I wish there was a country with just us internet people who have seen it all over the years and can make jokes about some video that happened 15 years ago.
Illustration of why high-divers either throw something into the water or need a little stream of water to gauge the distance (and also break surface tension)
Breaking surface tension is largely a myth. It will do briefly but it won't change the impact on the person jumping or make it any safer. It's done to gauge distance as you also said
I was crushed at work and borked my L4/L3 and my S1. As someone with life-long pain I can only imagine the pain this guy will go through from now on. Even putting socks on isn't fun.
L5/S1 for me, herniated disc crushing my sciatic nerve. The few painless moments I get before getting out of bed in the morning are the best part of my day.
Same man. Jumped off a balcony at a party when I was 18, I’m 42 now and still have daily back pain. Fractured my L 3/4 and didn’t take care of recovery as I should because surfing and more partying was more important
Honestly, if I had only one opportunity for a do over in life, that could very likely be it.
I don't know how to describe it, but whenever I see videos like these and the one where the guy jumps into the frozen swimming pool in a cannonball manner, a jolt flies through my whole body and it's the worst
There are also clip collections of people jumping off their roof and breaking their pelvis. The scenes are surprisingly similar and the screams are almost identical.
Oof, you were probably in battle rattle too. All that extra weight on the spine isn't good. I was in a roll-over in mine and I swear it jacked up my spine somewhere just below my ribcage. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug though and I didn't feel it till later.
From that kind of height? I surprised your spine didn't get powdered.
Yes, that's what makes it vestigial. While it is still used for holding nerves, it was once much more useful as the base of a tail meaning it is a vestige of its former use.
There are very few structures we don't use at all, but a lot that are evolutionary leftovers we don't use as much or in the way we used to.
I broke my tailbone twenty years ago. Now that I’m sitting for a living and my cheeks are deflating, it hurts to sit for too long. Look forward to being butthurt about it.
Haha. Yeah, my ass has always been pretty non-existent, so I have cushions for my work chair. I do start to feel it if I'm at a stadium or something, but it isn't as bad as it used to be.
I often wonder if folks don’t realize just how much it hurts to land hard on your ass or to break your tailbone. I live with chronic back pain I didn’t ask for and didn’t do anything to help get. Then we got dipshits like this that willingly sign up for life long back pain
Teacher here. Boys do the stupidest shit imaginable without a single thought about consequences. Girls say dumb shit and get themselves into trouble that way.
Man I feel so bad about this. Esp when you see someone who was perfectly healthy like a minute ago and then a stupid decision makes them go through life long pain and they will never be the same.
I think he foolishly thought it was closer and also prolly assumed it was softer carpet or something.
I hate the man who’s laughing in the background. Sometimes your company will put you in terrible situations
It's the second floor how can anyone think it's closer or close. Even a fall from an 1.8 ladder can be fatal. People are too comfortable doing stupid stuff nowadays
Bruised my tailbone at 15 and it didn’t heal until a decade later. I got shoved on my ass on a football field without a tailbone pad. Couldn’t sit without a numbing pain in my ass for a couple years.
I got on a skateboard 🛹 once to try and learn with my son in my early 40’s. Immediately became horizontal and slammed into the ground. L3/4/5 damage. Pain ever since (now late 50’s). When you are young or youngish you think you can do anything. If I could go back and talk to myself then I would tell myself not to be a dumbass and stay off the skateboard. And this was just something mildly dangerous.
It's definitely not a late-life (or even mid-life) sport. I used to be pretty good, but even a good fall hurts like hell now, and it takes a bunch of falls to learn how to fall well off a skateboard.
Something that blows me away about this is that people really fail to comprehend how dangerous it is to jump/fall from heights. I don't know if it's from growing up watching stunts in movies or what, but anything above your own height is dangerous territory if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
Like he appears to have jumped from a height of about 15 or 20 feet. He was in the air for a little more than a second. If we round and call it a 1.2 seconds, that means he hit the ground at close to 42 km/h or about 25 mph. He basically jumped into a car accident.
