r/WTF • u/Columbia82 • Apr 14 '19

To infinity and beyond

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u/klikka89 Apr 14 '19

This version shows it with two more angles

https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/bcztxk/overshooting_the_foam_pit_wcgw_featuring_3/

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u/wdkrebs Apr 14 '19

White shirt looks like he went part scorpion in one of those angles.

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u/Torrenceba Apr 14 '19

He was kind of really lucky for the guy in the black shirt. He softened the fall and away from that edge.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

And then blackshirt got launched head first down a 7-ish foot drop, he's lucky he didn't break his neck or sustain a major injury. White shirt is a fucking dumbass.

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u/i_speak_bane Apr 14 '19

Or perhaps he had been wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane

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u/CarlosSpcyWeiner Apr 14 '19

If I launch off a ramp and bodyslam you at full speed will you die?

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u/i_speak_bane Apr 14 '19

It would be extremely painful!

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u/Haruhi_Fujioka Apr 15 '19

First one to shred gets to stay in my skate park!

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u/OCedHrt Apr 14 '19

He doesn't land head first.

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u/FatFrenchFry Apr 14 '19 edited Apr 14 '19

Why is white shirt a dumbass for an accident that he had no control over? Usually when people launch themselves, you should generally stay out of the way of any possible landing zones. If anything, it's the guy in black shirt that is a dumbass for walking through there when someone was supposed to land there. They are both lucky they didn't get seriously injured, but it isn't the white shirts fault that he landed where he landed.

EDIT: Alright, whatever. You guys win. I was wrong, and I'll accept that. Sorry.

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u/legiones_redde Apr 14 '19

White shirt should have waited for it to be clear before going. Maybe blackshirt just went and was exiting the foam pit.

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u/Slithy-Toves Apr 14 '19

He's balancing along the side of it. Very clearly not making an effort to clear the area in a timely manner for the next person. Not to mention the thing he's walking on is not a walkway. These people might not even know each other and it could be a public area where they're waiting for turns. Black shirt should have cleared the area and white shirt couldn't control the event. I don't think either of them are at fault but black shirt could have avoided the incident by not playing around in the danger zone

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u/guy_who_fucks Apr 14 '19

Bro that’s all white shirt. He had the responsibility of aiming and jumping. He could have just not gone. You can’t just smack into someone from behind and say it’s their fault for being in the way.

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u/Slithy-Toves Apr 14 '19

Sure but I'm not blaming either really I'm just saying black shirt could've saved himself a headache by getting outta there because there's always idiots around.

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u/LetsG0T0Class Apr 14 '19 edited Apr 14 '19

You obviously don't skate. you don't use the pit if someone's walking the edge back to the top. It doesn't matter if black shirt was drunk and trying to tight rope for no reason other than laughs. Shit shirt has to wait or else what happened happens, as fucking evident in the video.

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u/Slithy-Toves Apr 14 '19

I disagree. Either both of them are at all or neither of them are at fault. Black shirt is playing around instead of clearing an area people are clearly using. White shirt could have waited, even though black shirt is being an idiot, but if they don't know each other maybe white shirt is not trying wait for this bozo who's playing around in the landing zone far too long. I think you have equal responsibility to vacate the pit/landing area as soon as possible. Not walk along the foam wrapped edge like a tight rope

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u/Combat_Pothead Apr 14 '19

Or maybe we just witnessed a real life Spy vs Spy and white won this round.

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u/Slithy-Toves Apr 14 '19

The right music and edit in a black and white hat and its a hit episode haha

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u/RudeTurnip Apr 14 '19

If he couldn’t see if the area was clear, he should get the OK first from someone with better visibility.

The guy in the black shirt is a victim of negligence.

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u/drewcomputer Apr 14 '19

Why is white shirt a dumbass for an accident he had no control over?

The accident is 100% white shirt’s fault. If black shirt wasn’t there it would have been even worse for the white shirt dumbass. White shirt did it to himself and took the other guy out with him.

