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Since this video is old, any follow up on if the guy was ok or not? It does look kind of funny and he is being a jerk by driving like that especially without a seat belt on but I wouldn't wish that upon someone merely for being a fool. But then again, this IS the internet where the internet separates empathy from humanity.
Look like he got knocked out. You can hear him land back on top of the jeep before falling into the sand. Hopefully he lived to warn others not to be stupid.
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I was reminded of Foxworthy and Engvall.
If someone in your family dies shortly after saying, "Hey y'all watch this!" they might be a redneck .......and "Here's your sign!".
 

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Besides the jokes a lesson to be learned here.
A high center gravity vehicle mixed with speed and sudden movements will result in this.
 

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Holy moly. I guess if you're gonna get thrown from a vehicle, a sandy beach is probably the best place to land.
Nah sand hurts pretty bad, in this case maybe the sand was better. Sand stops you almost immediately, I've crashed the ol dirt bike a few times in some sand areas and it always hurt more than crashing my sport bike at 70+ mph
 
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Eh, well I fell for the 392 clickbait while sorting for newly uploaded 392 XR YT videos.
 

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I've crashed the ol dirt bike a few times in some sand areas and it always hurt more than crashing my sport bike at 70+ mph
If you've been down that many times, maybe it's time for a new hobby. To quote one of the greatest minds of our generation:

"The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body. It is that simple: If you ride fast and crash, you are a bad rider. And if you are a bad rider, you should not ride motorcycles."
 

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Wait, what the heck?! This must be fake news.... How could this even happen?? Jeep Wranglers are specifically engineered to drive fast and take sharp curve and drift. This person was using their Wrangler for exactly what it was designed so there's no way this is real.
 

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If you've been down that many times, maybe it's time for a new hobby. To quote one of the greatest minds of our generation:

"The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body. It is that simple: If you ride fast and crash, you are a bad rider. And if you are a bad rider, you should not ride motorcycles."
It's part of racing, sometimes you push the limits and sometimes the limits push you ?
 

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Why not?

Stupidity is supposed to be painful - it's all part of evolution.
That's pretty much BS. We've all done dumb things and I don't wish harm upon anyone. For all that we know, this guy could be paralyzed or dead and being dumb shouldn't equal that type of punishment unless you are some tough guy (or troll for that matter) on the internet with no empathy.
 

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That's pretty much BS. We've all done dumb things and I don't wish harm upon anyone. For all that we know, this guy could be paralyzed or dead and being dumb shouldn't equal that type of punishment unless you are some tough guy (or troll for that matter) on the internet with no empathy.
Well, seeing as the driver got up and dusted himself off, it's a fairly safe bet that he wasn't killed or crippled.

As for being a tough guy or a troll, I'm neither. What I am, however, is a guy who's been around enough to know that as a general rule stupid behavior is only corrected when one hurts themselves or someone else. Given the choice, I'd rather the idiot hurt themselves every time. At least he (most likely) won't act like this in the future and endanger everyone around him.
 

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That's pretty much BS. We've all done dumb things and I don't wish harm upon anyone. For all that we know, this guy could be paralyzed or dead and being dumb shouldn't equal that type of punishment unless you are some tough guy (or troll for that matter) on the internet with no empathy.
Signal virtue elsewhere. It’s okay to have no empathy for stupid people. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This would’ve been better if it was a 392.
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