DC: A famous Chinese daredevil known across the internet for scaling skyscrapers fell to his death while trying to raise money to get married and lift his family out of poverty.
Wu Yongning was famous in China for climbing skyscrapers. Now he’s famous for falling from one.
For his spectacular stunt he decided to record it with a horrible Potato camera. He was on top of a 62 story building and decide to do pull ups off the side. After 3 pull ups he decides to stop and then realizes he can’t get back up. He tries a few maneuvers but nothing is working. He then appears to jump, probably thinking he would survive because he was on top of a 62 story building, but in reality he was 45 feet above a landing.
The 45 feet killed him.
ht/ all too much
Not enough pullups.
I do a lot of wide grip chins. Occasionally a middle back cramp will stop me cold. Something obviously went wrong. I can’t help thinking he got hurt. Very sad.
His name was He Fa Fwat
I’ve never been daring in such a situation, the odds don’t feel safe to me.
Just Watching that makes me Nervous, because I would drop for sure and eventually they drop too. How many times can you repeatedly catch a Baseball before it drops by some Fluke of nature ? It’s a Dead Mans Game !
I do feel sorry for the family. RIP.
Wonder if he was hearing Tom Petty singing FREE FALLING on the way down?
Was this fake news? We didn’t see the SPLAT!
Someting wendt horribry wong.
Sum Ting Wong
Here… “Hold my beer.”
had myself into some precarious situations during my time as a field electrician, climbing ridiculous scaffolding & ladders, overhanging dams, highway structures, tall building, tower lighting, crawling through incinerators, sewage bar screens, force mains, water & sewage plant out-takes, high-voltage structures & apparatus, etc. …. & have fallen from heights of over 35′ which landed me (no pun intended) in the hospital & have witnessed fellow workers dying from falls of less than 10′ to 250′
but …. I always considered the danger of the situation & I never once thought it was a good idea to show-off while I was doing it
sorry for this guy & his family
Confucius say always carry Batman craw – will Szechuan your feet again.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Thanks, I was losing faith here. I explained my vantage point above. It’s a bitch when your body lets you down.
I’m curious…how high did he bounce?
@HungJumper – Chinese guy (holding his palm six inches off the ground):
“Ah bao dat hai.”
The effort he exerted to get back up was minimal, and even if it was best effort he could have spent more time hanging. That, and the fact he was hanging on the edge of a freaking building, I get the impression he didn’t value his life vely much.
Highlights the daring, training, planning & good luck of Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the WTC Towers.
Well, bye…
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I think on any given night I could be voted the ass hole of IOTW hands down. But you all out did me tonight.
The only loss was the families.
Must not have been important enough for him.
Once you are GASSED doing any exercise, you’re done. That muscle is not recovering for at least 30 seconds.
On the edge of a 62 story building? What a dummy.
@ Bad Brad – qui’cher whining
Mithrandir
But God Damn it that’s not what happened is it. This little Asian could do wide grip chins all day long. I’ve trained with little light weights like this. Bottom line, he got got hurt. Cramp, ripped muscle, no matter. Hit me hard when he just let go because he knew he wasn’t recovering. I’m wasting my time. Good Night.
.45-70
Ya want to have a wide grip chin contest? We can film it on our little fucking I phones. “qui’cher whining”. What ever.
Oh, hell no….no contest. I’m just thankful to be alive.
Cheers
45-70
We are not communicating
He liked to play the odds and it caught up to him. Everyday life is precarious enough without idiotic stunts. It was a question of when not if.
Cause of death. Acute asphalt poisoning
It was always just a matter of time!
@Goofy Galoofi: Isn’t it always just a matter of time for all of us?