[la bodhisattva]

(04-15-2019 11:59 AM)Captainstabbin Wrote:  

What a waste. More people are trying to get the ultimate pic...and failing.

I've watched dozens of these videos and still need about 30 seconds to wrap my head around the reality of what I'm seeing. I continually watch these in near disbelief. That is a level of daring (insanity?) that I cannot imagine. What are they seeking? The rush? Fame? Maybe even a memorable, powerful death?

That said, those wild boys on the tops of rusted beams shooting into the clouds across the barren wastelands of Russia certainly deserve more internet fame than thots propping one ass check up on their bathroom sink.

[la bodhisattva]

(04-15-2019 12:56 PM)Jetset Wrote:  

Hopefully it brings her family some peace knowing that she died doing what she loved: getting her picture all over the internet so people can talk about how hot she is.

This is more viral than she could have ever dreamed. #goals

Absolutely. And hilariously stated...still laughing at your wording.

repped.

[WalterBlack]

(04-15-2019 10:54 PM)la bodhisattva Wrote:  

(04-15-2019 11:59 AM)Captainstabbin Wrote:  

What a waste. More people are trying to get the ultimate pic...and failing.

I've watched dozens of these videos and still need about 30 seconds to wrap my head around the reality of what I'm seeing. I continually watch these in near disbelief. That is a level of daring (insanity?) that I cannot imagine. What are they seeking? The rush? Fame? Maybe even a memorable, powerful death?

That said, those wild boys on the tops of rusted beams shooting into the clouds across the barren wastelands of Russia certainly deserve more internet fame than thots propping one ass check up on their bathroom sink.

This guy never made it:

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Wu Yongning’s stunts were not for the faint of heart. The 26-year-old daredevil, sometimes referred to as “Chinese Superman,” had amassed a considerable following online for his adventures in “rooftopping,” or scaling tall buildings without protective gear or safety harnesses.

On Weibo, a Chinese social media platform similar to Twitter, Wu posted videos of himself in the unlikeliest of places: Lying down atop a skyscraper or tiptoeing (barefoot, even) on the edge of some bridge scaffolding. Often, he had a selfie stick in hand to capture his heart-stopping escapades.

Despite the risks, Wu always survived his stunts. However, his lucky streak came to an end on Nov. 8 as he attempted to do pullups off the top of a 62-story skyscraper in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, Chinese media outlets reported.

Video circulating of his final, ill-fated stunt shows Wu at the top of the building, appearing calm as he uses a piece of fabric to wipe down a ledge. He then swings both legs off the building and practices hanging off the edge with his elbows still bent. After about five seconds, he climbs back up and readies for another try.

On Wu’s second attempt, he fully extends his hang and does three full pullups before trying to climb back atop the roof. This time, he visibly struggles to regain his footing on the side of the building.

After struggling for about 15 seconds after his last pullup, Wu loses his grip and falls from the side of the skyscraper.

Though the fatal fall took place last month, his death was not confirmed until last week, when Wu’s girlfriend posted about it on social media, according to Sina.com. The Chinese news site reported that Wu had trained in martial arts and previously worked as an extra in the film industry but turned to recording his climbing stunts full time because it was more lucrative.

According to the South China Morning Post, Wu was trying to win a $15,000 prize in a rooftopping challenge – allegedly to pay for an upcoming wedding and to cover medical costs for his mother – when he fell to his death.

“Rooftopping” has gained popularity in recent years among a small but devoted subset of adventure-seekers and photographers. For some, it’s an extension of urban exploration or a way to push the boundaries of photography. Others say the hobby can be thrilling and extremely profitable, according to the Guardian, which explored the phenomenon earlier this year in a piece about obtaining the “ultimate selfie.”

Sometimes, it’s a combination of all of the above.

But, needless to say, law enforcement agencies frown upon the practice, and several “rooftoppers” have been arrested in recent years, often charged with trespassing or public-order crimes.

“I believe that eventually somebody is going to make a mistake, and it will be a critical one,” Toronto police spokesman David Hopkinson told the CBC News last year, in a push to stop the city’s rooftopping enthusiasts.

In October, a 44-year-old man died after falling from the top of a Chicago hotel. Neil Ta, a former Toronto-based “rooftopping photographer,” said he was quitting the practice in a 2014 blog post titled “5 Reasons Why I’m F***ing Done With Rooftopping.” In part, he blamed the onslaught of “a newer breed of rooftopper.”

“Something fundamentally changed when it became less about just going up and having a good time with friends and more about who can take the photo of the other person in the most precarious situation,” Ta wrote. “Danger sells. There was a market for our images and whoever had the most ‘vertigo-inducing’ photo reigned supreme. It felt too fake, too contrived.”

[Sherman]

Whatever Fortune has raised high, she lifts but to bring low.
- Seneca

[debeguiled]

In "Last Train to Zona Verde" travel writer Paul Theroux, who has been zigzagging all over the world since he was in his twenties, takes a final trip to Africa at age 70.

This is his take on dying while doing what you love:

Quote:

"Often, in an overcrowded bus in Africa, I thought of nothing but death,” he admits, “and hating the trip I let out a ghastly laugh when I thought of anyone saying over my battered corpse, ‘He died doing what he loved.’"

