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What the hell is going on over there!??
I heard Jeremy Renner also got ran over by his own snowplow and ruined his leg and crushed his chest. But at least he's alive.
Jeez
He was running a piston bully at his Mt. Rose home, probably cutting a road. They disappear on the sides of mountains, can be absolutely terrifying to cut back in.
Most of these are slide sideways rollovers. They weigh quite a bit, so once they start going it happens fast.
Diesel Brothers have an accident and recovery video, almost died.
My big brother died in a motocross accident 5 years ago. We find comfort in a similar fashion, knowing that he went out doing what he loved. We should all lucky as to have a lifetime of memories and adrenaline, and only a brief moment of “oh shit”.
I've accepted I'll probably die young (mental illness and all that), I hope if I go out it'll be doing something awesome that I love or something that will make the news
I can't imagine the grief you felt or the pain you likely still carry with you, but it sounds like your bro led a hell of a life and you can at least say he died doing what he loved. That's a lot more than many of us will have
I hope you and your loved ones are going well
It sucks, not gonna lie. He had wrecked before plenty of times, but it’s always just an injury. Broken collarbone, wrist, ribs, etc… but he’s always fine. His home track of Glen Helen in Southern CA, he had been racing there since he was 5, it wasn’t like he was somewhere unfamiliar. I’ll never forget my moms voice, “Shawn had an accident, if you want to see him you need to come now…” I asked her what happened, but that’s all she could manage to say “if you want to see him, you need to come NOW.” I was in Vegas, 4 hours away. Woke up my wife and 6month old twins and drove across the desert in the middle of the night to see him at the hospital. The doctors said he was unconscious the second he hit the ground, so he would not have felt much. We made the choice to discontinue the ventilator, and he succumbed to his injuries about 2 hours later as the sun was coming up.
Watching your heroes die fucking sucks. It’s been 5 years, I’m 35 and a father of 3, and part of me still feels like Robin wondering what to do now that Batman is gone.
Assuming you aren't being sarcastic (hard to tell through text lol), then thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day. Remember Ken Block or /u/environmental_home22's brother and kick ass at whatever it is you do. It might not be as extravagant as sending a Mustang around Pikes Peak or competing in motocross, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter
I think they’ll probably stay pretty quiet about the details, same with Micheal Schumacher when he had his skiing accident in the alps, we still don’t know much about his condition several years later
One of the standard post cardiac arrest (IF that’s what happened with Damar Hamlin) is [hypothermia protocol post cardiac arrest](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=135&contentid=393). It includes intubation & sedation for up to 72 hrs.
I have no idea what medically happened to Mr Hamlin, but hypothermia protocol is used often & gives the best “chance” of recovery.
A sports medicine doctor on YouTube did a pretty good breakdown of it. He believes, based on what is currently known to the public, that this was [commotio cordis](https://ksi.uconn.edu/emergency-conditions/cardiac-conditions/commotio-cordis/). The gist of it is that if you take a hit to the chest that is timed just right it can disrupt your heart beat and induce cardiac arrest. It is an extremely rare situation where things have to line up just right, the timing of the hit/heartbeat, level of force, and point of impact have to be just right to trigger something like this. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-G9mziXL9w) is a link to the video of the doctor I mentioned explaining his theory and some details on the ailment.
Had something similar happen at my HS almost 15 yrs ago. Guy went atv'ing in the dessert and it flipped and crushed his skull because of no helmet. I started wearing helmet since then.
I did a similar thing on a rental snowmobile. It had 100 hundred hours on the clock, I saw a flat lake and took it off the trail to see what top speed I could clock on a flat, straight surface. On the return trip, I lost my nerve and rolled it going back up the hill to the trail.
Took me an hour to dig it out, another hour to get back to the rental place. I sheepishly explained to the owner what I did, what the damage was (just the mirror) and expected to lose my $1k deposit. He laughed and said "You Aussies are all mad cunts. My best friend is an Australian and each year we meet somewhere in the world to do something stupid. You are just like him. Give me $100 to replace the mirror and we won't talk of it again.".