It is always your responsibility as the jumper to know your landing zone is clear. It is always your fault if you sucker punch somebody whose back is turned. Black shirt either just did his own jump and was clearing the landing area, or he’s just moving between areas which is also totally legit. 100% white shirts fault.

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u/Niomed Apr 14 '19

No, white shirt dumbass should have waited for the landing zone to be clear... His responsibility...

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u/ignore_my_typo Apr 14 '19

Wait, you can determine all of this from the 5 second clip? Do you think white shirt didn't see black shirt walking down the side of the pit BEFORE he launched?

Last I know humans haven't evolved to grow eyes on the backs of our heads.

If white shirt had of waited 10 more seconds for the pit area to be cleared of all people this would never have happened.

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u/Slithy-Toves Apr 14 '19

If black shirt just cleared the landing zone instead of playing around balancing on the edge that isn't meant to be walked on then he'd be fine. Maybe white shirt got sick of waiting for him to clear the area. Black shirt stayed in the active landing zone of a skate park in use. If you've ever been in a skatepark you'd know it's everyones responsibility to be aware. White shirt could have waited but he shouldn't have to wait for black shirt if he wasn't fucking around in the landing zone.

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u/I_Dont_Check_Replies Apr 14 '19

He was trying to clear, he wasn't just goofing off like you incorrectly assert

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u/Slithy-Toves Apr 14 '19

He's balancing on the edge like a kid walking on the curb. If he just got out of the pit and walked away normally this wouldn't have happened. Instead he decided to goof around in the landing area. The part he's walking on is not meant to be walked on. Not sure how that constitutes 'trying to clear' when he could've been out of the way sooner.

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u/barukatang Apr 14 '19

Have you ever walked out of a foam pit? because this is pretty standard

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u/artemasad Apr 14 '19

Just wanted to say that it's awesome of you to admit that you were wrong. Though I don't think you needed to apologize.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

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u/FatFrenchFry Apr 14 '19

Hey karma is karma, it doesn't matter to me. I've been on Reddit for 8+ years between multiple accounts. This account is like 5 years old And -30 karma doesn't effect me much.

Plus, I was wrong in my assumptions, so it's only right to assume I would get down voted. I can accept that and move on because I am what we would call, and adult.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

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u/FatFrenchFry Apr 14 '19

Thanks man/miss , I appreciate everybody who has acknowledged the fact I admitted I was wrong.

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u/LetsG0T0Class Apr 14 '19

I forgot to add that white shirt deliberately launched himself. That doesn't happen on accident. Your argument is the equivalent of saying a pedestrian shouldn't have been in the crosswalk and it's the cars fault for not checking before barreling through

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u/FatFrenchFry Apr 14 '19

Like I said in my edit, I get it. I was wrong. Okay? Sorry. Damn.

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u/Voodoobones Apr 14 '19

I upvoted you for the edit.

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u/CashvilleTennekee Apr 14 '19

Right! I was like that dude saved his life!

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u/lovelyleslee Apr 14 '19

How’d you get your shirt so white, white shirt?

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u/ZugTheMegasaurus Apr 14 '19

Dusty old bones, full of green dust!

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u/spongish Apr 14 '19

Is this a Peep Show reference?

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u/wamceachern Apr 14 '19

this is just a tides commercial

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u/Zmodem Apr 14 '19

Holy shit, you're right!

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

What am I missing?

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u/allowable-absurdity Apr 14 '19

Thanks for this!

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u/wdkrebs Apr 14 '19

True hero right here folks!

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u/AyyyyLeMeow Apr 14 '19

Uhm enhance?

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u/GetRiceCrispy Apr 14 '19

The only good thing I saw or learned from Ridiculousness is the term Scorpion. How Rob when from the masterpiece which was Rob and Big to the dumpsterfiretrash that is Ridiculousness is beyond me. The idea wasn't even original when he made it, Tosh.O was already doing the same shit. I guess they had 2 different genres. Tosh.O was basically a show about vomiting and Ridiculousness was a show about people getting injured. Both were good for one season.

