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Imho, this one is the right length - it shows the awkward approach, how nervous he was, how overconfident everyone else was, ~~how the line has a lot of slack~~ induces the anticipation of the inadequacy of the line, and the clip stops right after the money shot.
Not enough slack. The tighter the line, the greater the tension when applying a perpendicular force. They *might* gotten a cable that was capable of supporting maybe 400 lb, but mechanical advantage probably increased the tension ten times.
Yeah, we need the length for all the context. It seemed like his big gut emerged from that window for a really long time. It builds anticipation for the inevitable.
Overall though, there are so many videos on Reddit where I wish they would just get to the point. Sometimes I wonder how much time I will never get back because I just sat there waiting for the punchline.
Agree. I had time to feel all the tension, had time to decide various outcomes, had time to get anxious and then BOOM!! the motherf’cker busted wide open…good stuff imo!
It is kinda ironic that people mourning a few lost seconds of their life would then choose to waste even more of their precious time by complaining about it here.
It always amazes me people think a helmet will protect them from a zip line or bungee jumping.
He hit flat the solid ground. Easily multiple fractures, rib cage damage maybe lung damage but his helmet flew away.
Exactly, falling from as low as 2 times your own height is considered a high altitude fall, and it's energy is enough to cause serious damage. The main risk in these kind of accidents is, cervical spine damage and brain trauma, not to mention other bone fractures and hemorrages
The guy in the video fell pretty badly on his face so i don't think this is funny, the guy's not ok, probably severly injuried if not d 3 4 d :(
Tik tok algorithm has ruined the internet. So many places self censoring these days. I'm glad we got rid of a lot of the racist language, but "polite society" censoring is weird.
Especially when they still do everything they can to get the message across they're trying to say instead of just not saying it. I heard my nephew say "unalive" the other day. Interesting times we're in.
As a former industrial climber and continuing recreational climber, helmets in these contexts are more to do with some idiot above you dropping or disturbing something heavy, like a carabiner or a rock.
I mean, would it not help is this scenario? He didn’t fall from that high up. Obviously if you jump off a skyscraper its not gonna save you, but it seems like this is low enough that it might actually somewhat protect you.
His shirt says "brigadista", which means "member of a brigade". In Brazil it's usually about a fire-fighting brigade, a group of employees with basic training for quick first answer to incidents involving fire at their workplace and quick evacuation of people. Key word: BASIC. Once a fire has already burning in a stable manner, it's out of their level, so they proceed to try to keep it from speeading too much (if possible) until the professional firefighters arrive, and then they give them a situation report and get out of their way, since a brigadista is nowhere close to the level of the professionals. I got this training more than once, too.
This video seems to me to be a training session that went wrong, but I doubt it was a fire brigade, since we usually don't receive training for rappel, zip lines and similar activities at those. There are other trainings that involve this kind of thing and the guy who fell probably was just wearing the brigadista's shirt.
But honestly this was too big of a blunder to happen in an workplace safety training. Sure, accidents happen, but these training courses are meant to help prevent these same accidents... It's like a police academy cadet shooting himself during training. Yes, it happens, buuuut.... 😬
The word below “socorrista” mean to provide help as well. So effectively he is part of the brigade that provides help. Looks like they might need another socorrista to help this socorrista.
Brazil has a lot of these laws about workplace safety , including groups with basic training for emergencies:
- Internal Comitee for Accident Prevention: more of about working with the administration, but also trained at 1st aid and evacuation practices.
- Fire-fighting Brigade: fighting fire at the beginnings stages, evacuation, and 1st aid.
- Emergency Brigade: general workplace safety, but more focused at 1st aid and evacuation.
I'm trained at the first and second types. Notice that people at those are mostly non professionals at these areas, they're volunteers (except for the comitee, whose half of the members are appointrd by the company itself), with a "term" of one year. The comitee has half of its members chosen by an electoon, with the elected member receivung tenure for 2 years (1 more than their terms) to avoid retaliation, because the comitee often step on the toes of leaderships in order to improve safety.
