I once got into a canoe with another guy and a really really fat woman who rode in the middle. We were with a group of other canoes going down a stream in the Florida Everglades. We didn’t think about what would happen when we all had to lean to avoid branches. The first branch that we had to lean, she tipped the entire canoe over.
I have two kinds of friends. Fun drinking friends who don't know my home address. And friends I would trust to watch my kids. And those two groups almost never meet.
They're teens. In the Netherlands. I think most of us in the Netherlands have done something dumb when it comes to the water, ditches or canals here. I remember playing with a friend when I was a kid and we were trying to swing from those weeping willow trees with the super long branches hanging to the ground. We found one right near a little ditch. Lol. Swinging and jumping back and forth like that went right about half a dozen times until I was about to cross over again and my 'bunch' of branches snapped. I went in fully under and accidentally got some of that disgusting water in my mouth. Not an enjoyable experience. Had to ride my bike home looking like a swamp monster.
Not the last time I did something like that too unfortunately lol.
We're a forward moving species, not a forward looking one.
One day I was at a beach rental and this random kid decided to climb the property separation wall that gently climbed from the beach up to 10'. He climbed forward easily but got stuck at the top. It was tricky to reverse so he had to climb down in reverse with 4 people securing his descent.
My cat climbed up my curtain rods. The first time I put up a ladder to bring her down. The 2nd time I put up the ladder and let her find her own way down. The 3rd time I just ignored her and she found her way down. Now she runs on the rods forwards and backwards like a pro. Cats are nifty, sometimes we just worry too much.
At some lower bridges the joke is to climb over the bridge as fast as possible and jump back in the boat. This bridge is too large though.. puberty overconfidence. Greetings from the Netherlands
probably intended to do some movie stunt by climbing up and over and then down to the boat again but realised she didnt have the strength to pull herself up.
The thing to do is to let go and get on the back of the boat, but it seemed she was too scared to let go, as you can easily flip over backwards from the boat, which is worse than falling in feet first.
Something else people do is get on the bridge and jump back on the boat on the other side, and clearly she was ´t able to do that either.
Sometimes things look great in your head but the execution becomes impossible...
The boat is also just too short and too fast for both games.
Maybe she saw those parkour videos of people on a boat climbing up on to the bridge and climbing down the other side before their boat gets away, and thought it would be easy.
I heard giethoorn was popular with tourists so i immediately planned a trip. I had a great time watching foreigners be a nuisance and crash boats all day. The amount of cluelessnes that one can fit in one of those little boats is seriously impressive
It probably would have been cool if she went to the front of the boat, climbed up, and then back down on the other side to get back on the end of the boat. That would have been pretty sweet.
There are probably people who could pull it off, but if you're still just hanging there after a whole second, you should realize you're not one of those people.
Dude here was on one of sightseeing canal tours. Put his legs up against the underside of a bridge (feet first) broke a leg. Got a staph infection and lost his leg.
I imagine most of the "successful" attempts of doing this are rather unremarkable, so they don't get shared online (or if they are shared, only get proportionate amount of interest). The ones that failed are more interesting to see so they get shared a lot.
I remember a successful one like years ago. But that dude was obviously some who did this a lot. He had a giant stick to help him out and hold the boat from floating away.
I don't understand how someone who probably can't even do a pull up (I can't), thought they were going to get their whole body on that bridge. Then even if they did, how they were going to get back on the boat before it floated away.
Doesn't look like there was an attempt to do that though. She just hung there. All I can think of is that perhaps she thought the boat was a little longer.
Yep. I’m a mod for a smaller RC car community and we don’t have very many automod filters, mainly just filtering cross posts, but we have to go through the queue every day to check posts that get caught in “reputation filter” which isn’t something we wrote
You’re tripping me out right now, I literally typed out “case closed, bake em away toys” but then decided to just go with “case closed” because I didn’t think anyone would get the reference.
Ah Giethoorn. Where tourists play bumper car with metal rental boats, traffic jams on the water are the norm, and I felt rather unsafe in my own inflatable kayak lmao. But it's cool and I want to return when it's cold or generally unpleasant weather for tourists.
I went there with my husband and 2 brothers a few years back. Once we were out on the lake my youngest, 6ft4 tall, brother decides to go for a dip and proceeds to dive off the boat. Comes up and say: 'hmmm, shallower than I expected' > he stands upright and the water hardly reaches his knees! The boy nearly broke his freaking neck. I shudder everytime that memory crosses my mind.
