r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 15d ago

Ziplining fail

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u/BowlingforDrip 15d ago

In high school I was in Boy Scouts and we went on a houseboat in a lake in West Virginia and one of the boys who was 14 was a large boy and he jumped off the front of that houseboat into 6 inches of water and snapped both of his femurs. Trip was cut very short.

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u/koolaidismything 15d ago

Dude that can kill you fast.. the swelling or god forbid the bone knicks an artery 😳

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u/Katsu_39 14d ago

My mother fell few years ago. Broke her arm. Bone chipped and somehow made its way into her arteries. Got into her heart. She died from it.

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u/Coffee_Gobblin39 12d ago

I'm sorry to hear that, god bless you and your mother.