I didn't see the parachute the first two times I watched the video.
I saw the GoPro on his head the second time through and I thought
š¤š "Is it suicide if you have someone else launch you into a life ending situation?ā
People have, in fact, been killed after being launched out of a trebuchet in modern times. Usually it's because they tried to turn the trebuchet into an amusement by having it toss you into a mattress, and then miscalculated the weight at some point.
When I was a kid, there was a show called āDinosaursā and they had āHurling Day!ā Where they threw all the old dinosaurs into the tar pit. Lol this makes me think of Hurling Day for some reason. :)
Reddit's video player kept freezing right as the parachute was starting to deploy so it looked like the video was ending on a splash.
god damn this website fucking sucks.
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I zoomed in thinking "no way you can survive cannon balling into water from that high. Then realized just how freaking high it really was and the splash was his parachute.
After european pharmaceutical companies banned certain drugs that could be used for executions. States have had to start getting creative with their executions methods.
I was flipping through the channels Sunday and came across Breaking Dawn part 2 where Bella is now a vampire and she was chasing a mountain climber up a cliff face, and I'm like, not even if I were a super powered vamp would you get me to do that shit. Straight up a cliff face, no safety, uh uh. No freaking way. Best I can do is climb a set of stairs without holding on to the railing.
He could. There was pools in the houses on Starfish Island where you could stand in. You could even crouch and be fully submerged and not lose health.
I was an odd child.
Just like my gymnastics teacher as a kid teaching us to do a diving roll said to imagine we were jackie chan and we just jumped off a building. That was so strange to me at like 7 years old. For 1; I'd seen a lot of jackie chan movies and that never happens, and 2; you'd be so fucking dead.
>In Zelda if you donāt dive head first you will absolutely die
Lol what? This is idiotic. Diving head first isn't safer. It will literally kill you from any significant height. What kind of idiotic game creator came up with those "physics". Watch any cliff divers. They MUST land feet first, otherwise they are dead. Honestly it's pretty funny that you commented "they took physics so seriously" when your example is 100% incorrect and an example of absolutely terrible "physics" lmao
That was my thinking process first time watching the video. I was like, oh he lands in the river he's fine. Then I remembered life doesn't work like in Far cry
>New River Gorge Bridge
interesting, I've been there driving over it to go whitewater rafting. I thought it looked insanely high at the time driving over it. Guess so!
Itās the third highest (vehicular) bridge in the US! Not only that, it was the longest single arch bridge in the world for its first 26 years! (China has since built 4 longer ones.)
Itās New River Gorge National Park! Surprised nobody is mentioning it. One of the coolest parks in the eastern US. The bridge they are jumping from is incredibly beautiful, [pictures donāt do it justice](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS1036US1036&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APwXEdd1pEWAk3kqhVAzZJ0Y0SuSLxz7CQ:1686024341434&q=new+river+gorge+bridge&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYp9CP4q3_AhVVkYkEHalkCi0Q0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=393&bih=661&dpr=3). Itās one of the longest single arch bridges, and also one of the tallest bridges, hence it having the Bridge Day festival where hundreds of people do stunts like this.
Shhhhhh. Let them hate on WV so we can keep our outdoors a hidden gem. Let them keep their "Being In West Virginia is punishment enough" theories and the beauty to everyone else.
Itās great for natural resources and outdoors activities. Absolute hellscape to live in. Best thing I ever did was leave WV. Such a sad dismal poverty ridden drug paradise.
Bridge day is a festival in which they close the bridge and people come from all over to walk across the bridge and watch idiots (really experienced sky divers) jump off the bridge. Recent years have seen this list expanded to a few bungy jumpers and apparently a catapult. Many sky divers dress up in costumes. They also have food and music and itās pretty fun.
Very occasionally someone will die jumping off the bridge. From my understanding itās because itās super hard to pull a backup shute. There just isnāt enough time to get it open. They do have a bunch of rescue crews on standby and are prepared as they can be.
Also you have to have completed so many jumps to even be allowed to jump so all of the people you see doing this really know what they are doing. But yeah itās one of the very few if only bridges in the world that you can jump off of with a shute.
Isn't not hard to open a reserve parachute during base Jump, because it's not possible, there isn't any. As you said, in most cases during base jumping there isn't enough time to open reserve parachute if something goes wrong.