When I was younger and dumber I used to jump from high places onto hard surfaces in a kind of proto-parkour. Tried it again by accident last year and the sheer impact was like getting punched by a heavyweight. Acceleration is a bitch.
Learned this in elementary school. Never fall backwards. Bend the knees for shock and try to roll forward onto your arm as in the video. May not help with all heights, but definitely worth breaking an arm versus your back.
Like you said, may not work with all heights, but, the general idea iirc, is you want speed, so instead of just baby hopping off the ledge, he'd want a full tilt sprint off the ledge, bending knees can prevent breaking them backwards and soften the landing using them as absorption springs and going into a safety/parkour/etc roll, going from shoulder to opposite hip to avoid rolling over as much of the spine as possible, shown properly in the video you linked (thank you for sharing the safety/etc roll, not enough people know that technique), Depending on many factors, they could possibly walk away with nothing more than bruises and being sore, maybe a hairline fracture, vs whatever this person is going through now.
It's inside a mosque. The carpet panels -- each one for a worshiper -- point towards Mecca. Perhaps the young man thought Allah would save him. But whatever he thought, Islam does not condone this sort of recklessness.
I feel like kids never learned the "landing into a forward roll" that most of us older folk have watched on TV growing up. Would probably still hurt alot, but would save his back.
Carpet probably 1 inch thick. Underneath that is a concrete foundation. Even parkour gangs don't try this shit, you can roll but the carpet mess up your flow.
That was a much further drop than I thought.
Right! The pattern threw me off also
That plus the fact this guy planned to and then jumped down.
The pattern didn’t throw him off though?
No, he threw himself off.
The front fell off
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make THAT point.
I wish there was a country with just us internet people who have seen it all over the years and can make jokes about some video that happened 15 years ago.
I like turtles
My friend Jonathan, take off that Zombie makeup
Yes. From large he became so small when he hit the ground.
r/poetry
Height reduced for he compressed his spine
They were not ketchup sized after all
Heinz. Good to the last drop.
Illustration of why high-divers either throw something into the water or need a little stream of water to gauge the distance (and also break surface tension)
This person learned his technique from those videos into water
Ass first
The cannonball is a bold parkour technique.
Breaking surface tension is largely a myth. It will do briefly but it won't change the impact on the person jumping or make it any safer. It's done to gauge distance as you also said
All right translation time cause I saw none do it (Goddamn I'm terrible at this)
Jumper: I might break my leg and scream so forgive (me?)
Friend: my guy it's not even that high.
Jumper: what if i actually break my leg.
Friend: you won't.
Jumper: the priest might come fuck.
Friend: jump fast, there is not much time left for the preaching.
Jumper: leap of faith
"Friend"
Motherfucker is snickering while this boy is writhing in agonizing pain.
If he broke or bruised his tailbone he's also going to have difficulty breathing.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Jumper: the priest might come fuck.
In some parishes that's a very real threat.
No he says “The man(imam) will soon come, fuck him”
Had a feeling peer pressure was the culprit behind something so dumb 🤦♂️
oh the importance of commas
Probably correct that way
Man the friend sounded pretty confident, I wonder why they didn't do it themselves.
Thanks, was scrolling for this comment.
Life long back pain right there
As someone who's burst fractured his L1 from much lower than that, I'd say he's fucked up his life with this one.
I was crushed at work and borked my L4/L3 and my S1. As someone with life-long pain I can only imagine the pain this guy will go through from now on. Even putting socks on isn't fun.
L5/S1 for me, herniated disc crushing my sciatic nerve. The few painless moments I get before getting out of bed in the morning are the best part of my day.
I was born with a cheat code. Missing the left side of the sacrum and no coccyx. Can't break something you don't have
Same man. Jumped off a balcony at a party when I was 18, I’m 42 now and still have daily back pain. Fractured my L 3/4 and didn’t take care of recovery as I should because surfing and more partying was more important
Honestly, if I had only one opportunity for a do over in life, that could very likely be it.
Compression fractured my L2 from half this height.
