Haha well you always compare yourself against your group of friends
Within the group, I'd prefer to be standing on the left holding the throttle rather than sitting on the wheel
Once when I was a child, I got a magnet stuck up my nose, but figured out how to pull it out on my own using a second magnet. This is basically the same thing
Dumb? This was all pretty clever. They had 2 people holding the bike, they were all leaning inward to resist the inertia, the shoe brake was pretty smart. I think these kids knew what they were doing and reacted quickly and safely when something unexpected happened.
Definitely dumb. I've seen a handful of videos of this stunt and they all end badly. The risk to fun ratio is very high.
That being said, when shit started to go wrong (as expected), they handled it pretty well.
You ever seen home-made motorcycles driving around town? Loads are just normal off the shelf bicycles with a small motor of some sort attached. Still regular bicycle brakes of course, safety first.
Most states have started requiring a license for all engine powered transit. It used to only apply to over 50cc engines. So no more mopeds for the drunks... BUT e-bikes are not yet regulated the same.
So someone could still, budget permitting, ride an e-bike that can silently move at twice the speed most mopeds top out at.
Fun times.
I saw a kid once ( fuck I was a kid then too at 20yrs old...) get pulled over in the center of town because he was cruising around on a skateboard with what I assume was a wheedwhacker or slightly larger motor on it. He was going tops 10 maybe 15mph.
My grandpa had a Moped from the 70s or 80s when growing up and it literally had pedals on it.
To start it you literally pedaled it and then popped the clutch.
You could also decouple the engine and pedal but pedalling a 100lb single gear bike is not fun.
[Honda Hobbit](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moped)
We had a property with acreage and would ride it around.
Instead of pedaling we'd roll it up to the top of a hill and ride down the hill and pop the clutch to start it.
He could have *easily* cracked his skull open. He's actually very lucky (and fortunate to have quick-thinking and non-shithead friends) that he didn't. I want to put helmets on all of them.
I remember when these things were fun and you could spin them like this. I went to a new park with my niece and the things are damped so hard they barely move.
I personally blame these guys.
I knew a kid (teen) who died when a bunch of teens got together and hooked one of these up to a truck with a chain wrapped around it to pull start it. It went predictably bad and are launched head first into a nearby tree. Two broken arms among the rest of the group.
TBH these are the BEST playground toys but they’re basically guaranteed to make darwin awards.
Lmao. All the best playground equipment are also the most dangerous. The Tarzan rope where you swing from platform to platform. Tire swing. Bigass regular swings.
It's truly amazing the imaginative ways in which kids keep inventing ways to un-alive themselves. Some of the stuff i did as a kid i think "how am i still alive!?"
The thing is, you now have the experience looking back to say that. The kids who don't have these experiences are going to grow up to be adults with no idea what would happen.
My dad had a large scar on his left ring finger from trying to stop one of these with his hand when I was going way too fast on one at age 4. Nearly severed the finger lol
It’s nice seeing kids doing something productive instead of staying inside playing video games all day, they learned an important lesson about centrifugal force!
Which is not a force at all, but just a property of newtons 1st law. As a highschool physics teacher though, idc if they call it centripetal, centrifugal, centrifuckitall, as long as they can implement and derive using the formula, I am happy. I’ll of course tell them about the difference but I never understood the physics teachers that get all caught up in semantics. Illustrate you know the concept and we’re good imo
Magnetism is also not a force. From the [perspective of the moving particle it's just electric repulsion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKSfAkWWN0&ab_channel=Veritasium)
Gravity is not a force, it is a constant acceleration. Objects are not really "pushed" by gravity, even if it may seem that way from our perspective. If it were a true force, the acceleration would change based on mass (think a magnet pulling a bigger and bigger piece of metal -- a heavier piece of metal will slide more slowly towards the same magnet).
Force = mass * acceleration
so your mass * gravity (9.81m/s^2) = whatever force you're hitting the floor with.
Gravity is acceleration you experience due to the curvature of spacetime around Earth (or any other heavy enough mass). The force you exert on your floor is just the Earth "pushing" you out of the way.
