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Wingsuit flyer Jeb Corliss recently came to grief, breaking both legs during a squirrel jump off Table Mountain in South Africa. He’s OK, (in fact, better than OK as HBO are currently making a documentary about the whole thing) but this multiple-angle footage of the accident is terrifying.

He recently wrote on his Facebook wall:

I was going for a black balloon that was basically laying on the rocks and was going to try and kick it with my foot. In order to do this I had to fly low and flat between boulders. My left foot clipped a boulder that dragged me into a flat ledge that I took at the waist at full speed. If I had not clipped that boulder I might have made it, I might have still impacted. It’s very hard to tell from the footage. Everything happens very fast. But when you go for a flight where inches are the difference between making it and not making it well impact is very possible. I knew this and took the risk and paid the price for pushing way to hard. I take full responsibility for my actions and am just happy I still have legs to do rehab on.

Previously: Terrifying Descent Of The Day + Eye Candy: Crack Grindingly Good

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Peabody, Massachusetts yesterday: a truck hauling industrial printer cartridges rolls over on a ramp, closing the highway for 8 hours and resulting in this oddly beautiful picture, rendered in hundreds of gallons of one of the most ridiculously expensive liquids known to man.

No-one was injured in the crash.

Inky crash May Shut Down Ramp From Route 128 to I-95 North During Evening Commute (Boston Globe)

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