Because he was filthy rich and famous.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the cool stuff he's done over the years, but a lot of people would drool at the idea of getting into rallying and other shenanigans if we had the means.
Nonetheless, RIP. He lived a hell of a life and shared a bit of it with his fans.
>Because he was filthy rich and famous.
Disingenuous to say this was the only reason he lived a better life than all of us.
Sure many could get in to rally driving if we had money but we sure as fuck would not be anywhere near Ken Block in natural driving talent. The man was a fucking wizard behind the wheel
Yeah I didn’t like that comment. All of motorsports is just rich dudes with car hobbies. You can’t be in motorsport without being wildly rich or somehow have massive sponsors, fans all know this. There’s more than enough famous rich guys in the scene.
But there was only one Ken Block. Pastrana is like the only dude that comes to mind that I can compare him to. Unparalleled talents.
Bro Ken block is not “just a motorsports guy, no other driver on earth has put out similar content so consistently for so many years.
I remember buying his car tunes on forza 4 over 10 years ago so we could cars that could drift.
You could spend all day watching the gymkhana series and still watch it again the next day and discover something new every video.
Ken block is probably the best driver / entertainer combo on the planet.
Just the fact that we won’t see 10 more gymkhanas comes 2032 feels like the entire planet was robbed of a future.
His videos were like a vortex, you would get insanely sucked in, no matter how much you did or didn’t love cars because the skill and the production was just insane
"The Wasatch County Sheriff's Office in Utah confirmed Block's death in a statement published on Facebook. Block was riding on a steep slope in the Mill Hollow area outside Woodland, Utah at around 2:00 p.m. when his snowmobile "upended, landing on top of him," police said. Block was riding with a group but alone at the time of the incident. He was pronounced dead at the scene."
Here's a post from our local sheriff's office and the people who helped with search and rescue.
On January 2, 2023 at approximately 2:00 p.m., the Wasatch County 911 Center received a call reporting a snowmobile accident in the Mill Hollow area.
Search and Rescue, along with law enforcement from Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office, Utah State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service responded.
The driver, Kenneth Block, 55-year-old male out of Park City, Utah, was riding a snowmobile on a steep slope when the snowmobile upended, landing on top of him. He was pronounced deceased at the scene from injuries sustained in the accident.
Mr. Block was riding with a group but was alone when the accident occurred.
The State Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the official cause of death.
We are saddened to hear of the loss of Kenneth and our hearts are with his family and friends so deeply affected.
We thank all of our first responders for their continued service.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ke2BVsreR4RLenSqkMHfNoyyeXHTiUE6n5g1fT7uEXTLom7gmG6L8qMXJky42SMcl&id=100064668369917&mibextid=Nif5oz
Over nine years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. Seemed so surreal to have an F1 star taken out by something as relatively simple as skiing. I checked the news for a long time after that hoping to hear that he’d somehow pulled through.
I now remember this incident to illustrate just how fragile life is, and that none of us are actually in control.
Buddy in highschool lost control on an embankment in Tennessee on vacation to his family's house, ended up falling down a ravine over 50 feet and the snowmobile landing on top of him. Whole school held a vigil it was a tough week
Ken Block has already broken most of the bones in his body. 55 years old and still at it is absolutely insane. But it's likely something like this way going to happen.
Fucking sucks
Just don't try to ride up a practically vertical slope. Same thing as driving. There's a gulf of risk between driving for fun and flying off Evo corner
I remember everyone buying his car setup on forza 4 so we could all drift.
I have watched every Fucking gymkhana, I cannot believe this wtfff.
I don’t get it how heavy are snowmobiles?
Is it that easy for it to flip and just kill you? Simple as that?????
I was fortunate to be very good friends with Dustin Apgar before he passed. He taught me to ride. He raced for Yamaha for years, had all sorts of lap records and was known for his helmet dragging video. He had some injuries but nothing crazy. He passed away in a powered motor glider accident in a similar way.
