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[–]epatti0914 56 points57 points ago

It makes me sad that I laugh more in /r/wtf than I do in /r/funny.

[–]bushkid85 54 points55 points ago

Video So you have a bit of sound.

[–]Jack-Duckworth 70 points71 points ago

Volume warning!! Just to save your ears.

I really wish more people didn't take the risk of being out on frozen water, what a horrible and totally avoidable way to die.

[–]EnlightenedOchiudo 20 points21 points ago

Thanks for the volume warning. You just saved me.

[–]cleetus76 10 points11 points ago

Don't forget about the warning not to be out on frozen water too!!!

[–]damnitcletus 7 points8 points ago

Damnit, Cletus.

[–]cleetus76 3 points4 points ago

Hey! Are we like cousins?? Wanna make out?

[–]HooBeeII 2 points3 points ago

thats so Cleetus

[–]omnipotent87 8 points9 points ago

I'm rather impressed that it broke it looks like its almost a foot thick.

[–]Khatib 12 points13 points ago

That's part of why it broke. It was that thick with no water under it, so it was straining under its own weight already.

[–]mkrfctr 3 points4 points ago

Yep, ice forms on river/stream, water level drops, kid jumps on unsupported ice bridge, bridge falls down.

[–]h0lla 1 point2 points ago

So if it was thin it wouldnt break?

[–]ReivanElph -2 points-1 points ago

If it was thin, he wouldn't have been able to stand on it in the first place. It would have crumbled from his first footstep.

[–]Tiwilager 1 point2 points ago

Thanks! Was able to rip out my headphones before the video loaded.

[–]Kirsham 23 points24 points ago

Damn, I hoped the video would show more. Laugh all you want, if that kid is pulled under the ice then he's dead. I can't tell from the end of the video there if he makes it or not.

I'm all for laughing at stupid people getting hurt doing stupid shit, but this is a kid not knowing how dangerous that shit can be.

[–]corghi 19 points20 points ago

Seems like there's an adult there. Looks like the kid was snagged by them at the end of the GIF.

[–]ILikeWhereThisIsGoin 1 point2 points ago

Yeah, am I missing something? It seems like he was about to grab that person's arm..

[–]Kirsham 3 points4 points ago

I'm not saying he did die, I'm saying it's not clear. If he somehow failed to grab that arm within a second or two he's gone.

[–]fockyou 5 points6 points ago

And I'm not saying he was saved by being beamed aboard a UFO...

But maybe.

[–]yuruku 4 points5 points ago

Except he/she's being perfectly realistic about the current dragging you under and away in a few seconds.

[–]Jrook 0 points1 point ago

It could happen!

[–]fockyou 0 points1 point ago

Now of course, I'm not saying that it did... But it could've!

[–]sarahmiko 1 point2 points ago

Bad Idea,GREAT parenting.

[–]WeLoveKanjimari 23 points24 points ago

The only reason you jump on ice is to make it crack. You don't jump to go "HAHA LOOK IT'S A SOLID OBJECT". You don't jump to test it out, because you'll kill yourself if it isn't strong. You only jump if you're a dumbass.

[–]Kracus 16 points17 points ago

Kids like breaking ice, it's fun and amusing and you can't do it with glass so ice is awesome like that. Unfortunately, ice tends to form where there's water and is pretty good at hiding the depth of the water below.

Frankly, this ice actually looks rather thick, it's actually surprising it even broke. However I don't think the kid is a dumbass, just inexperienced as kids often are.

[–]StapledShut 6 points7 points ago

It doesn't matter how thick the ice is, if the water below it starts to recede the ice loses a lot of structural integrity. If you look close enough you can see the ice give way and drop before any water splashes up.

You're right that the kid is not a dumbass, it's the parent. Just the logic behind letting a child jumping on a frozen-on-the-top death-current-below body of water?

[–]NotSoGreatDane -1 points0 points ago

I've only noticed that boy kids enjoy breaking things.

[–]alltat 2 points3 points ago

All kids enjoy jumping on ice, though it's usually limited to frozen puddles.

[–]N8CCRG 0 points1 point ago

Then you aren't very observant.

[–]thenewplatypus 31 points32 points ago

Or if you're five.

[–]WeLoveKanjimari 6 points7 points ago

That is a tall-ass five year old

[–]mikedawgx 22 points23 points ago

Seriously. People need to cut him some slack. TIL Redditors were all extremely logical and intelligent human beings in their elementary school years.