I don't know how to describe it, but whenever I see videos like these and the one where the guy jumps into the frozen swimming pool in a cannonball manner, a jolt flies through my whole body and it's the worst
There are also clip collections of people jumping off their roof and breaking their pelvis. The scenes are surprisingly similar and the screams are almost identical.
" I think that this is what pain feels like!"
I cosplayed as Captain Hammer last year for a con, got to meet Felicia Day
Her cosplay is really easy to do. It only costs a penny.
You’re not joking. I did that exact same thing but off a building in Iraq in 2004. I still feel it all the time.
Oof, you were probably in battle rattle too. All that extra weight on the spine isn't good. I was in a roll-over in mine and I swear it jacked up my spine somewhere just below my ribcage. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug though and I didn't feel it till later.
From that kind of height? I surprised your spine didn't get powdered.
Yeah. Just ask Matt Hardy
On the plus side, he’ll be able to sense changes in atmospheric pressure from his backside for life.
His one-night stand is going to take at least two to get over from now.
Pushed his tailbone into his lungs
it is a vestigial structure after all
No, your ass is attached to it.
Its still used.
Yes, that's what makes it vestigial. While it is still used for holding nerves, it was once much more useful as the base of a tail meaning it is a vestige of its former use.
There are very few structures we don't use at all, but a lot that are evolutionary leftovers we don't use as much or in the way we used to.
I guess i was always assuming I understood the meaning of vestigial, and never truly looking ir up.
Always thought vestigial meant 'has become useless' and not just simply.. 'reduced function'
This is a common misunderstanding largely fueled by pseudoscience. Yes vestigial simply means reduced function.
Darn. Accidentally did a pseudointellectualism :(
Hey I was raised in a YEC Christian school. I only learned that about 5 years ago and I'm in my 30s. The important thing is we all learn.
Funny thing is, the word for it in my native language, a 1:1 translation, I somehow understand better.
Though, its intonation is a bit more "has become small/less useful"
That's a pretty good translation. Yeah.
Out of curiosity what language?
I broke my tailbone in middle school. The next year/year and a half was rough
I broke my tailbone twenty years ago. Now that I’m sitting for a living and my cheeks are deflating, it hurts to sit for too long. Look forward to being butthurt about it.
Haha. Yeah, my ass has always been pretty non-existent, so I have cushions for my work chair. I do start to feel it if I'm at a stadium or something, but it isn't as bad as it used to be.
Yeah, middle school’s a bitch. Hormones, acne, too young to drive but too old for Krazy Kars…
Years of MCU and hasn't yet mastered the superhero landing
I had this in mind...
Sure did. Happy cake day!
I will never understand this kind of bullshit. At best, you will gain 15 minutes of fame. At worst, it will be the “before/after”-moment of your life.
Because too many people don’t understand risk/reward.
Especially when their brain is still developing…
I don’t know man at his age there’s no way I’d have been dumb enough to do this
that kid has two walnuts for brains and one of 'em is missing
What brain
That's the amazing part: so many videos and information out there and they keep choosing self damage.
I often wonder if folks don’t realize just how much it hurts to land hard on your ass or to break your tailbone. I live with chronic back pain I didn’t ask for and didn’t do anything to help get. Then we got dipshits like this that willingly sign up for life long back pain
This is one of the stupidest ways to become a “was”
With the kids nowadays it’s more like 20 seconds then moving onto to next scroll.
Teacher here. Boys do the stupidest shit imaginable without a single thought about consequences. Girls say dumb shit and get themselves into trouble that way.
overestimation of own skills and capabilites is a helluva drug. reality check will visit all of us some day
Man I feel so bad about this. Esp when you see someone who was perfectly healthy like a minute ago and then a stupid decision makes them go through life long pain and they will never be the same.
I think he foolishly thought it was closer and also prolly assumed it was softer carpet or something.
I hate the man who’s laughing in the background. Sometimes your company will put you in terrible situations
It's the second floor how can anyone think it's closer or close. Even a fall from an 1.8 ladder can be fatal. People are too comfortable doing stupid stuff nowadays
Most probably he will regret about this decision until the end of his life...
...Which likely isn't far away, with the critical thinking skills he seems to have.
