my favorite dangerous water feature might be Bolton Strid
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bolton-strid
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
what's on your iPod... "Hot in Herre"
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Thursday, November 17, 2016 1:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my local river has similar (but not usually as severe, dangerously) hidden downcurrents and underwater hollows/tubes in its most welcoming swimming spots and basically eats high school kids :(
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
https://1bo9y82e76el2rf8ms1m5i0r-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/5249832670_4bd71dd62a_o-copy.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
I have just now started to listen to an album called On The Dry Land. That is what's on my iPod
― imago, Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
The Strid is one of nature's classically benign looking meat grinders. Confusingly both The Strid and the Abbey are absolutely nowhere near the town of Bolton. These people that jump over it almost make my heart stop, one slip and you get processed - what fun!
― calzino, Friday, 18 November 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
:) knew you'd be a fan
― imago, Friday, 18 November 2016 02:24 (seven years ago) link
http://thefullquid.com/art/drawing/fishman.htm
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 18 November 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
..for those who enjoy predictable deaths in the wilderness. though there is quite a large novel element to that one, too.
"One of the few pieces of evidence left behind was a pair of Scott’s flip-flops."
TBH, you wear those fucking things while hiking, you deserve to die. Not just hiking, actually, just wearing them out in the world.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 18 November 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link
Wtf flip flops are perfectly acceptable footwear in the tropics/at the beach
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 November 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
guarantee whoever handlettered that sign at hanakapiai was wearing rubbah slippahs
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 18 November 2016 04:44 (seven years ago) link
These people that jump over it almost make my heart stop, one slip and you get processed - what fun!
la culte du bolton strid
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 18 November 2016 04:49 (seven years ago) link
(i don't see gender)
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 18 November 2016 04:51 (seven years ago) link
this is the most reassuring story i've read since the election
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 November 2016 05:14 (seven years ago) link
That strid thing is freaking me out! It looks so inviting!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 18 November 2016 05:20 (seven years ago) link
(sorry, still on "what's on your iPod" because "I Melt With You" would also work)
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 November 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
The story about German tourists who died in Death Valley is a particularly grim example of this genre
http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Saturday, 19 November 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
Dissolve Me by Alt-JBeing Boiled by Human LeagueBoiling Boy by Wire
― hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 19 November 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
silby I just wasted like an hour on that site thanks a lot
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 November 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
This is unrelated but I'm just going to use this thread to post remarkable sentences as well as remarkable wilderness deaths since I'm taking a Twitter break:
These starfish relatives need to make lots of sperm since they’re shooting it into the sea where it has to waft to a female.
via
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Saturday, 19 November 2016 04:36 (seven years ago) link
i bet flip flops feature in a lot of these stories
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 November 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
Being Boiled by Human League
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, November 18, 2016 10:10 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
v first thing I thought when I read the story
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 19 November 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
Those giant books about deaths in the park they sell at various National Parks in the US (I have the Yosemite one) are really pretty great. Biggest danger in the wilderness turns out to be if you're a young male in it.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
Susan Boyle
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 20 November 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
We were in Kauai last week and signs like that Hanakapiai one are all over the place at most of the beaches. We were staying with a friend who lives there, and he got really mad when we saw people at a few of the beaches blithely wandering into the surf -- his basic thing was, "I don't really care if tourists want to kill themselves, but they're endangering the lives of the lifeguards who are going to have to go try and rescue them."
― birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 20 November 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Those giant books about deaths in the park they sell at various National Parks in the US (I have the Yosemite one) are really pretty great.
I read the Grand Canyon one, and promptly decided there was no fucking WAY I was going down there on a mule.
― ailsa, Sunday, 20 November 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
i wonder how many kids had a go at thishttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/huwmJOXoVao/hqdefault.jpg
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 21 November 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
I should probably avoid all these parks. When I was a kid I was reading a sign warning pedestrians to be careful when crossing railroad out loud to my parents, only to look down and notice that my shoe was firmly wedged between the railroad track and the wooden sidewalk.
― mh 😏, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
people who don't quite grasp how much momentum a train has is another perhaps more horrifying source of accidental death
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
xp you have to try pretty hard to kill/injure yourself in any national park, it's willful ignorance of rules and warnings that does it, not absent mindedness
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
my family still laughs at me for the train tracks think. pretty sure i had to take my foot out of the shoe in order to unwedge it.
I feel like the "people can't judge distance/speed and the concept of objects appearing further away than they actually are when viewed head-on" applies more to getting hit by trains. unless people are thinking that trains will stop for them, in which case... dang, dude
― mh 😏, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Not only ignoring the warning signs, but thinking that a boiling sulphur pool would make a good spa. xp
― Devastatin' Dan the Suggest Ban Man (Dan Peterson), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
yeah i mean especially after dante's peak. ugh. horrible way to die, horrible to think about witnessing it and being unable to do anything.
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
boiling sulphur pool used to be something a coworker would cook for himself every day in the office. Thankfully, he switched to cooking applewood smoked bacon which is pretty much the polar opposite of smells in my book so things are much better.
― Evan, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
One can avoid geyser fed hot springs. Its harder to avoid sidewalks, riding buses, or driving about.
Yang Erjing, Beijing Sidewalk Collapse Victim, Dies After Falling Into Scalding Pool Of Water
Being scalded to death is a particular risk in Russia:Moscow Heating Pipes Create Lethal Traps
City officials acknowledge that Moscow has become a "minefield" and predict that without a sudden infusion of cash to repair the pipes, more people will die in the same grisly fashion."People will, I am afraid, keep falling in such pits in the future," said a spokeswoman for a city heating agency, Mosenergo.