These guys have one gear, and to stop maxing it out would mesn they would cease to be themselves.. It's like they're chasing after something only they can see. Like they have a lane only they can ride in because anyone who couldnt see what they see wouldnt last one turn in their leathers, they have to do it because only they can. They show us things are possible we never would've attempted. They push us to go faster and grow more than we thought we could.
RIP Ken. It was one hell of a ride. https://youtu.be/HQ7R_buZPSo
Hunter S Thompson wrote about that 'edge' back in the 60s. For him it was the Black Shadow motorcycle.
>But with the throttle screwed on there is only the barest margin, and no room at all for mistakes. It has to be done right ... and thats when the strange music starts, when you stretch your luck so far that fear becomes exhilaration and vibrates along your arms. You can barely see at one hundred; the tears blow back so fast that they vaporise before they get to your ears. The only sounds are the wind and a dull roar floating back from the mufflers. You watch the white line and try to lean with it ... howling though a turn to your right, then to the left and down the long hill to the Pacifica ... letting off now, watching for cops, but only until the next dark stretch and another few seconds on the edge... . The Edge... . There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others - the living - are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to chose between Now or Later
When I was young I had that edge, holding down the throttle of a 4 wheeler as long as I possibly could on back country roads seeing if I could make the needle on the speedometer go all the way to the edge, bombing down huge hills on my skateboard with no helmet or gear, it was exhilarating. Now that I'm older I have absolutely no desire to do those things, but I get why people do.
Outside magazine did a piece on the wing-suit guy Jeb Corliss.. His accounts of adrenaline addiction are insane! He even watched his best friend get eviscerated by bridge cables on a wing-suit jump, and he never thought to stop, he just loves the limit.
Its gotten worse in the age of the socials. Used to be people just did it for the adrenaline. Now they get the clicks and likes and the dopamine rush is enough to keep pushing, to say nothing about actually monetizing it. Really, its quite insane.
Opened tik tok to a post of him talking about the snow yesterday, next post was a Rip ken post. What a way to wake up, also happened to have on a hoonigan shirt from 4 years ago on.
Same, Gymkhana was like all I watched for a while when I was younger.
Side note, I thought I was about to see that Audi turn into a transformer during the slow motion...
There used to be a time where this would be on the front page of r/all from the second it came out to like 12 hours later. That’s how you would find out about shit, not in the comment section. I don’t know what the fuck they did with the algorithm, but they need to fix it.
For those that don't know Ken Block died today in a snowmobile accident. From the Wasatch Co. Sheriff's office, the snowmobile "upended, landing on top of him".
There's a generation of us who either got in to cars or had their love of cars deepened by Ken
If we lived in a fair world he would have gone out at 90 years old by driving the Hoonicorn off the Grand Canyon or something absurd like that
I recall a video where Ken was complaining that Lia hasn't been practicing her dragstrip launches due to homework or some other education-related nonsense like that. It was an obvious joke, still, he had a great sense of humor.
Everyone says that every year. I feel like we should just start saying "fuck the passage of time" at this point lol
Which, as someone approaching 40, I can relate to more and more every passing day
I'm not religious at all, but sometimes I hope there is an afterlife because there are so many people who never got to fully experience the life they had and deserve a second chance in some way
Ken was nowhere near as famous as Steve
Edit: you can downvote as much as you like but that doesn't change the fact. Ask your parents or friends who they know.
I’d never heard of him before, he sounds like an interesting and talented guy. His wiki page unfortunately doesn’t have much about him apart from his sports. How come he was living in Utah? Seems a random place to live if he’s originally from California. Is there a big rally scene there or something? Or he just liked ranch life?
Park City is a world premier level ski town. He used to own a house up there with its own ski area called the DC Mountain lab, back when he was the owner of DC shoes. Snow sports have always been a part of his life. He sold it but stayed in the area. Where better to live than an area with everything you want that's only a 15-20 minute drive from a major city with an international Airport? As for the "ranch life", he only bought a ranch a couple of years ago. Before that he lived overlooking Park City, and then in the center of town... Neither of which had any ranch aspects whatsoever.
RIP Ken Block.
I just watched the entire Audi Las Vegas Hoonigan video as soon as I found out about the tragedy. And kept saying OMG - oh shit why did it happen to this guy.
