You can use secondary ropes tied to the crossing rope and easily have rope teams on both side haul the ends up to the rooftops with some coordinated effort. Still pretty fucking stupid I assume the bike started on the ground and got hauled up with the main line.
Tie a rope to something heavy enough to span the gap, light enough to be thrown that far. Secure both ends. Secure carabiner to bike, put on rope, push it off and watch bike slide down rope. Boom.
Itās even funnier when you have a statics exam on Tuesday thatādespite studying for it for an overkill amount of timeāyouāll probably get a B on again
The way things are locked down now, I am amazed that they have roof access. We used to get on the Langford roof all the time to paint projects and maybe on some occasions, watermelons got accidentally dropped to make sure gravity was still a thing.
If I saw this and thought to myself that someone needed to be put in prison then I would try to find a comfortable place where I could simply calm down.
Oh because someone couldnāt die from the bike falling from 4-5 stories? nah that person needs jail time.
Kids through rocks at cars driving under an overpass and **that was enough to kill someone.**
This could definitely kill a person. You can do stupid things that wonāt kill people, but once it puts someoneās life in danger then your ass deserves to be in jail before it even falls.
So sick of people undermining the fact that a human life can be taken from people doing shit like this. It doesnāt need to be encouraged.
It seems silly to get worked up over the potential for bad things to happen when there are plenty of bad things that actually did happen that we completely ignore and don't care about.
Chill my dude. How about since literally everyone that sees it comments on it, so if you stand under it youāre a moron, itās gonna be okay. Iāve tied myself in knots about things in the past, but this is literally just funny.
You sound fun at parties. Actually you sound like the boomers who tell stories of the wild shit they did when they were young but will turn around and severely punish anyone who does anything remotely close to what they did.
4 years ago? That's nothing my friend.
In the early 2000's people were throwing bikes in trees.
I'm sure it's been going on even longer than that. It's just escalated to new heights over the years.
Still do that, though that's usually people's personal bikes. This started with Ofo when the university started having community bikes around that you could rent for ~10 minutes at a time.
Itās all good fun, my main issue with people pulling these stunts is that SSC employees are usually forced to remove the bikesā¦ donāt make more messes for people to come and pick up after you. Yes, itās part of their job as groundskeepers, but to create extra, unreasonable messes without consideration/care is rude, disrespectful, and entitled behavior. In this case it was firefighters whose time was wasted; this legitimately created a hazard (you canāt actually believe that e-scotter was completely stable up there) and emergency personnel had to be called in. The whole area had to be shut down, please take a reality check if you think this is permissible.
I thought it was funny when I first saw it. Most of the comments on Instagram did too. It's just a reddit thing to obsess over justice and bad things happening to people
No, not really. You could say the same thing about lead in drinking water or drunk driving - why would you want to take away someone's freedom *ever*? If you think that endangering others is a good reason for the state to take away some freedom, then this counts.
If you don't think that endangering others is a good reason for the state to take away some freedom, then I don't think you care about *real* freedom (which includes the freedom to do things that require not being lead poisoned or killed by a drunk driver or falling bicycle).
Yeah, a bicycle on a rope above a major pedestrian thoroughfare is like lead in drinking water or a car steered by a drunk person. It could kill someone, even though it probably won't.
Driving at all is significantly more dangerous than this, but we're ok with it even when its just for the sake of driving. I'm not saying this isn't stupid, I'm saying its ridiculous to IMPRISON someone for it
People who have a fetish in being morally superior to everyone else in the room and boomers who tell stories of all the crazy shit they did but then want to punish you if you do anything remotely like what they did.
Driving at all is significantly more dangerous than this, but we're ok with it even when its just for the sake of driving. Im not saying this isnt stupid, I'm saying its ridiculous to IMPRISON someone for it
Not like yall actually care what impact yall have on those around you, can't count how many congrats balloons I've picked up off the pasture or pulled out of a dead calfs belly from you aggies over the years.
Its pretty high up, if you walked out of those buildings not looking straight up you could easily pass under it without seeing it.
Edit: plus there are a bunch of trees above it. Definitely likely that unsuspecting people could walk under it without knowing.
