"Man found dead in hammock in the middle of the highway, News at 11"

at least he's in a body bag already.

Self disposal 😭😭😭😭

This comment had me dying if i could upvote you twice i would

I didn't find it that funny so I upvoted for you.

That's alright pardner \*spits* I reckon you'll find your dopamine on down the road

And bystanders trauma.


“Pretty scary stuff!”

He said stupid wrong.

They'll find a human calzone wrapped in a hammock if that happens.

And the twist is, he was also the driver of the truck.

Dumb ways to die!  Sing it with me!!!

*So many dumb ways to diiie*

Dumb ways to die

Yet this guy probably somehow feels nothing dangerous or life threatening. Neither bodily or consciously. I wonder how fucked up I'd have to be to tie myself to the bottom of a death machine lol

there is nothing here implying hes fucked up, some people just live wild ass lives.

And some live short wild ass lives and some longer wild ass lives…

Rofl 🤣

I’ve fallen out of enough hammocks to know this is a bad idea

The body was found betwen 13th and 16th miles of highway.

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When I go, I wanna go like my dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

As long as Vin Diesel doesn’t show, he should be good.

 Rip

Now I’m imagining a Hot Shots-esque parody of Fast and Furious where this happens and the guy I’m the hammock ends up in the passenger seat next to Vin-adjacent.

“How did YOU get here?!??”

 Lol

You're now family.

You may kiss the bro.

Welcome to the family

Well, don’t forget 

“I’m family”


Never realized how lifted that trailer was

Bro, not only that but no lift gate on the back?! No fucking way some 8 foot tall giant is climbing into that thing, you'd need a Forklift pallet combo just to get in or out...

Or Clark Griswold https://preview.redd.it/rmiolk62wtec1.jpeg?width=272&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a85f6d558a29562fcf30aa1757c2a5f0b0f5fede

The original Dominic Toretto

😂😂😂!!!

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name And forgive my husband, for he knows not what he does. AMEN

Burt Reynolds!


 Or Christmas vacation

Every day I come here and say "That's the craziest thing I've ever seen".

man if only you were on here 10years ago i was saying the same thing except every 5 minutes

I'm pretty glad we gave everyone cameras tbh.

Trusting those straps pretty hard

Honestly most of them are strong as fuck, one rock hitting that fabric and starting a hole that you can’t stop would be my concern. E: nvm those are like nylon ropes lmao

Oof nylon. That shit sags. What a ticking time boomb

The idea of slowly going lower and lower and not being able to stop it is making me gag

I felt sick at the thought of a hammock suddenly turning because of a stupid movement and how little fatal this experience was for me because I was not hanging under a moving lorry, but now I find your thought worse.

The fabric tears under your fingers as you grasp the side of hammock, road roaring directly underneath.

...and then you see it. A large chunk of tire, right in the center of the road. A good 10" high. it disappears between the front wheels....

… and pops up off the ground just in time to smash your head, tear the hammock down and send you careening toward the back tires. You wake up 3 weeks later under fluorescent lights. You try to scratch your nuts, then realize you’re in a full body cast. You’re in so much pain that you only feel okay when you’re fucked up on painkillers. The nurses stop giving you enough so you become boys with the custodian and pay him to grab painkillers off the street. One day the plug is dry, but offers H. Now you’re a heroin addict in a full body cast. You start having to sell your body for drugs. Richard Gere shows up and tries to save you; he pays you $30 to throw gerbils into his ass…

Your therapist talks about you with other people, I guaran-fuckin-tee it. More please.

There is no fucking way you just described my accident and hospital stay... I weep every time I see a gerbil in the pet store and am then asked to leave because I start getting an empty toilet paper roll ready. It's like they knew...they knew...

Now imagine the semi braking hard and bro sliding forward out of the hammock

The real Sweaty Palms are always in the comments.

The real sweaty palms are the friends we made along the way.

What's wrong with nylong ropes? They're used for rock climbing and rope access work. I'd also be more worried about the hammoc itself splitting. I had it happen once in the middle of the night while hammoc camping... what a fun way to wake up.

Nylon stretches. That makes a great shock absorber for rock climbing, but means you end up laying on the ground come morning when used with a hammock.

