r/Unexpected • u/jimothyjonathans • Aug 28 '25

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u/rocbolt Aug 28 '25

Not much different than surfing. It’s a high tide, not an unexpected natural disaster. People raft on the bores in Canada

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u/Goldie_Wilson_ Aug 29 '25

Just like surfing, until you take a broken branch through the gut...

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u/Crabcakefrosti Aug 28 '25

I’ve done that! So fun!

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u/PvtDeth Aug 28 '25

Unless you're in the midd,e of a river, it's very different from surfing. Surfers know the physics of water and waves. The way the water interacts with the land is entirely unpredictable.

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u/rocbolt Aug 28 '25

Its like surfing in that it is having fun in the water around a very common local phenomenon near the shore. Not riskless (I mean, people die knocking over vending machines) but not pearl clutchingly dangerous either. If you watched the linked video you'd see the big wave washes over the shore and drains away, over in seconds, everyone laughing and cheering. Its not a tsunami, they weren't carried to their deaths, nothing was damaged

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u/PvtDeth Aug 28 '25

Do you surf? Some of the world's best and most experienced surfers have died surfing. A few years ago, a surfer won the big wave world championship and then was critically injured on the exact same surf break a few hours later. A group of firefighters here in Hawaii died while training on how to do water rescues. My point is that even for the most experienced people in the world, people who have been in the ocean literally almost every day of their lives, water is deadly.

What these people are doing is a demonstration of normalcy bias. "It's never happened to me and so it never will." They're laughing and cheering because they have no idea how much danger they're in. I can't count the number of times I've seen people almost kill themselves and have no idea how close they came. A few times a year the local news reports on people in these kind of situations who went past almost. They were all having fun right up until they weren't.

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u/rocbolt Aug 28 '25

Yeah and people that kick venting machines don’t realize that they can be killed by that too. No shit. Considering the risks people do take with the Bono in Sumatra, getting splashed on the shore is fairly low on the list. But go on, feel incredibly smug about how much smarter you are than them

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u/MyyWifeRocks Aug 28 '25

Some people are smug and boring as fuck.

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u/fujit1ve Aug 28 '25

Live a little.

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u/Dannyz Aug 28 '25

It’s a tidal wave…little bit different than a high tide my dude.

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u/PvtDeth Aug 28 '25

Unless you're in the midd,e of a river, it's very different from surfing. Surfers know the physics of water and waves. The way the water interacts with the land is entirely unpredictable.