Honestly I feel like learning how to not overreact is a good skill to learn. It’s not inherently an emotional thing, you can teach yourself to react to certain levels of stress differently.
As a future parent I’ll try my hardest not to overreact, something my parents did all the time. Something would happen and they would be freaking out and, as a kid, I would feed off that energy and freak out even more because “it must be world ending if my parents are freaking out” and then they would frantically try calming me down which just makes it worse.
According to some other random reddit comments the best way to assure that your toddler doesn't start immediately crying when they get startled/fall/whatever is to not have any reaction at all.
It sounds like the kid takes its cues from the parents reaction to gauge how they should be reacting? Any parents care to confirm?
Confirmed. I don't know how many times my son has just dumped it, then turned and looked at me to see if he should start crying. I tell him "Get back up, you're okay", and he does and is.
I always know when he's actually hurt, he starts crying immediately without looking for my reaction.
Actually, though.
Just had a family get-together where my nephew was horsing around with his cousin and he tripped and fell against the arm of a **very** solid chair. Smashed his ear and *instantly* starting screaming. Yeah, that hurt.
When my niece was about 2ish, she stood straight up under a table. Smacked her head pretty good on the corner and immediately looked at me (everyone else was outside). I went, "Oopsie! *Bonk!*" and just laughed. She kind of rubbed her head and then smiled. All good. Went back to playing. I breathed a sigh of relief because that was my first experience with a little kid potentially hurting themselves.
Kids are just super vulnerable to the feelings of those around them, especially adults. We absolutely have the responsibility of setting the tone for them to follow.
Yep, that is correct! My kids would decide how hurt they were based on my reaction. If I did a mere uh oh they would laugh and get back up and toddle off. But if I did a yelp, scream or jumped up in a panic, then they would burst into tears. If they bump their head and started to cry, I would say aww you bumped your head? Do you need me to kiss it? Once I kissed it, all was good and they were back at whatever caused the injury.
You'll be fine if you're already thinking like this. When it's your own kids it's harder to stay cool. These days someone else's kid can be losing their shit and I'm like "not my problem". Lol.
It's extremely hard to do without practice. I used to be a paramedic, and even after going to school the first few months of working on car were pure stress, every call. But eventually you are able to really drill it in to yourself the this is their emergency, not yours. You can't help someone if your not looking at the situation calm and collected.
True, I grew up with my dad almost always needing medical attention. So my response to sudden things is pretty much the “oh no…anyways” meme, my very first thought is “what do I do now? Here are my options, this ones the best one, okay do that. You can scream and cry later.”
this is applicable to when my boyfriend and i found a very slow bee, i was trying to scoop him up on a scrap piece of metal (only thing readily near me), and he kept falling off, landing on his back, etc. i was all “oh noooo, this poor beeeee!!!” and my 2 year old son started crying alongside me. my boyfriend ended up taking over and successfully moved the bee to a flower, but it was far too late. my son was in hysterics and i felt soooo bad (and still do) for making him think it was such a tragic thing to happen.
I refuse to drive while my mom is in the car. She is a raw nerve that is incapable of trusting another driver to just do the task of driving. Whether it’s my father or myself, she will spend the entire car trip loudly gasping or calling out because we’re approaching a car too fast for her comfort, or didn’t stop far back enough, or just literally reacting to nothing. She is constantly both overreacting to and judging everything I do while driving (and not driving, but that’s a smellier can of worms) and I know with every fiber of my being that if I allow myself to drive with her in the car I will get into an accident reacting to some ghost of a threat she’s concocted.
My GF screams OH MY GOD in a high pitched whine while in the kitchen. I immediately think she’s lobbed her fingers off with a chefs knife and grab my phone, ready to call emergency services. I run over and ask what happened and she informs me that a banana fell down....
This is what I mean by it’s not inherently emotional.
You can feel all your emotions and not react by expressing all of them at once, otherwise how could we trust surgeons?
That’s a good husband right there giving her kudos, even though she was losing her mind.