[–]wineismygod -1 points0 points ago

if you're a dumbass

[–]magonz24 0 points1 point ago

At that point that parent becomes the dumbass for allowing their child to stand on ice without warning them not to jump on it.

[–]adrian5b 0 points1 point ago

You got it all wrong, you jump for the karma.

[–]MangoesOfMordor 0 points1 point ago

You can jump all you want on safe ice. If the ice isn't safe, you don't go onto it period. If there's running water under the ice, it's not safe ice.

[–]TARDIS 4 points5 points ago

I grew up in the middle on nowhere where falling in frozen lakes or ponds was all part of a wintery weekend. Then we'd get home, dry off and play Street Fighter.

[–]Kirsham 12 points13 points ago

This wasn't a pond, this was a river. It's the current that makes it dangerous.

[–]TEYZO 2 points3 points ago

Im just curious as to how you managed to get the username TARDIS

[–]TARDIS 10 points11 points ago

I got here first.

[–]mrfrightful 1 point2 points ago

time travel

[–]slothenstein 2 points3 points ago

You can see someone run in and grab their hand at the end.

[–]adrian5b 0 points1 point ago

On the bright side, if he survived, I'm pretty sure he won't do it again.

[–]vandoh 0 points1 point ago

i based on that last frame... i doubt he made it.

[–]fb39ca4 1 point2 points ago

Headphone users beware.

[–]PokeMeMon 1 point2 points ago

God that scream was good at the end

[–]ballon12 0 points1 point ago

Screamed like a bitch

[–]Squalor- -2 points-1 points ago

Even better.

[–]SicariusINC 309 points310 points ago

[–]Squalor- 203 points204 points ago

This is the funniest GIF I've seen all week.

Of course it wasn't in /r/funny.

[–]Sugreev2001 15 points16 points ago

Dumb kid being dumb = Funny!

[–]somverso 0 points1 point ago

r/funny is like three degrees above grandma funnies most of the time

[–]tomdarch 31 points32 points ago

It was funny up to the last couple of frames where the fallen ice (along with the kid) starts rapidly moving to the side...

[–]manberry_sauce 38 points39 points ago

Stupid cameraman shouldn't have tilted the camera.

[–]maximun_vader 0 points1 point ago

I think you need to

puts on sun glasses

Chill out

[–]ramsay_baggins 23 points24 points ago

That was the moment I realised just how much danger that kid was in, in the video it is clear it's actually a fairly fast flowing river. If he went under he would've died.

[–]toplexon 6 points7 points ago

Someone gave him a hand

[–]PoopLion 12 points13 points ago

Round of applause

[–]_littlebones 14 points15 points ago

I don't know, both work for me. I actually said "wtf" out loud, as in "why the fuck would you jump on a frozen pond?"

[–]withholdthelaughing 9 points10 points ago

It actually looks like an exposed drain or gunnel... The water (and then ice chunks) were clearly moving from right to left.

[–]_littlebones 3 points4 points ago

Oh, well... That's just nasty.

[–]Pizzalovesyou 4 points5 points ago

Are you sure that's a pond?

[–]MarkusGageClarkus 11 points12 points ago

This needs to be investigated, because it's clearly important.

[–]vVvMaze 2 points3 points ago

natural selection needed to take place that day.

[–]pacman42 5 points6 points ago

r/darwin

[–]penis-butter 4 points5 points ago

He died.

[–]fack9gag 16 points17 points ago

Even funnier.

[–]Crackerpool -1 points0 points ago

What did he expect?

[–]FoxSelwyn 11 points12 points ago

A nice flash flick of " How to watch your children drown right before your eyes "

[–]Peritas27 35 points36 points ago

"Don't worry, cracks are a sign that the ice is strong!"

[–]Jeran 44 points45 points ago

"cracking ice shows that it fears and respects you" ­

[–]Dzhone 3 points4 points ago

First day on the internet kid on the ice kid.

[–]invisibo 87 points88 points ago

Ah, natural selection at work.

[–]david431 24 points25 points ago

That implies 5 year olds that don't jump and play on ice.

Find me one.

[–]invisibo 15 points16 points ago

...I'd rather not be a 5 year old finding service.

[–]Rohan21166 37 points38 points ago

Me, when I was 5.

My parents would be like, "THE FUCK YOU DOING ON THE ICE?! HOUSE. NOW."

[–]Octopuses_Rule 2 points3 points ago

same inflection too.

[–]alltat 10 points11 points ago

Natural selection doesn't just work on an individual basis. The inability to stop your kids from doing stuff like this is also going to work against you.

