Originally published at: Groin cringe warning: X Game Medalist Anthony Napolitan was centimeters away from death by impalement | Boing Boing
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Good thing he didn’t stick the landing.
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Skate park designers should take note of their fencing choices.
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Holy, holy, holy fudgesticks!
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My groin did cringe.
In the words of Baldrick
B: Not to worry my lord, the arrow didn’t in fact enter my body.
E: Oh good.
B: No, by a thousand to one chance my willy got in the way.
E: Extraordinary.
B: And I only just put it there. But now, I will leave it there
forever.
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The Vicariously Transmitted Pain That Circled the Globe… Thrice.
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So powerfully that it saved Louis Lane from a fatal landslide.
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I have never liked the use of deus ex machina solutions in films… by when they occur in real-life… well… what can I say.
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Fortunately, the fence was not spiked like the article says it was. You can clearly see the square tops to the bars. It still could have been a very ugly ending.
“Missed it by that much!”
And just like that, thousands of insurance policies were reevaluated.
Not that I have the same maim/death wish as Mr. Napolitan, but if facing similar ugly options, I’d rather have a pointed spike slice through my flesh than a blunt post tear its way through.
FWIW I think he’s crazy to perform deliberately dangerous stunts like this without really careful planning.
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