Top 3 places you CAN'T GO & people who went anyways... | Part 12 

thats ME from my 1st grade class picture hahaha

MrBallen noooo I thought I got it at 5:17, who is that

I saw that briefly but thought it was part of the photo! Good catch!

Ohhhhhh i see it noowww lol

No way I thought there was a face on the ceiling at 5:17

Same

Same

Same

Did the same

This is factual.

Right? What a terrible father.

Yea what a smart and caring father...

Yea this one made me angry, what a stupid and terrible thing to do and the position he put his son in. It ultimately killed them unfortunately

some people should not have children to careless

My friend was part of the recovery on this, it was a terrible situation.

yeah it's insanity, he basically took his son on a suicide mission.

stupid people win stupid prizes. its sad but at least for me anymore. i have a hard time showing sympathy for the dumb.

That angered me so much, how could the father be so stupid and selfish

I don't know how you could be so ignorant and reckless with your own life, let alone your son's. I've done PADI Advanced Open Water and there's still no way I'd cave dive any time soon, let alone without an experienced dive buddy. The father was either extremely dumb or it was intentional murder-suicide

Even the Italian President Joke You see what he did during Covid and still

I completely agree. I was getting angrier by the minute. That poor little boy. 😢

@@KCohere33 same. damn egos

I'm crying over Alfredo right now. That poor child

Classic Italians, they were probably all too busy talking over one another to understand the situation. 🤌

Yeah, similar thing happened with the muddy puddy cave incident. Really wish people would stop having to prove they can fix it and just get the right people in quickly.

I’ll never understand someone who thinks it’s ok to find an ominous hole in the bottom of a lake and swim down it for fun

@@TomGibson. cave diving isn't ominous. It's a beautiful hobby and a life long dream of mine. You just need the right training and equipment (which is beyond that of open water divers).

@@mayalackman7581 You're right but caving like these two did is like playing Russian roulette with 5/6 bullets in the chamber.

@@sclarin2 of course, but I'd argue they weren't cave diving. They were diving in a cave. It's semantics (and semantics I made up at that) but it's important. A proper cave diver would have been using a line, breathing trimix, carrying three (or more lights), followed the rule of thirds (or sixths in some situations) and a bunch of other stuff. I'm not claiming what these two did is safe. I'm claiming that cave diving when done right is safe. With that said by cave diving standards Eagle's Nest is still super advanced and probably not a good idea for a newly certified cave diver.

😂

how was dylan’s dad in the wrong ?

@@laughoutloud1715 shouldve paid attention to the warnings and the signs at the park. It was a horrific accident but it sadly could have been avoided

@@Princess_Belle_ yes but rip to both of them the dad did try to save him

@@laughoutloud1715 i understand that, like I said it was a horrific accident, no one deserves to go through that especially a child. But it was irresponsible and preventable. Even if the child found the exit, there would not have been enough oxygen from his dad's tank to save him. Rip to them both but it was his father's fault due to lack of experience and equipment- and his son depended and trusted him, like any child would to their parents.

@@laughoutloud1715 Dylan's dad put his own child in that dangerous situation and got him killed!

@@professionalinsultant3206 you think that alfredo was stupid? For something he takes absolutly no fault in?

@@garrett5559 how do you know he didn't make a mistake?

@@professionalinsultant3206 seriously?

@@nuviaerivez5876 yeah

@@professionalinsultant3206 Little kid: Falls into a hole and gets stuck, many people try to get him out but most do a crappy job and end up running around like headless chickens, resulting in him being stuck in that hole for over two days and eventually dying there. You: Lmao, that kid was stupid. He deserved to die, even though the only reason he died was because the people who attempted to rescue him weren’t very good at their job.

No, I was also confused by that.

i came here for this comment

Apparently his mother signed a consent form saying he can go alone because she didn’t want to go??? like who the hell does that, if you don’t want to go. Do not and I mean do not let your child go tf alone???

@@miabarton3623 His mom was ill but she thought he'd be safe since he would be with adults edit: sorry

@@Suppenhuhn_08 Still wouldn’t have let him gone. Idc if there’s other adults, they aren’t his familia so I wouldn’t trust them😭

sounds like that's what his father planned in the first place, only choosing the second spot because their actual destination was closed. i imagine he didn't know what it was and didn't see or ignored the signs, unfortunately...

My dad took me into a busy highway my first time driving, u bet ur ass I became a good driver very fast lmao

@@nou4591 well ok

The kid would've probably been happy just going to a shallow pond or lake to scuba dive, like what was the point of taking him to such a dangerous cave?? What was the father thinking

@@nou4591 You might just as easily been involved in an accident, being forced into a dangerous situation without proper training.

Unfortunately if the local rescue, fire don't have a coordinated plan of command at a scene, you get mayhem. Its also obvious from Alfredo's case the "rescue" unit had no training. And to double down, its also obvious that egos plugged the ears of the fire commanders. Not like I haven't seen that in the USA where firemen have tried to overrule very experienced Paramedic's decisions to the point of starting a fight and trying to block an ambulance. That's not an internet story I was in the middle as a police sgt trying to keep the firemen from keeping the crash victim from receiving competent aid.

What would take too long: A guy calls some buddies over to help him What won't take too long: Drilling an actual shaft into the earth big enough to fit two people

The incompetence of so many people in charge is truly mind boggling. These videos bring this problem to light. Trying not to politicize this post, but we see it most often in politics where you have people running agencies, cities, countries even, that are completely clueless and totally incompetent.

a clear case of testosterone poisoning. everybody wants to be a hero and won't listen to the experts.

I guess lowering sling knot rope and telling a kid to put it over his body so we can pull you up is to easy...get the drill...

Those volunteer cave divers were probably just pedophiles >:/ so eager to get to a kid!!!

@@srahhh uhhh what? they just wanted to save the kid. those fire workers or w.e are dumb who caused the kid to die

@@9mamy Yeah, I was making a sarcastic reference to the moronic thing Elon Musk said about the (awesome) volunteer cave divers who rescued that Thai soccer team of kids stuck in a flooded cave a while back. One of the divers said Musk's ideas were stupid and that he was wasting time (both true) and Musk got his feelings hurt and tweeted saying the volunteer civilian cave diver was probably a p*dophile since he wanted to rescue the kids so bad.

