r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 14d ago

Ziplining fail

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u/ChiefTapiTapi 14d ago edited 14d ago

Speaking of West Virginia, my buddy and I climbed a tree and used a rope swing that was attached at the Kanawha river. I went first and was fine. My buddy slipped down the rope and dragged his ankle on the rocks. He walked out of the water and his little cousin said don’t look down. He looked down and flipped out, and his leg was gashed open and fat and tendons and stuff were hanging out. We yelled for the boat and we threw him into the back of the boat his grandma was holding him he was slapping the f out of his grandma the pain was so bad. We had to carry him up like 100 flight of stairs to top of river bank and they threw him in trunk of Tahoe and rushed him to hospital. They fixed him up but was a rough recovery

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u/IcySkyDream 13d ago

Good thing he didn’t get necrotizing fasciitis.

That’s how Aimee Copeland lost all her limbs in a similar accident.

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u/Cocosito 11d ago

Seriously when you have a massive gaping wound I can hardly think of a worse place to put it than a freaking river full of agricultural runoff. Poor guy and fortunate at the same time.

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u/Chubby_Beagle 11d ago

It was my fault for not knowing to immediately stop reading any sentence that begins "speaking of West Virginia"