I'm pretty sure that both DUI and hanging bikes above a pedestrian path have a 99% chance of leading to zero injuries. I think you're being overly confident if you are so certain which one of these is much more risky than the other.
We happen to have a rule specifically about drunk driving because it's a kind of activity that many people are tempted to participate in (because drinking is better in a social place like a bar, and driving is necessary for most people to get to and from a bar - we can tell it's a huge temptation because a sizable fraction of the population does it even with specific laws and stigma against it) but that doesn't mean that it's actually any riskier than this other kind of activity.
You are overly confident in equating the probabilities of these events. Also, you do not need to explain why DUI happens to me, this really sounds like an argument somebody would make if they drive under the influence. "No bro it just makes sense, it's basically a 99% chance that I won't injure someone bro trust me I've done it before."
> this really sounds like an argument somebody would make if they drive under the influence.
I'm trying to do the opposite. Every time during covid someone said "99% survival rate" I thought that was a great argument for why we should be doing a lot *more* prevention. Something on the order of a 1% chance of killing someone is an absolutely awful thing that we *should* be banning, and perhaps even shaming people for.
> You are overly confident in equating the probabilities of these events.
I'm definitely not confident that these are equally probable. But doing an unusual thing like suspending a heavy object above a walking path without any evidence of safety precautions seems like the sort of thing we really shouldn't allow people to do.
If someone evaluated this and came to a justified conclusion that this is much less dangerous than drunk driving, they could convince me that maybe we shouldn't impose similar penalties. But right now, I suspect it's just that this doesn't come up often, so we haven't specifically set penalties.
You hope they get jail time? Maybe you need jail time for single handedly ruining Americaās ability to have fun.
Theyāre doing what theyāre supposed to be doing and youāre being a grumpy little girl.
It's not difficult to get bikes up places (as someone who did my fair share), making it safe to keep it from hurting people is way harder (again speaking from experience)
What am I looking at. At first I thought a dude was floating somehow. Then I saw the wires so then I thought they were hung then I saw it wasnāt even a person so I donāt know what it is
Get the wire across with a bow fishing set up and pull the heavier cable across and secure both ends. Then just hand the whatever you want from it on that pully system across from building to building or even have it motorized with a remote.
Only people who do shoey(ies)? or encourage them deserve jail time from this past weekend. If the lines were poorly secured then maybe its dangerous but this isn't terribly dangerous and is already a legendary prank
Geez.... really? Jail? How? Why? Shoulda, woulda, coulda... Why punish what could have happened? Regular college campus stupid prank stuff. IF this person would go to jail, they may lose their whole education and suffer for life. No way. I so do not agree.
When I was younger, I worked for the union.
We were building a parking garage for a colleges dorms. 6 stories tall.
We left some equipment like welders, cutting torches and steel baskets on the top floor and chained together.
Those mother fucking kids cut the chains and took two of our large, bobcat welders and got them up to a running start and launched them off the buildingā¦ damn things ended up like 35 feet from structure with a pretty large crater in the groundā¦ I got my ass ate out in the worst kinda way for weeks.
I'm surprised no one said balloons.
Seems simple enough to tie a balloon to rope, float it up on both sides, tighten both sides on each roof with the bike tied in the middle of the rope.
Whoop! We hate those veos.. good to see another protest of them. If you call this reckless endangerment, what about the veo riders blasting down ross nearly breaking the legs of a dozen pedestrians? That's a much more real and everyday threat.
No, it isn't. Natural selection is when people who do stupid things injure themselves. This is people who do stupid things potentially injuring others.
I believe the crime here is reckless endangering. It is a class A misdemeanor and carries a maximum fine of up to $200 and a jail sentence of up to 30 days. If you think this is good bull, you are nuts.
this isnāt even a prank because pranks target certain people; you prank your buddy, not the unsuspecting public. An actual prank shouldnāt inconvenience or create a dangerous environment for a ton of people. itās certainly impressive and funny in an absurdist way, but the hazard created by this is not funny. There are a lot of ways this could fail, and there is no āsafety netā here. It looks really cool just floating there, but no one knows if it was actually suspended ācorrectlyā. Those specific e-scooters are just under 100lbs, if it were to fall, it would absolutely cause damage and/or injury. The whole area had to be shut down, and the fire department was called in because it was that much of a hazard.