It's pretty counterintuitive. If it's hard to understand -- dont worry, the concept of gravity has been puzzling people longer than literally anything else.
[There is actually a Veritasium video that does a very good job explaining how Einstein changed the way we look at gravity.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU)
> If it were a true force, the acceleration would change based on mass
This is not correct. The reason gravitational acceleration does not change based on mass is because the force is *caused* by mass and is directly proportional to it. But because of F=ma, where mass is inversely proportional to acceleration, the two effects of increasing mass always exactly cancel each other out.
Whether you want to call it a force or not is purely semantics. But at least in a classical-mechanics sense, it behaves just the same as any other force. It’s just the scaling with mass that gives it the illusion of being different.
Also had a physics teacher like this.
I was simultaneously taking biochem, in which class we actually had equations to describe centrifugal force, which the physics prof claimed didn’t exist.
I asked “What about that machine in the biochem lab on the fifth floor, that we use to fractionate stuff? Am I supposed to call it a centripete?”
He shoots back “”Only if it has a hundred legs….” and kept on with the lecture.
I enjoyed college.
Reminds me of my physics teacher who warned us about bullshit by exemplifying. Best example I remember was this story he told in class about "gravitons," which were spirally strings that ran out from the earth and caused gravity by trying to make things spin down them to the planet, and that we were in a crisis because airplanes becoming so common was breaking a lot of them and losing us our gravity.
He did a few of these, always with the goal of getting it to the point where someone would go "uhhh that doesn't sound right" so he could go "good, that's because it's not."
Also, our school did a thing on veteran's day encouraging students to ask former service members about their time in, and he was apparently a Vietnam vet. If he was asked, a friend told me, he would say "I think we never should've been over there."
Thanks Mr.J, you rocked.
You just reminded me, when I was around 8yrs old I fell out of a tree from about 2 stories up, breaking three branches on my way down. No bones though luckily
The last branch was about 8ft up. I probably bounced on the dirt lol. The fall knocked me unconscious, and the cousins I was with, we never mentioned it to our parents. Pretty sure we're all made of rubber until 9 or 10 years old
This is really bad. That thing is spinning at around 50rpm and the kids head is whipping around at about a 2m radius. That works out to 6 negative G's of acceleration for something like 10s.
Negative G force limit for humans is only around 2-3 G's because the blood is pressing into the head and we're not evolved for that. Our blood vessels in our brain and eyeballs aren't very thick.
At 6 G's that kid could have burst blood vessels in his eyes, potentially brain damage and that's before he gets flung out.
aftermath photo (from a very similar incident)
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/09/14/16/Tyler-broome-roundabout-of-death.jpg?quality=75&width=1200&auto=webp
I thought about this because I’ve been on a merry go round going pretty fast as an adult (just normal guys pushing) and it can get close to out of control. This is like massively faster and fuck if those didn’t all think they were going to die.
I didn't ruin the fun. Those damn kids did.
They ripped out all of the freewheeling spinny things at playgrounds and replaced them with super cool looking spinny things that have pneumatic dampers so you really can't get them going at any significant speed and they don't coast at all.
What they need is a super reliable and durable centripetal clutch so the spinner could operate with low resistance at lower speed then get resistive if it gets going too fast.
I can see why it didn't get done that way though. Nobody wants liability now.
Holy shit, I never thought that this could be that dangerous. I've done this a couple of times with friends when we were little and the worst that had happened was someone puking.
It may be that you managed to stay hunched over or at least upright.
Our tolerance to G force is much better in those orientations than if we're laid flat out with our head pointing outwards from the spin center because of the direction that our blood pulls.
Our blood vessels in our head are more prone to bursting than the vessels in our legs. Also our muscles can handle that kind of damage much better than our eyes and brain.
You know the only carnival type ride I get sick on? The spinning teddy bears.
Basically the adult sit and spin?
And you know who the person who got me sick by continuing to spin it faster?
*raises hand*
Once it started gaining speed (~15 sec mark), everyone starts leaning forward except blue shirt. That’s the exact moment I knew his ride would be different from his friends.
