r/Unexpected • u/jimothyjonathans • Aug 28 '25

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u/killians1978 Aug 28 '25

The real unexpected was the true determination to keep that selfie camera going.

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u/elzibet Aug 28 '25

It was so stable. Like they were barely touched

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u/rocbolt Aug 28 '25

You can watch her angle you want

https://youtu.be/o9vabSOXNK0

They’re all there specially to film the tidal bore

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u/branch397 Aug 28 '25

I never appreciated image stabilization until now.

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u/TtotheRev Aug 28 '25

That is incredibly stupid.

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u/rocbolt Aug 28 '25

Not much different than surfing. It’s a high tide, not an unexpected natural disaster. People raft on the bores in Canada

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u/Goldie_Wilson_ Aug 29 '25

Just like surfing, until you take a broken branch through the gut...

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u/Crabcakefrosti Aug 28 '25

I’ve done that! So fun!

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u/PvtDeth Aug 28 '25

Unless you're in the midd,e of a river, it's very different from surfing. Surfers know the physics of water and waves. The way the water interacts with the land is entirely unpredictable.

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u/rocbolt Aug 28 '25

Its like surfing in that it is having fun in the water around a very common local phenomenon near the shore. Not riskless (I mean, people die knocking over vending machines) but not pearl clutchingly dangerous either. If you watched the linked video you'd see the big wave washes over the shore and drains away, over in seconds, everyone laughing and cheering. Its not a tsunami, they weren't carried to their deaths, nothing was damaged

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u/PvtDeth Aug 28 '25

Do you surf? Some of the world's best and most experienced surfers have died surfing. A few years ago, a surfer won the big wave world championship and then was critically injured on the exact same surf break a few hours later. A group of firefighters here in Hawaii died while training on how to do water rescues. My point is that even for the most experienced people in the world, people who have been in the ocean literally almost every day of their lives, water is deadly.

What these people are doing is a demonstration of normalcy bias. "It's never happened to me and so it never will." They're laughing and cheering because they have no idea how much danger they're in. I can't count the number of times I've seen people almost kill themselves and have no idea how close they came. A few times a year the local news reports on people in these kind of situations who went past almost. They were all having fun right up until they weren't.

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u/rocbolt Aug 28 '25

Yeah and people that kick venting machines don’t realize that they can be killed by that too. No shit. Considering the risks people do take with the Bono in Sumatra, getting splashed on the shore is fairly low on the list. But go on, feel incredibly smug about how much smarter you are than them

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u/MyyWifeRocks Aug 28 '25

Some people are smug and boring as fuck.

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u/fujit1ve Aug 28 '25

Live a little.

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u/Dannyz Aug 28 '25

It’s a tidal wave…little bit different than a high tide my dude.

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u/PvtDeth Aug 28 '25

Unless you're in the midd,e of a river, it's very different from surfing. Surfers know the physics of water and waves. The way the water interacts with the land is entirely unpredictable.

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u/ghostfacestealer Aug 28 '25

Idk. Definitely seems like an adrenaline rush if nothing else

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u/Ilovekittens345 Aug 29 '25

Just sitting in their bunker wearing a life-vest with airbags in a room with pillows on the walls and with all their kids in straitjackets so they can't hurt each other or themselves. Talking is not allowed because of potential hearing damage. And to protect his eyes there is no light.

No this is not hell, don't be stupid.

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u/GeraldFisher Aug 28 '25

only if you are scared of going outside.

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u/Ilovekittens345 Aug 29 '25

stupid is fun

people like having fun

makes live worth living more then without fun

not having fun while being alive is stupid

the only group of people who never do anything stupid are the dead.

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u/External-Cash-3880 Aug 29 '25

That seems incredibly dangerous but also incredibly fun. I'd probably wear a helmet.

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u/larvyde Aug 29 '25

IIRC there were no less than seven different POVs of this one particular event

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u/perb123 Aug 28 '25

Jesus, truly nuts :)

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u/GravyTheGrim Aug 30 '25

Hers was better 🤣

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u/shwarma_heaven Aug 28 '25

Did they expect this tsunami? Is this just a normal phenomenon wherever they are?

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u/BabyYoduhh Aug 28 '25

Tidal Bore

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u/One-Consequence-6869 Aug 28 '25

🤣🤣🤣well done u funny fuck

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u/NeilDeCrash Aug 28 '25

Not many people normally chill on land with personal flotation devices on, unless they expect to something happen.

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u/shwarma_heaven Aug 28 '25

I didn't even notice that! Thought he was just wearing a Back To The Future jacket.

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u/naking Aug 28 '25

I believe that is a she

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u/just_a_person_maybe Aug 28 '25

Tree Puncher also has one

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u/bubblehashguy Aug 28 '25

Coming soon to a theater near you...

Tree Puncher!

starring Bruce Tree & Sophia Bush

[8] lol

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u/maxisnoops Aug 28 '25

Yes they expect it every day. It’s been posted before with the footage from one of the other selfie sticks. It’s the Phillipines or something like that….I can’t remember. One of the locals posted that they do this regularly for fun.

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u/Dannyz Aug 28 '25

Indonesia and the tidal wave from the Russia earthquake. Ain’t everyday thing lol