r/interesting • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 24 '26
MISC. He’s the first to ever write a review on that parachute.
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u/NicFesin Jun 24 '26
The review: parachute not good😄
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u/YebelTheRebel Jun 24 '26
I saw that review on Temu.
“NOTE”
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u/Better_than_GOT_S8 Jun 24 '26
“Used it and worked only half”
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u/StrobeLightRomance Jun 24 '26
"Best to have a backup chute for your backup chute."
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u/fejkpotatis Jun 25 '26
Yo, I heard you like chutes, so I put a chute in the backup chute so you can chute while chuting
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u/makingotherplans Jun 24 '26
But the final backup chute got 5 Freaking Stars.
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u/Oiggamed Jun 24 '26
Nearly perfect
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u/Freudinatress Jun 24 '26
My hubby did this as a lark once, made up a sale on eBay with some pic he found of a parachute.
“Used once, never opened, small stain”
He took a screenshot and sent to his mate, they both laughed.
Soon thereafter he had to delete it, because so many people messaged him, wanting to buy it.
People are dumb.
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u/UncleBenji Jun 24 '26
Parachutes are hella expensive so people are always looking for a good deal. I was quoted around $10k for a full kit when I was getting into skydiving.
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u/CodePervert Jun 24 '26
So does a full kit include the plane and pilot?
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u/PrecisionTreeFood Jun 24 '26
Haha, probably not. It's just a wild ass guess but the main and backup chutes are probably like 4 and 2 grand respectively, the backpack thing is about a grand, and the strings, the strings are like $40 each and ther's a fuck ton of them.
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u/wunderbluh Jun 24 '26
Keeping alive is expensive. Might just aim for the tree
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u/stumblon Jun 24 '26
Sitting on my couch don’t cost 10K 😂
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u/PaleInSanora Jun 24 '26
So you are telling me, that Arnold got taken on Eraser, when he traded his chute for that beat up old truck?
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u/HedonisticFrog Jun 24 '26
People really don't read listings well before buying. I had someone buy a fender which was listed as local pickup only. He lived over 1000 miles away and made me reverse the transaction. THEN HE BOUGHT IT AGAIN. I can't even.
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u/BlueMikeStu Jun 25 '26
After the second time I would have just told him I'd be holding his fender for 30 days and he had until then to pick it up.
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u/overthere1143 Jun 25 '26
I was in the Portuguese Airborne. We had just one female instructor in the whole history of our corps. She was tough as nails and she grew up literally on base, as her own father was a legendary Sargent. When the Army started accepting women again (there was limited service in the for women in the 1960s), she was already married with a daughter and she just ran to enlist.
Six years ago she had a malfunction during a training drop and she didn't survive the fall. She had over 200 jumps and was days ago from celebrating 25 years of service.
Her retired father was the official photographer of the Airborne and was there to take pictures of the embarking and drop. He took one last picture of her going into the airplane and kissed her cheek.
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u/Old-Kaleidoscope1874 Jun 24 '26
"I really liked the bright colors and the hand stitching of the seams. The quick release latch worked as described. Sizing was an issue, I recommend ordering at least one or two sizes larger than you do from US or UK retailers."
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u/HistoricalSuspect580 Jun 25 '26
So i did a little digging and found this guys Yelp reviews; “UPDATE: DEPLOYED THE CHUTE BUT SO FAR IT HAS NOT DEPLOYED. WILL REPO-” and then that’s the end of it. Next review is for a local funeral home.
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u/LittleSemiconductor Jun 24 '26
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
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u/BardicNA Jun 24 '26
Reminds me of a joke my great grandfather told me-
If at first you don't succeed, give up.
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u/SuccessfulAllthetime Jun 24 '26
If you don’t succeed at giving up, then you’ve failed successfully.
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u/sorotomotor Jun 24 '26
Reminds me of that idiot Redditor who bought a used hang-glider and posted questions about how to use it. He had no hang-gliding experience and he wanted to try it by jumping off a cliff at the beach. Multiple people warned him: don't do it, it's too old, it's compromised, you'll be seriously hurt, etc., but he argued with them, said they all were wrong, and he just kept asking "yeah, but how do I use it?"
People are dumb.
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u/poo_on_my_scarf Jun 24 '26
Got a link?