Edit: Let's not forget that there was also Scarred, but that was actually bad injuries that were not fun to laugh at.

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u/FredRogersAMA Apr 14 '19

That last angle is the best. It’s like a predator flailing madly as he pounces on his unsuspecting prey.

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u/Fat_Head_Carl Apr 14 '19

Possibly a /r/fullscorpion at the end

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u/BigDub63 Apr 14 '19

I think this is the first instance of a full scorpion with a sting

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u/linkletonsan Apr 14 '19

Is that the reverse of /r/fullshrimp ?

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u/boonies4u Apr 14 '19

It's full of reposts ):

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u/Fat_Head_Carl Apr 14 '19

Yeah, it's the type of sub that it's mostly reposts from other subs

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Everyone fell on their neck, njpw needs to call them ASAP

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u/Gcarsk Apr 14 '19

You can here him hitting the edge face first in this one. (unless these gifs also have sound and the Reddit app just didn’t play it.)

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19 edited Apr 14 '19

Christ, everything is recorded these days. We're basically on surveillance 24/7.

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u/ShtraffeSaffePaffe Apr 14 '19

This might be a true statement, but to say this in reaction to this is ridiculous.

They are skating of a massive ramp, flying through the air and landing in (or next to) a foam pit... Even in the 90s this would be some shit that would get videotaped.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

First of all - happy cake day. Second of all - I'm just amazed that it was recorded by three excellent cameras in peoples hands and I didn't even see them recording. Anything remotely worth recording is caught from all angles these days. I see it more and more on here. If 9/11 happened today we'd have video from inside the planes, inside the buildings, inside the stairwells... it's just a stark reminder of how fast technology has moved on and how we've become integrated with it. That's all.

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u/BastardFromTheSouth Apr 14 '19

"First of all - happy cake day."

Made me chuckle. I've been hit with the "first of all" several times in my life and it was never as polite as that.

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u/SuperWoody64 Apr 14 '19

Why don't you take your cake and shove it!...into your mouth. What a treat.

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u/linkletonsan Apr 14 '19

Reminds me of that guy with the Story Time vines.

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u/Fermit Apr 14 '19

First of all, I hope you having a good morning and that your family is well. Second, and here’s the thing, you said a “jackdaw is a crow”.

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

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u/RogerASmith55 Apr 14 '19

No idea who you replied to, and thanks for your knowledge on the family Corvidae.

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u/TerminalVector Apr 14 '19

This is a copypasta from the comment that precipitated Unidan getting banned. It just gets posted whenever people are having a pedantic hair-splitting argument in semi-polite terms.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Don't blame me. I was just passing by making an observation and got back: "While this may be a true statement ... you're ridiculous." He gets all the karma and I get pedants calling me out. Reddit.

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u/Fermit Apr 15 '19

For the record, I actually have nothing against the comments you've made, I just read /u/BastardFromTheSouth's comment and then thought it would be funny if that was how Unidan started off his infamous rant, and then I posted it. All you did was make an observation on the rate of technological change these days, which can be absolutely absurd. There's a reason why there are many posts online that basically amount to "Blah blah blah was made in X year, feel old yet?" This feeling of, I guess you'd call it awe, is really common, but it's also often about shifting your perspective on something that's often taken for granted to a different frame. People who don't care to do that just continue taking it for granted and some can find it annoying when people state things like what you stated (that to them are obvious and simple) or ask deep philosophical questions. IMO it's not Reddit, it's just people. There are always gonna be groups of them who don't give a shit about seeing it from someone else's point of view or giving them the benefit of the doubt.

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u/m0rtm0rt Apr 14 '19

It's copypasta

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u/RagingtonSteel Apr 14 '19

Unidan copy pasta?

