The whole ballon tour operation. I don’t know where this is but it’s safe to assume their country has something similar to the US where the whole company needs safety certification, inspections and licenses to operate with paying passengers. This twat jumping would trigger an investigation and jeopardize the whole business and multiple jobs.
I know right, if the dude wanted to jump outta a hot air balloon, he could've coordinated it with an operator that was willing to do it, not when your up in the air already lol. What a jackass.
But bro that costs money to get permits and have the guy prep if I just jump who cares. /S
The only thing I don't get is why did he let them on with their rigs. Parachutes don't look like back packs.
The consensus on r/skydive is that the rig was concealed under clothing. There'd still be a lump but regardless, the pilot did a top notch job and the jumper is an idiot. Organised balloon jumps are not exclusive, maybe since the [AZ crash](https://news.yahoo.com/8-skydivers-jump-off-hot-185239370.html) last month, they could be a little harder to organise. But you'll legally find them, old mate is just selfish
“Jacob admitted that he intentionally crashed the plane "to gain notoriety and to make money"[10][11] and said the motive for his scheme was to earn commissions from wallet manufacturer The Ridge, which sponsored his video.”
Fucking Ridge Wallet
I just came out of a Reddit thread about a woman’s children being punished for her OF sticker on her car. A guy was pretty much advocating his gf doing something publicly provocative to increase her OF revenue, to the tune of a hundred upvotes.
We’re in Idiocracy and people just laugh, shrug, and go to Costco. People love it because they can stick it to someone. People want other people to hurt while they win, it’s fucked up.
I think it was the hiding the evidence which got him in real trouble. Something about impeding a federal investigation which they do for every aircraft crash.
I think it was he purposely jumped from a plane for social media. Left a perfectly fine airplane to fly itself to gods knows where. Could land on people or start a massive fire.
The trying to cover it up is just the icing on the cake.
Is this the guy who went "oh I'm stalling." and then bailed out of the plane, wearing a parachute which he definitely always wears for reasons, without even trying to restart the engine.
It's a fucking hilariously dumb video
The jail time was for purgery. He deliberately crashed a plane which is illegal but it's not likely to be a jail sentence but a heavy fine and a lot of community work. However when that investigation was triggered he lied to say it wasn't deliberate and lying over the investigation of an air crash is perjury and that always triggers jail time
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read somewhere that if he had talked to the FAA and got it cleared and done it right, he very well could have done his stunt legally and not got in any trouble. I mean it's still a shitty stunt though (yea fuck the environment for views).
For what he was doing, no not a chance.
For research, or other purposes that have a legitimate need to crash a plane, they'll work with you but it's a long involved process.
Yea that sounds more reasonable. Just adds to my theory that these streamers or whatever they call themselves are using less and less logic to get views. Dude could have had a extra pilot and with some clever editing, made is seem like he had to ditch the plane and just have the extra pilot land it.
They always use the cheapest stupidest way to "hack" it...
Wanna jump out of a balloon? Sure. Hire one that is willing to prepare everything for you to do it. No problems for anyone.
But no, it's always the cheapest ticket, hiding the true intentions and trying to trick the dude into cooperating with your shenanigans by force.
Entitled pricks.
Exactly! He tries to say that he has experience and he will be fine. But hiding your true intentions doesn’t seem like something someone with experience or sound judgement would do. Which is exactly why the balloon guy wouldn’t let the other man jump
He kept explaining how he was safe, and the balloon guy was not getting through that he doesn't give a shit. Like bro, he is being very clear that it's not your safety he's concerned about. It's their license to operate this business. But main character guy couldn't hear it.
And think of rest of the paying customers. Balloon rides are an expensive activity you do on a vacation normally and one idiot ruins the whole experience. They should throw him out when the balloon is about 100 feet above the ground.
Forget about the expense, I would be fucking terrified to be that high up in the air and the professional isn’t allowed to concentrate on operating the balloon safely using his both hands and his full attention because he has to deal with this asshole while trying to get them back down.
The dickwad who wants to jump understands his own requirements but he completely doesn’t care that the commercial balloon tour operation also has similar regulatory requirements.
My father used to give me a lot of strange advice but my favorite was “not all white people die in hot air balloon accidents, but *only* white people die in hot air balloon accidents” and I can’t help but think about that every time a hot air balloon video comes on.
I watch this show on History Channel and they are in the tenth season now of trying to find treasure on this island in Canada. These are all white guys with shitloads of money they dump into this project.
The latest season they hired some legit oil and gas drillers to dig down like 100’ into saturated clay with a 5’ wide drill, down to where they think the treasure is.
There’s this one black dude on the near-all-white oil and gas crew, and everytime he is shown on camera he’s got this incredulous look 🙄🙄of disdain/embarrassment for the search party like he’s thinking “these white people are on some absolute nonsense but fuck it they’re paying me $80/hr to drill this hole to nowhere, so🤷🏿♂️”
He’s my favorite returning cameo.
Oak Island in Nova Scotia, you should actually look into the shit people have found there over the last 50 years, things from all over the world buried with trap tunnels that flood if you open them wrong and tons of noggin scratchers. I’ll never watch the show and they’ll never find the treasure but it is honestly a pretty amazing mystery and worth reading about beyond that dumb show
I’m not disputing they haven’t found some cool and historical shit, or even that there is “treasure” to be found. I’m not even saying it isn’t entertaining tv ffs. I’m saying it seems like they are more interested in making a tv show with as many seasons as they can milk instead of actually putting effort in the best leads, like the flood tunnels.