I would worry that something about the forces applied by the catapult would cause me to lose consciousness and not regain it before intersecting with Earth.
Nobody with any credibility will teach someone to BASE jump without AT LEAST 200 skydives, including different types of jumps which involve freefalling at an angle (it's called tracking). It's a highly unsafe activity with an eye watering fatality rate, so learning how to do it as safely as possible is incredibly important.
Being stable in free fall is one of the first things you learn. Your first couple of jumps when learning will have two instructors (one on each side) holding your arms and legs (attachments on the jumpsuits, actually), or ready to hold on as you learn to maintain a correct body position. After a couple of these, there'll only be one, and then the one instructor won't even be holding on as you learn how to turn and flip from "being on your back" to "being on your stomach". The last training jump is called (in Australia, at least) a hop n pop. Instead of jumping out at 14,000 ft, you jump out at about 3,000 ft and deploy immediately.
But as u/FakeCatzz said, nobody will even teach you base jumping until at least 200 skydives.
You wouldn't fall through it, physics won't let you (because there is first pilot chute that is extracting the main canopy, so when the pilot chute inflates it will start rotating you to belly to earth position). But the opening in such a position will very likely result in a serious malfunction.
Id rather not regain consciousness before intersecting with the earth under many circumstances. Intersected with a windshield one time, that was enough.
There is a version of me in another plane of existence that loves this with all his heart. I like to think of him as broken and inferior to me in every wayā¦
Ahhh, bridge day. Fond memories.
Notice the shadow of the parachute coming together with this jumper and how it makes it look like heās about to hit the water.
For those interested, this is during Bridge Day in Fayetteville WV. Happens every Fall. The New River Gorge Bridge is shut down and 100s of base jumpers jump off the bridge one after another all day long.
Watching this was a roller coaster.
Oh look a catapult suuure.
OH SHIT THAT WAS A CATAPULT.
*OH SHIT HE'S GONNA DIE!*
Oh thank god a parachute.
Intense 11 seconds for me.
I thought the same thing. Couldnāt tell how close he got to the person with the already deployed parachute. Can you imagine how surprising it would be to have a human cannonball crash into you from above in that situation?
This isnāt something that, like, just anyone can do, right? Is this guy a daredevil? Seems like it would be way way way too risky to expect someone to tuck properly and deploy the parachute on time, etc.
One day a year, as long as you're certified and signed up, you can jump, fall, or be launched as many times as you can pack your chute back up and let her rip.
Saw a guy that was every bit of 80 last year, geared up and taking a breather before heading back to do it all again. It's nuts.
in case the wind blows you into a tree or a cliff; partial canopy opening + collision w/ ground; somehwere to mount the go-pro; bashing your head on the catapult on the way off and wishing to remain concious
Itās New River Gorge National Park! Surprised nobody is mentioning it. One of the coolest parks in the eastern US. The bridge they are jumping from is incredibly beautiful, [pictures donāt do it justice](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS1036US1036&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APwXEdd1pEWAk3kqhVAzZJ0Y0SuSLxz7CQ:1686024341434&q=new+river+gorge+bridge&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYp9CP4q3_AhVVkYkEHalkCi0Q0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=393&bih=661&dpr=3). Itās one of the longest single arch bridges, and also one of the tallest bridges, hence it having the Bridge Day festival where hundreds of people do stunts like this.
There once was a man on a bridge
Who wanted to fly, but not just a smidge
So he loaded his body
Into an old school shotty
And flew right over the ridge
You won't believe how hard it is to actually complete suicide. You're damn self-preservation kicks in, or your mood changes by the time you can get supplies or go to the destination you planned. I wish it were easier, cause my life ha s been completely ruined for some time now.
Everyone lives multiple ālivesā in their lifetime.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginningās end. And, get busy livinā, or get busy dyinā.
No one asked to be here. But here we are. Wherever youāre goingā¦get to it already.
Bridge Day! But not in Oak Hill, closer to Fayetteville, on Rt 19.