[–]carlotta4th 4 points5 points ago

Ice in general? Yeah, kids do this all the time. But I would certainly hope that they wouldn't deliberately jump on river or lake ice.

[–]HoldmysunnyD 2 points3 points ago

Canadian living abroad here: grew up respecting the ice. It's still natural selection at work. I have done something similar to what the child in the .gif did, but a rope was secured to me beforehand, as well as dry and warm shelter nearby. Yes I was a child at the time. IIRC I was 7.

Stupid parents often breed and raise stupid children. Look at Honeybooboo. Some parents should have never procreated, and in a darwinistic world, they wouldn't have survived to sexual maturity. Their offspring pay or paid the price.

[–]mper100 1 point2 points ago

The kid in the video is 13 or 14...

[–]mkrfctr 1 point2 points ago

Is polio still around? If not we'll have to take the Delorean. But I'll show you lots of 5 year olds that don't jump.

[–]rusty2310 6 points7 points ago

Darwin could rewrite his work with GIFs as cases.

[–]willscy 5 points6 points ago

Darwin had nothing to do with Social Darwinism.

[–]alltat 5 points6 points ago

There's nothing social about that ice.

[–]PunishableOffence 1 point2 points ago

It is very glacial, though.

[–]ndrew452 1 point2 points ago

Nah, natural selection would be he didn't survive.

I feel into a frozen Lake Erie when I was 10 or so. I was barely in the water for 15 seconds cause I immediately got myself out.

[–]Paddywhacker 0 points1 point ago

Its a kid, dickhead!

[–]Paddyboo 6 points7 points ago

So funny watching his face go from: "I'm a badass" to "Help me Mom!".

[–]Paddywhacker 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, did you like the part where he might've died? Yeah, his mom cried for days, funny!

[–]AQMessiah 6 points7 points ago

Please submit to /r/picsofdeadkids

[–]talues 2 points3 points ago

Two questions.

1) Why does this exist?

2) WHY DID I CLICK IT?

[–]Vexation 17 points18 points ago

not very wtf material... not very wtf at all.

[–]kozdrasm 16 points17 points ago

Get this shit out of here

[–]TheHairyHungarian 5 points6 points ago

I apparently had an great uncle who met a similar fate as a child. My grandmother was 13 at the time and was in charge of walking her brother home. She had to rush home for something and left her brother and his friend to walk home alone. They were playing on the way home and he walked out over a ditch that was partially frozen and fell under the ice. Unfortunately the ice trapped him and he met his unfortunate demise down there he was 6 years old. Of course I'm likely leaving out details this happened before my parents were even conceived.

[–]PoopLion 1 point2 points ago

And that was the last time your grandmother was left in charge.

[–]SeeArr 1 point2 points ago

This kid was very lucky. This happend where I live, I cross this river every day on my way to work. The water level in this canal is controlled by a dam outside the city, it varies quite a bit. In winter when the canal freezes the water lifts the ice to the highes level it has during the winter months. When it the waterlevel drops again the ice stays where it is because it is frozen to the wall you can see in the video. The river flows underneath it with quite some speed. It is not deep, but stong enough to bush you under that ice quickly. Esp. if you're a kid. So if he didn't make it out right there where the ice collapsed, he didn't make it out. (He made it out.)

[–]Razed 1 point2 points ago

My grandmother was 13 at the time

and

this happened before my parents were even conceived.

I sure as fuck hope so.

[–]TheHairyHungarian 0 points1 point ago

Believe it or not my mother was conceived when my grandmother was 15.

[–]RougeSaid 0 points1 point ago

If that's a bad idea, this must be a good idea

[–]karmahomonaut 0 points1 point ago

why is this in /r/WTF ? it belongs to /r/funny

[–]Paddywhacker 0 points1 point ago

What do you think happwned the child? He swam to safety?

[–]TheyCallMeFluffy 0 points1 point ago

You can see someone grab his hand as the gif ends.

[–]Paddywhacker 0 points1 point ago

Very good; there was extreme danger, and possible death...
"duh, why woz dis naught in r/funny? Duh"

[–]mphelps11 2 points3 points ago

Repost.

[–]iDingo91 3 points4 points ago

I actually thought this was /r/funny for a second

[–]glamotte14 3 points4 points ago

But then you realized it couldn't be, because it was actually funny.

[–]Bacon_Mcshig 1 point2 points ago

this gif is in no way shape or form wtf material. It's just a kid being an idiot!