@@srahhh thats disgusting

@@9mamy some people would literally rather let a child die than take a hit to their ego and its incomprehensible

This series is prove how much pure stupidity and ignorance people are, underestimated how dangerous things could be happened. Also the list likely nowhere to be ended.

As a father who has never been a diver this story is also insane to me 🤦‍♂️

So the diver father killed his kid on purpose or he was just straight up irresponsible and dumb.

toxic masculinity

Fathers are known for forcing their kids into bullshit they don't want to do

good for you! who cares if they get pissy!

Those fathers are so dumb. In this day and age information is soooo easy to access yet they still remain ignorant.

@@Cherry-uh2gp arrogance make people use stupid decisions parents are notorious for doing this I remember playing football a kid who had never played before mom thought he was so good because he'd play against his neighbor kids and when he got on the field it was a whole new ball game instead of her saying "no he's not ready for the big boys" she demanded he go up against the bigger kids and guess what happened? He got his collar bone broken immediately after this is just how an arrogant parent believes their children are better than they actually are.

"I'm the dad, that means I'm super competent and in control with excellent judgement"

if that's so. you do know you most likely saved a life a family maybe more then one...hat's of to you

I've learnt that trusting caves is a stupid move

Right on! My thoughts exactly. Cave of the Mounds in Southern Wisconsin is the only cave I've ever been in and plan to keep it that way.

Oh no oh no ohhhhh man you broke the first rule DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT CAVES

Also don't listen to Nick Cave records

@@tj1185 well... nothng bad ever happened in novice caves! Only in expert ones or people who were clearly unprepared and just entered a banned or hard one

And he died alone in the dark, poor little sod. Couldn't the skinny man have gone back down with a trowel or something to try to dig the kid out, or at least loosen the mud around him? or at least taken a harness back down to put around the kid to stop him sinking further?

The skinny man could also have tied some ropes around the boy to drag him in which neither the skinny man nor the boy had yo put power while the othe powerful machine or mans can drag him out slowly slowly without rope breaking

It's happening to America, except 7.8 billion people are watching this time.

I imagine too the mother hearing her baby crying for her. I can't handle that. But I'm also such a bitch when it comes to my kids that I would have probably emasculated the fire cheifs into submission and got the spilunkers in immediately. I'm NOT blaming the mom at all in any way. Fire brigade should have known better.

I know that story made me cry, I couldn’t imagine going through that I pray that little boy is in a better place now and that his parents are pushing through, if deceased then with him happily rejoined. My heart is in pieces right now, I’m truly heart broken 😖

No one gets this.

Yeah, but if you don't go into them, you don't have any balls

​@@noahgraff-uw8rs I'd rather get called no balls or spineless than being stupid and dead

​@@quackduckquacksame

​@@noahgraff-uw8rsMr Ballen will deliver your catastrophic incident in story format😂😂

Same, I’m so disgusted by the last one!!

poor alfredo pasta way :(

@@mh-nd8no you’re wrong for making me laugh with that.

felt wrong..but I had to. all due respect to the family

SAME! Like were they that fucking stupid!? Poor baby

they should have got the dude that dug the damn well to go down it to save him.

Same here, to the point where I won't be able to shake it for the rest of the day

Like they should have listened to the first skinny dude. He knew what to do. Those firefighters should have got fired or something.

bro when i saw that one my jaw dropped at the stupid fire brigade

Theyre Italian theyll argue and bicker amongst themselves

I don’t understand why they couldn’t lower a rope alone to Alfredo for him to grab onto, that wouldn’t have gotten stuck like the plank

Megan Vachon I know right.... A rope with a large knot at the end and another knot around 1/2 meter apart. One to wrap his feet around and the other to hold on to. If they pulled him up gently and slowly he could of guided his own way up the twisted tunnel.... But they send down a plank of wood?!.. Omg poor wee soul.... Heartbreaking! 😢😢

This story just absolutely broke my heart. That poor little boy. I've never been this saddened by a Mr.Ballen story before 😢

@@meganvachon4558 same! It seems odd and is frustrating.

And why didnt they lower some warm clothes, food and water to him? The guys who went down there could have brought him those stuff

where was that ten year old boys parents?! that boy went there with these strangers?!

@@couptubegaymer1364 For real. I'm always advocating for allowing children to have lives and not be constantly supervised, but who just lets their kid go to a remote cave with a bunch of strangers?

Great update

@@tedbkd1 Thank-you.

@@harperm1389 There's allowing your child some leeway, freedom and privacy so they can grow into a strong, independent adult, but this is taking that to the extreme with tragic results.

As a parent, like, wtf? Why? Why? WHY WOULD YOU EVER THINK THAT WAS IN ANY WAY A GOOD IDEA?? Baffles my mind how people can be so irresponsible

@@simonshields2525 My guess is, somewhere deep, DEEP down, they GENUINELY think that they can handle it. It's a mindset that pops up a lot in bad parenting decisions, and how I read it is that far too many parents _actually_ internalize that "I'm the parent and I can make everything okay" mentality to the point of absurd overconfidence. Hope that helps you understand it a little...

I always understand that people make mistakes or have reasons that we aren't privy to or whatever but this totally baffles me. I feel like he must have had something wrong with him. Or, they didn't plan to go as far as they did or something like that and got drawn in? But based on what has been said, W T F

To the son's credit, he has balls of steel. If my dad leads me a a underwater cave and tell me to squeeze through it I would said hell no or panicked and bolted straight up.

