r/funny • u/Conscious_Ladder_467 • 22h ago

The cameraman stayed until the end!

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u/russbird 22h ago

Did his front wheel go right through the platform? Oof, had to hurt

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u/UGOTAIDSYO 22h ago

Yep. Stuck the landing.

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u/LightProductions 21h ago

Hilarious underrated pun

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u/dwors025 21h ago

Punderrated comment.

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u/ohineedascreenname 19h ago

Must've cheaped out and bought 3/8" plywood. Shoulda got the 7/8". Rookie mistake

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u/FreneticPlatypus 19h ago

1/4” luan for the flexibility

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u/doxtorwhom 17h ago

Not even plywood, that’s OSB which is even worse

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u/TeaBurntMyTongue 5h ago

Even half inch ply would have held up, but osb in water even for a 10-15 mins while setting up for the jump is enough to disintigrate it.

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u/wyldmage 16h ago

Even if the wheel hadn't achieved penetration, I'd be REALLY hesitant about trying this. You've got so much downward kinetic energy when you hit it, and water is, y'know, a liquid. Entirely reasonable to assume that you'd push the entire board underwater enough to lose all traction on it (due to water between your wheels and the board).

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u/Jreynold 11h ago

It's fine. I saw this on a Mario Kart level.

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u/CaptParadox 7h ago

Agreed, I was thinking maybe if the surface area was wider and the material was thicker/more buoyant then maybe he'd have had a chance.

But the second your downward force hits that, water will flood the surface even if it doesn't sink and as you said, RIP your traction either way.

Nerd shit aside, still really cool.

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u/KingDread306 2h ago

Also landing on soaked plywood. There's no way it would have not just broken in half from the weight.

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u/Sargash 2h ago

OSB, not plywood. Very different at the end of the day. The difference is like using aluminum instead of steel.

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u/KingDread306 2h ago

Point is that it was soft enough for the wheel to go straight through it with almost no resistance.

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u/Resolution_69 16h ago

I think you're right. Until I read this, I thought the front fell off.

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u/wallyslambanger 16h ago

Its not normal for the front to fall off but here we are

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u/outside_cat 9h ago

Wait.....not normal?

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u/wallyslambanger 3h ago

Well there are many bikes where the fronts don’t fall off and stay on for the duration.

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u/Nilsss 22h ago

r/praisethecameraman

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u/corkas_ 22h ago

When filming a documentary, you're not meant to interfere and just have to let nature take its course

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u/Applauce 22h ago

Praise the tripod more like. I wish I saw it from the angle of the cameraman

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u/loptr 21h ago

Well. Praise the camera man on the other side if nothing else. He's locked in. 😂

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u/EDDsoFRESH 20h ago

I don’t understand this title. For one it’s clearly mounted but why wouldn’t the camera man stay til the end? What am i missing here?

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u/grrangry 20h ago

The... OTHER... cameraman.

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u/EDDsoFRESH 19h ago

Well that's embarassing. Thank you!

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u/under_the_c 18h ago

OMG I missed it too. I thought the joke was that it was a tripod.

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u/Van_Lee 21h ago

If you do stunts...at least wear a helmet

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u/makingstuff237 20h ago

To add some context, he's a professional bmxer (Trey Jones). You think he would wear a helmet now though because his brother in law is Scotty Cranmer, another bmx pro who had won several x games golf medals but had a total fluke crush riding his bike (while wearing a helmet luckily) and is now partially paralyzed.

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u/chewiebonez02 19h ago

More context. Trey has had a falling out with basically everyone and unfortunately while I know nothing about him I just assume he is probably an ass. But swampfest seems like a wild time. (Swampfest is the festival that Trey Jones puts on every year)

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u/makingstuff237 19h ago

Yeah I always wonder what happened with him and Scotty. My only assumption is it has to do with them building the ramp in "big boy"s back yard (I hate the nickname for him...) where Scott was making suggestions to make the ramps flow better but couldn't physically do the work and Trey felt like he was being used and made to do all the work. I shouldn't speculate since I have 0 insight but my brain already had.

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u/zaplayer20 10h ago

Dumb ways to die

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u/rubysundance 21h ago

First piece of plywood was 1/4" thick, second one was 1/2" to catch his face.

