OT - some people are nuts!

[Ysabel Kid]

The caption on this one was "people awesome", but some of this just looks nuts!

http://wimp.com/peopleawesome

[Sixgun]

Kid, Thats why they put young people in battles. Us middle aged dudes are too smart to risk our lives like that.

On another note, while traveling from elk camp last month, we were cruising through this high class skiers town (Winter Park, Co) and there were people skiing practically straight down these cliffs.---fearless or dopes?----------Sixgun

[Ysabel Kid]

Kid, Thats why they put young people in battles. Us middle aged dudes are too smart to risk our lives like that.

You've got that right!

[piller]

I have finally learned that broken bones and damaged connective tissue hurts. They can have it.

[kimwcook]

Unbelievable what people can do when they put their mind to it. My natural preservation would kick in and I couldn't do a fraction of that stuff.

[RIHMFIRE]

wow....and i thought i was crazy when i was young....

[FWiedner]

Wow. Some of those ARE awesome.

I would submit that while the line may be thin, there is a difference between displaying courage and being wreckless.

[PaperPatch]

Radically awesome!!! I wish I had the skill...and the balls!

Gotta admire (and envy) those that do.

[Old Ironsights]

While a lot of them are "cool", I guess, the one with the para doing wheelchair stunts is REALLY "people awsome"... though just shy of the double amputee who got his EIB and went back to the sandbox...

[bdhold]

When my sister lived in Denver, she was driving into her neighborhood and saw a kid skateboarding the top of the fence that borders their neighborhood - down a steep hill. She thought, look at that nutty kid. It was my nephew.

[TedH]

Wow, some of those are awesome!

[adirondakjack]

Like flying airplanes, sailing around the world, going to the moon, or climbing El-Capitan, it ALWAYS starts with some "nut" who believes it CAN be done, when others think "naaaaw". A salute to that which separates us from our cousins the chimps. People ARE awesome.

[AJMD429]

Us middle aged dudes are too smart to risk our lives like that.

Well, at least the ones who survived to reach middle-age are. . .

[Old Savage]

Y Guy - I have one of those guys as a patient in his early 50s. He has had more than thirty surgeries and he would still like to be doing that stuff. Incredible, I don't understand why they are doing it considering the consequences. Also a famous stunt man who has dived out of a third story window among other things. They have a different outlook and almost reason for living.

[bdhold]

last words of a redneck, "hold my beer and watch this"

[Ravenman]

And an other stunt with a 50 BMG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvXam499yI

[Blaine]

Ok, unless someone tells me different, I'm calling BS on the guy running on water....

[deerwhacker444]

Ok, unless someone tells me different, I'm calling BS on the guy running on water....

I was thinking the same thing,...I'll buy everything but the guy running on water.!

And an other stunt with a 50 BMG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvXam499yI

Neat post,..that rifle is a Big Bertha, I've got a buddy that has that exact same rifle.

Want to see some more good stuff.? Youtube or Google David Belle or Parkour, this is one of his more entertaining vids. The guy is an freak of nature..!

Here's another entertaining Parkour video. Some of the things these guys do is incredible. Good luck trying to chase one of them down..!

[Old Ironsights]

Ok, unless someone tells me different, I'm calling BS on the guy running on water....

Though, to be fair, it looks like he had some sort of "duck feet" on... Maybe some research is in order.