From my local experience it's about 2 or 3 ft deep and an additional 1 to 2 feet of muck sediment. You'd be more likely to get stuck upside down head buried than getting injured. Either way, I always avoid swimming because it gives me the ick XD
I was there when it was very windy, those little electric boats were barely strong enough to go against the wind, was not a great experience. Should be fine with your kayak tho
Every single post on reddit is like this I swear. They were just having fun, it's not like she put herself in actual danger, she just got wet. They were laughing and it was obviously funny to them but redditors always gotta have a stick up their ass
She's also starting from a full dead hang, which is like the hardest version of this. Normally when you climb something your legs are involved, and you pull with one arm at a time, using the other to hold part of your weight.
I'm a sporty older guy and I'm spending a lot of time with people who exercise reasonable amount of hours per week. And I have to say, I'm starting to view majority of people like disabled-adjacent 🥺
I was expecting her to pull up or jump down or hold on ... and then I realized she's twenty and she's just in no shape whatsoever to do anything about anything 🤦♂️
I don’t get all the screaming, I could understand laughing their ass off. it’s not like she’s gonna die letting go at that height. Girls that age are such drama queens.
I mean what was her game plan after hanging by the bridge??
Bold of you to assume that she had any plan.
Oh no! Water.
Where did that come from??!!
I once got into a canoe with another guy and a really really fat woman who rode in the middle. We were with a group of other canoes going down a stream in the Florida Everglades. We didn’t think about what would happen when we all had to lean to avoid branches. The first branch that we had to lean, she tipped the entire canoe over.
Did you get back in the canoe with her? And how did the rest of leaning go?
So you're saying a rowboat wouldn't support her?
Canoe + Everglades = Nope
Canope
where did it go?
Deep deep water! The horror!!
If this is where I think it is (Giethoorn, The Netherlands), I'd rather have deep, deep water than the thick mud from about a meter depth or so.
Was a good spot for ice skating in 1985.
Water you doing?
Impulsive people don't plan anything, but they're always the first to fail.
They're also the least boring friends, first to act, and generally great social companions.
I mean sure she made that boat ride unforgettable
I have two kinds of friends. Fun drinking friends who don't know my home address. And friends I would trust to watch my kids. And those two groups almost never meet.
They're teens. In the Netherlands. I think most of us in the Netherlands have done something dumb when it comes to the water, ditches or canals here. I remember playing with a friend when I was a kid and we were trying to swing from those weeping willow trees with the super long branches hanging to the ground. We found one right near a little ditch. Lol. Swinging and jumping back and forth like that went right about half a dozen times until I was about to cross over again and my 'bunch' of branches snapped. I went in fully under and accidentally got some of that disgusting water in my mouth. Not an enjoyable experience. Had to ride my bike home looking like a swamp monster. Not the last time I did something like that too unfortunately lol.
Bold of you to assume that she had any concept of a plan.
Maybe she had an idea for a concept of plan?
Probably got scared to let go.
We're a forward moving species, not a forward looking one.
One day I was at a beach rental and this random kid decided to climb the property separation wall that gently climbed from the beach up to 10'. He climbed forward easily but got stuck at the top. It was tricky to reverse so he had to climb down in reverse with 4 people securing his descent.
My cat, thirty feet up in a tree: "OK, I got up here, why aren't you coming up to get me down????"
Me: "WTF do you think I am some sort of god placed in your universe to defend against your stupidity?"
There are not many cat skeletons up in threes.
Yep, they tend to fall down after starving to death
Absolutely. The max you'll ever see is two.
They often can just climb down, once they get over the fear.
When our cats did this I always took it as "look how good I am at climbing!"
My cat climbed up my curtain rods. The first time I put up a ladder to bring her down. The 2nd time I put up the ladder and let her find her own way down. The 3rd time I just ignored her and she found her way down. Now she runs on the rods forwards and backwards like a pro. Cats are nifty, sometimes we just worry too much.
They probably do think that, and it's true
No. That's what dogs think. We are just slaves and peons to cats.
It goes like this:
Dog: He feeds me. He combs me. He pets me. He must be my god!
Cat: He feeds me. He combs me. He pets me. I must be his god!
