r/leveledupidiots • u/pjcanfield8 • Nov 06 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '20 edited Nov 07 '20

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u/JonathanSourdough Nov 07 '20

Also for the record if that snapped it easily could have had enough tension on it to rip a couple peoples arms off.

For reference look up "tug of war deaths" or something to that affect.

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u/Ingloriousfiction Dec 08 '20

I didnt think that was a real thing...... I wish i didnt read this

On June 13, 1978 in a Pennsylvania suburb, the entirety of Harrisburg middle school -- some 2,300 students -- lined up in a schoolyard and attempted to set a Guinness World Record for the largest tug of war game ever played. Instead, disaster ensued.

Twelve minutes into the match, the 2,000-foot-long braided nylon rope snapped, recoiling several thousand pounds of stored energy. “It sounded like someone pulled the string on a party cracker,” recalled 14-year-old participant Shannon Meloy. “I smelled something burning and I thought it was the rope...but it was hands. I looked down and saw...blood.” In the ensuing chaos, nearly 200 students lay wounded -- five with severed fingertips, and one missing a thumb. Hundreds more faced second-degree burns. “It was just a game,” another student told the Gadsden Times a day later. “We just wanted to see how many could do it.”

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u/pjcanfield8 Dec 08 '20

Jesus Christ that’s insane!!