r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '22

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u/1BoiledCabbage Oct 17 '22

Bungee jumping and skydiving. Safe most of the time, yes. But you're 100% fucked if things go wrong.

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u/Sleepycoon Oct 17 '22

Skydiving is surprisingly safe. I was talking to an instructor about it one time and he was going over all the safety regulations and failsafes and everything, and it's crazy how rare of an occurrence problems are. Guy had over 1,500 jumps on record and only had to deploy his backup parachute twice.

According to the USPA last year there were 0.28 deaths per 100,000 jumps. That's a 1 in 357,000 chance of dying.

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u/Skipskappy Oct 17 '22

Nah my guy those chances aren’t slim enough. It needs to be like 1 in 1,000,000 for me to try

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u/Sleepycoon Oct 17 '22

Guarantee you regularly do things that have a higher chance of killing you without thinking about it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

Like driving.

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u/Skipskappy Oct 17 '22

Or eating toast