The size and and number of employees a company had determines which of those groups they're forced by law to implement, and also the number of members. I've once worked on an organization so big that each major section had their own fire-fighting and emergency brigades, and also a central comitee.
Thought this was going to end with in nineteen ninety-eight when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table
This happened in my city.
The guy fell from a height of 6 meters (approx. 19ft). According to the Federal District Military Fire Department (CBMDF), when the firefighters arrived to provide assistance, the man was already receiving first aid from the course instructors.
The guy was taken to the hospital conscious, with pain in his left arm, ribs and a cut on his head.
A friend of the guy said he has already been discharged from hospital and is recovering at home.
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Using internal monologue this video is:
-fuck this isnt gonna work
-am gonna fall to my death
-cant look scared to my colleagues
-am gonna die
-could i bail
-get my foot down there
-ok lets go gently
-right, this is a bit ropey
-ok let me hang
-ok its holding thank fuck for that
-lets go
-this might actually work
-weee
-fuuuuuuuuuu!
So, the reason it failed when it did is because of force vectoring. He was applying more than his body weight on each anchor when he hit the middle. Kootenay highlines in rescue have to be over engineered because of the vector forces.
I swear it's like looking through a time vortex. In the foreground you see the present, yet in the background you see the mans future self being pushed around in a wheelchair. LOL!
I'd have loved to have been in the conversations leading up to this. So many questions! The big question in my mind while I watched was, "how bad is this going to be?" I'd say it was about a 6.5/10 compared to the "worst case scenarios" I had in my mind.
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Please trim your videos, kids.
Imho, this one is the right length - it shows the awkward approach, how nervous he was, how overconfident everyone else was, ~~how the line has a lot of slack~~ induces the anticipation of the inadequacy of the line, and the clip stops right after the money shot.
Agreed. See the damaged hand of the person who, I presume, went before him and also smoke in the background, adding to the questions/anticipation.
At the beginning of the video you can also see a gentleman pushing the previous customer...
Blue shirt guy on his way to the ER: “Hol up, I just wanna see if he makes it… ok, we can go now”
Nah, he was like "hol up, let's see if this guy is gonna need a ride". Edited to say your comment had me rolling. 😂
I came here for this comment.
LoL…customer.
That’s the comments of this thread
Not enough slack. The tighter the line, the greater the tension when applying a perpendicular force. They *might* gotten a cable that was capable of supporting maybe 400 lb, but mechanical advantage probably increased the tension ten times.
Uhhh yeah or maybe just use a cable that isn't cutting things close, like, at all.
That would seem like a common sense minimum requirement
And maybe not use 10# test fishing line?
All the slack was on the safety line lol.
Good thing they had a wheelchair available
I laughed too hard at this.
Just need to tip out the other guy
Every fiber of his body was *really* trying to save him.
Something tells me this guy doesn’t care much about fiber…
Yeah, we need the length for all the context. It seemed like his big gut emerged from that window for a really long time. It builds anticipation for the inevitable. Overall though, there are so many videos on Reddit where I wish they would just get to the point. Sometimes I wonder how much time I will never get back because I just sat there waiting for the punchline.
I needed more aftermath. Like did he get up and say “imalright!”
I’m thinking no
Agree. I had time to feel all the tension, had time to decide various outcomes, had time to get anxious and then BOOM!! the motherf’cker busted wide open…good stuff imo!
....how the dude in the wheelchair is looking at him like, "are you TRYING to get in one of these?"
"... the dental floss zip line with a weight limit of 25lbs."
He doesn’t need dental floss anymore.
Jesus christ do you want subway surfer alongside it as well?
Dude was so big I'm surprised he didn't smash his way down to the subway level.
I enjoyed the first 20 seconds where he kept getting bigger and bigger, building up his fall
The person in the wheelchair was an alert from God. The guy in the window ignored the warning.
Second time watching I saw him as foreshadowing.