As if it being carpet would've done anything to break the fall, what an idiot
Yeah, the concrete under the carpet is still concrete lol
And wearing socks didn't do any favor to him either. He slipped as soon as he landed
That fall was so hard it echoed.
Bruised my tailbone at 15 and it didn’t heal until a decade later. I got shoved on my ass on a football field without a tailbone pad. Couldn’t sit without a numbing pain in my ass for a couple years.
This guy? He’s quite fucked.
I did a cannonball into water that had a concealed rock about a foot under the surface.
I swear I couldn't sit right for a year, and the first six months was exquisitely uncomfortable.
Isn't this a mosque?
Meeting Allah speedrun
Yup. Nice masjid too. What an idiot.
Yes, it is.
Nice friends he has there.
Like the friends who encouraged that guy to jump into the water at night on a cruiship and they never saw him again
Hello lifelong injury.
No one could ever convince me to jump from a balcony in a mosque. You could never Mecca me do it.
Good way to cause some grave bodily haram
He felt jihad to do it
Allah you better watch out
He'll be screaming for his imam
Atleast he only hurt himself and didn’t haram anyone else with this
I got on a skateboard 🛹 once to try and learn with my son in my early 40’s. Immediately became horizontal and slammed into the ground. L3/4/5 damage. Pain ever since (now late 50’s). When you are young or youngish you think you can do anything. If I could go back and talk to myself then I would tell myself not to be a dumbass and stay off the skateboard. And this was just something mildly dangerous.
It's definitely not a late-life (or even mid-life) sport. I used to be pretty good, but even a good fall hurts like hell now, and it takes a bunch of falls to learn how to fall well off a skateboard.
Something that blows me away about this is that people really fail to comprehend how dangerous it is to jump/fall from heights. I don't know if it's from growing up watching stunts in movies or what, but anything above your own height is dangerous territory if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
Like he appears to have jumped from a height of about 15 or 20 feet. He was in the air for a little more than a second. If we round and call it a 1.2 seconds, that means he hit the ground at close to 42 km/h or about 25 mph. He basically jumped into a car accident.
When I was younger and dumber I used to jump from high places onto hard surfaces in a kind of proto-parkour. Tried it again by accident last year and the sheer impact was like getting punched by a heavyweight. Acceleration is a bitch.
Did the fact that he was jumping from above a chandelier not give him the idea that it was probably quite a long way down?!
looks like a mosque. stone floor with very thin carpeting. thats really gonna hurt.
Kids just don’t get how painful aging is even when you don’t do stupid shit like this. He’ll know if he makes it to old age.
Your tailbone has disintegrated and you have multiple herniated discs, congratulations! A lifetime supply of pain awaits you.
Well, at least it is a good place for a little prayer
He will probably feel that for the rest of his life. 🤦🏻♂️ Darwin awards are making a comeback with everyone trying to gain 5min of internet fame.
Nice “friend” there. Dude is severely hurt and he’s just laughing like dude stubbed his toe
Permanent
That’s one way to get the buttplug to go in.
Now he can spit it out.
Me playing Elden Ring
That mosque've hurt.
Luckily there was the carpet
He gets carpet burns as a bonus to a broken back
What a waste of a young life. This guy will be feeling 90 until the end
Right in the coccyx.
Bro just martyred his ass
He will feel that for the rest of his life.
Someone get that man a hammer, to knock his spine back through his asshole
Say hello to a lifetime of sciatica. If you're lucky.
That lad's gone and done himself an owie
How to ruin your back for life. Next up is how I ruined my life.
He's gonna suffer from a lifetime of recurring perianal abscess after this, with possible deep fistula that surgeons can't find to repair.
His ‘friends’ are assholes. This is a bad injury and not funny.
Dr says I need a backiotomy
Why do people do stuff like this? I just can’t wrap my head around it
If you press alt right before you jump you roll when you land. Or spacebar to grab another ledge.
