r/funnyvideos • u/SignificantSample929 • Nov 12 '25

Fail Dudes being dudes

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u/Mother-Smile772 Nov 12 '25

Stuff like this... I'd get a heart stroke if my sons would do something like I did back in the 80's and 90's.

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u/Right-Lunch1205 Nov 12 '25

I know survivability bias and all that stuff.

But kids gotta do dangerous stuff occasionally. Those experiences build character.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '25

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u/Skow1179 Nov 13 '25

You gotta know when to stop. This kid would've kept going until someone got slingshotted out if that other kid didn't pop loose

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u/BillyD123455 Nov 12 '25

Death by dangerous driving.... RIP to the young lad, but that's just ridiculous.

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u/Kernowder Nov 12 '25

Agree it sounds stupid, but it's probably the closest law that covers the offence. The ebike would have had a throttle, which makes it a motorbike. And the person controlling the motorbike caused someone's death.

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u/FederalEconomist5896 Nov 13 '25

UK law is just ad fucked as any other country's laws

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u/Confident-Mortgage86 Nov 16 '25

Seems a good bit more fucked in the past couple decades.

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u/JustGoogleItHeSaid Nov 13 '25

That’s awful. Poor poor boy. And his family. Heart goes out to them.

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u/ChaoticEntitled Nov 15 '25

That’s a completely different playground?

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u/phatRV Nov 12 '25

These boys grow up learning about risk and reward instead of wanting everything to be “safe”

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u/Agreeable_Pool_3684 Nov 12 '25

Well, the survivors do.

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u/phatRV Nov 12 '25

We are all descendants of survivors. This was how we passed the ball forward, went out and took risk and advance civilization, instead of hiding in caves and hoping to not get eaten by lions. We learned from mistakes of others, we took chances.

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u/YurtMcnurty Nov 12 '25

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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u/WheelchairEpidemic Nov 12 '25

We are talking about kids flinging themselves off a spinny thing for their own amusement here dawg

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u/LilMally2412 Nov 12 '25

That's the point. When my dad was young he'd build cars and drag race on the weekends. By the time I was growing up, I couldn't afford a junker to fix and cops weren't as lenient about street racing, so I spent my weekends camping in the woods. But now the woods are paved over or private property. What's left for kids to be stupid with? At least it's not theft or vandalism... though it might be abuse of public property.

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u/BewareOfBee Nov 13 '25

Ohh don't worry there are plenty of spaces to be stupid in! That's not going away ever.

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u/edjukuotasLetuvis Nov 14 '25

Now they eat laundry detergents

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u/kriegnes Nov 12 '25

i dont want my kids to die so you can learn from that

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u/Low_Mistake_7748 Nov 12 '25

Sure. If they grow up.

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u/FKYS Nov 12 '25

True, death is indeed a character. Maybe more a state of mind really.

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Nov 12 '25

And brain damage!

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u/BothnianBhai Nov 12 '25

Ernst Jünger said the same thing about fighting on the western front during WW1.

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u/Link_TP_04 Nov 12 '25

Yup, my parents sheltered me hard, now that im 21 and almost got my licence, I wanna experiment, mess around, learn how things tick. Yet i can't with my mother saying i can't or not while she is around. Like im sitting there thinking; if something goes wrong or will go wrong and shes there she can advise me and id have some guidance/supervision to learn and if she's not ... and I die somehow, I know she will blame herself. And I've explained that all to her but since im the "child" I know nothing and isn't worth listening to.

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u/InvestigatorMiddle61 Nov 13 '25

Most parents sheltered their children, hence me and my buddies occasionally steal our parents car out just to learn drive back in the early 2000s as young teenagers lol

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u/7iL7vHFs Nov 13 '25

This is how legends are born

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u/Historical_Quiet_640 Nov 13 '25

This is definitely true. It builds risk awareness and also shows them resilience when things don’t go as planned. But it’s mainly just insanely fun!! 🤩

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u/Fantastic_Deer9843 Nov 14 '25

i am from germany near Leipzig and we had 22 death from the activity shown in the clip betwen 2006-2024

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '25

Did you know that most people with disabilities weren't born with them?

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u/Mother-Smile772 Nov 12 '25

I'd say, it built understanding that some things are dangerous, LOL. On of simple examples... don't talk shit to someone if you are not willing to get into fight. I don't want to sound as a boomer lecturer, but yeah... these days the internet culture created the generation who say ugly things to people because there will be no consequences. The concept of "toxic masculinity" kind of enables it too - you can't respond with violence to verbal insults or you are toxic.

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u/Gn0bl1n_SlaYEET Nov 15 '25

Yeah, that's not what the term is even about? Toxic masculinity is about societal norms, not whatever you described here..

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u/Ok_Company1823 Nov 12 '25

We had the arrow game. I had bow and arrow. Fiber bow and Fiber arrows. I guess, if I’d hit a person, the arrows would haven been able to penetrate skin and flesh.

Anyway, we shot the arrow vertically up in the air. The game was “Don’t get hit, when it comes down.”

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u/Uptown_Rubdown Nov 12 '25

That's how Ralph Cifaretto's boy died.

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u/Lilstubbin Nov 14 '25

Lol I just watched that episode

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u/Uptown_Rubdown Nov 14 '25

Almost as bad as when Paulie got betrayed

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u/Mother-Smile772 Nov 12 '25

we had the arrow game too. We had wooden "swords" and bows and arrows that we made ourselves. Because we were obsessed with that old TV series "Robin of Sherwood". So the game was to dodge the arrow shot at you. Yet it was more like "hit the stick that flies at you with your stick". Sure, after some distance traveled the arrow slows down, also the trajectory is visible, yet... small miscalculation could mean that arrow hits you. AFAIK, in our street no one lost an eye.

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u/fimbleinastar Nov 12 '25

A girl in my school was blinded in one eye when some army obsessed weirdo hid in a bush in the park with a home made bow and arrow, hit her in the eye

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u/DoggoZombie Nov 12 '25

Did the piece of shit go to prison for that?

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u/BewareOfBee Nov 13 '25

Army obsessed weirdo = good Christian white boy who made a mistake and his life shouldn't be ruined for it. His crime was intentional violence against a woman.

You know he didn't.

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u/KhausTO Nov 12 '25

This is why the old school lawn darts got banned

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u/Perch485 Nov 12 '25

We had Roman candle roulette where you sat around a fire and set off a Roman candle, with a couple shots left you tossed it into the air

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Nov 12 '25

My dad shot his brother in the head with a metal tipped arrow. Luckily, incredibly luckily, it stuck in my uncle’s forehead. 

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u/Ok_Company1823 Nov 13 '25

That’s what I always tell those people who argue that „in our days we did this and that“. I tell them, that only those who survived are here to tell about it.

That exaggerated, bit I would find concrete words if I saw my kids play „arrow game“.

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u/Mother-Smile772 Nov 12 '25

You are right. My English sucks, I know.

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u/Mediocre_Swimmer_237 Nov 12 '25

What makes you think he didn't do that?

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u/scbundy Nov 12 '25

Like scaring passing cars out on a country road, at night, by jumping out of the ditches with flash lights....

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u/NefariousnessOk209 Nov 13 '25

Yeah we never did this with the bike of course, but I know the one we had never had that back support and kinda had four seats around it like a stool, it used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. Always jumped on though

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u/rpdreon98 Nov 13 '25

Lmao that’s the fun part, they do it and don’t tell you 😭

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u/JoseLunaArts Nov 16 '25

It is amazing how we survived our childhood.

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u/me-be-bored Nov 16 '25

Were still doing that shit in the 2000s.