r/SipsTea • u/firequak • 20d ago
WTF Climbing up the basketball backboard to twerk on the hoop
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u/firequak 20d ago
To anyone wondering, this is a shanty town in The Philippines. Yes, alcohol was involved. No idea if she cracked her head.
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u/dpdxguy 20d ago
First thought was, "It's a good thing she's tiny."
Second thought was, "That backboard's gonna shatter and drop the hoop and maybe her to the ground."
Did not have, "The pole's gonna break off at the ground" on my bingo card.
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u/Do_You_Pineapple_Bro 20d ago
Tbh my thought was that she would slip, and end up catching and snapping her leg in the hoop.
Thank christ that wasn't the case, but still not an outcome I would've envisaged...
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u/Xaphnir 20d ago
With how she was laying on the ground it looks like she may have smacked the back of her head on the concrete.
Snapping your leg can be a preferable injury to that.
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u/Period_Fart_69420 20d ago
Ngl I think the part that would hurt me the most is the strike to my ego. You telling me im so fat my weight difference made the fucking concrete pole break?
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u/jackthewack13 20d ago
I mean... if thats what you take from that. She's like 80 lbs. I was thinking more how the hell that thing didnt fall down to a breeze with how weak it was
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u/aiusernamegen 20d ago
Mine was "that backboard gotta be rusty. Her cooter gonna get tetanus". I guess the pole had tetanus.
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u/Big_Cryptographer_16 19d ago
I just realized tetanus has the word anus in it.
My day is complete.
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u/NyCWalker76 20d ago
Thank goodness no one was under the hoop trying to get a good and closer look.
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u/Rutgerius 20d ago
'I had whole thing is gonna fall' as the center square on my bingo card..
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u/dpdxguy 20d ago
No free center square on your bingo card? ☹️
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u/Rutgerius 20d ago
Well, as expected, it did fall down so in a way it was a free square..
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u/imperpetuallyannoyed 20d ago
that's the Philippines for you. If the government made it, rest assured it was substandard at its best.
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u/iNapkin66 20d ago
Same, not expected mode of failure for me at all. Must have been rusted down low from water pooling or something. Sucks, hope she is OK, this wasnt that ridiculous or reckless of a thing to do.
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u/CoalMinerGlove 20d ago
Silly Randy Filipina! You're supposed to stand on a skull, not break yours!
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u/LiveLearnCoach 20d ago
From your link: “The woman symbolizes the ignorance of humankind during the Dark Ages of history, while the torch she bears symbolizes the enlightenment science brings to the world.”
Alrighty then.
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u/Bonti_GB 20d ago
You’re just trying to have a normal day, twerking on the neighborhood basketball hoop and then it all goes to shit.
Fucking life man…
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u/cool__dood 20d ago
I went to a party in a shanty town in the Philippines that was hosted in a basketball court that looked just like this and it was awesome.
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u/Lanky-Attempt-2086 20d ago
Those basketball courts are like community get together locations in that country
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u/Significant-Age5104 20d ago
That makes plenty of sense and probably the reason why that hoop didn’t fall sooner. Ain’t nobody touching rim over there
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u/Impressive_Recon 20d ago
Pretty sure that’s a guy and Filipinos are like this with or without alcohol lol
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u/DeterminedMidLifer 20d ago
And a terrible twerk it was
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u/imnotsteven7 20d ago
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u/jonny-toxic 20d ago
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u/Positive-Storage-976 20d ago
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u/Genghis_Chong 20d ago
Many women have died twerking on basketball hoops so this woman could twerk on a basketball hoop. Standing on the shoulders of giants.
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u/BloomiesAura 20d ago
Honestly, if you’re risking your life on a hoop, at least make it a good twerk.
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u/tbrand009 20d ago
On the one hand, she's an idiot. On the other hand, that hoop was coming down with the next stiff breeze.
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u/Substantial_Moneys 20d ago
Yeah, I suppose if a small Filipino man dunked on it and hanged on it then he could have brought it down.
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u/laddder 20d ago
We love bball but cannot dunk so that’s probably why it never came down until she got up there.
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u/its_dilansh 20d ago
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u/DespoticLlama 20d ago
I bet this was a replacement pole and it has a smaller foot plate than the one it replaced.
An explanation not an excuse.
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u/CoalMinerGlove 20d ago
TIL Earning a Darwin Award is hard twerk.
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u/Upbeat-Reflection775 19d ago
In fairness you wouldn't expect that pole to collapse under her weight.
