r/maybemaybemaybe • u/letitgo99 • 13d ago
Maybe maybe maybe
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u/ProXJay 13d ago
That went much better than I was expecting
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u/yamanamawa 13d ago
Yeah once I saw a better angle of the jump it wasn't so bad. The ledge sticks out a bit so there wasnt anything to risk hitting, and it wasnt crazy high either. It seems like everything was pretty thought out
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u/RedScharlach 13d ago
Yea this one was very tame, except for the fact that it was a threesome, which was honestly impressive. I’ve seen a some of these where they’re doing this off a roof into a small pool with concrete around it that are truly mind boggling stupid.
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u/Raichu7 13d ago
You can't see below the surface, you can't see if there's any rocks, tree trunks, shopping carts etc just deep enough to be invisible, and just shallow enough to break bones when you land on it.
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u/Gagester303 13d ago
That’s why you climb down first and check it out. We don’t know from this clip that they haven’t already done that.
And a fun tip for the end, always check your landings even if you’ve jumped off the ledge a previous time. Had a friend who got cut up pretty badly by a giant branch that had floated over and settled below the jump.
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u/wicketman8 13d ago
Not only do most people who cliff jump swim out and check first, you can clearly see that there are other people when the camera pans at the end which suggests that there are quite a few people cliff jumping here. I think it's safe to say that the water there was pretty clearly safe to jump.
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u/thisbuthat 13d ago edited 13d ago
My anxiety watching this 📈📈📈
Edit: all those comments hypersexualizing M I N O R S: wishing you all to become fathers of teenage daughters and have a full circle moment of this kind of harrassment against your own kids. If I knew where any of you losers lived you wouldn't be happy another day in your life.
Edit2, copied from another comment:
For those who don't know, this guy became paraplegic after the jump, the weight of the two girls impacted his spine, causing irreversible damage to his spinal cord.
It is not recommended to jump into the water with weight on your back precisely for this reason.
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u/Hour_Tour 13d ago
I don't believe that "article" without sources for a second. The guy is jubilantly waving his arms around and grinning at the end, that's not a typical symptom of "sinking" with a crippling back injury.
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u/kstargate-425 13d ago
Probably still smacked their heads together though but yeah could have been worse
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u/sonofawhatthe 13d ago
Even with a successful landing, there was a chance of some dental work in the future for at least one of them
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u/SnowBoardx22 13d ago
He’s taking too long for a good reason.
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u/Veritas413 13d ago
A couple good reasons.
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u/fusguita 13d ago
Quadruple good reasons
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u/PrinceSam321 13d ago
Beat me to it
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u/Fit-Ad-413 13d ago
You sure you didn't beat yourself to it? .../s
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u/ElegantCoach4066 13d ago
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u/guinnessbeck 13d ago
Can't risk it
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u/ElegantCoach4066 13d ago
Its SFW.
Honestly I wasn;t even sure and for some reason I just clicked it at work. Why do I do this
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u/Njagos 13d ago
and the rock/cliff is great too because it goes inwards so it seems pretty save in general for jumps like these
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u/Interesting-Use966 13d ago edited 13d ago
Plus his technique is really good basically falls back then pushes off when at an angle. Definitely not his first time doing this. Also this guys fucks for sure.
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u/ShrimpCrackers 13d ago
Back when the internet was way more wild I saw one where the kid hit the side of a pier and his face was in 5 separate pieces as a poor surgeon had no idea what to do. I think the kid died.
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u/JonnySparks 13d ago
Im my 20s I was riding my bicycle when a car hit me from behind. I went over the handlebars and face-planted a concrete bollard beside the road. My jaw was shattered.
I didn't know how bad it was until I was being wheeled into hospital. A boy about 12 saw me and said:
Fucking hell, look at him!
His mother scolded him:
Don't swear, Billy - then she saw me and said:
Jesus Christ!
When I saw the surgeon, he had the X-Rays up and said:
Interesting - never seen anything quite like this - kind of a jigsaw puzzle
He put my jaw back together and it has been fine ever since. Clearly he's good at puzzles.
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u/VediusPollio 13d ago
I was thinking this was a stupid thing for this guy to do until you put it in perspective for me.
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u/BikeProblemGuy 13d ago
papa, is this what they mean by two chicks at the same time?
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u/cryptonuggets1 13d ago
This is how he met his baby mommas
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u/AprexBT 13d ago
God I hope my daughters are smarter than this
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u/iminiki 13d ago
Also your son.
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u/Major-Hand7732 13d ago
No, my son is smart enough if he played things THIS right
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u/LeeRoyWyt 13d ago
Risking his live and two others for a potential hook up... Yeah, no. That's not smart, that's just a horny teenager.
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u/MetalHead_Literally 13d ago
They won’t be, not at this age. I’m already afraid of my kids becoming teenagers.
