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Don't ask me what I was doing that inspired me to make this thread. :(
So if you were riding down a hill on a shopping cart, wheelbarrow, wagon, etc. (basically anything unstable on wheels that you can jump out of) what would you do? Would you jump off even though you're going really fast? Would you try to steer your vehicle risking the chance of it getting tilted over and crashing? Would you stay on and hope that it would slow down? Would you do something else?
I'd steer to grass and hope it slowed me down and I could balance the cart.
i'd jump out, i choose life, HAHA!
You sure that would be safe?Quote:
Originally Posted by Agrias
You could end up with some serious skull or spinal damage if you land roughly.
this is true.....i choose the hidden option of growing wings and floating up and out of the buggy! WOOQuote:
Originally Posted by EvastioYou sure that would be safe?Quote:
Originally Posted by Agrias
You could end up with some serious skull or spinal damage if you land roughly.
If I saw nothing soft to hit, I would crash the medium as soon as possible. Maybe throw my weight to one side to make in fall over.
I know I'd end up staying for the ride seeing as how I would be too scared to move. If I could move, I'd tell everyone to move out of the way. What a great Kodak moment as well.
Try to slow down by sticking your hands into the ground? That would have to hurt. I voted to make sure that someone caught it on camera.
I support a moron riding down a hill's right to choose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Agrias
I would totally scream. Actually, I'd either scream or be completely silent. Probably the latter. Why the smurf am I on this thing anyways? I would never do that. But I know, this is just a thread, and I'll suspend my disbelief. I'd probably purposely try to crash too. Anything to get out, and not get hit by a car or something. I'll take my chances with the ground.
When I was about 11 or so, I went sledding one winter when we had an usually good freeze. But I didn't own a sled, so my dad had fashioned one out of a piece of scrap roofing metal. :p Anyway, after hurtling down the hill, I realized that I was pointed straight at a rather deep ditch, and there was a fallen tree crumpled in it with rather sharp pieces of wood pointed in every direction.
And being on a rather uncontrollable piece of metal, I realized I had two options: jump off, or sit there and do nothing like an idiot. I did the latter, and luckily stopped about six inches from the ditch. I imagine I would do the same thing in this situation. Well, I might try to steer whatever I was in, but I'd probably end up flipping it and faceplanting.
I had a similar experience, only I had an actual sled and I ditched it as soon as I realized my options.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azar
As for the thread, it really would depend on what I was in. Shopping cart = stay along for the ride. Wagon = ditch out before it got too fast. Other = depends on the height off of the ground and the height of the sides. It also depends on what exactly I'm going to be crashing onto. Grass = Fine. Gravel = Crap.
jump off because it's better than crashing, if that's the case.
One of the steepest streets in the world is in a city called Dunedin in my country, and a girl did exactly that, in a wheelie bin. Unfortunately, it was the last thing she ever did.
So whatever she did (I think they said all she did was scream), it was the wrong thing.
I would stay on, make sure someone got it on camera, and then try and crash into people. :bigsmile: