Skier dies trying to jump US 40 in Colorado
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2024
- A Colorado skier identified as Dallas Lebeau, 21, tried to jump 40 feet over U.S. 40 but did not reach the other side. FOX31's Greg Nieto visits the site and hears from locals who knew him.
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Somewhere, someone is still holding that guy's beer.
🤣🤣🤣
lol
You know things...
I get more free beer that way.
Well, its prolly all drunk up by now..
Too much Evel, not enough Knievel
Even Knievel didn't make all his jumps .
@@CryMeARiver63 He didn't die after any of his jumps. Came close but beat the Devil.
"do you know who I am?"
-EK
Lmao 😂 great stuff
Gen z at it again! that sudden stop is what did it!
" Wow dude, he's like dead and stuff"
That's his friends in a nut shell. Probably him also.
So sad. So where is the footage?
lol
I bet you people get punched in the face from time to time making comments like that.
@@Userhandleidk lol.
Stay in school, kids. Study physics.😮
Gravity is not a difficult concept for most people to understand.
school is getting worse and worse, and worse...... this guy graduated with honors. quit being a fool
The least intelligent thing i see on this entire thread of comments, is people acting like somebody performing stunts like this, isnt aware of gravity =S you people have nothing left upstairs, while judging those out having fun. enjoy the box you live in, and remember this on your deathbed when you had a boring life and never took a risk.
you don't man much do you? haha, cowboys, skydiving, racing, sex.... it's what we do.
@@flipflop8989maybe you should go back for spelling class. “no” should have been spelled “now” in your comment. I bet kids that learn wokeness in school know how to spell no and now lol
The mountains will be exactly the same.
I was thinking this 🤷🏾♀️
Lmaoooo 😂
lol. They are indifferent to the stupidity of humans.
100% news-media propaganda malarky at 2:00
I'll bet he doesn't try that again.
Lol😊
Maybe his spirit will 😓
@@nadagainagain4987how can you laugh at someone who died🤨
@@stormym5434 someday I will also be some fuckin dead guy. People will laugh at me.
@@stormym5434It’s easy. I do it all the time.
Why have an onsite guy 1/2 mile away. How stupid.
I'm guessing that's the closest they could park safely.
Dang! He needed friends better at math n physics
You need friends better at grammar..😂
@urbanorocha9180 You need some friends
They used to say there was only two things that fell from the sky, bird poop, and Skydivers. Then there was the space shuttles, and then this guy.
Um, Boeing?
@@donnydrips please don't whistle blow on them, get a beard! (those heroes are dropping dead at a frightening rate.)
So these are the only three knuckleheads they found on the side of the road to talk to.
Would you rather a boring middle age man like yourself have spoken?
.... they are skiers... they think you talk goofy too, but they dont mock you for it. who else should they talk to? the governor? mayor of Denver? what kinda of pointless nonsensical dribble do you prefer to hear? im guessing the liberal kind with your intellectual status.
@@GardenisLifeyou were being an honorable leftie preaching equality, standing up for social justice, telling others not to judge people by the way they talk…then i just about died laughing when you said “you must be left wing” bc like the wolrd doesnt know its right wingers who normally cry about having to not stereotype and not belittle people bc of their preconceived biases against women, minorities, gays, non christians, hippies etc lololol that was a good one
So it was absolutely gold the way you totally had us in the first half, i didnt realize it was satire til the punchline!!!!
Yep , all three of these guys are higher than a giraffes ass.
They are definitely losers.
It's kind of like trying to go down to the titanic in a tube someone built in their garage. Probably should just not do it maybe.
not too soon, ZING!
tragedy? how about stupidity?
at least he tried , HATER
@@copyprint-fz2hbbut an alive hater.. LMSAO
@@copyprint-fz2hb the road to hell is paved with good intentions….and stupid human tricks
Exactly.... But now.. don't call out something that needs calling out !!
He tried, but was it worth it and for what good?@copyprint-fz2hb
Stupid is as stupid does.
Got love how they use the guys name through the whole broadcast then say the coroner will confirm the skiers name at the end. 😂
Even local news media is full of crap.
Local reports for local consumption. that said, maybe they did a switcheroo and replaced Dallas' body with a dead stunt doubles??
And escaped with the crypto.
Another reason women live longer than men.