"People will, I am afraid, keep falling in such pits in the future," said a spokeswoman for a city heating agency, Mosenergo.
Screaming passengers flee bus from scalding jet of steamDozens of animals are boiled alive at Russian pet shop after heating pipe bursts and the store is flooded with scalding waterBizarre moment cars plunge into sinkhole of boiling hot water after pipes burst and collapse road
― Distribution of all possible outcomes (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah i mean especially after /dante's peak/. ugh. horrible way to die, horrible to think about witnessing it and being unable to do anything.
Old lady deciding to JUMP IN for no reason after pierce brosnan has already successfully rowed them to within an inch of dry land is definitely an inspiration to these people
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
hahaha i was actually thinking of the much earlier scene with the nameless nubile youth going for a sexy dip in the hot springs and then oh noooooooo
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
I think that's probably one of the safest activities you can do in the Grand Canyon. Mules know the trail better than any tourists do! And most of them don't drink.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Also, having hiked down the Mist Trail at Yosemite I'm frankly surprised people don't die every day trying to get down the trail next to Vernal Falls.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
I suspect there are plenty of dumb mules . . . you can find their skeletons lying at the bottom of the canyon.
― nickn, Monday, 21 November 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
but natural selection is making them better and better and we're slowly evolving toward a supermule
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 November 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
In future dystopia mules ride you!
― nickn, Monday, 21 November 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
I almost fell off of the Coba pyramid, slipped down the stairs and not ultimately sure if it was me or someone else who stopped my fall (a guy grabbed my backpack but I'm not sure if that's what stopped me). I feel I'm probably not made for extreme outdoorsmanship, just a little too clumsy.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 21 November 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
i tripped and tumbled down the side of a hill once when i was a child. there were a lot of rocks on the hillside but it was mainly just grass and mud. i narrowly missed a couple of the rocks and had probably travelled about 100 metres before coming to a stop.
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
jesus!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
it was this fearsome behemoth
https://trailwalker32.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/p1020296.jpg
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link
an older japanese tourist i passed while hiking huayna picchu in peru (it is the larger mountain next to machu picchu) later fell a few stories down the mountain that day
http://incatrail.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Huayna-Picchu-stairs.jpg
this is definitely the most terrifying hike i've ever done
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
yeah that's a nope
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
(not my photo, just posted it to share some of the pretty scary views you get while climbing)
descending it is way more terrifying btw
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
okay lol
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
lol dayo
I get IA about people swimming when there are riptide warnings ffs; stuff like Yellowstone makes me despise humanity.
but on the upside maybe we have now reached the point, evolutionarily speaking, where we are self-culling
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
darwin awards was so 2003
― imago, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
Mourning in America - Trump Year One: November '16 to
― identity politics rooted in tolkienism (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
is that a hot spring you're trying to get us to click on and fall in
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
Got to be honest, this thread has been curiously calming to me.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 02:01 (seven years ago) link
<3
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
like a warm bath
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 09:42 (seven years ago) link
^____^
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 10:52 (seven years ago) link
Also prompted me to read about the Dyatlov Pass Incident again, featuring one of my favourite weird things that humans do, namely paradoxical undressing in hypothermia.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 13:43 (seven years ago) link
Thank you. I'd forgotten about that one.
― how's life, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
When I am experiencing panic or anxiety, the survival stories in this book always calm me down:
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Survival-Who-Lives-Dies/dp/0393326152
Consequently I've read it dozens of times, at least some chapters. I'm not sure why. It's way outside the categories of my normal reading.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
emil.y otm re dyatlov pass
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
http://www.outsideonline.com/1926316/freezing-persons-recollect-snow—first-chill—then-stupor—then-letting-go
At 85 degrees, those freezing to death, in a strange, anguished paroxysm, often rip off their clothes. This phenomenon, known as paradoxical undressing, is common enough that urban hypothermia victims are sometimes initially diagnosed as victims of sexual assault. Though researchers are uncertain of the cause, the most logical explanation is that shortly before loss of consciousness, the constricted blood vessels near the body's surface suddenly dilate and produce a sensation of extreme heat against the skin.All you know is that you're burning. You claw off your shell and pile sweater and fling them away.
All you know is that you're burning. You claw off your shell and pile sweater and fling them away.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Was reading about Dyatlov Pass recently, after listening to this post-rockish concept album about it: https://open.spotify.com/album/2vYSKNZsE3R7pBbCFZKrOd
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
These students from the Dyatlov Pass incident would probably have been youngish or born during the '37-38 great terror, and then their formative period would have been the Barbarossa years. They were probably thinking no probs when they set off.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
This was great and terrifying, tempered slightly by the fact that I'm clueless about temperatures in Fahrenheit.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Thursday, 24 November 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link
32° ... Just take off your clothes no matter what thermometer you're using.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 November 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2016 06:53 (seven years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4032438/Death-chocolate-Mother-two-dies-falling-vat-molten-confectionery-Russian-sweet-factory.html
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/31/death-yosemite-travel-blogging-couple-perishes-foot-fall-they-may-have-been-taking-pictures-relative-says/
More than 250 people have died worldwide in the last six years while taking selfies, according to a recent study from researchers in India published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
... almost a third of them Indian, strangely enough.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
turns out the guy reappeared but had magical powers
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link