My cat got stuck 5 foot up an apple tree. I refused to help, but after 6 hours, I caved and picked him out of the tree.
Our cat climbs down with no problems but it’s funny looking for her at night and hear meow from above
…and yet, she was left behind.
we're a predator species, being forward looking is one of our defining traits
Some people think 10 steps ahead
Some people think 2 steps ahead
Some people... wait a squirrel!
No, this is just the first time she'd tried to do a pull-up since she was a child.
She thought she could climb up and jump off the other side into the boat, like all those cool parkour tiktokers do.
Then she never should have grabbed the bridge in the first place! 🤣🤣😂
At some lower bridges the joke is to climb over the bridge as fast as possible and jump back in the boat. This bridge is too large though.. puberty overconfidence. Greetings from the Netherlands
The bridge is also too small. Climbing up takes time, but with a wider bridge, you can quickly outrun the boat to catch up
Probably never done a pullup... and still hasnt.
It is not that large , definetly doable if you have any kind of core strength and agility
I wouldn't say any kind, hauling yourself up from your fingertips isn't easy.
She looks like she passed puberty long ago.
- Get friend to start filming
- Hang off bridge
-Fall in water (Oops?)
- Viral video.
And it worked. I watched some rando from Netherlands fall in the drink. Kudos.
I guess her plan was to climb it, and jump down in the boat on the other side. Because, seen online.
She just had zero self awareness about her strength - or simply didn't think for one second.
There’s a video of a rower in one of those boats run by staff-like oars where he climbs a bridge like that and then hops back on the boat.
Yeah, that was my first thought, but I don't think she watched that whole video...lol
It’s called punting — rowing is when you’re sat down
It's called sitting — rowing is when you're having an argument with someone
It's calling fighting — roeing is when fish lay their eggs.
probably intended to do some movie stunt by climbing up and over and then down to the boat again but realised she didnt have the strength to pull herself up.
Internet fame. So task failed succesfuly?
She'd get on the next boat. It's a boat tranfer bridge. /s
The thing to do is to let go and get on the back of the boat, but it seemed she was too scared to let go, as you can easily flip over backwards from the boat, which is worse than falling in feet first.
Something else people do is get on the bridge and jump back on the boat on the other side, and clearly she was ´t able to do that either.
Sometimes things look great in your head but the execution becomes impossible...
The boat is also just too short and too fast for both games.
Maybe wait for the boat which was behind ?? 😆
Uh to hold on, hang and then drop
I think she was just goofing around. Not that serious lol
Watching this with dread... Then relief when they broke out in a language that isn't American Tourist English.
Automatically and effortlessly climb over like a video game character and then jump back on the boat from the other side would be my guess.
Maybe she saw those parkour videos of people on a boat climbing up on to the bridge and climbing down the other side before their boat gets away, and thought it would be easy.
I assume she thought she could pull herself up? Not sure why she didn't let go upon immediate failure.
Do a chin up, then pull herself up on top of the bridge and front flip back into the boat.
She must've had the wrong grip.
Giethoorn bitches be like.
Thought that was Giethoorn! Great place to see a lot of people use small boats they are completely unfamiliar with.
I heard giethoorn was popular with tourists so i immediately planned a trip. I had a great time watching foreigners be a nuisance and crash boats all day. The amount of cluelessnes that one can fit in one of those little boats is seriously impressive
Sounds like a nightmare. As an Amsterdammer it's bad enough to have to share the bike lane with tourists who last cycled when they were 8, lol.
As someone from the area I will tell you, if you want to use a boat youre much better off going to kalenberg, its pretty similar and way quieter
How was that meant to go right?
Every time I see someone do this the same thing happens. I’m guessing they’re trying to be cool?
It probably would have been cool if she went to the front of the boat, climbed up, and then back down on the other side to get back on the end of the boat. That would have been pretty sweet.
It is pretty cool when done right. The boat was moving too fast and she was nowhere near strong enough, however.
There are probably people who could pull it off, but if you're still just hanging there after a whole second, you should realize you're not one of those people.
As someone who has both failed it (and dropped back into the boat) and done it, I agree.
Pull ups are really easy to do as a kid. Then they stop making you do them, and then you get big, and then you get humble.
You are growing in height, width and depth just by growing up. The muscles for doing pull-ups don't grow commensurately unless you put in the effort.