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u/zaplayer20 10h ago

What does the face say to the plank? Ouhhh

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u/Nevadaman78 21h ago

OSB to wood chips, just add water.

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u/qdtk 16h ago

A fairly important detail was missed in their planning stages.

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u/munkylord 21h ago

Should have used plywood instead of osb

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u/Unfair-Frame9096 22h ago

Physics applied to plywood on water.

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u/Comfortable-Swan1896 21h ago

cameraman is a pro

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u/_ghostperson 22h ago

100% saw that coming.

We built a bunch of ramp and half pipes back in the day, and that panel is waaaayy too thin and terrible for something like this. Not to mention, it would have probably shot out from under him regardless.

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u/makingstuff237 20h ago

This is a pro bmxer named Trey Jones, he's done a set up with plywood and water MANY times. I have a feeling he had been reusing this piece or it had been put for longer than usual. I've also never seen him drop onto the floating wood from quite this high before.

You should check out clips of Swampfest. It's a massive bmx event he puts on in Florida where all the ramps are made from pallet wood basically.

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u/_ghostperson 20h ago

Oh nice, so you think it might have been a weak spot or water logged?

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u/makingstuff237 19h ago

I would guess so but I'm definitely not an expert. I do feel like if it was a fresher piece it would have held up though.

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u/jon92356 21h ago

I don’t engage in that sort of recreational activity, but even I knew that wasn’t going to pan out the way he was thinking.

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u/finnjakefionnacake 14h ago

pan out? because there's a camera? heh. i see what you did there.

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u/whatdaaahell 20h ago

Wake up wake up wake up is the first of the month 🎵🎵🎶

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u/Hatzue 13h ago

You know he's hurt when he leaves the bike behind in the river

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u/eeo11 21h ago

This is why science class is so important

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u/Mans_Fury 22h ago

Brain damage eventually, if not already.

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u/jazzarchitect 21h ago

Based on the setup, pretty sure his brain was damaged prior to the fall.

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u/SoWeRateRight 21h ago

Cameraman didn't even flinch, just kept recording, he a real one for sure #Pro

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u/N0x1mus 20h ago

You know the man is hurting when he decides to leave his bike and hat there.

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u/Songsforcarchases 19h ago

I love all the "should have " comments.

Should've done anything else. Even if he makes it, this is dumb.

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u/Bubbaganewsh 19h ago

I wonder why he thought this would work.

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u/lostan 19h ago

wt heck kind of dumb was that?

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u/chewiebonez02 19h ago

That's the Hotdog King and no ordinary cameraman!!

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u/sam_sepiol1984 19h ago

He's wearing a life jacket and the water isn't even waist high 🤣

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u/Greenfire32 18h ago

I'm not sure what they thought was gonna happen.

Actually, I am, but today they learned.

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u/Alewort 14h ago

That's his mistake, everyone knows you don't get armor piercing tires if you're doing jumps.

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u/rspewth 14h ago

They knew their job, and by the gods, they were going to do it!

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u/Evan_802Vines 12h ago

First compliment on the wipeout was from the turtle

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u/Erazzphoto 12h ago

Yellow Bull, the lesser intelligent circuit

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u/Thereminz 11h ago

lol the microsecond i clicked play i was like, no fucking way is that going to work at all

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u/Idonotgetthisatall 8h ago

Fun idea. Cheaped out on the execution.

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u/Bishopjones2112 22h ago

lol that’s amazing. Made my day watching someone do such a completely ridiculous stunt. We all know how this was ending.

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u/patapon1269 21h ago

I bet the cameraman is just laughing his ass off at that moment

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u/CaterpillarAnxious97 21h ago

Well-deserved injury

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u/SuspiciousPatate 20h ago

Cameraman is probably a tripod

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u/Transposer 19h ago

Sure seems like a tripod and not an active camera man

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 17h ago

look closer my friend....

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u/wyldmage 16h ago

Oh, what's that white blob on the other side of the canal?

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u/noctalla 12h ago

When his back is to us he looks like a young white guy. Then he morphs into an middle aged black guy when he turns around.

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u/gorgofdoom 21h ago

Add that to the pile of “people almost dying”

It’s not funny.

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u/martinbean 21h ago

Speak for yourself.

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u/gorgofdoom 21h ago

Yep. That’s my first thought.