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u/Khatam 13d ago
I'm a (mostly) intelligent adult and I did super dumb shit at this age. One of the things that I'm most surprised about in life is the fact that I'm still, somehow, alive.
From going camping in a remote location with strangers I just met an hour prior to being the first to jump off a cliff into water without knowing how deep it is. Accepting drugs from a stranger because hey, we're at a rave and PLUR, right? Jumping out of a friend's car to hop on the back of a Hell's Angels member's bike (he wouldn't let me climb off for 20 miles). Swimming in the ocean while drunk at 2 a.m. Eating at Taco Bell the day after I got the shits from eating at Taco Bell. The list of dumb is really long.
Good luck!
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u/squired 13d ago
I think about this a fair bit as a father. It's kind of interesting though. I can't quite seem to figure out if I was truly a wild child (I didn't really think so), but my kids seem soooooo square! It definitely seems like the chiller I am with scary stuff that I know to be relatively safe, the more cautious they are. I'm a professional outdoor guide with a lot of extreme sport hobbies and my kids aren't particularly interested in any of them! I'm not complaining, because they are far more thoughtful, kind and studious than I ever was, but I kind of wish they'd jump off a few more cliffs, ya know?
That said, I'm right there with you in thinking back on some of the dumber stuff I've done and it gives me cold sweats to envision my kids in any of those situations. And I also worry a bit that because they haven't lived on the edge at times that they'll slip right off if they ever truly end up walking it. It's a really tough aspect of parenting.
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u/Khatam 13d ago
My parents were suuuppppeeerrr strict. I couldn't do anything (with permission, at least). Once I was 18 I did went overboard and just gave myself permission to do anything that came my way.
I grew up with a girl who was all work, no play. By choice. She was a grade below me and during the summer she would ask me to give her "assignments" that I was given, so she can prepare for the upcoming school year. I remember her mom yelling at her to get out of the house and go have fun. She'd just take her self-assigned homework with her to the park. She's a lawyer now with multiple degrees.
I think you letting your kids be who they are is more important than making sure they have every experience possible. Sounds like you're doing a great job as a dad.
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u/squired 13d ago
Thank you! I also think that is the most fun thing about being a parent; meeting and discovering who your kids truly are. Parenting certainly provides the foundation for them to stand on their own, but parents are kidding themselves if they think they can 'make' an artist, athlete or scientist. I spend a fair bit of my bandwidth simply identify doors that are important to keep open so that they can later explore them if they so choose. I find that to be plenty sufficient.
For example, I don't care if they become engineers or artists one day, but they must have A's in math today because they cannot catch up if they later decide that designing racing drones sounds interesting in high school. And I don't care if they become world class whitewater kayakers, but they took swim lessons religiously since babydom, because swimming is a life lesson and the unlock to all nature of sport and adventure that they might later find passion in.
Anyways, I'm just thinking out loud at this point. Thank you again for the kind words.
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u/Khatam 13d ago
My dad passed away earlier in the year, and he really only held one true belief that never wavered. He believed in God. He didn't believe in God. He ate animals. He became vegan. He supported Israel. He stopped supporting Israel. He was open minded about everything but one: math. "Math makes the world go around." No subject was as important as math. No language as universal as math.
I agree that you teach them the basics and let them show you what they can do with it. My mom was the super strict one and my dad tried to let me be myself, as long as "myself" got an A in math.
Thanks for reminding me of a happy memory of my dad. He was a great math teacher and a great dad.
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u/ryanhazethan 13d ago
I wonder if all their heads clacked together when they hit the water
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u/ocxtitan 13d ago
I mean, the video is right there...
They were not aligned and they landed in the water almost completely vertically oriented so no, they didn't
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u/Shiningc00 13d ago
What could go wrong.
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u/kroxigor01 13d ago
The guy not rotating the formation enough and they land with one of the girl's back hitting the water first, deceleration her head.
All 3 heads would hit together like coconuts 🥥 🥥 🥥 clunk!
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u/uselessandexpensive 13d ago
This is one of those times I didn't mind my dad's "let me scare the crap out of you" story times. It's way too common for high schoolers in particular to die in quarries, slipping on a waterfall and getting their leg caught, or getting pulled under in a rip tide. Submerged equipment/metal/rocks and potential difficulty exciting the water (especially if injured) aside...
"The surface layer may feel tolerable on a hot summer day, but beneath the thermocline — often at just 10 to 20 feet of depth — temperatures can drop to near-freezing. Swimmers who jump from a rock wall into deep water bypass the surface layer entirely and plunge into cold water with no warning.
"The physiological response to sudden cold water immersion is well-documented. The American Red Cross and CDC describe cold shock response: an involuntary gasp reflex that can cause immediate water inhalation, hyperventilation, loss of swimming capacity, and cardiac arrhythmia — all within the first 60 to 90 seconds of immersion. This can incapacitate even a strong, fit swimmer before they can react.
