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If you want to avoid death by inflatable rubber ball, I suggest you avoid 'Zorbing'* down a Russian mountainside. That's because two guys who recently did just this ended up plunging down the side of a mountain, over a cliff, into a ravine, and on to a frozen lake--a ride that snapped one guy's neck. And of course the internet is abuzz with this news because somebody videotaped the entire thing and put it up on the interwebs.

According to Wikipedia, "Zorbing (globe-riding, sphereing, orbing) is the recreation or sport of rolling downhill in an orb, generally made of transparent plastic." According to me, Zorbing is a tremendously stupid thing to do when there is a cliff nearby and no barrier of any kind between you and the cliff. But that's just me.

That little ball there? It's got two guys inside it.
It's about to rocket down a mountain and go over a cliff
and kill one of the guys. The experience only cost $10!
A full video of the incident can be found here.

Reddit had a long discussion about what it might be like to be inside a plastic ball tumbling down a mountain. It doesn't sound pleasant.

This is one of the worst ways to die. At those speeds your senses would be totally fucked, your brain scrambled by the constant spinning. No concept of up or down, or what has gone wrong. Just a blur. Then jolting and pounding that gets stronger and harder. Then your vision turns to red. All the while hearing the horrific sound of gutteral [sic] screaming in an echochamber [sic] made of inflatable rubber.

AND IT'S ONLY WEDNESDAY Y'ALL. More horror to come, if I manage to blog all the stuff I've been collecting.