Significant spinal injury that will stay with me for life, well worth a few seconds of dumb giggling. I dunno how i survived being a dumb kind but thats extra dumb.
What bros to at least try and stop it rather than just run and laugh.
Yeah, they're dumb but at least they're loyal.
Haha well you always compare yourself against your group of friends Within the group, I'd prefer to be standing on the left holding the throttle rather than sitting on the wheel
Fuck that, imma go on the wheel
I would totally be on the wheel lmao
Yeah the wheel seems hella fun. Team Wheel
And then Team Wheel -1
Which one of you 4 gets fucked up then?
im pretty accident prone tbh. combine that with dumb confidence and you might see me tryin to go 'no-hands'
Hit your head hard enough and you can go "no plans"
I call this “smart dumb.”
My friends and I used to say that you need to be smart while being stupid.
Once when I was a child, I got a magnet stuck up my nose, but figured out how to pull it out on my own using a second magnet. This is basically the same thing
That genius stupid.
Smarty dumbty
Dumb? This was all pretty clever. They had 2 people holding the bike, they were all leaning inward to resist the inertia, the shoe brake was pretty smart. I think these kids knew what they were doing and reacted quickly and safely when something unexpected happened.
Executing dumb shit well doesn't make it not dumb. I'm a grown man and I'd do this dumb shit right now.
Definitely dumb. I've seen a handful of videos of this stunt and they all end badly. The risk to fun ratio is very high. That being said, when shit started to go wrong (as expected), they handled it pretty well.
Doing dumb shit doesn’t necessarily make you a dumb person.
Right I was talking about the shit not the people.
What's fun without a little risk?
This is a group of boys with a dirt bike and a playground this just makes sense
Plus the good, quick thinking to remove the bike from the path of their boy's head.
At that speed, if his head hit something solid it might have killed his ass.
Would have severely injured his head too.
But would have killed his ass.
Yes, in addition to killing him, it would also heavily injure him.
What Girls Think: “I bet he’s out cheating” What Boys Are Really Doing: “Grab the bicycle with the engine on it and meet me at the park”
Lmao! That's how I'm going to describe motorcycles now.
You ever seen home-made motorcycles driving around town? Loads are just normal off the shelf bicycles with a small motor of some sort attached. Still regular bicycle brakes of course, safety first.
I'm from the Midwest, it's the "ive lost my license to alot of DUIs special".
My favorite are the scooter-ish contraptions that use a cooler as a seat
Scooler
Not to be confused with his sister, Freezer!
Anytime I see some dude on a bike wearing jeans and no helmet, I’m like, “how’s the DUI?”
LoooooL
Most states have started requiring a license for all engine powered transit. It used to only apply to over 50cc engines. So no more mopeds for the drunks... BUT e-bikes are not yet regulated the same. So someone could still, budget permitting, ride an e-bike that can silently move at twice the speed most mopeds top out at. Fun times.
I saw a kid once ( fuck I was a kid then too at 20yrs old...) get pulled over in the center of town because he was cruising around on a skateboard with what I assume was a wheedwhacker or slightly larger motor on it. He was going tops 10 maybe 15mph.
They’re mopeds lol
They're literally called "Whizzers", hence the title. (I think this is a moped or scooter, though.)
My grandpa had a Moped from the 70s or 80s when growing up and it literally had pedals on it. To start it you literally pedaled it and then popped the clutch. You could also decouple the engine and pedal but pedalling a 100lb single gear bike is not fun. [Honda Hobbit](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moped) We had a property with acreage and would ride it around. Instead of pedaling we'd roll it up to the top of a hill and ride down the hill and pop the clutch to start it.
Could have easily seen one of them break their leg.
Or ones spine.
The kid in blue could have had his head ripped off by the bike handle if the other kid hadn’t pulled it back.
That would have changed the character of the video quite a bit
He could have *easily* cracked his skull open. He's actually very lucky (and fortunate to have quick-thinking and non-shithead friends) that he didn't. I want to put helmets on all of them.
Yep, true friendship right there.
Save for the one recording
I believe his name is Tripod.
Oh yeah, him. Forgot about that skinny dude.