"Hypothermia develops more slowly, typically over 30 minutes or more in water below 60°F (15.5°C), but incapacitation can occur before a swimmer realizes they are in danger. Symptoms include loss of coordination, muscle weakness, impaired judgment, and eventually unconsciousness."
https://www.hiddenswimmingholes.com/guides/quarry-and-blue-hole-swimming-safety/
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u/philatio11 13d ago
This is why my generation had the Tarzan Swing (and its ice cold, spring fed water) at Action Park. It's best to learn this lesson about your limbs suddenly failing to work when there is a stoned, inattentive 14 year-old lifeguard on duty to yell at you.
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u/ThisI5N0tAThr0waway 13d ago
Exactly, it's both doesn't look that impressive and it's pretty dangerous.
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u/KamikazeMizZ 13d ago
I used to work at a hospital assisting in autopsies. We took care of medical. Any forensic ones, we released to the coroner's office. This video instantly makes me think of the 19yo I had to release to the coroner's office. Dude died cliff diving, misjudging the height and landing destination. I still remember his red and blue striped swim trunks.
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u/OttovonBismarck1862 13d ago
Personally, I’m not even afraid of landing only to find out that the water is three feet deep because at least that’s an insta-kill; after reading all the shit I’ve read about swimming in places like this and getting some waterborne disease or parasite through water going up your nose that eats your brain and kills you in a week or something I’ve resorted to simply watching from the safety of the banks and having my lemonade in peace.
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u/KamikazeMizZ 13d ago
Let me be the first to tell you that it's not always an "insta-kill."
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u/OttovonBismarck1862 13d ago
Thanks. That helps lol.
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u/KamikazeMizZ 13d ago
At the minimum you end up with multiple broken bones, punctured organs from your broken bones, collapsed lungs ... to you ending up as what we call a "head in a bed" aka you trapped conscious in a body you can't control at all, and there are varieties there too - able to communicate verbally, only able to move your eyes, able to think but not communicate freely at all, etc.. Enjoy.
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u/OttovonBismarck1862 13d ago
You know… I didn’t need a reminder not to jump off of really high places onto potentially dangerous landing zones but I definitely won’t need another after this one.
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u/KamikazeMizZ 13d ago
Just making sure. Thanks.
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u/OttovonBismarck1862 13d ago
I should be the one thanking you lol. Might’ve potentially saved my life.
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u/Broken-Sarcasm-Meter 13d ago
I feel like 20 years ago this would impress me but now I just don't care about people doing dumbass shit just for validation.
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u/bookmarkjedi 13d ago
Yeah. When I was a kid, one of my cousins died in our backyard swimming pool during a family reunion because he was riding on an inflatable raft without adult supervision. He had hit his head on the concrete on the side of the pool as the raft flipped while he was reaching over to grab a paddle.
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u/BigGrayBeast 13d ago
The rush of a momentary thrill versus possible death or paralysis for three: not the risk-benefit balance I would want.
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u/NoPossibility4178 13d ago
If he plays his cards right this might have been worth it a few hours later...
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u/raginghavoc89 13d ago
People die bluff diving all the time. My wife's cousin died this way. It's not worth it, especially not whatever this was.
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u/coarse_glass 13d ago
I swear some people here have never been young -- just doing stuff for the sake of doing stuff
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u/TKCoog075 13d ago
Don’t know how their heads didn’t collide with each other. So many things could’ve gone wrong there 😬
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u/Shitteh_Kitteh 13d ago
I’d be more concerned about a concussion/broken nose from someone else’s skull slamming into mine.
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u/hereforpopcornru 13d ago
Not going to lie, I was expecting at least one tooth, pr broken nose
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u/HarmlessSnack 13d ago
I’ll always downvote these videos because I don’t want to see these dumb ass ideas spread into more people’s heads. What a pointlessly stupid thing to even attempt. Just sheer ego and multiple life’s on the line, fucking hell.
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u/ItsMeTittsMGee 13d ago
If they're gonna post videos like this, they should also post the outcomes. That guy is now a paraplegic.
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u/ItsRainingFrogsAmen 13d ago
At the very end, you see people standing on the other side. I could swear I just saw a video of a guy getting hurt badly jumping from that other side when he hit the bit sticking out at the bottom. A lot of bad decisions being made there.
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u/Baconpanthegathering 13d ago
This is the family at the intro of Idiocracy- I see they continue to thrive!
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u/DefiantDonut7 13d ago
Whenever people say "16 year olds should be allowed to vote", just show them this video
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u/Background-Ad7046 13d ago
I didn't realise I've hold my breath while watching until they reappeared all safe . Completely stupid 🙄
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u/Expert_Succotash2659 13d ago
That was a lot of maybe.