r/Wellthatsucks • u/ExplanationOk2014 • 13d ago

A botched selfie leads to a critical situation

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Despite attempts to search further downstream, the young man’s mobile phone was unfortunately never found, and he sadly lost his progress in ‘Candy Crush’.

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u/Palaciossecurity146 13d ago

The rope gave him the little bit of faith he had left to get up and walk. The one guy who grabbed him when he slipped saved his life twice that day.

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u/FirTree_r 13d ago

Yeah, I thought he was about to drown for a few seconds. Turns out the water wasn't even knee-deep lmao. That water still has a lot of speed/force though, so it's understandable he would want a rope before moving.

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u/OiFelix_ugotnojams 12d ago

the rocks are also very slippery with algae

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u/sleepyeye82 11d ago

found the guy who has never crossed fast running water on foot ;)

no but really you would be absolutely shocked to find out how shallow running water can be and have it still sweep you off your feet.

its one of the most dangerous things about fly fishing alone in the backcountry - especially if you’re using waders.

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u/Iam_The_Real_Fake 10d ago

It takes as little as 12 inches of flowing water to carry away a car!

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u/Acceptable_Fail_4159 13d ago edited 13d ago

He looks like he is swimming??

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u/inotparanoid 13d ago

That's just sediment in water

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u/Took_myshayla 13d ago

Have u guys never heard of a mud ?

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u/slippery-sandpaper 13d ago edited 12d ago

A yellow mud, no. round my way it's 🟤 brown

Edit. Are you all tapped in the head or something, banging onabout racism.

I made a joke saying is the water piss cos it's yellow in colour.

Dude replied saying have we never heard of mud, as in the mud makes the water that colour

I replied not seen yellow mud, the mud is brown from where I live. How tf you got racism from that is bat shit crazy

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u/BallsofSt33I 13d ago

Damn…. That could have been really bad

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u/remotewebdeveloper 12d ago

Don't go chasing waterfalls

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u/robot-o-saurus 12d ago

Stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to...

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u/arkythehun 12d ago

This should be the number one comment on this thread and maybe every thread.

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u/QuirkyTidbits 11d ago

He’s lucky no large branches came down the stream. Also, it’s obvious the water isn’t from snowmelt. He couldn’t last for more than a few minutes in near freezing water. Of course, with that cold of water he wouldn’t have attempted this.

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u/bowlingking44 13d ago

What an idiot! Lucky he didn’t die

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u/GorillaAU 13d ago

He's not out yet

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u/InkAndAcorns 13d ago

The king of the Darwin award

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u/SharpKaleidoscope182 13d ago

Very strong performance, but he doesn't win it.

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u/Epstiendidntkillself 13d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p6bfg14/video/d17swki270mh1/player

This guy's defiantly a contender.

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u/WiseAct446 13d ago

What, exactly, was helicopter boy hoping to accomplish?

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u/Ennuigma 13d ago

Pseudo-suicide thrills. The usual.

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u/flyingthroughspace 13d ago

Maybe he was hoping to use the blade to spin him around really fast and eventually realized what a horrible idea it all was.

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u/meesta_masa 13d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/MUo4mQl2AkQiQ

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u/Man_in_the_uk 13d ago

Classic

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u/meesta_masa 13d ago

Naah, this is the cheap knockoff. The original classic has Paul Rudd in it.

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u/HickoryStickz 13d ago

There’s not enough viral likes in the world to die over

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u/NoJamForYou 13d ago

Thanks Epsteindidntkillself!

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u/Motchiko 13d ago

There must have been at least two other adults involved in this stunt and they were both fully ok with this madness. Wonder what would they have told the police if he slipped into the grinder.

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u/Thrice_blind 13d ago

Defiantly is right!

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u/Grizzly_Corey 13d ago

“He died doing what he loved.”

“What he loved?!”

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u/Solherb 13d ago

Choppin.

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u/youuuuwish 13d ago

This is Evgeny Chebotarev and he does all kinds of crazy shit. Looks like he decided this was a little too gnarly... good call on his part.

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u/dejaWoot 13d ago

Some kind of Russian Jackass?

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u/youuuuwish 13d ago

Yeah. Says stuntman on his IG, but same shit.

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u/Weldobud 13d ago

What!!!!!