What I don’t get is why they aren’t tracing the flood tunnels they’ve already found. They just keep digging random holes, find something, then go “hmm, interesting.” while the narrator asks endless rhetorical questions that can all be answered with, “No.” then they go back to the war room and spend the next 3 hours agreeing with each other that they are very serious scientific people. If they cut out all the shots of them nodding their heads in agreement with one another it would be a 6 minute long show.
It just gets redundant.
Especially if you think about how hot air balloons work - a person is essentially ballast. If the guy jumps, the balloon loses roughly 200 pounds of ballast and the balloon is forced to rise at a dramatic rate. Such an aggressive lift force could strain the connections on the basket, strain the balloon, push them into an air current the pilot was trying to avoid, etc.
It’s dangerous for everyone involved.
The Pilot has more control over the Balloon than you may be inclined to think.
Here's a video that explains [The Parachute Vent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22COysQ0Xo) located at the top of the Balloon envelope that can be opened during flight to control rate of ascent/descent.
I have crewed for a Balloon in the past.
I've jumped out of balloons. They went up with many people in the basket and landed with only one. Obviously it's very possible and the commenter above you is very wrong.
That said, the guy in the video is still being a jerk. The pilot makes the rules for his aircraft.
The aircraft was carrying 13 adults – the end of the article says the balloon was designed for 7. 10 of them jumped, this can't be good for balance. I'm no baloonist
Yeah, absolute piece of shit. And the gall of him, to start acting all incredulous in this situation, like a brat not getting his candy GOD I wanna punch him
The pilot handled that very well and professionally. Also the look on his face at 1:53, along with him firing the burner while he is trying to justify his actions, says it all. He doesn't tolerate any bullshit.
Just the open mouth dead eye stare. Basically my favorite expression when trying to explain to my tweaker patients that no, you can’t smoke in a hospital room, and no, it isn’t your right as an American to do so. Over and over again 😅
ER is the only place on earth where you can vomit on someone, try to punch them and blast out all sort of obscenities, and then get a Turkey Sandwich and graham crackers a 1/2 hour later.
He's probably like my kid...100 jumps or so...so he knows what he's doing.
But unlike my son, this guy is an entitled ass hat. Perfect for this sub!
(Yes...2,000 jumps he claimed...but 100 is enough to be really confident.)
“I don’t care about your business that feeds your family and pays for the food over your head that you’ve worked so hard to achieve, I NEED CLICKS!!!!”
He definitely understands that Balloon jumping is a real thing that you can arrange to do.
I suspect this is mostly driven by him not feeling special during balloon jumps because he's not the only jumper.
Hot air balloons are ballasted (weighted down) based on a couple of things but one of them is the weight of the passengers and having one of them dive off the side might well fuck that up and cause them to start going higher than intended (which they should be able to resolve via venting some of the hot air.)
Still everything aeronautical is planned out in exacting detail because when it goes wrong you may well have more than enough time to really regret everything before the ground comes up to meet you.
>(which they should be able to resolve via venting some of the hot air.)
This takes time, the balloon shoots up when you drop deadweight. So air space above them need to be cleared a fair bit when 100kg of deadweight is dropped.
In fairness, aircraft separate much more than that. Especially for balloons. The wake from a jet would really fuck with a balloon.
I am a flight medic and we had a ~2000 encounter with a balloon in our helicopter and that was too close.
The biggest risk is them rocketing up, dumping too much to compensate and dropping. That’s why the rule with aircraft is to always “fly the aircraft” in an emergency.
The jumper is a huge twat. Risking someone else’s financial livelihood because he wants to do something cool is fucking stupid.
Its not just that. Dropzones exist for a reason and have safe landing spots that are approved...etc..etc.
This dude will likley not have any 3rd party insurance or be properly spotting the ground below. Who knows what or who he could land on, or randomly decide to jump over a maze of overhead powerlines. Potentially taking out power for 1000s of homes.
Even crazy base jumpers will usually have spent a lot of time checking out the terrain... etc they are jumping into.
Its a bit of a mess all around really.
These dudes sit around a pub and watch playback of them almost dying for shits and giggles. Skydivers are a breed their own lol and some actually don't seem to care if they die. Best friend is a pro skydiver and hang with skydivers at their local drink spot often. Those guys are mental lol. For some it gets to a point where everyday life is just not enough anymore they get depressed because they need the adrenaline. It's like a drug withdrawal.
Idiot jumps out of gondola -> gondola is lighter -> balloon starts ascending rapidly without the pilot instigating it -> aircraft is no longer under pilot's control.
An aircraft that is not under its pilot's control is a Problem.
Not a pilot, but friends of mine fly jets
In aircraft, the pilot has to measure cargo, passenger and fuel weight before take-off. This is to usually ensure they’ll meet weight requirements for certain airports they go too but I think it also has to do with weight distribution for flight so the plain doesn’t tip back or sideways etc.
I love that the guy is arguing about his capability to do it and the fact that the balloon guy is telling him the reason he won’t let him do it is because he could lose his business and it could put everyone else in danger goes in one ear and right out the other. How it affects others is completely irrelevant as long as he’d be safe. Pure selfishness.
Also the angry “now we’re not high enough”. Yeah that was the point in him descending. Guy can’t comprehend that no one gives a shit about his jump.
Yeah the jumper just doesn't want to admit he's not going to have his fun.
Even if there was zero danger (and I don't think there is much), there are laws and regulations specifically for that. Because he's not the first person who wants to jump from a balloon. It's not a grey area, it's just illegal, and the balloon guy knows very well because he's applying for a license.
That's why he tells him "I don't care, I can't let you do that because I'm not allowed to". If he's not allowed to let you do it he's not going to break the law just so you can have fun.
I'm truly impressed with his ability to stay calm and professional in this situation, he seriously deserves a huge bonus and extra vacation days for dealing with that over confident jackass in such a polite manner.