*COPIED FROM MY OWN COMMENT BUT I FELT IT WAS RELEVANT AS A REPLY TO THIS COMMENT* I seriously don't understand why people in various threads here keep defending Dylan's dad. If you want to know how a father should go about partaking in a potentially dangerous activity with their son here's my story on the topic. It's not scuba diving but it is a potentially very dangerous activity without proper training nonetheless. My dad is a hunter. He wanted to take me out hunting and honestly I didn't want to go but I wanted the experience with my dad. I was 10 or 12 or something at the time. Did he just shove a loaded 12 gauge shotgun in my hand and tell me to follow him into some remote woods? No, he enrolled me in a hunters safety course that walked me through all of the basics of hunting and guns from the safety elements such as always treat a gun as loaded. Make sure you're wearing enough orange to be recognized by other hunters. Always unload a gun before storing it. If handing the gun to someone then the chamber should be open and the gun fully unloaded. Only after we learned these things and more were we finally taken to a firing range out back and given a choice of various gauge shotguns to fire at a target. We were told about the kickback and told to only fire one we were comfortable with as it was the first time many of us ever shot a gun. The instructors worked with us one on one. We were also briefed on how to field dress a kill(might not be the proper term, it was a long time ago and the hunting hobby didn't stick long). After that my dad took me to shooting ranges to get practice firing guns and fully comfortable holding and using them. Only after all of this and getting the proper license in my state did my dad take me out hunting. Even then, he kept an eye on me and was sure to check for any silly mistakes I might make. I remember him periodically asking if my gun was on safety and one time I got the color for safety on the switch mixed up and said, "yeah, it's orange," and he told me to think about what I said and put my gun on safety(note 1;see bottom). He was extremely strict about me knowing where my muzzle was pointed at all times and after going out there was a strict cleaning regimen to keep the guns clean and in good working order. The point of my story is that parents need to be aware of both their child's limits and, more importantly, their own. My father isn't a great teacher so he looked for a hunt club with good teachers that he trusted to teach me. He slowly got me comfortable with holding and firing guns under his supervision. Finally, he took me hunting which is what he really wanted to do from the get go. If my dad was impulsive and arrogant like Dylan's dad I might have ended up hurting him or myself by accident because he couldn't wait to have this experience with his son and just thrust a gun into my hand. It's only really now when I write this that I realize exactly how good my father is at shelving his pride when it really matters. Sure he gets hung up on a thing here or there where he absolutely can fix that car without help but when push comes to shove and the chips are on the table he has always picks the options that he thought were best for me and my brother and tried his best to leave pride completely out of the equation. (Note 1) To those that don't know there's a little button like thing near the trigger on some shotguns that when pressed one way, it has an orange outline and allows the trigger to be pulled and when pushed the other way has a black outline and prevents the trigger from being pulled. Different guns have different safety mechanisms but the 20 gauge shotgun I used had this style. As to how I messed up the colors; I think I just associated orange with safety because hunters wear orange for safety because almost nothing in nature is the same bright color of orange that hunters wear making them easy to recognize to other hunters and avoid accidental deaths caused by perceptual mistakes.

Enthusiastically agree

I'm with you my friend!

Call me a bit of a daredevil but I like reading books and drinking hot chocolate.

@@justaduck3615 I am with you, my feathered friend.

I'm waiting for some kind of bizarre convenience-store related entrapment death featuring Evil Beetles.

Ugh I know 💔 it breaks my heart

It is not about youth It's about listening to people with experience and knowledge regardless of their age old or young

​@@right584but the point the original comment is trying to make is that they most likely disregarded him because he was young despite his experience. We agree that it should be based off of experience like you say, but it most likely was overlooked because of his age.

no you are not

Nope, me too.

The places and things I did as a 10yr old would horrify parents today... I'd old though and as long as we were home for dinner (and cleaned up), all good.

I thought that was weird as well! 😅

I was looking for this comment 😂

I’m not a parent (unfortunately, though I love my nephew beyond words) and Alfredo’s story is both devastating and infuriating. I hope that neighbor was in prison for a LONG time.

@@CindyLouWho77 yeah the idiot neighbor should’ve at least covered the hole so no one would fall in it

I have a 3 year old and bawled.. I couldn't imagine.. I wish he would warn of child death before videos. I love them but the ones w small children are so hard to hear.. 💔

@@kawaiiwife6296 that is the one thing about becoming a mom that I was not prepared for. How hearing stories like these hit so hard, almost as if when you become a parent, all kids are your kids. You want to protect them all, and thinking about it happening to your own when they’re the same age or looking at your beautiful, innocent child and thinking how this little boy felt and how your heartbreaks when your baby even just gets a minor injury but cries in pain and just wants you to console them… my whole soul just aches 😭♥️

@@CindyLouWho77 hey Cindy I think I can help

I have a 9 yr old son. I DIED INSIDE 🥺

Yeah, same here.

Literally just finished watching with my 3 year old boy on my lap and it upset me so much. Poor Alfredo 😔

Cool

Damn you had no idea 😔

most tour guides, in my experience, are the real risk takers who don't care much about safety. I've experienced this with snowboarding instructors (who would lead you off the normal way where there are avalanches and its dangerous), when hiking the machu picchu (where the tour guid was the one always sugggesting really dangerous things) and also all the tour guides I know personally from home (I am from Austria, where the Alps are), also the sailing instructors I know (my mum's boyfriend for many years was one, a skipper as well, we went sailing many times in the open sea) are the ones who LEAST care. they are so used to doing this 24/7, they feel invincible at some point

Also when your guts say it, no matter what your comrades do or say. Better to be a living coward than to be a dead hero!

"Turn back or you'll die!" *Continues *Dies.

Poor little Alfredo. This made me cry.

Yeah! Mr. Ballen is potentially saving lives and doesn't know it. When you hear enough stories, you start to second guess your own actions.

@@randyrhoads4737 that’s what I try to tell people too! People are always like “why do you watch this stuff” and I always say “it teaches you stuff”. I’ve learned so much about the behavior of serial killers

Why do I always see this comment in each video?

Just found him today

Yes!!

@@dewianjani8021 bro this comment and the “everyone gangster til the strange and dark” comment

Judge: how do u plea Me: Guilty but in my defense ur honor he is the best story teller I ever

Yes and he even volunteerded himself, not like all the others just watching

How sad. The lack of leadership on the scene is disgusting. Reminds me of the Lindt siege in Australia

@@jezwc From the Wikipedia article: "La mancanza di organizzazione e coordinamento dei soccorsi, ai limiti dell'improvvisazione, fecero capire l'esigenza di una nuova struttura organizzativa per poter gestire le situazioni di emergenza e negli anni successivi portò alla nascita della Protezione Civile", I'll translate: "the lack of organization and rescue coordination, to the point of improvisation, made it clear the need of a new organizing structure that could manage emergency situation properly, that lead to the birth of Civil Protection later on". It was 1980, 40 years ago.