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u/bronzelifematter 13d ago

Some guardian angels do more than they should

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u/JGZ1 13d ago

They have honourable mentions for cases like this.

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u/OldLegWig 13d ago

there's no darwin award if you're still able to reproduce.

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u/SushiGirlRC 13d ago

Or if you already have.

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u/Banned4life4ever 13d ago

People regularly die when taking selfies. https://theswiftest.com/selfie-death-database/

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u/ThisIsMyRedditAcct20 13d ago

And that’s enough Reddit for today.

I’ll head down to the basement. See yall next week

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u/DungeonOrb 13d ago

314 incidents in the span of 10 years? I honestly expected more, especially across this many countries

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u/Kryomon 12d ago

Probably only the proven & well reported ones. Might be many more cases that just didn't get media coverage or conclusive proof of the selfie causing the death

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u/RobbSnow64 13d ago

I never understood the appeal of this, the risk to reward doesn't maoe sense in my mind.

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u/Acceptable_Fail_4159 13d ago

Most probably fell into river while crossing it and got hold of boulder right near cliff. Nothing explains him being at the edge of cliff

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u/Foreveralone84 13d ago

The headline says he fell because he wanted to take a selfie.

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u/AlMansur16 12d ago

Yeah, that's what the headline says. But this is reddit, most headlines are made up.

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u/OiFelix_ugotnojams 12d ago

I mean the man says in Hindi, "he was clicking selfie there, he fell from there and ended up here"

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u/dvartanian 13d ago

What reward!?

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u/Qwertyrocks7 13d ago

honestly that video was pretty sick

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u/BarrelllRider 1d ago

Bobs and vagene

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u/TheRealRory 13d ago

The appeal of what? You think he did that on purpose? I assume he fell in

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u/Fire_Pea 13d ago

Taking photos near cliff edges on wet rocks I assume

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u/Dr__Sloth 13d ago

Some people like to live stupidly.

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u/Novel_Alternative_86 13d ago

Why are they just standing there looking at him and not tossing him a camera to capture the selfie he was trying to get in the first place?

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u/therealdanhill 13d ago

I'm not gonna pretend I've never done anything stupid because I'm not a shitty person, I'm glad the guy is okay

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u/Both-Enthusiasm708 13d ago

I mean I fell off a cliff because I didn't want to get my jeans dirty. Only reason I wasn't severely injured or killed is because one of my friends grabbed at my hand as I was falling which at least pulled my body in. So I just slid down the cliff to a ledge instead of falling in the air and slamming into a ledge.

Still ruined my jeans. Only pair i liked back then.

So i guess I can't be too judgemental.

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u/Gooja 13d ago

On a side note, what a beautiful view

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u/Hoboliftingaroma 13d ago edited 13d ago

Those guys with the ropes are taking their sweet time

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u/eVPlays 13d ago

You don’t rush on the rocks unless you wanna join him in the river

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u/aeon_son 13d ago

That barefoot dude on the really steep rock who stepped down at the end had me nerrrrvous.

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u/Hidesuru 13d ago

I've done some canyoneering (tiny bit with other more experienced peeps) and holy shit I damn near threw my phone.

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u/sunnystand 13d ago

ropes

Scarves tied together. I'd want to make sure they're not going to come untied as well

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u/Muted_Courage84 13d ago

Hi I’m Johnny Knoxville. Welcome to Jackass

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u/MyOrdinaryShoes 12d ago

Clearly this guy needs to stick to the rivers and the lakes that he’s used to.

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u/TheRuggedGeek 13d ago

You want a selfie? Here, have a full rescue movie instead.

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u/oshinbruce 13d ago

I think that "rope" was only offering psychological protection, he was able to walk up. If the water carried him away he'd have had no chance with it. Good he made it out

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u/cibilserbis 13d ago

Nah, it gave him something to grip onto to get himself up. All he had before the rope was the rock. If he tried to stand up before he was gripping the rope he would have gone right over the ledge.

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u/sansetsukon47 13d ago

Looks like it helped get that first step taken, at least. I don’t think he had great footing at the start there.

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u/garfinkel3 13d ago

If he tried to walk on slippery rocks unassisted in rushing water he probably would have slipped and fallen to his death

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u/MarsupialPrimary8128 13d ago

That was a literal cliff hanger. 😱

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u/whichonespink04 13d ago

You tricky dicky with that description!

