# Flugtag. I don't get it.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flugtag-i-dont-get-it/314257>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 26, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flugtag-i-dont-get-it/314257 "2005-07-26T17:16:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flugtag-i-dont-get-it/314257/1 "2005-07-26T17:16:14Z")

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You get in a box, and you roll off a pier. What the heck is the attraction?

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flugtag-i-dont-get-it/314257/2 "2005-07-26T17:23:02Z")

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… because Burning Man is too far away? Because people get hurt bungee jumping? Bragging rights? Because being able to fly farther than some of those failures in the old movie reels of experimental aircraft would be really cool?

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flugtag-i-dont-get-it/314257/3 "2005-07-26T18:06:50Z")

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If you can’t find the fun in flying (read: controlled falling) off the edge of a ramp and plunging down into cool water whilst quite possibly wearing a silly costunme and/or being in an equally silly contraption that will never in a million years fly, yet you attempt to make it anyway, then Good Lord I don’t think there’s hope for your sense of fun.

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**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flugtag-i-dont-get-it/314257/4 "2005-07-26T18:14:39Z")

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I thought it was a publicity stunt for Red Bull?