Folks,
It's time for a break from all the serious topics on this blog. Every once in a while I go to YouTube for amusement. Well, this is most amusing:
I have to hand it to these people. Either they're insane or they possess a certain verve that left my body when I turned 18. I dunno. I'm certain this beats coffee as a morning jolt.
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Here's some Red Bull for the soul - completely insane base jumping (off the Petronas Towers in Malyasia, one in NYC, in the dark, landing in front of a taxi)
Link thanks to Yehudit
Base jumping off the Petronas Towers? OK, that's nuts. Fun, but nuts.
Then again, one of my university friends went over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Humans are like that.
one of my university friends went over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
I hope he was ok. I visit the Falls often, and I can't imagine doing that.
Author Garrett Soden wrote a book, Falling: How Our Greatest Fear Became Our Greatest Thrill - about why people like to jump off of things. Apparently this wasn't popular before the 18th century. The growth of interest in Niagra-Falls barrel jumping, ballooning and amusement parks has parallels with people taking financial/personal risks to develop technology.
He was fine, except for the arrest on various charges at the end. Here's the URL. He probably should have been wearing more when he climbed out of the barrel, too.
Oh, the part about the statement against drugs... now THAT was hilarious. Jeff "Clyde" Petkovich was so nicknamed after the orangutan star of Clint Eastwood's moive "Every which Way But Loose," and if there was a drug he hadn't tried, I don't know which one it was.
No idea what happened to Clyde after university. He's sort of like Animal House's Brother D-Day, "current whereabouts unknown." Ride on, compadre, wherever you are. Ride on.