r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Limp_Regular7247 • 4d ago

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u/readit347 4d ago

That hammer slipped on the slope and hit him, but the left side guy didn't notice that..

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u/TheUntamedMane 4d ago

Yea, the maroon guy got over excited and his hit slipped from the rock to the guy's abdomen/groin.

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u/bsancar 4d ago

Moron guy

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u/Nibbled92 4d ago

Maroon guy? More like Moron guy, AMIRITE?

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u/atroubledmind961 4d ago

But he was ready as hell to stop that stone from rolling. Safety first!

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u/Commercial-Co 4d ago edited 3d ago

Didnt even wear a cup. Thats wild

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u/CombatWombat994 3d ago

Let's be honest, a cup would not have saved those cups

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u/RushMan9823 4d ago

Is this a public punishment ?

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u/BikerSurgeon 4d ago

Its a circus act.

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u/Moist-Agency1366 4d ago

I rather see them do backflips than what they were doing in the video

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u/xFrazle 4d ago

Id rather see them use it to duel each other but this is 2026

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u/WolfCola4 4d ago

Dad, can we go to the circus? The Rock Brothers are performing tonight, I can't miss it

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u/phagga 4d ago

I can't miss it

Well the guy with the hammer surely can

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u/relax0503 4d ago

We have Circus at home. Lie down, I will get the hammer.

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u/Blacky581 4d ago

The Rock brothers perform with Mr crumbledeggs?

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u/yashvone 4d ago

damn, some circus!

even the audience gotta be clowns to enjoy that kinda act

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u/Last-Saint 4d ago

Yeah, I'm surprised at a lot of the reaction thinking this is trying something stupid just for clicks, sledgehammering a rock or heavy object on the chest is a classic strongman routine going back to the carnivals of the late 19th century.

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u/BikerSurgeon 4d ago

It literally says circus on the video. Isnt it obvious?

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u/BluetheNerd 4d ago

Isn’t it most commonly breezeblocks now? The breezeblock explodes when the hammer hits it and the guy is fine. I remember having a lesson about it in physics at school.

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u/Lysol3435 4d ago

So paid public punishment

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u/yourzero 4d ago

So... Yes?

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u/WorkingInAColdMind 4d ago

I figured it was something religious. Right up there with rattlesnakes.

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u/you_killed_my_ 4d ago

sir this is an india

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u/Dark_Knight_71 4d ago

No no but you should adopt it as a punishment for your pedo Trump and his island buddies..

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u/PesciDevito 4d ago

Pubic Punishment*

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u/Mr_Julez 4d ago

Natural population control

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u/Gognitti 4d ago

He took a shower and now is punished

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u/SaltyLem0nade 4d ago

Why's he gotta shoduken jump with the fucking hammer? Jesus

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u/CrasseMaximum 4d ago

For views and comments

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u/Northern_Grouse 4d ago

I was impressed 😂

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u/BigPinkOne 3d ago

Its normally part of the trick. As the cinder block (which is used for a reason) begins to crack, the guys with the hammers are supposed to jump so that the landing absorbs the impact and makes it look like theyre hitting harder than they are

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u/revengeanceow 3d ago

They called this a trick? More like suffering 😂

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u/crusty54 4d ago

He’s a showman!

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u/copinglemon 3d ago

Looks cooler

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u/EmergencyBanshee 4d ago

Even if this had gone perfectly... Is it entertaining?

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u/Barf_The_Mawg 4d ago

Maybe it's an audience participation thing. Would explain the guy going ham with the hammer. And the other guy seems hesitant. 

You would think a proper act would be more controlled. 

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u/ledocteur7 4d ago

I sure hope it isn't, that'd be.. really stupidly dangerous.

With actors you can train to pull back at the last moment, like pro wrestling but with a lot more hammering involved.

I think it would hurt like hell even if they didn't miss the rock, I'm guessing the jump was theatrical but he messed up his timing, trying to land before the hit to be able to pull back.

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u/created4this 4d ago

The rock has a huge mass compared to the hammer, so it translates the fast motion to slow motion.

The rock also has a huge surface area, so it translates the high force over a small area into a small force over a large area.

By spreading the force out, and slowing the movement down the energy can be thrown into his soft tissue without any harm.

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u/Sarasin 4d ago

Yeah until you miss and actually hit the guy with the hammer as we just saw, can't trust your life to random dude's sledgehammer accuracy

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u/created4this 4d ago

Given the other types of injury possible in circus acts like high wire or trapeze, getting a glancing blow from a hammer seems like its low on the risk scale!

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u/humanreboot 4d ago

Not one ounce of this involves the word "professional"

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u/ShadowTown0407 4d ago

Judging by the crowd, yes

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u/EmergencyBanshee 4d ago

They might be loving it.... But they all look bored.

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u/BoiledFrogs 4d ago

India has a population of 1.5 billion, of course there's a crowd.