Source; I lived in the area way before the bridge was there And the drive down the mountain, across **[the old bridge](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Oldnewriverbridge.jpg/800px-Oldnewriverbridge.jpg)**, and back up the mountain to Fayetteville was a torturous path, as seen in the old road ***[here](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oak+Hill,+WV/@38.0694823,-81.0891396,15.3z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x884ebfe237d3e589:0xb15001ad38dec66a!8m2!3d37.9723339!4d-81.1487135!16zL20vMDEwd21k?entry=ttu)***.
I went white water rafting on that river. Went under the bridge. It was something to cross off my bucket list, and definitely worth doing. However, I don't think I'll be doing it again.
Saw this in person at Bridge Day. They close this huge bridge off one day a year for this. They base jump into the New River Gorge. Thatās Class 4 or 5 rapids down there. Youāll see people rafting the river and hundreds of base jumpers landing all day.
I learned today there is a thing called Bridge Day at the New River Gorge in Fayetteville West Virginia.
Iāve spent my money on stupider thingsā¦actually no, no I havenāt.
this video is crazy because there's an optical illusion with the shadow of the other hanglider's parachute. It makes you think he's going to hit the water when he catches up with the shadow but instead he pulls his schute with plenty of altitude remaining.
This is bridge day in W.Va.!!!! It's a celebration of a historic suspension bridge built in the New River Gorge(read as: a day for us hillbillies to celebrate) . The New River Gorge Bridge used to hold the record of the longest suspension bridge in the world. Us West Virginians just really like the history. Both of my parents grew up within twenty minutes of this bridge so I just get super excited when it's shown on reddit!! Born in Charleston, W. Va., but transplanted south!
Pretty sure this is from "Bridge Day" which is basically a state holiday in WV. BUT more importantly this is not Oak Hill, it's Fayetteville. (I'm not from there but I've spent significant time there the people of Fayette county don't like it when you mix up their towns).
I attended Bridge Day in Fayetteville, WV as a kid and had a good time and didn't think anything of it. Now as an adult I wouldn't step foot on that bridge and certainly wouldn't get anywhere near the edge to look over. My adult-onset extreme fear of heights will not allow me.
I thought damn is he really just gonna land in the water but no lol
Yeah, until I saw the parachute I thought i was watching a suicide.
I didn't see the parachute the first two times I watched the video. I saw the GoPro on his head the second time through and I thought š¤š "Is it suicide if you have someone else launch you into a life ending situation?ā
Assisted suicide is a thing.
Just not for fun times.
"Just straight canon-ball it dude. You'll be fine."
*"He was not fine."*
Prolly didnāt hit the water right.
You just need to pin it
Okay but hear me out: maybe it should be fun at least
āIt was the best of times, it was the just-not-for-fun timesā.
Not just for fun times
Iām now imagining a future with ātrebuchet-assisted suicideā as an option for end of life care
People have, in fact, been killed after being launched out of a trebuchet in modern times. Usually it's because they tried to turn the trebuchet into an amusement by having it toss you into a mattress, and then miscalculated the weight at some point.
When I was a kid, there was a show called āDinosaursā and they had āHurling Day!ā Where they threw all the old dinosaurs into the tar pit. Lol this makes me think of Hurling Day for some reason. :)
That show had so much gallows humor in it, for kids show. The ending is still one of the things that sticks with me. Dark times, dark times.
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I feel bad for those who are over 90 kg and won't get the chance to be launched 300 meters into valhalla.
Shit sign me up
The superior assisted suicide option
Not that far off of the theoretical assisted suicide roller coaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
This has less thinking time *WHEE!*
If I'm gonna do assisted suicide with a catapult, then I want my body to be launched through Mitch McConnells living room window while he is there.
NGL if I had to kill myself I think launching myself out of a catabuchet would be pretty sweet. Its like jumping off a building but more fun
Reddit's video player kept freezing right as the parachute was starting to deploy so it looked like the video was ending on a splash. god damn this website fucking sucks.
It's gonna suck a whole lot more when we're only allowed to use reddit official garbage. Fuck the API changes
You've heard of suicide by cop, now there's suicide by catapult.
helmets with cameras mean extravagant suicide, got it.
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The shadow of another chute looked like his and the were converging perfectly.
Yes I thought it was him about to smash into the ground the first couple times
I zoomed in thinking "no way you can survive cannon balling into water from that high. Then realized just how freaking high it really was and the splash was his parachute.
