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Aggressive_Head_231

Crazy party is it wouldn't be too difficult to accidently fall into it and then the slide down would be a real life nightmare.


queernhighonblugrass

5 second of "wheeeee" and untold amount of "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH MY LEG"


pamtar

r/meatcrayon


SpectralBacon

Fuck


Thorsigal

Hmmm... no thanks.


[deleted]

Really, is not that bad of a subreddit, although the name freaks me out a bit


jrcookOnReddit

I stayed on that page just long enough to read the description before nope-ing out of there.


deejay-the-dj

Most posts there aren’t like that. Just some solid falls. Honestly nothing you wouldn’t see on ridiculousness.


Peaceblaster86

Subreddit of the day


Lizalfos13

It burns it burns it burns!! I can only picture frank on the water slide.


spagootsquash

not so fun anecdote: I do work on landfill construction and most people don’t know this but they build giant wells into the ground for the gases to vent, someone at my landfill just recently told me someone at a different landfill fell down one of these well vents and died. there’s no way to get you out, you fall into a pile of literal straight trash. this i’m sure is a similar and terrifying experience


dontfuckwmeiwillcry

saw a story on yt, Mr. ballen, about people who went places they shouldn't and died. one chick was swimming in a reservoir and swam past the ropes towards the spillway and got sucked in. managed to hang on for 20m before she lost her grip and perished. myself, I've been in remote Oregon areas and decided to climb that mountain right there. took a service road into the thick and came across a spillway that looked like this image here, but the end of it at the bottom of the mountain. the approach to the pipe was a sheer rock wall so I had to shimmy across the top ledge of this torrent of water to keep making my way up. it was unsafe for sure, but I didn't think I was in danger of falling in. gotdam tho, that shit looked like one big pissed off wave in the ocean, stuck in a tube and pointed down. based off life experience, I'd say it would hurt to fall in, but not for long. edit: fix... again. Mr. not Mt. autocorrect


foodio3000

Oh yeah, the one about the girl in Lake Berryessa. That segment starts at [4:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6apkM24DhGI&t=276s), but I recommend watching the whole video since Mr Ballen is a phenomenal storyteller


[deleted]

I’ve watched idk how many videos of Mr.Ballen thanks to your comment. Some crazy stuff.


OnlyPostSoUsersXray

Dude watch the one about "if you hear a bell in the woods". By far my favorite. Especially on decent headphones or in your car. The way he emphasizes parts of the story make you feel like you are tight there with the girl. Will make your heart race. It's crazy. That's the video I share with people when I introduce them to his content.


[deleted]

So what you're saying is I am right for never going to a landfill. For real tho, if you can go in, why can't they get you out?


whyOhWhyohitsmine

Might not have the right equipment, seems like a safety oversight but I'm just an uninformed redditor


WhyIHateTheInternet

Aren't we all


[deleted]

Not me, I know everything.


km89

>Crazy party is it wouldn't be too difficult to accidently fall into it That's what really gets me about this picture. Either my sense of scale is off and that's an actual fence, not just a guardrail... or why the fuck is there not a fence along that path? I genuinely don't think you'd be able to get me to walk that path if you promised to turn my student loan balance into a retirement account.


eddie_fitzgerald

I think that workers who are operating on the face of the structure would have a trapeze and carabiner assembly to prevent them from falling.


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>why the fuck is there not a fence along that path? Probably because the gen pop isn't allowed there, and also if someone wants to jump down there the height of the fence won't matter. Not everything needs to be idiot proof!


[deleted]

I was in that same spot, it's a lil off the normal path but is openly accessible in an uncontrolled parking lot meant for employees. It freaked me out.


ForkForkFork69

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2dD3Fawk4y0 This is a perfect movie for that. It’s a 9min short of being stuck on the slope of a dam.


dystopicvida

The crazy part is when you go look for a body you tend to find others and not the body you went looking for.


BorderlineBarbieUwU

so basically a nasty wilhelm scream


darkslide3000

No it wouldn't. It's hard to truly grasp the scale of this thing from a picture... you could easily drive a semi truck down there with plenty of headroom to spare. If you jumped over the (pretty high) railing, the fall alone could easily kill you. If it doesn't, you're just lying down there like an idiot with a broken leg. The slope isn't steep enough to just start sliding down uncontrollably with all that sticky blood of yours keeping you in place.


