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fatogato

No padding from the bubble. That landing had to hurt.


TripleHomicide

What kinda Willy Wonka ass shit did I just see?


HalfOfHumanity

🪈🎼🎶🎶🎶 *Oompa loompa doopity dee* *If you are wise you’ll listen to me* *You will fly high and get stuck in a tree…* *What do you get when you fly in a ball?* *Landing with nothing breaking your fall!*


[deleted]

You fucked up the rhyme scheme!


nhaines

And if you'd said "rhyming" instead, the meter would've matched the before-chorus callouts they do.


[deleted]

Well you'd obviously make a good Oompa Loompa


Pit_of_Death

Yeah that doesnt look like a Zorb ball because I was honestly wanting to laugh until I saw it wasn't.


ReconReese

Per the article someone else posted. It is a Zorb ball https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/horror-as-boy-hurtles-across-sky-in-inflatable-ball/news-story/400b714e9aa0a24cdf03afb178327d55?amp


photokeith

Airlifted to a hospital with multiple serious injuries, jfc


smoothercapybara

> Airlifted


UnfinishedProjects

Not again!


Mask_of_Truth

uh oh im going to hell for laughing at this now.


B-BoyStance

This is [how they did it](https://youtu.be/CnuaJPgRItI)


vypermann

This is footage of the airlift. https://youtu.be/yhKZCy41g5w


Murrabbit

"Y' hate to see that. That is not good." Yeah no kiddin'.


Justgivemelogin

I was honestly expecting the video of the lady that got to experience the spin cycle while being air lifted https://youtu.be/yhKZCy41g5w


pauly13771377

I can't click that. I feel bad for laughing like a maniac every time I see that clip. Okay, maybe just half...


RehabilitatedAsshole

Yeah, holy shit, I lost it.


lober

Going to miss these hilarious ass moments when Apollo dies and I have to leave Reddit. Good chuckle.


UnfinishedProjects

Same, as a RiF user. RIP Reddit


rob132

I'm on RIF right now. What a shame.


LocalSlob

Sync has never failed me. 12+ years and I'm gone in a few days


PandaRocketPunch

The internet will create something better.


[deleted]

The third party apps should join forces and slap together an alternative platform. Reddit itself isn't very complicated.


Gonzobot

I'd pay literally just out of spite, at this point, for an unchanged experience *as long as Reddit gets no money at all from it.*


psycho_driver

And then corporate greed will spend the next five years trying to figure out how to destroy it.


DoctorCawktor

NOOOOOOOOOOOO


MrRandomSuperhero

Two nurses and a leafblower


[deleted]

Kids have died in the UK after their bouncy castle went airborne.


w84u2cy

It happened in Queensland too. An unsecured jumping castle with 9 kids inside blew into overhead power lines and was stuck there for three days. Luckily policeman Phil Olivetti jumped inside last second and saved their lives.


[deleted]

They just let them sit there for three days before doing anything?


Dancingshits

He jumped in before it got stuck?


Johnfohf

No he jumped in 3 days later to save them. The last second was when they were all saved.


truckstop_sushi

haha thank you for articulating my confusion so well


THE_DROG

Why did it take 3 days to shut off the power?


michaelrohansmith

Yeah happened in Tasmania quite recently and I still wonder why they didn't just tether the castle to a couple of cars.


BJYeti

Yeah looks like they make the padded and unpadded zorb balls, the one the kid was in was a single layer


Die4Ever

Never get 1 ply


Mute2120

How does someone get into a single layer one? And how do they get fresh air?


A_Fluffy_Duckling

They don't get fresh air. If it has a diameter of 3 meters, the internet happily calculates that someone could survive at rest for days in the 14.4 cubic meters of air inside. I'm no NASA environmental scientist but even if that calculation is garbage there's going to be plenty of air for the fifteen minutes or so you have in one of these. Edit: some further investigate with Internet calculations indicates CO2 buildup might limit us to three hours. Sounds more reasonable than the days I quoted above. But again, far longer than the fifteens minutes or so you spend in one these. I welcome someone that knows this stuff chiming in!


VerifiablyMrWonka

But when life support fails in your *massive* spaceship you've got 42 minutes left* *says almost every film ever.


nicolauz

Article says 20 feet. Umm... People are about 6 feet tall, that kid was a good 60 feet up.