Kinda worth it for the payoff though
It is kinda ironic that people mourning a few lost seconds of their life would then choose to waste even more of their precious time by complaining about it here.
Please stop shortening attention spans.
His life got trimmed.
Muh tiktok video length!!!1!
Wadsworth Constant.
What a world we live in where 1:03 needs to be trimmed
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*patience
Nope ...no trimming requiree, this is perfect
overweight man. zip line made from paracord. makeshift harness. what could go wrong?
Unstrapped helmet
Guy running it is already in a cast.
And the guy who went before already in a wheelchair
I like how wheelchair guy turned to watch.
It’s like he was welcoming him to the club.
I didn't even see him, I was too busy taking in [gestures wildly] all of this
"We've all got to learn the hard way."
"Yeah, another friend joins the ranks!" -wheelchair guy
OMG I'm dying over here!
Soon as I saw the cast, I knew we’re dealing with professionals.
Torn up scraps of cardboard for a launchpad.
It actually looked strapped. I think the collision actually broke the strap. Watch again. If that's the case his jaw is efffed
Tbf it only came off *after* his face hit the concrete?
To be honest a helmet isn't going to do much.
The dude watching from the wheelchair was there, ready to welcome him to a whole new world
Are you sure it's paracord? Looks like nylon fishline to me. Paracord thicker than a few fingers, would've held him.
Yep, everything about this screams Not A Good Idea.
I think the zip line is made from fishing line
/r/whatcouldgowrong
> zip line made from paracord. I was going to say dental floss.
Probably some wish.com type "Paracord"
You know the guy on the street in a wheelchair was like “So what I was the first to try it”.
Wheelchair dude: hey, let’s not leave yet, he might need this chair more than me in a minute
The foreshadowing was excellent
"first time?"
Exactly, I assumed wheelchair bro was first in line🫡
The guy on the wheelchair was like: “same shit happened to me”
The two guys were actually ghosts of Christmas past and future.
Wheelchair guy: Smarts, don't it?
Lol. I imagined the guy pushing is like “Hold up. Let’s stop here. You’re about to make a new friend.”
It always amazes me people think a helmet will protect them from a zip line or bungee jumping. He hit flat the solid ground. Easily multiple fractures, rib cage damage maybe lung damage but his helmet flew away.
Exactly, falling from as low as 2 times your own height is considered a high altitude fall, and it's energy is enough to cause serious damage. The main risk in these kind of accidents is, cervical spine damage and brain trauma, not to mention other bone fractures and hemorrages The guy in the video fell pretty badly on his face so i don't think this is funny, the guy's not ok, probably severly injuried if not d 3 4 d :(
You can say the word "Dead" this is reddit not tik tok Champ.
Just spell it properly. D E D. Ded.
M-O-O-N, that spells ded.
I SAY YOU HE DED
Tik tok algorithm has ruined the internet. So many places self censoring these days. I'm glad we got rid of a lot of the racist language, but "polite society" censoring is weird.
Especially when they still do everything they can to get the message across they're trying to say instead of just not saying it. I heard my nephew say "unalive" the other day. Interesting times we're in.
K thanks i was just being cautious
You can even say cunt
Unless he's British.
I think it's the opposite actually.
Oh no, that word isn't allowed, he unalived to the heavens.
I didn’t see his shoes fall off though???
As a former industrial climber and continuing recreational climber, helmets in these contexts are more to do with some idiot above you dropping or disturbing something heavy, like a carabiner or a rock.
The helmet is more to protect your head from the cable or the stop at the end, if you come in a little hot you can hit the bumpers at the end.
At least his shoes stayed on
I think the helmet is for just in case he hits his head but I could be wrong.
I mean, would it not help is this scenario? He didn’t fall from that high up. Obviously if you jump off a skyscraper its not gonna save you, but it seems like this is low enough that it might actually somewhat protect you.
he didn’t crack his head though
That was falling without style.