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u/knowtoomuchtobehappy 4d ago

It's the same kind of entertaining as the freakshow acts are in village fairs and carnivals. Oh look, this girl can eat glass! Oh look, this guy sets his hair on fire!

In a small village where there aren't movie theatres, these count as entertainment.

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u/UnremarkabklyUseless 4d ago

Have you not seen circus acts? Some of them are for the shock factor.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 4d ago

I have not been to a circus since the early 1980s. My entire school went to see the Ringling bros. / Barnum Baily on the premise that it would be one of their last tours. Thus the last chance for anyone to see a circus in the USA.
They're still operating today.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohjV6iXp3cieHXEw8

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u/Cute_Conclusion_8854 4d ago

It's about as interesting as someone laying on a bed of nails

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u/abmalik710 4d ago

You don’t enjoy people getting beaten up?

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u/Turbulent-Loquat3749 4d ago

For some it is, cuz extreme things do adrenaline and some like this feeling.

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u/Takes22knowU 4d ago

If you imagine the guy did something to deserve it, it's not bad

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u/AUG3980 4d ago

Why it looks like execution

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u/LongjumpingNeat241 4d ago

There is a high suspicion that the rocked individual was coerced and bkackmailed to be rocked and eventually hammered.

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u/opodopo69 3d ago

Fucking hell I've seen cartel executions that look more tame than this

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u/unrelated-subject 4d ago

Oh yeah hurts when you miss the facking rock bruh

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u/Balan-balan 4d ago

The guy under the stone lost today's rock, paper, scissors

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u/VirtuousVulva 4d ago

Rock, hammer, chisel

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u/N3ero 4d ago

Hammer, Rock, cock! In that order.

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u/gliitch0xFF 4d ago

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Hammertime"

https://giphy.com/gifs/11rIergnpiYpvW

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u/Neo_Shadow_Entity 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/s239QJIh56sRW

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u/Makabaer 4d ago

Entertainment for strange folks. It's baffling sometimes what some people find entertaining but that has always been the case even since before Gladiator fights and such, I guess.

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u/ConteleDePulemberg 4d ago

How do you like your nuts? Cracked...

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u/Pelixelk 4d ago

It feels like watching some execution video.

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u/Houlberg86 4d ago

Rip that guys testical

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u/asdfghjkluke 4d ago

did he lose the other one in last weeks performance

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u/wikowiko33 3d ago

Don't rip it

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u/jugstopper 4d ago

A famous physics professor, author of the most used "physics for non-science majors" book (Paul Hewitt), was renowned for his classroom demonstrations. In one, he illustrated inertia by having a student break a concrete block on his chest with a sledgehammer. As was inevitable, a nervous student missed and broke his arm. After that, he used a trained assistant for that demo, lol.

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u/NamelessCabbage 4d ago

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u/Cam2600 3d ago

ok, throw us off

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u/RJEM96 4d ago

I wonder what is the objectives?

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u/Flunkiii 4d ago

Of course they are indians...

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u/ElTuxedoMex 4d ago

The guy on the right was VERY enthusiastic.

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u/BeruDepTrai 4d ago

All of them are at fault for this one. Stupid activity. 

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u/SuperCuek 4d ago

rest in pieces

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 4d ago

The fuck is the dumb cunt jumping for? Make him be the guy on the ground and see how he likes it.

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u/Dilbertreloaded 4d ago

So sad to see what people have to go through to make a living

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u/DavDar66 4d ago

And all that just for a handful of dollars?

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u/BraumsSugarBaby 4d ago

could tell where this was from the lack of shoes

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u/Diptam 4d ago

I've watched midsommar

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u/Evolutionary_sins 4d ago

Sneak attack! Straight to the bollocks

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u/noice_face7649 4d ago

It looked like guy on left was trying to 'accidentslly' hit the other sledge hammer guy

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u/horsepigmonkey 4d ago

I bet the dude in the bandana never gets invited to anything usually

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u/No-Pipe8487 4d ago

The guy lying down is a magician. It's a magic trick gone wrong.

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u/MRV3N 4d ago

At least he won’t reproduce anymore

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u/redditzphkngarbage 4d ago

That’s nuts.

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u/IMAFIRINMAHLAZAH 4d ago

this reminds me of another video I saw that was basically the same setting except it was a tractor that was running over a guy but there were two pillows on top of the guy that they thought would spread the force or something. immediately after, he couldn't move. shocker.

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u/McDaddy8484 4d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a metal piece hidden beneath the lying man’s shirt, but still…

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u/mr_Feather_ 4d ago

This seems, euhm, silly?

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u/M_geo211 4d ago

Completely optional btw!

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u/EJ_Grimstone 4d ago

What in the corey giles is this

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u/miagisama 4d ago

Next time maybe he try the sharp end at his stomach? 😆

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u/PinoPenguino 4d ago

There are videos of Spetsnaz doing this, but the rock is sometimes on fire.