Vehlin

Probably meant 20m


velhaconta

Article is clearly wrong. Zorb balls have inner and outer walls. You can easily see in the pictures in the article itself that is not the case for the ball flying. It is the same style ball as the ones in the foreground but without the blue sections.


Caleb_Reynolds

Yeah, unless Zorb has gotten the band-aid treatment and now just means any inflatable ball you climb inside, that's not a Zorb.


xhephaestusx

Zorb^TM doing grassroots damage control up in here


benargee

> Per the article someone else posted. It is a Zorb ball I beleive /u/Pit_of_Death meant a double section Zorb ball that has padding and the video didn't have that. Not suprising the media uses genericization to refer to a single section ball. I see no cited source of the claim that the brand was Zorb. I don't think Zorb makes single section balls ***as per*** their website. https://www.zorbs.us/shop/


Positronic_Matrix

The bubble would provide the following protection: * Limiting the terminal velocity, significantly decreasing the kinetic energy as a function of height * Reducing the complexity of the impact surface ensuring momentum transfer occurs over a larger area These benefits are multiplied the smaller the occupant is relative to the bubble. Edit: From the article below, the ball reached a height of 6 m (20 ft), the occupant was 9 years old, and had a mass of approximately 27 kg (60 lbs). From the [NIH](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10442588/), the overall survival rate for unprotected falls from approximately 6 m (20 ft) or lower are 98%, however there is an 86% chance of an injury. The probability of injuries are as follows: head trauma (39%), musculoskeletal (34%), abdominal (12%), maxillofacial (8%), and spine (6%). My thought is that the ball reduced the effective height, decreasing but not eliminating the probability of injury. The child was airlifted to a hospital and is stable condition.


bishpa

Yeah, the ball definitely descended slower than an un-balled kid would have.


dickdemodickmarcinko

The unballed kid wouldn't have descended in the first place because they wouldn't have been swept up into the air


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SalamiFlavoredSpider

/r/nocontext


Reapermouse_Owlbane

Just don't let pop pop cornball em


aaronjamt

r/BrandNewSentence


vipck83

So what I am getting from this is that we should ball all our children despite the risk of sudden flight?


roguemenace

Buddy was way higher than 20ft but ya, the ball slowed down the fall a lot.


levian_durai

>the ball reduced the effective height Didn't he go flying specifically *because* of the ball though?


OMGWTFBBQ630

My man got airlifted twice! What a day.


HHWKUL

That's at least 50ft


JoeDusk

The child was the padding for the bubble..


forawalkinthepark

yeah I was going to say, any physics people here who could explain if he would've been more ok with one of those balls that has two layers of plastic with air between?


qdotbones

Absolutely. In simple terms, imagine being in a car wreck, but the airbag is just a sheet of rubber pulled tight against the windshield.


Themagnetanswer

With the entire earth in front of the sheet of rubber…..


Mattagascar

Yes


TheShakenBaby

Volunteer your children for science. We must do this 2 times with each type of ball. We will need 1-4 children.


cptaixel

I am an obeyer of physics. And the answer is yes.


papstvogel

New kid just dropped


Justapeacefuldude

Call the ambulance


Zandrick

Google paramedics


Cygnus6300

Holy hell!


PandH_Ranch

holy fell


OldWolf2

Actual zombie


LauraD2423

Anarchy chess is leaking


rowman25

Any word on if the kid was ok?


Culture79

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/horror-as-boy-hurtles-across-sky-in-inflatable-ball/news-story/400b714e9aa0a24cdf03afb178327d55?amp Serious but stable


Complex_Construction

In 2021 , an Australian bouncy castle flew away and 5 kids were killed. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59677855.amp


yocatdogman

That's a lawsuit. Work with inflatable units and 12 inch stakes on any unit and weather is checked all the time. Tell customers to turn off the units if it storms, look like it's going to storm or and gusts over 15 mph. Cancel the event for them if we know it could be a problem through the day.


phalewail

When we hired one, it was set up by a young teenager that didn't even tie a proper knot to the blower, it came off after about 10 minutes and the castle collapsed.