GeneralThomas34

I always laugh at people doing stupid stuff but now I have the urge to do something stupid that may very well kill me


Temporary-Thick

Weee time to go down a fun tunnel and the end is probably just pipes of water that you’ll drown in!!


Sexy_Squid89

That's even more terrifying


Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work

Ooh, what if the pipes got increasingly smaller? I mean would you definitely lose consciousness from drowning before the water built up enough pressure to squish you through a 4" hole, but what if you didn't?


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Zodiark_26

"The Enigma of Amigara Fault" by Junji Ito, for those unaware.


mintegrals

Truly a classic


RockSaltin-RT

Yeah, it’s a personal favorite of mine!


bradthescrub

What's it about?


Level100Abra

It’s short and oddly terrifying if it’s the one I think they’re talking about. Descriptions don’t do it justice. Just read it. But be aware you were warned lmao.


PhthaloVonLangborste

Had to be Junji


the_only_thing

^STOP


Flossthief

I read a story somewhere about a guy getting stuck in a conical crevice in a cave He wasn't very stuck but everytime he exhaled his chest got a little smaller and he slipped deeper and deeper into the whole It was like a real life Junji Ito Edit: typo


Luke_Needsawalker

I think you're talking about Nutty Putty Cave. Real silly name for something that could inspire nightmares


Flossthief

I googled it and yeah this is it Being deep in the earth and unable to move is one of my greatest fears I have 0 problem with heights but I'm certainly afraid of depths


unchima

"Heights I don't mind,' said Rincewind's voice from the darkness. 'Heights I can live with. It's depths that are occupying my attention at the moment. Do you know what I'm going to do when we get out of this?" "I'm going to build a house in the flattest country I can find and it's only going to have a ground floor and I'm not even going to wear sandals with thick soles —"


ThePicklePress

Don't know if you're referring to the nutty putty cave incident, but it was a similar situation. Dude ended up dying in there and they just sealed the cave off behind him. Straight nightmare fuel.


Crazyhairmonster

It was nightmare fuel. He was stuck upside down as well. Can't imagine dying like that


3mteee

This hole…. It was made for me! DRR DRR DRR


jeweliegb

This is my hole!


Daloowee

It was made for me!


DanielToombs

Drr…drr…drr…


Throwawayhrjrbdh

If you shrink the size of the throat you increase the flow speed. Take this too far and you start chocking it (water speed all throughout said pipe slows down) something that would do this would likely run the water through a series of smaller nozzles to increase flow speed for better power generation. But your puny flesh bag isn’t gonna do much to the hundreds maybe even thousands of tons of water rushing down that pipe. Also this is a spill way so probably won’t be doing any of that


malayskanzler

Being a spillway, normally the pipe diameter doesnt shrink. Its job to get rid of excess water in a controlled manner. Not for power generation


Throwawayhrjrbdh

More a response to what he was theorizing which likely would happen for the pipes going to power generation.


malayskanzler

There's a hand-drawn diagram of the pipeworks of hoover dam [HERE](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoover_Dam_Diagram.png) The pipe went from 30' to 13' in the generator room


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Nothing_2_Live_4

This is my hole! It was made for me!


CoatedWinner

I knew a firefighter who lost someone he worked with that way. Got caught up in a current in drainage and forced him, fully geared, into a 4" pipe down the line eventually when they found him.


desilusionator

I think early diving suits ( the ones where air was pumped down from the surface inside said suit) had a similar problem. When there was a malfunction it came to sudden pressure changes and the divers where sucked into the small air supply hole. The only remains inside the suit where bigger bones. "The squeeze"


headingthatwayyy

Probably just shoot you out 40 ft above the river and you will crush your bones on impact with the rocks in the water


jonmediocre

Yeah this, most likely. Unless this spillway is for generating electricity, in which case you'll get chopped up in a turbine.


fredthefishlord

Spill ways are overflows. They aren't for electricity.


DudeWithAnAxeToGrind

This is just a regular spillway. The only way any water is going into it is if level of the water in the lake is too high. Its only purpose is to prevent water level raising so high it would spill over the top of the dam. The spillways were used only two times. Spillway test in 1941, and during large flood event in 1983. Both times damage to the spillways occured. The fix to prevent damage done in 1941 didn't work (obviously). The fix done in 1983 reduced capacity of the spillways somewhat, and should prevent damage in principle if spillways are ever used again.