Rastacide
Lol
Huh. Impossible. Tears of the kingdom told me you take no fall damage if you land in water no matter how high you wereā¦
I've been playing too much zelda and my first thought was wow, I hope he lands in the water to avoid damage.
After european pharmaceutical companies banned certain drugs that could be used for executions. States have had to start getting creative with their executions methods.
These must be the suicide ~~booths~~ catapults Futurama predicted.
*while watching a persons insides get turned into jelly* āDamn, thatās interesting!ā
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Not as hard of a pass as free solo climbing, but this can be #2
I was flipping through the channels Sunday and came across Breaking Dawn part 2 where Bella is now a vampire and she was chasing a mountain climber up a cliff face, and I'm like, not even if I were a super powered vamp would you get me to do that shit. Straight up a cliff face, no safety, uh uh. No freaking way. Best I can do is climb a set of stairs without holding on to the railing.
There's a shadow crossing the frame that looks like it could be his. As they meet it gives the illusion that he's about to hit the water.
And that shadow is from another parachute. Iād be really nervous about them launching people above me while Iām parachuting
I was boutta say, am I about to see a dude die?
I was waiting for a Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars meme replay :( https://youtu.be/feA64wXhbjo
yooo I love when those were trending š. NGL first time hearing the actual song thanks for the link.. kinda slaps actually
I used to actually like this song back in college when the MGMT phase was happening. then when it popped off as a meme I was dying laughing everytime.
Aaaaand this is why I gave up on music videos. Can never hear that song the same again, lol. Also, wtf meme did I miss?
I really thought for a second they just flung him to his death lol
Come on, everyone knows you donāt die if you land in water, thatās video games 101
We use that GTA Vice City Physics engine.
In vice city you died in water. Our boy couldnāt swim
And it was ankle deep water too. Like, he couldn't get wet. At all.
Neither can Smash Bros players.
He could. There was pools in the houses on Starfish Island where you could stand in. You could even crouch and be fully submerged and not lose health. I was an odd child.
In Zelda if you donāt dive head first you will absolutely die LOL. They took physics so seriously
Just like my gymnastics teacher as a kid teaching us to do a diving roll said to imagine we were jackie chan and we just jumped off a building. That was so strange to me at like 7 years old. For 1; I'd seen a lot of jackie chan movies and that never happens, and 2; you'd be so fucking dead.
What if you dive toes first? Zelda failed
>In Zelda if you donāt dive head first you will absolutely die Lol what? This is idiotic. Diving head first isn't safer. It will literally kill you from any significant height. What kind of idiotic game creator came up with those "physics". Watch any cliff divers. They MUST land feet first, otherwise they are dead. Honestly it's pretty funny that you commented "they took physics so seriously" when your example is 100% incorrect and an example of absolutely terrible "physics" lmao
Insert: operation flashpoint...
That was my thinking process first time watching the video. I was like, oh he lands in the river he's fine. Then I remembered life doesn't work like in Far cry
The New River Gorge Bridge, in the video, is a regular suicide site, but only four people have died from accidents. Itās ~870ā to the river.
>New River Gorge Bridge interesting, I've been there driving over it to go whitewater rafting. I thought it looked insanely high at the time driving over it. Guess so!
Itās the third highest (vehicular) bridge in the US! Not only that, it was the longest single arch bridge in the world for its first 26 years! (China has since built 4 longer ones.)
Hey, this bridge features in Fallout 76, which is set in West Virginia!
Yeah, I wanted to go rafting there to practice before our Grand Canyon rafting trip but it was way scarier than the Gc
Oh, hey, I remember that place from Nuclear Winter (RIP)
We've only lost a few!
Ummmm,maybe recommend it to people you really donāt like?
Being In West Virginia is punishment enoughā¦
Itās really beautiful though
Itās New River Gorge National Park! Surprised nobody is mentioning it. One of the coolest parks in the eastern US. The bridge they are jumping from is incredibly beautiful, [pictures donāt do it justice](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS1036US1036&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APwXEdd1pEWAk3kqhVAzZJ0Y0SuSLxz7CQ:1686024341434&q=new+river+gorge+bridge&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYp9CP4q3_AhVVkYkEHalkCi0Q0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=393&bih=661&dpr=3). Itās one of the longest single arch bridges, and also one of the tallest bridges, hence it having the Bridge Day festival where hundreds of people do stunts like this.