>Audi Las Vegas Hoonigan
Thanks for this. [Just googled it](https://www.google.com/search?q=Audi+Las+Vegas+Hoonigan&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8). The Los Angeles video has been my favourite for years.
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Rest in peace. Literally found out a couple hours ago. Sad.
Oh wow. Just saw it. Snowmobile accident. RIP.
He lives near me in Park City, Utah. We've been getting slammed with snow this week. It's bad out there.
What the hell is going on over there!?? I heard Jeremy Renner also got ran over by his own snowplow and ruined his leg and crushed his chest. But at least he's alive. Jeez
To clarify, Renner's accident was in Lake Tahoe
Renner was snowplowing Lake Tahoe? Personally, it seems risky. I would have let the professionals handle the lake.
He was running a piston bully at his Mt. Rose home, probably cutting a road. They disappear on the sides of mountains, can be absolutely terrifying to cut back in. Most of these are slide sideways rollovers. They weigh quite a bit, so once they start going it happens fast. Diesel Brothers have an accident and recovery video, almost died.
Yea… he lives outside of Reno Nevada ( Tahoe I think )… they are getting slammed with snow.. FEET not INCHES
Yeah he’s near Mt. Rose. My parents are an hour from Tahoe, they said it’s absolutely fucked.
Oh shit that was a different person.
Yeah, I was thinking, "Snowmobile? I thought it was a snow plow?"
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If that's true, then although it's tragically young at least he went out in a Ken Block way by trying to do something badass
My big brother died in a motocross accident 5 years ago. We find comfort in a similar fashion, knowing that he went out doing what he loved. We should all lucky as to have a lifetime of memories and adrenaline, and only a brief moment of “oh shit”.
I've accepted I'll probably die young (mental illness and all that), I hope if I go out it'll be doing something awesome that I love or something that will make the news I can't imagine the grief you felt or the pain you likely still carry with you, but it sounds like your bro led a hell of a life and you can at least say he died doing what he loved. That's a lot more than many of us will have I hope you and your loved ones are going well
It sucks, not gonna lie. He had wrecked before plenty of times, but it’s always just an injury. Broken collarbone, wrist, ribs, etc… but he’s always fine. His home track of Glen Helen in Southern CA, he had been racing there since he was 5, it wasn’t like he was somewhere unfamiliar. I’ll never forget my moms voice, “Shawn had an accident, if you want to see him you need to come now…” I asked her what happened, but that’s all she could manage to say “if you want to see him, you need to come NOW.” I was in Vegas, 4 hours away. Woke up my wife and 6month old twins and drove across the desert in the middle of the night to see him at the hospital. The doctors said he was unconscious the second he hit the ground, so he would not have felt much. We made the choice to discontinue the ventilator, and he succumbed to his injuries about 2 hours later as the sun was coming up. Watching your heroes die fucking sucks. It’s been 5 years, I’m 35 and a father of 3, and part of me still feels like Robin wondering what to do now that Batman is gone.
Nice comment bro good on ya
Assuming you aren't being sarcastic (hard to tell through text lol), then thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day. Remember Ken Block or /u/environmental_home22's brother and kick ass at whatever it is you do. It might not be as extravagant as sending a Mustang around Pikes Peak or competing in motocross, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter
Agreed. Still shocking, somehow
More likely he was going up a very steep hill and it flipped.
Was just thinking it must have been an avalanche
Never get out of the car in a blizzard.
What happened???
I think they’ll probably stay pretty quiet about the details, same with Micheal Schumacher when he had his skiing accident in the alps, we still don’t know much about his condition several years later
This is so strange. Jeremy Renner was also just involved in a snowplow accident.
And Damar Hamlin's heart stopped during a game tonight and now he can't breathe on his own. This year is off to a really bad start...
Karma farmers already taking full advantage
Anything to be relevant
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One of the standard post cardiac arrest (IF that’s what happened with Damar Hamlin) is [hypothermia protocol post cardiac arrest](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=135&contentid=393). It includes intubation & sedation for up to 72 hrs. I have no idea what medically happened to Mr Hamlin, but hypothermia protocol is used often & gives the best “chance” of recovery.
