Posted on 07/06/2018 4:14:55 AM PDT by markomalley
Did you hear about the one where the youtube guy thought a book would stop a .50 handgun round and convinced his girlfriend to shoot the book while he was holding against his chest?
Looks like that would have been a bumpy ride down.
Further reading shows that these folks were banned by usfs from federal lands due to prior stunts and had even served jail for it.
These morons entered the top part of falls only by really working very hard to do so. The recovery was excruciatingly difficult and dangerous due to the terrain.
They earned Darwin awards.
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“In one of his last Instagram posts, Gamble, 30, spoke about the things we can all learn from “our younger selves”.
He wrote: “Life isn’t about responsibilities, tough decisions and hard work, it’s about feeling bliss and living in the moment.””
I remember seeing a story about a sky diver who would go around saying “ man, it would be OK to die in a dive, I’d die doing something I love”.
During a jump his main chute malfunctioned, then his spare and all the way down he was saying “ I don’t want to die, not now!”
Looks like to me it was the bounces off the walls that did them in
Yes, I remember that.
Those are sentiments of which the world could use fewer advocates. I hope he didn't father any now-orphaned children while he was feeling bliss and living in the moment.
Honestly, one hesitates to say, "Good riddance to bad rubbish," but I can't think of much else.
As I mentioned above, we saw people getting in the creek atop the falls at South Mountains State Park just a few weeks ago.
I’ve swum in the plunge pool of a couple of healthy waterfalls without any issue from water turbulence or air bubble density.
The biggest worry for me was a large stick or log floating over the top and falling.
Elk River Falls and Rainbow Falls where the two were people playing around in the river above the falls died recently.
One guy went over going after his dog. I think the dog got out.
Since the first of the year there have been four deaths at those two locations
There are a couple of dead swim team members from here that swam near a 4' dam who would disagree with you (if they could).
A damn isn’t a free fall waterfall. You’re talking about a hydraulic and they are to be avoided like the plague.
In Glacier National Park, the #1 cause of death is people under 30 falling off of waterfalls. #2 is people under 30 falling into the super-cold glacier-fed rivers. The largest lake, Lake McDonald, reaches a summer high temperature of 38 F.
I’d bet money that they’re trust-fund babies. It’s only a question of what will kill them first, their drug use or an accident like this.
There are a lot of people that die falling off waterfalls. It’s weird, the urge to get into the water is like shiny objects to a tropical fish.
And of course you’re a wuss if you try it against a tree first instead of yourself. Sounds like the brand of genius who pulls the clip and thinks that’s all you need to unload it.
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