Social Guy jumps on roof of semi trailer to video himself dancing. Truck moves, he hit bridge, falls & dies

[MicroBrew]

- Texas - a guy jumped onto the roof of a semi trailer and recorded himself dancing.
- The truck drives away, because the driver didn't know this guy was on top.
- As truck drives under bridge, guy is hit by bridge, falls and dies.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dancing-man-top-18-wheeler-152739273.html
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Social media and the trend to do / record stunts is making people do stupid things. Like that girl recently who hit a golf ball into the Grand Canyon and then lost / flung the club too.

 

[THE Red Beard]

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Well, he got the attention he wanted.

 

[Justin Sider]

Been saying this for awhile....TikTok makes people fucking stupid.

 

[eddymotto]

I miss the simple bygone days of my youth when we were not distracted by stupid social media trends and kids had the common sense to kill themselves drunk driving and shit like that.

btw - the OP description sounds so terrible that I did not even click on the article. sounds brutal

 

[genecop]

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Been saying this for awhile....TikTok makes people fucking stupid.

They’re stupid to begin with…

 

[TheNinja]

Been saying this for awhile....TikTok makes people fucking stupid.

Agree to a point, but to be fair I did a TON of stupid shit as a kid. We just didn't record it and have to tell millions of complete strangers. We just did it with our friends. Granted I never danced on a semi, but we climbed water towers, went 4 wheeling with no helmets, shot guns at everything we could think of to try and blow up, made potato gun cannons, etc.

 

[Belaya Smert]

We need bridge safety to be declared a public health emergency.

 

[Ares Black]

Oh no!!

Anyway...

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

 

[genecop]

Agree to a point, but to be fair I did a TON of stupid shit as a kid. We just didn't record it and have to tell millions of complete strangers. We just did it with our friends. Granted I never danced on a semi, but we climbed water towers, went 4 wheeling with no helmets, shot guns at everything we could think of to try and blow up, made potato gun cannons, etc.

That’s a good point, as a kid, I did outrageous stupid shit just to get the approval from my local gang…I can only imagine the levels of stupidity I would have been capable of if I had a larger audience…
PS, We loved climbing and running around Water Towers as well..LOL

 

[Batjester]

Natural selection wins again.

 

[RayA]

This has been known for years yet Tik Tok has been progressively getting worse/more popular. It just doesn't make sense.
Slap your teacher challenge, crate challenge (which has resulted in many injuries), promoting cheating, tidepod eating, etc.

 

[boingyman]

Agree to a point, but to be fair I did a TON of stupid shit as a kid. We just didn't record it and have to tell millions of complete strangers. We just did it with our friends. Granted I never danced on a semi, but we climbed water towers, went 4 wheeling with no helmets, shot guns at everything we could think of to try and blow up, made potato gun cannons, etc.

Pretty much this growing up. We did a lot of stupid shit for the thrill and because we were just dumb kids having fun.

 

[Hatorade]

A simple background check could have stopped this.....SMH

 

[Batjester]

A simple background check could have stopped this.....SMH

It was a fully loaded Semi automatic Pete's sake!!!

 

[Literally Bricked]

Video of the guy dying?

 

[Renard]

All these video game quick time events training you to duck at the right time when on top of trains and trucks, and our man didn't even use his training SMH.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Been saying this for awhile....TikTok makes people fucking stupid.

They’re already stupid, it’s just now they have a stage to perform on

 

[Fedorgasm]

I'm okay with idiots sacrificing their lives for my entertainment.

Is there a video that shows him being knocked off the truck? I've only seen the one of him dancing before the incident.