Feb 17 2009Screw It, I'm Tired Of Living: Crane Pull Ups
This is a video of some joker doing pull ups hanging from a crane that is way up high in the sky. Like a bird, except metal and painted red. Okay, like Bubo, the owl in Clash of the Titans, except he was silver and gold and had beady little eyes. Whatever, I am the Analogy King! Anyway, every time the dude goes back down after a pull up I thought he was going to fall. But he didn't, and that made me very sad.
Thanks to The Jerk, who once did two thousand crunches in a row and then puked.
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Reader Comments
1. Mike - February 17, 2009 10:56 AM
Mirrors Edge anyone?
2. QUASIMODEM - February 17, 2009 10:57 AM
SO OLD I THINK IT WAS ACTUALLY POSTED ON HERE
3. poodles - February 17, 2009 10:57 AM
...2nd.....??? i dunno what to say
4. poodles - February 17, 2009 10:58 AM
damn well 3rd and maybe 4th
5. Ollie Williams - February 17, 2009 11:00 AM
Why would anyone do this?
6. Moose Knuckle - February 17, 2009 11:27 AM
That guy's a genius, I would totally trust his judgment in any matter pertaining to...... say.... bagging my groceries.
7. ShitBitch Carl - February 17, 2009 11:27 AM
That made me anxious.
8. Daisy - February 17, 2009 11:30 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was chasing some guy who had a bomb in his backpack. They were fightng on a crane, and eventually Max caught him in his embassy. Max didn't care about laws, and killed the guy and exscaped stealing the bomb and the dirty dude's cell phone.
9. naas - February 17, 2009 11:37 AM
eh - whatever makes you stronger
10. Composer - February 17, 2009 11:46 AM
I would have been playing the "Eye of the Tiger", seems logical to use in this sort of situation.
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12. Hubbard the Sausage Fiend! - February 17, 2009 11:57 AM
I beat his highscore!
I did pull-ups off God's beard.
Insta-win.
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13. Leonidas - February 17, 2009 12:00 PM
@12: can I use your site to meet 40+ children?
14. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 17, 2009 12:02 PM
I have no issue communicating without the use of profanity. Quite frankly, the english language offers much more colorful adjectives. The point being made is simply that in this country, where this blog is hosted, we have freedom of speech. The same freedom of speech that would protect this blogger (GW) in court. I find it rather disingenuous of him to post NSFW content and genitalia jokes, then censor our comments about them.
You know what I want to do today? EXTREME WORKOUT! Because doing something stupid just isn't enough. I must do something utterly retarded while pretending to be productive!
15. Daniel - February 17, 2009 12:10 PM
Cocaine's a helluva drug.
16. Ollie Williams Is A Pompous F.UCKTARD - February 17, 2009 12:10 PM
@5
To forget how much of a dick you are. Fuc.king piece of shit.
17. raven - February 17, 2009 12:16 PM
LOL cmon
he's got a parachute guys look!!
18. Tricky Ricky - February 17, 2009 12:33 PM
Where's the video where his hands slip off the bar..and he does a 170 mph face plant into concrete, bounces back up and does another face plant and then winds up with his spleen piercing his heart?
19. Tom - February 17, 2009 12:39 PM
You'd have to be an idiotic c*nt to do something like that!
20. billabong021 - February 17, 2009 12:42 PM
wtf is that song anyway?
21. Vince Lombardi - February 17, 2009 12:55 PM
At first I was going to call shenanigans on the first guy, as it looked like he might be wearing a chute (I don't base-jump, I have no idea how small you can make a chute pack, so lay off). But the second guy had nothing on, looked like the guy making sammies at Quiznos, and made me kinda nervous when he couldn't complete the second one, let alone the third. The wind at that altitude should have been enough to blow his skinny butt off. So, congrats, man! But you are waaaay too stupid to procreate, so I hope you are gay.
22. adsaf - February 17, 2009 1:20 PM
, so I hope you are gay.
hahahaahaahahaa
23. Tom - February 17, 2009 1:52 PM
LMFAO @ 22!!
"But you are waaaay too stupid to procreate, so I hope you are gay."
24. Particle)Man - February 17, 2009 2:01 PM
Wow, those were the weakest pull-ups ever. Maybe they should do more ground training first.
25. Pat - February 17, 2009 2:02 PM
Phht, who hasn't done that? Maybe if you were doing pull-ups from the International Space Station I'd be impressed.
