At 10 o’clock at night. Without any mates around. Just for shits and giggles.
(For those not wanting to click on the link, it’s a crevice between two massive mega-tonne boulders that just demands you squeeze your body through…preferably with someone else wielding a camera so they can bung it on YouTube)
Y’know, there are times I wish I was a carefree kid again…doing life-threatening stuff because I didn’t give two hoots about the consequences, and of course I’d be immortal because no young folk ever die as a result of doing stupid shit…
Perhaps he can feature on a future issue of Science of Stupid where a very droll Richard Hammond, with the aid of quality graphics, explains the scientific failings behind Funniest Home Videos type accidents.
No doubt like several of the shows I have watched online, friction will get a mention.
I always hated those accident videos but now that they are presented as explanations of things like conservation of angular momentum, Hooke’s Law and centripetal force I am able to laugh wholeheartedly at the “scientists” involved in these experiments.
It could trap a fat person, where the fat falls in and then acts to block their extraction.
(The solution to extricate a fat person may be to put a rope down and pull the up the fat belly first, and then try to bring the body up following the belly … But gravity tends to make that hard… they might have to do liposuction in situ !)
Just leave them in there, and feed them nothing but rice cakes and water until they’ve dropped enough weight to slide out. Heck, you could even market it as a new dieting fad, for those tough cases where nothing else works.
Although the problem might be stuffing the fatsos in there in the first place…
It clearly fails to interest you less than those threads you don’t post in at all, even to threadshit. So it’s got that going for it you have to admit.
Just to sate my curiosity, what would the procedures have been if the oil and pulleys failed to get our hero out?
Obviously, they can’t blow the shit out of the rocks without also blowing the shit out of our hero…would they perhaps have administered a general anaesthetic and broken some bones to ease his body through the gap?
I guess that’s the point where you get the disc cutters and drills out and try to carefully remove parts of rock without removing parts of the person. Not sure what sort of rock it was, but if it’s limestone or sandstone, that ought to be possible.