Yup, and that equation is somewhat more unkind to women.
They don't even get to legally juice through testosterone!
Dude here was on one of sightseeing canal tours. Put his legs up against the underside of a bridge (feet first) broke a leg. Got a staph infection and lost his leg.
Damn that escalated quickly.
Just like the guy will be since he won't be able to take stairs any more.
I think it’s just her having fun and not thinking
Yep yep jus her being a silly goose
Redditors never have fun. Everything is completely thought out and executed perfectly.
I imagine most of the "successful" attempts of doing this are rather unremarkable, so they don't get shared online (or if they are shared, only get proportionate amount of interest). The ones that failed are more interesting to see so they get shared a lot.
This is the first unsuccessful one I've seen.
I remember a successful one like years ago. But that dude was obviously some who did this a lot. He had a giant stick to help him out and hold the boat from floating away.
I don't understand how someone who probably can't even do a pull up (I can't), thought they were going to get their whole body on that bridge. Then even if they did, how they were going to get back on the boat before it floated away.
Wanted to climb over the bridge and get back on the boat, but realised climbing is hard?
Doesn't look like there was an attempt to do that though. She just hung there. All I can think of is that perhaps she thought the boat was a little longer.
Either climb over the bridge and hop back on the boat or hold on til the next boat got there to hop on that one. I'm guessing the latter.
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How TF is there negative 1 comment????
Reddit magic. Sometimes I see a post with a couple comments but when I open it, there's no comments at all.
Those are comments from shadowbanned accounts. They are there, but they are not showing.
Or the comments got caught in automoderator filters. Sometimes they reappear if the human mods decide that the comment is ok.
For example, some subreddits do this with any comment that has links.
that's just a theory at this point
Yep. I’m a mod for a smaller RC car community and we don’t have very many automod filters, mainly just filtering cross posts, but we have to go through the queue every day to check posts that get caught in “reputation filter” which isn’t something we wrote
Is there a setting to make it so I can see them?
Afaik, there isn't... I've been looking for that, too.
That would defeat the purpose of a shadowban, I guess.
Ohhhhh I've always wondered but never knew
r/AskHistory : Hello
There were 2 comments and then 3 of them were deleted
Case closed.
Bake 'em away, toys.
You’re tripping me out right now, I literally typed out “case closed, bake em away toys” but then decided to just go with “case closed” because I didn’t think anyone would get the reference.
Someone forgot to reply
Someone just thought "I'm Not even gonna comment"
Someone posted a negative comment.
OP owes a comment to another subreddit
r/softwaregore
You heard of downvotes, now prepare for a downcomment
Ah Giethoorn. Where tourists play bumper car with metal rental boats, traffic jams on the water are the norm, and I felt rather unsafe in my own inflatable kayak lmao. But it's cool and I want to return when it's cold or generally unpleasant weather for tourists.
So, year round?
Man, I miss Europe!
gewoon met een dikke opduwer kijhard doorheen varen
Keihard*
I went there with my husband and 2 brothers a few years back. Once we were out on the lake my youngest, 6ft4 tall, brother decides to go for a dip and proceeds to dive off the boat. Comes up and say: 'hmmm, shallower than I expected' > he stands upright and the water hardly reaches his knees! The boy nearly broke his freaking neck. I shudder everytime that memory crosses my mind.
Yup, the Netherlands has lots of waterways but those not used for modern day shipping as generally very shallow.
From my local experience it's about 2 or 3 ft deep and an additional 1 to 2 feet of muck sediment. You'd be more likely to get stuck upside down head buried than getting injured. Either way, I always avoid swimming because it gives me the ick XD
I was there when it was very windy, those little electric boats were barely strong enough to go against the wind, was not a great experience. Should be fine with your kayak tho
Used to come here ages ago, before much of the tourists showed up. It was lovely
Sheesh the screams, is just water
It's not even deep, lmao. She stood right up.
Falling in a crick in the Netherlands is a special kind of fear. That's a guaranteed ass whupping.
Lol are you European? Didn't realize people outside of my podunk part of the world (rural Mid-atlantic US) use "crick."
Dude, try southern US near the Gulf of 'America'...
Bc Canada, and I don't use the word often but I do play a game with my buddy set in the bayou and we sure use crick a lot over comms lol.
She wanted to soak in all the attention she could get.
