Close Calls

Aug 4, 2026 7:54 PM

Skydiver suffered a seizure.

#6 like playing jenga, lolol “carefuuul caaaarreeefuulllll” *crash* that dejected “head hang” too, pure comedy

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#7 This killed me. At least he was gracious about the first near-accident but man, take a hint and walk home

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It makes me sad, because we can probably assume just as many times there are people not so lucky.

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#1 Fucking moron, still coasting alongside the truck. Some people truly continue to live by luck.

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#14 Lightning strike or too close to power lines? Not sure if that was a close call or just a call.

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#18 whoever put a fence like that next to a skate bowl did not think, at all, probably ever.

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https://imgur.com/hGPpXX4.mp4

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There's a 'NOT TODAY!' mindset.

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This is a very experienced operator to be able to quickly know how to orient the arm at the best angle to catch themselves. Or just extremely lucky. But either way good on them. Shitting substrate and area to be working.

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I called my wife, who was sitting right next to me. Does that count as a close call?

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Close, but not too close for comfort.

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#33 what a hero

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#19 either the driver was also on their phone not paying attention or they purposely veered to clip the walker. Looks a little malicious to me

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#20 made me flinch. That camera man almost got a blood shower

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#19 That's gotta be a broken ankle.

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#26 My god, kids are just suicidal little drunks aren't they.

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#10 After hitting two cars and sliding on its side, that car *still* caught up to the traffic ahead of it. How fast was that fucker driving?

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#7 Drunk af?

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Or high, yeah. Waaaaay too zen for what just happened.

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Yeah, that was my thought.

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#3 remember kids, parking brake and also turn your steering wheel so the car will turn into the curb if this happens.

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https://imgur.com/AdYoFwG.mp4

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Thought that guy was pulverized.

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I will always up @AllAnusMorissette solely because it is the best imgur name ever. Fight me.

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end of the laneway, don't come up the property.

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uhh holy shit

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Some of these are people being stupid. A lot of it is because a lack of government regulation, which is what Republicans desperately want to do here. Is that the kind of country folks want to live in?

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The animated Chinese safety videos always come to mind when people want to claw back on workplace safety regulations. Or watching the Indian videos with the safety flip flops

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If it wasnt for our prisons already being overcrowded, man do i wish there was far harder punishments for people running red lights or otherwise driving dangerously in traffic, here it is just a slap on the wrist, revoked license and then they take the same driver a week later and give him another slightly harder slap on the wrist for driving whitout a license.

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"Speed Kills" was such an accurate slogan. Unfortunately, when you purposely build a world around everyone owning a car and make sure there's no decent public transport, licencing basically everyone becomes the de facto standard.

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I'm Joe Lombardo.

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#29 Ninja-dad fucking wins at life.

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I couldn't follow what happened to the woman in pink.

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He grabbed her too.

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They were both rescued by ninja dad (he grabbed them both).

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#14 DA FUQ was that? Any context?

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I don't understand the language but looks like it was a funny "here it's sunny, here's it's raining" bit, rudely interrupted by a lightning strike a few meters away.

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Looks like lightning struck the fence post that was right next to them

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Ye that fence post fucking exploded in his face.

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Lightning strike. Pay close attention to the interference to the camera sensor before that. He should've felt that long before it struck.

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unless thats the rain, but not convinced. There's a massive electric field buildup before the lightning (hair stands up)...

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I didn't notice that at first, good call. I guess it's the white specks appearing on the video

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You can but its only for a few seconds and you barely have time to recognize it. You gotta get struck a couple times first.

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A close lightning strike is all the info I have.

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#4 is it real? Lacking a few pixels, but the bike just disappears without him even budging?

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I'm with you, Real, but edited or missing some frames I'd guess. there's no way you don't even stumble a little if that happens.

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Pretty sure I've seen this a few times, pre-AI. He's stood up on his feet when the car grabs the bike and just yanks it out from under him.

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It is possible. The bike hit the corner of the bumper and seemed to catch. The motion would pull the bike forward at an angle that could just pull it out from under him. The rider had his weight on his feet so he didn't fall and it was too fast for him to react. I think it's an older video. That's what makes me think it's real.

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Looks real enough, even though it's unbelievable.