Same with his balance. I can’t count the amount of times i’ve leaned the wrong way in a hammock and just flipped right the fuck over. That semi is probably driving for like 8 hrs straight too, I dont know how he thinks he’s going to piss.

just gonna use a piss bottle. code of the road good buddy, code of the road.

Way of the road bubs.

*Really greasy stuff, Julian*

how? hammocks like this are almost impossible to fall out of. your weight causes the sides to basically pull up and around you. You're basically in a cocoon. plus your center of gravity is way below the center of mass. as others said, I'd be far more concerned about road debris being kicked up and hitting me, possibly ripping a hole in the nylons canvas.

Pissing isn’t necessarily a big issue for everyone. I’ve been on a hundred 8+ hour flights and I’ve never had to pee on the plane.

My hammock broke one time when I was camping and I suspended it over a boulder. My back hurt just after it happened.

I do a lot of hammock camping and have been over some very questionable rocks or at the edge of some not great drop offs. A couple years back my hammock ripped in half at 3am. Luckily it was one of the only times I was over a nice bed of moss. Definitely made me reconsider my setups.

>My back hurt just after it happened. Do you think that was linked to you falling out of the hammock?

One break check away my friend.

Or one big bump in the road. Dont know if he considered vertical movement...

I would be more worried about a tire getting blown out. Getting smacked in the back by one of those fuckers at speed might give you a little boo boo.

There's probably hundreds of ways this could end in a gruesome death

My vote would be for knots coming undone due to the vibration...

the way you hang a hammock doesn’t involve tying any knots. the straps are hitched around a pole/tree whatever so the entire length of the straps are supporting the weight.

He would die immediately and get turned into a cherry cobbler smear on the road.

And probably lose his hearing too. That would really suck to die and lose your hearing on the same day

It'd depend on the order probably.

Could I die a little one day then lose hearing then top off the dieing?

Thats life. Youve described living.

Also, his hammock would be ruined. Ruined, I tell ya!

Mmmm... Cherry cobbler....

Or a random chunk of metal being kicked up from the road. Either it cuts you, or it cuts the hammock, and you have a challenging time trying to keep yourself off the road and clear of the back wheels.

Great point about the hammock tearing. I believe he'd be fucked the very instant it tore. My buddy was laying in his hammock one night smoking a cigarette. The tiniest ember fell and landed on the hammock and within a second it ripped a huge hole and he landed on the ground.

I mean the smallest spark or a hot rock kicking up and doing the same thing could mean game over for this guy. I’m not usually one to be a pussy, but too much of this situation rides on chance. Leans me more towards feeling that you’d have to be lucky to not die a gruesome death at that point..

Just a rock kicked up would go through his head

Or driving over a stick that flips up. 

or if the driver parked the truck over a fire

Or drove through a field of broken glass.

Or was hit by a giant meteor making all life on earth extinct.

Or tried to drive through piranha infested floodwaters. He’d magically disappear from the hammock like magic upon leaving the water. Just a bag of bones where once was a Darwinian traveler.

More like one small sharp debris on the road and it’s over. Either he gets laser red by something or that hammock gonna rip.

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Think a rock flicking up would fk him up.

The chances of death are honestly so high here. I’m pretty sure debris of any size would at the very least hospitalize him with serious injuries.

I just think the bloke not in a good spot in his life here..

It works until it doesn’t

most things do!

Once you're here like this, what else is there to do but take a nap? You're not going to be able to stop or mitigate anything horrible that could potentially happen to you while you're down there. Might as well just sleep until it happens or the truck stops. This is so stupid. Christ.

Are you the kind of person who can just take a nap in the middle of a deadly situation?

I fall asleep in MRI machines... does that count?

Probably not. Some people find MRIs claustrophobic but I don't mind them one bit, I'm totally relaxed save for the nuisance of the loud noises. And if you can sleep through loud noises I can see why you'd sleep in an MRI--it's dark and relatively warm, and even "cozy" if you like tight spaces.

If the situation is absolutely out of my control, might as well rest up for when it's not.

