Groin cringe warning: X Game Medalist Anthony Napolitan was centimeters away from death by impalement

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Originally published at: Groin cringe warning: X Game Medalist Anthony Napolitan was centimeters away from death by impalement | Boing Boing

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[vrplumber]

Good thing he didn’t stick the landing.

[bluehenbear]

Skate park designers should take note of their fencing choices.

[euansmith]

Holy, holy, holy fudgesticks!

[timd]

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.

[hecep]

The Vicariously Transmitted Pain That Circled the Globe… Thrice.

[euansmith]

So powerfully that it saved Louis Lane from a fatal landslide.

[hecep]

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.

[Artor]

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.

[Mister44]

“Missed it by that much!”

[jerwin]

@Artor

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.

And just like that, thousands of insurance policies were reevaluated.

[Carbonman]

@Artor

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.

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.