David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • tomrigid

    Bit of a spoiler, what what?

    • mappo

       Not for me.  I didn’t expect the pool to be *that* frozen.

      • Antinous / Moderator

        The thickness of the ice doesn’t square with the greenness of the grass.

    • rafterman

      I already saw this on Reddit.

      • http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

        Thank you for your amazing contribution to the discussion.

        • Antinous / Moderator

          Check out his entire body of work.

          • mysterymoil

            “Never heard of him.”

      • EH

        did u see the other thing on there to

  • awjt

    Oh man, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, was having a shitty day until now.  Thank you!!!

  • http://twitter.com/Yaciuk Donovan Yaciuk

    This guy’s love is like a ticking clock, Beserker.

  • Kevin Pierce

    Someone toss him a hammer.

  • http://twitter.com/zombubzilla Jayson D

    At least he looks good in those shorts, that’s more than a lot of us could hope for

    • http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch

      Might be less attractive, but we haven’t tried jumping into a frozen pool, which even without the fail would still be a really fail idea.

    • Preston Sturges

      “I Like The Big And Stupid”  - Julie Brown

      http://youtu.be/vEU_5lVjRFQ

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004281673355 Exciter Smith

    This is nothing. Check out How Lithuanians do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r99MiiLcLM0

    • http://twitter.com/zaren Jim Schmidt

      That was quite amusing, up until the possible concussion :/

    • SamSam

      Wow. Honestly, seeing someone land arse-first on ice is a lot funnier than seeing someone land head-first on ice…

      • ocker3

         Plus there was a Lot more laughing from the guy who hurt his arse, and less falling over like he had seriously injured himself.

    • invictus

      TIL: Lithuanian is just like really (*really*) profane Russian.

    • dioptase

      In parts of the US, it’s traditional to shout “Hey Y’all!  Watch this!” before attempting this sort of stunt.

      • Preston Sturges

        “Kodak courage”

  • acerplatanoides

    Is he saying “mein arse” at the end?

    • huskerdont

       Ja!

    • invictus

      “arsch,” but the word means exactly what you think it does.

    • http://twitter.com/zaren Jim Schmidt

      “Och, mein arse” might become my new catch phrase for a while.

  • Chentzilla

    Thought that the beginning of the video looks like a setup for a porn flick. Put on my headphones, heard heavy breathing and German speech…

    • Preston Sturges

      I’m not really into scheitzer videos

  • bruce_a14

    “It only hurts when I laugh.”

    This is begging to become the next DOWNFALL-style-subtitling meme.

    • http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

      Keitel.  Jodl.  Krebs.  Und Burgdorf.  Ow, mein arsch!

  • Lloyd Cogliandro

    Cold responds: No, fuck you.

  • http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com robcat2075

    Why Stalingrad didn’t go well.

    He may be lucky he didn’t go through.  I can imagine some sharp ice shard doing serious damage.

    • dragonfrog

      Never mind ice shards – getting trapped under ice is a very effective way of drowning yourself.

      What we saw was probably the absolute best possible outcome.

      • chaopoiesis

        Which, outcome-wise, is not encouraging.

  • Mitchell Glaser

    ice, ice, baby!

  • schadenfreudisch

    mother nature always wins.  always.

  • pgt

    I Laughed Out Loud.

    Does that make me a bad person?

    • BookGuy

       I don’t think so.  The giggling at the end is pretty infectious, and it shows that the guy probably wasn’t seriously hurt.

  • http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

    This is why I don’t watch Tosh.0, dammit. 

    • Shibi_SF

      This is why I actually DO watch Tosh.O.  (Also, because a large part of my 43 year old self has the maturity of a 14 year old)

      • acerplatanoides

        I prefer Sick Sad World

        • Shibi_SF

          I will have to check that out!  (After I watch this poor guy bruise his booty a few more times.  I  love his swim trunks – no padding whatsoever.)

          • acerplatanoides

             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2uQT_WK4Ho

  • http://twitter.com/vonslatt Jake von Slatt

    Cringe. I did not enjoy this.

  • vance_tam

    The only possible way that could have been made better was if the ice had given way when he hit it with his fist.

    Thanks for this video. It made my afternoon so much better. I needed a good laugh.

    • Rachael Hoffman-Dachelet

      I was really waiting right up to the end for him to fall through.  

      • vance_tam

         Me, too. That would have be sooo great.

  • http://twitter.com/GiantRobotPilot Drew Christensen

    This is clearly Flea and Peter Stormare (1:07) behind the scenes on The Big Lebowski. Admirable how they stay in character.

  • JoshP

    I guess it’s not surprising to know that Steve-O has a Lithuanian doppelganger…  I think the rough translation of what he said right after he hit the ice was, LOL I think I broke my ass. 

  • SomeGuyNamedMark

    The thought of someone busting their tailbone makes me cringe in sympathy.  Ow…ow…

    • Preston Sturges

      i sprained mine once and it was the most painful week of my life. 

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Those can be semi-permanent injuries. It should really be avoided at all costs.

  • Henry Pootel

    I’m pretty sure that’s how grandma broke her coccyx

  • taras

    It’s “Motherfucker, fuck the fucking world, and my new band is called ?Sizkil”. But “fuck the fucking cold” works too.

  • http://twitter.com/bigbadchang Chang Terhune

    He should put some ice on that booboo.

  • jimh

    Reminds me of a friend, who brilliantly decided to kick the head off a small snowman while passing a neighborhood front yard. He launched a running kick, the head didn’t budge, and he broke his foot. Cold, FTW!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Perkins/1314630060 Ray Perkins

      Wife was at a party once where some guys decided to jump into the snow, naked, after a sauna. Trouble was, there had been freezing rain. One torn nutsack.

      • http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

        No. No. No. That just isn’t nice.

    • https://launchpad.net/~googoleyes koanhead

       I was driving a large truck down a street one wintry day when I espied what looked like a large snowball that had rolled into the lane. I thought I’d do the neighborly thing and bust it under my wheel.
      It turned out to be a giant snow-covered rock, and my 4 tonne truck got at least 2 wheels in the air. Wound up completely off the road, on the same side, facing the opposite direction. Exciting.
      At the time I thought “Thank flip there was no one around for me to hit”, but on reflection it might have been better if someone was around, because then I wouldn’t have tried it on in the first flippin place.

  • welcomeabored

    On the brightside, while his tailbone took a beating, there were a pair of balls in his trunks grateful for the reprieve.  Win-win.

  • http://www.facebook.com/madisv Madis Veskimeister

    Can be quite dangerous for back injuries, but one good ice braking picture seems good addition:  http://aadress.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jaalohkuja1.jpg

  • Frank Diekman

    He’s lucky he didn’t break his coccyx.

  • TheMarchingMorons

    Ow my balls

  • Matti Laakso

    Bitte?

  • philarego

    I think that was the sound of a tailbone snapping.

  • http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Dr. Chronobiologist

    In Soviet Deutschland ice fucking fucks you.

  • baronkarza

    Ouch, talk about skidmarks!

  • Preston Sturges

    He needed a smooth talking wingman to break the ice. 

  • Preston Sturges

    He was scooting across the ice like a dog with worms rubbing his ass on the carpet.

    Where we live, that’s what we call entertainment.