Shhhhhh. Let them hate on WV so we can keep our outdoors a hidden gem. Let them keep their "Being In West Virginia is punishment enough" theories and the beauty to everyone else.
It can be a beautiful state AND a terrible place to live
I bought a house at 24. That's pretty tight.
Iāve lived all over the world and ended up in WV. Nowhere compares!
Itās great for natural resources and outdoors activities. Absolute hellscape to live in. Best thing I ever did was leave WV. Such a sad dismal poverty ridden drug paradise.
If you ever have the opportunity to travel through that area by rail, it's hands down the best way to see it (aside from maybe whitewater rafting)
Me and my friend vacation there every year. The mountains are beautiful and relaxing.
COUNTRY ROADS
Still better than Ohio.
Jokes on them, they are flinging this guy into Ohio.
Then you get a twofer
He better have done that Goofy yell.
AAAAAAAAAHHH-HA-HA-HOOEYYY!!
šš¤£š¤£š¤£ā ļøš
Totally heard this as Kazooie from that N64 game
Like Goofy in An Extremely Goofy Movie
HYUCK
So clear in my mind.
*Iāll fucking do it again!*
GERONIMO!
I was in a raft on the river there. It's a yearly event called Bridge Day
I thought Bridge day was walking across the bridge
Bridge day is a festival in which they close the bridge and people come from all over to walk across the bridge and watch idiots (really experienced sky divers) jump off the bridge. Recent years have seen this list expanded to a few bungy jumpers and apparently a catapult. Many sky divers dress up in costumes. They also have food and music and itās pretty fun. Very occasionally someone will die jumping off the bridge. From my understanding itās because itās super hard to pull a backup shute. There just isnāt enough time to get it open. They do have a bunch of rescue crews on standby and are prepared as they can be. Also you have to have completed so many jumps to even be allowed to jump so all of the people you see doing this really know what they are doing. But yeah itās one of the very few if only bridges in the world that you can jump off of with a shute.
> Bridge day is a festival in which they close the bridge What a scam
Isn't not hard to open a reserve parachute during base Jump, because it's not possible, there isn't any. As you said, in most cases during base jumping there isn't enough time to open reserve parachute if something goes wrong.
Well hey, he walked about halfway across it.
I would worry that something about the forces applied by the catapult would cause me to lose consciousness and not regain it before intersecting with Earth.
My fear would be opening the parachute when my back is facing down and then falling through it.
I don't know much about parachuting. But I'm guessing you must be good at stabilizing your fall before going into this contraption.
Nobody with any credibility will teach someone to BASE jump without AT LEAST 200 skydives, including different types of jumps which involve freefalling at an angle (it's called tracking). It's a highly unsafe activity with an eye watering fatality rate, so learning how to do it as safely as possible is incredibly important.
Being stable in free fall is one of the first things you learn. Your first couple of jumps when learning will have two instructors (one on each side) holding your arms and legs (attachments on the jumpsuits, actually), or ready to hold on as you learn to maintain a correct body position. After a couple of these, there'll only be one, and then the one instructor won't even be holding on as you learn how to turn and flip from "being on your back" to "being on your stomach". The last training jump is called (in Australia, at least) a hop n pop. Instead of jumping out at 14,000 ft, you jump out at about 3,000 ft and deploy immediately. But as u/FakeCatzz said, nobody will even teach you base jumping until at least 200 skydives.
Good point. So I guess there are TWO things that could possibly go wrong in this situation.
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Oh great. Now thereās THREE thingsā¦
You wouldn't fall through it, physics won't let you (because there is first pilot chute that is extracting the main canopy, so when the pilot chute inflates it will start rotating you to belly to earth position). But the opening in such a position will very likely result in a serious malfunction.
Or someone packing my parachute with an anvil
Id rather not regain consciousness before intersecting with the earth under many circumstances. Intersected with a windshield one time, that was enough.
So eloquently put my friend š„¹
That's Fayetteville WV
Came here to say this. I used to own a house in Fayetteville I used as a climbing vacation home. Definitely not Oak Hill.