@@milepessina1405 thanks for the info. I’m not slating the country, but that’s a great reactive response so fair play

@@muska667 it's not like there was much they could do if they weren't fit enough. Going into that well being held upside down for whole minutes, with walls made of dirt and mud that could collapse at any moment, anyone that tried to save him had to know that if anything would block them from going back up once they reached their limit, they would die cause of the pressure of the blood on their head long before getting any help. The ones who went in knew they were putting their lives at stake, the one referenced in the video, Licheri, stood upside down in the well for 45 minutes straight while trying to save him, keep in mind that the security limit for such a posture is 25 minutes and it's already pretty painful (try to stay upside down for a couple minutes and Imagine doing that in a well too tight for you to move, for 45 minutes and while trying to save a life. I don't know how many would volunteer for that nowadays.

Yeah, if the neighbour was able to go down that deep... And come up again! How did he do that, but was not able to do it then to get Alfredo out... poor kid.

Italians 🤷‍♀️

Italian arrogance. Thats what it was. Arrogance, is a huge part of italian culture, The fire brigade likely ignored the advice because it wasn't the plan they thought of. They didnt know what they were doing, but pressed on anyway and ignored advice because I guess it would hurt their ego. This sheer arrogance and concern with saving face is known as la faccia. Its this that killed the boy.

@@willischwabe1324 Because he didn't go down... its a tool..

It was years ago, italy was not preparered for Emergency like that and do not have protocols or directives to follow so as you can imagin we improvized

100% agree lad lol

Darwin awards 💯💯💯 the thing that pisses me off is dragging in innocent children who LITERALLY don't know any better!!! smfh 😡😡😡😡

The first story is even more dumb because they had to bribe random locals to walk them down to the cave, because all the ACTUAL guides refused. And the GF hated small spaces and bugs. So not only did the BF make a dumb choice to jump off the ledge, I'm sure he was the only reason they were there in the first place. A moron until the end, and his girlfriend had to suffer a lifetime of trauma because of it.

@@BunnyQueen97 I wonder why mr Ballen didn’t mention that important detail about the guides

I mean the first one isn’t a dumb choice I don’t think. But the other two ? Definitely. The reason I say this is because the boyfriend was selfless and not dumb for making that choice. But generally, everyone is dumb in this whole series for going wher they shouldn’t.

Men tend to go crazy when women are involved.

😂😂😂 Good judgment call 👌

He was certainly not thinking straight and needed a proper slap and pep talk to get him back to his senses. Not even Michael Phelps could swim through that.

@@unbothered8399 Just tell him straight up "Babe, you know I love and respect you. I'm only saying this because I care. That's fuckin stupid. Sit down, take a few breaths, and let's figure this out together."

Diving into rushing water is stupidity on unimaginable scale. I get that he was scared for his wife and his own life but still.

Hey man its sad ok

The worst part is all of these are true so this actually happened

And only the man that dug the well was charged?

Yeah it's just sad

@elvis roose the vibrations from digging would still sent the kid deeper. he was a kid, they dont have the best strength. the only right path that shouldve been taken was for the fire brigade to listen to the spelunker and bring in professional spelunkers to retrieve the kid.

@@niyakii6205 yea but the could’ve tied a loop so he can hold onto or just to strait pull him out

@Bendy if he was real and your source to saying its fake is?

@Bendy if he was real just because you’re scared of it doesn’t mean it’s fake

Knowing he was crying for his mom made it worse. My heart broke

Why did they not lower an actual rope ladder instead of one giant piece of wood tied poorly to a string?? I wish I didn't even watch the story about that kid, it's as if those "rescuer's" didn't care whatsoever that they were witnessing his final moments. So many opportunities to protect the kid from more danger and they continuously neglected his safety(they could have lowered blankets down the hole to protect him from the cold, a pickaxe or something to help him secure himself from falling further down the tunnel, an actual rope with a slipknot to tie around his waist and keep him from sinking further into the mud/possibly even pull him out at that point..). Do people in wine country stay super drunk 24/7? Because their judgement seemed extremely impaired. The reporters and bystanders put more thought/effort into the rescue than the firemen 🤦 that poor baby 💔💔💔

@@kims7287 in “the wine country” kids can go to school without any fear of being shot by a schoolmate, for instance. And high quality healthcare is free for everyone, go figure. Sometimes bad things happen. In this situation - in the countryside 40 years ago - thing went very wrong. That said, we are also the mob country. We have at least 4 different organizations: mafia, camorra, andrangheta, sacra corona unita. And even if they do have a “moral code” once they took a child, killed him e vanished his body in the acid.

Which story are you talking about?

@@nvmffs the one where the father took his child scuba diving

@@nvmffs the second story

For real. I was more mad than anything with that story. That father was an idiot.

Ego

It's especially sad because the kid was at that age where he didn't know any better. He probably idolized his dad and so just wanted to be like him (like most kids who love their dads do), and he also had zero official scuba training and so he literally just did not have the knowledge to be like, "But dad, I learned in that scuba course that _______ is not safe and a bad idea" etc.

Yea and the fact that even if the kid did have sufficient knowledge, it would have been very difficult to voice his disagreement to his dad and risk disappointing him. His dad carelessly signed him up for death.

I agree. I also think that if people choose to do stupid things and ignore warnings- absolutely no attempt should be made to rescue them. Their choice - don’t put other lives in danger trying to rescue stupid people. But yes, including a child is beyond stupid. Knowing your husband was that stupid why would you let him take your child diving in such a dangerous place. Better question - knowing this person was so stupid why would you marry him or have a child with him. Obviously neither parent was very smart. Poor kid never had a chance.

About a week ago, the same story happened to a 5 year old Moroccan boy Rayan. The whole Arab world watched the rescuers live trying to get him from a 60 meter deep well, but failed. It was so heartbreaking and devastating. It still haunts me and I can't recover. RIP Rayan and Alfredo :'(

This reminds me of "Baby Jessica" here in the US back in the 80s. She was a small child at the time and had fallen in to a deep well where the cover was left off (I think) and she fell deep into the well. Everyone watched on tv for days as they drilled down to where she was and then across. They did manage to get her out, eventually but it took days. (58 hours).Unfortunately years later, the paramedic who brought her up, died by suicide from PTSD caused by this incident. The parents also divorced but Jessica McClure went on to live a normal life out of the spotlight. She only lost a toe to gangrene. She's married now and a mother herself. That makes me happy. I'm heartbroken tho that others in similar situations don't make it out alive. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

@@angelwings0076 oh wow...glad to hear that at least one child has escaped that horrible fate at least.