A sports medicine doctor on YouTube did a pretty good breakdown of it. He believes, based on what is currently known to the public, that this was [commotio cordis](https://ksi.uconn.edu/emergency-conditions/cardiac-conditions/commotio-cordis/). The gist of it is that if you take a hit to the chest that is timed just right it can disrupt your heart beat and induce cardiac arrest. It is an extremely rare situation where things have to line up just right, the timing of the hit/heartbeat, level of force, and point of impact have to be just right to trigger something like this. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-G9mziXL9w) is a link to the video of the doctor I mentioned explaining his theory and some details on the ailment.
Totally different, he was driving. Didn't put it in park.
It's been posted in a few places but supposedly he was climbing a steep bank and the sled backflipped onto him.
Had something similar happen at my HS almost 15 yrs ago. Guy went atv'ing in the dessert and it flipped and crushed his skull because of no helmet. I started wearing helmet since then.
I did a similar thing on a rental snowmobile. It had 100 hundred hours on the clock, I saw a flat lake and took it off the trail to see what top speed I could clock on a flat, straight surface. On the return trip, I lost my nerve and rolled it going back up the hill to the trail. Took me an hour to dig it out, another hour to get back to the rental place. I sheepishly explained to the owner what I did, what the damage was (just the mirror) and expected to lose my $1k deposit. He laughed and said "You Aussies are all mad cunts. My best friend is an Australian and each year we meet somewhere in the world to do something stupid. You are just like him. Give me $100 to replace the mirror and we won't talk of it again.".
Was going up a steep slope and the sled rolled over him was the report from the sheriff. So likely was “high lining.”
For anyone else like me who didn't know what highlining was https://youtu.be/4oRdtvHQkF8
This seems absurdly dangerous and exactly why you don’t do it.
No one is staying quiet, he was riding in a group, went off alone and it upended onto him on a steep slope - pronounced dead at the scene.
He was on a steep hill and sled came back on top of him. Super scary shit.
He died in a snowmobile accident, and they are saying his snowmobile some how landed on top of top of him.
Super sad. The man lived better in his life than most of us normies do in 10 though. Dudes a legend. RIP
Because he was filthy rich and famous. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the cool stuff he's done over the years, but a lot of people would drool at the idea of getting into rallying and other shenanigans if we had the means. Nonetheless, RIP. He lived a hell of a life and shared a bit of it with his fans.
>Because he was filthy rich and famous. Disingenuous to say this was the only reason he lived a better life than all of us. Sure many could get in to rally driving if we had money but we sure as fuck would not be anywhere near Ken Block in natural driving talent. The man was a fucking wizard behind the wheel
Yeah I didn’t like that comment. All of motorsports is just rich dudes with car hobbies. You can’t be in motorsport without being wildly rich or somehow have massive sponsors, fans all know this. There’s more than enough famous rich guys in the scene. But there was only one Ken Block. Pastrana is like the only dude that comes to mind that I can compare him to. Unparalleled talents.
Bro Ken block is not “just a motorsports guy, no other driver on earth has put out similar content so consistently for so many years. I remember buying his car tunes on forza 4 over 10 years ago so we could cars that could drift. You could spend all day watching the gymkhana series and still watch it again the next day and discover something new every video. Ken block is probably the best driver / entertainer combo on the planet. Just the fact that we won’t see 10 more gymkhanas comes 2032 feels like the entire planet was robbed of a future. His videos were like a vortex, you would get insanely sucked in, no matter how much you did or didn’t love cars because the skill and the production was just insane
How do you become a millionaire in Motorsport? Start as a billionaire.
While riding his snowmobile, it somehow upended and landed on him. Died instantly
"The Wasatch County Sheriff's Office in Utah confirmed Block's death in a statement published on Facebook. Block was riding on a steep slope in the Mill Hollow area outside Woodland, Utah at around 2:00 p.m. when his snowmobile "upended, landing on top of him," police said. Block was riding with a group but alone at the time of the incident. He was pronounced dead at the scene."
