That's nuts. Wonder how many concussions, or various other injuries, were doled out that day.

*quality *eia if you ask me.

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That looks like some crazy shallow water to be landing in.

Well deserving of the EIA channel.

Life without the constant overwatch of WH&S is far more spicy, if somewhat shorter... ; )

I would not be in a raft floating nearby. Did you see that guy furiously pulling the raft away to avoid a collision?

I'd rather sit on a bland couch than in a spicy wheelchair.

These comments are fun. Sounds like a bunch of old men, sitting on the porch yelling at the kids on the street.

"Stop foolin' around with that wood out there. Don't jump your bicycles over that! Get out of the road!!"

Take risks when you're young because the negative consequences are mostly restricted to your own stupid self. Later in life you'll have too many responsibilities and obligations. We've given up a lot in our modern societies. By sanitizing and padding our life experiences, we've lost the connection to the deep animal part of our brain.

There are still places in the world, even first world industrialized nations, where public ritual includes personal risk. Community celebrations that tap into our hidden animal instinct with displays that overwhelm all the senses. This is a powerful way to build a deep sense of tribalism and community, to draw people together into a supportive whole.

Tomorrow many of us will enjoy the July 4th celebrations. Sitting comfortably in our folding chairs with portable BBQs and coolers; behind ropes and guard rails designating a safe area to stand...emergency response vehicles in attendance. We'll enjoy our safe, convenient family activity then curse the traffic on the way home, inside steel boxes with triple air bags. Later on we'll feel slightly unsettled by the neighbor kids setting off bottle rockets around the block. Somewhere else in the world, they'll light a bonfire the size of your house and sing songs while they watch the young people trying to see how far they can walk into the flames. They'll feel the heat, see the light up close, sense danger and ultimately give up a piece of themselves to the crowd and the untamed thing that lies below sensibility.

I'll take the bonfire please.

theFreak, I call it "age".

Combined nicely with a great deal of aches and pains sourced in earlier bad decisions. Like the guy who rode that raft down the ramp into a horrifically compressed spleen.

And you're still just as likely to get a car coming through the wall of your house, home invaded, choke on a piece of chicken etc...

Life isn't safe. The odds say that most people are likely to live till old age, but you never can tell what's going to happen, right?