Are we doomed as a species?
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Just watch his response video in reaction to the press. Confirmed asshole. He said he expects to get fined, mumbled about donation, but that seems like bullshit.
Here's the cement video, and if you feel like reporting it as "Harmful or dangerous acts". YouTube might demonetise the video.
That's the sad thing about the whole saga, he is going to profit from this. Not necessarily directly as I hope Youtube pulls the video but from the increased traffic to his channel and other videos.
Do we even know it is is real?
So much stuff ( including bushcraft related vids) are arranged and faked.
So much stuff ( including bushcraft related vids) are arranged and faked.
Oh it was real, the fire service...
https://twitter.com/WestMidsFire/status/939120071435223045
The video has been age restricted, so less chance of adverts running on it, hopefully it's demonetised.
https://twitter.com/WestMidsFire/status/939120071435223045
The video has been age restricted, so less chance of adverts running on it, hopefully it's demonetised.
This incident happened in Wolverhampton rather than Birmingham and having previously lived in the West Midlands for some years, IME, mistakenly accusing a Yam Yam of being a Brummie or vice versa to their face can be almost as dangerous as sticking your head in a microwave and adding polyfilla!
While there is something pretty distasteful about someone doing stupid stunts for money and expecting the tax payer to foot the bill when it goes wrong, where do you draw the line? A high percentage of MRT and RNLI time is spent dealing with numpties heading to the hills or sea without the right kit and/or experience.
Dealing with the immediate consequences of excessive drink and drug consumption costs a fortune in police and A&E time.
The tax payer is also expected to meet pay the healthcare, disability benefit etc. costs of those who get hurt playing contact sports, racing motorbikes or cars or will go on to suffer from type 2 diabetes, heart, lung, liver disease etc. as a result of ignoring guidance on smoking, drinking, diet, exercise etc. - which is pretty much all of us.
The guy is an @rsehole but I for one don’t feel entitled to “throw the first stone”.
It's not just for money, it appears it is his job (together with selling merch of the back of it). Why should he be exempt from having insurance and H&S like every other employer?
I'd tend to draw the line at filling a microwave oven with Polyfilla and putting my head in it until it sets for a YouTube stunt to make money, and then employing emergency services to deal with the aftermath against rescue for people heading up hills without the right kit, but not filming it for money, or stopping halfway to dip their heads in a microwave oven full of Polyfilla.
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Look on the bright side, perhaps the fact that Utube offers anyone with a GoPro or camera phone the opportunity to make a few £ broadcasting their stupidity will actually improve the species by (despite the best efforts of the emergency services and medics) removing their genes from the pool - Darwinism in action!
I'm in no way condoning this guy's antics but if you follow the logic that putting yourself in harm's way for money and expecting someone else to sort things out if it goes wrong is wrong, then surely Barry Sheene and Evil Knievel who spent most of the 1970s earning a crust by entertaining huge crowds (and inspiring a generation of kids to scuff knees and break bones after building ramps and doing wheelies on chopper bikes), by falling off motorbikes and having surgery to insert meccano into various limbs, fall into the same category!
The cost of the callout for this clown was probably £1000 or less and I hope he does the right thing.
I've just been to the funeral of an old friend who smoked and drank himself to an early grave at 55 (FWIW, the lung cancer got him before his liver gave out - but it was a close run thing), he was old enough to know better and an unrelated brush with cancer in his 30s should have been a wake up call. His lifestyle choices will have cost the NHS and Macmillan who looked after for him at the end (in an entirely non-judgemental way), a lot more than £1000 - and since he was working abroad for much of his life, any duty paid on fags and booze will have gone elsewhere.
Personally, I don't see that idiotic online bravado (monetised or not) by a 20 something is any worse than knowingly ruining your health by ignoring the obvious risks of smoking and excessive alcohol intake.
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Think this guy has proven Sir David Attenborough correct...
Unlike the dinosaurs, we're not necessarily bound here. We'll eventually spread throughout the galaxy.Think this guy has proven Sir David Attenborough correct...
Personally, I don't see that idiotic online bravado (monetised or not) by a 20 something is any worse than knowingly ruining your health by ignoring the obvious risks of smoking and excessive alcohol intake.
I saw an interview where he said he didn't feel he'd wasted the fire brigade's time and he wasn't as bad a drink drivers. It's a very poor and childish defense and his lack of any kind of remorse just makes him a bigger idiot in my eyes. He might has well say "well at least I'm not as bad as Hitler" for all the meaning it has.
Yes there are plenty of ways in which people waste tax payers money but just because a lot of people are doing it doesn't make it right in any way. When the NHS eventually goes bankrupt and we're all forced into paying for private healthcare it won't seem quite so amusing. People are already struggling to get medical help for many different problems while doctors' time and NHS money is being wasted dealing with binge drinking and other avoidable costs. It's bad enough now that local authorities can't afford to provide basic services anymore but people are still willingly wasting money that could be going to good causes. It's become a cultural problem that will only get worse as we can't afford to educate people properly to avoid it happening all over again with the next generation.
In a way you're right that the celebrity daredevils and Jackass types have popularised this kind of attention seeking behaviour in others and the sad fact is that he will probably gain fame from this which will end up bringing him more money even with losing out on this one video.
No, more than likley people will know him for a jerk. And this will last his lifetime.
Evel Knievel was my hero as a child. And yes, he did break an awful lot of bones. But he was good entertainment.
This guy claims to be a professional prankster. But hes not funny.
(If he had got someone else to do it then that would be funny.)
(I am a very bad person).
Evel Knievel was my hero as a child. And yes, he did break an awful lot of bones. But he was good entertainment.
This guy claims to be a professional prankster. But hes not funny.
(If he had got someone else to do it then that would be funny.)
(I am a very bad person).
Although this person is an Idiot, and in my opinion should be banned of You-Tube, although this will not happen as You-Tube loves Idiots, as the more people who look at the Idiot videos is how You-Tube make their money...........................we have to be careful, the fact that the Emergency Services were called and attended, despite the cost is quite right...............and it is true that people who go hiking, out to sea, rock climbing etc and get into danger are costing the tax payer a lot of money, but surely that is better than having a system where someone will determine whether you deserved to be helped, as sometimes happens when ambulances are called.
We unfortunately have to help the Idiots, as that is the point of the Emergency Services
it is also true that a lot of people endanger themselves by drinking, smoking, etc, but again lets be careful here, everything we do can be dangerous and cost us our lives, I remember a few years ago when people were saying overweight people should not be treated in hospitals as it was their own fault, and Doctors, yes Doctors were saying smokers should not be treated.
We all have our faults, and as we live with them, we need to be tolerant of the faults of others, no matter what it costs..
We unfortunately have to help the Idiots, as that is the point of the Emergency Services
it is also true that a lot of people endanger themselves by drinking, smoking, etc, but again lets be careful here, everything we do can be dangerous and cost us our lives, I remember a few years ago when people were saying overweight people should not be treated in hospitals as it was their own fault, and Doctors, yes Doctors were saying smokers should not be treated.
We all have our faults, and as we live with them, we need to be tolerant of the faults of others, no matter what it costs..
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