Dumb ways to die

Holy shit, its real. This just seemed to dumb to be true.

Wait, your link says it's not real. I mean, the challenge is real but 4 people haven't died. They mention two deaths in Alabama that occurred before the challenge was a thing.
https://www.wvtm13.com/article/alabama-boat-jumping-tiktok/44494914
I was surprised how low the number was when assuming it was fake with the instantly snapped necks phrasing.
People really have no idea how dangerous fast moving vehicles can be.
- Random internet search says it takes 1000-1250 foot pounds of torque to break a neck.
  A 200 pound person only has to fall 5 feet to make that happen. When you factor in the additional speed, the less controlled angles, and probably drinking, it's shocking the number of deaths isn't higher.
The article did warn you it was Alabama. It could have been Arkansas, except they sold their boats for meth.

"Inertia is a property of matter"

Did none of these people watch Bill Nye??

Even if they did, most people don't really grok what that means. Most people's mental models for reference frames are intertial and without transition, so the idea that they're still travelling at the speed of the boat, say, when they hit the water, and not the speed of the water, doesn't make intuitive sense to them.
They left the boat. To them, that means they're no longer moving with the boat.
- I'm not so sure about this. If we apply the same logic to cars, it's immediately obvious that almost everyone understands this concept quite well -- jumping out of a moving car is dangerous, precisely because you'll be moving when you hit the ground.
  I think they're underestimating how quickly the boat is moving, and how quickly you'll slow down when you hit the water.

If there's anything I've learnt from video games, then it's that water is always safe, no matter how much speed you fall with.
If there's anything I've learnt from slamming my own waterski's snout into the back of my head and being sown at hospital with 11 stings, then it's that water is very much not soft at high speeds and water resistance is a bitch.

Maybe I'm entering the cranky old women yelling at kids to get off her lawn phase of my life-- but why are all the TikTok challenges always something ridiculously dangerous? (Emphasis on "ridiculous")

China wants Americans to die in the most absurd ways possible. /s
- I wouldnt be suprised if the algorithm pushed it a lil bit more. China has there own for a reason.

Im not a fan of the whole Darwin Award thing, but these people would have died in some dumb way like this either way. Just a matter of time.

absolutely crazy people don't think things like this through.

Just let natural selection run it's course ffs

This is known informally as "thinning the herd".

This is worthy of Darwin awards

Is no one going to address that fact that a boat is expensive. Even to rent, it wouldn't be cheap.

Brah just pay for it on credit then it don't matter after you die