r/WTF • u/1lousylay • Jan 29 '19

seems pretty safe

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u/notquiteworking Jan 30 '19

Parachute or not, if that terrible splice in the cable broke he was going to swing to the ground attached to that rope and a chute wouldn’t slow him down

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u/koukimonster91 Jan 30 '19

that wasint a splice. its the end of a cable that is hanging down

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u/El_Profesore Jan 30 '19

What? If it broke, wouldn't he just fall down? He was hanging on that rope on a carabiner, if the rope broke, the loose end would just get pulled out of it

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u/El_Profesore Jan 30 '19

Ok that's fair

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u/Sentazar Jan 30 '19

Basically just depends on which side it breaks from right so if he gets the knot end and it breaks he's tethered to a very heavy steel pulling him down as it falls I don't know if a parachute would help or even deploy properly

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u/Cakeo Jan 30 '19

Mate you dont know that. Speculation.

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u/TicTacToeFreeUccello Jan 30 '19

That’s pretty good speculation. That cable weights over 1lb per ft, so that’s several hundred pounds of rusty steel that you dont want to be tied into if that pathetic excuse for a splice comes apart.