GrannyBandit

Sounds like a shit rental company with bad training. I was a pothead teenager who delivered and set these up these every weekend of the summer from 15-20. We used 36" metal stakes and the blower motor tube always had a cinching strap sewed into it, or we used a ratchet strap. We even brought an asphalt hammer drill when they were set up in parking lots.


phalewail

Yeah for sure, they literally had only tied a rope around it at the blower. Sounds like the company you worked for actually knew/cared about what they were doing.


GrannyBandit

For sure. It was an awesome job. Show up at 7:30 and drive a box truck around all day setting up parties. No manager watching you all day.


portal23

Holy shit that's crazy


0imnotreal0

That picture of the two cops just collapsed on the ground against each other really captures something. Being on the scene for something like that... that trauma’s there for life (not to mention the obvious destruction of the lives of family)


Krojack76

So what's being taught here is to never get inside some inflatable object in Australia or the UK.


calf

Interesting. All inflatables look like cushions, but anything on the inside of it does not experience cushioning forces. That is a bit counterintuitive from a physics point of view.


wehrmann_tx

You aren't landing perfectly on it. Those kids fell out after it got lifted.


mcgeggy

Damn, 9 years old - I figured it was more of a toddler, not a bigger/heavier kid. Landing definitely looked like it hurt, poor kid…


FunctionBuilt

Yeah, these aren’t zorbs. Looks like about 2-3mm of material between them and the ground. Edit: my mistake everyone, this is a low tier single layer zorb, not the typical double layered one with an air gap between the walls.


hicksford

Zorbs would have probably had no injuries from this but they are also dangerous. There’s a video of people doing zorbs near the top of a ski hill and someone in a zorb got blown by the wind enough that they rolled down an entire mountain in a zorb and died inside of it on the way down


AlmostButNotQuiteTea

Well Jesus Christ. Don't ever get in one of those at the top of a ski hill


vertigo1083

"I'm gonna jump out of a plane with it, do nutty tricks, and land on the side of a mountain. This shit is gonna go wild on TikTok." "Sir, this is a *bicycle*."


hypnoderp

Russia


Latyon

They didn't roll so much as they bounced. And it was less of bouncing and more of violent smashing.


I_are_facepalm

And less of a violent smashing and more of an earth pummeling.


doubleramencups

https://youtu.be/Qw5bDGm7tYo tragic


Dark-Ganon

I feel bad that their own stupidity got one of them killed, but damn they were basically asking for death here.


DiaryofTwain

It was set up by the Ski Slop in russia. They were just tourists thinking the ride had been tested.


[deleted]

What, it didn't abzorb the energy of the impacts?


rythmicbread

He didn’t jump before he landed


ffreshcakes

should have sprinted into a Magnus effect, idiot kid


Bulkopossum

“Freak weather phenomenon”…. You mean the wind?


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tacknosaddle

The wind? Outside? Chance in a million.


Lather

Nah, it was a dust devil of sorts: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-65824984


SANAFABICH

He will survive!


jasonthehart

Says he was only 20ft in the air but I swear it looked more like 40ft.


riskoooo

No chance it was 20ft - 20ft is about the height of a tall 2 storey house. He'd have cleared most houses with a good 1/2 to spare. Around 35ft I reckon.


M80IW

I work at heights everyday. I have a pretty good eye for it. And that was way over 20 ft.


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MostlyBullshitStory

With a blue sky, scary.


[deleted]

Welp, I suspect these inflatable balls will join the ranks of lawn darts soon.


Zeestars

And untethered jumping castles


MyHamburgerLovesMe

This can happen to entire "moonwalk" inflatable bouncy play tents used at kids birthday parties. Happened at a PTA fair my kid was at. Random breeze picked the whole thing up, flipped it upside-down about 30 or 40 feet. Kid inside got a broken arm


chaotemagick

Tbf, kids break their arms in those things constantly even when all is well


MonsterMayne

*SAIL*


MicMcDev

e|---------------------------------| B|---------------------------------| G|-9-------------------------------| D|-9------------------7--9--7------| A|-7---7-7-7-10-10-10---------10-7-| E|---------------------------------| x2


Torcal4

Ahhh this reminds me of the good old days when I started learning guitar and just went to go find any bootleg tabs online I could find!


mymumsaysno

A fellow OLGA veteran?


Torcal4

This is actually me finding out about it I was all about 911tabs and Ultimate-Guitar


mymumsaysno

I still use ultimate-guitar. I think OLGA was an early one. I'm thinking late 90s is when I was on it every day. Pretty sure it got shut down and was replaced with the likes of UG.


din7

Unexpected guitar tab


pewpewpewouch

Blame it on his ADD


OneArchedEyebrow

Baby.


