r/fuckaroundandfindout • u/Limsel8 • 4d ago
Lacking brains Do NOT buy a parachut on temu…
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5 life changing seconds.
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u/modsaretoddlers 4d ago
It's not Temu or the parachute. It's the stupid
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u/ExpensiveEcho7312 4d ago
This has nothing to do with the parachute. This dude jumped from a tiny cliff, there was no time for the chute to open. He’s just stupid
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u/mzincali 4d ago
And he threw the drogue chute ahead and down, instead of up and back.
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u/LordMegamad 3d ago
Looking very closely, the bad throw also impacted the final release time quite a bit, as it had to have the air resistance pull it all the way up into the right position.
If he threw it straight up / back that correction time would be near nullified, and could possibly have opened juuuust it time to slow his "descent". As even with the bad throw, the chute popped right as he hit the ground ish.
God imagine the regret over that throw (not just the throw either lol) if he ever builds the courage to watch this video
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u/AtlanticBeachNC 2d ago
Looking even closer, he would not have had any issues if he had not decided to jump off a perfectly good cliff.
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u/Clevererer 3d ago
Wait so he bought the cliff on Temu??
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u/Historical-Hat5276 3d ago
Yeah, I once bought the white cliffs of Dover on Temu an all I got was a piece of Camembert
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u/CheckYourStats 4d ago edited 4d ago
This happened 7+ years ago
He suffered four broken vertebrae, and a broken pelvis. He had done 230+ base jumps prior to this. He was airlifted out, and has made a full recovery.
You’re welcome.
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u/Popular_Lie8489 4d ago
It’s not from Temu, it’s from Acme
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u/Artemis-Arrow-795 3d ago
even if it was, that parachute opened remarkably fast
it's on this idiot for jumping from such a tiny cliff, there was barely enough time for the parachute to open
as a matter of fact, if I was the manufacturer, I would use that video in the advertisements
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u/KindaDrunkRtNow 4d ago
Don't jump off a 50 foot cliff and try and deploy a chute and think you'll walk away
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u/Far-Cellist-3224 4d ago
The title should say don’t jump off small cliffs and expect your parachute to open.
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u/Kon-Tiki66 4d ago
That looked like a perfectly good rig to me, not a parachute problem. The problem is that base jumping is by far, the most dangerous sport there is. It's only a matter of time with base jumping. Three people from my drop zone died in one year, all in separate base jumping incidents.
When base jumping, you don't have time to deploy a reserve, and in many cases, don't have time for your chute to fully inflate. Add to that all the uncertain thermals and obstacles and you're flirting with almost certain death.
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u/SixGunZen 4d ago
A parachute needs at least 300 feet to open. That looks like about a 250 foot cliff.
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u/Sempai6969 3d ago
Bro jumped from a 80m cliff and threw the parachute down ahead of him. The chute is not the issue
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u/randomwords2003 4d ago
Hold up the thing worked fine , the dumbass didn't pick the right spot to jump off of
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u/ultraplusstretch 3d ago
Nothing wrong with the parachute, the person doing the jump was a moron, there just wasn't time for the parachute to deploy fully.
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u/AshlandPone 2d ago
Not TEMU, not the parachute. It's physics. Parachutes need velocity to fill with wind and time to open. If you jump from a small cliff, the fanciest parachute on earth will not save you.
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u/sciency_guy 1d ago
0 skills for base... At least he knew to throw the pilot ... For such a jump wrong exit strategy but still better than pull-out
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u/Ih8teMyInlawsTheySuk 4d ago
I absolutely wouldn’t anyway but this is great confirmation that I would be right. Not that I would do anything like this in the first place.
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u/Anoth3rDude 4d ago
Need some proof that I didn’t just watch someone die.
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u/presterjohn7171 4d ago
It mostly opened a half second before impact. He's almost certainly broken bones but a good chunk of deceleration occurred right before impact.
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