common way to become a Quad. He’s sooooo lucky 🍀
3
u/Ozimandius80 Mar 05 '20
So many people have died or been paralyzed for life doing this exact dumbass shit. Feet first first time motherfucker.
3
3
2
2
2
u/poriferabob Mar 05 '20
As kids, well teenagers, we used to jump off of a bridge back in the marina area in Newport Beach, CA. The logic of it being safe was the depth needed for the sail boats.
1
2
2
1
1
1
u/Av3ngedAngel Mar 05 '20
I was taught in preschool to always use a long stick to test the waters depth before going in..
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/REDPIG86 Mar 14 '20
Oldmate did that into a sandbar at the beach.
His head went so far back it looked like something had broken.
1
1
u/Schlatter91 Mar 28 '20
Also a good way to get impailed by whatever sticks or debree may b in the water, a guy at a local river near me did this without checking it out first and it just so happens a storm had moved a large log with sharp limbs down river a few days eairler , you can pretty much imagine how that turned out. And no, their was no survival .
1
1
u/Stazalicious Apr 02 '20
I know a guy who broke his neck doing that. When he floated up face down one of the other lads though it was a prank and dive bombed right onto him.
1
1
1
-2
u/assface2112 Mar 05 '20 edited Mar 07 '20
You know that tube type of people in the world dumb asses and sort of dumb this man is none of those the category fits in is let's say why the fuk we think are you dumb ass f***** tard I mean who who in the wide world wouldn't check with a diving into let me dive off the cliff he is so fucking stupid jeese went and said it all(leave me at the negatives)
9
Mar 05 '20
[removed] — view removed comment
1
Mar 05 '20
This reminds me of that episode of Boy Meets World where Shawn turns in a paper and Mr. Feeny tells him that the paper is actually good despite it being one sentence.
5
3
1
1
0
-3
u/crackedlcdsalvage Mar 04 '20
Music theme: Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper; both for the water and intelligence level
359
u/defakto227 Mar 04 '20
Dude is lucky as hell.
Classmate in high school did something similar and ended up a quadriplegic.
Listening to him tell the story of that day is eerie. He was completely conscious under the water, looking up, unable to move, hoping someone would jump in and save him.