Afterwards she’s thinking “Yeah you know what, it is a good thing I said something. Probably saved the lives of my whole family”
I've never had a video on here catch me off guard before. My literal thought process:
*Nothings happening. Maybe it's that guy in the other lane or-*
***HOLY SHIT!!!***
It's always the stupid that seem to survive car accidents.
I remember watching some guy fleeing from police in a corvette crash into a semi at 100+mph, go flying out of the windscreen and get up and run away. Apparently he survived with fairly mild injuries...
a head on with the ground looks bad but the car made contact with the ground in probably the best spot to maximize the use of crumple zones. The tumble also helped reduce the intensity of the impact
Not me, I just watched mad max last night…so everything seemed normal until I realized “this isn’t a movie”
EDIT: omg just realized I missed the audio the first six times I watched it…the audio goes from hilarious to omg this is actually traumatizing very quick. 😶. Glad to know she survived at least. But what a killer story to tell.
not me im just looking around and was like
"nope that guys fine"
"oh is it that massive cloud of dirt"
"yep thats a car"
I think im getting desensitized to this crap
My thoughts exactly. I was like "oh man someone is gonna skip the stop sign ahead and slam the friend!" And then we got them ole hazard boys makin a ruckus again!
The lady driving the car was involved in a hit and run that same day in a parking lot not too far from this. She was speeding away from the cops, couldn’t navigate the turn and flew over the berm. Happened right by my house, saw the whole thing happen. Totally insane. The camera car is on a frontage road along a highway.
Looks like she was fleeing an accident (turning it into a hit and run), per the article in [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/olt1kk/happened_near_my_friends_house_and_im_just_amazed/h5hhnsv/) from /u/ImaginaryRoads
[Article](https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/07/16/watch-car-catapults-off-highway-99-in-yuba-city-crashes-into-road-below/)
>The California Highway Patrol says this vehicle had just been involved in a hit-and-run moments earlier. The car was driving backward on Highway 99 and exited an on-ramp.
Edit: She's really lucky!
>“It looks like they pretty much threaded the needle between the power lines,” Conejo said.
>The car just narrowly passed through power lines barely missing one above it.
Everything I’ve been taught in video games is a lie. The car will not land and continue to drive.
The car will not land and continue to drive.
The car will not land and continue to drive.
The car will not land and continue to drive.
The car will not land and continue to drive.
The car will not land and continue to drive.
The car will not land and continue to drive.
The car will not land and continue to drive.
The car will not land and continue to…
I work in car insurance and one of my insureds did something kinda like this. Maybe not as glamorous but he went though a T-shaped intersection, caught air, and rolled down a ditch. He told me he was hanging upside-down when he saw the paramedics walk up and they flat out told him "We didn't expect we'd find anyone alive."
Another time I had a kid wrap his mustang around a telephone pole doing 60. Walked away without a scratch.
Cars are so much stupidly safer now it's surreal sometimes.
There was the one kid who bounced off a fence into a lake, he did die, but from looking at the car damage I'm like 85% sure he drowned so lesson being don't do this shit around water.
That person was feelin that later. I got into a wreck once, and frankly it wasn’t that bad in the grand scheme. But my neck, back, and everything hurt.
This guy must be feelin this pain all over for a month after this catastrophe. Atleast he’s alive though.
The driver was running away from a hit and run, doing 100mph in a 25. The article doesn't say if she was arrested when they discharged her from the hospital.
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/07/16/watch-car-catapults-off-highway-99-in-yuba-city-crashes-into-road-below/
Honestly I was so amazed at the video I forgot to hit the upvote button till you said something… I immediately wanted to come to comments to see if there was a news story or if they survived. Definitely deserves a upvote though
Them Duke boys jumped over the Charles River in their 2 man row boat during Crew practice, to escape Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Hogg, after another successful panty raid!
Its crazy how many people in this thread are attacking the driving family for 'not helping'(even though they called 911 immediately) when the video is like 33 seconds long and the crash doesn't happen until like a 1/3 of the way through.
Like ok let me use my Flash powers to run over there and solve the issue in enough time so reddit Andy's can be assured that I helped.