Prefrontal Cortex maturation is earlier in females. Helping females live longer.
Omg. Thanks for the laugh. Truth!
No it’s because women suck the life out of men.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who care about length of life?
I hope he at least said gnarly and had some Mt. Dew beforehand.
Yuup
"Did it" Already.
Had some mt dewed
I’m positive his Mt. Dew told him he could jump that highway!
It was Red Bull, it gives you wings.
What was the runout plan here? It's all trees on the landing. Even if he would have gapped it, the danger would just be starting.
He was making it up as he went along.
@@paulskopic5844 🎯
Some people are EXTREMLY poor at planning ahead. I would guess there was also some magical thinking going on which is a legitimate mental issue.
Yep, no exit-strategy if he had landed it.
😅@@evonne315
Not a tragedy!! Just plain stupid!
A tragedy for his family though.
Stupid Tragedy. It can literally be both!
The comment I was about to make.
A GO-PRO and Red Bull I suspect wasn't involved at all.
Yeah, what happened to the gives you wings part?
Obviously there was no Red Bull involved 🙄🤷🏾♀️
Missed It By That Much
Hearing the voice of Maxwell Smart… or is there a newer reference that escapes me (yes, I’m old)?
Can we use the bel of silence?
@@gr8dvd Where's Agent 99?
@@tired7140cone of silence
@@tired7140 You mean the "cone" of silence?
OK, he didn't clear the whole road but how far across did he get?
Bet he caught d caught d wall. Wiley Coyote n road runner show style.
Depends on which parts scattered/spattered beyond the original point of impact.
He made it to the HARD part.
The after life
That is the question on everybody's minds. Hopefully the highway workers at least spray-painted his outline on the ground to record his highmark.
And all his little groupies filming him, helping to stroke his ego, while holding their stupid little smart phone cameras. There are countless stories of fools trying to be instant hero's on UA-cam and social media. As the saying goes: "you can't fix stupid".
SMFH This!!! A couple weeks ago we had sever flooding and people were literally drowning while people stood right there with their phones shooting videos of the people drowning smfh again...
As a mountain man, you don't understand the urge to go big and progress? But yeah you have a point about the instant hero's and groupies. But you cheer and urge your friends on to progress and go big (or into the casket)
And with the ever-increasing thirst for internet fame at all costs, this will only get worse
You are wrong. Mother nature fixed it.
I don't think this particular incident was like that. Dallas Lebeau was a professional freestyle skier who had competed professionally for several years. He had a lot of experience and he had apparently spent a month planning that jump. It wasn't just a random decision or showing off for friends. I don't know exactly what happened, and I'm not saying what he did was wise, but let's not condemn the guy based on assumptions without knowing the facts.
If you've lived in a ski town you've met a kid like this. Someone with poor decision making skills where you see what the "think" they can do and you know there is little chance this dude lives to be an old man. Curious where exactly this happened as I can't think of any place with a long enough runout before you hit trees.
Like to see the jump spot that would give him air to jump over moving traffic. Since the freeway wasn't shut down.
@@kevinthetruckdriver353 people jump roads all the time. You guys are acting like he's the first person to ever try it.
I met a guy like this in Banff. A few months later, he was on crutches after trying to go down a cliff that isn't even a ski area.
Where's the video?
Yep. Someone had to be documenting! If not no way he would of tried ! If been . Successful he be UA-cam tic tock legend. (Rich from video views alone) But since not smart enough to do proper calculations he exited d life experiment! Still legendary but in d wrong way.
Live Leak.
Where’s the vid ???
@@axisgalaxis Wonder if this was his 1st attempt... couldn't be right?¿
I bet at least two out of the three friends have a video saved for later.
Can't beat the laws of physics.
break
We used to Gap jump the road up here in Mount Shasta ski park but it's practically one lane. A three-lane with the shoulders that's just insane
A good man knows his limitations...
Skiing is an extreme sport, sometimes you have to push your limits to challenge yourself. People tend to forget how dangerous this sport is.
Even in war there’s a time you need to retreat.
Guard rail is a deal breaker,RIP
A bone breaker, am I right? Lol. Love it.... Let's get more tik tokers to take up the challenge. I know you can do it.
Some people don't think before doing something stupid.
i guarantee you he thought about it. probably almost obsessively.
He probably thought about how cool it would be.
Yeah don't tell us anything.....wtf???
