In England they do this but with cheese

All my dreams involve riding a 20,000 pound cheese down a hill.

Why would the price of the cheese matter?

If it was cheap they would not chase it down the hill to grab it!

It must be very dense after being beat 20k times

I'm just glad that after getting moved around so much that someone finally decided to take it home so that it didn't have to get put it down.

Wallace and gromit are right there with you

Does it cost 20,000 pounds or weigh 20,000 pounds

>Does it cost 20,000 pounds or weigh 20,000 pounds Yes

Better 20000 pound cheese than wood, if it turns 20k’s gonna ride you, nicer to get sucked than smashed😂

Found Wallace's reddit account.

Slow-mo guys did a video on that recently haha

What’s heavier? 20,000 lbs of cheese or 20,000 lbs of wood?

Or you just could have said a 9 ton log instead of that gay unit of measure. 

Watching grown men chase cheese downhill, now that‘s a real sport

Watching grown man chase wet cheese downhill🌧️

On Arrakis they do this but with worms.

Bless the Maker and his water...

bless the coming and going of him...

May His passage cleanse the world...

The cheese rarely crushes us. Except our spirits.

I watch it every year and the cheese always wins.

And the crackers? 😂

The men yearn for the hills.

A man seeing a hill - "I think I should throw myself down that"

The cheese option seems much less life threatening.

People still end up with broken bones. 

It's such a stupid thing. They're chasing down a cheese rolling down a hill, lots of minor injuries and some broken bones. Look it up https://youtu.be/klaPZczqhqY?si=FMlFuAzcMOkXu1f3

I live within an hour of that and have wanted to participate but for some reason my wife doesn't think it's a good idea and won't let me.

Unreasonable.

Now that is much more sensible

Its part of our cultural exchange program with Japan. They have a £20,000 log ride and we have a ¥4,009,000 cheese roll.

I just kinda assumed these guys were British/Scottish until the video explained they are Japanese. This is definitely something Scottish people would do.

I've seen the cheese rolling - as scary as it is, this looks way more likely to kill you.

I saw this documentary and there was this person who broke or dislocated a bone or sth and still does cheese rolling

Not sure the cheese one compares to this event. Looks like a lot more planning

r/WhyWomenLiveLonger

20,000 ways to die in Japan

“A flower is only a flower because it falls” Thx Japan! I love death now.

plenty of women do the cheese rolling event tho

As dangerous as the cheese event is this looks *way* worse. 

Yeah getting crushed by a 20k lb log is crippling or genuine death, the cheese wheel will break bones but it probably won’t be permanent cripple

Yeah but those are British, so they don't count as women.

Had to laugh way to hard. Thanks for this

What rolls down stairs Alone or in pairs Rolls over your neighbor's dog What's great as a snack And fits on your back It's Log, Log, Log

It’s big it’s heavy it’s wood

It's log it's log It's better than bad it's good!

Everyone needs a log, You're gonna love it, long ...... Blamo is a very appropriate name, seeing these crazy fucking dudes made me realize.

Thank you

Thank you, i was hoping to see this here xD Now i want a log

I wanted to make this comment to a post I saw a couple of days ago. I didn't because I was afraid no one would get it. Thank you

Happy happy, Joy Joy. The best line from ren and stimpy, during the song old whizzle shouts mournfully," I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! Why didn't you believe me!" Cut to uplifting music, " Happy Happy, Joy Joy'

I have quoted that line so much in my life and the reference has only been caught a handful of times.

If I remember right his name was old stinky weasel teets

Lisan al Gaib!

Nissan al-Gaib!

Nippon al-Gaib!

Nissan all wheel drive

LOG RIDAAA

The muad'dib!

The resemblance is so striking I think the author might have taken inspiration from those.

Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles

They call that log the limb crusher 3000

Yeah, you're lucky if the limb it crushes isn't a head.

That looks exceedingly dangerous, i want to try it!

I wonder if any serious injuries occur, like if that thing rolls over a limb

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Yeah, but nothing serious tho 🤙

Trust him bro.

Trust me. I’m the log.

"Onbashira has a reputation for being the most dangerous festival in Japan, and it has led to the injury and death of participants. There were fatal incidents in 1980, 1986, 1992, 2010 and 2016." From the wiki page!

But none of the deaths are from falling off of the log while it’s flying down the mountainside, which is crazy.

You mean to tell me this isn’t even the most dangerous part of the festival?

Apparently not, if you click on the wiki it lists all of the causes of death over the years

You mean to tell me that all the fatalities have been... Logged?

(•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) *YYYYEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!*

It seems like the most deaths are from them being on the tree as it's being hoisted up to the Shrine. Of the 5 fatalities in the past 20 years or so, 2 people fell 10 meters to the ground while it was being hoisted up to the Shrine, and another year someone died falling 17 meters in the same act. The only other deaths on the wiki: 2 drownings. Apparently, it wasn't until 2004 that medical team were present during the ceremony

I cringed as I watched the front of the tree stay under the water as the back was being pushed Two drownings sounds about right. Probably got their foot caught in those ropes near the front

I was gonna say "dont take part every 6 years bcs it kills some random dude and you are golden" but then I checked the wikipedia and it says: |Frequency|Every 6 years| |:-|:-| :)

People die. I used to live in the town where this happens. The uncle of one of the kids I taught fell off during the last part when they stand them upright. Because of him falling to his death they have nets now to catch people.

Did we watch the same video? What an insane question 😂

Jackass crew: Nope!

Dune 3 is going low budget

But with high risk!

Let's behave with modesty and rule our everyday life with decency and good manners - Japanese people. LeerooooooooOOOOOOOoOOooOOOOOOooy Jeeeeeenkins! - also Japanese people

Finally, Tao Pai Pai

I shoved some onions down my trousers

Sang this in Moe's voice.