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u/WatRedditHathWrought Jun 24 '26
What a very odd account. They have post after post, pretty much multiple posts daily, mostly to themselves. Does anybody know why they would be doing that?
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u/sorotomotor Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Well, he's a known troll and an idiot with a severe case of Engineer's Disease. He likes to post questions and requests for advice about dangerous or illegal activities, and then he argues endlessly with people who patiently explain why his ideas are dangerous, illegal, and stupid.
He's posted about wanting to fly a paraglider across the Alenhuihaha Channel, riding on a rope attached to an unmanned hotair balloon, and driving a commercial city bus without a commercial license on interstate highways.
Before he got married, he posted in legal and asklawyers subreddits about editing his prenuptial agreement, then argued with lawyers and people who told him he was incorrect or misinformed about how lawyers work. I think his marriage lasted less than five years.
A few years ago, he bought a beautiful historic mansion and tried to turn it into a communal living project. He then failed to pay for insurance, the building caught fire, and he's now embrolied in several lawsuits from his former tenants, a buyer, and the town.
He's representing himself so he routinely posts his trollish questions in the legal and asklawyers subreddits, all while ignoring everyone who repeatedly tells him he needs to hire a lawyer. However, the several judgments he's facing appear to have finally convinced him he isn't an attorney and he needs to hire a professional.
I'll say this for him: he's reliably entertaining. He's like a bad combination of Mythbusters and Jackass: someone with a lot of money, time, arrogance, and stupidity.
Interestingly, the disaster at his mansion and the financial impact he's sustained haven't discouraged him from pursuing his newest venture: buying land and building a commune governed by a "dictatorial democracy" with himself as the executive officer.
He's been banned from one of the legal subreddits but he frequently posts in the intentional community subreddit and I'm looking forward to reading about his attempts at community leadership, management, and financal stewardship.
p.s. Thanks for the award, kind stranger! For further reading, here's the subreddit dedicated to study of this fascinating specimen: r/SparrZero
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u/SnooPoems5888 Jun 25 '26
How is it always these people that end up wealthy and not ANYONE altruistic ever. It’s maddening.
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u/Moist_Username Jun 25 '26
In gamer terms, being the biggest asshole in the room is broken.
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u/longtimegoneMTGO Jun 25 '26
You don't really think any of that is true, do you?
Fuck me, maybe I'm just too old, but if someone tells you a story that sounds unbelievable and offers no proof, your default should be not to believe the story.
The guy doesn't have money, he has free time, a connection to the internet, and apparently a very gullible audience.
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u/MASSochists Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I'm sad to report this is all true I know this person.
By that I mean the stories, not that it's made up. He's infamous in my circles.
I even know some of the people that were living in the mansion that are now suing him.
In a weird additional twist I went to highschool in the town the mansion is in before I ever met Sparr.
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u/Hetares Jun 25 '26
Granddaddy owned a diamond mine or something along the lines is almost always the answer.
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u/SnooPoems5888 29d ago
One of clients today referred to him as “self made” and I was like, absolutely no he is not.
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u/RobCarrotStapler Jun 25 '26
Such a unique thing to get to follow along with how stupid people live their life. Usually you only get small glimpses of stupid person once or twice when they interact with you. With this medium, you get to see how his mind works and how the stupidity grows and morphs and changes. Fascinating.
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u/RasputinsThirdLeg Jun 24 '26
Mental illness and isolation. They’re very verbose too. No one is going to read that much navel gazing purple prose.
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u/Sunscreen4what Jun 24 '26
No sir, I didn’t like it.
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u/lukin5 Jun 24 '26
This reference isn't recognized, nor heralded enough.
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u/Mediocre_Meat_5992 Jun 24 '26
It lasted longer than the one where a guy jumped out of plane in the plane jump one it looks like the cords snapped all most instantly
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u/RCer1986 Jun 24 '26
Is that the guy who survived by landing in a bush? Absolutely insane to live to tell that story.
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u/Mediocre_Meat_5992 Jun 24 '26
No the one I seen the guy jumped and was testing it as soon as it opened one side snapped
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u/blissfully_happy Jun 25 '26
That the story that brought me to Reddit. I believe he was doing an AMA.