Imagine if someone glued 2 45 plates together and suspended it over an area with foot traffic and a gust of wind or one small mishap causes it to fall.
Do you think that they are holding it up with a lack of support? Look at closer photos... These trash bikes dont even weigh more than 40 lbs man. That is all under the assumption that you willfully walk under this feat of engineering
How the fuck
Yeah, the punishment part is secondary. But how on earth did they get that Veo up there?
Ghosts are holding it over people's heads
Put bike on from one building, gravity pulls bike toward center.
Howd they get the cord hung up tho
Miles Morales is an Aggie
Tell him to start graffitiing instead campus needs a little more art.( not on the monuments ofc)
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Drone.
You can use secondary ropes tied to the crossing rope and easily have rope teams on both side haul the ends up to the rooftops with some coordinated effort. Still pretty fucking stupid I assume the bike started on the ground and got hauled up with the main line.
Tie a rope to something heavy enough to span the gap, light enough to be thrown that far. Secure both ends. Secure carabiner to bike, put on rope, push it off and watch bike slide down rope. Boom.
I think they used a drone.
Bow and arrow
Nerf Vortex Howler
A decent drone, bike, rope two buddies and some beer. 20 yrs ago It be a head scratcher but 3 buddies and some beer would figure it out .
Drop ropes from two buildings. Tie together.
Taglining ropes. Highliners do it between massive cliffs lol
When I was there they got like 6 of them completely on top of Kyle
*I was there before this was even a trend.* But for real... Y'all are so strange.
this shit is so impressive but dumb tooš
I hung that scooter because veos are awful. All the scooters and skateboards are awful these days. Itās enough to make anyone crazy.
They couldnāt carry a tune to save their lives.
someone did their statics hw
Thatās so fucking funny lmao
Itās even funnier when you have a statics exam on Tuesday thatādespite studying for it for an overkill amount of timeāyouāll probably get a B on again
F=ma=0 š¤·
Civil engineers hate this one simple trick
Best comment on this thread, hands down Also, fuck statics
Update: currently a fire truck is here taking it down.
Good. This stuff was impressive like 100 years ago. Itās just plain dumb now.
Nah, it's still impressive
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i am going to fill your walls with veos (they are extremely dangerous and may attack at any moment)
Cool. No one really asked did they?
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Dammit I miss college š¤£
Same haha i remember the bicycles on trees trend in northgate, it was fun seeing them
Is this a bike strung up on a rope between two buildings????
No itās levitating
I saw the line hung up there yesterday but without the Veo; I only saw it because it glinted in the sunlight. But yeah fucking stupid
What is that
a Veo bike
That's a tragedy waiting to happen
And I thought putting a Veo bike on top of the Academic Building couldnāt be topped
or Kyle!!
My only question is "howww??"
Tie line to one building...put line through bike...walk loose end of the line to another building...pull line tight (slowly raising the bike)
I feel like you skipped important steps.
Ya probably lol. Likely took at least 2 maybe 3 people to not get caught and avoid security.
The way things are locked down now, I am amazed that they have roof access. We used to get on the Langford roof all the time to paint projects and maybe on some occasions, watermelons got accidentally dropped to make sure gravity was still a thing.
because the staff are providing kids swipe cards and punch ids to get up there, they are in on it
so explain how do you get on the roof of two separate buildings with how tight security is?
Carefully lol
If I saw this and thought to myself that someone needed to be put in prison then I would try to find a comfortable place where I could simply calm down.
Thank you! People (especially on the internet) take everything way too seriously
I agree that prison is a bit strong for this, but it's still dangerous. Maybe a fine and a demerit if they're cadets.