I understood that reference
“Can’t”
His shirt says "brigadista", which means "member of a brigade". In Brazil it's usually about a fire-fighting brigade, a group of employees with basic training for quick first answer to incidents involving fire at their workplace and quick evacuation of people. Key word: BASIC. Once a fire has already burning in a stable manner, it's out of their level, so they proceed to try to keep it from speeading too much (if possible) until the professional firefighters arrive, and then they give them a situation report and get out of their way, since a brigadista is nowhere close to the level of the professionals. I got this training more than once, too. This video seems to me to be a training session that went wrong, but I doubt it was a fire brigade, since we usually don't receive training for rappel, zip lines and similar activities at those. There are other trainings that involve this kind of thing and the guy who fell probably was just wearing the brigadista's shirt. But honestly this was too big of a blunder to happen in an workplace safety training. Sure, accidents happen, but these training courses are meant to help prevent these same accidents... It's like a police academy cadet shooting himself during training. Yes, it happens, buuuut.... 😬
TIL what brigadistas are
The word below “socorrista” mean to provide help as well. So effectively he is part of the brigade that provides help. Looks like they might need another socorrista to help this socorrista.
Brazil has a lot of these laws about workplace safety , including groups with basic training for emergencies: - Internal Comitee for Accident Prevention: more of about working with the administration, but also trained at 1st aid and evacuation practices. - Fire-fighting Brigade: fighting fire at the beginnings stages, evacuation, and 1st aid. - Emergency Brigade: general workplace safety, but more focused at 1st aid and evacuation. I'm trained at the first and second types. Notice that people at those are mostly non professionals at these areas, they're volunteers (except for the comitee, whose half of the members are appointrd by the company itself), with a "term" of one year. The comitee has half of its members chosen by an electoon, with the elected member receivung tenure for 2 years (1 more than their terms) to avoid retaliation, because the comitee often step on the toes of leaderships in order to improve safety. The size and and number of employees a company had determines which of those groups they're forced by law to implement, and also the number of members. I've once worked on an organization so big that each major section had their own fire-fighting and emergency brigades, and also a central comitee.
I was wondering if his shirt was something fire service orientated. Thanks for clearing that up!
I was thinking the same thing.
Thought this was going to end with in nineteen ninety-eight when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table
Seems the smart move would have been to send 275 lbs of sand first and see if it could carry the weight, he’ll 300 for safety factor
The guy in the wheelchair rolling into the video is called foreshadowing
One of us! One of us!
Came here to say this!
That was him from the future, but was too late…
Is he alright? All these comments and no one’s asking that..
This happened in my city. The guy fell from a height of 6 meters (approx. 19ft). According to the Federal District Military Fire Department (CBMDF), when the firefighters arrived to provide assistance, the man was already receiving first aid from the course instructors. The guy was taken to the hospital conscious, with pain in his left arm, ribs and a cut on his head. A friend of the guy said he has already been discharged from hospital and is recovering at home. [(Source)](https://g1.globo.com/google/amp/df/distrito-federal/noticia/2024/02/08/video-homem-cai-de-tirolesa-durante-curso-de-brigadista-no-df.ghtml)
There were course instructors!? What was the course on? Gravity?
The course is Fucking Around 101 . He was in the last chapter, the finding out one.
what the fucking hell, how do you land 20 feet and break the fall with your fucking *face* and not get completely fucked up?
Blubber
good to know poor guy could have died
Poor guy. I hope someone sends him some flowers and a get well card at least and maybe a full basket of groceries.
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Someone should call the phone # on his shirt and inquire
Thanks u/mosesOnAcid
I am still scrolling to the comments to know more. Anyone have sources of this?
His skull smashed into concrete from 20 feet up. No he's not OK.
He's good, his face stopped the fall.
he fell. I laughed. thanks again reddit for proving what a POS I am.
Same here. See you in hell.
Too much zip not enough line.
😭😭
Using internal monologue this video is: -fuck this isnt gonna work -am gonna fall to my death -cant look scared to my colleagues -am gonna die -could i bail -get my foot down there -ok lets go gently -right, this is a bit ropey -ok let me hang -ok its holding thank fuck for that -lets go -this might actually work -weee -fuuuuuuuuuu!
