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Man Paralysed After ‘Trust Fall’ Goes Wrong

#trustfall#paralyzed#retreat#julia#wheelchair
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0:00 [Music] so how many you guys have ever been on like a a Leadership Retreat or like company Retreat or something like that where you do certain like activities in the wild or whatever in order to build camaraderie yes Mom was too poor for all that absolutely so you guys I'm sure have all participated or are familiar with the trust fall yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah profits what you do okay so there's a variation of the trust fall though apparently in this situation uh that that is different I I I I have to admit I've never done this one in this particular trust fall it actually involves jumping with a type of like rope and or harness and then trusting a comrade if you will to be able to either belay you or catch you in some sort of that that's way too much yeah it it's it's a lot more intense does my partner

0:50 work at REI um does partner work at so it's not just it's not just this and then you catch it's more like ah and then and you're waiting and hoping word for word that says this trustfall exercise involves one person secured by a rope stepping off of a 40ft high ledge 40t a ████ repel Tower you could die from that nah this sounds like American thing they're supposed to be caught quote unquote by a person holding the Rope on the ground the 39th foot floor now the unfortunate irony of this it's not irony it's just they have those bricks of at the bottom or some ████ like that maybe not foam just n this just ████ well in this particular situation and story right um this is a bunch of insurance workers that's the

1:43 ironic part okay all right and this one dude who has apparently been taking people and leading this exercise doing this many this exercise many times he does this trust fall with his group people and I guess the person that he was trusting in this moment wasn't paying attention to the particular moment great that's why you don't trust anybody this guy falls he die no he but he gets paralyzed from the waist down come on dude why you even do stuff like that I'm never going to trust you ever again well let me ask you Joe and was that guy like come on man give me another chance I want you to honestly honestly look into your head and your heart and your soul let's say Ryan was that guy all right and then he ████ wasn't paying attention that trust was broken you are paralyzed for Life bro you forgive him depends on what he

2:33 says he's going to do to redeem himself but you're you're paralyzed for you could ask what would that scenar you're paralyzed I know what are you going to do to redeem yourself you just my dick doesn't work cuz of you bu you sword keep talking what kind of Sword broadword tungsten tungsten tungsten but don't you need two handers for a sword like this guy's like ████ in a chair it's a waist down right so I could still like comat com the you might swing this way and your wheels fly this way if you don't put the BR on convince your enemies to come closer oh that's not bad you taunt it's a lot of taunting all right all right if you could get me a sword that I can use with my wheelchair and you get me a sick ass off-road wheelchair we'll call it even hey that's cool I want one of those I'll take one

3:23 how about that we both be in whe chairs like I'll fake it around you that's cool I'll fake it around you for when people shave their heads when they're cutting their girlfriend's cancer head oh yeah yeah I'll do it you'll break your own legs for me I won't break them I just won't use them but your but that dude's hair will grow back normally well yeah cuz they're faking around them that's a joke yeah and also I think I probably Sue JK for not being ADA Compliant oh damn way not Ada look at the way these ████ chairs are that will not fit that's true that's very true get it it's not going to fit my wheelchair dud by the way the way Nick has needs to s for some reason he sits there with his chair all the way back you got to beg him just to walk by here just go outside beg that's not fire safe begging for the fire code yeah I mean uh business 101 let me just ask this

4:13 question if you're suing JK isn't your money going back to you but basically Bart's being punished by himself then it's not Joe's problem no I think somehow Julia is being punished I don't know Julia owns JK right yeah Julia is the real the shadow shadow leader Julia at the top we kind of gave her J cow there it is cow oh ████ honestly cow why why do people do stuff like that it just doesn't make any sense yeah because when it works it works when you do it the real way if you fall it's not a big deal not from ████ 40 ft tall trust right now you ever done it before let's do it let's do trust let's do no no not yet not yet if we're going to wait wait wait wait wait what have you ever done trust in your life well yeah just fall back go over there that's a