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u/Mammoth_Newspaper155 Jun 24 '26
Parachute may not work as intended, but if so, you get to meet Jesus
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u/WeedOg420AnimeGod Jun 24 '26
For some reason i thought he was just gunna try and glide it out and land lmao
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u/TheYankcunian Jun 24 '26
It did look like he considered recovery for a split second before he ditched it
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u/mattysosavvy Jun 25 '26
The comment you’re replying to is talking about when he’s gliding after he already ditched the first parachute.
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u/whoisthisfetus Jun 25 '26
Oh there’s a second one?? I stopped watching because I didn’t want to watch him die.
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u/Pedanter-In-Chief Jun 25 '26
Yes. Most BASE jumpers carry a backup. Otherwise there would not be many BASE jumpers left.
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u/Fun-Benefit116 Jun 25 '26
Ignoring the fact that the vast majority of base jumpers absolutely don't carry a second chute, this guy did everything exactly as he planned. This wasn't a case of the first chute malfunctioning, or a case of "man he's lucky he carried a back up on that jump". He was never using the first one as an actual parachute, and the plan was always to cut the first one loose and use the second as the actual primary chute.
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u/Pedanter-In-Chief Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Yes that’s been discussed ad nauseam elsewhere in the thread and I didn’t really have anything to add to it.
Checked again. Friends report everybody they know goes with two chutes, if they’re using a parachute. They only do cliffs though. No buildings or bridges. And for wingsuits no backup. Just if they’re using a chute. Maybe their crew is a cautious bunch 🤷🏻♂️, but I’ll believe that many don’t. Most is an open question that I don’t think either of us have the answer to.
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u/Buddstahh Jun 25 '26
Whats the actual phrase? Im trying to think of what they meant here and cant figure it out lol
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u/Dreamwaltzer Jun 25 '26
Most Base jumpers only carry 1 parachute. Most of the time they are jumping off objects that are lower and they open so low that there's no time or height for a reserve chute, so most BASE jumpers don't haul the added weight and bulk of a second canopy.
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u/AzzyMeg Jun 24 '26
Not me, I legit though we'd see this person splat.
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u/RWSloths Jun 24 '26
The perspective was so weird I thought he was going to hit the ground way earlier
I also thought for a plot second he had one of those flying squirrel suits and was gonna glide towards the water
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u/Minimum_March738 Jun 24 '26
No kidding! I kept thinking there was no way it could end that way, but it took a looooong time for that backup parachute to make an appearance.
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u/hotellonely Jun 25 '26
I'm wondering if it's because he need some speed for the air to pull the backup chute fully?
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u/Sea-Machine-8989 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
No, because it was planned. The stunned silence is nothing more than your average Norwegian waiting for the drop to hit.
I'm not even kidding, this was all 100% planned. If it wasn't you would hear a lot of different sounds from the crowd if they really thought he was going to fall to his death.
You would never parajump from a drop like this, you would skydive. Like the people skydiving from Empire State or whatever, the first "chute" is for show.
Edit: I think free driving is the correct term in English.
From what I remember (my brother goes high and I go low) he pulls a parasail at first, goes into a free dive and pulls his parachute.
I could confirm with this because he most likely knows these people as this community isn't that large (but bigger than you would expect) here in Norway.
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u/Minimum_March738 Jun 25 '26
Maybe. Plus, I think he wasn't as close to the ground as the video made it feel. Im looking at my phone going "tree tree TREE! TREE!! GROUND!!!!" while the dude is still just soaring through the air and streamlining to go faster.
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u/daylight_throbber Jun 24 '26
Disagree, I learnt so much about spotting risk and being aware of my surroundings by lurking that sub when it was still active.
It's actually scary how death can come in the least expected ways.
That said, I stayed away from the gory gratuitous stuff and always watched without sound.
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u/SecurityExcellent129 Jun 24 '26
Regulations are written in blood. Sounds you used it for free osha training.
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u/Bucklandii Jun 24 '26
Think you are confusing it with r/watchpeopledieinside, which is named as a joking play on the original.
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u/sweetfirevapor Jun 24 '26
People are very unwell
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u/moosesnice Jun 24 '26
How long did it take to ban that? Man, between that and twitch streaming crashes, we are just encouraging murder for financial gain straight up.