Im from Italy too, actually near Frascati and I passed near the place he died many times :(

@@angelwings0076 yes I remember that also. I seen her on some talk show or something claiming she don’t really remember anything from that incident (which probably a good thing).

And you, sir, have the mindset that all thrill seekers should have - ITS NEVER WORTH YOUR LIFE.

Wow that’s interesting that even for you guys being dive instructors that it’s not worth it…

Why do they call it the eagles nest

Heartbreaking story :(

Spelunker Tullio Bernabei said nothing against drilling a second tunnel to reach Alfredino. A geologist, Laura Bortolani, said that drilling would be difficult and would take a long time because of the layers of rock surrounding the well. But no one was opposed to the drilling. It was only after the tunnel was completed and they were not as close to the child as they expected, that they realized the vibrations had likely caused Alfredino to slip farther down. Professional spelunkers WERE in fact involved in the whole ordeal and attempted several times to reach Alfredino. Many, many volunteers attempted too, and two of them did manage to reach Alfredino (in separate attempts, of course), but the child was covered in mud and the harness kept slipping off of him. There was no animosity between the spelunkers and firefighters: they all tried their best together, along with the many volunteers. The whole story is heartbreaking and dramatic enough as it is, there was no need to make it more sensationalistic on Mr Ballen's part. In Italy we still talk about it to this day. It really shocked the whole nation.

@@nenegrey2282 we don't care

@@radicalthunder5740 You're wrong, some people clearly care about the awful death of a child. You're not one of them and I pity the people who have to deal with your compassionless ass 🙄

A week ago the same story happened to a 5 year old Moroccan boy Rayan. We watched live for 5 days how rescuers failed to save him. It still haunts me.

They were STUPID and caused his death! Yes the neighbor dug the hole, but the boy fell into it. The situation had already happened. The people solely responsible for his rescue made multiple bad decisions and caused his death. They were not only inexperienced, they were not dedicated. They failed completely, and do have the blame. But they cannot be charged for being unable to properly rescue someone. The entity responsible for the fire brigade's irresponsibility is the government! & as all corrupt governments do, they blamed the neighbor instead of admitting that they need to increase training response, effectiveness, leadership, engineering education, & funding!

Barry McCociner - Kobe predicted his own 'death' and took his daughter with him. Think on that, if you want some mystery.

@@lucasreeserlarkin8996 Kobe CAUSED his own death. He was warned by multiple people NOT to fly that morning. Fuck outta here. It’s no mystery. And the fact his wife is suing the charter company (the company flying the helicopter) is disgusting. One, it’s her husbands fault. HE demanded they still the helicopter. Two, the family is already worth over half a billion dollars. And she contributed nothing to that wealth.

@ Lucas Reeser Larkin What exactly did that have to do with this comment?? 🙄

@@SawSaw-ul8xu thats not really an every day occurrence, you cant be prepared for everything as a first responder. Some things are reactive responses. They did what they could and tried. The neighbor was at fault because it was illegally dug and ultimately would not have happened otherwise

My thoughts exactly!!

May he rest in peace and may the parents recover in their loss 🥺😔

Like the guy couldn't get a grip on him these people are stupid ropes exist

I thought so too!

The rescue team were professionals, unfortunately mistakes are made, the boy would have died without any intervention so I don't think its fair that because they didn't take the advice of a hobby caver that they are labelled as killers because they couldn't rescue the boy, not all rescues are successful. It's easy to see flaws in hindsight and when it is read clearly as a story, im sure the actual situation was stressful in an unusual accident.

Father that are assholes and have fun with adrenaline

I dont even dive and this was literally the first thing I thought, like what in the actual fuck.

Someone who calls themselves an enthusiast but doesn’t know anything about diving.

Omg u shit yr pants then Watch ""Caveman hikes""!!! Gave me Add, Anxiety, Ptsd, Hbp, my eyes were bleeding, not to mention cocky attitude.

@@darkblaziken6894 You make it sound as if getting off on adrenaline and extreme sports automatically makes you an asshole or is a characteristic of being one.

It’s kind of like his male ego got the better of him and decided listening to your future wife isn’t as important than being right

@@Muddyres What are you talking about? He was attempting to save his fiancée, and unfortunately died trying.

@@Jack-uu6dj no he made a singular decision and forgot they were a couple sometimes it’s better to work as a team than to operate as an individual and not panic

@@Muddyres You know it’s a little hard not to panic and think straight when you’re sure you and the person you love the most are about die.

@@Muddyres And in the panic he thought he was saving his fiancé, of course in hindsight we know he could have survived. Don’t be a keyboard warrior and say he was just trying to save his ego, if your fiancé was about to die you would probably do the same thing

Could you imagine going in and getting your baby yourself since everybody else literally trying to save their life is an idiot?

@@yourevilhalf1413 yep. I would do it

@@jillianw2404 then you'd be just another tragic story on one of these vids

@@yourevilhalf1413 what? Ok. Lol

@@jillianw2404 ok👌🏾

Hence the lack of coordination and leadership on the scene which led to dumb decision making. This is what frustrates me the most about this story and ofcourse the neighbor for not even bothering to cover up his illegal well dig appropriately.

Ha ha, you said “spelunkers”. Ha ha ha ha ha

This story was huge in Italy. It was impossible, unfortunately.

Proto Alcibiade Such a horrifying story and so poorly managed. I’m sorry for your people. 💚

@@katielynch9740 Thanks. It was a long time ago, things are a lot better today fortunately.

@@samward4959 The neighbor was the primary one responsible, so at least they got punished for manslaughter, as they deserved. Only the person who made the call to go through with the drilling could be blamed for any further negligence. All the other crew members were just following orders to do what they probably assumed was necessary. I guess the person who tried the plank idea could be considered negligent, but that would require questioning in my opinion to determine whether or not they were aware that it was not a good idea. It may have a been a collective decision. Personally, if I was involved in any way that I felt my failures prevented saving the kid, I would want to turn myself in for whatever punishment the mother felt was justice.

