Death Jump - Franz Reichelt jumps off the Eiffel Tower [HD]

[chada75]

The Batman! Not.

[VlogthroughFOG]

That is fucking.. FUNNY AS SHIT!

[StewartLucrative]

I love how his high tech jumping platform is a chair on top of a table.

[CG11767]

If your gonna be dumb ya gotta be tuff

[Furiful1]

@CG11767 how can you call him dumb.he died for god sakes.

[bluesheeft]

@Furiful1 Death and doing very dumb things are strongly related.

[Narriation222]

ouch!

[bleed723]

wait... this is the guy who made the first parachute... is he?



[FalconStkr1]

Why did he think this would work?

[jamiedraig]

I'm Franz Reichelt and welcome to Le Jackass.

[jeccius]

@jamiedraig *tuts*

[jamiedraig]

@jeccius Had to be done.

[jeccius]

1st French Nuclear Particle Collider circa 1912; see how they measure the neutron emmisions after the impact.

[Bruno47602]

Poor fellow...+

[IAmSuchANerdLol]

SUPER BEEF.

[CantFindAGodDamnName]

im guessing he didnt feel very well after that..

[alfst]

stupid is as stupid does

[Houldsworth92]

Should've used a GoPro!!

[zuluboy75]

dumb ass!

[thepigofhappiness]

sigh, Darwin's theory in action... did he not even try from a house or something first?!

[CantFindAGodDamnName]

stuipid french idiot.

[8XxHawkxX8]

@CantFindAGodDamnName you are stuipid he was born in Vienna so he is not french idiot

[CantFindAGodDamnName]

i dont understand why he didnt just do it into water first.....

[8XxHawkxX8]

@CantFindAGodDamnName Water will not make a diffrance

[frenchsk8]

@CantFindAGodDamnName haters gonna hate.

[Bennyhillcat]

some one, anyone, add looney toon sound effects

[JayStar1213]

Did it work?

[twitchypj]

NOW THAT'S A MUSTACHE!!!!!!

[60pedrolivecom]

I wonder why he didn`t try this over water first.

[peterswinson]

He'd be dead by now anyway.

[outsida]

Wow... Wtf did I just watch?

[insidiouspoison]

I don't know why anyone would laugh at this. Douche bags. Too bad it wasn't you.

[galileegongoozlers]

1:18 to 1:23 for the actual jump

[rarhs]

what a twat did he really think that thing would work!? at least try it off something shorter first lol

[ILikePotpie1]

I fail to see how this is funny. How people can laugh at someone doing this of his own free will.

[nobux60]

Well at least he died doing what he loved best.

[nobux60]

At the end, It looks like either his feet were twisted around backward, or he was laying face down and his head was twisted around backward.

[nobux60]

He was a real showman :-)

[nobux60]

He has enough time before he hit the ground to say "Houston, we have a problem."

[makaronaldo]

This must be the oldest FAIL video ever...!!

[TheJappicus]

Playing Steve Miller's 'Fly Like An Eagle' or simply shouting 'Flap! Ferdinand....flap!" might give an extra dimension to this classical viewing of the mighty man (RIP)

[shaftsbury94]

PLAN B

[cornersmother]

yesterday it was the excactly 100 years today Franz Reichelt stepped off the Eiffeltower, without Reichelt no man on the moon; a small step for man, one giant step for mankind

[WilliamPbrane]

This guys ten pound balls of steel left quite a dent in the ground.

[p2umpkin]

Didn't he think to test it out on objects before testing it himself? >_< That was hard to watch.

[nobux60]

@p2umpkin Their minds weren't that far advanced in those days.

[shaftsbury94]

FACEPLANT

[YGriffiny2]

Take one clothes rack + one double sleeping bag + total lunatic + one Eiffel Tower = Pancake

[FaerieCrone]

@YGriffiny2 Lolololol

Sorry but that was funny.

[KD5XB]

Ground rush!

[DmitryTBL]

"Since the days of Copernicus, man has dreamed of flight. On this historic day, we remember the Wright Brothers: Orville and Redenbacher, whose dreams and visions inspired generations. And now, again, one man's vision ushers in a new era of aerial travel, proving the power of imagination and intellect. The magic... of flight!" Eric Theodore Cartman.

[littleangel7900]

i was like oh now he jumped oh now he died

[PRE1959]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I will now perform my imitation of WILE E. COYOTE.

[tpp27]

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID.

[tpp27]

this dude pioneered the "squirel parachute" and also an inspiration to r kelly's i can fly song.

[dokokai]

If at first you don't succeed..... skydiving is not for you.

[MoonCrashed]

Trumpet: Wonk, wonk, wonk, wawawawawawawa....

[jonnernko]

I can fly!!!, i can fly!!!!. oh wait

[Gazontheraz]

what a fucking eejit

[zupergozer]

did he die?

[eudaimoniarecordings]

@zupergozer no, he is still alive...

[TheVinoThunderbird]

I tried it with a sheet off the second story roof as a kid. Turns out homemade parachutes don't work as well as the commercially made ones. Who knew?

