Silly man. Clearly he ought to be wearing a hard hat.

wjousts

i dont know, but id rather ride the robotic arm thank you very much!

alin0steglinski

People like this raise the worker's comp rates for everyone :(.

Other than making it expensive for everyone else, looks cool...

Worf

They should try putting it near a pond and use it to launch out into the water. No thanks, though. I'll just watch and keep my phone out to call 911 for you guys.

nospamsam

FUN! My cousins own a small construction company and in the summers I worked with them and the small machinery was crazy fun to play with. I wouldnt do some of the things we did before like racing with the small bobcats with people on top of them riding it like a little pony. Was fun, and when you own your company you cant sue yourself. Although, OSHA like organizations will fine you.

dysthymia

Oh why don't you pansies go ride the teabags. THIS LOOKS AWESOME!

sibertater

Oh why don't you pansies go ride the teacups. THIS LOOKS AWESOME!

aydiosmio

Digger? Seriously? This is a tech blog, and you can't call it an excavator?

Anyhow, back in the day my coworkers and I would race excavators across a field, the only challenge was that we had to be spinning the entire time. It isn't too hard to make it across the field straight, they have steering locks, but we had to run the last hundred feet or so to cross the line, that was tough. Generally I'd make it out of the cab and about 3 steps before I fell over the first time.

Good times.

RamV10

@FlashSandbox:
I think he got blended.

timerider42

It might be a little safer if he had a harness rather than just putting one leg through a rope. I was waiting for his legs to snap off.

timerider42

it has to be the UK

way to go Britain.

flyboy

So not OSHA approved.....but I laughed my butt off.

txturbo930

Yes, but will it blend?

FlashSandbox

@strider_mt2k:
thanks for holding my place in line

discounteggroll

I was waiting for him to lose his grip on the rope and catch that hook right under his xiphoid process. yikes!

med

What was that show....fear factor? next stunt please

Razta

Holy crap!

me next me next!

strider_mt2k

It'll probably be on the next Dr. Steve-O show...

Gadgetgirl

Both of these guys should be fired. What a liability risk!

pupaboy2

@saych: LOL

Type-E

and they'll sue the company that makes the digger if they get hurt. :)

saych

@junyo: lol

EMoShunz

I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of OSHA inspectors cried out in terror all across the Internets. I fear something terrible has happened.

junyo

Future Darwin award winner. No doubt! Still looks like a fun ride though...

yvo_suave

God I hope nobody asks if it blends...

LastAndLeast

I was just waiting for him to lose his grip.

Can you imagine how far he'd fling and how many flips he'd do before crash-landing? Now that'd be something to watch.

ME NEXT.

Bryan_

A over 200 year-old mystery has been solved in a 49 seconds video. Now we know,unequivocally, why the British lost the Revolutionary War.

coolrepublica

And the folks who make the excavator will be sued because there is NO STICKER saying not to do this. Ahhh, natural selection in progress.

"Hey guys! Watch this!" *whack!*

Oldbrass

white people crazy,
seriously, is it exchange server compatible?

calaverasgrandes

@wjousts:
Lol, clearly.

vision646

Cone-o-tragedy, Sam and Max: Hit the Road - at least, without the cone, and without the freaky pixelated characters, and with a digger instead... hmm.

Jawdy

lol awesome... looked pretty insane.. pulling some G's... build a chair for it and im Right there with him.

mikeysnipa

Why gosh, you could almost imagine a whole chain of theme parks around diggers!

potentato

Charles Darwin seen rubbing his hands together greedily off frame.

chiablo

Holy crap, where do I sign up for that?

photophile

@photophile: The morgue.

Derek, IN

I'd hit it.

WheelDawg

@Amiash: redundancy detected

Amiash

totally crazy!! (MAN, THAT IS REALLY INSANE)

Amiash

will it float?

D_Zarster

Bob the builder is cool again.

I wonder how far Scoop could fling Wendy?

flyboy

@nospamsam:

Sounds like a good idea except for when something like this happens... [www.youtube.com]

b_lcky

Lol, imagine if he was held upside down by his legs.
"Look what I can do. *scrap* *splat*"

timerider42

I saw this robotic arm ride in the Wisconsin Dells once. It has two seats at the end and flips you upside down and spins all over. Looked like the most vomit-inducing ride ever.

timerider42