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Don't forget the dude who threw himself from the top of the fucking Eiffel Tower in a test of his prototype "flying suit". There's actual footage of his descent.
Note that he was told multiple times not to do this, and only ended up getting access at all by lying to security and claiming he was only throwing a dummy down.
Is that the guy who ended up becoming a vaguely humanoid splatter mark on the concrete below?
Yep. Died on impact, with the suit failing to deploy properly. Supposedly the tests with the dummy had been successful.
except for the final test with the dummy, which spectacularly failed
Texting while driving deaths were zero back then though, checkmate liberals.
i'm sure at least one person died due to distracted riding, combined with a spiteful horse
Not a cellphone in sight!
The reason cellphones are relevant here is that they are used to record the event, either through still images or videos. So, to compare, we need to look at the people in these photographs and try to figure out how likely it is that there is a camera nearby to record the event.
Flagpole sitting is one of those things you can't really mentally picture until you see a photo and then realize it's like those fever nightmares you had as a kid, where the legs of the chairs in the cafe were all 100 feet tall and you couldn't keep yours balanced, and then you had to jump over to a door in the wall at your height to leave.
We all remember that dream right
For me, fever dreams are worrying about nonsensical things.
man, for me it's just being half awake (and feeling half dead) and thinking a cabinet handle is a truly massive cockroach (to which my reaction is of course "oh that's gonna be a pain to deal with later, oh well back to sleep")
My fever dream was always trying to balance countless of bouncing balls on a large tray, everything flying off, of course until a single ball remains, which inevitably rolls off the side. Then the whole thing starts over again. Torture on repeat.
Humans have always been doing stupid things ... we seldom heard about many of those crazy things ... and most of them we never heard of because the people who did them died.
Nah, you can survive a ton of stupid shit. The issue (or the blessing, probably) is that most of those at most turned into pub stories, not something you hear from on a different continent.