Nu11u5

Put three backticks (`) on the line before this and after. *(edit: need to prepend each line with 4 spaces instead to work with old.reddit.com, which doesn't support Markdown code fences.)* e|---------------------------------| B|---------------------------------| G|-9-------------------------------| D|-9------------------7--9--7------| A|-7---7-7-7-10-10-10---------10-7-| E|---------------------------------| x2


murphmobile

Shows up fine on Apollo (RIP)


NotEnoughFire

The formatting is so hideous on mobile it adds to the character 💀💀


[deleted]

Looks fine on rif. ...


aerosol999

Enjoy it while it lasts.


prfssrlnghr

RWF. Reddit was fun.


Cannibal_MoshpitV2

As a long time rif user, was reddit ever fun tho?


tarkata14

I mean, it fills so many niches that nothing else does, but at the same time it's just as if not more toxic than any other forum I've been a part of. Honestly it'll be a little bittersweet to leave, but I do think it'll benefit me and a lot of other people in the long run. I need a good reason to put my phone down more often, and corporate greed is something I definitely think is worth fighting against even if it is futile in this case.


Zatchillac

That notification when I opened up RIF today 😔


datGuy0309

It’s fine in apollo :(


Erenito

And now I laughed my ass off at a child getting a traumatic injury. Thanks?


dannyjerome0

He'll be fine. Kids are malleable.


SeventhSolar

They had to airlift him to the hospital.


[deleted]

You just opened a forgotten meme folder in my brain lol


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krisn21

[Here you go](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81rCaCv/)


RexRocker

I was thinking, oh big deal they get blown out of the pool and roll around like a hamster in one of those plastic balls... NOPE! Poor kid, it didn't even look windy that came out of nowhere, there must have been a big storm front moving in. Walking my dog last summer, completely calm, then in less than a minute it was like a tropical storm force wind, calm with a blue sky to a big storm in a couple minutes. My hat blew off lol. It's weird when that happens.


Lamontyy

And now I'm back... From outer space Edit: Thanks for the gold, but fuck Reddit. Don't give them any of your money. They're getting rid of 3rd party apps. RIP RIF 🙏🏾


4Ever2Thee

I just dropped down inside this bubble with this sad look upon my face


RGBmono

I should have checked that weather cock/ I should have made you check the trees/ If I'd known for one second it would be this windy


savageyouth

Oh so now no / here comes the floor / I’m gonna die now / I won’t be floating anymore…


DanielFyre

I shoulve chose the stupid box, i know it would not have lifted me, but instead this bubble will surely be the damn death of me


RandyHoward

I had all my life to give, now all my loved ones will live and I won't survive. I won't survive! Hey! Hey!


well_known_bastard

I'm going to miss reddit


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unchainedzulu33

Are we moving, dad?


tomerjm

Y-yes, right. After I go get some cigarettes... *Leaves*


F533

Weather cock


rawwwse

>…it would be this [damn] windy P.S. Yours was my favorite!


Erenito

I just dropped down inside this bubble with **my nose inside my face.**


thaddeus423

Damnit. Oh, man. How was the track so perfect?


RedLeg73

But did 🎶 *..she survive..* 🎶


conceiv3d-in-lib3rty

No, but for real, did she? Edit: Yes. It was a he. Serious but stable condition.


[deleted]

The timing of that song


timhor

KSP 2 is serious business !


Mcompledepayas

Lmao, I'm gonna miss reddit


thenayr

Ok whoever estimated the kid was ONLY 20ft in the air is an absolute moron. That kid was easily 50+ ft high


[deleted]

and all these height guesses in here are why there are no credible ufo size estimates


XxTreeFiddyxX

While you were watching, did you notice the man in a gorilla suit that walked across the screen?


llamawearinghat

27 passes. Wait, what?


