10. 17 Stories A woman in Russia has died
trying to do some hardcore parkour. She was only 24 years old when she fell down 17 stories to
her death. It happened as she was trying to jump from the top of one building to another
and missed. According to the St. Petersburg police, she went to the top of the building
with her sister and four local men. The men were experienced parkour experts. But all the expertise
in the world didn’t protect the young woman's brains from bursting open on the sidewalk below!
To understand just exactly how this young girl fell to her death, we need to take a look at
the roofs she was jumping between. One of them, the starting point, was quite a bit taller than
the other building. She was supposed to run to the edge and then jump, gauging how far to go
based on the gap between the buildings. But because she may not have had enough experience,
she misjudged the gap between the rooftops. She ended up missing the lower rooftop by a
pretty large margin. The result was the same as jumping off the edge of a cliff.
She hit the concrete below and was dead. And to make matters worse, the men fled the scene
like a bunch of sneaky thieves! 9. Pavel’s Backflip
Pavel Kashin was trying to do a backflip when he died. It really is as simple as that. The guy
lost his footing, he happened to be on the edge of a 16-floor building, and then he was gone.
Pavel was known in his town for being a parkour daredevil. Just like the young girl that died
trying to jump between buildings, Pavel was also from St. Petersburg. But Pavel’s death
happened way earlier, nearly a decade ago in 2013. He was performing stunts on the rooftop
of an old Soviet-style building while his friends filmed his flips and tricks. And for this reason,
there's actually a photograph still floating around online of the very second before
Pavel’s backflip went very wrong and he died. In the world of freerunners, this was a huge
tragedy. Primarily because Pavel was known as one of the best. He did breakthrough stunts,
he had some of the most impressive moves, and his videos took the Internet by storm. His sudden
death showed just how dangerous parkour can be. He had done thousands of flips before. But losing
his footing when he came down from that final backflip had him slipping sideways off the roof.
He plummeted headfirst like a sack of potatoes onto the pavement below.
8. Parkour for Kids 21 children were injured in San Diego
at a parkour gym for kids. And yes, it happened while their adult parents, grown people who had
thought this was a good idea, were standing around drinking their pumpkin spice lattes.
According to the San Diego Fire Rescue, a stairway collapsed at the gym,
resulting in complete mayhem. There were at least 50 children attending the night-time
parkour lesson. The facility doesn't only specialize in parkour. It's also a facility
with trampolines and bouncy houses for kids. The platform that collapsed was a wooden deck
about 30 feet(9m) long. The kids had been running across the deck to reach the upper level of the
facility where there was pizza waiting for them. The stairwell collapsed without any notice. At
least four of the victims may have suffered from irreversible spinal injuries. The rest
of the kids were in very rough shape. It was a total disaster, with nearly half the children in
attendance being taken away to the hospital. But the kids weren't the only ones who got
injured. Two adults were also hurt in the freak accident. If you're wondering how such an accident
could have happened, it was because the platform couldn't hold the weight of all those children.
It was an obvious breach of safety that may have caused four kids to break their spines.
After all this destruction, the child’s parkour gym is likely going out of business.
7. The Little Daredevil At 13 years old, a youngster known
only by his first name – Tolya – was something of a little daredevil. He was obsessed with parkour
and impressing his friends. After all, what 13-year-old kid doesn’t live life on the edge
with hopes of being cool? Sadly for Tolya, while showing off one day for his buddies,
he slipped and fell 100 feet(30m) to the ground below. At the time, he had been dangling by
nothing but his fingertips from the 9th floor of an abandoned tower block. His fingers slipped,
he desperately tried to hold on, but it was too late. One of the old bricks broke loose,
and like the bad guy’s death at the end of an action movie, Tolya went flailing through
the air. His friends heard the thump of his body hitting the ground and ran to get help.
According to what one of the kid’s friends told reporters,
he was in shock when he saw the body. He was so shocked when he saw the kid’s mutilated remains
that he just sat there for 30 minutes not knowing what to do. And that's the truth
about what happens when a person falls that far. Their body breaks and it’s truly an ugly scene.
What's the craziest thing you ever did to impress your friends when you were a teenager?
Whatever you did, did it almost kill you? Let us know how big of a daredevil you were in the
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if you haven’t already! :) 6. Saved by the Current
In Russia, yet again, a guy trying to do parkour ended up having a disaster.
But unlike most parkour disasters, this one ended without anybody dying.
The professional parkour maniac, a guy named Sergey Shorokhov, was jumping from rooftop
to rooftop. As he was doing it, he had a camera clamped in his mouth to capture all the action.
This is like a cheap, Russian alternative to a simple GoPro attached to a helmet.
The day was going fine until he made his final jump. As he leaped off the ledge of the roof,
25 floors above the ground, he made a mistake. He misjudged the distance he was supposed to jump
and fell, catching himself just before all was lost on some hanging electric wires. If he hadn't
reached out and grabbed those wires, his face would have hit the brick side of the building
and the back of his head would have bounced off the concrete below. But miraculously,
he grabbed the wires. Yes, they sent a severe electric shock through his body, but he held
on nonetheless and pulled himself up to safety. According to what Sergey told his viewers when
uploading the terrifying video of his near-death experience, he had already been doing parkour for
13 years. This goes to show that even real pros can misjudge distance and fall to their death.