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/books...-more.html

[JoeSomebody]

It's a bird!!!, it's a plane!!! it's supeerrr.......oh wait...it's just a dead Instathot.

All jokes aside, very sad, and an absolute microcosm of how far we as society have fallen. No pun intended. Alright, it was intended.

[Rhyme or Reason]

(04-15-2019 06:11 PM)Chetthebaker Wrote:  

It’d be nice to think that somehow, somewhere people and parents are starting to connect the dots and realize how toxic Instagram culture is from attention whoring related tragedies like this.

It's too little too late. Always is. Even if everyone woke up to this reality today, the damage has been done.

[DamienCasanova]

"Attractive girl dies while attempting to take Instagram selfie atop cock tower"

Story of our lifetimes...

[Mr. Wolf]

She's in a better place now. Or at least a better place than she would have been in with her "journalism" degree from Fordham and probably tons of student loan debt ($72K/year...$280K if she managed to do it in four years).

[questor70]

Dopamine's a hell of a drug. A while back a guy duplicated Evel Knievel's Caesar's palace jump and made it look easy. Around the same time I watched docs on Knievel and the daredevil mindset. It's thrilling to watch but you have to be messed up in the head to do it. Same thing with Johnny Knoxville/Jackass.

[Foolsgo1d]

(04-15-2019 12:56 PM)MrLemon Wrote:  

(04-15-2019 12:36 PM)Sherman Wrote:  

She did something that a man would more likely do. Women are turning into men.

Yep.

Young men do stupid things to prove their courage. Young women like this do stupid things to puff up their infinite vanity. They not only destroy their own selves, but the children and families that they might have given to the world.

The sooner that women are brought back under control the better.

Do we really need Thots like this seeding the world with their stupidity?

Darwin concluded her blood line ended with some pavement action.

[debeguiled]

(04-18-2019 05:04 PM)questor70 Wrote:  

Dopamine's a hell of a drug. A while back a guy duplicated Evel Knievel's Caesar's palace jump and made it look easy. Around the same time I watched docs on Knievel and the daredevil mindset. It's thrilling to watch but you have to be messed up in the head to do it. Same thing with Johnny Knoxville/Jackass.

At least those guys knew the risks.

There will always be a few daredevils out on the margin.

These girls think their ways are blessed.

She was probably expecting to land on a bouncy castle the whole way down.

[Captainstabbin]

(04-18-2019 05:04 PM)questor70 Wrote:  

Dopamine's a hell of a drug. A while back a guy duplicated Evel Knievel's Caesar's palace jump and made it look easy. Around the same time I watched docs on Knievel and the daredevil mindset. It's thrilling to watch but you have to be messed up in the head to do it. Same thing with Johnny Knoxville/Jackass.

It was Travis Pastrana. He did three of Knievel's biggest jumps in just a few hours for a TV special and made it look so easy.

[debeguiled]

(04-19-2019 11:33 AM)Captainstabbin Wrote:  

(04-18-2019 05:04 PM)questor70 Wrote:  

Dopamine's a hell of a drug. A while back a guy duplicated Evel Knievel's Caesar's palace jump and made it look easy. Around the same time I watched docs on Knievel and the daredevil mindset. It's thrilling to watch but you have to be messed up in the head to do it. Same thing with Johnny Knoxville/Jackass.

It was Travis Pastrana. He did three of Knievel's biggest jumps in just a few hours for a TV special and made it look so easy.

Travis Pastrana screams in his sleep.

[DJ-Matt]

This is instagram related, saw this on Roosh's twitter. This man is doing GREAT work getting actual whores/pornstars banned off instagram:

https://twitter.com/Omid18097499

https://twitter.com/Omid180974999

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[Stretch]

Its a shame, but she was just too fucking stupid to survive. Happens all the time in the animal kingdom when you think about it. Dumb raccoons, stupid birds, crazy squirrels, porcupricks that get hit by cars. It helps over control the population of things that are fucking stupid. Survival of the fitness.

[Cr33pin]

I bit my tongue the past few days but time for me to post my forever unpopular opinion on threads such as this, where the majority of posters chime in with their "Darwin at its finest" when a young person dies.

When I was in my 20's I hit 178mph on my GSXR on a long straight stretch of highway... looking back now as a man who is almost 40 I would never do that again. Had I crashed and died people like you would have said the same thing about me as you would about this girl "Darwin at its finest"
When I was in my teens me and my friends found a high railroad trestle over a river and they dared me to jump off of it.... and I did. An I survived but had I died people with the mindset displayed in this thread would have said "Darwin at its finest"

These are two of MANY examples I can list of things that could have ended in my untimely demise as a youth. However by the grace of god and possibly some miracles I'm here today, a happy, healthy, functioning adult. Don't take my word it, read through my reps from people I have met. Should ol Darwin cut my life short cause in my youth I did some foolish things? Why is it almost celebrated amongst some of you that a 22 year old girl died doing something that you consider to be "stupid"?? Look back on your life as a teen and in your early 20's did you ever do something "stupid" do you deserve to die for that mistake you made in youth? Had you died doing something dangerous or misguided in your youth, would you want people on the internet chiming in with their shitty remarks about Darwinism and "good riddance" I think this is the product of internet culture and how it desensitizes people from reality.