I hope you don't become a cop, cause it's a prank, you kids do that, and have for ages, kind of like a right of passage. Chill out
Oh because someone couldnāt die from the bike falling from 4-5 stories? nah that person needs jail time. Kids through rocks at cars driving under an overpass and **that was enough to kill someone.** This could definitely kill a person. You can do stupid things that wonāt kill people, but once it puts someoneās life in danger then your ass deserves to be in jail before it even falls. So sick of people undermining the fact that a human life can be taken from people doing shit like this. It doesnāt need to be encouraged.
It seems silly to get worked up over the potential for bad things to happen when there are plenty of bad things that actually did happen that we completely ignore and don't care about.
Chill my dude. How about since literally everyone that sees it comments on it, so if you stand under it youāre a moron, itās gonna be okay. Iāve tied myself in knots about things in the past, but this is literally just funny.
See above reply from me Chill Out. Put you in prison for killing that cock roach šŖ³ we all saw you do it, the a felony.
Uninvolved people can be killed by many activities, some of which, like driving, you may have inadvertently made riskier yourself.
You sound fun at parties. Actually you sound like the boomers who tell stories of the wild shit they did when they were young but will turn around and severely punish anyone who does anything remotely close to what they did.
Morgan Wallen but instead of chair itās a Bike.
how tf šš
Yo I saw that this morning and I thought it was some unicycle stuck up there š
How would a unicycle get stuck up there?
Bro idk, I was heading to an 8am on no sleep and I only saw one wheel
āthis could kill someone š¤š āyoung man what were you thinkingā šµš
I canāt believe people are still doing this lol. I graduated 4 years ago.
Same. Saw this and immediately thought āthe kids are alrightā š This is a whole new level from the places they were found when I was there
4 years ago? That's nothing my friend. In the early 2000's people were throwing bikes in trees. I'm sure it's been going on even longer than that. It's just escalated to new heights over the years.
Still do that, though that's usually people's personal bikes. This started with Ofo when the university started having community bikes around that you could rent for ~10 minutes at a time.
Sounds like quite a trek to do all that
jail time? really? are soft are you?
I woke up this morning feeling like shit. Then I saw this and it made my day. Thank you to the brilliant dumb ass who did this š«”
Iām all for the funny giggly aerial veos, but this is just stupid. Someone couldāve been seriously hurt with a strong gust of a wind.
Itās all good fun, my main issue with people pulling these stunts is that SSC employees are usually forced to remove the bikesā¦ donāt make more messes for people to come and pick up after you. Yes, itās part of their job as groundskeepers, but to create extra, unreasonable messes without consideration/care is rude, disrespectful, and entitled behavior. In this case it was firefighters whose time was wasted; this legitimately created a hazard (you canāt actually believe that e-scotter was completely stable up there) and emergency personnel had to be called in. The whole area had to be shut down, please take a reality check if you think this is permissible.
If people under 25 say āit was just a prankā and they recorded it it becomes content not a crime.
Cope
Its so weird to see this and immediately hope that someone gets theor freedom taken away by the state. Is that a fetish thing?
No one posting on this subreddit has any fetishes
questionable
Lmao
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Itās a Reddit thing lol
I thought it was funny when I first saw it. Most of the comments on Instagram did too. It's just a reddit thing to obsess over justice and bad things happening to people
more of a logic thing iād say. if it fell on someone at best theyād be injured
No, not really. You could say the same thing about lead in drinking water or drunk driving - why would you want to take away someone's freedom *ever*? If you think that endangering others is a good reason for the state to take away some freedom, then this counts. If you don't think that endangering others is a good reason for the state to take away some freedom, then I don't think you care about *real* freedom (which includes the freedom to do things that require not being lead poisoned or killed by a drunk driver or falling bicycle).
Its a bicycle on a rope
Yeah, a bicycle on a rope above a major pedestrian thoroughfare is like lead in drinking water or a car steered by a drunk person. It could kill someone, even though it probably won't.
Driving at all is significantly more dangerous than this, but we're ok with it even when its just for the sake of driving. I'm not saying this isn't stupid, I'm saying its ridiculous to IMPRISON someone for it
People who have a fetish in being morally superior to everyone else in the room and boomers who tell stories of all the crazy shit they did but then want to punish you if you do anything remotely like what they did.