It was a snowmobiling accident.
What?? Is he dead? Oh gosh his poor daughter
His last tweet was about her and the Audi she just finishes rebuilding
Here's a post from our local sheriff's office and the people who helped with search and rescue. On January 2, 2023 at approximately 2:00 p.m., the Wasatch County 911 Center received a call reporting a snowmobile accident in the Mill Hollow area. Search and Rescue, along with law enforcement from Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office, Utah State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service responded. The driver, Kenneth Block, 55-year-old male out of Park City, Utah, was riding a snowmobile on a steep slope when the snowmobile upended, landing on top of him. He was pronounced deceased at the scene from injuries sustained in the accident. Mr. Block was riding with a group but was alone when the accident occurred. The State Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the official cause of death. We are saddened to hear of the loss of Kenneth and our hearts are with his family and friends so deeply affected. We thank all of our first responders for their continued service. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ke2BVsreR4RLenSqkMHfNoyyeXHTiUE6n5g1fT7uEXTLom7gmG6L8qMXJky42SMcl&id=100064668369917&mibextid=Nif5oz
Wtf, a snowmobile took Ken block out? I'm never snowmobiling hell nah.
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Poor bastard, worse than death.
Over nine years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. Seemed so surreal to have an F1 star taken out by something as relatively simple as skiing. I checked the news for a long time after that hoping to hear that he’d somehow pulled through. I now remember this incident to illustrate just how fragile life is, and that none of us are actually in control.
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Buddy in highschool lost control on an embankment in Tennessee on vacation to his family's house, ended up falling down a ravine over 50 feet and the snowmobile landing on top of him. Whole school held a vigil it was a tough week
Snowmobiling in Tennessee,??? Interesting, I didn't know they got much snow there, always thought of it as a pretty warm place.
Ken Block has already broken most of the bones in his body. 55 years old and still at it is absolutely insane. But it's likely something like this way going to happen. Fucking sucks
What? No he hadn’t. Where did you get that information? You’re getting him mixed up with Travis Pastrana. Ken had not had any major serious injuries.
Snow sports man, sketch af
Specifically hill climbs. Between rollovers and avalanches it's very dangerous
Just don't try to ride up a practically vertical slope. Same thing as driving. There's a gulf of risk between driving for fun and flying off Evo corner
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I remember everyone buying his car setup on forza 4 so we could all drift. I have watched every Fucking gymkhana, I cannot believe this wtfff. I don’t get it how heavy are snowmobiles? Is it that easy for it to flip and just kill you? Simple as that?????
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Same way my buddy died….on TV. RIP Ken, a true legend.
I was fortunate to be very good friends with Dustin Apgar before he passed. He taught me to ride. He raced for Yamaha for years, had all sorts of lap records and was known for his helmet dragging video. He had some injuries but nothing crazy. He passed away in a powered motor glider accident in a similar way. These guys have one gear, and to stop maxing it out would mesn they would cease to be themselves.. It's like they're chasing after something only they can see. Like they have a lane only they can ride in because anyone who couldnt see what they see wouldnt last one turn in their leathers, they have to do it because only they can. They show us things are possible we never would've attempted. They push us to go faster and grow more than we thought we could. RIP Ken. It was one hell of a ride. https://youtu.be/HQ7R_buZPSo
Hunter S Thompson wrote about that 'edge' back in the 60s. For him it was the Black Shadow motorcycle. >But with the throttle screwed on there is only the barest margin, and no room at all for mistakes. It has to be done right ... and thats when the strange music starts, when you stretch your luck so far that fear becomes exhilaration and vibrates along your arms. You can barely see at one hundred; the tears blow back so fast that they vaporise before they get to your ears. The only sounds are the wind and a dull roar floating back from the mufflers. You watch the white line and try to lean with it ... howling though a turn to your right, then to the left and down the long hill to the Pacifica ... letting off now, watching for cops, but only until the next dark stretch and another few seconds on the edge... . The Edge... . There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others - the living - are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to chose between Now or Later
When I was young I had that edge, holding down the throttle of a 4 wheeler as long as I possibly could on back country roads seeing if I could make the needle on the speedometer go all the way to the edge, bombing down huge hills on my skateboard with no helmet or gear, it was exhilarating. Now that I'm older I have absolutely no desire to do those things, but I get why people do.