5. Johnny Turner Johnny Turner was 28 years old when he died from a
parkour accident. Johnny was famous for traveling all across Europe to practice parkour and do
freerunning. He was described by friends as a pioneer in the British urban exploring community.
He scaled all kinds of buildings throughout the UK, such as the Battersea Power Station.
He was also a fan of freerunning through abandoned structures. But Johnny was more than just a
freerunner, he was a person. According to James Wood, a fellow parkour expert,
Johnny was thoughtful, gentle, and one of the most positive people you’d ever meet.
It's no wonder everybody was heartbroken when Johnny tumbled off some scaffolding,
fell down eight stories, and snapped his neck on the ground. The authorities were a little
stingy with the exact details, but we do know Johnny had been practicing parkour at a block
of apartments in Waterloo. We also know that he had been doing it during the night. Perhaps it was
dark, maybe Johnny needed glasses and he didn't know it. Whatever the case, he missed his step,
flung himself off the scaffolding, and splattered on the ground. It was the last
time Johnny ever did parkour. 4. A Bad Shortcut
In India, a student trying to do a bit of parkour to save himself some time
ended up dead. The kid was just 19 years old, identified as E. Saikiran. He fell from the
third floor of a hostel while trying to leap onto the balcony of the adjacent hospital.
If you’re confused, let me break it down for you. In India, lots of students live in hostels. It's
quite popular in other places around the world as a cheap living alternative. It’s the equivalent
of American students staying in student housing. Because one hostel was directly beside another,
many of the students simply did parkour to travel between them. Instead of going all
the way from the third floor to the ground floor, entering through the front door,
and climbing back up three stories, people just jumped from balcony to balcony.
It was a Tuesday night when this shortcut proved deadly for E. Saikiran. As he tried
to cross over to the other balcony, a gap of only three feet(1m), he slipped and fell between
the two buildings. He cracked his skull and splintered his ribs, later dying at the hospital.
To make matters even more disturbing, surveillance footage caught every second of the terrifying
incident. Before he made the jump to the other balcony and missed, other students can be seen
coercing him into doing it. They were beyond shocked when he slipped and fell all the way
down to the bottom. 3. 11 Floors Down
In Spain, yet another teenager has died doing parkour. This teen was 17 years old,
and he fell 11 floors until he smacked his body to the ground and died. He had been climbing inside a
construction site, which is almost definitely illegal. According to the National Police who
were involved in the investigation, he and some friends were on Holy Guardian Angel Avenue,
attempting risky jumps as they climbed higher and higher up the construction
site. They were running, vaulting, rolling, and all the other verbs involved with parkour.
But alas, there was one jump that the kid just couldn't make. When he missed, that was
the end of him. Paramedics did arrive almost immediately after the accident was reported,
but they could do nothing to save the boy's life. The paramedics said that he died immediately upon
impact. And that does make sense, seeing as he fell 11 floors. The force of the impact pretty
much shot his brains out the back of his skull. You would have an easier time surviving a gunshot
to the face than your whole body hitting the ground like that. He may as well have jumped out
of an airplane without a parachute! 2. From the Top
In China, an expert in parkour fell from the top of a skyscraper like
an ant falling off the side of your house. His name was Wu Yongning, and he was known
in China for being one of the most courageous daredevils around. He was famous for climbing very
tall buildings and taking risky pictures. These pictures were usually of him clinging onto the
side of something for dear life. He also happened to be a trained professional, skilled in martial
arts with a background as a stuntman in films. At the time of his death, Wu was trying to earn
enough money to fund his wedding and to treat his sick mother. According to what Wu’s step-uncle
told the Beijing News, Wu was planning to propose to his girlfriend the day after he
filmed himself doing parkour 62 stories up at the top of the skyscraper. He was going to take
the money he earned from his risky pictures, get married, save his mom’s life, and be a real hero.
Sadly, it didn't go this way at all. As he clung to the side of the building, not secured by any
kind of safety harness, he fell. The maniac was trying to do pull-ups over 60 stories up
and he lost his grip. The 26-year-old plummeted all the way to the ground, lucky not to fall
directly on somebody's head. He died immediately and never got to propose to his girlfriend.
1. New Year’s Day On New Year’s Day in Paris, a 17-year-old
parkour enthusiast named Nye Newman met his end. It happened below the city, on the Paris Metro.
Nye came to Paris from England for vacation with his girlfriend. For the previous few years,
he had been extremely into parkour, climbing over obstacles and jumping from building to building.
He was actually something of an Internet sensation and an inspiration to many people.
This was because of his positive outlook and enthusiastic lifestyle. In 2016,
he did parkour in Hong Kong and China. He posted photos on his social media of leaping between
buildings in Hong Kong and even doing tricks at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.
But it would be the Paris Metro that finally put the young man's career to bed. And to make
matters even worse, Nye brought the accident upon himself. According to the most recent
report from the BBC, Nye Newman died when he stuck his head out of the train to take a selfie
and was hit in the head. He and his girlfriend were heading to the Eiffel Tower to see the
fireworks for New Year's Eve. While on the train, Nye climbed between two carriages,
poked his head out to take a picture, and was struck by an unknown object!
There is definitely a reason why you don’t stick your head out of a moving train,
especially one that's underground. It could have been a pipe, a piece of debris – nobody
knows. But whatever it was, it hit Nye in the head so hard that he was dead immediately.
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