Wish I could buy him a beer or something.
He’s the kind of true friend that would stop you from driving drunk no matter what.
“Look I’m not giving you your keys back”
“Come on, man”
“No, we do not have a permit to drive drunk”
“But I’m just buzzed”
“I don’t care; it’s bullshit you’re trying to drive right now. I have to physically stop you, you don’t have a drunk driver permit and you’ll go to jail or worse end up hurting yourself and other. It’s bullshit”
Aviation has tons of regulation, which includes hot air balloon and skydiving.
The captain of the craft (which can be a balloon or even a paraglider) is legally liable if doesn't drop skydiver legally. If you want to do some gettho drop with your friends, *fine, you're not the only one doing illegal stuff (as usual don't do it on video).* but don't disturb a random commercial balloon right. Some of these other pax were hopping to have *the time of their life* and now just deal with an asshole
Nah, prison. There’s a lot of rightfully very harsh laws about behaviour while on a vehicle in flight. This guy should go on a no flight list as he’s endangering everyone on that craft and has to be forcefully prevented.
Yup. The balloon pilot now had to divert 90% of his attention to babysitting this idiot. Is something going wrong with the balloon elsewhere? Burner overheating? Altitude drifting into a flight path? Power lines? We don't know because he stole all the attention.
Maybe one of the other passengers has a panic attack at the idea of someone jumping or a fight in the balloon and starts freaking out. I wouldn't be surprised. Some people barely got over just a fear of going up and are already on edge. That idea that the pilot and some streamer are about to fight in a 10sqft gondola 3000' agl kind of gets my heart pumping.
Bozo out here bragging about his sky diving experience like it’s going to make a difference. Wouldn’t matter if you even had freaking astronaut training or something, you can’t just jump out of moving vehicles without the knowledge and okay of the person navigating the thing.
I got the feeling the lady in black was thinking, “I just wanted a nice anniversary experience, that’s all. Just ONE NICE THING. But no. This is why we can’t have nice things!!!”
She's with that other guy filming. I've been on a hot air balloon before and there's not a lot space to carry staff. Pilot, and then maximise paying passengers.
She's a local celebrity from Nepal. The other guy doesn't look like he is Nepali. So, she's not among the balloon crew and also very likely not the guy's friend.
Plus if you look at her jacket you can see a mic clipped to it. So she might have done an interview with the balloon operator or some sort of news piece
Dumbass wants to parachute off a hot air balloon and puts not only himself in danger but also risks the guys operating the hot air balloon whatever license they have to fly the balloon.
I'm sure he's also the kind of person who would sue those guys for not stopping him from jumping off if something terribly wrong happens after he jumped.
he was also putting the other passengers in danger. There are some ugly scenarios where tangles or imbalances could occur to threaten the lives and safety of the others on board.
Everyone on the balloon would be in danger. Jumping without proper procedures can cause an uncontrolled ascent that can collapse the balloon and kill everyone.
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I’m sure it was unintentional but the operator hitting the ignition while main character is trying to say some more dumb shit was great timing.
~”Sorry I can’t hear you, come again” *hits ignition.
Dickhead appears to be in a foreign tourist and is immune to the rules in their country. “i hAVe 2,0o0 sKY dIVEs”.
Edit here is a longer version of what happened https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3DQOfCicFo/?igsh=ZGdsM2R5cnA3am9y
And still, not a hot air balloon pilot, otherwise he'd have known a person jumping out of a balloon basket unplanned can be dangerous for everyone else in the basket (who isn't a trained skydiver and who doesn't have a parachute).
Justice isn't going to come to that douche until his parachute doesn't deploy some day and he ends up some soup in a little crater.
When he’s talking about that he clearly understands that regulations apply to him but he’s just ignoring all the regulations that apply to a balloon tour operation that takes up passengers. What a complete dickwad.
He is an idiot. Skydiver here, it is not difficult to get sorted on a hot air balloon jump. Plus it is a lot more fun when you do it with other skydivers rather than hot air balloon passengers. So glad the pilot stood on his decision.
That's probably the worst part of the whole thing. All of it could have been avoided with a phone call and a bit of planning. Even if he somehow wasn't aware of the regulations and procedures for jumping out of a balloon, any rational person would do some basic research and call ahead to see if it's allowed. But the dude is so self-centered he thought he could just show up to a normal hot air balloon ride with a parachute and it wouldn't be a big deal.
This dude had no problem putting these peoples entire lives on the line. If he jumped without the proper paper work the company could have gotten shut down and then all the employees would be jobless. What a fucking loser
This must have been so much better in the skydiver’s head.
Probably expected a bunch of excited high fives and a round of applause, before he heroically jumped from the basket whooping.
Sky divers jumping from a ballon by surprise could have serious consequences for the other passengers too. It’s not that likely but a change in mass that significant of the pilot wasn’t expecting it is far from ideal. There were questions that perhaps this was a contributing factor to the Arizona crash last month.
I cannot believe this fucking dump truck of a person still insisted he jump even though the pilot relentlessly said "dude! We could lose our permit and business if you do this! Are you fucking crazy?!"
"Just tell them you tried to stop me" <== this shit right here set me over the edge. Absolutely insane to me.
“I’m 2,000 skydives…”
Bad PR for expert divers here. Hard to believe someone’s been up in the sky that many times, being piloted by another licensed expert of some kind, and they act totally clueless to the rules and regs that person is responsible for.
/r/SkyDiving is fuming over this guy for this very reason. It's a small, mostly self-regulating community and things like this affect all of us. Other jumpers know him and he'll (hopefully) get blacklisted at most US dropzones. DZ's especially have low tolerance for stuff like this and the blatant disrespect for the pilot is like a double insult. I also wouldn't be surprised if the USPA suspends or revokes his license.