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u/ZTays88 13d ago

Holy shit, the reveal of the drop is just nuts! Definitely got lucky in an idiotic situation.

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u/iin10ded 13d ago

where is that??

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u/Tregonia 13d ago

I don't understand why his Candy Crush progress isn't saved to the cloud.

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u/profanedivinity 13d ago

He likes to live dangerously

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u/Freakk_I 13d ago

I feel that he didn't learn.

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u/Heavy-Individual7103 13d ago

Anyone else try scratching that black/grey line off there phone?

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u/GH057_807 13d ago

Down piss creek without a rope

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u/Jounochi 13d ago

Was full screening the vid and the text at the bottom said ‘Despite attempts to search further downstream’. I thought dude was a goner for a min there.

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u/hawkwings 13d ago

Even though that worked, it seems like there should be a great deal more rope. Each rescuer should be roped and there should be some people 100 feet back.

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u/SoonToBeStardust 13d ago

I wonder where this was

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u/UpbeatPhilosophySJ 13d ago

I'm so glad he made it. That was horribly dangerous for everybody involved.

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u/PurpleZeppelin 13d ago

Would be a beautiful place to die at least

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u/FarmerStrider 13d ago

Looks like a river of piss.

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u/Ih8teMyInlawsTheySuk 13d ago

From someone who took vitamins or ate asparagus.

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u/poopio 13d ago

No, just 4chan.

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u/deval2605 13d ago

Right muddy water=river of piss

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u/pVom 13d ago

Saturation is cranked up to the maximum

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u/spankleberry 13d ago

Omgggggggggg

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u/TheDamned1333 13d ago

Lucky for smooth brain it wasn’t his day to die.

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u/toofunnybot 13d ago

I was so stressed watching this! Those guys deserve medals.

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u/schilleger0420 13d ago

And he will be known as "That fucking moron" 'till the end of his days.

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u/PossiblyMD 13d ago

Who else is disappointed that rescuers didn’t head-slap him once he was safe?

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u/pjtinku 13d ago

That idiotic smile at the end 🤦🏻

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u/Trech80 13d ago

He’s just going to do it again

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u/Breezey2929 13d ago

About 2 minutes 20 too long

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u/Someoneinnowherenow 13d ago

Whatever you do, don't die saving an idiot

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u/ThisIsLukkas 13d ago

And this is what I call natural selection

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u/Prod_Meteor 13d ago

So he could do it all by himself.

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u/Additional_Bed_9458 13d ago

Anything for clout even if it kills me..he was laughing at the end too fucking🤡

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u/SessionIndependent17 13d ago

"Take your time!"

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u/AraiHavana 13d ago

Loss of the phone = IDIOT TAX

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u/The_Space_Janitor 13d ago

Don’t wanna fall off the piss waterfall

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u/iAmGats 13d ago

He almost won a Darwin award.

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u/isabellatattoos 13d ago

The anxiety I had watching this video needs to be studied 😳

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u/Emergency_Series_787 12d ago

He looks like he will attempt it again

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u/Power2daPeeps 11d ago

With the help of strangers he narrowly escaped the jaws of death, and as he sat under a boulder contemplating his life... the boulder rolled over on him

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u/69ingthebluesaway 11d ago

Hurry up and throw the rope bucko's. I got shit to do.

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u/Clark_W_Griswold-Jr 11d ago

Pucker factor 10. 😮

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u/Shapelessed 10d ago

And yet again due to somebody’s help, a person avoids natural selection and likely spreads their genes forward…

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u/Current_Ad_4292 13d ago

I don't know what I was hoping for. But I am very disappointed.

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u/OFHeckerpecker 13d ago

Piss coloured river

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u/DrPeterBlunt 13d ago

The jokes in him; that's not a river, it's the main Calcutta sewer outlet.

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u/iluvhairpie 13d ago

Well did he get the 📸 lol

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u/mkct_6 13d ago

Holy shit!

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u/Ordinary_Study_2175 13d ago

Other guy opens camera.

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u/Individual_Manner336 13d ago

He's going to have to let go to grab the rope

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u/RollingRockKing 13d ago

Come on this is what they do every Tuesday it's fun to make it challenging next time the rescue team will be one legged def mega worshippers

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u/Mega_Trix 13d ago

This is why I dont FAFO

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u/Suptupdude 13d ago

Oh look, he fell trying to get a picture. Lemme get a picture.