The dildo of consequences often arrives unlubricated
His tailbone is now in his throat
Learned this in elementary school. Never fall backwards. Bend the knees for shock and try to roll forward onto your arm as in the video. May not help with all heights, but definitely worth breaking an arm versus your back.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hV-VaPggfSE?si=MSkLjdm_7Riiq6xM
Like you said, may not work with all heights, but, the general idea iirc, is you want speed, so instead of just baby hopping off the ledge, he'd want a full tilt sprint off the ledge, bending knees can prevent breaking them backwards and soften the landing using them as absorption springs and going into a safety/parkour/etc roll, going from shoulder to opposite hip to avoid rolling over as much of the spine as possible, shown properly in the video you linked (thank you for sharing the safety/etc roll, not enough people know that technique), Depending on many factors, they could possibly walk away with nothing more than bruises and being sore, maybe a hairline fracture, vs whatever this person is going through now.
I felt that all the way here
That was LOUD! Welcome to the world of back pain.
Aaaaaaand…. Hospital
Well, welcome to back problems for the rest of your life.
I broke my tailbone as a kid and sometime I feel like it's still broken, close to 30 years later. That shit sucks.
His body will not let him forget that jump, for the rest of his life.
omg. Even I felt that!
Yes, he is an idiot, but his "friend" didn't help matters any
Bruh, his tailbone is dust
Now why’d he do that?
No butt sex for a week said the doctor.
It's inside a mosque. The carpet panels -- each one for a worshiper -- point towards Mecca. Perhaps the young man thought Allah would save him. But whatever he thought, Islam does not condone this sort of recklessness.
He’ll be the butt of the joke for a long time
I feel like kids never learned the "landing into a forward roll" that most of us older folk have watched on TV growing up. Would probably still hurt alot, but would save his back.
I doubt there is any method to prevent injury in this instance.
Looks like he's in Allah't of pain
Coccyx is a Coccfive now.
A literal leap of faith.
That’s how you break your legs and/or ankles and/or tailbone. What a moron.
Nice (broken) coccyx!
Lol someone is about to get fingered by the doctor
Damages in order: Ankles, knees, tailbone, spine
😲😲😲😵💫😵💫😵💫😲😲😲
Choose your poison, shatterd ankles or shatterd tailbone.
One you cannot walk, the other you cannot sit.
I knew it was high up but god damn it did not look THAT high up lol
Did he mean to land on his ass?
This guy is clearly old enough to understand cause and effect + heights. Thought process please?
the sound lmao
How is anyone this stupid? 🤯
It will come to him when he'll be 45 years old, Same pain, same spot
L1-10 no more
r/confusing_perspective
Friend laughing at broken bones
Why?
whyyyyyyyy
Who else just woke up and thought this was one of those optical illusion “oooo I’m on the ledge videos”
Good God why
Inside a mosque? Really?
I wonder what the plan was.
Bro just broke his whole ass
“Why is he avoiding the carpet? Is this a Mosque? Is there a rule about walking on the carpet? Oh, he’s going to kneel. Oh… no he isn’t…”
He probably fractured his tailbone!🫢
Good thing he landed on the few brain cells he has. I’m sure they’ll be rubbing together at maximum efficiency in the future.
Most humans have 33 vertebrate… this young man now has 10 of them
Nice little life altering injury to cap off the trip to whatever that place is
These trolls using the same pattern on the first floor but downscaled 😂
The tailbone is evil and must be punished
Stupid
wtf was the plan
Why?
That looked painful.
They should all do that
I don’t know why you would do that
Whoever is filming is either an idiot or a psychopath.
Ayatollah not to do that
what else could he have possibly expected to happen?😭😭
Totally thought that was like 3ft
That's like....3rd floor at least. And full impact on the tailbone. This dude is fucked up.
Everyone involved is a fucking moron. Including his friends that don't immediately freak out and call for paramedics
I bruised my tailbone snowboarding from a much lower impact hit than this, and it hurt whenever I sat down for like 3 years.
Good luck to this guy.
What did he think was going to happen?
Looks like a mosque. God don’t like disrespect in his house. FAFO.
Smoothed brain decisions.
Carpet probably 1 inch thick. Underneath that is a concrete foundation. Even parkour gangs don't try this shit, you can roll but the carpet mess up your flow.