This will become a Tik tok challenge. Darwin never disappoints
Survival of the mentally fittest
this is the most geriatric comment I have ever seen on UA-cam
@@alias.project Bro is young enough to know about TikTok and Darwin awards.
Yeah bro everyone is going to just start jumping highways. This guys was an awesome skier and people jump roads all the time. The snow was probably sticky causing him to lose too much speed.
Newest Darwin award winner.
Their are old skiers, and their are bold skiers Their are no old, bold, skiers
Bodie Miller?
Tanner hall?
Cody? Daron? Robb?
There aren't that many bold skiers left tbh. Mogul runs are practically empty compared to when the old skiers were skiing.
Candide Thovex
They didn't want to show the spot for sure, everyone is filmed in vague locations, good move!
I can see a line of people saying I can make that just watch.
A fool and his life are soon parted
I always wanted to do the same thing on a motorcycle. Thank goodness my intelligent side always overcame my adrenaline junkie side.
Sad for his family and friends.
Say no to drugs.
Adrenaline junkies are ironically the most sober people i know. This was thought up from the perspective of an athlete who has survived doing lots of crazy stuff alread
@@dylanmccallister1888 I've lived in a mountain town in CO for many years. I know what people do.
@@dylanmccallister1888You don’t think the idea of putting the stunt up on Social Media going viral would have any effect on the well planned decision making.
When I started to get really interested in backpacking in Grand Canyon I read that the greatest risk factor to determine your chances of going to Grand Canyon alive and coming back dead was to be a male under 25 years of age.
Sounds like the canyon is sexist. Women should protest this.
So what exactly happened ? All I can picture in my mind is he Wile E. Coyot'd into the side of a passing semi tractor trailor box ! "Beep" ! "Beep" ! "Lblblblblblb" !
He smacked that rock hard snow bank on the other side of the road doing about 60mph. Ouch!
@@tired7140 came up short...
Wiley Coyote...Genius at large lives on!
And keeps dying, and dying, and dying.
Wile E Coyote is an accidental genius. Roadrunner tastes like shit 💩!!!
He landed in a traffic lane.
But just imagine all the likes he would've gotten on social media!
That was the focus but oops didn't happen.
Guarantee the mountains won't miss him.
And he will soon be forgotten by the rest of us.
You can't feel sorry for stupidity.
your fault for lack of empathy
you can. ask your friends.
Congrats on your Darwin Award…..Dude.
at least he tried , HATER
@@copyprint-fz2hb he tried alright just a little too hard.
@@copyprint-fz2hb yes. It’s raw envy that makes me post this. 🤣🤣🤣
Another winner of the ultimate stupid prize.
Like a bug 🐞 on a windshield . 😥
Tragedy? Why would this be a trajedy?
"an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe:" --- it was a serious accident
Right. A tragedy is usually unforseen. This one could have been predicted a mile away and a month ahead.
That was a once in a lifetime experience.
He literally gave it his all. Condolences to his family and friends.
Tragedy? No. Idiocy yes.
pretty sad how Americans have lost virtually all of their empathy. Everyone just has a superiority complex likely covering for the fact that are miserable people who never accomplished anything.
Hold my beer
Hold my snorkel 😂
he definitely earned his darwin award. to bad he failed physics in school.
Where the heck was he supposed to land?
Self, self, self.
I don’t know, but I’m assuming the deceased jumper was probably a fan of the “Jackass” franchise.
When i was a kid it was only evil kneivel, and u didnt really hear about deaths, now its almost every day that someone dies over these thrill seeking trivial moments. Too much praise without balanced warning.
People do that on the Beartooth but you’re jumping from the high side to the low side over a couple lanes, much more doable than this location. You have to take physics into account too. You have to know your speed and trajectory on takeoff to even see if it’s mathematically possible to clear that distance. You can tell by how these guys talk they obviously don’t think about that.
When your ego is bigger than your brain bad things happen.
Why would you try to do something like that? 🤔
Peer pressure 😢
Likes.
Total stupidity ?
Going "viral" on social media, getting MONEY from the clicks and ads.
I’m a skier and I love going off jumps, but this one is definitely not worth the risk! Major highway with vehicles and other dangers as well…
So, how'd that work out?
I'm sure his GoPro will reveal what he was thinking before the jump. Condolences to his family.