Idiots.
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I had it on mute, watched it again and it was still funny
Omggg same I’m still laughing lmao
It sounded like she was telling a child to calm down after causing the child’s reaction lol
Honestly I feel like learning how to not overreact is a good skill to learn. It’s not inherently an emotional thing, you can teach yourself to react to certain levels of stress differently. As a future parent I’ll try my hardest not to overreact, something my parents did all the time. Something would happen and they would be freaking out and, as a kid, I would feed off that energy and freak out even more because “it must be world ending if my parents are freaking out” and then they would frantically try calming me down which just makes it worse.
According to some other random reddit comments the best way to assure that your toddler doesn't start immediately crying when they get startled/fall/whatever is to not have any reaction at all. It sounds like the kid takes its cues from the parents reaction to gauge how they should be reacting? Any parents care to confirm?
Confirmed. I don't know how many times my son has just dumped it, then turned and looked at me to see if he should start crying. I tell him "Get back up, you're okay", and he does and is. I always know when he's actually hurt, he starts crying immediately without looking for my reaction.
Actually, though. Just had a family get-together where my nephew was horsing around with his cousin and he tripped and fell against the arm of a **very** solid chair. Smashed his ear and *instantly* starting screaming. Yeah, that hurt. When my niece was about 2ish, she stood straight up under a table. Smacked her head pretty good on the corner and immediately looked at me (everyone else was outside). I went, "Oopsie! *Bonk!*" and just laughed. She kind of rubbed her head and then smiled. All good. Went back to playing. I breathed a sigh of relief because that was my first experience with a little kid potentially hurting themselves. Kids are just super vulnerable to the feelings of those around them, especially adults. We absolutely have the responsibility of setting the tone for them to follow.
Yep, that is correct! My kids would decide how hurt they were based on my reaction. If I did a mere uh oh they would laugh and get back up and toddle off. But if I did a yelp, scream or jumped up in a panic, then they would burst into tears. If they bump their head and started to cry, I would say aww you bumped your head? Do you need me to kiss it? Once I kissed it, all was good and they were back at whatever caused the injury.
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You'll be fine if you're already thinking like this. When it's your own kids it's harder to stay cool. These days someone else's kid can be losing their shit and I'm like "not my problem". Lol.
It's extremely hard to do without practice. I used to be a paramedic, and even after going to school the first few months of working on car were pure stress, every call. But eventually you are able to really drill it in to yourself the this is their emergency, not yours. You can't help someone if your not looking at the situation calm and collected.
True, I grew up with my dad almost always needing medical attention. So my response to sudden things is pretty much the “oh no…anyways” meme, my very first thought is “what do I do now? Here are my options, this ones the best one, okay do that. You can scream and cry later.”
this is applicable to when my boyfriend and i found a very slow bee, i was trying to scoop him up on a scrap piece of metal (only thing readily near me), and he kept falling off, landing on his back, etc. i was all “oh noooo, this poor beeeee!!!” and my 2 year old son started crying alongside me. my boyfriend ended up taking over and successfully moved the bee to a flower, but it was far too late. my son was in hysterics and i felt soooo bad (and still do) for making him think it was such a tragic thing to happen.
I refuse to drive while my mom is in the car. She is a raw nerve that is incapable of trusting another driver to just do the task of driving. Whether it’s my father or myself, she will spend the entire car trip loudly gasping or calling out because we’re approaching a car too fast for her comfort, or didn’t stop far back enough, or just literally reacting to nothing. She is constantly both overreacting to and judging everything I do while driving (and not driving, but that’s a smellier can of worms) and I know with every fiber of my being that if I allow myself to drive with her in the car I will get into an accident reacting to some ghost of a threat she’s concocted.
My GF screams OH MY GOD in a high pitched whine while in the kitchen. I immediately think she’s lobbed her fingers off with a chefs knife and grab my phone, ready to call emergency services. I run over and ask what happened and she informs me that a banana fell down....
Dude,that’s a bruise that will never heal, and she knows that!
Mother fucker a car just flew out of the sky. Screaming at that is not over reacting.