[UntitledKirk]

FUCK I feel like such an asshole for laughing at this.

[sofiasmartis]

HD cameras were rare in 1912.

[steveski74]

@sofiasmartis Everything was HD back then, they were all film!

[timrs2001]

I still get a kick out of this video.

[dark4krad]

To infinity and beyondddddd!!! Boy that was the stupidest death I have seen till date.... He should have used a dummy or something..... I guess this is the first officialy permitted suicide from the Eiffel tower. But I feel sorry for his family though he has died 100 years ago!

[dreamingcode]

@dark4krad he did use a dummy

[Sbomb96]

1:21 is all you need to see...

[brosius85]

to infinity, and beyond!

[UncleFeedle]

Maybe he was counting on the moustache to provide additional drag and air resistance.

[JeremiahGuzman]

this is what "faith" looks like. 

[mix4kix]

And now we have guys jumping off cliffs in wingsuits that look pretty damn similar.

[EpicFishFingers]

Why upload it in HD?

[WhatTheHellsAGigawat]

Hi, I'm john knoxsville and this is Eiffel jump...

[theB0ogeyman]

THIS IS HOW I DIE.

[angonbing]

winner of the 1912 darwin awards

[tykjenffs]

human self sacrifice at its worst

[lufcbrice]

weird knowing that all of these people are dead now.

[Spart1c1s]

@lufcbrice And not one of them survived till the internet. This guy didn't die in vein, because every single one of these people died in vein. We are the luckiest human beings to ever exist, and anyone who did not survive to this time contributed scarcely anything to human civilization.

[lufcbrice]

@Spart1c1s Fascinating really, now mans greed has turned creation into destruction, evolution is really fascinating, I'm excited to see what the next few years have to offer!

[TheAwakenedHeretic]

Bully time old chap! BULLY TIME!

[snakevids]

is that mustache supposed to help him fly?

[TheAmazingTwist]

I guess strapping a wooden dummy to that thing and throwing it wasn't considered? Were tests really that hard to imagine?

[dizzylizzie2727]

@TheAmazingTwist he was planning on using a dummy and told authorities that he would be using one, but at the last minute changed his mind and tested it himself

[TheAmazingTwist]

@dizzylizzie2727 I guess he should have stuck to his original plan.

[Bigbang14Z]

THAT MUSTACHE...MY GOD

[djgrin87]

gravity is a bitch 

[flashportalnet]

WHAT WAS THAT GOOD SIR? OH NOOUUH, THESE BLANKETS OVER MY SHOULDERS IS JUST FOR THE COLD. MY MUSTACHE WILL MAKE ME HOVER.

1:19 "Woop! WAT A FAP!? REMIND ME AS A HEROOOoOOooo..." dunk.

[SEGnosis]

I heard that poof sound like the coyote after he misses the road runner

[frizlefry]

Silent film era "Jackass" doesn't mess around.

[bzzhuh]

in stunning HD

[beaner3003]

that chair on the table looked real safe

[rex232]

so did he die?

[ShadowdaleA]

@rex232 yes

[Samoutuomas]

Die Olde Snuffe?

[killswitchdeath]

for science....

[patientzero532]

Oh man, that was gut wrenching.

[sabricks]

And in less than 60 years after this, a man would walk on the moon.

[fenriz218]

Just what happened to the cayote ... :(

[jaybar415]

LOL



[longdog65]

Poor guy was obviously a few briques short of a chargement complet and you shouldn't laugh at a man's death just because he's an idiot but that measuring the depth of the hole is comedy gold.

[SittingMooseShaman]

...now you see why the Wright Brothers built a small wind-tunnel and built models...first! This fellow should have studied and done the same in kind...today though, we have parkour, downhill BMX/Mt. Biking, bungee & base jumping also paragliding 'Gundam'-suits w/RC model-jet engines and experimental flying...all sorts of contraptions...I do believe...nothing's...changed all that much, really...

[jcdkk0]

1:17 is when he jumps

[dewi06]

BAAAAATMAN!!!

[9tails23]

dang when he hit the ground you saw the dust fly up you know he hit hard

[duvlee]

omgoodness!!! i wonder at what point this guy knew he whats gonna be ground pounded to death! my question is, did he even try jumping off of something a little less high than the eiffel tower before this? my comment is, i guess that the extent of base jumping would/could not be what it is today with out a bonehead experiment like this...

[silverballer1911]

its in hd !!!

[Hayabusa2049]

Thats what happens wen u use ACME Parachutes.... 

[Legobrickism]

I cant believe I laughed at a mans death. I mean, I LAUGHED!

[nblBer]

i wonder if his parachute would have assembled if he jumped from a higher distance

[roosterandabaldguy]

idiot

[JusticeVictoriaLover]

Your on the Eiffel Tower (2x) You look to your left the boys are like ''Don't jump, Don't jump we love you!" You look to your right the girls are like "Jump Jump No one likes you!" You look forward. Someone pushes you. What color do you see?

