Something different from Sri Lanka. Usually all that comes out of there are allegations of the government raping Tamil women or LTTE carrying out terrorist attacks.
The videos below are from a 4×4 rally held at Owitiyawatta in Kochchikade. According to the rally’s spokesperson, a jeep got stuck in a mud on a slope and needed an assistance of a recovery vehicle to get out of there. A towing rope the recovery vehicle used allegedly burst and in a rapid whip backlashed towards the crowd of onlookers who ignored the safety warnings and got too close.
The above is the official version of the story, though to me it looks like the mount ripped off the bumper, probably owing to poor bolting or welding jobs. With a chunk of metal attached to the end of the rope, it snapped back after high tension applied to it like a deadly projectile breaking skulls of two people.
A 20 year old youth died on the spot due to head injuries, another young man died due to the same later in hospital. Two more people were hospitalized with non life threatening injuries.
Two videos of the same incident are available, both are of shit quality. The first one is super shaky with much of the footage containing uber closeup of a finger print. The other one is much more stable but filmed in a very low resolutiona.
This video is less shaky but was filmed on an ancient cell phone with very low resolution and poor picture quality:
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Flip flops everywhere.
yay
The legend is true
Typical Asian fashion with people all over the god damn place.
Normally you would expect the organizers to look after their audience and make some kind of buffer zone. But not in Sri Lanka. Naw hells no!
Off road race in california a few years ago had tragic results, a highly modified race truck rolled and killed a few spectators that were literally only a couple feet from the track.. Its not as uncommon as one might think.
this is the difference between developed countries in general and undeveloped… your average citizen is a dumbass
developed or undeveloped, It happens everywhere.
Why they turned the other guy face down?
well im pretty shure it is because they know that the guy love to get grass in his nose and sans in his mouth
That’s the Recovery Position, Asian-style, “Meh, close enough”.
The first is a digital vid.
This video is exactly why I plan on changing my warn’s steel line to a viking kevlar winch rope on my Fj40…scary
This would happen every time a tow rope breaks if there are a shitton of people surrounding it. Just social Darwinism keepin them asian crowds in check.
The 4×4 rally turned into a 2×1
the rope was probably made in china :’S
haha, I agree. Funny, I was just bitching about that yesterday 🙂
Brutal. There was a woman over here a few months back that had the unfortunate task of eating a tow bar that detached itself from her husbands 4wd, and made it thru the windscreen in a similar situation (she was killed) It is alot more common than people think.
They didn’t see that comming..
real interesting to be a looky loo and get smacked in the face by reality or a tow rope. yea, it was worth your life to watch a truck get pulled out of a ditch. i like the expression on the gook’s face. DUH, WINNING!
LMFAO!!!!!!! “the gook”….. !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those curious guys just HAD to be standing right there.
Sad how they all just stand around, couldn’t see even one person offering assistance, unless I missed it. I’ve heard a story of a ships mourning snapping and slicing a deck hand in two. Point to note, steer clear of ropes under extreme stress!
Yeah, deaths like this are more common than you think.
Once a rope snapped and fortunately hit my leg. It was intensely bruised and you could see the line where it hit. Probably would have caused brain damage if it would have hit my head.
Life goes on…
They got whip lashed!
Did he just slip on some brain matter?
Close call he almost lost his flip flop!
The second video, they all run because the real show just started!
so next SRI LANKA off road race just spray paint 4X4 onto your rust bucket 2wheeler, providing you have a tow rope and you qualify??
thats why im getting a buuba rope (40,000 lbs of force) XD
I could be wrong but it appeared the rope did not tear. A peice of the bumper was ripped off and thrown into the crowd. The vehicle was obviously not meant for towing. Reminds me of when aircraft carrier barriers snap and slice men in various halves.
From someone who owns a jeep and loves to go off roading, let me just say wtf do Indians know about off roading, this is what happens when people in other countries try to do stupid things that Americans like to do for fun…they get killed
Americans get killed too, look that those dumb-ass monster truck rallies.
And people call ME a pussy when I go stand out of Death’s range.
the meanest case of whiplash i have ever seen
Talk about getting bumped off. Remember kids, observe the safety rules at all times…oh wait, not in a land full of numb skulls.
i always get scared whene my dad uses the electric shit for his trailer cuz i feel like its jst gunna snap someday and hit him and the wire is metal..but hes been towing muscle cars for years so he knows what hes doing but still shit happens and it makes me scared shitless
You ARE the weakest link…
Goodbye…
Typical freaking asia…not only is driving not necessarily their culture’s strongest of abilities, after viewing these videos, neither is compassion. Clueless, no one rushing to help? Pathetic.
they had called an ambulance and rolled him on the side. (according to the audio)