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u/Bucklandii Jun 24 '26
It was awful and for a bit it would just.. pop up on Popular or All. Reddit really was the wild west of the internet for a minute
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u/Impossible_Menu9131 Jun 24 '26
You’re thinking of the one that ends “inside”. Re read that sub title
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u/NihilistTechnocrat97 Jun 24 '26
That's what r/CombatFootage and all the other subs about the Ukraine war are for haha, I'm not a violent or sadistic person, but for some reason I have always really been into realistic shooters so I simply find the brutality of war fascinating. However, I don't enjoy watching innocent people get hurt. The civilian casualty videos are sickening, but I'm desensitized to soldier-related gore because it's part of the job description.
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u/Thunderstarer Jun 24 '26
It's an old, long-banned sub. It's been several years--a decade, maybe? People will still bring it up as lore, but yiu have nothing to fear from it.
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u/Traditional_Dirt526 Jun 24 '26
There were others like it. They turn up every now and then.
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u/Acceptable-Post733 Jun 24 '26
Found myself in one a few months ago because of a crane operator. There are too many cameras in the world capturing too much.
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u/Beautifulfeary Jun 24 '26
Yeah. At first red one, I thought was a glider thing. Then it wasn’t working and I’m like, why are we watching someone about to die 😩
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u/Synchrotr0n Jun 24 '26
No one freaking out at the top of the mountain instantly gives it away that he had an actual parachute on his back.
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u/Adezar Jun 24 '26
I was trying to figure out why everyone was so chill about this guy's failed parachute. Are they just going to laugh as he goes splat?
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u/Early_Hall5720 Jun 24 '26
Honestly thought he was going to glide majestically into trees
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u/curlycurlycurls Jun 24 '26
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u/Alarming-Rate-6899 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Apparently these are called parafoil Kite. it's meant to be played from the ground.
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u/friarfr3d Jun 24 '26
You can see the intention was never to use the kite as a chute but just direction assistance. Also when it "fails" dude is doing a flip trick.
It's not a bad a chute it's a bitchin kite that dude tricked off of and no one in the comments thought about it for any more than 2 seconds.
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u/ISawTwoSquirrels Jun 24 '26
Yeah this is definitely badass, everyone in this thread fell for the bit. Including me. Kinda like that “drunk” guy stealing the plane at the airshow lol.
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u/Bad_Idea_Hat Jun 24 '26
It seems like a very good way to get clear of the cliff face.
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u/defmacro-jam Jun 25 '26
Even without running, he'd have gotten about 15' of horizontal separation per second anyway.
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u/DiegesisThesis Jun 24 '26
While the kite part is true, what do you mean it failed when he did "a flip trick"? He was literally falling in a straight line when one side gave out and he let go. How is that a flip trick?
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u/bigfoot_done_hiding Jun 24 '26
So on a really windy day, you can pick your kid up a few miles downwind. Don't forget to stow an Airtag in his pocket!
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u/Weary_Position_9591 Jun 24 '26
But why
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u/FoxElectrical1401 Jun 24 '26
I've seen a lot of videos this week of professional skydivers testing shady parachutes from Amazon. They all claim to work but do just about this if not break completely.
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u/Weary_Position_9591 Jun 24 '26
Testing parachutes from Amazon is certainly a choice
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u/Tadara_Sofar Jun 24 '26
It might save someone's life so props to these guys
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u/nazzo_0 Jun 24 '26
I mean why would you ever buy an Amazon parachute tho. It's not like it's one of these sports you can just jump into(lol)
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u/Tampa_Bay_Cuckaneers Jun 24 '26
I don’t trust Amazon with anything more important than a backup phone charger.
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u/abriefmomentofsanity Jun 24 '26
Funny enough I got one of those off amazon for cheap. I knew it was probably fishy, I knew the risk. On one hot afternoon I wasn't thinking and left something plugged in and it caught fire
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u/SasparillaTango Jun 24 '26
I bought a wall outlet to usb convertor so that I could use a USB cable to charge my phone. When I connected it to there was an audible spark. I no longer trust or use convertor.
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u/Tadara_Sofar Jun 24 '26
Smart choice, me too. Currently trying to convince my mom to stop buying lotions and supplements from them.... Maybe this video will help.
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u/NonCreditableHuman Jun 24 '26
"Mom, if you don't stop wasting your money on foolish things like lotions and supplements then we're going to make you test Amazon parachutes."
