Dumb People Doing Funny Things

Why would someone jump off a rooftop using an umbrella as a parachute?
Why would somebody run out into the middle of a road and intentionally jump underneath a moving bus?
Why, in God’s name, would someone ride a bicycle down a huge flight of cement steps?

I cannot answer these questions, but can merely show you the results. YouTube has been the global window into stupid behavior—and one can argue that it has spurred on millions of village idiots to attempt stunts not meant for the human body.

While the video below is sometimes funny, I cannot imagine that it isn’t also chock full of true pain and injury. So, while we’re all still laughing and watching the next clip of hilarity, the victim/doofus in the previous frames is being loaded into an ambulance.

What is it about our culture that makes people act so stupidly? And further, why is it that we collectively “enjoy” viewing these incidents?

I am guilty of laughing at some of the following. I just as often also CRINGED at what looked outwardly like serious pain. With few exceptions, however, what you are about to witness was filmed by someone who was aware that another someone was about to willingly attempt a “feat” that should never been tried.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyPqr97qVYk

From time to time, this blog falls back on the ridiculous----mostly because it is cheap and easy. Videos like the one above are plentiful online—and on some days, I have neither the time, energy or useful topic to compose a more meaningful blog.

More disconcerting is that your response to posts like these often dwarf the feedback I get on more serious topics. Keeping it full of variety may be the key, so while I’ve clearly taken the easy way out today, I hope that you can appreciate that NONE of the above clueless acts should ever be performed by human beings with a brain.

Which is to say, for example, if you ever wondered what would happen if you leaped off a roof onto a small trampoline, you now have a vivid answer without having to try it yourself and see.

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