Amazing Stunt or Darwin Award Candidate?

By Friday October 8, 2010




20 Comments
  1. bobbo, telling shit from shinola says:
    10/8/2010 at 2:53 pm

    While everything is a mattr of degree of just about everything else, the Darwin Award would go to someone who hadn’t studied all the relevant elements of this stunt for days before execution.

    So–Stunt. Not even Amazing unless you are easily amazed.

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  2. Yankinwaoz says:
    10/8/2010 at 3:00 pm

    He never reaches terminal velocity. But still, that has to hurt when you land.

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  3. jobs says:
    10/8/2010 at 3:08 pm

    Amazing stunt by a future Darwin Award candidate.

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  4. Luc says:
    10/8/2010 at 3:09 pm

    A very good stunt, turned incredibly foolish with the slow motion and the annoying music.

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  5. Awake says:
    10/8/2010 at 4:32 pm

    Please remove this video.
    Several hundred people had to do that a little over 9 years ago, from much greater heights, and without the benefit of a chute.
    It sure brings back bad memories, and is not entertaining at all.
    A little sensitivity please.

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  6. Nobodyspecial says:
    10/8/2010 at 4:55 pm

    Isn’t it an anti-darwin award?
    Doing some thing scary and dangerous – but cool – get’s girls and INCREASES your chance of paddling in the gene pool.
    Young men ski, skateboard, ride motorbikes, skydive for very evolutionary reasons

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  7. O'Really says:
    10/8/2010 at 5:08 pm

    Awake…didn’t even consider it’s relation to the WTC falling.

    In other news, Guinness Book of World Records has just announced the “Man with the Biggest Balls” record goes to that guy!!!

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  8. Animby says:
    10/8/2010 at 5:59 pm

    Get a life Awake.

    Interesting stunt, I’m guessing filmed for a movie? No Darwin Award. He’s obviously trained and prepared and had expert advice.

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  9. chuck says:
    10/8/2010 at 6:57 pm

    The Darwin Award will go to the idiot who watches this video on youtube, then sets himself on fire and jumps of the roof of his apartment building and tries to land on a mattress.

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  10. God says:
    10/8/2010 at 7:39 pm

    Why the godly music? I was tempted to deflate the mattress.

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  11. deowll says:
    10/8/2010 at 8:34 pm

    Adrenaline junkie. The ones that don’t get killed get laid a lot.

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  12. chris says:
    10/8/2010 at 9:13 pm

    I think base jumps involve parachutes.

    The crazy bit is that the guy on fire is wearing a plastic mask, but a camera man onscreen towards the end is wearing a motorcycle helmet.

    I hope they razzed that guy. Afraid to get hurt NOT jumping out of a building, huh?

    #5 Lighten up.

    #10 Song is by Moby.

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  13. Harley Parts says:
    10/8/2010 at 9:41 pm

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  14. FRAGaLOT says:
    10/8/2010 at 11:13 pm

    I have to agree with #1. this is not worthy of a Darwin Award. This is a professional stunt, not something that’s done mindlessly like that idiot the scooter; who also DIED. This guy did something much more dangerous, beautiful, but didn’t get hurt.

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  15. Dennis says:
    10/9/2010 at 6:22 am

    So…they started filming “Halloween 2010 – Mike Myers ON FIRE!”?

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  16. Awake says:
    10/9/2010 at 8:04 am

    Just the header photo brings back awful memories.

    Unless you watched the people fall, I wouldn’t expect you to understand.

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  17. LowKey says:
    10/9/2010 at 2:23 pm

    Poor Awake, no ones giving him enough attention.

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  18. Rob Leather says:
    10/10/2010 at 7:20 am

    “Oh, hey. Sorry about this. Can you just go and do that again. Only we forgot to take the lens caps off…. our bad!”

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  19. Rob Leather says:
    10/10/2010 at 7:23 am

    “Ok. Excellent. Now lets try it without the bag and just use the fountain next to it. OK?… Hello?”

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  20. shotinfilm says:
    10/10/2010 at 11:17 pm

    This is an “Amazing Stunt”.

    The guy is a professional stunt man named Bog Brown.

    http://brandxstunts.org/member/bbrown

    http://imdb.com/name/nm0113136/

    It was filmed for the “World Stunt Awards” in 2002 or 2003 — Can’t remember the year, but it was shot in Woodland Hills, CA at Warner Center.

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