The Sideshow

**Aianawa** · 16th June 2022, 07:46

Cat be pretty calm really, had little choice lol.

**Emil El Zapato** · 16th June 2022, 10:43

Actually, the cat had a choice, be calm or die. It made the correct choice.

**Fred Steeves** · 18th June 2022, 12:30

Didn't mama teach you to look both ways?

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3viwYTZuM2s

**Emil El Zapato** · 18th June 2022, 12:56

I grew up within a half block of railroad tracks. I watched, saw, and learned early ... you don't f*ck with trains.

**Wind** · 18th June 2022, 20:09

Those Russians be crazy.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbrkpDyTEE

**Fred Steeves** · 25th June 2022, 02:39

Originally posted by Wind

Those Russians be crazy.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbrkpDyTEE

Whoa, sorry I missed that, a good one!

I've seen that one in my perusings, people do so crazy stuff base jumping, sometimes the journey in getting to the jump spot, must be every bit as harrowing as the jump itself. This must surely have been one of those!

And only 50 meters (164 feet), phew...

To put that in comparison. First off, base jumpers don't even wear a reserve chute, there's no need for a second chance at life the time is so short. Second, in regular civilian skydiving, it's basically codified law that even well experienced jumpers throw out their main chute by 2,000 feet (610 meters), that usually gives plenty of time to deal with any given emergency, and dump the main in order to deploy the reserve if need be.

This is about the lowest I've seen, and lord knows how he climbed that damn chimney, same as the Ferris wheel:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV-SeBDo798

Then there's that whole other realm of base jumping, which really should be in a category all unto itself, they're not even just freefalling any more, they're flying like Super Man.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UtjbCd2tk

This one combines the best of both worlds, flying like Super Man, and a "dirty low pull". The difference in this case though, is that a wingsuit jumper is falling at probably darn near a 45 degree angle, as opposed to straight down. But that's still cutting in close by anyone's score card...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sD2leFT-xw

**Fred Steeves** · 25th June 2022, 03:04

ROFL!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3SuHtCWo0

**Lord Sidious** · 25th June 2022, 16:29

Originally posted by Fred Steeves

ROFL!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3SuHtCWo0

Fuck off ya scaley wanker

**Fred Steeves** · 25th June 2022, 17:09

Originally posted by Lord Sidious

Fuck off ya scaley wanker

That's about the way he went about his business.

**Wind** · 25th June 2022, 17:58

That guy sure ain't afraid of crocs!

I suppose you could call this guy lucky and so was the bear.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj7Z5oMWuIU

**Emil El Zapato** · 25th June 2022, 19:46

Bears are known for taking some serious hits. Hunting them is dangerous unless you have enough guns that even a bear couldn't take it.

**Fred Steeves** · 25th June 2022, 21:42

Originally posted by Wind

That guy sure ain't afraid of crocs!

I suppose you could call this guy lucky and so was the bear.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj7Z5oMWuIU

Damn that was close, for both of them no doubt! I'll bet he won't be wander out in the yard like that if he needs to scare them again...

I did something similar to that. A big pack of yiping coyotes got a little too close for comfort one night, I lit them up with the spotlight to see just how close, and by the glow of their eyes they were already on our property maybe 150 feet out, and still coming. That way too close especially with three dogs, so I did the same thing grabbed my shotgun, and fired one off in the air, only difference was I kept my happy ass on the front porch while doing it.

It worked too! They ran for the hills and we never had any trouble with them after that. I don't mind them and they don't mind me, just keep your distance and we'll all get along just fine.

**Lord Sidious** · 26th June 2022, 06:29

Crocs kill people every year in the north

**Fred Steeves** · 1st July 2022, 12:34

Talk about an "Oh Shit!" moment:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgwGUNnf2Rc

**Aragorn** · 1st July 2022, 12:53

Originally posted by Fred Steeves

Talk about an "Oh Shit!" moment:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgwGUNnf2Rc

The whale was aiming for the plankton, which is their normal diet — they're not even capable of actually swallowing anything with a cross section bigger than a herring. There was obviously a lot of plankton in that spot, given how eager the gulls were pecking at the surface of the water.

Whales normally go out of their way to not harm (and even to protect) humans. Maybe this one's eyesight wasn't too good anymore.