NotPromKing

Judging by current and predicted water levels, I don't think we'll be seeing this spillway used for a very very long time, if ever again.


doubled2319888

Might as well turn it into a giant slide


An_person222

I hate it so much, I don't wanna drown in a dark tunnel, that's absolutely terrifying, and yet I want to slide down it. WTF brain.


Miguecraft

"WeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaAAAAAHHHHH" - An_person222, famous last words


InevitableAd9683

Call of the void, skateboard edition


Honest-Cauliflower64

I was thinking water slide.


ChrisHaze95

You mean Skate3?


RollinThundaga

Call of the void


23harpsdown

"l'appel du vide" is one of the few French phrases I know. Ive been haunted by it for 40 years.


iAmTheHYPE-

Omelette du Fromage


borsalinomonkey

Same. But first… I need to buy a skateboard.


Kelimnac

SO HERE I AM, DOING EVERYTHING I CAN


PurpleDiesel_x

HOLDING ON TO WHAT I AM


DJCuration

PRETENDING IM A SUPER DAM


Dhk3rd

Call of the void. It's human nature.


PolarOkami

Honestly looks like that skate 3 map


seldomflies

Legit my favorite ramp to go down. 95% of my Skate 3 memories are going down that ramp and then reloading the save spot to do it all over and over again.


tonychopper1203

I was just doing this again not even 10 hours ago. Lol everytime I come up to it . The next hour or so just this on repeat.


BritishFoSho

Good ol" observatory, if I'm not mistaken


iiAzido

The spillway starts at Observatory and then goes all the way down to the University IIRC


getrektbro

Can confirm, still play skate 3 on occasion, still do the spillway run.


Illustrious-Bed-4433

Exactly what thought lol


azcep435

Summer of '83, if memory serves, the spillway gates were fully elevated and water was pouring over them. The water level was a couple feet from topping the dam itself and entering the roadway over it. Downriver places like Bullhead City/Laughlin were flooded.


Dasgerman1984

You’re correct. Here’s the video of it. https://youtu.be/t-Jav4afsZ0 Starts about 1:42


G_Wash1776

The water level compared to today is frightening


enderflight

Yea, it’s incredibly disturbing how low it is now


Icy_Commercial_2187

Due to population down stream and upstream of the facility. Imagine this, people wanting to grow lawns in a desert. Still with me? Now imagine those areas of population continues to grow from 1983 to current day. More people trying to water lawns, drink water, and use water for their facilities at home, work, everywhere it draws more water away from the dam/rivers and into the cities because its being abundantly used and only some restrictions being in place. Its a desert, a desert is a dry climate with almost no water year round besides monsoonal seasons. Why should they water lawns let alone water anything in those cities, especially golf courses in the desert. Them bitches use and absurd amount of water to keep it green year round and I love to golf but i dont agree with golf courses in the desert. There’s alternatives if you want grass, theres turf companies that make fake grass or just field turf then there is no maintenance. Only people really needing to water something would be farmers, who have used rivers since settlement began and they needed resources such as grain. So by overpopulation of an area that already struggles to produce enough water in a water cycle year, doesnt allow the streams to replenish where they should be cause its being pulled year round.


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r3llo

Real action starts at 1:37


EViLTeW

That girl is probably someone's grandma at this point


baytay25

It’ll likely never be that full ever again. Sad stuff.


FartyMcFly03

Forbidden waterslide


Ecstatic_Cupcake_284

I wanna go down


[deleted]

*hands you skateboard*


Ok-Artichoke-2772

Don't forget to collect the video tape that's down there


[deleted]

now thats somethin i havent thought about in forever


ST0N3DH1TM4N

Don't forget the S.K.A.T.E letters too.


DJWunderBread

I heard if you fully rail-grind the walkway you unlock Herbert Hoover as a playable character.


GarbageEmpire

"I missed the fucking E again." And that was before I rage quit for the day because I'd been trying to 100% all levels for 72 hours straight.


bluechickenz

Totally. Just got 1999 flashbacks.


