Thread by @marinamaral2

In 1930, George Stathakis decided to embark on a trip over the Niagara falls. Inside this barrel.

Spoiler alert: it didn't end well.

His body was recovered 18 hours later.

Bobby Leach had more luck in 1911, right after Annie Taylor, the first person to try such a stunt and survive, had said: "nobody ought to ever do that again"

My only question is

why

I must say that although Bobby survived the fall, he died 15 years later, after slipping on an *orange peel *, breaking his leg, having an infection and undergoing surgery to amputate the leg.

So here's the lesson, everyone: an orange peel can be more dangerous than Niagara Falls.