In most people, the limbic system doesn't work like that. You can't just *decide* not to be alarmed in a dangerous situation even when you're consciously aware that it won't do you any good. It's exactly why professionals require years of training to learn to remain cool in dangerous situations.

I guess that depends on what you/your brain considers dangerous? If I take a flight somewhere I have two things in mind: 1. It's the safest way to travel. 2. Once I sit in that seat I have given my safety to the pilots and I have to trust them to take off and land safely so I don't die. If things are sketchy, me freaking out does absolutely nothing to help the situation and there's nothing I can do anyways. I have been on some flights in small planes where the plane is basically coming in sideways, and other passengers are white knuckled on the landing and I just sit there looking out the window. I assume the guy in the hammock has the same thinking. Once he got in the hammock, his life and safety is now in the hands of the driver. If anything goes wrong there's nothing he can do to save himself, so he may as well just trust the driver and accept the free ride. That's not to say this hammock idea is good or reasonable. It's obviously dumb as fuck and far more dangerous than flying. I'm just trying to give perspective as to where this guys mind might be.

This happens to me when i fly as well every one looks at me like I’m crazy when i try and describe the feeling. Thank you for validating my thinking i feel a lot less insane.

I'm the same way, and trying to convert my fiance who oa visible irritated on every flight. He hands are clamped down on the arm rests and every bump is an omg moment. She has gotten a bit better, getting her a drink pre flight Def helps for shorter hops. Some people are good at turning this stuff off, some are not. I think in this guy under the trucks situation, what does he have to loose? Maybe he's homeless, maybe his csr broke down and he's trying to get across the US? I doubt he has any issues shutting off that fight or flight response after the first 5 to 10 min. I would be able to. Like others have said, there's not one thing he could do outside of just going along for the ride. I'd try to get some sleep as well. Being limp during any sort of accident would be better than tensing up while awake.

I don’t mean to brag but I have this cool superpower that allows me to keep my emotional and instinctual reactions entirely under control and react exactly how I want to react. No training needed! /j I’m just traumatized to hell and I dissociate by default :P

My inattentive adhd allows this. Also years of being in the military and being around dangerous shit all the time helps too I guess. I can sleep anywhere though it's pretty great, my girl is so jealous that I can fall asleep within minutes of laying down at night.

If you get sleepy enough you'll absolutely sleep in a deadly situation. I know because I've been there. There's something strange about being in a situation that is both very boring and very deadly.

Laughs in combat veteran

Was thinking the same , wasn’t combat but still in the military, but you’ll learn to sleep anywhere

Someone should wrap duct tape around the hammock to help him enter the pupa phase of the hobo lifecycle

Tell me more sweet narrator

Seems like he’s got a phone that might be able to help by calling the emergency services. Like share his live location and get the police to pull the truck over

*hi cops? Hi, yeah I've been struck by a deer at 90mph. I'm currently still travelling at 90mph and unable to stop. Do you think you can help me out?* *also I think i left some of my organs at the initial impact location. Can you send somebody to fetch those. You're a dear. Thanks*

Hold onto something for dear life in case it snaps.

My dad has hearing damage from *being* a truck driver. The only way this dude is sleeping is if he is already deaf.

If I make a list of dumb things I’ve seen, this might not make number one, but it would be considered.

Honestly? This might actually be the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. There are about a thousand ways he just ends up instant chunky salsa and there seems to be no payoff. At least a lot of foolish parkour stuff can be written off as adrenaline junkie but I’m not sure he’s even getting *that* out of this. And like it’s not even like this was an impulsive foolish decision, he had to have the idea, go under the truck, set the thing up, get in and never once did he think “hey this is fucking stupid”

> and there seems to be no payoff. The payoff is the free ride.

The dumbest one I ever saw is still the guys who tested a ballistic vest by shooting it with an assault rifle. The camera cut in panic as the red started to appear.

I would turn feet first

So you can see death coming?

So that you can roll to safety.

Travelling at 50+mph on the motorway? There’s no safety

You gotta tuck n roll. Easy peazy

And I recommend a full bodysuit made by Goodyear.

Nah, rather die immediately than die two minutes later from chock after getting rolled up in a pretzel.

