Would you do it?

gifted · 04-08-2019 12:46PM #1

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/absolutely-crazy-clare-cllr-says-teens-who-dived-off-cliff-could-have-been-killed-941740.html

I personally wouldn't....be too scared.

Leg End Reject · 04-08-2019 12:56PM

No, I think you need to an adrenaline junkie, or too young to consider the consequences for something like that.

branie2 · 04-08-2019 01:00PM

No, it's extremely dangerous!

RMAOK · 04-08-2019 01:01PM

Not a chance in hell would I do that

TerrorFirmer · 04-08-2019 01:18PM

No. Will never forget that video of the guy who did something similar, clipped rocks on the way down and literally split his face in half.

black_and_blue · 04-08-2019 01:24PM

If you're stupid enough to jump of the cliff, let them off.

fryup · 04-08-2019 02:17PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

darwin's theory ?

freshpopcorn · 04-08-2019 02:37PM

If I was a teenager and I could swim and I was pi**ed I might have given it a shot. Peer pressure would have gotten the better of me.

Spleerbun · 04-08-2019 02:41PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

No. Will never forget that video of the guy who did something similar, clipped rocks on the way down and literally split his face in half.

Gave me nightmares that video did, horrendous

FrancieBrady · 04-08-2019 02:43PM

Don't interrupt Darwin when he is at work?

*In saying that, can I publicly thank all those more mature and senior to me who assisted in protecting me from myself at that age - because I did try, man did I try.

Paddy Cow · 04-08-2019 03:01PM

Absolutely not. I have a phobia of heights so probably wouldn't even make it to the edge of the cliff

Young people though don't really think of mortality and are reckless and sometimes stupid. Some idiot pushed her friend off a high bridge and the friend was lucky to survive.

RhubarbCrumble · 04-08-2019 03:13PM

Not in a million years.

Thirty years ago my cousin died doing something similar. He was 19. I was 9 at the time but can remember his 2 sisters clutching each other and crying hysterically in the funeral parlour.

His Dad died 2 years later from a massive heart attack. Literally died of a broken heart. He was only 52.

peasant · 04-08-2019 03:14PM

Highest I ever jumped was from 10 m, from a proper diving board, into a proper diving pool. Got it wrong one time and kinda belly-flopped...man that hurts.

No way would I jump from (more than) twice that height, ever, not even into a 100% safe pool. Throw in a slippery cliff edge, sharp rocky outcrops and an unknown depth of the water and it's just pure insanity.

italodisco · 04-08-2019 03:21PM

Leave them to it, handy form of population control

Galwayguy35 · 04-08-2019 03:39PM

Reminds me of the fella who jumped into the sea at Salthill duing storm Ophelia, it's gobsh1tes like him and these lads that put the lives of emergency service personnel at risk and also waste their time when they could be attending people who really need their help.

A broken back would give them lots of time to think about their stupidity.

AllForIt · 04-08-2019 03:50PM

I think there needs to be some kind of safety awareness classes in primary schools. To prevent deaths caused by swimming in water reservoirs/lakes during heatwaves, falling of cliffs for selfie 'likes', jumping from hotel balcony's to adjoining balcony's or into the hotel pool on drunken sunshine holidays, and whatever other similar crazy things teenagers and young adults seem to do for attention these days.

Tony EH · 04-08-2019 04:16PM

No, because it's fucking dumb.

Even if you jump "correctly" and don't injure yourself with the impact on the water, you have no idea what's under it that you could smash yourself off of.

Arghus · 04-08-2019 04:23PM

Thankfully I would be too afraid of death to even attempt that.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-08-2019 04:28PM

I would never have done it because I'm not that much of an idiot.

Paddy Cow · 04-08-2019 04:42PM

Thomas Savory Waterfall wrote: »

I would never have done it because I'm not that much of an idiot.

Probably why you are so old

suicide_circus · 04-08-2019 04:44PM

i would require a change of pants

04-08-2019 04:48PM

SHEER MUPPETRY.

I'd prefer to do a Jack Ass act.

Wibbs · 04-08-2019 04:55PM

I wouldn't no, but jaysus some of the answers make me think were ye ever young once?

greencap · 04-08-2019 05:05PM

give it a week.

teen dies in ...

Arghus · 04-08-2019 05:18PM

Wibbs wrote: »

I wouldn't no, but jaysus some of the answers make me think were ye ever young once?

It's the patented Boards self-righteous and ultra judgemental style: none of these people ever did anything stupid in their lives, especially when they were young and foolhardy and part of a group.

I wouldn't have done it back in the day, but mainly because I would be too afraid to, but I can understand how it might appeal to gang of foolish fifteen year olds.

Your Face · 04-08-2019 05:20PM

Arghus wrote: »

It's the patented Boards self-righteous and ultra judgemental style: none of these people ever did anything stupid in their lives, especially when they were young and foolhardy and part of a group.

I wouldn't have done it back in the day, but mainly because I would be too afraid to, but I can understand how it might appeal to gang of foolish fifteen year olds.

Maybe that's why they are so bitter - they never did anything exciting in their youth.

freshpopcorn · 04-08-2019 05:22PM

AllForIt wrote: »

I think there needs to be some kind of safety awareness classes in primary schools. To prevent deaths caused by swimming in water reservoirs/lakes during heatwaves, falling of cliffs for selfie 'likes', jumping from hotel balcony's to adjoining balcony's or into the hotel pool on drunken sunshine holidays, and whatever other similar crazy things teenagers and young adults seem to do for attention these days.

I'm fairly sure most schools do some kind of water safety flag now and a lot this would be covered in this!

TerrorFirmer · 04-08-2019 05:35PM

Being young and doing stupid things is not exclusive with doing incredibly dangerous life-threatening things in fairness.

Most people did loads of exciting and stupid things in their youth (and well into adulthood) that weren't inherently life-threatening.

None of my friends or I threw ourselves off random cliffs or hopped from balcony to balcony in high-rise apartments. Guess according to some people that means we were missing out or never had any fun!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-08-2019 05:44PM

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Probably why you are so old

Caution favours old age.

cannotlogin · 04-08-2019 05:58PM

Are people so stupid that they have to be told not to do these things?

Or is it a case of the adrenalin rush makes it attractive despite the danger?

Athdara · 04-08-2019 06:53PM

There’s plenty of safe jumping spots around Kilkee. We even have fab diving boards off the cliff side which we had to fight Clare co co to replace after they removed them a few years ago. Knowing the area as I do it’s complete lunacy what they are doing. It’s also in an area that a rescue boat will struggle to get near in the event of an accident.

Would you do it?

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