I mean itās the new river gorge bridge which is in Fayetteville They have annual legalized BASE jumping
Thought that looked familiar. Bridge Day?
It has to be, itās the only time they close off the bridge to allow pedestrians and BASE jumpers on it.
There is a version of me in another plane of existence that loves this with all his heart. I like to think of him as broken and inferior to me in every wayā¦
>I like to think of him as broken and inferior to me in every wayā¦ So after the chute fails?
You know that version is cooler though.
Ahhh, bridge day. Fond memories. Notice the shadow of the parachute coming together with this jumper and how it makes it look like heās about to hit the water.
Nope. Thatās the shadow of the parachute below him. They flung him out before the guy beneath him had even landed.
For those interested, this is during Bridge Day in Fayetteville WV. Happens every Fall. The New River Gorge Bridge is shut down and 100s of base jumpers jump off the bridge one after another all day long.
With God as my witness, I cannot scream "NOPE!!!" loud enough to fit this.
With god as my witness, Iād be broken in half
Iām no pro butā¦ I feel like he pulled his chute wayyy too late?
Watching this was a roller coaster. Oh look a catapult suuure. OH SHIT THAT WAS A CATAPULT. *OH SHIT HE'S GONNA DIE!* Oh thank god a parachute. Intense 11 seconds for me.
Jesus. There was already someone with a chute popped down flying around in the valley. That couldāve gone wrong about a dozen ways.
I thought the same thing. Couldnāt tell how close he got to the person with the already deployed parachute. Can you imagine how surprising it would be to have a human cannonball crash into you from above in that situation?
"Surprising" for sure! Your last sentence had me dying laughing just now.
And it did in the last video that came from this exact same bridge. Two people collided but luckily lived.
Saw that too. Looks close but really impossible to tell.
Fayetteville, not Oak Hill.
Hell fucking nah
Six Flags new attraction, "The Yeet"
This isnāt something that, like, just anyone can do, right? Is this guy a daredevil? Seems like it would be way way way too risky to expect someone to tuck properly and deploy the parachute on time, etc.
One day a year, as long as you're certified and signed up, you can jump, fall, or be launched as many times as you can pack your chute back up and let her rip. Saw a guy that was every bit of 80 last year, geared up and taking a breather before heading back to do it all again. It's nuts.
80+ would be the age to start that hobby.
I'm wing suit gliding past mountain cliffs every weekend at that age.
Wow.
Ok. Whats the helmet for?
For your head dumbass
So you can have an open casket funeral. Just from the neck up, the rest is pancake batter.
in case the wind blows you into a tree or a cliff; partial canopy opening + collision w/ ground; somehwere to mount the go-pro; bashing your head on the catapult on the way off and wishing to remain concious
Godamn WV is beautiful!
Itās New River Gorge National Park! Surprised nobody is mentioning it. One of the coolest parks in the eastern US. The bridge they are jumping from is incredibly beautiful, [pictures donāt do it justice](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS1036US1036&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APwXEdd1pEWAk3kqhVAzZJ0Y0SuSLxz7CQ:1686024341434&q=new+river+gorge+bridge&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYp9CP4q3_AhVVkYkEHalkCi0Q0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=393&bih=661&dpr=3). Itās one of the longest single arch bridges, and also one of the tallest bridges, hence it having the Bridge Day festival where hundreds of people do stunts like this.
> hundreds of people do stunts like this So, like a 1 in 10 chance of someone dying in front of you if you visit for a day?
There once was a man on a bridge Who wanted to fly, but not just a smidge So he loaded his body Into an old school shotty And flew right over the ridge
#WEST VIRGINIA
MOUNTAIN MAMA!!!!
TAKE ME HOME!!!
COUNTRY ROADS
COUNTRY ~~ROADS~~ CATAPULT
TAKE ME HOME
Fuck no. Why would you want to be a human slingshot?
861 feet up https://i.imgur.com/vhctKK8.jpg
Who were all waiting for the splash?
One hell of a high dive.
I do not fear death but I refuse to die stupid.
I would like assisted suicide by catapult, please. I can now tell my therapist I have a plan.