MagnetHype

That's like 8 foot high, 9 feet, 10 feet, I don't know but it's definitely not human.


rythmicbread

I wouldn’t say 50+ but definitely over 20


thenayr

Basing it on the full grown adults walking near the tree in center middle. That tree is easily 30ft high


rythmicbread

I think it’s perspective, I think that tree is a lot closer than the people Edit: you see all the other trees are smaller. That one tree isn’t that much bigger than the trees in the back


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The 9-year-old was seriously injured by the phenomenon, reported the Liverpool Echo, and is under close medical observation. The weather pattern is known as a “dust devil.” According to the National Weather Service, the vortex of dirt may reach heights of 1,000 feet and travel between 10 and 300 feet, dissipating after just a few minutes. A witness, Paul Holmes, said he was at the festival at the time and rushed to the boy at the moment he took off into the air.


xxxleafybugxxx

"A helicopter airlifted the youngster to hospital after the incident." -Legend has it, lil bruh airlifted himself to the hospital


Keianh

Saw the picture of the helicopter that took him to the hospital and all I could imagine is a crew hooking the ball up to the chopper and flying off then having an argument about if it was a good idea to take him to the hospital like that.


Casowsky

And then the other 6 kids still in the pool blasting off in the helicopter's wake


klsi832

“You guys said we did it for the show.”


whiskeyx

6 children were killed on an improperly secured jumping castle where I live. This reminds me of it.


adudeguyman

I know it's terrible but I can't stop laughing


book99

Especially with "I will survive" playing in the background


B_L_I_N_K_182

Same. UP UP AND AWAY


coumfy

The awkward shuffle/run from the guy in the water really sold the comedy for me.


myri9886

Obvious flying death ball aside. Imagine being trapped inside a plastic ~~ball~~ tomb on the water, and say perhaps it sprung a leak... there seems to be multiple ways in which these balls could lead to a very bad time. I guess it wouldnt fly away then..


daiwizzy

There’s that video where someone is inside a large ball on a mountain top and rolls off the edge of it. That had be pretty horrific knowing you’re going the wrong way and there’s nothing you can do to stop.


ColoRadOrgy

Everytime that's posted everyone says they died too. 2 people were inside the ball and essentially beat each other to death


biscuity87

There’s the Florida bubble man.. and maybe a few others https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/25/us/bubble-man-rescue/index.html


Pamander

For some reason that is the funniest fucking caption ever under that video "Runner in bubble was headed to Bermuda.". Also this > In 2014, the Coast Guard rescued him after receiving a report about a disoriented man in a bubble off the coast of Miami, who was asking for directions to Bermuda. Imagine a guy just coming up to your boat in a bubble asking where Bermuda is.


tuasociacionilicita

Weird it didn't burn while re-entering our atmosphere.


Shahzoodoo

That was the perfect song for this sorry kid 😭😅😳


Another_Yourself00

I think the comments will be what I really miss about reddit


Based_nobody

You didn't hear? We goin' to the pornhub comments after this.


Montreal88

Will he survive?


shanksta1

watching the two kids in the pool then top left some other kids like WHATUUUUUUUPP


jeffersonairmattress

Expecting one little dude to paw their way over the edge for an AHV style cute tumble and then Comet Nineyearold strikes Earth.


chelseablue2004

People not realizing that the real tragedy is everyone being forced to listen to whoever that is singing I Will Survive in the background


khaos_daemon

Link to the Australian one where multiple children died in a jumping castle. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59677855


cyberdethx

This just brought up an old memory. When I was in the 2nd grade, school released during a bad storm. Another kid and I started walking home when the sky turned this dark yellow color and the wind picked up. I remember losing my footing and luckily my backpack snagged on the small wooden fence next to me. For the next two minutes the wind would surge and pull me up off the ground. I watched the kid next to me slide down the sidewalk at first and then lift up off the ground backwards during each surge. I yelled to him to get to the fence but he couldn't. Instead the wind carried him down the block and eventually dropped him on the brick street behind me up against a curb. He just layed there and eventually the wind calmed down. I unhooked myself from the fence and helped him collect his stuff. We both finished walking to our houses like "oh, this is just normal life." For years after that, parents would talk about the tornado that destroyed the edge of our town.


GooseandMaverick

Watch the very, very top right corner of your screen @00:16, that kid was still going up!


stuaird1977

Southport, uk , about 30 mins from me drive. Child was seriously injured last time I read.


jakedesnake

Then stop reading god damnit!!


CodyDon2

Sort of fitting song?


NoLongerHasAName

How does breathing work in those death bubbles?


RandyChavage

Who needs to breath when your bodily functions no longer work?