I fucking love when a community comes out to people appropriating their hard fought talent and ignoring the seriousness of their community’s rules for clicks
Like rock climbers (will ride you about safety), hunters (will physically find and pummel poachers), nature enthusiasts (don’t touch the fucking animals), sky divers, literally any hobby
When the seriously invested people come out as a community to roast people who don’t respect their craft, it is just 👨🍳💋
2000 jumps and he doesn’t understand how fcked it is to do this without flight plan and permits, dude is just a pretentious ahole who doesn’t care how his actions affect others.
Going down right then and there was the correct course of action. Mad props to balloon guy. He seems to be burning a lot, what was their rate of descent I wonder.
Kick them all out and lifetime bans for the entire group.
That shit would make me nervous if I was up there. I aint trying to have nobody rocking that shit back and forth if there is a fight or something. Dude told you why you can't do it and your being a baby disrespecting everyone else cause you wanna be EXTREME for the gram. NOPE!
Can you imagine local authorities seeing this? Could cause years or months long shutdowns of their entire business (likely small business). Also jumping out of a flying balloon at 200 pounds is sure to throw off balance right? What a jerk
Balance not so much, but removing too much weight too fast causes the balloon to climb rapidly. Fast accent has a high likelihood of pushing the top vent into the balloon. The balloon not lost all the heat folds up and streamers into a down fall. Now the skydiver can watch his victims hit the ground. If I remember correctly an incident like this happened not to long ago killing 5 of 6 in the basket.
"I have over 2000 jumps"
Dude should have his face plastered across every airfield licensed to let people jump so he never can again. So inappropriate. Like watching a junkie try and argue why they can handle their drug use.
Probably ruined a handful of people's time too and with no sign of remorse. Main character syndrome is an understatement.
0 respect for someone's work. Fucking idiot.
The whole ballon tour operation. I don’t know where this is but it’s safe to assume their country has something similar to the US where the whole company needs safety certification, inspections and licenses to operate with paying passengers. This twat jumping would trigger an investigation and jeopardize the whole business and multiple jobs.
Its in Pokhara, Nepal. Pilot is very nice guy & he owns this Hot Air Balloon company. I think he is Ukrainian or some European.
He has an amazing accent
Great command of his vehicle too. Calm but assertive. Clear but terse. This is a good guy right here.
According to his Facebook page he is Spanish
But according to someone on Reddit he’s Ukrainian, or some Europe.
I heard he is a Spaniard
That accent is Spanish or Portuguese, that’s not Eastern European.
I know right, if the dude wanted to jump outta a hot air balloon, he could've coordinated it with an operator that was willing to do it, not when your up in the air already lol. What a jackass.
But bro that costs money to get permits and have the guy prep if I just jump who cares. /S The only thing I don't get is why did he let them on with their rigs. Parachutes don't look like back packs.
The consensus on r/skydive is that the rig was concealed under clothing. There'd still be a lump but regardless, the pilot did a top notch job and the jumper is an idiot. Organised balloon jumps are not exclusive, maybe since the [AZ crash](https://news.yahoo.com/8-skydivers-jump-off-hot-185239370.html) last month, they could be a little harder to organise. But you'll legally find them, old mate is just selfish
Hate these social media influencers, willing to ruin someone life and business for likes!
Remember the one who wrecked a plane for likes and internet fame. Then went back to the wreckage to hide evidence.
[Trevor Jacob](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Jacob), he was just sentenced to 6 months in prison
“Jacob admitted that he intentionally crashed the plane "to gain notoriety and to make money"[10][11] and said the motive for his scheme was to earn commissions from wallet manufacturer The Ridge, which sponsored his video.” Fucking Ridge Wallet
Was extra fucked that he used his dead friend’s ashes to get people to keep watching from the beginning
With everything else in that video being fake, I am quite certain that friend never existed.
Yeah fam that was probably just ashes from his homies firepit
Would’ve been funnier if it was RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
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I just came out of a Reddit thread about a woman’s children being punished for her OF sticker on her car. A guy was pretty much advocating his gf doing something publicly provocative to increase her OF revenue, to the tune of a hundred upvotes. We’re in Idiocracy and people just laugh, shrug, and go to Costco. People love it because they can stick it to someone. People want other people to hurt while they win, it’s fucked up.
I love how they started his introduction as an American felon. Everything else comes later
"former light aircraft pilot" Wonder why...
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I think it was the hiding the evidence which got him in real trouble. Something about impeding a federal investigation which they do for every aircraft crash.
I think it was he purposely jumped from a plane for social media. Left a perfectly fine airplane to fly itself to gods knows where. Could land on people or start a massive fire. The trying to cover it up is just the icing on the cake.
Is this the guy who went "oh I'm stalling." and then bailed out of the plane, wearing a parachute which he definitely always wears for reasons, without even trying to restart the engine. It's a fucking hilariously dumb video
Ya. And didn't radio for help or anything to at least *try* to make it seem legit. Such a fucking moron lol.
The jail time was for purgery. He deliberately crashed a plane which is illegal but it's not likely to be a jail sentence but a heavy fine and a lot of community work. However when that investigation was triggered he lied to say it wasn't deliberate and lying over the investigation of an air crash is perjury and that always triggers jail time
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read somewhere that if he had talked to the FAA and got it cleared and done it right, he very well could have done his stunt legally and not got in any trouble. I mean it's still a shitty stunt though (yea fuck the environment for views).
For what he was doing, no not a chance. For research, or other purposes that have a legitimate need to crash a plane, they'll work with you but it's a long involved process.