That's too bad. I appreciate his effort. May God rest his soul.
kind compassionate intelligent comment, thanks, far too few
Any update on the condition of the highway?
Small crack and a blood puddle. Nothing major
What a dream to live there. Epic spots literally on the side of the highway, just a hike away.
The lack of any form of compassion in this comments section.
You are speaking for yourself of course.
Oh he made it to the "other side"...just not the side he was hoping for.
Why did the skier cross the road??
he didn't
Isn't there a formula for figuring out how fast you have to be traveling and taking into account the vertical height of the jump take off point?
This reporter in the yellow dress is an absolute stunner.
Does she do ski jumps also
20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. Proverbs
Did they find his video equipment or were these guys doing it for him?
They were not there when he died. Just driving around like the news crew to find the spot where he tried to jump
When you're so committed to the send, you risk it all. That's a true daredevil spirit.
Right!? The Jethro Brothers can't believe it. The Rocky Mountains will never be the same without our righteous icon XOXO
It was at what point that he realized he futup
And then he fut right back down into the highway.
Nobody was brave enough to say no to this guy, nor smart enough to explain why.
So was he hit, or did he crash the jump?
I didn't see any place where you would think jump from here over the highway. 🤔
yes they are looking at something , not sure what though, editing here is confusing, does not show aproach path or landing area
@@jimorgain63Probably to prevent others from trying it
But think of how many likes and views you would have gotten🙄
Why are we calling a bad decision a tragedy?
His parents will sue the government for making the road too wide.
Missed it by that much
No Extreme Athletes in the comment section!!
people calling this guy an idiot r the joke he was definitely a legend for sending
I don't blame them.
They secretly wish they could live as intensely as this guy and doing exactly the things that they want to do in life, without regret.
But all they can do is cope with this repressed desire for excitement by means of cringy Wiley Coyote and Darwin Award jokes or straight up hate.
Pretending that their life has meaning and importance, pretending they aren't just living out a ridden-out stiff personality archetype a trillionth time from the inception of the universe, if there even was such an event to begin with.
I would not expect anything more from human beings.
From which altitude did he start?
He also ruined his parents life. The loss of a child is unbearable.
You cannot fix stupid!
Just did.
The Darwin Award.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
How big was the highway?
I understand the childhood read, "I think I Can I think I Can-The Little Engine That Could" had a big influence on his life.
Stupid reporting. " Ya were about a half a mile away " so dumb
If they show where it is, it gives other dumbasses the idea to go try it too
@@profiigate1357 maybe they will try it at this spot if they are so dumb?
@@profiigate1357 Thin the herd !
@@profiigate1357 And what's wrong with that?
@@gbone7581 Learn to write in English caveman
DARWIN AWARD WINNER!!!
*HE WENT OUT A WINNER!!!*
Why did the skier cross the road?
Trust me. The mountains WILL stay the same. With or without.
Comments would be way different if he had made it! The only things you regret are the chances in life you didn't take! Humility and Respect are two really good traits.
I would rather have regrets at 70-80 than be dead at 21. He didn't even begin to live life.
Rest in peace 🙏.
I truly hope no family members of this guy read these heartless comments.
Full Sender! Respect
Only bummer is no vid of the splat, surely they would film this.
Anyway he learned his lesson and won't try it again.
Your turn.
@@CrankyHermit I did it a month ago, I will be waiting till next season to do it again because of snow conditions
@@simpsons721 Hopefully you won't get 2 minutes on the evening news explaining to drivers why they sat for an hour waiting for the photos and hose crew to finish.
Extreme sport, young and naive, taking risks he should not have ended up costing his life. Sad. 😢
Or the old starting wars they don’t fight
@@Theonetruegod-hw2ei Do you think it's a good idea for old people to fight in combat? Or were you just trying to say "war, bad!"?
@@santacruzman depends on the war.
@@Theonetruegod-hw2ei Sorry, no. I was not using war as a metaphor. The elderly do not fight well due to aging. So the edict, don't use old people as soldiers, holds in any example of war anyone was interested in winning, which appear to be concomitants of the concept.
@@santacruzman maybe they should fight. They want war. Let’s give it to them.
Sometimes, you actually die doing not so smart stuff.
This in no way meets the definition of tragedy
Play stupid games , win stupid prizes.
Fly high, free bird🕊