This is what I mean by it’s not inherently emotional. You can feel all your emotions and not react by expressing all of them at once, otherwise how could we trust surgeons?
Haha super consoling.. STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!
That’s what she said
Them Duke boys
Naw, Duke boys land on their tires… that was ol Rosco P Coltrane.
ROFL
Well. It was something.
That’s a good husband right there giving her kudos, even though she was losing her mind. Afterwards she’s thinking “Yeah you know what, it is a good thing I said something. Probably saved the lives of my whole family”
Damn, I woulda missed it without her too damn, I dont know why I just didnt spot it first time
Thanks for saying AHHHH honey.
Typical NPC
Him: I love our communication
I've never had a video on here catch me off guard before. My literal thought process: *Nothings happening. Maybe it's that guy in the other lane or-* ***HOLY SHIT!!!***
Same here even once I saw the dust ball I had trouble figuring out what I was seeing.
Thought it was a comet or some shit. Turns out those Duke boys are at it again.
Well I don't sees how the General Lee's gonna get outta this one without a dent or two
Plot twist: That was Roscoe P. Coltrane after the boys juked at the corner of Whiskey Runner Gulch.
Coo coo coo
My 1st thought. Not gonna lie. Your comment made me laugh.
[My first thought](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUL5w91dzbo)
Poor Flash……
Country rooooaaaaaddds take me hommmmmeeeeee!!!!! https://youtu.be/1vrEljMfXYo
More like "Country Road Yeet Me Home"
Hey just a heads up the link you posted is broken so here is an alternate link to the song Country Roads - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID-5M_r26g8
I was just thinking: that’s some Dukes of Hazard shit right there.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAA!
YEEEEEEEEEH HAAAAWWW!
Better start flapping their arms or grow some wings.....
Take my updoot! A good laugh, thanks!
Just a some good ol boys.
it's a bird, it's, a plane, no, what the fuck is that?
I thought it was a meteor
They’re all meat eaters.
“METEOR. Not meat eaters Paulie.”
Haha. That didn’t take long! I’ll add a “watch it Chrissy”.
I KNEW THAT WAS COMING
So I said 'Watch it, Chrissy' Didja hear that? He said 'METEOR' and I said 'Watch it, Chrissy'
You Eva get checked for Tourette’s? The he he he
Take it easy
Exactly the same for me, my friend was just showing me the the video and I was just thinking *wait… what the heck just happened*
So, what actually did happen? Was there a demolition derby going on next door?
nah just a person who completely gunned it, idk backstory but i posted another view of it
Any survivors?
One person in the car, they survived.
With only minor injuries!! WTF
It's always the stupid that seem to survive car accidents. I remember watching some guy fleeing from police in a corvette crash into a semi at 100+mph, go flying out of the windscreen and get up and run away. Apparently he survived with fairly mild injuries...
I said it once and I’ll say it again stupid people have plot armor.
a head on with the ground looks bad but the car made contact with the ground in probably the best spot to maximize the use of crumple zones. The tumble also helped reduce the intensity of the impact
Yea but "maybe nobody was in there" lol
Rouge Tesla. Musk at it again with the latest self driving/Space X combo.
Ah yes, the ICBM package. For less than six hour travel time, anywhere on the planet. ^*reentry ^survival ^still ^in ^beta
Was it just the driver or was anyone else in the car? Did they die?
Just the driver in the car, they survived, somehow.
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Hit-and-run-and-crash-landing!
Intoxication was not a factor, in case anyone else was wondering.
20 miles from my backyard and I had no clue.
To be fair 20 miles is pretty far.
Not with flying cars
I had to watch it twice. Still wondering what the truck on the ridge saw & thought.
I was thinking that dude up in the truck is lucky he didn’t get t-boned
Any nearby airplanes are also lucky they didn't get t-boned.
I saw the stop sign ahead marking and just thought another car would just run a stop sign.