[–]BumScruples 4 points5 points ago

Please can we have an 'ice warning' on this post.

[–]solidSC 5 points6 points ago

Are.... are there people who are afraid of ice? Or... a no ice tolerance work place? I... am at a loss.

[–]BumScruples 1 point2 points ago

I nearly got fired.

[–]shokker 0 points1 point ago

"Warning: Kid jumping on ice and it breaks and he maybe died?"

[–]firerunswyld 2 points3 points ago

In Soviet Russia, ice breaks you!

[–]mainwood 0 points1 point ago

Shut up and make this a downvote gif!

[–]jt8908 2 points3 points ago

repost

[–]discojables 0 points1 point ago

Darwinism doin its thing...

[–]roughneck33 0 points1 point ago

Ha! Here's some ice to play on.....let me jump on it as hard as I can, nothing could possibly go wrong.

[–]bagek 1 point2 points ago

I was expecting the kid to slip and fall but YYEEAAHH BAbY!!!

[–]JGfromKC 1 point2 points ago

RIP Vladimir

[–]withholdthelaughing -1 points0 points ago

Just keep filming, and never mind that your kid's life hangs in the balance...

[–]MrSamster911 0 points1 point ago

she dropped the cam as soon as the ice broke.... the gif just doesn't show it...

[–]figurines 1 point2 points ago

LOL

[–]cunttastic 0 points1 point ago

That fucking exact thing happened to me when I was a kid ( I wasn't jumping on it, just shifting my weight like a sawhorse and it split in the middle).

[–]I_STAB_HIPSTER_FILTH 1 point2 points ago

...and so, as the cold darkness accepts the sacrifice of an innocent, Justin Bieber is born.

[–]BearcatChemist -1 points0 points ago

Darwin!

[–]deukhoofd 0 points1 point ago

It's a tiny human!

[–]c0dFighter -1 points0 points ago

darwin award of the day goes to this kid

[–]Kracus 1 point2 points ago

I pulled my cousin out of water that broke under her like this... by her hair... better than drowning though.

[–]Dday82 0 points1 point ago

I like how it went from a vertical video to horizontal.

[–]Euphoricsoul -1 points0 points ago

Seriously looks like Robyn Arryn. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llns0yWhWL1qij9od.jpg

[–]fiskeslo 0 points1 point ago

I can only think of one thing that perfectly describes people like this.

[–]TheInquisitorofSouls 1 point2 points ago

How is this WTF?

[–]ggrieves 0 points1 point ago

this must have been taken several years ago because any video taken recently, the camera person would keep rolling, not stop to help.

[–]BuxtonB 0 points1 point ago

Do Darwin Awards apply to children also?

[–]josh_B 0 points1 point ago

aside from the hypothermia i bet that was incredibly satisfying

[–]harry_dean_stanton 0 points1 point ago

hello my honey hello my darlin hello my ragtime GAAAAAAALLLLL!

[–]alveoli1 0 points1 point ago

Survival of the fitest.

[–]Nick_Newk 0 points1 point ago

and judging by the movement of the ice in the water, that is a river. Do not go on frozen rivers, or where a river enters a pond. Ice safety 101 people.

[–]sqrt-1loveyou 0 points1 point ago

That was some thick ass ice

[–]rickatnight11 0 points1 point ago

I think this kid just pulled off a Limit Break.

[–]Elvis_Presley42 0 points1 point ago

Watch out for that....nevermind.

[–]sasquatch606 0 points1 point ago

"This week on Tosh.O"

[–]WhyamIreadingthis -1 points0 points ago

This is the definition of getting what you asked for.

[–]mtux96 0 points1 point ago

Great feeling of satisfaction of breaking the ice, Bad feeling of falling through ice and into cold water.

[–]seembees 0 points1 point ago

been there, done that

I was drunk

[–]fiskarsomfiskar -1 points0 points ago

What a good end to Justin Bieber's career!

[–]Emperor_of_Cats 0 points1 point ago

He was obviously not walking like a penguin

[–]not_like_this_ 0 points1 point ago

What a simpleton!

[–]I_accidently_words 0 points1 point ago

I used to play on creeks after they froze, until one day i was trying to convince my friend it was safe, i jumped on it 3 times before it broke. after falling in my friend pulled me out, then i stood round shirtless for an hour until we went home.

[–]littlemouseburger 0 points1 point ago

This gives me the anxiety.