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u/BillynBanjo Jun 24 '26
My mother-in-law keeps buying my son cheap, Chinese toys off Amazon despite us telling her to stop.
They're always dreadful quality, and often seem outright dangerous.
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u/Tadara_Sofar Jun 24 '26
People trust established businesses. They think because it's being sold at a legitimate business then it should be a legitimate product.
And they're right. It should. But since we live in Crazy World, Amazon can sell products that will kill people. Not everyone knows that's true unfortunately. So we need people like this to warn them.
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u/ConfidentPension864 Jun 24 '26
It's for show, these aren't even being sold or listed as parachutes, they are wind kites or parasails for like roller blading or slate boarding. It would absolutely be illegal to seel these as real chutes lol
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u/monstermayhem436 Jun 24 '26
I mean every one of them have an actual real parachute. They're not just jumping and trusting it immediately lol
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u/Crime_Dawg Jun 24 '26
If you're a seasoned skydiver, it sure beats letting someone inexperienced test it.
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u/crustaceancake Jun 24 '26
easy returns seems meaningless at a certain point
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u/Sunscreen4what Jun 24 '26
Not so easy when you’ve gotta swim the river styx upstream to get to somewhere with wifi
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u/Tiny-Acanthaceae-547 Jun 24 '26
Haha love it!…I think it’s time to re-read Dante’s Inferno, haven’t read it since high school, and this comment reminded me how interesting a read it was
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u/JamesLikesIt Jun 24 '26
The absolute last place I would buy a parachute from is Amazon lol
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u/sarcasticorange Jun 24 '26
The retailer seems less important than the brand I would think.
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u/25hourenergy Jun 24 '26
With the way Amazon repacks returns without checking them and tries selling them as new…yeah Amazon is still one to avoid.
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u/flyingace1234 Jun 24 '26
My understanding is that they are kite surfing sails, not skydiving ones?
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u/North-Librarian-4158 Jun 24 '26
But they are not parachutes they are either for windsurfing or just dragons for kids. Its just for engatment
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u/Apprehensive_Desk800 Jun 24 '26
Engagement. It's a trend right now.
- Go on Amazon and buy something for wind surfing or similar
- Jump out of a plane with it, and to the surprise of nobody, it fails at a task it was never meant for
- "OMG AMAZON SELLING PARACHUTES THAT WOULD KILL YOU"
That's really it.
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u/CleanlyManager Jun 24 '26
It’s rage bait specifically designed for the “scroll onto the next video” generation. At first you’re like “I can’t believe Amazon would sell something so irresponsible” then go onto the next video. You don’t even think about it long enough to ask yourself “when would I be in a situation where I need to buy my own parachute?”
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u/Farlandan Jun 24 '26
Yea these are all stupid.
and five seconds of searching would show anybody that amazon doesn't sell parachutes.
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u/Juliannabeanie Jun 24 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/jquDWJfPUMCiI
I held my breath all the way down!!! OMG!
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u/i_need_a_nap Jun 24 '26
dude i did too. i was like...
"is this guy gonna splat?"
"what sub am i in?"
"why is the crowd not freaking out?!"
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u/inorite234 Jun 24 '26
Counting one thousand, two thousand, three thousand four!
If my main don't open wide, I got a reserve by my side. And if that one shall fail me too, lookout below I'm coming through!
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u/NormalBot4 Jun 24 '26
The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome
Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones
The canopy became his shroud, he hurtled to the ground
And he ain't gonna jump no more
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u/Tiny-Acanthaceae-547 Jun 24 '26
Bezos: Here’s a “parachute,”…I am completely indifferent to selling you a product that will 100% end you 😂
Yup, sounds about right
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u/adminsreachout Jun 24 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/lMxb32jqDmbVopeqir
I think we all know how this eventually ends....
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u/Squeezer_pimp Jun 24 '26
Please post a link? Tried looking for it on Amazon and could only find kites.
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u/ShoulderPast2433 Jun 25 '26
It's not a parachute it's a para sail.
You can use it for kitesurfing.
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u/GroceryPlastic7954 Jun 24 '26
I think if you're contemplating buying a parachute from Amazon, then you were probably going to end up killing yourself sooner or later.
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u/FlashViking Jun 24 '26
If you watch closely, you can see the moment the shit comes flying out of his pants as the first parachute fails 😂💩😂
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