Basically if you think its perfectly fine this woman is dead.... then I encourage you to add me to your ignore list cause I sure as fuck shouldn't be alive by your logic. I have done things waaaay more dangerous and stupid then this girl did.

[Scorpio Rising]

(04-20-2019 12:09 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

I bit my tongue the past few days but time for me to post my forever unpopular opinion on threads such as this, where the majority of posters chime in with their "Darwin at its finest" when a young person dies.

When I was in my 20's I hit 178mph on my GSXR on a long straight stretch of highway... looking back now as a man who is almost 40 I would never do that again. Had I crashed and died people like you would have said the same thing about me as you would about this girl "Darwin at its finest"
When I was in my teens me and my friends found a high railroad trestle over a river and they dared me to jump off of it.... and I did. An I survived but had I died people with the mindset displayed in this thread would have said "Darwin at its finest"

These are two of MANY examples I can list of things that could have ended in my untimely demise as a youth. However by the grace of god and possibly some miracles I'm here today, a happy, healthy, functioning adult. Don't take my word it, read through my reps from people I have met. Should ol Darwin cut my life short cause in my youth I did some foolish things? Why is it almost celebrated amongst some of you that a 22 year old girl died doing something that you consider to be "stupid"?? Look back on your life as a teen and in your early 20's did you ever do something "stupid" do you deserve to die for that mistake you made in youth? Had you died doing something dangerous or misguided in your youth, would you want people on the internet chiming in with their shitty remarks about Darwinism and "good riddance" I think this is the product of internet culture and how it desensitizes people from reality.

Basically if you think its perfectly fine this woman is dead.... then I encourage you to add me to your ignore list cause I sure as fuck shouldn't be alive by your logic. I have done things waaaay more dangerous and stupid then this girl did.

I thought about making a post in the hater's lounge about my disdain for posters everywhere on every site imaginable making references to Darwin's alleged notions about "survival of the fittest." Or as one poster here called it "survival of the fitness." No clue as to what it supposedly means and totally at odds with the reality of life itself. The "fittest" often do not survive due to war, epidemics, natural disasters, being on the wrong side of a political debate, and countless other ways. Fate is very fickle and it seems like some of the vilest and unfit human beings have been kindly favored by the fates. I doubt I was anywhere near the daredevil that Cr33pin was in his youth but my friends and I pulled a couple of stunts that could have gotten one of us or a bunch of us killed. That young woman more than likely had many positive traits in her DNA that could have been passed on to her children. She bought into the narcissism of the times and paid with her life. No survival of the fittest here just a tragedy that will continue to repeat itself as our very unfit society continues to unravel.

[debeguiled]

I don't think people necessarily think it is okay that a young woman like this is dead.

It's more like, there is so much death and mayhem in the world today, that making light of things like this is just an attempt to steel the individual against truly contemplating the loss and waste of a life gone for no reason.

Everyone is capable of making light of someone else's tragedy, and while your point is taken that it is pretty callous and hypocritical to not only dismiss a life but dismiss a life not that much different than our own, I wouldn't take this sort of talk to heart.

Most of the people joking about this or thinking it is poetic justice would never feel the same way if someone they knew died in that way. That should be the litmus test. If you toss off casual comments when someone you know dies, now that is a problem.

Who has the reserves of compassion and concern to truly care about every single death we read about? Especially people dying for selfies? It really makes you want to cry.

So you make cheap jokes instead.

[Aurini]

It's such a great tragedy that people shield themselves with jokes.

[Lovinglife]

I wonder how many people have died from taking selfies since being invented 10 years ago!

I reckon at least 10,000 people! I know accidents from people crossing the road has increased 2000% cause of smart "death" phones! Don't forget car accidents...

[musicalprodigy1]

I blame the parents. I'd expect a lack of common sense training from two folks who paid a quarter of a mil for a "journalism" degree

[Roosh]

Another female has died while taking a selfie:

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A university student has died after falling off a cliff at a famous hiking spot while taking photos with classmates.

Andrea Norton, a 20-year-old university student from South Dakota, died on Saturday after falling 30 metres off a cliff in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Arkansas.

She had been readjusting herself for a picture with friends from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, when she fell.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/andrea-norton-...20769.html

[Manbeline]

I have no comment for the Arkansas death. It is sad, but it also is another case of "why?"

I remember being called a pussy numerous times for not going to the edge of dangerous obstructions, but now I am seeing that it is not stupid to be human with common sense. That is what people today lack. Young people at that. They do not have fear of the real world. Stay away from the edge of the sidewalk during traffic. Do not jump over "Beware of Dog" fences. Do not put your hand near a socket. Do not throw electrical things into water that you or anyone else is in. Etc, etc.

[Veloce]

It's a shame but young people have been doing stupid shit and toying with their life for a long time. Drunk driving fatalities were at epidemic levels way before smartphones or social media ever existed.

But yeah these threads bring out some real sociopath comments.