26. Rossco - February 17, 2009 2:38 PM
Pfft, I don't think any of those pull-ups counted. The first guy never even came close to locking out his arms, and the second guy never pulled his chin over the bar. Get back on that bar, both of you! Haha
27. Tom - February 17, 2009 2:50 PM
@ 26 I wouldn't be impressed ... Zero gravity!
28. Ocelot - February 17, 2009 2:51 PM
That made me really nervous.
I can imagine the conversation before they filmed this, "How many pull-ups can you do?" He was all like, "At least one! That's good enough, right?"
Wrong!
29. Paul - February 17, 2009 3:21 PM
Seriously, if you're going to try a stunt like that, you should at least be able to perform it correctly. I mean, that's if you actually want to impress anyone. What I saw was a douche bag HANGING hundreds of feet in the air. If it hadn't of been for the support wires, I'm wondering how he would have pulled himself back in at the end.
30. blp - February 17, 2009 3:33 PM
That's gotta be more illegal than the drugs they were on.
31. Leonidas - February 17, 2009 3:45 PM
None of you nay-sayers have any balls… this is awesome. And very inspirational - way more inspirational than Tony Robbins. My palms are sweating so bad I can barely type.
32. Slammin' Sam - February 17, 2009 4:30 PM
It's real. He did have a basejump chute on. That's what it was, not a backpack.
33. Beastman AIDS - February 17, 2009 4:51 PM
I just about shit myself multiple times watching that. I am now suffering from the heeby jeebies. Weak pull ups though.
34. Gino - February 17, 2009 5:03 PM
At least he didn't hit his head on the bar, that could have been a major catastrophe!
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35. Faust - February 17, 2009 5:04 PM
Worst song ever.
36. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - February 17, 2009 6:08 PM
Since when did Geekologie become a forum to show wannabe Jackasses? First the black powder nerf-tards and now this. I can understand the glider-suit ones, cause that's awesome, but this is just stupid.
37. the - February 17, 2009 6:59 PM
what if he gets too tired to pull himself up again??
38. Sammywa - February 17, 2009 7:54 PM
BUT WHO WAS CRANE?!!
39. iaco - February 17, 2009 9:42 PM
@26 - ..but there's no gravity in space so...?
what winners, it takes a special kind of stupid...
40. inigo - February 17, 2009 10:08 PM
Why is that guy wearing a freakin suit
41. Cap'n Jack - February 17, 2009 10:17 PM
"Going to the bout of the grue"
What the frak is that supposed to mean? Is grue even a real word? And what was with that god-awful song?
This video is retarded. It takes some balls to go that high, sure, but it's not like it's particularly challenging.
42. daz - February 17, 2009 11:28 PM
@ 41.......of course theres gravity in space spacko
spacecraft in orbit are being pulled towards the earth by gravity all the time....if there was no gravity, orbits would not be possible
because of the crafts speed, it's "falling" back to earth at the same angle of the earth's curvature
43. Fake - February 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Fake
44. stacy - February 18, 2009 2:40 AM
@21 and 36
its a song in greek i was surprised to hear it i didnt even realize it was greek because the singers have strange greek accents. it makes fun of a young crazy kid who gets into drugs and does stupid things.
45. c45j - February 18, 2009 2:41 AM
that is very old.
46. Sid - February 18, 2009 6:35 AM
There are actually 2 people who won a Darwin award by doing pull ups from a balcony. One canadian in the twentiefirst and a german from the seventh floor.
47. Watch - February 18, 2009 9:34 AM
that video made my palms and feet sweat just by watching it! those fcukers are crazy!!!!
48. MILFs - February 18, 2009 12:16 PM
Videos don't usually make me nervous but this was crazy. Those guys are nuts. Such a risk.
49. Your MOM - February 19, 2009 10:24 AM
Should have stomped his hand at 1:40.
50. ACORNSTU - February 21, 2009 2:18 AM
4real!!!!
mrgeekologiesir!!!!
idemandvideohostingcontent!!!
atleast4-5daysafter!
51. mr_empty - May 8, 2009 5:31 PM
This is crazy badness. That's not a chute btw, a chute secures not just over the shoulders. And I don't think the idea was to do pull ups, rather just kinda hang.
Either way, it's some bad crazyness. I'd love to see if they've done anything else.