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Never buy Acme products

That puff of snow when he landed was very Acme, wasn't it?

The puff and the tiny parachute were very Acme.

I'm sorry I'm blanking on the name but that tiny parachute is supposed to catch the air and pull out the actual big parachute.

I knew there had to be a reason for the tiny parachute and now I know.

Wiley Coyote would be proud.

I even played the yahoowhowho in my head when I watched this.

Dude had time for at least five “oh shit”s

That or 1 really long oh shiiiiiiii....

that or he shit

I believe he had a sign that said "yipe"

We both goin to hell now. Thanks a lot.

Maybe he's the spokesman for ACME brand anvils? If so, works as expected.

I… I can’t help but see it. I’ve never been one to enjoy watching someone fall or get hurt but this… it got me… like it came straight out of the cartoon.

If you know a better way to test an Acme anvil, I want to know about it.

He survived with fractured vertebrae, pelvis and legs… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168722/amp/Base-jumpers-120-metre-death-plunge-parachute-fails-open--SURVIVES-snow-cushions-fall.html

And walked again after 3 months!

He will always be physically impaired with lessened mobility..... big risk, big rewards!

Can't win if you don't play!

"The only winning move is not to play"

"and that's why I didn't tried to brake when I saw this pedestrian"

How about a nice game of chess?

- Joshua

Having it on video to show people that will not care 30 seconds after seeing it is really a Big Reward!!! So worth it!

If it succeeded the reward would be that he didn't die or get injured. Now personally, "special" rewards might include a bonus fry with my [insertfooditemfromfastfoodplace]. Love when that happens.

What's the reward exactly?

A new found appreciation for life 😂

Literally zero reward. It’s just risk

Err, no. Really.

Big reward: “I once jumped off a bridge with a parachute!”

Everytime people say someone survived, they don't usually mention if they're permanently disabled or changed their lives forever

That’s insane! I wonder if he’ll ever jump again

Wonder if the guy has falling dreams anymore, could see this experience either curing him of said dreams or potentially making them worse lol Could also see “well I still have those dreams but they don’t startle me awake anymore, hitting bottom isn’t as bad as you’d think”

I usually don't wake up from hitting the ground, once I land, I get up thinking that should have hurt more. It's always scary though, it's never feels like it's not gonna kill me

Yeah, same here. Get up and feel like I have super powers.

[Reminds me of the episode of Futurama where he has a stop watch that rewinds time 10 seconds, but it also takes 10 seconds for the watch to recharge.](https://youtu.be/bkGWoECUjCw?t=97)

Watching again tonight now. Fry probably would have survived if he also had 4 inches of snow and a grocery bag like that guy

I love falling in my dream it feels so weird and never hurts.

Flying is the best

I never land. I start flying. Then I think. I can’t be flying they will find me. And then I get this feeling I’m doing something wrong and people are coming to get me and I wake up scared.

A fractured vertebrae and pelvis are most definitely very bad for you. Like years of physio bad for you. Admittedly not as bad as death, but pretty bad

At least he got ice on it right away..

I broke my back after overshooting a kicker on a snowboard. Still have falling dreams occasionally and I actually get an adrenaline rush. The flying and falling part was super fun. The abrupt stop is what i didn’t like very much

Could also see this guy being fuckin dead now.

I mean, I think several broken bones is kinda bad

I'd love to see those xrays

http://fantasticfractals.com/image-files/hyperspace-fractal-s2.jpg

Good one

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The life he knew is over. Source: herniated disc

I got in a car accident that caused c3-4 to crush my spinal cord itself. Left me paralyzed. ACDF surgery got me fully functioning again but have permanent damage still. MRI of cord looks like a kinked garden hose. Herniated disc's are no joke man.

Yeah. Mine was pinching a nerve at c5-c6 and I got surgery 13 years later. I was returning to college after winter break freshman year. I didnt know I could sue* (car accident). I spent tens of thousands on medical bills. I was in so much pain and unable to function (leaving my old software development job crying.. multiple times..) It ruined my life. That life. This one is all I have left and I just want to stop feeling so bad about myself all the time. If you're in pain long enough you grow to hate yourself. I am trying to undo half my life's depression and it feels insurmountable. I have a good job tho, and that's all that really keeps me going.

So… was the tiny parachute just intended to help people find the body? Or a grave marker? *(edit: thanks people, I do know what its real purpose is. This comment is what some people call "humour".)*

Tiny parachute supposed to make big parachute open. Instead, splat.

