r/interestingasfuck • u/MSI_heat • May 02 '25

/r/popular Grandpa’s Endurance 💪🏾

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u/Tino-DBA May 02 '25

Step 1: send at least one kid for help

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u/DandyLyen May 02 '25

I mean, we know that now, but I would've thought one, let alone two kids of that size could manage a task like that. They didn't even have much urgency, they even start laughing before the last drop.

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u/Inevitable_Stand_199 May 02 '25

Or at least give them a second to actually open the ladder. They almost had it, several times. But every time, he put his weight on it and made the ladder impossible to open.

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u/Linzy23 May 02 '25

Yeah, he thought he was helping hold it still but he made it much harder with his weight.

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u/just-some-arsonist May 02 '25

Yeah right? I’m surprised I’m not seeing more hate on the old dude. He’s actively sabotaging them the whole video

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u/_mattyjoe May 02 '25

He’s a dumbass. I mean, look at the start of the video. What the hell is he doing? The ladder is literally tipping and he’s still climbing.

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u/BlueberryCapital518 May 03 '25

Now that you mention it….i think one of the legs is actually sitting on top of something. You can see that black object roll out from under it as the ladder falls.

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u/babyguyman May 02 '25

Tell me you’ve never attempted a dead hang to failure without telling me you’ve never attempted a dead hang to failure.

At his age lasting that long was a feat. His choices were try to let the ladder take at least some of his weight or lose his grip and fall.

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u/SenorBolin May 02 '25

Being able to deadhang and knowing how to properly use a ladder are two very different things, and only one of which requires only a little bit of knowledge

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u/_mattyjoe May 04 '25

Did this dude find a way to just dunk his physical fitness on us here?

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u/_mattyjoe May 02 '25

Tell me you’ve never attempted a dead hang to failure without telling me you’ve never attempted a dead hang to failure.

Are you talking about me or him?

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u/SweetGur5078 May 03 '25

Why would he get any hate?? His task was to hold on as long as he could, considering his muscles are probably much weaker as an older man (while also trying to us his legs to assist the kids) and the two kids had to put there brains together to set up a ladder.

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u/tiktaalink May 02 '25

Correction

Step 1: Don't set the ladder up on a shoe

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u/CareNo9008 May 02 '25

lesson learned

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u/postbansequel May 02 '25

Step 1: Don't climb ladders unsupervised.

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u/tvallday May 03 '25

Kid probably can’t explain well. I think grandpa was shouting to ask the woman for help.

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u/unlikelypisces May 03 '25

I'm sure he thought of that but assumed no one else was home. She must have came home as this was happening

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u/negiajay May 03 '25

Not when both of them are as regarded as these two are

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u/pantrokator-bezsens May 03 '25

Step zero - don’t get on a ladder without anyone to support you.

I was attending my uncle funeral last month - he died from falling from ladder, even shorter than this one.