Red. You landed in your blood Orange. You landed iin orange juice Yellow. You landed in pee Green. You landed on grass Blue. You landed in the ocean. Purple. Your dizzy. Black. Your dead..... This is a game to play with a friend.

[JusticeVictoriaLover]

What an idiot.

[EKI84bln]

1:32 a new world record?

[jiaz23]

1:19 cant stop watching him fall... o_o

[renumeratedfrog]

The original fail.

[Zovex11]

Steam punk fail

[pacino475]

makes me think of wile e. coyote



[AlienProGaming]

hahahah supermen :d

[MageeshGaming]

to say this was filmed in 1914... it is remarkably good quality

[k1ngm3rkage]

@MageeshGaming 1912.

[MageeshGaming]

@k1ngm3rkage my bad :P

[MrVenom1994]

lol a man just fucking died not one person sad they like who care but look at that hole jeez that is a hole

[tennisace12345]

That guy had balls of steel.

[THEdomBONES]

@tennisace12345 ...and then a pancake for a body.

[miyor123]

@tennisace12345 I'm pretty sure those balls are flat now.

[PRE1959]

@tennisace12345 balls of steel but a retarded brain, and ended up with his steel balls betwween his ears.

[AmyLuthien]

Vintage base jumping in action!

[01984lockyer]

Lmao gr8 parachute there einstein lol

[RussVhasaTV]

LMAO

[bestposted]

So how deep was his punch in the ground

[dawatcher9]

haha @ 0:22 is when he realized it didn't work and 1/2 sec later he realized it was "curtains"

[MarineCorpsProud]

0:13 The burial mounds of the 3 previous parachute jumps are seen in the background. :)

[cridantis]

What a dick!

[nightkraawler]

he shoulda taken the elevator

[iamjoshx]

LMAO

[CliffieCharles]

i like how they were measuring how big of a hole he left hahah

[Hiddenrage1]

The thought of using a dummy of sort sort first never crossed his mind?...

[PCMARCHANTE]

@Hiddenrage1 Actually he used a dummy first, but the dummy smashed violently on the floor, he determined that the dummy, unable to open the arms, was guilty for the crash. So he decided jump himself to show the right procedure.

[Jefferson196]

@PCMARCHANTE interesting, well at least he got his arms open wide, didnt help though......

[Scorcho44]

This is pretty good film quality for 1912

[arthuro13]

@Scorcho44

better then those goddamn security cams you see nowaday.

DO YOU RECOGNISE THIS CRIMINAL? *looks at picture containing 4 pixels*

[MrShimizoo]

did he died ?...i didnt know that it was ok to commit suicide ....legally

[ataraxic89]

@MrShimizoo yes he did die. And he was testing an early parachute. It didnt work. So technically it wasnt for suicide. Besides, it was 1912. The world used to be different

[johnten123]

and that's how base jumping started!

[AnjelRocker]

Stupid Deaths, Stupid Deaths... they're funny cuz they're true...stupid deaths... stupid deaths... hope next time it's not you! Hoo hoo!

[Javssoccer]

He died in the name of scientific evolution. RIP Reichelt.

[PopArtStudios1]

whats sad is ofcouse his death, but also many inventers trying to fly died like this, this is just one of the only one's caught on film.

[taistelutomaatti]

See, even if you were an inventor back in the early 20th century, you could still be a moron. I wonder what he thought when he didn't slow down for one bit.

[RighteousPsycho]

Brave, brave man... RIP

[vanimusgames]

Spiderman this guy was not...

[atheistunicorn]

this is what we did for fun before the internet.

[GUSTAVnordwiking]

jajajajajaja

[goveajuan90]

fail

[zimThuet]

why the fuck would you do that? god damn this is sick.. rip

[DoriDori08]

PMSL The worlds funniest death!!! ahahahaha the dust cloud as he splats on the floor, im in tears laughing!!

[blackbrid1195]

@DoriDori08 i hope u are trolling, or u are a terrible person

[Devilock79]

rofl! Measuring the dent he put in the ground at the end. =P

[x4dow]

your face god dammit

[juantrippe82]

Whoops!

[robshenton]

For science!

[iexusuxei]

Why not just .. throw it with weights a couple times first?

[blue46gt]

@iexusuxei That would spoil the surprise!

[Maestrochimongas]

i didnt know hd was available in 1912

[iexusuxei]

@Maestrochimongas Old school film uses grains of chemicals to capture the light, get it fine enough and you're basically recording with molecules :P much higher resolution than digital was.

[ahsasv18]

I bet he got that thing on, knew he was going to die, swallowed his pride, inspected the chute one last time and just said, "Yeah...seems legit."

[sharpezor]

I can't hear anything over that mustache

[stopdong22]

I think wow,,, he still had his cap on when he jumped...

[AlexHouseproductions]

this was freaky when he jumped i cant believe he didnt try this somewhere smaller first though

[RalfDuckfeet]

@AlexHouseproductions He had previously did a smaller jump which was hugely successful however it was not publicly viewed or caught on film. This was meant to be the grand unveiling of his proven para-coat.