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christ alive that’s a low head dam, those things have a feature at the bottom called a “drowning machine” DO NOT DO THIS

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There is a great Practical Engineering video that explains this risk for anyone who is curious.

Crossing that dam was definitely a bad move.

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Darwin award candidate

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Praise the camera person.

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Some people have no ability to do a risk/reward analysis. The magnitude of the potential bad thing in this case is so, so much larger than the potential good thing.

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Not smart. He could have easily died.

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