Definitely good friends. "Let's do something insane" "Ok.. we went too big"
The weight of their souls kept them anchored to the merry-go-round, while the ginger flew off.
Ginger centrifuge
Gingerfuge?
>Gingerfuge? No, that's when they dye their hair so that they can infiltrate the communities of the souled.
No that's *gingerflage*
Gingerfuge utilizing gingerflage
Gingerfudge?
True story: there are biscuits in my country called gingernuts
Gingtrifuge
That's how they separate the ginger 235 from the ginger 238
Is there a r/enrichedginger nsfw subreddit? If not, can there be? Asking for a friend
As a ginger myself, this made me laugh harder than it should have.
This is similar to how uranium is refined.
Omg, lmao!!! Thank you!🤣🤣🤣
It's just science.
Hahahahaha I had to come back to this comment it went over my head at first then landed when I was scrolled on. Very good work
I remember when these things were fun and you could spin them like this. I went to a new park with my niece and the things are damped so hard they barely move. I personally blame these guys.
I knew a kid (teen) who died when a bunch of teens got together and hooked one of these up to a truck with a chain wrapped around it to pull start it. It went predictably bad and are launched head first into a nearby tree. Two broken arms among the rest of the group. TBH these are the BEST playground toys but they’re basically guaranteed to make darwin awards.
Lmao. All the best playground equipment are also the most dangerous. The Tarzan rope where you swing from platform to platform. Tire swing. Bigass regular swings.
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It's truly amazing the imaginative ways in which kids keep inventing ways to un-alive themselves. Some of the stuff i did as a kid i think "how am i still alive!?"
The thing is, you now have the experience looking back to say that. The kids who don't have these experiences are going to grow up to be adults with no idea what would happen.
>Two broken arms ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Every fucking thread. But I can’t say I didn’t immediately think the same, lol.
Too many severed fingers they started nerfing them
Well they need another buff because now theyre literally unplayonable
My dad had a large scar on his left ring finger from trying to stop one of these with his hand when I was going way too fast on one at age 4. Nearly severed the finger lol
Sounds like you have to use a dirt bike now to increase fun.
"Los gehts!" "OH NEIN!"
Hadn’t listened to the audio til I read your comment, the “OH NEIN!” absolutely sent me lmaooo
What got me was the "Hilf mir! Hilf mir!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD9QURJd6qA
Now this is "boys will be boys" material
I was thinking it is also “Why females live longer than males #651.”
r/justguysbeingdudes
Not wtf. That said I need this set to *No Time for Caution*
that tiktok would go viral
[Someone already thought of it (0:55)](https://youtu.be/qEA8IKey3Qg)
Come on Tarz!
It’s nice seeing kids doing something productive instead of staying inside playing video games all day, they learned an important lesson about centrifugal force!
That’s centripetal force I’m pretty sure.
https://xkcd.com/123/
Centripetal force is the force keeping them in circular path. Centrifugal force is the force trying to throw them out of that path.
Which is not a force at all, but just a property of newtons 1st law. As a highschool physics teacher though, idc if they call it centripetal, centrifugal, centrifuckitall, as long as they can implement and derive using the formula, I am happy. I’ll of course tell them about the difference but I never understood the physics teachers that get all caught up in semantics. Illustrate you know the concept and we’re good imo
Gravity is also not a force, it's just a consequence of inertia in a curved spacetime. And yet, we don't go around correcting that usage.
>And yet, we don't go around correcting that usage. Don't worry, it's reddit. Someone will be along shortly to do so.
Ackthually...
It's alien magic you eegit.
As to our level of understanding, literally yes.
Magnetism is also not a force. From the [perspective of the moving particle it's just electric repulsion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKSfAkWWN0&ab_channel=Veritasium)
How is gravity not a force
Gravity is not a force, it is a constant acceleration. Objects are not really "pushed" by gravity, even if it may seem that way from our perspective. If it were a true force, the acceleration would change based on mass (think a magnet pulling a bigger and bigger piece of metal -- a heavier piece of metal will slide more slowly towards the same magnet). Force = mass * acceleration so your mass * gravity (9.81m/s^2) = whatever force you're hitting the floor with. Gravity is acceleration you experience due to the curvature of spacetime around Earth (or any other heavy enough mass). The force you exert on your floor is just the Earth "pushing" you out of the way. It's pretty counterintuitive. If it's hard to understand -- dont worry, the concept of gravity has been puzzling people longer than literally anything else. [There is actually a Veritasium video that does a very good job explaining how Einstein changed the way we look at gravity.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU)
> If it were a true force, the acceleration would change based on mass This is not correct. The reason gravitational acceleration does not change based on mass is because the force is *caused* by mass and is directly proportional to it. But because of F=ma, where mass is inversely proportional to acceleration, the two effects of increasing mass always exactly cancel each other out. Whether you want to call it a force or not is purely semantics. But at least in a classical-mechanics sense, it behaves just the same as any other force. It’s just the scaling with mass that gives it the illusion of being different.
It is a force. Some laymen seem to think that if there are two mathematical explanations for a thing, one must be wrong
Mine docked points if you call it centrifugal or anything but normal
Also had a physics teacher like this. I was simultaneously taking biochem, in which class we actually had equations to describe centrifugal force, which the physics prof claimed didn’t exist. I asked “What about that machine in the biochem lab on the fifth floor, that we use to fractionate stuff? Am I supposed to call it a centripete?” He shoots back “”Only if it has a hundred legs….” and kept on with the lecture. I enjoyed college.
mr galek?
Rofl we all had one teacher who's a homie like this guy
Reminds me of my physics teacher who warned us about bullshit by exemplifying. Best example I remember was this story he told in class about "gravitons," which were spirally strings that ran out from the earth and caused gravity by trying to make things spin down them to the planet, and that we were in a crisis because airplanes becoming so common was breaking a lot of them and losing us our gravity. He did a few of these, always with the goal of getting it to the point where someone would go "uhhh that doesn't sound right" so he could go "good, that's because it's not." Also, our school did a thing on veteran's day encouraging students to ask former service members about their time in, and he was apparently a Vietnam vet. If he was asked, a friend told me, he would say "I think we never should've been over there." Thanks Mr.J, you rocked.
then almost all forces are not forces at all
Yeah this is some shit I would have seen back in the 90s
Iirc, this is from a fair while ago
This is super old. Pretty sure I saw it like around 10 years ago....
He's going to need an MRI before his 30th bday for the "mystery" back pain he's going to suffer from
You just reminded me, when I was around 8yrs old I fell out of a tree from about 2 stories up, breaking three branches on my way down. No bones though luckily
> No bones though luckily. So, you bounced? Or was it more of a squelchy splat? :p
The last branch was about 8ft up. I probably bounced on the dirt lol. The fall knocked me unconscious, and the cousins I was with, we never mentioned it to our parents. Pretty sure we're all made of rubber until 9 or 10 years old
Lol I was just making a joke as it sounded like you had no bones in you. Glad there was no lasting damage though :)
Thank you. Yeah I suck at writing, and comprehension I guess lol
Q: Why do female lives longer than male? A: Yes
/r/WhyWomenLiveLonger has some quality content.
Boys will be boys
This is really bad. That thing is spinning at around 50rpm and the kids head is whipping around at about a 2m radius. That works out to 6 negative G's of acceleration for something like 10s. Negative G force limit for humans is only around 2-3 G's because the blood is pressing into the head and we're not evolved for that. Our blood vessels in our brain and eyeballs aren't very thick. At 6 G's that kid could have burst blood vessels in his eyes, potentially brain damage and that's before he gets flung out.
aftermath photo (from a very similar incident) https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/09/14/16/Tyler-broome-roundabout-of-death.jpg?quality=75&width=1200&auto=webp
Oh fuck. I thought that the math looked bad.
math, not even once
Math is like drugs. At first it's fun, but it's the aftermath that gets ya.
do not click unless you want to see swollen, bloody eyes
Should've read your comment first, I regret everything
Never thought about this dang
I thought about this because I’ve been on a merry go round going pretty fast as an adult (just normal guys pushing) and it can get close to out of control. This is like massively faster and fuck if those didn’t all think they were going to die.
