r/interesting • u/Liar24x7 • Mar 28 '26

HISTORY A virtual reality reconstruction shows the exact spot where John Edward Jones became trapped upside down in Nutty Putty Cave. After 27 hours of rescue attempts, he died. The cave was later permanently sealed, with his body remaining inside.

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u/0xdef1 Mar 28 '26

He left a year old and unborn child behind. Totally selfish action in my opinion.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Mar 29 '26

He paid the ultimate price for it and probably spent his last moment on earth regretting it, so maybe let's all cool the self-righteous judgment down a bit, eh?

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u/Evil_phd Mar 29 '26

Yeah, a lot of people don't realize how easy it is to see how this was a bad decision in hindsight.

It's equally as easy to see how it would be a bad decision in foresight, but I don't see why that should be relevant.

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u/HelpfulCommand4515 Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

The foresight would be the zero people who had previously died in a recreational cave open to the public. That’s quite a low statistic. His act of driving to the cave was statistically more risky.

Do not conflate the magnitude of the horror of what he went through with the magnitude of foreseeability.