in 2010, a camp counselor goon logged on to the somethingawful forums asking for help with the zipline he build from scratch, and with no engineering knowledge, that didn’t seem to be working right. when he tested it with a sandbag, it continued to gather speed during the entirety of the 143 foot drop (19 degree slope) until it slammed into the wooden platform at the bottom at a speed of 65mph, presumably creating a child paste that would have to be scraped off to be sent home. there were pictures.
groverhaus and the child-annihilating zipline are classics of post and we will never forget them
too bad the zipline isn’t as famous. the fucked-up bathroom has even gained more traction than the child-exploding summer camp zipline. there is no justice
i love this but DON’T denigrate the fucked up bathroom that’s a legend
I’m sorry, y’all are selling RIPline (The Machine to Kill Children) short, so I need to bring in YouTuber and generally amazing person Dan Olson in to sum this up for me
And some visual aides
Someone tell the OSHAs about this.
That bathroom is missing the best part of it. He needed to make the bathtub a bit deeper, so he deepened it by…
Cutting the tops of the wooden I-beams under the floor:
That’s right, he compromised the floor EXACTLY where 300 to 500 (130 to 227kg) lbs of water and human were going to go.
