Could make a comeback

I found this misleading - it’s not that all the previous attempters died, she is literally the first who attempted this “go over the Niagara falls in a barrel” stunt. And actually, her cat was first:

Days before Taylor’s attempt, her domestic cat was sent over the falls in her barrel to test its strength. The cat survived the plunge unharmed and later posed with Taylor in photographs

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls#Jumps,_plunges_and_walks

And I still don’t understand why anyone would do such a thing, and why it became a *thing*. Why a *barrel*? Where’s the appeal? It seems even dumber than most other pointless, dangerous stunts. e.g. jumping from space onto earth is dangerous as fuck, but it’s also clearly an amazing experience (tens of kilometers of freefall, with an amazing view).

I think it would still make a splash.

They broke out in laughter again
His lip beaded with sweat as they strapped him in
As he stood by and waited to be called
The talk was of times that’d gone by
And the quantity and quality of women they lie
His eyes welled with wet and his mouth had gone dry

As he stood by and waited to be called
He stood by and waited to be called
He stood by and waited like the others before
For his turn to go over the falls

What phone model is she holding? Was she live streaming from inside the barrel?

The waterfall challenge is going viral on tik tok

Her Nokia phone must have been waterproof.

Steve O’s grandma.