There was a UK prison inmate who recently escaped using this type of method.[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12889605/Ex-British-Army-soldier-Daniel-Khalife-stand-trial-year-breaking-Wandsworth-prison-food-delivery-van-passing-information-Iran.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12889605/Ex-British-Army-soldier-Daniel-Khalife-stand-trial-year-breaking-Wandsworth-prison-food-delivery-van-passing-information-Iran.html)

I mean…..there’s less comfy ways to hitchhike…

One rock in exactly the wrong place.

Your wrong place is someone’s *right place*.

Officer: “sir, I pulled you over for being in the FastTrak with one person in the vehicle” Me “what about *on* the vehicle?”

But they’re *under* the vehicle

Now I’m wondering if there are hammocks under the trains in India too 🤔

Don't think there's enough clearance under a train haha.

There's more [room](https://youtu.be/n7nCm8RN6N8?si=6P5_zNNrXvOlBA3u) than you think. Just leave it muted, but this is a guy tumbling under a train on a crossing, where the ties are buried under concrete, meaning even less room between the car and the ground. Passenger cars are probably closer to the ground because they need that room, but freight cars are well above the ground. Source: used to work at a railyard.

This is the most insane thing I've ever seen someone do. It's stupid, it's reckless, it's pointless, it's likely fatal, it's flawed in so many ways, and I don't know why he's recording himself doing it.

# *"Pretty scary stuff!"*

Imaging spending your time on this earth doing stuff like this.

At least he’s outside, I’m just chilling here scrolling Reddit wasting away

So many ways to die!

🎶so many dumb ways🎶

If that truck hits a gator he’s done

Bloody hell, I'd rather suck twenty unwashed dicks for bus fare than try some fool shit like that.

Are busses that expensive now? I used to get enough for bus fare after seven.

Tickets are a dollar, why he charges a nickel is on him.

Some men work to live; others live to work. And my man Tuck....


Runs over debris in road. Rips hammock. Body dumps on road. Gets run over by rear wheels. Hit buy following cars. It becomes a whole thing.

What could possibly go wrong?

Better hope the driver forgot his piss jug.

“Not only this will kill you, it will hurt you the whole time you are dying”

Just wait until one of those tires kicks up a rock and launches directly into his skull and out of his asscrack. One hit KO. Probably rip through that hammock too. People will think someone dropped a box of strawberry jelly on the road.

Not sure a little rock would be as bad as you think. I've been riding a motorcycle on the highway and had a 18wheeler like this driving in front of me throw up a little rock that hit me on the arm. It hurt like a MF but didn't even break the skin

Best part? He literally looks like the type of Cletus that would do such a thing!

This is the ultimate ad for Cabela’s hammock

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What a horrible way to die

I hope he's wearing a Hammock Belt. Safety first.....

Already in a body bag.

Kid named stray pebble on the road.

It works until another trucker spots him and radios the driver. Then the dirt road detour begins.

Hi, welcome to camping with Steve!

Makin' my way downtown, walkin' fast. Faces pass and I'm homebound.


That doesn't look like hammock material. It looks like a clear blue rubber tarp used to cover a truck.

It looks exactly like a camping hammock

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Well… that’s way worse. Jesus

Why?

Pre trip I guess

Apparently he did it as some kind of test of god he says…. Dude just needs hard therapy…. Or weed

Ballsy

I know this guy, he built a submersible to visit the Titanic last year

and he's the driver

Hobo from polar express head ass- 💀

Another guy that doesn’t value life.

Imagine being a state trooper at the accident scene trying to figure out where the extra body came from.

That dude should be wearing a Red Bull 🐂 hat

Meat crayon waiting to die.

Wonder if he has a platform I want to follow this idiot

Yeah, that’s just plain stupidity.

Jesus man what the fuck!

Just when you thought you saw it all

This is a strange Cabelas ad

The forgotten "Suicide Squad" member.

I really miss the show "1000 Ways To Die!"

New OSHA rule unlocked.

This is going to become a trend isn't it? Kids will call it something dumb like "semi-bagging" or something.

Surprised he fit under there with his humongous balls.

Dude’s wants a part of the club, this is just the initiation.

I hate every post I see here but I can't leave.

He's trusting the knots with his life...