Watch This Snowmobile Go into the X-Games Crowd at Full Speed, Leaving One Fan Injured

All, GIF, X-Treme Sports! Michael Shamburger January 27th. 2013, 10:00pm

X-Games contestant Jackson Strong has apparently only had four hours of riding time on a snowmobile (he’s an accomplished biker). Here he is attempting a trick he made up called “The Jack.”

Obviously the trick didn’t go as planned and the throttle on the snowmobile got stuck after hitting the ground and shot into the crowd. ESPN reported that one person was injured.

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28 Responses to “Watch This Snowmobile Go into the X-Games Crowd at Full Speed, Leaving One Fan Injured”

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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:03 PM
X games are whack. How bout my x game snowmobile trick from my HS days? Me and a buddy drank straight everclear then took a snowmobile to a forest preserve and fell off it a bunch of times laughing
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Monster is Meth Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:13 PM
Me and a buddy drank straight everclear then took a snowmobile to a forest preserve
Everclear. Heavy gas powered vehicle. Trees. Sounds like a recipe for success right there.
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:15 PM
we stayed in the open and still crashed
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Monster is Meth Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:29 PM
Everclear will enable that to happen. This isn’t where I parked my car.
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Monster is Meth Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:30 PM
I see you won your Pro Bowl bet, Vez. What’d you win?
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:37 PM
one meeelllion dollars
(puts pinkie by lips raises eyebrow)
20. the bigger news of the night was 50 on atlanta hawks and 100 on creighton
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Pdd53 Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:39 PM
Had a friend in high school who swigged half a bottle of Everclear thinking he was tough shit. A few minutes after he started breaking out with purple spots and his skin had a yellowish tone. It was some freaky stuff. He spent the rest of the night making himself puke.
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:41 PM
having barely been able to sip that stuff straight i believe it pdd53. amazing he could hold it down or even get past the first swallow
we sipped it out of the bottle cap once and it numbed my lips
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:43 PM
only possible injury i see is the person in red by the fence mighta got clipped
back to you, ron
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Monster is Meth Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:51 PM
My friend mixed everclear into a mountain dew 2-liter and let some weed soak in it overnight. Why he thought that would add good flavor I have no idea. But it did actually. Very drinkable. Was too much of a wuss to drink it straight though.
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:54 PM
i’d be more interested in the weed in that scenario meth
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 10:55 PM
also, that’s one tough mfing sled to pop up and get after it. amazed that neither it nor the driver stayed down
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PL StabbinKabin Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 11:02 PM
/High fives V;ez on the over
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Monster is Meth Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 11:16 PM
i’d be more interested in the weed in that scenario meth
I don’t know if he dried it out or just tossed it. Never asked him. He just dropped a bud in the bottle and let it soak. There was pieces of it still mixed in. It was like orange juice with pulp. Only it wasn’t orange juice. And it wasn’t pulp.
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Gritty Hombres Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 11:19 PM
Hmm, spectacularly unqualified to be doing tricks on a snowmobile, no kill switch and clearly inadequate barriers. Nice going ESPN, I’m sure that settlement on the injured person will be inexpensive, but you got lucky this time. Also, of course there is nothing about this on their own website, buncha wankers.
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Monster is Meth Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 11:22 PM
no kill switch
Don’t think a kill switch does much good if you’re not on the bike to hit the switch.
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rondoman Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 11:26 PM
Meth I dont think you understand how a kill switch works.
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 11:38 PM
for meth, it’s the trigger of his hunting rifle
is it the key that comes out bc it’s attached to your wrist when you go flying off?
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 11:38 PM
high fives plsk and his funny way of typing
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 11:42 PM
also, this gif to me is equal to or better than the anderson kid gif earlier
having a two brothers northwind stout. not a stout guy but it’s damn good after putting the wife to bed (wink) and counting the wagering spoils
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 27th, 2013 at 11:43 PM
here it is. lucky to have the brewery just down the road from us. damn good food in their two restaurants too. the newest is the place walter payton owned in aurora
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Gritty Hombres Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:13 AM
Yeah, Otis got it. Also, it can be something like a lawn mower where it only goes forward if the bar is held down. Basically any system that shuts down the operation of something when shit goes wrong.
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:28 AM
like the morning after pill
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PL StabbinKabin Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:35 AM
Meth I dont think you understand how a kill switch works.
Yea. A kill switch pretty much puts a damper on the whole flipping around on your machine thing. Would not work out to well. Kill switches work well for recreational riders like us here in these parts.
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PL StabbinKabin Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:38 AM
A kill switch is a line from your wrist tied to the ignition so when you fall off the sled the sled dies. You wouldn’t want your sled killing on you in mid air.
/science’d
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 12:48 AM
i too love craft beer’s magical way of buzzing you with one bottle
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Gritty Hombres Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 4:41 AM
That’s only one version of a kill switch. Also, it could be on a 8 foot cord from his vest to the key, so if he, you know falls off, it would remove the key before it got to far. Also, could have it set up as a time delay on a pressure grip on the throttle, like a dead man’s switch, of say 5 seconds. Could even have it as a remote controlled by a crew member. Just need to try and think outside the 4 inch by 4 inch box.
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Monster is Meth Says:
January 30th, 2013 at 9:25 PM
Also, it could be on a 8 foot cord from his vest to the key, so if he, you know falls off, it would remove the key before it got to far. Also, could have it set up as a time delay on a pressure grip on the throttle, like a dead man’s switch, of say 5 seconds.
So I don’t know what a killswitch is? How is it a good idea to have an 8 foot cord attached to you and a snowmobile when you are doing backflips and shit in the air, either while on the snowmobile or off of the snowmobile after you let go of it? I know how a god damn kill switch works. And the throttle delay wouldn’t work. In case you don’t know, hitting the brakes in the air causes a nose dive and throttle brings the nose up. They actually use the throttle to help with flips.
Meth I dont think you understand how a kill switch works.
I perfectly understand how a killswitch works, and it’s not going to work for these types of riding scenarios. Case in point-don’t do backflips and shit on snowmobiles.