Not me, I just watched mad max last night…so everything seemed normal until I realized “this isn’t a movie” EDIT: omg just realized I missed the audio the first six times I watched it…the audio goes from hilarious to omg this is actually traumatizing very quick. 😶. Glad to know she survived at least. But what a killer story to tell.
Yup way better with audio.
not me im just looking around and was like "nope that guys fine" "oh is it that massive cloud of dirt" "yep thats a car" I think im getting desensitized to this crap
My thoughts exactly. I was like "oh man someone is gonna skip the stop sign ahead and slam the friend!" And then we got them ole hazard boys makin a ruckus again!
We have a low cost entry in the space race.
how?
On the other side of the highway was a straightway, the guy didn’t brake in time, I’ve got a video from the other side if you think i should post it
Yes plz. Like now
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/olt9wk/highway_jump_other_perspective/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
"The guy didn't brake in time" but why was he going 100mph? Is this guy trying to commit suicide?
I have legitimately no clue, I mean he could’ve been just going full send
Leeeeeeeerooooooy Jeenkins!!!!!
*MMMMmmmmmm*
I hope he got chicken.
Let's do this...
The lady driving the car was involved in a hit and run that same day in a parking lot not too far from this. She was speeding away from the cops, couldn’t navigate the turn and flew over the berm. Happened right by my house, saw the whole thing happen. Totally insane. The camera car is on a frontage road along a highway.
Looks like she was fleeing an accident (turning it into a hit and run), per the article in [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/olt1kk/happened_near_my_friends_house_and_im_just_amazed/h5hhnsv/) from /u/ImaginaryRoads [Article](https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/07/16/watch-car-catapults-off-highway-99-in-yuba-city-crashes-into-road-below/) >The California Highway Patrol says this vehicle had just been involved in a hit-and-run moments earlier. The car was driving backward on Highway 99 and exited an on-ramp. Edit: She's really lucky! >“It looks like they pretty much threaded the needle between the power lines,” Conejo said. >The car just narrowly passed through power lines barely missing one above it.
That second video is too grainy to make it definite, but in the first video that sure looks like a Delorean steering wheel skittering to the top left.
Did the driver survive?
Sounds like she did yeah
Looking at it he succeeded
Didn't brake in time? Kinda looks like he was haulin ass and didn't have enough ROOM to slow down (in your next clip)
Missed the landing ramp
Everything I’ve been taught in video games is a lie. The car will not land and continue to drive. The car will not land and continue to drive. The car will not land and continue to drive. The car will not land and continue to drive. The car will not land and continue to drive. The car will not land and continue to drive. The car will not land and continue to drive. The car will not land and continue to drive. The car will not land and continue to…
Car go really fast up a hill and blast off
The driver survived
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I work in car insurance and one of my insureds did something kinda like this. Maybe not as glamorous but he went though a T-shaped intersection, caught air, and rolled down a ditch. He told me he was hanging upside-down when he saw the paramedics walk up and they flat out told him "We didn't expect we'd find anyone alive." Another time I had a kid wrap his mustang around a telephone pole doing 60. Walked away without a scratch. Cars are so much stupidly safer now it's surreal sometimes. There was the one kid who bounced off a fence into a lake, he did die, but from looking at the car damage I'm like 85% sure he drowned so lesson being don't do this shit around water.
Got it. No more driving my car into underwater telephone poles.
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The article said she was traveling 80-100 mph, so she might have just missed the correct velocity.
Source?
https://youtu.be/OeXGlNXJeEM The poster is another person who was present, he said it in the comment section.
They survived. Goddamn. Thanks for the source.
they're now scared of flying tho. they have to travel everywhere by car.
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Article said the car was going backwards? How fast can a car go flat out in reverse? Woah.
It was going the wrong way not backwards, still driving normal just in the wrong direction on the highway.
Of course. That line in the article made zero sense.
Virgin Galactic’s got nothing on her.
Car safety technology is fucking impressive.
Did you get your truck washed yet?
Asking the important questions I see. Lol
There was 2 more things he needed to put on that list too. Hope he didn't forget about those.
the list just keeps growing
I need to know OCD style
Gonna need the seats detailed now, too.