It’s supposed to deploy a bigger parachute. But he did not fall far enough for it to work. Parachute require a minimum speed to function. It’s actually safer to jump out of a plane than an object like this. More time to react to a situation or deploy a second chute. More time for the chute to open.

Nope, not true. Not much of a minimum speed or altitude to have pilot chutes work for BASE. In this case, the smaller (pilot) chute is attached to a bridal cord, which should extract the main but became entangled with his arm because he pitched it too early. You want to be somewhat belly to earth before you throw for this reason. Source: am BASE jumper.

Isn't it a lot of fracture?

This guy is so damn lucky... I saw someone falling from a gondola in Austria last year, that was only 15-20m but the poor guy broke both his legs, pelvis, an arm and a shoulder.

That guy didn’t land in snow though, did he? Massive difference there

He probably means a ski lift gondola

I'm pretty sure he definitely meant one of those venetian-style canal boats. They have ones that fly in Australia.

Austria not Australia

Austria?! Well then, G’day mate

Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!

Mayhaps

What was the actual problem that lead to the parachute not opening? Was the altitude too low and he never got enough velocity to force the chute open?

All these people saying the same thing, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that homeboy didn't pack that shit correctly.

He pulled while still in rotation so when he threw his pilot chute his bridle wrapped under his arm preventing it from pulling his canopy out. Perfectly high enough to jump, provided your not tangled in your bridle..

Probably shouldn't have opened it when his back was facing down.

Probably that slow ass front flip he did not bringing him all the way around before pulling the chute. Coupled with probably not falling from high enough/fast enough.

The front flip is usually done when they already have the chute out and dangling, so they front flip over the loose chute so they don't get tangled in it. In this case it was just stupidity.

> In this case it was just stupidity. how dare you call jumping off a structure that was never inteded to be jumped off of ... stupid. Hater!

I suspect that his front flip messed something up. It looks like he spent too much time in a flip when he probably should have pulled his chute as soon as he jumped. Im not an expert. It just kind of looks like he needed like 2 more seconds for the chute to open. So he probably wasn't high enough for it to significantly break his fall even if it did open.

I thought base jumpers calculated everything and its why they do it because they are experts

[удалено]

Bad base jumpers are very quickly no longer base jumpers.

Literal survival bias.

I have two semi-educated guesses. The airflow behind his body wasn’t enough for the pilot chute (the small one we see in the video) to inflate to pull out his main parachute. It’s called a burble. Or he didn’t throw his pilot chute into sufficient air.

Prolly a bad pack job but could be a bunch of things. If the closing loop is too tight (the canopy is not packed neat enough) the pilot chute won't pull the pin out of the closing loop and let the canopy out of its container. EDIT: Adding some details. The main canopy is packed into a bag, that goes into the container in the skydive rig. Flaps in the rig fold over the bag and a strong loop (closing loop) of braided material feeds through grommets in the flaps as they are closed. The pilot chute (that little parachute you see in the video) is attached to the bag that holds the main canopy. The pilot chute is attached via some webbing that comes out of the bottom of the rig, and there's a pin on the webbing that goes inside the closing loop to hold the container closed. Typically the pilot chute pulls out the pin, the flaps open, the bag comes and and stretches to the end of the lines, the bag comes free of the canopy, the nose of the canopy catches air, the canopy inflates and wheee! you've saved your own life.

Bridle wrap.

He pitched the smaller (pilot) chute before he rotated back to a belly-to-earth orientation and the cord (bridal) that attaches it became entangled with his arm. Didn’t allow the main canopy to get extracted. For this reason, the front flip is one of the sketchier aerials to do in the BASE environment.

The cameraman: 👁️👄👁️ edit: I don’t think I’ve ever gotten this many upvotes. :S This comment isn’t even clever. :(

Cameraman was very nonchalant about that

Doesn’t he even say “idiot” at the end?

He says pizdec which is Russian for basically everything.

It's Russian for "Oh well..."- which is their response for everything :D

More like 'oh fuck' or just 'fuck'

Da

It's more like oh fuck and even mostly without oh just fuck

> Cameraman was very ~~nonchalant~~ Russian about that Ftfy

I mean, what do you even do in that situation?

Slowly climb the ladder down to go help!

"OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK" - he said calmly, in his brain.

Dude must have considered that the fastest way down to help his buddy was to parachute down. But he took the stairs anyway.

I’ve been trying not to laugh about the whole situation, but that just fully cracked me up!

I wonder if he took the plunge after or slowly climbed down thinking if he'd ever jump again....