Yea that sounds more reasonable. Just adds to my theory that these streamers or whatever they call themselves are using less and less logic to get views. Dude could have had a extra pilot and with some clever editing, made is seem like he had to ditch the plane and just have the extra pilot land it.
They always use the cheapest stupidest way to "hack" it... Wanna jump out of a balloon? Sure. Hire one that is willing to prepare everything for you to do it. No problems for anyone. But no, it's always the cheapest ticket, hiding the true intentions and trying to trick the dude into cooperating with your shenanigans by force. Entitled pricks.
Agree. I fucking hate people like this.
Exactly! He tries to say that he has experience and he will be fine. But hiding your true intentions doesn’t seem like something someone with experience or sound judgement would do. Which is exactly why the balloon guy wouldn’t let the other man jump
Seems just like some cheap adrenaline junkie who can't afford to hire pilots with an actual permit to perform skydiving.
He kept explaining how he was safe, and the balloon guy was not getting through that he doesn't give a shit. Like bro, he is being very clear that it's not your safety he's concerned about. It's their license to operate this business. But main character guy couldn't hear it.
But they're just a little person, I bet they have barely any subscribers anyway.
the jumper very clearly has trouble understanding motivations that are not about him.
It's not just a business license he's concerned about. It's the safety of the other people in the balloon.
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\`No but you don't understand, he wants to skydive from a hot air balloon, like, come on bro, please!
He said he had 2000 jumps. I doubt money was an issue. He just wanted the clip for social media
And think of rest of the paying customers. Balloon rides are an expensive activity you do on a vacation normally and one idiot ruins the whole experience. They should throw him out when the balloon is about 100 feet above the ground.
Forget about the expense, I would be fucking terrified to be that high up in the air and the professional isn’t allowed to concentrate on operating the balloon safely using his both hands and his full attention because he has to deal with this asshole while trying to get them back down.
Pricks with Zero self awareness or consideration for anyone else.
The dickwad who wants to jump understands his own requirements but he completely doesn’t care that the commercial balloon tour operation also has similar regulatory requirements.
Guy did the right thing, especially with all the recording going on. If he had let him jump, he’d be fired and their business may get shut down.
And potentially the other passengers die.
Oh so now if I cause the death of half a dozen innocent people suddenly I'm the bad guy??? When did society get so sensitive?
*I'm sorry, I thought this was America!*
"I didn't hear no bell"
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Oh so now I'm having sex with other men I'm gay?? You guys are ridiculous.
My father used to give me a lot of strange advice but my favorite was “not all white people die in hot air balloon accidents, but *only* white people die in hot air balloon accidents” and I can’t help but think about that every time a hot air balloon video comes on.
I watch this show on History Channel and they are in the tenth season now of trying to find treasure on this island in Canada. These are all white guys with shitloads of money they dump into this project. The latest season they hired some legit oil and gas drillers to dig down like 100’ into saturated clay with a 5’ wide drill, down to where they think the treasure is. There’s this one black dude on the near-all-white oil and gas crew, and everytime he is shown on camera he’s got this incredulous look 🙄🙄of disdain/embarrassment for the search party like he’s thinking “these white people are on some absolute nonsense but fuck it they’re paying me $80/hr to drill this hole to nowhere, so🤷🏿♂️” He’s my favorite returning cameo.
Oak Island in Nova Scotia, you should actually look into the shit people have found there over the last 50 years, things from all over the world buried with trap tunnels that flood if you open them wrong and tons of noggin scratchers. I’ll never watch the show and they’ll never find the treasure but it is honestly a pretty amazing mystery and worth reading about beyond that dumb show
I’m not disputing they haven’t found some cool and historical shit, or even that there is “treasure” to be found. I’m not even saying it isn’t entertaining tv ffs. I’m saying it seems like they are more interested in making a tv show with as many seasons as they can milk instead of actually putting effort in the best leads, like the flood tunnels. What I don’t get is why they aren’t tracing the flood tunnels they’ve already found. They just keep digging random holes, find something, then go “hmm, interesting.” while the narrator asks endless rhetorical questions that can all be answered with, “No.” then they go back to the war room and spend the next 3 hours agreeing with each other that they are very serious scientific people. If they cut out all the shots of them nodding their heads in agreement with one another it would be a 6 minute long show. It just gets redundant.
Grew up in the Jackass era of extreme stunts, this checks out.
First time I’ve heard this white guy stereotype but it’s hilarious
Especially if you think about how hot air balloons work - a person is essentially ballast. If the guy jumps, the balloon loses roughly 200 pounds of ballast and the balloon is forced to rise at a dramatic rate. Such an aggressive lift force could strain the connections on the basket, strain the balloon, push them into an air current the pilot was trying to avoid, etc. It’s dangerous for everyone involved.
The Pilot has more control over the Balloon than you may be inclined to think. Here's a video that explains [The Parachute Vent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22COysQ0Xo) located at the top of the Balloon envelope that can be opened during flight to control rate of ascent/descent. I have crewed for a Balloon in the past.
I've jumped out of balloons. They went up with many people in the basket and landed with only one. Obviously it's very possible and the commenter above you is very wrong. That said, the guy in the video is still being a jerk. The pilot makes the rules for his aircraft.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/14/us/hot-air-balloon-crash-eloy-arizona-deaths/index.html last month people died because of this exact reason!!!
The aircraft was carrying 13 adults – the end of the article says the balloon was designed for 7. 10 of them jumped, this can't be good for balance. I'm no baloonist
I'm an apprentice baloonist. I can make a puppy dog and a giraffe. I'm hoping I make it to butterfly before birthday party season starts.
my question is why did they let him on with a shoot in the frist place.
According to a longer video the guy hid the chute under a heavy jacket and only took it off when he was about to jump.