@@litigioussociety4249 "Only following orders" does not absolve you of responsibility. The firebrigade was also adviced to call in experts before even drilling the hole, they refused then, and they refused to listen about the drilling. Making one bad desiscion is bad enough.. two is is too many.

@@Goldenhawk583 It depends on how aware and complicit each individual was. Odds are only one or two people was qualified to make those decisions, and the rest assumed they were making the right decision. It's like if a doctor, pharmacist, or therapist gives someone medical directions; unless the individual has reason to believe otherwise, they will assume it's sound advice. As I originally started, questioning may have determined some were negligent, and others may have felt guilty, but it would set a bad precedent to punish everyone involved in a rescue effort anytime something goes wrong, it has to be determined on a case by case basis for each individual involved what degree of punishment there should be. A real world example would be individuals from a volunteer fire department taking orders or advice from one person who has prior experience of handling a given situation. That advice may be wrong, but the other members wouldn't know that.

@@litigioussociety4249 There was an expert on site,. making the recomendation to get a crew of his kind to finish the job. The fireman in charge, ignored this advice. Any person in charge, who has, as a job, to be in charge, should know what they can or can not do... I see no reason to make excuses for the mistake, as they did not even listen to the advice given, they can not be said to have listened to anyone but themselves. Rescue operations go wrong quite a lot. People are found dead, or can not be helped in time, and die... This happens, and mostly without anyone doing anything wrong. That was not the case this time, they COULD have called in experts, but refused doing so.. I think it was all ego, and little sense.

@@Goldenhawk583 I'm not defending the fireman in charge, I'm defending the rest of his crew, since the mentality if the various individuals may have varied from arrogance to compliance to ignorance.

Oh no that's awful! Oh my god I can't even imagine the horror of the child and parents. Rip Rayan.

This story went world wide. I read about it and watched it on the news here in Norway . Such a devastating tragedy 😥

How very very sad. We in the West (🇺🇸) heard nothing of this terrible tragedy. I am so sorry to hear of it.

@@dshepherd107 The west isn't just America, Rayan's plight was broadcast across countries in Europe and Australia too. A massive chunk of the west most certainly heard about it.

@@KoiladaScrewYTHandlesEurope is in the north of Morocco, not at all in the west. He just wanted to tell us that he's from the US

Yeah I Had Many Questions After Hearing That Lmao

Ikr, how did everyone skip over that?

Yeah I had to replay it yo make sure I heard right and I'm just amazed they let a 10 year old just join them without his parents.

@@soviet_nick6209 ..He probably lived in that country all his life and is used to how they live... where there are no car seats for babies. . And where 10 year olds can go wherever they like without parents or guardians as long as they get home for dinner or by bedtime or something. . I’ve seen really little kids (probably 5-7) in school uniform walking the road with no adults in sight and the school was ten minutes away by car. So they’re probably walking an hour by themselves all the time and that’s just normal there.

@@mmbb0j30 it's definitely not a german thing to not use carseats

His mom was there, she just didn’t do the cave tour so signed permission for him to go on the tour.

@@amberlya9390 Well I hope she feels horrible for that cause no way in hell would I let my 10 y/o go alone but also wouldn’t have let him go either cause I’m claustrophobic and can’t be in water for so long😭

His parents just left him to do whatever he wanted & that was the result

Don’t put your initials after a message dude

It's so random

thanks Cassie!

Can’t say it better!!

I like Darkness Prevails just a little more

IKR!!! I paused the video to look at comments to see if anyone else was as wtf'ked as I was about this!

@@anastasiabutrim4495 I was honestly so shocked when I came to the comments and didn’t see anyone else talking about it 😅 so I knew this was my chance 🤣 it still baffles me how this little boy can just get up and go on a trip with no supervision besides complete strangers he don’t even know

I was thinking maybe he went with his family and decided to do this activity by himself. When I was around 10 I went to Mexico with my family but took a dolphin riding class with just me and my younger brother (dad accompanied us there but we took the class alone)

@@mothmaru that’s a good thought, but didn’t the narrator say they were on a boat ride up until that point for like an hour ? So you just let your kid get on a boat for an hour to this cave ? 😅 but maybe it’s deeper than that, maybe his parents were cool with the cave instructors so they were comfortable enough to let him attend there with them, I’m not sure though it is a different country so it could be beyond different than what we expect

SAAAAME

perhaps broken home and he wanted his dad's attention and time :(

He literally died to make his dad happu

@Sandra Turajlich I’m heartbroken over this

his dad should go to heck

@@FusionPatriot hell

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or sky diving! No extreme diving of any kind for me, thanks! Haha 😄

Same.

Unfortunate incidents in skydiving are extremely rare though! 99% of chance you'll be fine with skydiving. Cavediving though? lol Can't say the same whatsoever!

Claire Bear I can sky dive that seems fun but I will never cave dive

@@metalnat27 Yeah. I don't want to skydive either, but I'd rather fall to my death from high than getting trapped underwater in a cave!

Most relatable comment lol

You guessed it

well done @pickled

same

@@MrBallen yup, well done :)

I think about that often. I remember one story about a teenager having a mental break, he walked out of the house one night and was never seen again. 20 years later they demolished the grocery store where he used to work and they found his mummified remains behind the freezer section - he'd crawled into the space and suffocated, and the cool air around him preserved him with no smell.

Lets not forget the story Mr.B covered bout the boy that got his phone taken away so the next day he went to the abandoned building next door, got on the roof, and tried to crawl down the wide chimney.. the wide chimney that only got narrower the lower he went. To the point that he couldn’t inflate his chest due to the walls completely encasing him so he suffocated. All cause he got his phone taken away smh. Im not a parent but i would spend alot of my time teaching my kids how to avoid winning a specific award

@@ckchatta369 that's false, he had a borderline abusive relationship with his mother and he also had a terrible home life with his parents constantly fighting. He had a RU-vid channel with videos of his parents very loudly fighting in the background. He died because his mother kicked him out of the house for unknown reasons in the freezing cold and he tried to get warmth by sneaking into a house. It wasn't cause he got mad his phone got taken away or anything.

