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Gravity-defying mail jumpers of Lake Geneva, WI
- jihadjihad 5y agoNote that this is Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, USA, not lac Léman in Switzerland/France. Though the idea of a mail jumper dodging the Jet d'Eau is an amusing one.
- carabiner 5y agoVideo of jumpers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evgxn89259M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evgxn89259M "Gravity-defying" is a bit of a stretch.
- ghostly_s 5y agoAtlas Obscura may have been something else once but it's a clickbait site now.
- stronglikedan 5y agoThat mailbox a few pylons in really annoyed me, until the girl practically ate the one on the end pylon.
- tshaddox 5y agoNo point in beating around the bush. It's a blatant lie in order to make people click on a link to their website.
- pessimizer 5y agoNo, it's hyperbole. If you were expecting them to actually take flight, you're probably disappointed a lot.
- tshaddox 5y agoOf course, readers would interpret the headline as hyperbole. They would not expect the article to be about a new technology that literally defies gravity. However, precisely because of the hyperbolic headline, readers would expect something more interesting than a hop that's maybe the size of two normal stair steps. This is very clearly deliberate deception.
- jobigoud 5y agoWhen we say an elite high jumper or pole vaulter or gymnast is defying gravity, it's hyperbole. Here it's just nonsense.
- Jun8 5y agoYou can actually get on the mail boat tour in the morning that distributes the mail and wager if a particular jumper will make it. Falling into water is not common but happens, esp. with some owners deliberately putting their mailbox farther into the dock.
- tintor 5y agoCan't they move mailboxes closer to the end of the dock?
- goatcode 5y ago>mail people on boats >Billie Eilish has big boobs now Half way through what YouTube Shorts has been pushing to me lately. I wonder what will be next.