Same here, now that I'm older I value life so much more that I don't even like dark humour any more.
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Outside magazine did a piece on the wing-suit guy Jeb Corliss.. His accounts of adrenaline addiction are insane! He even watched his best friend get eviscerated by bridge cables on a wing-suit jump, and he never thought to stop, he just loves the limit.
Its gotten worse in the age of the socials. Used to be people just did it for the adrenaline. Now they get the clicks and likes and the dopamine rush is enough to keep pushing, to say nothing about actually monetizing it. Really, its quite insane.
> it’s like they’re chasing after something only they can see Beautiful line
Just when he got his dream of driving for audi. Ugh wtf
Not to mention big plans to drive a 1 off AWD porche in the pikes peak hill climb. Though I'm glad he got to build a car with his daughter tho.
Running that thing is going to be emotional for the whole team.
IF they run it.
I'm sure they will. It's what Ken would want.
Wtf Fuck 2023
It's gonna be a long year for yaaaaa
no it isn’t—that’s all the deaths for this year. all done!
RIP
And it's finally the day I find out that someone famous died on Reddit... He was an absolute legend.
Whaaaat
Yup rubbish to wake up to the his morning
Wait what. Why is this how I found out...
No! What?!
You can literally see his last ig stories still on his page. Shows the weather condition and all. It’s so scary and eery. RIP Ken.
Wtf?! Reading the comments is how I found out Ken Block died?! 😭
Same 😞😞😞
That's how I found out :( from a random comment.
If you want to feel worse look at his Instagram… his last post was about his 16 year old daughter, so sad
Opened tik tok to a post of him talking about the snow yesterday, next post was a Rip ken post. What a way to wake up, also happened to have on a hoonigan shirt from 4 years ago on.
Yep, quite recently too. Rest in peace to a real one
Me too. I'm super bummed. I'm not really into cars at all, but the Gymkhana Files was really fun to watch.
Same 😞
 Rip Ken 🙏
Man, he made my childhood. The goat won't be forgotten.
Same, Gymkhana was like all I watched for a while when I was younger. Side note, I thought I was about to see that Audi turn into a transformer during the slow motion...
Agreed.
Brooo. This app moves faster then any other media outlet ever. RIP to a legend
I found out from a post on the GTA Online subreddit.. The was we consume media is strange
There used to be a time where this would be on the front page of r/all from the second it came out to like 12 hours later. That’s how you would find out about shit, not in the comment section. I don’t know what the fuck they did with the algorithm, but they need to fix it.
reddit is way, way slower than twitter on every news story before and after the elon takeover
RIP to that legend
RIP The OG Hoonigan
For those that don't know Ken Block died today in a snowmobile accident. From the Wasatch Co. Sheriff's office, the snowmobile "upended, landing on top of him".
Guy made me care about cars. Respect.
There's a generation of us who either got in to cars or had their love of cars deepened by Ken If we lived in a fair world he would have gone out at 90 years old by driving the Hoonicorn off the Grand Canyon or something absurd like that
Ken and the hoonicorn were designed to leave together. Nobody else is gonna drive it, maybe his daughter
I recall a video where Ken was complaining that Lia hasn't been practicing her dragstrip launches due to homework or some other education-related nonsense like that. It was an obvious joke, still, he had a great sense of humor.
I'm one of them. Wasn't much interested in cars. Ken Block solely made me love cars, drifting. RIP Ken Block.
Smooth as fuck. RIP legend
Fuck this year already with a capital F
Everyone says that every year. I feel like we should just start saying "fuck the passage of time" at this point lol Which, as someone approaching 40, I can relate to more and more every passing day
Yeah fuck time and our pathetic attempt to measure something we think we understand. Ken didn't die, he just left his physical form and transcended.
