RIP. I know there have been daredevils in all of human history, but it seems today taking a selfie in a dangerous place gives some people satisfaction in this social media world.
I was at the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, it was beautiful, but I saw people going to the edge of the cliff and taking selfies, a gust of wind would have made them fall 800 feet to certain death.
THUD.
Howie Carr asks, “Is Ted in the house?”
It’s not the fall, it’s the sudden stop.
Does the fact that he was doing something he loved make his death more virtuous or something?
Free falling is what he loved?
I shouldn't make too much fun of this kid who was enjoying the great outdoors while the majority of young people his age are sitting in front of video games developing diabetes and morbid obesity.
Risk-takers are the people who when they win, they bring greatness to the world. Unfortunately, sometimes they lose.
Given enough time and money, man will always find a way to harm, maim, or kill himself.
No takes-back...
Why, when I watch a Murder Mystery and the husband and wife had been hiking the trails and she just ‘happened’ to fall off the cliff, they never couch it in terms that she was just, ‘doing what she loved’ as the husband is investigated for her murder?
LOL! I just invented a new legal defense! :)
“An avid photographer.” Obviously not an avid climber or hiker. I’ve spent some quality time traversing the Utah canyon lands, and there are things a normal rational hiker would never do. But hey, if you’re doing what you love, like taking dangerous and unnecessary risks, ya pays yer nickle and ya takes yer chances.
Regards,
What a waste.
As he was falling he was thinking…”I love doing this. Well, not this part.”
Smartphones are tools of the Devil.
There is a video out there taken a while back of a lad climbing down below the edge of a lo-o-o-ong cliff onto a gnarled little tree that stuck out of the cliff face 8 or 10 feet below the edge. He had got his buddy to take a movie of him going down there too wave up at he camera only he miscalculated and the movie is of the unfortunate lad disappearing down into the distance.
I did that to my wife when we were there, climbed over the edge to get a better picture, she almost had a heart attack.I heard they put up fencing now.
I saw this video below the other day on YT.
Also in Utah.
Absolutely horrific to think of being wedged in a cave.
https://youtu.be/o-TaF2DbaWw?si=yJ5F8uo6In8UgS_n
Sorry for the guy in the video. And sorry for the teenager to fall to his death.
I’ve been near some cliffs in the Canyonlands of Utah. Even with a fence and being several feet back, I still felt uneasy and cautious. I can do heights, but at a safe distance. I’m absolutely not a daredevil. Utah is so beautiful, but very dangerous.
Doing what he loved?! Stupidly falling off a cliff?! What a waste….
“Thrill-seeking 19-year-old Jonathan Fielding…”
He got the thrill of his life in those last few seconds of it. His poor family…RIP.