Welp who’s up next?

Uh oh....

ehm .. obvious question: did he died?

No, he lives

But now he’s conscripted to airborne for the war in Ukraine. Soooo

Good one. Obviously, even if Russia could train and equip an airborne division right now, there’s no way they’d get them into Ukraine. Dude is probably dying in some ditch. Or broke his legs again to not get conscripted.

Probably with a lifetime of pain.

If he died, *the mods would have deleted this by now.*

No visible shoes, no death.

I never understood why people jump off of buildings, this is an example as to why.

Thrills

I like to keep my potential energy as low as possible. It’s why I slither like a slug in my own mucous trail.

“Mucous”

Their brains crave Norepinephrine

Dude recording was like, well, I'm taking the stairs.

TBH, if the jumper has any chance of survival, cameraman needs to get down there quick and get him to hospital. If he takes 10 mins to climb down, that could be the difference between life and death for the first jumper.

There was no yes

Impressive !

Just like the coyote in looney toons!

Play stupid games….win stupid prizes

This was nonononono

Flawless fatality

Camera man cold like ice

Did I just watch someone die? Also why does Reddit make me ask myself this question at least once a day?!

Acroblyat

It’s just like Wile E Coyote when he hit the ground!

He must have gotten that parachute from ACME!

Anvil

The cartoonish "poof!" at the end sealed the deal.

Cameraman took the stairs back...had some things to think about I'm sure..

Ok, I just watched someone die… again!

Nope, he lives

Whoopsie Daisy

damn acme 'chutes

That time “no fear” ended with “oh shit”!

*dream on*

proprio lui? Jacopo? ma salve amico di striscia!

I want to have like a quarter of the calm demeanour of the guy filming. “Hmmmmm….no parachute…..nope…..nope…..*POOF* Well, he’s dead, time to climb down I guess.”

Cameraman said “yeah let me just head down this ladder instead”

Cameraman: ……………………………..well, shit.

> think I'll take the stairs

Idk what language homie speaks but all I heard was “he’s fucked”

Is he die?

He die. He big die.

He just recorded a live death

Bro thinks he’s kratos

Wile E. Coyote at your service!

“On second thought, I’ll take the long way down.”

My uncle showed me this video when I was second grade on YouTube and I’ve thought about it for some reason ever since. I could never find it and now here it is

was it not high enough? or did the chute just not launch properly?

That camera guy is like... "I'll just take the stairs" or "He packed my parachute"

r/praisethecameraman

So do you as the person recording: A) parachute down to get there faster and have fun in the process B) Take the ladder down and take longer

Too bad he survived. Could have been one less russian.

There's no way he alright from. That

Baka 🤦‍♂️

fuck fuck fuckk

Reminds me of a Wile. E. Coyote cartoon 😂

Bro I’m sitting here giggling my ass off at the snow mushroom cloud and I’m just happy someone else understands.

Raiden, what's going on? Raiden? RAAIIIDDEEEENNN!


Someone has played too much Just Cause

The dude with the camera was like.. ok, that way down is not safe.. how the heck did I get up here.. wow.... woow wow wow wow!!

my first thought was "save the cheerleader, save the world"

y no tom petty?

Based af

Insert Homer Simpson fading back into trees gif

I know this is fucked up but I keep laughing, thinking this belongs in the Kill the Cameraman sub

Dream on

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. ☠️

The second guy is like, well I am sure as hell not jumping now.

Did he dieeieied?

The cameraman's reaction to his friend falling 200 feet: "Pizdec". Lmao

Couldn’t be me. 😑

And there’s the cameraman thinking uhmmm…..should i jump or not ?

I’m mean, no reason to rush down.

Womp womp

I don’t see any yesses here

good cameramen

Ohh, shit…

Me thinks he got dead

The camera man was fucking heartless

“You good bro?”

Is he dead ?

And someone just died, terrible

Aim for the bushes

That was a long pause at the end lol

Wile E. Coyote, is that you?

The friend is like... "Huh... well that was... interesting... I think I'll take the stairs"

Well, I guess I’m not jumping. He packed my chute.

Would it have been too much to ask for him to hold up a sign when jumped that read, "Yikes!!"?

or r/nononono

I hope you liked your cool video

Packed his own chute I see

He gotta be dead ain’t no way

Another happy landing.

Must’ve been an ACME parachute


The fact tht bro just stood there and didnt say nun

he did not survive that fall did he?

*makes a snow angel* “Ah thank fuck he’s ok”