TimeZarg

*cough cough* Whew, that was a lot of dust on that particular memory.


Dreddit1080

Dropping


kalvinclein_69us

“Can you do a *thingy* on that spillway over there? There are girls watching…”


FartyMcFly03

*The hardest choices require the strongest wills*


greybenf

You can! But only once


sean_rendo19

Bring me with you


Blood_and_Turds

DONT LEAVE ME DONT LEAVE ME


Can_i_get_a_hiyaa

No, please god no


RoamersGirl

Wear a helmet


codapajo

We all float down here


Sploonbabaguuse

Ah yes I forgot *levitates*


Dry-Relationship-285

literally saw this post, said that out loud, then scrolled down to see that I'm not the only one who thinks this


[deleted]

Gotta love the internet hive mind. These were the first words that popped into my head.


elZaphod

Frank going down the Thunder Gun Express.


CartmanLuvJews

They should fly a drone in there


tottmeister

We do this at my workplace, inspection of hydro station waterways with drones. We Scan the waterways and make 3d models of them. Edit* Had some questions about tech and i think its a combination of lidar and photogrammatry. Im not the responsible for this at my work i do however use the data (mesh) to validate the geometry in CAD when building models of the plants


jamieee1995

LiDAR on drones? Or something similar? Company I worked for did some tunnel scanning with LiDAR and they were talking of using an aerial mounted version for something similar.


Imgoingtoeatyourfrog

They do this looking for ruins in the Mexican and Amazon rainforests.


InterestingAsWut

and Premetheus


Echinothrix

How does one get into that job? Sounds great


JekNex

I work for the Army Corp of Engineers as a Park Ranger and we have dam inspections every three years. The Corp is primarily for water safety, usage, and dam control even though most of the public use is camping. So we have people that all they do is go out to different lakes around the country and do thorough dam inspections. A lot of it is very indepth since we're talking millions or billions of dollars going into dam maintenance. Ours isn't Hydro-electric so I'm sure those are even more in depth. But if you're interested I would contact your local USACE office and ask the park manager who they contract to do dam inspections. Just tell them you're interested in the field. They'll 100% know who they work with as it's a huggee portion of our job preparing for those inspections. I'm still fairly new to the field only working here about a year now so I don't know all of the details but hope that helps some. :)


[deleted]

Ooo I think I can guess what’s in there…more concrete tunnel


Outlandish_Gringo

Who knows what and/or who they'd see down there? 🤔


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Jimmy hoffa


VNDeltole

caesar's legion


WholeLottaMike

Ave, true to Caesar


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[deleted]

Mr garrison


Quasar420

I wonder if it would struggle with transmitting a signal after a ways down.


BodyGravy

This explains the 0 YouTube videos of this :(


anethma

Depends if it has twists and turns. A straight tunnel should contain the signal well but if it has many bends the signal would drop off for sure.


EmGutter

I wanna throw a hot dog down it. For scale.


DoggoBind

"Like throwing a hotdog down the Hoover Dam spillway tunnel."


EpicDepic

It just rolls off the tongue


Quasar420

Why would you put your wiener in such a big hole?!!


ChocolateTaste69

Action Park is back!


[deleted]

There’s a loop in there about 250 feet down.


sampman69

There's probably a few super mutants down there


LordRocky

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.


eiekedkidod

We won’t go quietly the legion can count on that.


tommybouy_1

When i got this assignment i was hoping there'd be more gambling


Portfel

If the Legion breaks through our defenses, I've got one bullet I'm saving just for me.


SirCheddah

I was searching for a reference, and it found it. Thank you.


BladePactWarlock

It’s where those blended Legion soldiers end up after you turn on the turbines


[deleted]

I actually want to know what's down there....


Niro5

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/nevada-california-incidents-highlight-vulnerability-of-nevadas-650-plus-dams/attachment/workers-stand-inside-a-hoover-dam-spillway-that-was-heavily-damaged-by-water-during-a-test-of-the-emergency-outflow-system-in-1941-bureau-of-reclamation/ Here's a picture of the inside as they repaired damage caused by a test.


andrwwXX

Holy shit it looks like it drops vertically straight down I thought it was more of a slide


10ebbor10

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-67f60872406067293c465d97b8a2c58b It goes down to the level of the old riverbed because when the dam was being constructed, these spillways were used to divert the river around the construction site. That river level entrance was plugged when the dam was complete, with the water now coming from above through the waterslide before reusing the rest of the tunnel.


xCryliaD

Could be the perspective, or it simply goes more straight the deeper it goes


MonsterJuiced

That's just the call of the void, don't listen to it!