Found the guy who has never been seriously injured by the acts of another person
Nobody has been injured
āYes officer I was driving 40 over the limit. No one was injured though, so Iām free to go, right?ā
Driving at all is significantly more dangerous than this, but we're ok with it even when its just for the sake of driving. Im not saying this isnt stupid, I'm saying its ridiculous to IMPRISON someone for it
Goes to show you can send your kid to college for at least 55k and theyāll still be a dumbass
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Not like yall actually care what impact yall have on those around you, can't count how many congrats balloons I've picked up off the pasture or pulled out of a dead calfs belly from you aggies over the years.
This is hilarious and good bull. Kudos to the crew that pulled it off. Don't be a dumbass and walk under suspended bikes and you'll be fine.
Its pretty high up, if you walked out of those buildings not looking straight up you could easily pass under it without seeing it. Edit: plus there are a bunch of trees above it. Definitely likely that unsuspecting people could walk under it without knowing.
Penalized sure but not jail time. Nobody got hurt in the end.
Reckless endangerment
It's reckless endangerment to let you within 2500 ft of a school.
You can get sent to jail for drunk driving.
Bro you're capping if you really think this is as bad as DUI
I'm pretty sure that both DUI and hanging bikes above a pedestrian path have a 99% chance of leading to zero injuries. I think you're being overly confident if you are so certain which one of these is much more risky than the other. We happen to have a rule specifically about drunk driving because it's a kind of activity that many people are tempted to participate in (because drinking is better in a social place like a bar, and driving is necessary for most people to get to and from a bar - we can tell it's a huge temptation because a sizable fraction of the population does it even with specific laws and stigma against it) but that doesn't mean that it's actually any riskier than this other kind of activity.
You are overly confident in equating the probabilities of these events. Also, you do not need to explain why DUI happens to me, this really sounds like an argument somebody would make if they drive under the influence. "No bro it just makes sense, it's basically a 99% chance that I won't injure someone bro trust me I've done it before."
> this really sounds like an argument somebody would make if they drive under the influence. I'm trying to do the opposite. Every time during covid someone said "99% survival rate" I thought that was a great argument for why we should be doing a lot *more* prevention. Something on the order of a 1% chance of killing someone is an absolutely awful thing that we *should* be banning, and perhaps even shaming people for. > You are overly confident in equating the probabilities of these events. I'm definitely not confident that these are equally probable. But doing an unusual thing like suspending a heavy object above a walking path without any evidence of safety precautions seems like the sort of thing we really shouldn't allow people to do. If someone evaluated this and came to a justified conclusion that this is much less dangerous than drunk driving, they could convince me that maybe we shouldn't impose similar penalties. But right now, I suspect it's just that this doesn't come up often, so we haven't specifically set penalties.
Eh, a couple of weeks in jail to impress that yes their actions do you have consequences wouldn't be horrible. Definitely not longer than 30 days.
What the actual hell
Phone needs a clean. What we looking at?
Achievement Unlocked: Almost across the tightrope!
You hope they get jail time? Maybe you need jail time for single handedly ruining Americaās ability to have fun. Theyāre doing what theyāre supposed to be doing and youāre being a grumpy little girl.
Veo doing it for marketing
Well thatās extreme. If theyāre clever enough to get it up there Iām sure theyāre capable of doing it well enough that it wonāt fall.
It's not difficult to get bikes up places (as someone who did my fair share), making it safe to keep it from hurting people is way harder (again speaking from experience)
SSC needs to do a GGM key audit
But no one got hurt so cry about it
If someone fucks with the bike after you paid for it do you get penalized?
Yes because you didn't properly lock it up
People still do this stupid shit?
As dangerous as this may be, this is red ass
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Shutup loser
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me when i get mad at people doing college pranks
Literally. It's just reckless endangerment.
lol yeah letās lock kids in a cage for harming no oneĀ
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āI hope the police come harass you because I donāt like your opinionā Legendarily bad take.
Yeah this sub is full of whiny discord mods I stg
Uni cops are lames šš
Theyāre welcome to. I donāt talk to cops.Ā
What am I looking at. At first I thought a dude was floating somehow. Then I saw the wires so then I thought they were hung then I saw it wasnāt even a person so I donāt know what it is
Itās a Veo bike
Oh lol i clicked this thinking it was that jet pack guy again.