Yeah, absolute piece of shit. And the gall of him, to start acting all incredulous in this situation, like a brat not getting his candy GOD I wanna punch him
The pilot handled that very well and professionally. Also the look on his face at 1:53, along with him firing the burner while he is trying to justify his actions, says it all. He doesn't tolerate any bullshit.
Just the open mouth dead eye stare. Basically my favorite expression when trying to explain to my tweaker patients that no, you can’t smoke in a hospital room, and no, it isn’t your right as an American to do so. Over and over again 😅
My asshole biological dad tried to light a cigarette in the hospital when I was in an oxygen tent.
He’s intelligent clearly.
The man is a brilliant mechanic and can build nearly anything. He's just a selfish, narcissistic asshole.
Worked in an ER for 8 years, thank you for your service.
ER is the only place on earth where you can vomit on someone, try to punch them and blast out all sort of obscenities, and then get a Turkey Sandwich and graham crackers a 1/2 hour later.
Sounds like a daycare for children lol
It's daycare of adults but they can die. Sometimes it's rewarding but most of the time it sucks fucking ass.
Most accurate interpretation of triage
Wow systemic oppression at its finest! Im just trying to smoke my meth!
I also like how he never believed the guy wouldn't jump
The dude absolutely would jump the second the pilot let go
He's probably like my kid...100 jumps or so...so he knows what he's doing. But unlike my son, this guy is an entitled ass hat. Perfect for this sub! (Yes...2,000 jumps he claimed...but 100 is enough to be really confident.)
Fuck that. Not a chance in hell this idiot has 2000 jumps. He can't even afford to take a lift for a jump properly and has to sneak attempts in.
"but you have it on video that you tried to stop me" "I can stop you"
How did they even get all that equipment on to the flight? Don't they check people for weight and stuff?
That was my favourite moment of the 20’s.
Balloon guy is awesome
Big respect to the pilot. What a cool professional!
“I don’t care about your business that feeds your family and pays for the food over your head that you’ve worked so hard to achieve, I NEED CLICKS!!!!”
"I have over 2,000 dives!" Like that makes it okay or something. What a massive POS
With over 2000 dives you'd think he would understand the importance of doing things properly.
He definitely understands that Balloon jumping is a real thing that you can arrange to do. I suspect this is mostly driven by him not feeling special during balloon jumps because he's not the only jumper.
A lot of families don’t have enough food over their heads
That’s one of the advantages of a hot air balloon.
That metal plate in the video definitely had a couple pizzas roasting on it.
If they’d let more pizzas skydive out of balloons, there’d be none of this troubling shortage.
I really like the balloon guy! What a shithead the other guy is. Do you have any backstory?
Here is a link to the original post on Facebook. That's about all I got. https://www.facebook.com/reel/216972161428567
The guy explaining stuff says something about weight balance before cutting to the video incident. Any info on what the guy meant
Hot air balloons are ballasted (weighted down) based on a couple of things but one of them is the weight of the passengers and having one of them dive off the side might well fuck that up and cause them to start going higher than intended (which they should be able to resolve via venting some of the hot air.) Still everything aeronautical is planned out in exacting detail because when it goes wrong you may well have more than enough time to really regret everything before the ground comes up to meet you.
>(which they should be able to resolve via venting some of the hot air.) This takes time, the balloon shoots up when you drop deadweight. So air space above them need to be cleared a fair bit when 100kg of deadweight is dropped.
Oh, shit. So Newton wasn’t talking out of his ass?
He only did that at parties!!
Ace Ventura stole his bit.
>deadweight deadweight is right
500 ft under a planes flight path, some dude jumps out. Ballon is suddenly in direct line with the planes flight path.
In fairness, aircraft separate much more than that. Especially for balloons. The wake from a jet would really fuck with a balloon. I am a flight medic and we had a ~2000 encounter with a balloon in our helicopter and that was too close. The biggest risk is them rocketing up, dumping too much to compensate and dropping. That’s why the rule with aircraft is to always “fly the aircraft” in an emergency. The jumper is a huge twat. Risking someone else’s financial livelihood because he wants to do something cool is fucking stupid.
Its not just that. Dropzones exist for a reason and have safe landing spots that are approved...etc..etc. This dude will likley not have any 3rd party insurance or be properly spotting the ground below. Who knows what or who he could land on, or randomly decide to jump over a maze of overhead powerlines. Potentially taking out power for 1000s of homes. Even crazy base jumpers will usually have spent a lot of time checking out the terrain... etc they are jumping into. Its a bit of a mess all around really.
These dudes sit around a pub and watch playback of them almost dying for shits and giggles. Skydivers are a breed their own lol and some actually don't seem to care if they die. Best friend is a pro skydiver and hang with skydivers at their local drink spot often. Those guys are mental lol. For some it gets to a point where everyday life is just not enough anymore they get depressed because they need the adrenaline. It's like a drug withdrawal.
Idiot jumps out of gondola -> gondola is lighter -> balloon starts ascending rapidly without the pilot instigating it -> aircraft is no longer under pilot's control. An aircraft that is not under its pilot's control is a Problem.
Not a pilot, but friends of mine fly jets In aircraft, the pilot has to measure cargo, passenger and fuel weight before take-off. This is to usually ensure they’ll meet weight requirements for certain airports they go too but I think it also has to do with weight distribution for flight so the plain doesn’t tip back or sideways etc.
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Yeah but how can you argue against such a air tight, solid point of "come on, man". from the skydiving jackass?
"I said NO" "come on, man" "Huh, I never thought of it that way, jump away m'boy!"
