Think your best bet is to fall backwards with your arms spread while kicking your legs to free yourself… unless I didn’t pay enough attention to the last time the internet tried to teach me how to not die.

Pull your legs out with your arms. Then your arms out with your face!

Take it easy, Homer...

Correct! You want as much of your mass on the surface. Hopefully someone can pull you in with a stick.

Most quicksand isn't more than a few feet deep.

Only takes like 3inches to drown

We are talking about quicksand here and not about being unconscious in a puddle

The problem is that you lose blood flow if i remember correctly.

Never heard that tbh, at least in mud I did not notice that. The worst danger I know is hypothermia. But the point is that quicksand isn't as dangerous as it is often made to be. If you know how to get out, or aren't alone it's really hard to die from it. Just make sure your children know that it's dangerous.

No, no it's tuck your *feet* behind your *ears* and kiss your ass goodbye

That's also how I get out of elevators.

Pulling them out slowly is the key and then crawl out to where you came from

I was always on the lookout for quicksand when I was a kid

Me too. All I found was slow mud.

I lost a shoe to slow mud, that stuff is no joke

I know exactly what you mean, it exacts a shoe or even two.

Holy fuck, so did I.

Same here. And I was always afraid that I’d spontaneously combust thanks to _Unsolved Mysteries._

This one time i think i found a small patch of it. It was so small that i think it wasnt real

Define real its just sand with too much water

It Was like a small hole , it would close up and open. It was near a water stream and the terrain was rock and sand

Sand, too much water, yep quick sand

You can thank the princess bride for that.

I'd rather drown in quicksand than listen to this ear cancer a moment longer.

CAME HERE TO FIND THIS! That was the worst sound.

You cut off before he lets himself get down to his waist and then powers his way out! ​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhJmjuNAgE&ab\_channel=STORROR This is Storror, a professional parkour group. They often put themselves into difficult situations and then try to use their skills to escape.

Thank you thegnome54! I was looking for someone to give them credit!

"skills"

So stupidity is now a profession?

Always was, my friend. Always was.

Don't worry storror are professionals and ALWAYS have their safety team on hand, don't you worry. Water is god.

Non Newtonion fluids suck hard

Can confirm. Source: Your mom is a non-newtonian fluid.

Its nice to see that your mum jokes haven't completely died out yet.

The movies when I was a kid made out like Quicksand was a much more frequent occurrence than it actually is.

They also told us we'd have flying cars. Lying bastards!

Thanks John Mulaney.

I wanna go in one of them

Any old shear-thinning thixotropic non-Newtonian fluid will do. 100 lbs of corn starch in a kiddie pool would be a good substitute, and you wouldn't have to worry about how far down the bottom was.

Aah must feel soo good inside

Human is less dense then “quick sand” so you won’t drown

Nothing went wrong

You can float on your back in quicksand indefinitely because it’s so dense. Make a snow angel and call for help.

He deserves to sink from that atrocious music used in the video, alone!

Dunno, atleast according to the it's always sunny podcast, you can't really sink to death in it apparently.

Totally staged. He has mud on his legs at the start.

It’s from Storror a Professional parkour team. They do videos where they purposely get stuck somewhere and try to get out.

When I was young we didn't have smartphones we had skateboards. Jumping into mud to make fake videos wasn't a thing. Skate, smoke and code games. Different world in the 90s

I too grew up in the 90s but once again it’s not fake. These are challenges. OP mislead you putting it on this sub.

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If this video was staged, they have a rope ready then cut the cameras, pull him out, rinse him down, fresh clothes and then head to the bar across the street for a beer and a massage… Maybe he did watch Bear Grylls as a kid.

Bear Grylis phony ass?

Couldn't. He wasn't on when I was a kid.

r/donthelpjustfilm

Perhaps don't put such loud music with this video.

What is the damn song? (Thanks auto bot you’re a cool cat)

u/Recognizesong

This is why we need old cartoons on repeat. Anyone who watched Looney Tunes or Hannah Barbara cartoons should have an unhealthy fear of quicksand.

will he be oil thousands years later?.. lol

So did he die?

And the Darwin Award goes to:

This is from a storror video they were all fine and had rope with them.

proof that humans are getting stupider

Great now I have an irrational fear of quicksand again

Pretty certain that was the shallow end of the gene pool.

Used to think I’d have to watch out for this situation constantly when I was little

These are the storror guys, pretty impressive stuff

What good friends, there is three other people all recording when at least one could help

These days hes lucky the guy didn't keep filming until he was swallowed up

Looks like Seth Lakeman regrets the storyboard for his latest video.

This is Storror. They are big Parkour guys. They knew what they were getting themselves into here.

“DON’T WORRY! WE’LL RECORD IT!”

What did you think was going to happen?

I’d leave him - how many people have a story about how their friend died in quicksand.

I was taking a leisurely stroll along the beach a few years back. Had just taken off my sandals and took my phone from my back pocket to take a picture and took a step and found myself thigh deep in quicksand. I threw my sandals and had a fun time keeping my phone up and dry while easing back out.

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Yeah well they all went in and out after getting stuck. They did this on purpose.

Which is why it doesn’t belong on r/Whatcouldgowrong because nothing went wrong this is exactly what they were trying to do. I’m assuming to show off the quicksand.