As disturbing as that thought is, there could be a lot of truth in it. If you look at the map of America, where people have 'disappeared' and look at the map of Americas, underground cave systems, it is almost identical !! 😱

what? the most tragic thing for me in alfredo 's story was that it was a quite sauvageable situation. It was so simple to save the boy on both scenarios! yet people fail miserably, because of stupidity and arrogance. This is is for me the most tragic thing about this story.

I don't know, it might have been possible to save him if they had drilled down far enough, aiming for the bottom of the hole.

i dont know why i keep doing this to myself. These stories are addictive but also so upsetting

@@robertmartin8907 They shouldn't have done any of those strategies, but if they had listened even half-assed they would have drilled all the way down.

@@umarb7325 same man I like hearing them but unfortunately that is the dark side of the story

@Big Daddy When two parties can't agree, the solution comes after the person has died.

I was living in Thornton-Westminster when she fell. I think it was like 1983. I had a 3 yr.old little girl at that time. I felt so sorry for the little girl and her family.

In Colorado.

I remember that. Yeah they ended up making a television movie about that.

Was someone sued for this negligence? Making a toddler size well and not securing it?

I remember that, too.

If you live in some areas of Florida, even leaving the house isn't safe. One man was swallowed by sinkhole while sitting in his own home.

@@bonniehowell4259 as soon as you get born just crawl back in thats the safest

Also, don't go in the woods/forest areas!

got u living in fear. just dont do anything super dumb and u'll most likely be fine

You forgot talking to people looking for bells canyon.

He won worst dad award that year for sure

I think maybe it's because it's one of the only stories I've heard in this series where it doesn't come down to a bad decision on the victims part. It was a complete freak accident although a preventable one. Not to mention the fact they were so close, yet so far while trying to save him

Same

same... for me it happened in my country and was televised across the nation. i wasn't alive when it aired first but when talk shows and documentaries did. italia cried for that poor boy, which became anger to learn how the rescue efforts really transpired. ego and pride got in the way of an innocent boy's life... it really rocked the country to its core! as a kid i was never allowed to go near a well of any kind (even the ones with the heavy grates on) as my parents were terrified id fall in.... shows you how much it stuck for all of us so... at least you're not alone!

Something very much like it happened here in the U.S. back in 1987 a little baby fell down a well and it took days to get her out. It was all over the news at the time. She was known as baby Jessica (real name Jessica McClure)

@@Mckxm I remember that story very well. I was 10 years old at the time and it was all over the news here in Australia

Man that was very sad. That boy Alfredo must’ve been so scared I couldn’t even think of putting myself in that situation

I just came here to say that! What was wrong with that guy!!

I totally agree. He shouldn’t have been so irresponsible.

I just made a similar comment. That story makes me want to bring that guy back to life and make him relive his epic mistake over and over again, with full knowledge of what the outcome is going to be. What man in their right mind would do something like that to their young child? It's absolutely sickening.

I completely agree! Darren blatantly ignored & disregarded multiple signs warning anyone who was not an experienced diver to NOT go into Eagles Nest underwater cave system. Those warnings made it clear that anyone who wasn’t experienced (even experienced) divers would most likely not survive. It’s obvious that Darren simply didn’t care what those warning signs said, he was going to force his young son to risk his life for his own selfish gratification. So, the Christmas present he actually gave his young son was certain death

dey dumb yung

Or Be American

Just stay out of caves. Period.

@@hereallyfast or Italian

Caving is awesome.

@@hereallyfast I'd rather be American over any of the other shithole countries. What do they got for rescue operations, training, equipment and experience? 10 weeks plus a paid holiday after 40 years in their tiny boot country? The USA is massive and they have more experience and training. I mean who does the world call when there is an aviation accident? Not Italy, not Germany, not Brazil, the USA because we have the technical know how and ability. Who would you want to defend you during a war? The Korean army? The Chinese? South Africa? Or the USA who has been at war for most of it's existence with all the experience to back it up.

florida man

He I was about to say that Florida dude

Florida Man. They are a different kind of people

its a straight hole down isnt it seems ez enough.. im not sure what makes somebody go so much deeper then their limit, oxygen is toxic from 55m thats already 15m deeper then what you should ever be considering your bottom time on 40m is only 3minutes before u go into deco...

My parents got me certified to dive at 13 years old. Hearing that this parent just bought his son tanks and just took him is appalling and beyond irresponsible. To get certified, my brother and I took a four month long course that involved a mix of classroom lessons, textbooks and quizzes, and multiple dive practices in pools over specific skills. We had to pass a written a test, followed by a couple final dives in the ocean (all led by our teacher). My parents had taken this course and been certified themselves a few years prior as well. Even once we had a certification (and my parents have been all over the world on dives, including caves), they still ALWAYS took us out when they had a paid dive master with us. Even now that we’re grown ups. This was important because as my parents are worrying about things like their own equipment underwater, the professional diver, would tug my fin down when I drifted too high on the decompression stops (buoyancy and sinking can be hard to achieve). And when we had gone a few years without doing any dives, my parents signed me up for refresher course at the local pool before our vacation. I literally would have died if I was diving in the ocean. I was clearing my mask (only 10 feet underwater) and being out of practice, breathed in my nose. Not be able to see because my mask was off and having chugged water, I shot to the top and made noises I have never ever made in public, burping and gasping because I REALLY breathed in air and really couldn’t breathe. If I was underwater, even with a regulator, I could not have caught my breath, and if I shot up so quickly at a deep depth, I could have died. This was a really good lesson since I was so out of practice and was very careful not to make that mistake on my future dive. There’s a lot more to scuba diving than just popping in a tank and a regulator. People being irresponsible is the reason there are so many accidents when there really doesn’t have to be.

I agree. First job as a father is to preserve the life of your child

I haven't figured what they get out of it.

@@jannamyers6792 the experience, some people just love the visuals man. meh........ too bad those breath-taking visuals are in some of the most dangerous places but hey who cares let's risk it right? it's not like life can't become unpredictable at any second, right? it's quite sad seeing as how in a flash the visuals won't be the only thing becoming breath-taking in the literal sense.