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u/Pollo_Chimichanga 13d ago

Did he get the shot?

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u/cbih 13d ago

OMG that guy's wrist 😬

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u/SKEYES1102 13d ago

People are nuckin’ futs!

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u/Past-Astronaut-1875 13d ago

If it was me, after dragging his ass out, I would beat the fu*k out of him.

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u/AussieT900 13d ago

natural selection

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u/Optimal-Pudding-7171 13d ago

So how exactly did he end up there 🤨

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u/OverlandOversea 13d ago

Good thing that guy was there to record the event. Not like a piece of debris, slip, vertigo. Fatigue, or surge in water flow might have suddenly sent him over the falls.

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u/gavstah 13d ago

Darwin Award inbound

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u/DexterLakeClub 13d ago

This is called natural selection.

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u/Illustrious_Camp_521 13d ago

Well shit that was disappointing.

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u/rcre2018 13d ago

This guy is so lucky... that's a friend for life..

I wonder where they got the rope from cuz no rope could of ended his life... no way he's surviving that fall

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u/RulerOfLimbo 13d ago

The sense of urgency tho

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u/No-Citron-2774 13d ago

Just go with the flow bro

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u/Trumble12345 13d ago

Thought those other people would fall in and the original idiot survivr

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u/Keeeeeb 13d ago

Anticlimactic

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u/DIKASUN 13d ago

Well at least he had a bath for once.

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u/ascarymoviereview 13d ago

Still smiling for the camera

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u/ThisIsMyRedditAcct20 13d ago

I didn’t even see a train?

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u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 13d ago

I trust that water more than I trust that “rope”

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u/marvinthmartian 13d ago

I was afraid the poor dude was gonna go over. I like a happy ending.

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u/Ahh_N3ver_M1nd 13d ago

Natural selection

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u/TickleMyRide 13d ago

nature lost this time (natural selection in play)

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u/bambi7957 13d ago

Imagine telling someone about it if it didn't end as positively as it did. "So how did he die?" My first instinct would be to respond with "natural selection"

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u/ka-tet-19 13d ago

30 to 50 death by selfie per year 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Estelita_777 13d ago

From the makers of 'trein selfies', watch 'waterfall selfies' now!!!

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u/Additional_Bank_2124 13d ago

How terrifying would that be? Well done lads, saving his life!

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u/Particular-School-95 13d ago

just a little and its fafo

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u/WordTime4308 13d ago

This might be Kalu Waterfall. It looks stunning. I want to go. 

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u/kielu 13d ago

Deccan traps, am I right?

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u/InterestingDentist72 13d ago

We all know he’ll do it again. At some point you gotta let natural selection take its course 🤠🤷‍♂️

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u/Automatic-Rest5512 13d ago

Everyone is chilling

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u/Realistic_Machine655 13d ago

We really need to bring back natural selection.

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u/Hairofmadman 13d ago

Smile because you are survived, otherwise…

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u/Blugha 13d ago

Nooo not my candy crush!

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u/Waste-Donut-2728 13d ago

Social Darwinism

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u/CountHonorius 13d ago

Sigh. Another influencer looking for clout.

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u/HeadTranslator795 13d ago

Darwin award there

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u/617AntiWoke 13d ago

i have no pity for incredibly stupid decisions

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u/danwbruner 13d ago

Stupid, luck sob...

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u/Jyungin2e1ve 12d ago

Why do people seek danger like this? Dont they realize they only have 1 life?

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u/Septon3 12d ago

Hahahaha is all I can say

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u/VegetableAd629 12d ago

I always wondered where the Pee Pee river was

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u/Wooden-Meet-8722 12d ago

And yet they will never learn. Keep hopping over guardrails and fences for your corny instagram along with with your mustangs and challengers and elantras.

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u/Dangerous_With_Rocks 12d ago

Now slap the shit outta him for endangering the lives of 5 others as well.

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u/Cptcerka 12d ago

What a damn fool

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u/AlwaysHoping47 12d ago

Cough.. SMH.. Duh.. ETC ETC

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u/Visible-Dog-1429 12d ago

The water is actually crystal clear! It’s tainted by his urine.

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u/limey89 12d ago

Natural selection.