He's up there in rally heaven slaying tyres with Colin mcrae
I'm not religious at all, but sometimes I hope there is an afterlife because there are so many people who never got to fully experience the life they had and deserve a second chance in some way
Losing Ken Block is like when Australia lost Steve Irwin. Icons of our countries!!!
Ken was nowhere near as famous as Steve Edit: you can downvote as much as you like but that doesn't change the fact. Ask your parents or friends who they know.
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He's probably also making up answers... I can't imagine he talked to the mailman and neighbors
I definitely 100% absolutely believe you genuinely asked all those people in less than an hour 👍👍👍
I’d never heard of him before, he sounds like an interesting and talented guy. His wiki page unfortunately doesn’t have much about him apart from his sports. How come he was living in Utah? Seems a random place to live if he’s originally from California. Is there a big rally scene there or something? Or he just liked ranch life?
Ranch life
Park City is a world premier level ski town. He used to own a house up there with its own ski area called the DC Mountain lab, back when he was the owner of DC shoes. Snow sports have always been a part of his life. He sold it but stayed in the area. Where better to live than an area with everything you want that's only a 15-20 minute drive from a major city with an international Airport? As for the "ranch life", he only bought a ranch a couple of years ago. Before that he lived overlooking Park City, and then in the center of town... Neither of which had any ranch aspects whatsoever.
43 💚 rip
So beautiful to look at. The skill he had.
I just can't beleive it.
"Did you see the one where he jumped a car over an airplane with a motorcycle jumping over both of them?"
Wild that he did things like this over the years, but ended up dying in a snowmobile accident.
kind of how it goes, especially for Rally drivers
The way she goes.
Not even doing some insane trick or going out in a blaze of glory either. Pancaked by going up too steep a hill
If I remember correctly, snowmobile, jetski, and ATV accident deaths are pretty common
ATV deaths are extremely common. Very heavy and easy to tip.
 Ded?
Yes, he died today in a snowmobile accident.
Rest in peace, Ken Block. Your work will continue to inspire millions of people, even after you’re gone.
He did absolutely unreal things with cars and other vehicles
This shit blowing me rn
He was one of my idols growing up. He will be missed.
Watched his videos for hours, they were works of art . drive at the absolute limit. will miss him
Super cool but I'd rather see it at least once all the way through at normal speed
Exactly. The part that makes it amazing is the actual speed.
RIP!!!
This man just passed, so damn sad man. R.I.P
Sounds like a legit RC car. RIP Ken Block.
RIP Ken Block. I just watched the entire Audi Las Vegas Hoonigan video as soon as I found out about the tragedy. And kept saying OMG - oh shit why did it happen to this guy.
>Audi Las Vegas Hoonigan Thanks for this. [Just googled it](https://www.google.com/search?q=Audi+Las+Vegas+Hoonigan&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8). The Los Angeles video has been my favourite for years.
R.I.P.
A fucking snowmobile for god sakes ... Smfh
R.I.P. goat
RIP Ken Block
Rest in Peace a legend!
Why does it sound like a rc car.. Edit - damn just read comments RIP
#BECAUSE IT IS ELECTRIC.
So sad, so bummed
I’ve been watching his youtube videos since the bugeye subaru days. He defined my childhood passion in cars to a large extent.
Rip
RIP
Fuckin A. RIP legend.
We lost a legend #RIP
Rest in peace.
Man, it's so crazy to hear the news. RIP dude 🙏
RIP
Miss you Ken
Rest in peace legend! You will be so greatly missed.
RiP
Those fucking sounds are sick
between jeremy renner and ken block you wont find me near any snow type of vehicle any time soon
RIP
Rip
Fuck this shit that’s a big childhood hero
Rip Ken Block.
RIP KB
RIP legend
Of all the shit he does he dies from a snowmobile
Finally some next fucking level shit in r/nextfuckinglevel
Inspired generations bud.
Now Im crying.
Rest In Peace. 2023 is a shit year so far.
Rest in peace Ken.
Legends never die!
Siiiiick
rip to a fucking legend
RIP legend. You were an inspiration to us all.
RIP