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Can You Watch This Giant Bicycle In Action Without Getting Scared?

Kyle Dowling — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:59:19 +0000

A forewarning: if heights aren’t your thing we suggest you look away. A group calling themselves the LABikeCult recently transformed a regular Huffy Beach Cruiser into STOOPIDTALL — a 14.5 foot high single speed coaster that one guy was brave enough to ride throughout the streets of Los Angeles amid a sea of other cyclists. [...]

Watch an Insane Canyon Rope Swing

Kyle Dowling — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:15:50 +0000

Consider yourself a daredevil? Well, move aside because we’re thinking these guys have you beat. The above video was captured by DevinSuperTramp, the same guy who introduced us to that awe-inspiring skydiver race video. However, in his more recent Canyon Cliff Jump — which loses the wingsuits and instead follows a group of what we [...]

Meet The Human Water Fountain

Kyle Dowling — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:39:13 +0000

Where is all that water coming from? Never mind, we don’t want to know… Nicknamed the ‘Human Water Fountain,’ this guy has the unique ability to shock people, awe people, and then completely disgust those same people! We were with him up until the moment he started washing his face with whatever came out of [...]

'Fall' Frenzy: Teens Dive From Roof into a Giant Pile of Leaves

Kyle Dowling — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:15:06 +0000

Playing in leaf piles isn’t just for kids. This video proves that the excitement of jumping into a giant stack of leaves can actually heighten with age. With the help countless garbage bags, a Penske truck, and a hell of a lot of leaves, these friends from Utah assembled what has to be the coolest [...]

Paraglider Accidentally Takes Out Soccer Player

Dan Seitz — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:33:29 +0000

Paragliding is a fairly common stunt at soccer matches across the world, but like any stunt, these things can go wrong. This Ecuadorian soccer match is one example. The paragliders were supposed to land on the sidelines, but unfortunately something went wrong and the glider was blown right into the teams as they were practicing

Stuntman Killed on the Set of 'The Expendables 2′

Shauna Wright — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:00:43 +0000

Tragedy struck Thursday on the set of Sylvester Stallone’s film ‘The Expendables 2′ when one stuntman was killed and another was seriously wounded.

The accident happened during a stunt involving a bomb explosion in an inflatable boat at the Ognyanovo dam, about 15 miles outside the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.

Red Bull Flugtag Teams Attempt to Fly in Death-Defying Stunts [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:00:54 +0000

At the 2011 Red Bull Flugtag competition, teams attempted to fly a variety of homemade gliders, including a giant beer stein, a cell phone, a pirate ship, a pink bra and even the DeLorean from ‘Back to the Future.’

It takes a special kind of person to build a contraption that probably won’t fly, then attempt to pilot it off a platform suspended 30 feet over water. Special, and maybe a little crazy.