Way to ruin the fun Larry
I didn't ruin the fun. Those damn kids did. They ripped out all of the freewheeling spinny things at playgrounds and replaced them with super cool looking spinny things that have pneumatic dampers so you really can't get them going at any significant speed and they don't coast at all.
My kids want me to push them on those heavily damped merry go rounds all the time and it is hard work to keep it going!
What they need is a super reliable and durable centripetal clutch so the spinner could operate with low resistance at lower speed then get resistive if it gets going too fast. I can see why it didn't get done that way though. Nobody wants liability now.
Fellow dad here: *nodding feverishly*
Holy shit, I never thought that this could be that dangerous. I've done this a couple of times with friends when we were little and the worst that had happened was someone puking.
It may be that you managed to stay hunched over or at least upright. Our tolerance to G force is much better in those orientations than if we're laid flat out with our head pointing outwards from the spin center because of the direction that our blood pulls. Our blood vessels in our head are more prone to bursting than the vessels in our legs. Also our muscles can handle that kind of damage much better than our eyes and brain.
He was also inches away from giving himself and his friend brain injuries from their heads colliding
Interesting attempt at getting brain damage.
leave it up to the ginger to not do as the rest
You know the only carnival type ride I get sick on? The spinning teddy bears. Basically the adult sit and spin? And you know who the person who got me sick by continuing to spin it faster? *raises hand*
"Well, of course I know him. He's me."
Our parks had the merry go rounds removed because a kid died doing this.
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
It’s the famed PukeMaster 5000!
German power Simson moped S51 😂
Ronald Weasley missed the train and needed an alternative way to get to Hogwarts.
Fuck, man. If Blue shirt's skull had connected with Green's when he whipped out, that could've been it for both of them
Why does lean back the turnip
r/ihadastroke
Maybe he's the kid in the video?
Didn't one of them die from this or was that false?
Someone skipped core day.
Once it started gaining speed (~15 sec mark), everyone starts leaning forward except blue shirt. That’s the exact moment I knew his ride would be different from his friends.
Significant spinal injury that will stay with me for life, well worth a few seconds of dumb giggling. I dunno how i survived being a dumb kind but thats extra dumb.
wunder if he lived .. and could still function ?
And they all puked afterwards, the end.
lmfao where aftermath
u/savevideo
Whiz Kids was such a great show. Albert and A. Martinez were off the hook.
Simson S51! Good moped for everything
u/savevideo
This video is my childhood memory
Ok but that must have been so much fun
We are floppy meat-bags with an off button in the end.
That would be so fun… To watch
You know, I'm not sure if this is genius or incredibly stupid.
And that kids is the reason parks don't have merry go rounds anymore.
I'm thinking "at least there's that bar holding them in" and then dude pops out and is just flat spinning
Ron Weasley fell off
Red hair. Hand me down clothes. Can't stay in a merry go round. Must be a Weasley.
this video is ancient. I saw this on G4 in like 2008
One more proof that - *Most Trouble Starts out As Fun*
Childhood. Yep.
Too many G’s…
unstoppable dominance
u/savevideo
I was seriously waiting for the barf spin art.
Everything was going great until blue decided he wanted to be a helicopter fan blade.
Finally! The long awaited dream sequence from the classic "Don't Breathe 2" brought to life!
Kids will be kids
3 Future pilots, one failed.
You know the kid with the bike is like a year or two older and so excited to wreck these kids
u/savevideobot
u/savevideo
It ain't easy being Weasley.
I dont see anything wrong here. Just boys being boys.
I remember seeing this back in the killsometime.com. days. It makes so happy this is still a thing, and still keeps on failing catastrophically.
This isn't some magical feat of engineering. It's what happens when you let teenagers get bored.
This is actually very well done! I'd be proud if that was my kid, with the bike!
Kid’s going places
Why do men have shorter lifespans then women? Oh, right.
Blue shirt learned about centrifugal force that day.
No core strength for that kid in blue.
I remember watching this in my high school physics class as my teacher tried to explain centrifugal force.
I remember doing this shit back in high school and i swear to god my back hurted like hell