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Yes. The vehicle took off with the bike.

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#24 "Hmm, there's a lot of loose, broken rocks here, wonder where they came from... but I'm sure it will be safe. Let's camp."

Exhibit A of why you shouldn't camp on a scree/talus.

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That dude almost got A Train'ed.

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Or someone out of the camara had just kick the rock...

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It Is Not Roling. It Is flying.... So Poss. Someone of camara did something To It to make it Fly....
No dust. No small pepples. Just flying. So. Wind or Person... don't matter...

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Someone kicked a rock the size of a grand piano?

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Yeah! Someone kicked a rock that weighs probably 5-8 tons, at that speed, at the camp!

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Everest.

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If it's not on the rocks, it's on frozen bones.

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Or poop

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In two words?

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Ever-rest.

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#13 That's hydraulic oil being sprayed out, probably from a fractured hose. The spray mist hit the exhaust, and then boom...

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The whole thing looks remarkably inefficient!!

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Didn't realize how flammable it is,

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You have no idea. This video is from an aluminium extrusion line. Just watch how fast the fire spreads fueled by the hydraulic oil

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holy shit, hopefully that guy that went back for something got clear, that got incredibly bad, very very fast

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about twenty seconds to get to a full fire.

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Exactly. I've seen that one a couple of times. For me it looks like the hose popped completely off the top of the hydraulic cylinder. I'm wondering why the drop ceiling was so flammable. Here in Norway it's made of rock wool or something like that

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Same here in Germany. Factories using hot metal and flammable liquids like hydraulic oil have very specific security regulations to follow. Fires are not impossible here but the outcome would be very different

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#1 It happen to me and i wasn't that lucky

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I would say that you were lucky to just have that

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Ya, a semi ran my mum and step dad off the road in a hit and run in the early 2000s. Nearly killed both of them. I hope that driver rots in hell.

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so, the video isn't showing it all? What happened?

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My Arm got stuck between the Door and the Road when the truck turned over, the Hospital took 2 days to remove all the Glass shards stuck in my Elbow and Forearm.

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Man, what a unpleasant ride. Thanks for telling the story behind it all.

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In the car or in the truck?

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In the Truck

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You're still here, and you have some scars. That's not ideal, that still sucks ass, but considering what could have happened?

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I'm glad you're still with us.

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The Nerves inside my Arm got damaged under my elbow , and i had to take a year and a half in rehab to make in functional again *God Bless Canada* but now i'm stuck with Painkillers ...

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Yeesh, that sucks to hear. I know its trite and probably sounds repetitive, but I genuinely am glad you stayed intact overall, I'm glad it wasn't way worse. Hopefully the pain fades further over time. I'm glad you can access the care needed to get better!

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#27 This seems intentional, and not because of bad luck or just completely stupidity.

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It isn't. A qualified logging company would have chopped that tree down in sections. That's blind luck.

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Well yeah... but it is still a close call. I would have erred on the side of destroying the fence personally.

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Absolutely intentional. Amazing planning and execution.

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Honestly seems like they fucked up a little, they had WAY more room on the left then the right when it actually fell, and if you're gonna lean towards something you lean towards the fence, not the building. Neither is a cheap repair, but they're not even in the same ballpark. let alone for liability reasons.

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It's easy to mistake ignorance for malevolence. It's more often the former but not always.

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If they went through the effort of chopping all the limbs off, why not cut it down from the top down? Why fall it in such a narrow safe area to begin with?

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Love of the risk.
Or love of money, you choose.

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He's an expert who's done this dozens of times before.

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I imagine they cut the limbs off to fell it in such a narrow safe area. Idk the metrics of cutting top down but I'd guess it's more effecient to fell it like that.

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Not that much more effort to section it then do this if you're alreayd getting up there to get all the limbs off. Maybe half an hour? less for a professional team.

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No disagreement there lol I'm not an arborist but im sure theres a reason for doing either method. At least this guy seemed to know what he was doing.

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Yeah, they did a good job, I'd argue if they were going to lean to one side or another, I'd have cut closer to the fenceline then the house, as I'd rather take the hit on a fence repair then a gutter and roof if it went 3 inches in the wrong direction. But job got done and well in the end.

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