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- Crashing an airplane

- Recklessly endangering other people in the area (this was not far from established hiking trails)

- Getting investigated by FAA

All for barely 200k views on YouTube. Wow.




His youtube channel really sets the scene...

"I got stuck on a chairlift", "Skydive ends in police car", "A helicopter left me in the ocean", "I Brought My Dog Flying (Bad Idea)"... just on and on.

In the don't bring your dog flying one he starts with "this story may or may not be true", mentions that his gopro coincidentally didn't capture the critical moments, then talks about nearly crashing during takeoff and all his electronics going out and his dog panicking. So of course he alledgedly continued on without navigation into a no-fly zone instead of y'know turning around and landing.

I'm not totally 100% convinced the stuff is all fake, but at the very least he probably shouldn't be flying...


I'd say that if he stays on the same path, we won't need to concerned for much longer. Compounding risks have a way of converging on expected outcomes, over time.


But it was all sponsored by ridge wallet, I'm sure that totally paid off. /s

At least not sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS


Even hearing the synopsis, I don't even care to watch the video...


2100 likes & no dislikes, though. Looks like the people have spoken!


Does YouTube show the dislike count anymore?


They don't. And videos like this is exactly why they still should. There is no indication to a casual viewer that this might be BS unless they carefully look at the trend in the comments.

I read the message you replied to as sarcasm btw.




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