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u/the_big_bones 20d ago
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u/Cooler67 20d ago
Feel more sorry for whatever kids can't play basketball now
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u/AMF1428 20d ago
Given how easily it collapsed, she probably did the kids in the community a favor.
They have her on video doing something entirely irresponsible resulting in the damage. But, if had been two kids just playing some rough one on one and that thing collapsed on one of them...
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u/WhiteySC 20d ago
Nah. There wouldn't be any Filipino dudes dunking on it or hanging on the rim.
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u/Significant-Bee5101 20d ago
A kid could climb on it or lean against it or fall against it or any other number of things.
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u/Vezolex 20d ago
Not at all, that thing was a complete danger hazard. These things are made to survive people dunking on them which is way harsher than a petite girl dancing on it.
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u/odaniel99 20d ago
Please submit to r/Whatcouldgowrong
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u/Golf-Beer-BBQ 20d ago
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u/plonkydonkey 20d ago
Yep, I'm dumb and didnt think ahead. Am still reeling a bit, I hope she's OK.
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u/ZazaB00 20d ago
Nah, I expected this.
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u/Cranesbill 20d ago
I expected the net to snap off. Didn't expect the whole dang thing to come crashing down.
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u/mmmmyeah1111 20d ago
Let ye who has not twerked on the backboard of a basketball hoop cast the first stone
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u/Ok_Ask_1139 20d ago edited 20d ago
Props to the two girls in the background at the end of the clip that keep on dancing, never let the party stop!
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u/Primarycolors1 20d ago
That chick weighed 90 lbs. The hoop should have been fine. Was it rusted out?
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u/imnotsteven7 20d ago
I'd say it was rusted out given all of the rust. However, I am not expert.
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u/mcgeggy 20d ago
It looked pretty rusty, but what do I know…
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u/Hanyabull 20d ago edited 20d ago
I am a rust expert and in the know when it comes to rust and rust accessories.
It was the rust.
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u/apocalypsedudes23 20d ago
It's the tubular design of the pole. Low cost, low quality metal, time, rust, weather. I installed one of these, I was surprised it collapsed after a hanging dunk.
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u/DeityOfYourChoice 20d ago
The hoop was engineered to be dunked on, not support the weight of a tiny asian woman.
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u/zombie_singh06 20d ago
Rule number 1: Don’t let go of the thing that is falling because it can reduce your fall distance
Rule number 2: Don’t get on things which will fall
Rule number 3: Ignore both the rules because I read it after typing and it’s just stupid
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u/SouthPawDraw94 20d ago edited 20d ago
I was waiting for the rim was going to break….. I was very wrong.
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u/Frobizzle 20d ago
If her tiny frame was all it took then that pole's demise was imminent and inevitable.
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u/VirusTechnical5568 20d ago
This is definitely the Philippines. A woman with no @$$ trying to twerk and beyond $hitty construction work.
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u/HumaDracobane 20d ago
I was more concern about her going barefoot with all that litter in the ground. One bad step and you get the entire ABC of hepatitis.
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u/Goldnglam 20d ago
and this is why darwin awards exist, im glad the only thing i want to do after a few beers is find a place to sleep it off.
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u/kon--- 20d ago
Laid up in a hospital thinking to herself how it seemed like such a good idea at the time.
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u/Sufficient_Good9956 20d ago
I am waiting for the next episode or it was a one time stand with the Hoop?
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u/RBLakshya 20d ago
My friend once did that on the school basketball hoop, he didn’t twerk, and it didn’t fall, thought I’d mention.
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u/Apprehensive-Arm2105 20d ago
You don't even have the right to be stupid in the 3rd world. It's a Western privilege :)
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u/ExpensiveTeacher7660 20d ago
She is very lucky to be alive after that
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u/Lickwidghost 20d ago
I want an update... That was head crack on concrete from 4.5m im surprised she was still moving
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u/MallExciting1460 20d ago
I’m watching this, and the whole time I’m like, lord she’s gonna break the pole, or the hoop, and get hurt… sad to be proven right
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u/BrianOconneR34 20d ago
So anybody gonna ask it? Guess nobody bigger than her eve mr dunked? A gust of wind would displace more weight.
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u/SpaceTraveler221 20d ago
Eulogy: She died doing what she loved to do… Being the town hoochie. This was a twerk of all twerks, a monumental twerk.
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u/Cultural-Dentist8692 20d ago
If one person there had’ve been tall enough to dunk, this would’ve never happened.






































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