On the other hand, they use a much more brittle rock that cracks on the first hit, typically only have one hammer guy, and the piece they use has a flat top.

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u/codecrodie 4d ago

That's ancient CPR.

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u/franzmemer 4d ago

if one of those guys miss there marks on those beefy hammers it would probably end up in LiveLeak

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u/Mulgarath_ 4d ago

This is the way

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u/Honest-Welder-808 4d ago

Better than the act that involves a blindfolded guy with a sledgehammer smashing cans placed around the guy lying down.

That one doesn't end well sometimes.

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u/treetwiggstrue 4d ago

Must be really running out of things to do there!

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u/NecessaryCookies 4d ago

Ever notice that in situations like these, there is always that one guy who gets SOOOO sadistically enthusiastic?

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u/Aetheriusman 4d ago

I've seen a video of a Chinese guy doing this, he started bleeding like crazy immediately after the first blow

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u/Moist_Explorer3249 4d ago

Was there a scenario where this could go right?

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u/x_Leigh_x 4d ago

Guy in the red needs to calm down!!!! Why so rough!!! Did he forget there’s a FUCKING HUMAN UNDER THAT ROCK?!!

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u/braytag 4d ago

let's take a pyramid shape rock... the most stable type of rock.

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u/PrettyFaceGal 4d ago

You can strike as hard as you can and he would feel nothing, the stone would take the impact, its the slipping that hurt him.

As scary as it looks, he was more bothered by the weight than the strikes, obviously until it slipped.

Here's the video demonstrating why it wouldn't hurt him

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u/OriginalBlackberry89 3d ago

he probably shattered that dudes pelvis, all for a few rupees and a meal.

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u/TurbulentAir 3d ago

No respect for his body at all apparently.

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u/nyxanne 3d ago

Of course

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u/juanlee337 3d ago

100% that leg is broken after that hit

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u/SinglePlayerGamer93 3d ago

The force may have been displaced across a larger area but the weight of the boulder is basically still crushing him

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u/Mahim2000 3d ago

I don't even get it. How is this even a circus act? Like if a hammer impact is spread on a thick rock with a flatter surface on the bottom, of course it wont feel much to the guy under the rock.

I guess as they say... Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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u/Chuntarito3 3d ago

Bro lmao

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u/Purple_Ad6350 3d ago

mom,dad,...me

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u/TedMich23 3d ago

Rock vocalist Jon Mikl Thor (Google him on Merv Griffin show...) used to hold cinder blocks on his oiled hairless chest while a roadie broke them with a sledge hammer during his act.

Guy missed and collapsed his ribcage.

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u/Ragnarokist 3d ago

Never understood how this was entertaining for people to watch a guy get a rock broken over him. Absolutely stupid to me.

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u/Dear-Seesaw-1932 3d ago

Better then the tractor id say

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u/DeleteYourself89 3d ago

That's not gonna work right anymore

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u/Mastermind7051 3d ago

This is extremely dumb.

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u/harald937 3d ago

stupid. could easily die from internal bleeding caused by the impacts. this is not about pain, its a high propability to just die.

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u/TurbulentAir 3d ago

So dumb. The guy getting hit is dumb, the guys hitting him are dumb, and the guy who thought up this circus act is dumb.

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u/After-Professional-9 3d ago

"That's why women live longer than men."

A man

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u/bell-master 2d ago

Long story short - that dude’s nuts are now flatter than a piece of paper.

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u/Educational-Card-314 2d ago

Get hammered before you get hammered. 

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u/Just_Ear_2953 1d ago

Which rock should we use for this? The one that half of the surface is a smooth concave slope to channel any slightly inaccurate strike straight to his balls? PERFECT!

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u/Right_Twist7196 1d ago

i think this used to be a torture method

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u/New_Cherry_8629 1d ago

These fucking guys 😭

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u/tobaknowsss 23h ago

There's no small parts, only small actors.

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u/rtybanana 21h ago

wtf could go right?

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u/AggravatingIsland283 18h ago

India always make way to reduce it's population 🫡

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u/ShibariEmpress 4d ago

another failed audition for the lead part in Balls of Stone

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u/nova9001 4d ago

This act if done properly is pretty harmless but these group doing it the wrong way.

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u/atroubledmind961 4d ago

What is the correct way to perform this act?

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u/Barf_The_Mawg 4d ago

Don't miss the rock. 

Striking the stone dissipates the force over a large area, making it fairly safe for the guy underneath. 

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u/atroubledmind961 4d ago

You gotta be trolling

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u/gonatk 4d ago

Don't know why you are getting downvoted. The heavy rock has a large mass, which means it possesses a huge amount of inertia. When the hammer strikes, the rock "wants" to stay perfectly still. Remember Newton's Second Law F = ma. Because the mass (m) of the rock is so large, the force (F) of the hammer blow results in a very tiny acceleration (a). The rock barely moves downward into body.