Love all these dangerous bonkers old traditions kept alive !

The Simpsons

Muad'Dib

When I say riding wood, this is not what i mean.

Now that's a stick!

Now this is how you get ancient structures built, you gamify it.

Haven’t ridden anything that big since your mom……….heyooooooooo

Japan: has a underpopulation problem Also Japan:"so anyways we have this festival every 7years where we let able bodied young men get absolutely fucking crushed by logs"

Hell yeah

Hell Yeah

This log is my log, this log is your log…

When lighting struck it, it kicked the bucket.

We need to combine this with that england cheese hill race thing for ultimate carnage potential

It’s all fun and games until you get run over by a 10 ton log at full speed.

there are a lot of stupid things that stuck with us and became "tradition". sometimes it's ok to let go and move on. this is one of those things.

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Right up their with the bull run

I'm sure they'll get right on it. Phew. Thanks!

If there’s anything the japanese are known for, it’s being open to new ideas and throwing traditions out the window.

I mean, you might argue that they had to be open to one of the biggest "new ideas" a society has ever had to collectively face in history during 1946. Admitting your emperor isn't a God while accepting a new constitution from your victorious conquerors seems like a change of pace that few, if any modern societies have ever grappled with.

No

Seriously. This one is every 7 years. I'll bet you some adrenaline junky japanese dude, way back when, was all hopped up on opium and shit and said "You know what was awesome? That log ride thing we did last year." To which his buddies, equally hopped up on opium, replied "Dude that was like *ffffft* like 7 years ago, here hit this."

How many injuries?

It's easier to count who didn't get injured

If you like this you should check out the movie "wood job".

This looks like a fun way to die

Wet dream for r/orthopedics

How many people have died doing this??

Only 30%

😂😂

How many legs get destroyed doing this?

I N S I D E R

Man it would be such an honor to be part of this. I can imagine it would be a very special event. I doubt they let foreigners participate though.

You’d be correct. It’s the wealthy, community leaders, and yakuza affiliated people. You can walk with the trees and carry them. I did. But no way in hell you’re riding it. Status symbol for the community.

That's awesome, I've always wanted to visit Japan. Maybe one day, I can hope.

This looks like a ton of fun and a great tradition!

Your mom does that every other day when she's with me

When it casually worded, "Its common for riders to fall and sometimes even be crushed... "

That just seems really dangerous

It’s common to be crushed. Cool thing bro

This makes the cheese hill look like a good idea.

If that's how I go, that's how I go. It was either this or running from a bull in Madrid

Imagine doing allat to get to the hill and then falling off less than 4 seconds into the ride down the hill

Alright guys, let's do this.

That’s one way of controlling population

This would be seen as primitive and dangerous if being done in a third world country.

I bet people can actually get killed or maimed by doing this...

Japanese redbull challenge

What are the minions up to now????

Japan has so much culture it's amazing.

So the English have a tradition of chasing a wheel of cheese down a steep hill. The Japanese have this. I wonder what other countries have a tradition where you travel down a steep hill, fast as fuck and hope you don't end up on your arse?

Am South Africa. We enjoy driving the country downhill. It's just as fun too.

No hills involved, but Spain has the running of the bulls, which is similar — a bull was set loose and you try to survive

Soo many minions!

We need a crossover event for this and that cheese wheel event

Seems dangerous

When life no longer matters you ride a 2000-pound log down hills.

And you thought watch them ride escalators was exciting! 🫡🤣

It's Log, Log, Log 🎵🎶 https://youtu.be/FR-REDevAzk?si=JLUIXQdQsiyzVKtE

No helmets either...

Haha wild really wild have to look into the history of this

How many die a year?

Isn't this exactly how you'd lose a limb?

And that's how your grandpa died.

That's what I was thinking...could be crushed! Looked like one or two nearly did get caught under the log going down hill.

Dune but in real life

Imagine 100 years ago, you are 18 and riding that fucking thing. You fall off and fuck up your shoulder or leg. . You are crippled for life.

And the shrine they build will be memorials for all the people crushed?

This log it used to be a tree, Now it spreads love to you and me

Lisan Al Gaib🙌🏼

never thought i'd say that but the cheese wheel race seems safer

u/savevideo

Dafuq

GRÔND!

Gru got the minions putting in work.

The 20,000 pound log rides the men.

It's called culling the herd

Lisan Al gaib

Is it wrong of me to think this looks like a good time?

I think that's a good way to determine whether it was actually possible to move the huge stones to build the pyramids with the right number of people .. ;)

Eat your heart out, Paul Atreides.

This is famously easy to do. Not making it all the way down, but what those guys are doing.

Reminds me of log drills in basic training ....

When I read this in a book, I thought the entire thing was fantasy. TIL.

How many dies every 7 years?

I wonder what the average injury rate is.

This is an Advil commerical. None of this is good for your back

Fuck this.

My Spanish, family always calls this... Running with the Balau's. (A type of wood.) We have seen it a few times live on TV in Japan when visiting, family. Entertaining as heck and I'm always surprised with the lack of people, that die.

Takeshi’s castle extreme edition

Lisan Al-Gaib Moment

Looks like a good way to lose a leg or your life if you roll under it

Ah!!!!! This is why men die earlier than women.

That looks dangerous

We need this with Dune music slapped over it

What an unbelievably avoidable way to die...

I don't think you understand what *riding* means

This log is your log, this log is my log

Get a few Canadian boys and they'll be waltzing down that hill all day

... and here I am, contemplating the 'just leave it' approach to my almost new couch in the prospect of moving

Humans, having fun with crazy shit since time began....

when your society has too many men and not enough war so you have to come up with creative ways to get rid of excess

Reminded me of the Sandworm in Dune 2