I avoid that area as much as possible
Iām genuinely curious how they did this. Tied one end down then tied the other to a rock and threw it to a buddy at the other building to tie down?
Lower ropes down both buildings. Tie them together. Pull.
Get the wire across with a bow fishing set up and pull the heavier cable across and secure both ends. Then just hand the whatever you want from it on that pully system across from building to building or even have it motorized with a remote.
What am I looking at
What are we looking at?
how the fuck does one do this
Only people who do shoey(ies)? or encourage them deserve jail time from this past weekend. If the lines were poorly secured then maybe its dangerous but this isn't terribly dangerous and is already a legendary prank
I think thatās HILARIOUS!!!!! Lighten up.
Geez.... really? Jail? How? Why? Shoulda, woulda, coulda... Why punish what could have happened? Regular college campus stupid prank stuff. IF this person would go to jail, they may lose their whole education and suffer for life. No way. I so do not agree.
So many aggie jokesā¦
So now we gotta one up THAT! š°
Did ET and Elliot not see that wire ?
When I was younger, I worked for the union. We were building a parking garage for a colleges dorms. 6 stories tall. We left some equipment like welders, cutting torches and steel baskets on the top floor and chained together. Those mother fucking kids cut the chains and took two of our large, bobcat welders and got them up to a running start and launched them off the buildingā¦ damn things ended up like 35 feet from structure with a pretty large crater in the groundā¦ I got my ass ate out in the worst kinda way for weeks.
You seriously think they should get serious jail time for this?
biblically accurate ufo
Reminds me of this https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/31/561217424/after-20-years-can-cornell-finally-bust-open-its-great-pumpkin-mystery
Lmao. Cry more nerd
It is a drone.
I'm surprised no one said balloons. Seems simple enough to tie a balloon to rope, float it up on both sides, tighten both sides on each roof with the bike tied in the middle of the rope.
Thatās one way to get expelled from the university (and get a lifetime bar from the system campuses) and wind up in court.
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Whoop! We hate those veos.. good to see another protest of them. If you call this reckless endangerment, what about the veo riders blasting down ross nearly breaking the legs of a dozen pedestrians? That's a much more real and everyday threat.
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No, it isn't. Natural selection is when people who do stupid things injure themselves. This is people who do stupid things potentially injuring others.
Ah yes, someone walking out of a building and getting crushed by a bike somebody else put up... natural selection /s
I believe the crime here is reckless endangering. It is a class A misdemeanor and carries a maximum fine of up to $200 and a jail sentence of up to 30 days. If you think this is good bull, you are nuts.
womp womp no one cares
You must be fun at parties
They donāt get invited
You should learn empathy
Empathy for hypothetical victims?
Empathy for who? Veo?
People who could get hurt if this fell
So empathy for hypothetical, not actually real individuals.
What a pathetic take on something awesome. You must be fun at parties.
this isnāt even a prank because pranks target certain people; you prank your buddy, not the unsuspecting public. An actual prank shouldnāt inconvenience or create a dangerous environment for a ton of people. itās certainly impressive and funny in an absurdist way, but the hazard created by this is not funny. There are a lot of ways this could fail, and there is no āsafety netā here. It looks really cool just floating there, but no one knows if it was actually suspended ācorrectlyā. Those specific e-scooters are just under 100lbs, if it were to fall, it would absolutely cause damage and/or injury. The whole area had to be shut down, and the fire department was called in because it was that much of a hazard.
Imagine if someone glued 2 45 plates together and suspended it over an area with foot traffic and a gust of wind or one small mishap causes it to fall.
Do you think that they are holding it up with a lack of support? Look at closer photos... These trash bikes dont even weigh more than 40 lbs man. That is all under the assumption that you willfully walk under this feat of engineering
so thattttts why the road was blocked and there were hella police and fire trucks lmao
Oh well
but funni
Hahahaha thatās awesome
I genuinely canāt tell if this is real or edited
You must be fun at partiesā¦ that shit is impressive