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Boy survives 100ft Grand Canyon fall after dodging tourist photo (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1427367

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is some me_irl or awkward penguin kinda shit, damn

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bad luck Brian.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Politely steps out of the way of a photo...

...Into the literal Grand Canyon.

I'm glad he's okay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda seems like good luck to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck is not falling in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Difference in outlook, I suppose. I'd call not falling the "default state".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regardless, almost dying and ending up in the hospital definitely seems like a negative relative to the neutral "default state".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not when you compare it to the alternative outcomes of falling off a cliff!

Think it's been thoroughly established that this is gonna be a difference of opinion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's good that he survived. It's bad that he fell into the Grand Canyon. There, I solved it.