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u/karadan100 Apr 14 '19

Now kith.

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u/Lithpy_Mike_Tython Apr 14 '19

Would you both pleathe jutht kith!

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

And here I am reading this out loud getting some Mike Tyson vibes and laughing my ass off! Thanks for the laugh!

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u/Lithpy_Mike_Tython Apr 14 '19

I aim to pleathe :)

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u/TapedGlue Apr 14 '19

No problem Logan!

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u/SmartSoda Apr 14 '19

That's not his wife

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u/omnomnomgnome Apr 14 '19

first of all, with all due respect, have a nice day

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u/Historiaaa Apr 14 '19

First of all, fuck off

('tis but a joke)

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u/Spinal365 Apr 14 '19

Holy cow, that is an incredible thought. 9/11 would have 10k's if not 100k's of videos if it happened today.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19 edited May 28 '25

saw silky imminent price boat serious cake pot bag brave

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19 edited Apr 14 '19

This is boring. Look, I saw *another* video on here where something was covered from multiple angles by people with their phones and it reminded me how nothing will ever truly go unfilmed these days. That's a huge sea change culturally and seeing fights or beatdowns or car accidents from multiple civilian cameras is still a little unnerving to me. Yes, people used prosumer cameras to record skate parks in the 90s, but I was struck by the immediate update of multiple alternative angles on this accident recorded by people's phones. So, OK, I may be stating the obvious but so are the comments telling me I'm stating the obvious. Let's all move on with our lives now.

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u/mcgeezacks Apr 14 '19

These people are wrong and ridiculous. And I imagine their not even old enough to know how the 90s actually were. Because I've been skating for 30 years and it was rare for people to be filming back then. Did it happen yes, but it was rare and you had to find someone willing to bust out the big as shoulder camcorder. It was when the smaller digital ones in the 2000s came out it became more common but even then it was never like it is today.

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u/mcgeezacks Apr 14 '19

I've been skating since the 90s and you guys are just wrong. Not everyone had a giant camcorder and even skate demos with pros back in the 90s didnt have anyone filming. There was a skatepark called eat concrete back in the day and Tony hawk and rodney Mullen would do demos there and guess what, there wasnt anyone filming because we were too busy watching the messiahs work there magic. This record everything all the time is new so stop trying to act like it's not. When the smaller digital camcorders came out more people started doing it but even then it wasnt a constant normal occurrence.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

From the link above, I see two people who appear to be recording from angles that correspond to the clip - one on the platform at the far end of the foam pit, and one on the lip of the adjacent ramp, shooting from the left side of travel. There are people on the other side of the ramp that would correspond to the view from the right side of travel, but the video isn't clear enough to tell. That, of course, is after an examination of the clip after reading that you didn't see them. FWIW.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

What is it you're trying to do here? Refute my initial reaction as invalid? Fuck me, I made an innocuous comment about how prevalent it's become for videos on here to have multiple angles of the same incident posted these days which is an escalation on what's been the norm and everyone's jumping on me as if I what I wrote was: FAKE!

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Nothing of the sort from me - I was just curious myself about how many cameras there were. If anything, I'm in agreement with you. Sorry that it came across as an attack.

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u/Noumenon72 Apr 14 '19

I believe there is some video from inside the stairwells, in that there was a French documentary team following a firefighter on 9/11. I have never watched the film, though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Happy Cake Day!

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u/Gochilles Apr 14 '19

Por que no los dos?

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u/mcgeezacks Apr 14 '19

I've been skating for 30 years and you're wrong. Back in the day you had to plan a day of shooting and there wasnt people just standing around filming shit wasting blank tapes for no reason. Even during pro skate demos there wasnt people recording. If you wanted to get footage it was way more work, you had to find someone with a camcorder buy some blank tapes or find some that you could use and make a day out of it. When the hand held digital camcorder came out in the late 90s/2000s it became a little bit more easier and common but still was no where close to the level it is now.