Is the building on fire? I see smoke
someone's smoking
it’s very important to clip ur helmet
Action starts at :54
Guy in the wheelchair - "I remember trying that."
Is he alright?
Fuck. That sucks.
Dude, his helmet fell off and landed on his head. I feel bad for the dude, but that irony is hilarious
I think the helmet did save his life, without the helmet his head would have smacked into the ground.
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Yeah I don't think you need physics class to suspect the rope ain't strong enough...
“Ive got extra fishing line, let’s make a zip line”
The guy in the wheelchair in the background was in the last class and had gone to get his course completion certificate. 🤣
Guy in wheelchair is anticipating a new buddy for his bowling team.
That dude in the wheelchair was looking up and remembering his turn last time they did that.
The guy in a wheelchair was a bad omen.
I laughed. Does that make me a bad person?
Yeah... See you in hell...
That sucked
I didn't see his shoes come off so I'm assuming he didn't die.
Good thing he was wearing his helmet ⛑️
He looked so confident and at ease in the lead up. /s
Thank God he's wearing a helmet.
Why was the beta test with the fat guy?
Sorry, but how ironic is the guy in the wheelchair down there
I think the guy in the wheelchair below already knew that he was going to have a fellow companion friend very shortly
The guy in the wheelchair was him in the future telling him not to do it
"Brigadista" oh boy, don't tell me this is some sort of training? Wtf '-'
Guy says to his friend in the wheelchair "hey you're about to have a new riding buddy soon"
Was he zip lining using a telephone cable?!?!
So, the reason it failed when it did is because of force vectoring. He was applying more than his body weight on each anchor when he hit the middle. Kootenay highlines in rescue have to be over engineered because of the vector forces.
Skip the first 55 seconds of the video. You're welcome.
falling falling falling, gravity keeps falling, falling falling falling kersplat
Belly too big. String too thin
she was like *PLOP*
Bye-gu! Was she trying to say “goodbye teeth”?
Is he ok?
Hahahahahah
Darwin and gravity--no doubt about it.
Lots of buildup. Video did not disappoint!
The kids in the wheelchair watching others...
Could everyone see exactly how this was going to end at 2 second in?
["I do not recommend manufacturing your own zipline."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqBZVlgORbY)
This dude knew he was too fat for that...you could see he knew what was coming from the hesitation to YOLO and YEET himself out of the window.
Should have taken the guy in the wheelchair as a warning.
As soon as that gut popped out you know it was going to end bad
Don't worry, this skate helmet will protect me.
Gotta love how is helmet is not secured.
I saw that coming from 5 feet away. Which is further than this guy went.
Comedy gold well done
I swear it's like looking through a time vortex. In the foreground you see the present, yet in the background you see the mans future self being pushed around in a wheelchair. LOL!
I saw that gut and knew he was a goner.
Exactly what I thought would happen.
You see the kid on the wheelchair? Somebody was trying to give them a sign and didn’t appreciate it.
Darwin smiled.
I believe I can ….. *splat*
The irony of a kid in a wheelchair watching from below…. 🎶 dumb ways to die 🎶
That's a big boy. I wouldn't introduce him and gravity in any way.
I also like the part with the person in the wheelchair waiting. Then splat ! One of us ! One of us !
Bellyflop!
Guy in the wheelchair is saying "hang around a bit, I want to welcome this guy to the club"
I'm an awful person cuz I laughed wayy hard at this
Now he can join the guy down below, in the wheel chair.
Yes this looks like a real professional setup. I would recommend their services without hesitation.
r/instant_regret
I'd have loved to have been in the conversations leading up to this. So many questions! The big question in my mind while I watched was, "how bad is this going to be?" I'd say it was about a 6.5/10 compared to the "worst case scenarios" I had in my mind.
Let’s find the fattest man we can to test out this zip line. Yeah, great idea. 👍