[–]fabiomb 0 points1 point ago

Only 17 days later Ewald Lienen was practicing again, amazing recovery

[–]rolypolyman 0 points1 point ago

Just after the video cuts out, he water and ice actually drains the kid into a giant zorb ball, which then starts rolling.

[–]thisguynamedjoe 0 points1 point ago

This is just as funny, regardless of what sub it pops up in, or how often (within reason). After pulling him out: "What did you learn?"

[–]scrunci 0 points1 point ago

O Justin Bieber, U So Funny.

[–]mcgarvea 0 points1 point ago

Before I realized it was ice I thought he was dancing to dubstep

[–]PillPill 0 points1 point ago

I fail to see the WTF in this

[–]LesserWildebeast 0 points1 point ago

Oh... That explains why Bieber doesn't have any testicles- they were frozen off.

[–]Bromageddon 0 points1 point ago

How is this WTF?

[–]easye7 -1 points0 points ago

Old and not WTF and fuck you

[–]kid_epicurus 0 points1 point ago

It's like what happens when I tell a girl I like her.

[–]mcreeves 0 points1 point ago

What a tool.

[–]itsjurboy 0 points1 point ago

haha the one on top of this one is Ever think about buying a glass table(implying that its a bad idea)

[–]ironpotato 0 points1 point ago

You know this kid was saying "Don't worry mom, it's solid."

[–]Gorillacupcakes 0 points1 point ago

i fell into a pond doing the same thing when i was younger, granted it was only about neck deep on me. still sucked.

[–]stee_vo 1 point2 points ago

What was he thinking? lol

[–]Jmersh 1 point2 points ago

I live to see Darwin at work.

[–]Dzhone 1 point2 points ago

Is it bad that I laughed really hard at this?

[–]Quackinator100 1 point2 points ago

Natural selection doing its job...

[–]WonderfulUnicorn 1 point2 points ago

That kid very nearly died. That looks to be a river or creek moving fairly quickly.

[–]StallSweat 0 points1 point ago

What the fuck??? Ice broke by someone jumping on it? Seriously guys... WHAT THE FUCK??????????????

[–]fernng5 0 points1 point ago

and.....faceplant.

[–]snowlion18 0 points1 point ago

parent: yea kid, do it! DO IT!

[–]RzK 0 points1 point ago

He had that coming for dressing like a fruit

[–]0bi-JuAn 0 points1 point ago

My childhood went something along the lines of, "I wonder what it takes to break this?.....OH SHIT IT BROKE!!"

[–]IamMotherDuck 0 points1 point ago

I knew Justin Bieber had it coming eventually

[–]Ash29k 0 points1 point ago

If that was Bieber this would be a hit in r/funny!

[–]AxtontheCommando 0 points1 point ago

Let nature take it's course.

[–]Naramie 1 point2 points ago

Funny you can tell it's an old video because the camera person drops the camera to save the kids instead of sitting there filming the kid dying while shouting a combination of oh shit, world star, this is going on instagram, yolo.

[–]Annatto 0 points1 point ago

I thought he had danced his way into hell.

[–]Yeti7 1 point2 points ago

[–]Finn13y 0 points1 point ago

Love it when he face plants !!

[–]djdetroit 1 point2 points ago

It would've been way funnier if the kid was fat. You all know it's true.

[–]RainbowPopsicle -1 points0 points ago

This is a repost and a shit one at that.

Fuck you and fuck everyone who upvoted you.

[–]Super_Buu 0 points1 point ago

DIE DIE DIE!!!

[–]nmagod 0 points1 point ago

dumb fuckin' kid

[–]meatpackage 0 points1 point ago

This kills the child.

[–]ashleylleigh 0 points1 point ago

I'm relieved to see that who ever was recording this dropped the camera to help, and didn't continue to take more pictures like what most people seem to be doing now adays. "oh, my kid got his head stuck in a stair case?... Let me grab the camera... Then I'll help after I get a good picture!"

[–]Spitters-R-Quitters -2 points-1 points ago

I seriously may need to make more accounts just so I can give you more than one down vote.

[–]Legit_Zurg 1 point2 points ago

You'd think they'd have learned by now considering how much this is reposted.

[–]Kaycin -2 points-1 points ago

Totally belongs in WTF. I nearly woke up my neighbors and the whole rest of the town because I screamed "WHAT THE FUCK?!" so loud.

[–]Shepherdbro 0 points1 point ago

Why is this WTF? This is just some kid being an idiot.

[–]Hefeweize 0 points1 point ago

Ultimate trap for bieber

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