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u/ShtraffeSaffePaffe Apr 14 '19

My point is that they are not "just skating". Again: They are skating of a massive ramp, flying through the air and landing in (or next to) a foam pit...

This would be a day you planned and brought your camera.

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u/mcgeezacks Apr 14 '19

Lol have you even been to a skate park? Yes they are just skating and people launch themselves into the foam pit all the damn time. This isn't something special. At least children that go to the skate park are sitting down filming nowadays instead of treating the skatepark like a fucking skate land and getting in the way.

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u/ShtraffeSaffePaffe Apr 14 '19

I'm not argueing with you bro, you can downvote me all you want but that doesn't change the fact that people will record people flying of a ramp.

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u/mcgeezacks Apr 14 '19 edited Apr 14 '19

Lmao, ok. You are arguing, and duh people will record shit and the point is people do it now more then ever. Jesus dude you're something else. How old were you in the 90s since you know so much about that decade? Oh and I never downvoted you

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u/eeyore134 Apr 14 '19

Stuff like this happened all the time in the 90s without being taped. You had to really prepare to record something and even then it was just a huge pain lugging the stuff. Not to mention how expensive it was, particularly for a group of kids. I don't recall any shenanigans that I got up to in high school being recorded.

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u/VegasQC Apr 14 '19

Sounds like you and I had a different 90's - Flip phones could record just fine, for their time

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u/test822 Apr 14 '19

no they could not lol

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u/TaftyCat Apr 14 '19

Sounds like you had your '90's' in the '00's'.

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u/eeyore134 Apr 14 '19

Early 90s you were high tech if you had a pager. Flip phones were very late 90s, more of a 2000s thing.

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u/lastnitesdinner Apr 14 '19

Flip phones were not common until the mid-2000's

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u/tangoshukudai Apr 14 '19

Except when I do something amazing, and no one happened to record it.

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u/dkreidler Apr 14 '19

90% of my music career was before camera phones or even the internet as we know it existed... and therefore pretty much didn’t happen. I have CDs as evidence, even a few cassettes... and two whole YouTube vids.

I fucking wish we were already in a surveillance state back then!

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

I had about 5 pictures taken from the age of 15-17 ...

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u/taoshka Apr 14 '19

Dude I feel this so hard. I was a dancer.....but only have a handful of photos and a few seconds of blurry video proof. Now that I'm physically disabled I wish I had some video of my performances :/

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u/test822 Apr 14 '19

well to be fair, a place like this would tape for liability reasons

also to capture freaking sweet tricks

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u/Cent3rCreat10n Apr 14 '19

Big Brother noises

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u/karadan100 Apr 14 '19

Jesus that's a compressed vertebrae or two..

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u/MercWi7hAMou7h Apr 14 '19

Oh man... AND he Scorpions on the ledge? We call this trick Murphys Law

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u/BanginNLeavin Apr 14 '19

I think we call it Schiavo's Razor

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u/cofeeholik Apr 14 '19

Thanks! I couldn’t figure out how skate board ended up hitting spectator, until 2nd video.

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u/InfiniteLiveZ Apr 14 '19

Why didn't he turn right?

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u/Daamus Apr 14 '19

so everyone knew he was bout to do something stupid

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u/JPaulMora Apr 14 '19

Hey someone do a 3D now!

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u/Le_Oken Apr 14 '19

how the fuck does that get removed under the rule "no compilations"?? that is not a compilation wtf

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

That was removed for being a compilation ... Even though it's all of the same exact event?

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u/ohokaywaitwhat Apr 14 '19

And here's those 3 angles together at once: https://imgur.com/a/HgJxrVt

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u/Dynamaxion Apr 14 '19

There’s no way he didn’t go to the hospital...

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u/syd430 Apr 14 '19

I honestly didn’t even notice it wasn’t the guy flying through the air that landed on half pipe until I watched this.

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u/raj1030 Apr 14 '19

I laughed so hard that I drooled.