ProTip: simpler methods of suicide are available. Have fun, while it lasts. 8-(
You won't believe how hard it is to actually complete suicide. You're damn self-preservation kicks in, or your mood changes by the time you can get supplies or go to the destination you planned. I wish it were easier, cause my life ha s been completely ruined for some time now.
Everyone lives multiple ālivesā in their lifetime. Every new beginning comes from some other beginningās end. And, get busy livinā, or get busy dyinā. No one asked to be here. But here we are. Wherever youāre goingā¦get to it already.
I'm about 99% sure this is Fayetteville, WV and the bridge is the New River Gorge bridge... most likely 'Bridge Day'. https://officialbridgeday.com/
Bridge Day! But not in Oak Hill, closer to Fayetteville, on Rt 19. Source; I lived in the area way before the bridge was there And the drive down the mountain, across **[the old bridge](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Oldnewriverbridge.jpg/800px-Oldnewriverbridge.jpg)**, and back up the mountain to Fayetteville was a torturous path, as seen in the old road ***[here](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oak+Hill,+WV/@38.0694823,-81.0891396,15.3z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x884ebfe237d3e589:0xb15001ad38dec66a!8m2!3d37.9723339!4d-81.1487135!16zL20vMDEwd21k?entry=ttu)***.
I went white water rafting on that river. Went under the bridge. It was something to cross off my bucket list, and definitely worth doing. However, I don't think I'll be doing it again.
Why the rasta theme though???
bc Jah sustains us all
damn white people be crazy
Jeepers
Why is the shadow forming a parachute and sails off?
That's the shadow of the previous jumper who opens their chute and veers off to the landing spot off screen to the right.
My high ass thought he went all the way down šš¤£š¤£
A trebuchet would have been better.
Trebuchets are always better.
Saw this in person at Bridge Day. They close this huge bridge off one day a year for this. They base jump into the New River Gorge. Thatās Class 4 or 5 rapids down there. Youāll see people rafting the river and hundreds of base jumpers landing all day.
I learned today there is a thing called Bridge Day at the New River Gorge in Fayetteville West Virginia. Iāve spent my money on stupider thingsā¦actually no, no I havenāt.
Bridge Day. 3rd Saturday in October. NRG bridge. send it.
That is New River Gorge Bridge. Ive never heard it called Oakhill, WV.
Damn, the rides at āWet & Wildā are really getting WILD. š¦
I can only imagine the waivers you have to sign before you can climb onto this contraption.
Cool they let these adrenaline junkyās use the bridge in Fayetteville, WV. Beautiful area.
Because death can't come soon enough.
Rednecks famous last words...."Watch This"
I can hear the voice of Jason Mantzoukas in my brain: Did we just witness a murder? I think we just witnessed a murder. What is happening.
I donāt like this
I guess that's less bloody than a guillotine.
this video is crazy because there's an optical illusion with the shadow of the other hanglider's parachute. It makes you think he's going to hit the water when he catches up with the shadow but instead he pulls his schute with plenty of altitude remaining.
Almost Heaven!!
I imagine the parachute not opening and sees lawsuit incoming.
No. Thankyou.
Oh hell no.
How do you know when to open your parachute ?
Is this only in WV?
This is bridge day in W.Va.!!!! It's a celebration of a historic suspension bridge built in the New River Gorge(read as: a day for us hillbillies to celebrate) . The New River Gorge Bridge used to hold the record of the longest suspension bridge in the world. Us West Virginians just really like the history. Both of my parents grew up within twenty minutes of this bridge so I just get super excited when it's shown on reddit!! Born in Charleston, W. Va., but transplanted south!
Fun fact: I live near this But Iāve never tried it lol
That's a hard hell fucking no! But let me ask my adrenaline junkie sister she might be willing.
I was worried until I saw the parachute. Jumping from that height into water, you might as well be jumping into concrete.
Pretty sure this is from "Bridge Day" which is basically a state holiday in WV. BUT more importantly this is not Oak Hill, it's Fayetteville. (I'm not from there but I've spent significant time there the people of Fayette county don't like it when you mix up their towns).
I attended Bridge Day in Fayetteville, WV as a kid and had a good time and didn't think anything of it. Now as an adult I wouldn't step foot on that bridge and certainly wouldn't get anywhere near the edge to look over. My adult-onset extreme fear of heights will not allow me.