RocketBlender
Also, I can't help but notice: the kid appears to be in the same area, even using the same M&M machine, but now there's two, slightly taller machines there as well. Also, the park bench where people that might help could be sitting is now gone. I like to think that these changes are a result of his first attempt.

Syd Midnight
He's a guido? Exccccellent.

TimbolinoBilchard
That explains why he's doing it.

But backflipping off things still seems incredibly assinine. I feel this sick sense of shadenfreude over his comeuppance.

Blank_Slate
Well, at least it stopped him from doing any more backflips off of vending machines



...for a couple of weeks

chumbucket
it's on his bucket list

chairsforcheap
yeah that medic seemed like a dick...

regarding the video: i've done backflips off baseball dugouts and crap that high before, and it's almost impossible to not land it... this kid is a grade a moron.

Dib
It's called being the voice of reason, you jerkoff.

chairsforcheap
whuh?
they totally should have been shooting what happened to the kid... it sure makes me not want to do something that stupid..

Torture the Artist
No, that's really not what it's called. That paramedic is a dickhead.

Dib
You get called in, arrive on scene, and this Jackass wannabe is laying there half dead while his shithead friends are still filming--something they were obviously doing while cheerleading his dumbass stunt. Now you have to employ your trained skills to patch this fucker up while they want to make sure not a moment is missed for their Youtube extravaganza, and there are probably at least a handful of others better things you could be doing. I'd be a pissed off paramedic too.

RockBolt
No, matters of taste aside, you can video or photograph anyone or anything in a public place in the US. First responders and police cannot tell you to stop and can only detain you if you are actively getting in their way (which would get you in hot water without the camera). Also they cannot take away your camera or film/memory cards without a court order.

http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm

Anyone who likes to take pictures should take a few minutes to be familiar with those basic rights, because time and again police and security guards will attempt to tell you otherwise in the heat of the moment, lots of those stories here-

http://carlosmiller.com/

Syd Midnight
"Can I ask why you're videotaping this?" "If you knew him, you'd know why." Some people exist solely to inspire new safety warnings. It's an evolutionary strategy to protect the species as a whole.

If some geneticist discovers, like, some DNA that causes a bird to be careless so that their death screams warn the flock, I hope they call it the Jackass gene.

Dib
So who's arguing the paramedic was speaking from an authoritative standpoint? That's your impression. He said "turn that camera off right now", he didn't snatch the thing and smash it on the ground. The cameraman was a douchebag, the jumper has shit for brains, and you're an idiot.

RockBolt
I was answering sosage's question you troglodyte

Xiphias
If I were a medical professional, people taping me trying to administer treatment would make me pretty nervous.

Mister Yuck
That's about the right thing to do. You don't fuck with a guy with head trauma, you call the paramedics.