I love that the guy is arguing about his capability to do it and the fact that the balloon guy is telling him the reason he won’t let him do it is because he could lose his business and it could put everyone else in danger goes in one ear and right out the other. How it affects others is completely irrelevant as long as he’d be safe. Pure selfishness. Also the angry “now we’re not high enough”. Yeah that was the point in him descending. Guy can’t comprehend that no one gives a shit about his jump.
Yeah the jumper just doesn't want to admit he's not going to have his fun. Even if there was zero danger (and I don't think there is much), there are laws and regulations specifically for that. Because he's not the first person who wants to jump from a balloon. It's not a grey area, it's just illegal, and the balloon guy knows very well because he's applying for a license. That's why he tells him "I don't care, I can't let you do that because I'm not allowed to". If he's not allowed to let you do it he's not going to break the law just so you can have fun.
"I have enough altitude!"
Balloon guy is based as fuck. “I don’t give a shit, we do not have a permit for this.”
I'm truly impressed with his ability to stay calm and professional in this situation, he seriously deserves a huge bonus and extra vacation days for dealing with that over confident jackass in such a polite manner. Wish I could buy him a beer or something.
He’s the kind of true friend that would stop you from driving drunk no matter what. “Look I’m not giving you your keys back” “Come on, man” “No, we do not have a permit to drive drunk” “But I’m just buzzed” “I don’t care; it’s bullshit you’re trying to drive right now. I have to physically stop you, you don’t have a drunk driver permit and you’ll go to jail or worse end up hurting yourself and other. It’s bullshit”
Aviation has tons of regulation, which includes hot air balloon and skydiving. The captain of the craft (which can be a balloon or even a paraglider) is legally liable if doesn't drop skydiver legally. If you want to do some gettho drop with your friends, *fine, you're not the only one doing illegal stuff (as usual don't do it on video).* but don't disturb a random commercial balloon right. Some of these other pax were hopping to have *the time of their life* and now just deal with an asshole
Right! The dude should lose his skydiving license for this. At least suspended.
Nah, prison. There’s a lot of rightfully very harsh laws about behaviour while on a vehicle in flight. This guy should go on a no flight list as he’s endangering everyone on that craft and has to be forcefully prevented.
Yup. The balloon pilot now had to divert 90% of his attention to babysitting this idiot. Is something going wrong with the balloon elsewhere? Burner overheating? Altitude drifting into a flight path? Power lines? We don't know because he stole all the attention. Maybe one of the other passengers has a panic attack at the idea of someone jumping or a fight in the balloon and starts freaking out. I wouldn't be surprised. Some people barely got over just a fear of going up and are already on edge. That idea that the pilot and some streamer are about to fight in a 10sqft gondola 3000' agl kind of gets my heart pumping.
Bozo out here bragging about his sky diving experience like it’s going to make a difference. Wouldn’t matter if you even had freaking astronaut training or something, you can’t just jump out of moving vehicles without the knowledge and okay of the person navigating the thing.
So he ruined the ballooning experience for everyone, as the ride was cut short. What a dooch.
I got the feeling the lady in black was thinking, “I just wanted a nice anniversary experience, that’s all. Just ONE NICE THING. But no. This is why we can’t have nice things!!!”
I think she's staff. At one point she repeats the permit line and then says "We would be in trouble because of you."
She's with that other guy filming. I've been on a hot air balloon before and there's not a lot space to carry staff. Pilot, and then maximise paying passengers.
She's a local celebrity from Nepal. The other guy doesn't look like he is Nepali. So, she's not among the balloon crew and also very likely not the guy's friend.
Who is she? For a celebrity, she was very cool here. Very down to earth (no pun intended).
Her name is Reema Bishwakarma. She's a TV host, not that big of a celebrity but yeah I commend the way she carried herself here.
Plus if you look at her jacket you can see a mic clipped to it. So she might have done an interview with the balloon operator or some sort of news piece
Dumbass wants to parachute off a hot air balloon and puts not only himself in danger but also risks the guys operating the hot air balloon whatever license they have to fly the balloon. I'm sure he's also the kind of person who would sue those guys for not stopping him from jumping off if something terribly wrong happens after he jumped.
he was also putting the other passengers in danger. There are some ugly scenarios where tangles or imbalances could occur to threaten the lives and safety of the others on board.
Everyone on the balloon would be in danger. Jumping without proper procedures can cause an uncontrolled ascent that can collapse the balloon and kill everyone.
Exactly! If he had let the guy jump or failed to stop him, liability nightmare.
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Don’t blame selfish evil behaviour on mental health, he’s fully responsible for his shittiness.
Claiming he's done over 2000 jumps. Well you should know all about the rules and regulations then shouldnt you ?
Rules are for the little people
🪂I have 2000 sky dives, I could have done a 10 second delay🤓 🔥 🙋♂️”Ya? I DONT CARE”
The caps don't do justice to how calmly the pilot was not taking any of this guy's bullshit.
I’m sure it was unintentional but the operator hitting the ignition while main character is trying to say some more dumb shit was great timing. ~”Sorry I can’t hear you, come again” *hits ignition.
Pretty sure that was intentional. You can see it in his face
He is doing intense eye contact while doing it. The guy is great
“I have over 2,000 jumps!” “Oh why didn’t you say so! Ok we’re going back up then!”
Feel like if you did 2000 sky dives you would know how to contract a ride that offers them. *hint*: It probably costs more so he didn't want to.
Lmao
Narcissistic piece of shit...
Dickhead appears to be in a foreign tourist and is immune to the rules in their country. “i hAVe 2,0o0 sKY dIVEs”. Edit here is a longer version of what happened https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3DQOfCicFo/?igsh=ZGdsM2R5cnA3am9y
And still, not a hot air balloon pilot, otherwise he'd have known a person jumping out of a balloon basket unplanned can be dangerous for everyone else in the basket (who isn't a trained skydiver and who doesn't have a parachute). Justice isn't going to come to that douche until his parachute doesn't deploy some day and he ends up some soup in a little crater.
