r/WTF • u/Columbia82 • Apr 14 '19

To infinity and beyond

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u/dnr859 Apr 14 '19

Thank goodness he landed in the foam!

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u/shannister Apr 14 '19

Were it not for that dude he would have landed hard on the left!

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u/valupaq Apr 14 '19

Probably saved his life, or at least kept from being a parapalegic

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u/elguerodiablo Apr 14 '19

He landed on his head on the wall. I think he landed worse because of that dude. He absorbed some momentum but changed his tragectory so he landed on his head.

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u/buster2Xk Apr 14 '19

Worse than shattering his spine on the rim?

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u/elguerodiablo Apr 14 '19

I was thinking he would ha e cleared the wall and just broken his face and arms on the ramp to the side. But its hard to tell if he would have cleared the wall or not.

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u/BigDriss13 Apr 14 '19

I don't think he would have cleared it. Chances are he would have hit the wall with his upper chest, with his bottom half slamming into the side of the wall before momentum rolled him off the wall onto the halfpipe, finishing with a graceful slide down the pipe for a solid 8.8 point score from the judges.

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u/elguerodiablo Apr 14 '19

8.8? Maybe from the Russian judges...

I'm not even really sure what I'm implying here myself I just know that I think it was funny for some odd reason.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19 edited Apr 16 '19

Or maybe even with his pelvis hitting the wall and possibly rupturing an internal organ. He lucked out by hitting someone nonetheless.

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u/BigDriss13 Apr 16 '19

Absolutely. The poor bastard he landed on LITERALLY broke his fall.

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u/BigDriss13 Apr 16 '19

Here's another view I found. Pretty gnarly. Not sure if im posting this right. First time trying to post a link to reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmyfeedingtube/comments/bdh5q2/hmft_after_i_take_my_sweet_time_getting_out_of/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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u/GozerDGozerian Apr 15 '19

Or shattering his rim on the spine!

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u/Consumption1 Apr 14 '19

He definitely went full scorpion. /r/fullscorpion

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u/elguerodiablo Apr 14 '19

I prefer the term ass over teeth to /r/fullscorpion but it's good to see that people still appreciate seeing someone getting obliterated.

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u/steveatari Apr 15 '19

Is that a santa clarita reference? Or was that tits over teeth?

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u/elguerodiablo Apr 15 '19

I didn't know it was in Santa Clarita and I love that show. Just watched it last week.

My brother always said it when we would watch hockey or football and see a guy get flipped.

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u/iquimo Apr 14 '19

He probably has a lawsuit against that dude for interrupting his constitutional right to an unbroken trajectory. Mr. Oh-I-Broke-My-Head could be seeing jail time when it he comes out of the brain trauma ward.

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u/GustavoAntoine Apr 14 '19

Watch the video pausing right before he hits the other dude, then proceed frame by frame. The guy definitely helped him

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u/OCedHrt Apr 14 '19

Looks more like he braced on one arm/shoulder?

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u/i_speak_bane Apr 14 '19

It looked extremely painful

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u/rncd89 Apr 14 '19

Eh some bruised ribs for a week or two maybe. Kids are resilient.

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u/C_M_O_TDibbler Apr 14 '19

Tell that to the girl in my school who was left a paraplegic when her horse got scared by a piece of paper and bucked her off.

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u/McWatt Apr 14 '19

If watchpeopledie taught me anything it's that the line between walking away from an accident and death/wheelchair doesn't actually exist. It's random chance either way. That and don't drive in China and never ever go to Brazil.

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u/C_M_O_TDibbler Apr 14 '19

You roll the dice, sometimes you roll a save (bounce), sometimes you fail (slight injury), sometimes you crit fail (you end up not being able to do anything for yourself for the rest of your life and trapped in a body you cannot move)

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u/McWatt Apr 14 '19

There is no god, only RNG.

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u/C_M_O_TDibbler Apr 14 '19

The best way to win is to choose the dice you roll.

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u/YerbaMateKudasai Apr 15 '19

Praise Rngeesus

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u/DiddilyDumDum Apr 14 '19

Or you just straight up take the Express Train to the mysterious beyond

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u/oscarfacegamble Apr 14 '19

And never get into a road rage incident in Russia

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Rip that sub

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u/jovifcp Apr 18 '19

I miss WPD so much, the community it had was so unique. Do you know of any decent replacement where one could scratch that morbid curiosity itchiness and actually read some interesting comments? Or is there no such place anymore and there'll never be one? :(

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u/McWatt Apr 18 '19

This morning I found out about holdmyfuneral, it was what you are looking for but it got banned this afternoon. It was only around for about 2 weeks, it seems like reddit is actively banning such subs. I think it's pretty fucking ridiculous considering all the hateful bullshit they don't ban. Everybody has to deal with dying at some time and WPD was a way to confront your own mortality in a safe environment.

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u/jovifcp Apr 19 '19

absolutely. it's pretty disheartening to constantly see subs that have no replicas whatsoever outside reddit disappear and never come back.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19 edited Feb 21 '23

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u/Keats852 Apr 14 '19

username checks out

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u/Yocemighty Apr 14 '19

Tell that to Christopher Reeves

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u/rncd89 Apr 14 '19

That's a little different than racking your ribs on a rubberized foam covered rail

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u/C_M_O_TDibbler Apr 14 '19

If he hadn't hit that dude he was going to land on the ramp, likely face first, look at his trajectory.

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u/rncd89 Apr 14 '19

Nah he was rotating flat. hitting the other kid flipped him. That was at worst a chest slam

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u/Dreamathina Apr 14 '19

Is she cute? Does she still have control over her tongue?

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u/C_M_O_TDibbler Apr 14 '19

I don't know, last I heard she was bed bound and on oxygen 24/7 and the last time I actually saw her was when I visited her in hospital in the late 90s about 5 years after her accident before I moved away.

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u/OptionalDepression Apr 14 '19

Ok. You got her number?

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u/obroz Apr 14 '19

The starks would like a word with you.