5:04 crazy do it from here do it from here that's paralyzed that's good that's good someone's being paralyzed wait wait wait can you see it's don't go until Ryan says go we're not even employees one more yeah one more there you go we got to show no Joe has to be involved so he can get sued too no I'm watching to make sure that it works camera should be in the side you work no way dude Joe you got to be right here no I can see okay God damn it be here I don't want to block I don't want to block this just fall back and just trust that we're going to be here this is so scary jump St ready jump when I say trust all right 3 2 1 trust ████ this just committed on this one just walked away immediately hey you could have stabbed us stand up now you

5:55 could have ████ stabbed us he had a knife in his pocket let me stand up stand bring over here bring him over here why did you have a you almost stabbed us with this got it see company trust all right put his legs down put his leg hey circumcise him circumcise hey circumcise him ccum C if you want to sign up for a retreat and team building activities contact JK news.com you had your knife in your pocket open it was open when it fell yeah you could have stabbed somebody that's dangerous that's a lawsuit I would throw this at you but you might die we could have ended up on JK news dude that would have been that's ████ crazy man 40 ft that that trustfall was so cool I think we should start a cult yeah that was really cool I actually

6:45 think that dude if we had a cult it would be one of the coolest Cults like the in the cult pitch the cult okay well you have to do trust Falls we're not going to eat each other out are we huh going to eat each other out while falling Ryan while falling right when you come yeah I mean that's probably what my role would be it's like you guys be the hands that catch and I'll be the mouth that catches the butt everybody's in a line Jo's like all right next it's it's just like Jo's medieval j five six seven ah yeah are you about to tell us that the guy actually tried to offer some form of like like he tried to make up for it somehow no I knew that this would be a a more wild story than it actually is but what's what's heartwarming about this is he actually forgave the person

7:35 he's Christian why is he that's not heartwarming he's Mormon let's go and talk about this guy's heroic heart that's not heart his name I wouldn't forgive him if it wasn't Ryan I figured his name is Zuko Carrasco right he actually leads these corporate Retreats like time and time again and which is why it was probably easy for him to be trusting but again accidents do happen the paralyze or the paralyzer paralyze Z oh he was was the leader of it and he still failed okay that makes sense what I don't get it man so his friend was uh wait wait wait does that mean he was like I'll go first I'm the leader trust me and if the guy doesn't do his job and everyone's watching like oh ████ he be the ble guy he lost 50 students that experience so he's 34 he's aged 34 at

8:26 the time severely damages his spinal cord at the bottom of his and he had just become a dad to his second daughter one week before get back inside the tummy I don't trust it I was just very very scared thinking I have no way of earning money to take care of my family I couldn't see my role as a father in a wheelchair you know I kept thinking there's no way I can live like this all right but eventually he says but then you realize no it was my fault and that's an amazing I think Discovery for some it's been your fault dude that's what happens that's what happens if you weak to admit it and for the other person I just think it's very powerful anybody that constructs any type of risky kind of experiment like this yeah idiot it's their fault there's an element of it not working yeah so that's the beautiful message it's actually it's their fault they an idiot

9:16 yeah oh that's really nice that's what we want to let the world know so dumb yeah I like that monkey never forgive send this to your friends he did say quote I still feel like I want to tell him because I guess that guy isn't around anymore I still feel like I want to tell him you know don't feel sorry it was my mistake it sure was yeah even though the guy was like uh Corporate Retreat ████ we got to ████ do these stupid ass diversity things ropes ████ fing he's all like all right whatever that's what I'd be afraid of the only person in this room I'd be afraid of and no offense I really mean this is is if it was Joe no if if you're standing up there and it's like you got to do thing and then all of a sudden behind you you hear he's like oh ████ I forgot I put a coffee in and and oh no all of that in this amount of time I

10:08 I would trust Joe I trust Joe you don't but the thing is Joe's got a 321 trigger every time we count down to start the video 32 on one is when he's like I got to start oh ████ I got a ████ I got a ████ it's a fact how many times that happen I can't even account I'm more safer than all of you guys so [Laughter]

10:58 sh

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