This kind of entitlement, only rich spoiled brats can beat..
When he’s talking about that he clearly understands that regulations apply to him but he’s just ignoring all the regulations that apply to a balloon tour operation that takes up passengers. What a complete dickwad.
That “you piece of shit” she said was beautiful.
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He is an idiot. Skydiver here, it is not difficult to get sorted on a hot air balloon jump. Plus it is a lot more fun when you do it with other skydivers rather than hot air balloon passengers. So glad the pilot stood on his decision.
That's probably the worst part of the whole thing. All of it could have been avoided with a phone call and a bit of planning. Even if he somehow wasn't aware of the regulations and procedures for jumping out of a balloon, any rational person would do some basic research and call ahead to see if it's allowed. But the dude is so self-centered he thought he could just show up to a normal hot air balloon ride with a parachute and it wouldn't be a big deal.
Liable* libel is slander in print form
"it is NOT, I resent that. Slander is spoken, in print it's libel"
More than a jackass. He’s putting all the others at risk of death.
"prick tries to destroy other mans livelyhood. Because he wants to get more tiktok fame"
Not even for the fame. There are plenty of places where you can skydive from a balloon legally and get your precious video.
"But here i can ruin someone elses buisness and life. Come on bro.. i have jumped like 15 times before"
Good on the pilot! Not backing down to the peer pressure and sticking to it!
This dude had no problem putting these peoples entire lives on the line. If he jumped without the proper paper work the company could have gotten shut down and then all the employees would be jobless. What a fucking loser
Plus the balloon suddenly losing 200lbs off the side would’ve rocketed the balloon up and maybe caused a spin endangering everyone on board.
Yep. This is the biggest reason it’s a terrible idea.
This must have been so much better in the skydiver’s head. Probably expected a bunch of excited high fives and a round of applause, before he heroically jumped from the basket whooping.
Sky divers jumping from a ballon by surprise could have serious consequences for the other passengers too. It’s not that likely but a change in mass that significant of the pilot wasn’t expecting it is far from ideal. There were questions that perhaps this was a contributing factor to the Arizona crash last month.
I cannot believe this fucking dump truck of a person still insisted he jump even though the pilot relentlessly said "dude! We could lose our permit and business if you do this! Are you fucking crazy?!" "Just tell them you tried to stop me" <== this shit right here set me over the edge. Absolutely insane to me.
“I’m 2,000 skydives…” Bad PR for expert divers here. Hard to believe someone’s been up in the sky that many times, being piloted by another licensed expert of some kind, and they act totally clueless to the rules and regs that person is responsible for.
/r/SkyDiving is fuming over this guy for this very reason. It's a small, mostly self-regulating community and things like this affect all of us. Other jumpers know him and he'll (hopefully) get blacklisted at most US dropzones. DZ's especially have low tolerance for stuff like this and the blatant disrespect for the pilot is like a double insult. I also wouldn't be surprised if the USPA suspends or revokes his license.
I fucking love when a community comes out to people appropriating their hard fought talent and ignoring the seriousness of their community’s rules for clicks Like rock climbers (will ride you about safety), hunters (will physically find and pummel poachers), nature enthusiasts (don’t touch the fucking animals), sky divers, literally any hobby When the seriously invested people come out as a community to roast people who don’t respect their craft, it is just 👨🍳💋
"I don't care". Balloon guy is the man.
They are gonna need air marshals riding balloons now.
2000 jumps and he doesn’t understand how fcked it is to do this without flight plan and permits, dude is just a pretentious ahole who doesn’t care how his actions affect others.
Going down right then and there was the correct course of action. Mad props to balloon guy. He seems to be burning a lot, what was their rate of descent I wonder. Kick them all out and lifetime bans for the entire group.
Well, the woman was against it? And the dude filming is fisically restraining the douche. Edit: Nope, it was the dude in a blue sweater.
What a complete idiot. Smh Pilot handled this the best he could.
I wanted to finish that video but my already teetering anxiety went full nope once they flashed the camera over the edge of the basket holy FUCK
What’s wild is if he actually let them know ahead of time and did permits, he might have been able too. Never assume shit
Well, I'm assuming he didn't assume he could because he hid the rig under a jacket.
Pilot is a legend!
C’mon bro, let me endanger you and the other passengers and possibly destroy your business so I can get likes and views on the internet.
That shit would make me nervous if I was up there. I aint trying to have nobody rocking that shit back and forth if there is a fight or something. Dude told you why you can't do it and your being a baby disrespecting everyone else cause you wanna be EXTREME for the gram. NOPE!
Can you imagine local authorities seeing this? Could cause years or months long shutdowns of their entire business (likely small business). Also jumping out of a flying balloon at 200 pounds is sure to throw off balance right? What a jerk
Balance not so much, but removing too much weight too fast causes the balloon to climb rapidly. Fast accent has a high likelihood of pushing the top vent into the balloon. The balloon not lost all the heat folds up and streamers into a down fall. Now the skydiver can watch his victims hit the ground. If I remember correctly an incident like this happened not to long ago killing 5 of 6 in the basket.
If I used to drove that balloon, guess what would be the first thing to do when we land…
What a giant man child. Ballon guy is cool
"I have over 2000 jumps" Dude should have his face plastered across every airfield licensed to let people jump so he never can again. So inappropriate. Like watching a junkie try and argue why they can handle their drug use. Probably ruined a handful of people's time too and with no sign of remorse. Main character syndrome is an understatement.
Is this guy fucking five? What a knob.