Omg what is wrong with everyone on this sub? Why is everyone so bothered?
Every single post on reddit is like this I swear. They were just having fun, it's not like she put herself in actual danger, she just got wet. They were laughing and it was obviously funny to them but redditors always gotta have a stick up their ass
the concept of having fun is foreign to most Redditors.
There’s probably a bit of underlying sexism in there, too.
A bit? Everytime women are loud and having fun or worse loud while in an emergency the sexists come out of the woodworks to tell women to shut up.
With zero piranhas in it...
I thought she was going to climb up. Wasn't that the point? Judging by her grp strength though that might be impossible
She should've known in the first few seconds and stopped when the boat was still under her feet
RIGHT!!!!
I mean… Even though I can do pull-ups I wouldn’t try this shit due to possibly slippery surface of the bridge.
Bailing out back into the boat was her only logical option lmao
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She could have just shimmied to the side..
I bet she sucks at chess, able to think exactly zero moves ahead.
She checks her king herself
She was thinking a hundred steps ahead, she just didn't know what the 99 steps in between were supposed to be.
This shows that most people, would die in any scenario in films where the hero holds something before he gets offered help for someone to pull in up.
Most people can not lift themselves up. It's crazy how weak we all are.
If I was dumb enough to try this I would have just climbed onto the bridge and taken the walk of shame.
She's also starting from a full dead hang, which is like the hardest version of this. Normally when you climb something your legs are involved, and you pull with one arm at a time, using the other to hold part of your weight.
I mean, people tend to dig deep and be stronger when it's an actual life/death situation.
She almost certainly could have hung there longer if her life depended on it. But it didn't, so....plop
Bridge over troubled daughter
how do people just fall down? why cant she just move next to the beam.
You would be amazed how many people have no strength. It's sad.
I would test most people's scroll finger strength before closing the case. We might be the species with the strongest smallest body part.
I wonder what it would be useful for. Imagine if Fonzie was from our time. The amount of thumb stamina he would have.
Eyyyyyy
She seems like the type of person that believed the boat would just wait while she hung there.
Never let them know your next move.
Better yet, keep yourself guessing as well.
Let go let go!!!!
Loslaten loslaten!!!!
I like being old 38.....94% of the stupid shit ive done wasnt captured on video.
I would marry
She would have busted her ass landing back in the boat! She made the right choice.
At least she didn't take out the friend
That was epically stupid! Thank you for that.
You are supposed to climb over the bridge and jump back into the boat.
Couldn't last 15 seconds on a dead hang.
Lekker snugger Laura
Wel grappig filmpje trouwens
Hanging bridge.
What other outcome did she realistically think would happen?
No one was hurt so not too bad in the scheme of things
What was the expectation here?
Some people say she is still hanging on to this day
Upper body strength non existent
Let’s try to do what?
Preparing for dutch apocalypse....
I'm a sporty older guy and I'm spending a lot of time with people who exercise reasonable amount of hours per week. And I have to say, I'm starting to view majority of people like disabled-adjacent 🥺
I was expecting her to pull up or jump down or hold on ... and then I realized she's twenty and she's just in no shape whatsoever to do anything about anything 🤦♂️
"Terugvaren! Terugvaren!!"
Some people are just too stupid for words…
Ah giethoorn. Tourist shithole.
I call this a "Soft Darwin Award". After she'd been all over the internet there is no way anyone will want to procreate with her...
Muscles too weak.
Why do people, usually women, do that 'hand over the mouth' thing when something unexpected happens ? Seems to be universal.
I dunno, looks like everyone’s having goofy fun. Why are you guys all so grumpy?
This is Laura.
Laura is dumb.
Don't be like Laura.
?????
Just let go? What?
I don’t get all the screaming, I could understand laughing their ass off. it’s not like she’s gonna die letting go at that height. Girls that age are such drama queens.
Girl actually plan ahead that she want to take a swim. It's getting hot out there right?
Nederlands?
Ja.
We're not usually this dramatic over here.
C'mon, these are teenagers. They're loud and dumb by default, drama hoort er wel een beetje bij.
She wanted some free Aqua
You thirsty?
Well, I hope that she doesn’t do this again in the future
This is what happens when you let your brain turn off!
Just an average day in Giethoorn.
What did she think would happen lmao
I wanna know what she thought before hanging on a bridge lol
A fan of Robert