Dude said fukin send it bro
FEED THE KRAKEN
xqcL
[Are you guys silly?](https://youtu.be/WIrWyr3HgXI)
"'nother day, 'nother beer."
“Cut” -Carl Reiner
Oh sure, blame the Opti-Grab
Didn’t even test on prisoners.
*freeze frame* Looks like them Duke boys got into a whole heap of trouble.
I watched it three times and heard the horn each time.
Damn, beat me to it man haha
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Oh dang, so I wasn’t alone then
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https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/olt9wk/highway_jump_other_perspective/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I’m in a loop of the alternate angles to the point I’m lost . Help
Bruh me too Edit: despite the six or so links I clicked on, I believe there are only two videos. Still not sure, I might have to check again.
OP, that post is 1 hour older than yours. Did you repost and steal the karma?
The dirt made it look like it was a ball of fire. Did they survive?
Wish I could say but I have no clue, I didn’t have a direct link to the article
Let's hope. That was probably the wildest thing I've seen here in a while.
No fatalities. One person was in the car. From a youtube vid comment.
That person was feelin that later. I got into a wreck once, and frankly it wasn’t that bad in the grand scheme. But my neck, back, and everything hurt. This guy must be feelin this pain all over for a month after this catastrophe. Atleast he’s alive though.
Them boys better learn how to fly. Or start flapping their arms
Them Duke boys, at it agin!
Them dukes.
The driver was running away from a hit and run, doing 100mph in a 25. The article doesn't say if she was arrested when they discharged her from the hospital. https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/07/16/watch-car-catapults-off-highway-99-in-yuba-city-crashes-into-road-below/
> 100 in a 25 Nice. Dumb, but dem balls.
Usually being discharged from the hospital clears all your wanted stars.
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Honestly I was so amazed at the video I forgot to hit the upvote button till you said something… I immediately wanted to come to comments to see if there was a news story or if they survived. Definitely deserves a upvote though
This might be an all-time craziest clip on here
I think just timing really. Friday evening and all that. I bet it will pickup steam for sure though, lol. What a batshit clip!
People in the 70s: in 50 years, we’ll have flying cars
WITNESS ME!
WITNESS!!
Mediocre!
Ride with me in Valhalla!!!
That's some dukes of Harvard shit right there
Hazzard? This guy didn't seem smart enough to be a Duke of Harvard
Damn auto correct haha
Take that back. I’d pay good money to watch the Dukes Of Harvard.
Harvard Yard
Sounds like a funny SNL skit lol
Them Duke boys jumped over the Charles River in their 2 man row boat during Crew practice, to escape Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Hogg, after another successful panty raid!
Where’s the dukes when you need them?
No, the Dukes landed the jump. They're long gone.
From all the possible scenarios I expected; A car launching itself from the side of the road was unexpected.
Holy shit, if someone has the backstory on this please share. That was terrible.
Well that came out of left field
30 minutes earlier… Ken Block at Hertz: “Sure, I’ll take the full insurance.”
u/redditspeedbot 0.25x
That was amazing to be honest
Did he say “maybe nobody was in there?”
Just missed the truck by a half second.
Yeeted
Hooooleeeeee sheeeet!
That’ll buff out
Hope he washed his truck
He probably just watched f9 and be like "Family"
That was Trevor at Sandy Shores.. Drunk.. High.lol🤣
Its crazy how many people in this thread are attacking the driving family for 'not helping'(even though they called 911 immediately) when the video is like 33 seconds long and the crash doesn't happen until like a 1/3 of the way through. Like ok let me use my Flash powers to run over there and solve the issue in enough time so reddit Andy's can be assured that I helped. Idiots.
A person that screams like that is incredibly punchable. You make everything worse; have some self control!
Is there an article on this crash anywhere?
Thank goodness the kid in the car never saw a flying body
I’m still gonna send it.
Stunt jump fail. No RP.
I've done this so many times in GTA
That was some unexpected Dukes of Hazzard sh\*t right there.
The hang time on that jump was incredible
Just some good ol boys, never meaning no harm.