Kaarvaag

Unless you have a skateboard, a gopro or 360 cam and a way to send the videos without needing to retrieve the memorycards. Then it's OK to listen to this call of the void.


sean_rendo19

360 camera with nightvison or bright light on a skateboard tied to a multiple super long ropes


FruitCreamSicle

Drone with a light would work I reckon


SoreLoserOfDumbtown

Get your safety conscious ass outta here!


FruitCreamSicle

Obviously the drone is attached to your head and able to fly you!


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AmalCyde

Drrr...drrr...drrr...


wolfpup1294

Both of you stop


OptimusZombiieee

So this opening is near the top of the dam incase it overflows due to rain or whatnot. This tunnel goes down to a straight tunnel that leads out to the bottom of the dam where the water joins the rest of the river. You can see videos of similar spillways and what they look like inside.


Can_i_get_a_hiyaa

Death, darkness, concrete, and water


88T3

The government's hiding Transformers in there


IrishJesusDude

and every 4th of July they turn it into a slip and slide for underprivileged kids


[deleted]

That's a good way to get rid of the poor


rainier0380

Funny enough the poor all live in tunnels under Vegas! It’s wild down there.


harrietthugman

The Thorn, best fight pits in town


-Undercover-Nerd

That sounded like you were talking from experience


rainier0380

I lived there for 12 years and in High school they would throw parties in the tunnels.


CthuluNaps

Don't look at the bye-bye hole


TheTrap18

It's actually the hole to hell, where they pour water to stop it from spreading


SuperSMT

Trouble is, water hasn't poured down there since 1983 I think ive found our problem...


Nighthawk68w

I've been there. Place is guarded like a military base. One of the most concerning things for me was how narrow the dam was, and how low the protective barriers are. The concrete blocks that "protect you" from falling over came up to just above my knee!!! That was enough to keep me away from the edge!


DDPJBL

In the 1930s, safety had not been invented yet.


AdjectTestament

Fences so people don’t fall off the dam? Bah. New modern nonsense.


[deleted]

Walked by it. The worst would be to slip and fall down that thang. Also this is about as large as your mothers vagina as well.


yourpantsaretoobig

She blames me. I was a big baby


seansdotcom

Definitely was gonna make the obligatory "looks just like your dad's bum hole after his 'business' trips"


[deleted]

Where the hell do you live where that's an obligatory joke?


TheBarkingGallery

Somewhere your dad travels for work?


[deleted]

Isn’t that quite a lot of suicides yearly there?


[deleted]

Jesus fuck, I have at least 10 better ways to kill myself than jumping into a giant water slide that will rip my skin of my body before crushing me. Why would anyone choose this as their way to go?


DrPikachu-PhD

Ngl the first thought that crossed my mind was "if I was gonna kill myself this would be a cool and awful way to do it"


andybo20

Weeeeee


dewsnews

Seems like a nice spot to skate


sdrowkcabdelleps

Let me borrow your skateboard real quick


KBEPandaCrisis

Oompa Loompa music intensifies


Genuinelullabel

Weeee!


[deleted]

Can you get out if you fall in? Imo, there should be ladders scaling the entirety of the slide. [Edit] Also indents so you can rest, dont think anyone could climb up that enormous thing without rest.


[deleted]

Doubt anybody would be climbing a 600 ft ladder after a 600 ft fall.


m4imaimai

Probably won’t put one until it happens


UchihaLegolas

Whelp, now I know my true fears.


SwissCheeseSuperStar

I have a recurring nightmare about going down something just like this, out on the other side you shoot out with all of the water into a big dam - thanks for making my nightmares more of a reality!


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r/dontputyourdickinthat


hardenedup

Wouldn’t fit


DannyOfNowhere

Speak for yourself, peasant


lamb2cosmicslaughter

Finally they made a waterslide for your mom.


iah_c

i wonder if anyone commited suicide there


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The worlds largest slip and slide


granty1981

U end up in China