Probably a guy like the Titan captain.

It was avoidable, unnecessary and ultimately, bloody stupid.

Ikr, I wish he could have been saved. Children dying is hard.

I mean is it really heartless to say I don't really feel bad for the two who drowned? Thinking cave diving is some kind of recreational thing you don't need experience or at least a guide for. You're dancing with death at that point.

@@johnbogue9081 I feel for the boy, not the dumb ass father. The father knew better!! And all that poor baby boy was trying to do was impress his father!! RIP baby boy!!

Reaper*

@@johnbogue9081 The grandma said that the boy didn't even want to, but when you are a kid you kinda blindly think your parents could do no wrong

lmao "reeper"

Nauseating! That kid suffered a horrific death! They killed him. That story upset me A LOT. 🥵

@Ww ww where do you take the sign that he/she is sexy? weirdo

@Ww ww i doubt it being a joke cause of it randomness but ok...

@Ww ww i want to get the joke,i really do! but i dont...but i guess thats my problem then

@Ww ww you're trying too hard

Dumbass reporter: Alfredo, how do you feel?

The dumbass fire brigade. If they had listened to him and recruited professional spelunkers, it would've been over so much sooner

@@TheNukedNacho these kind of decisions are easy to make when its not you whose life is at risk, and you're safe, at home in comfort. Its a an entirely different scenario when you're faced with real life issues righting front of you.

@@NiSiochainGanSaoirse I’m basing my comment entirely on the information given to me in the video. If I were in that situation, then perhaps my answer would be different. With my limited information, it seems more logical to me that the group should have listened and recruited the suggested professional spelunkers. If they had, perhaps the kid wouldn’t have fallen deeper. Perhaps he would have survived Yes. I am just a commenter siting at home in comfort. Regardless of that, it makes sense to me that, perhaps, it would be wise to trust the word of someone who actively and regularly chooses to descends into caves. They seem more qualified than a Fire Brigade in the given situation. If it was a burning building instead, then by all means, let the brigade take charge.

Dude back then they were stupid and now we are smarter

Wïnër

I literally.would kill myself getting my kids out. I would sue everyone and make sure they never unintentionally kill another person ever. So heartbreaking That poor dad and mom, he was watching their baby die and not able to do shit about it. 😪😪😪

Spelunker Tullio Bernabei said nothing against drilling a second tunnel to reach Alfredino. A geologist, Laura Bortolani, said that drilling would be difficult and would take a long time because of the layers of rock surrounding the well. But no one was opposed to the drilling. It was only after the tunnel was completed and they were not as close to the child as they expected, that they realized the vibrations had likely caused Alfredino to slip farther down. Professional spelunkers WERE in fact involved in the whole ordeal and attempted several times to reach Alfredino. Many, many volunteers attempted too, and two of them did manage to reach Alfredino (in separate attempts, of course), but the child was covered in mud and the harness kept slipping off of him. There was no animosity between the spelunkers and firefighters: they all tried their best together, along with the many volunteers. The whole story is heartbreaking and dramatic enough as it is, there was no need to make it more sensationalistic on Mr Ballen's part. In Italy we still talk about it to this day. It really shocked the whole nation.

Hell. They are going through hell.

About a week ago, the same story happened to a 5 year old Moroccan boy Rayan. We watched live how rescuers failed to save him. This story still haunts me.

It breaks my heart that they were able to reach him when he was still alive but were unable to pull him out of the mud. I can only imagine how devastating for Alfredo as well as his family that must have been.

Dude that story broke my heart

Eyyy 69th like. Nice

Thanks for your respects

poor boy

I hope hes smiling down at his family and with his ancestors.

you have to realize some of these f up people dont want kids could be he wanted to get rid of him by doing dangerious crap never no

yes all this story's are broken, like the 10 year old German kid going caving alone as well but that dad i think was a killer he was a noob to caving and he takes his kid for his first dive into a hole at the bottom of a lake and then keeps going deeper past a sine with a grim reaper on it WTF!!!!

@@johney3734 That's kind of a thing in 'merica though, dumb people doing dumb things like that.

I just feel soo bad for the mother she lost them both from his dumb decision making,

The son loved to cave dive, he had done it many times. It was a passion of his, he was not yet certified, but he was my family. U should not talk about things u have no idea about.

💔💔💔 i just listened to this song. Made me tear up

:o

the idea that there's some heart wrenching Italian song about a little boy called 'alfredo' is hard not to laugh a little at, independent of the tragedy. very sad story, though.

@@mackhomie6 man you don't even know how that story impact on us italian, people Stayed awake only to see if they would make alfredino free even the minister of italy came to see

@@leonardocunzolo2368 I can believe it. part of what makes it funny is the kids name, though. it's all just stereotype after stereotype

I was searching the comments mad hard for this. Like how you just gonna casually slip that in there.

He was there with his parents- he says that in the video. His parents and teenage siblings.

*sibling

@@TTerilee No those were the swedish people, there was the fifth who was the 10 year old german kid, alone

@@Blusuri ah. Okay

They should have both been charged w manslaughter

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@Jazz B I can never unsee that now 😳😨

I haven't watched the video yet but this doesn't sound good

For real. This one made me very frustrated and sad.

Exactly

Why tf is everyone so damn triggered at this fucking comment I think it’s pretty good

Nvm I realized

None of these should have

True, Alfredo should have never died, that neighbor dug an ILLIGEL well and didn't even cover it up.

There be truth inn that hello from Australia

He shouldn't have been named after cheese sauce either.

@@johnv6806 ikr who names their kid alfredo

*if you’re not responsible otherwise i agree with the last point :D

To all of the above add, if you really must do these things... NEVER GO ALONE!!!... and always tell someone your plans.

You can do those things just k ow what tf your doing

Dam I broke lots of these rules as a kid. Can’t believe I’m alive still LOL

Stay indoors watching youtube and obesity, diabetes, vitamin D deficiency, mental health issues all become a potential reality. Live in a city you've got smog, gangs, RTAs... We're all going to die, better to have a good view when it happens (like the Mount Fuji guy).

That news was the first time ever in my life to hear about getting stuck down in the tight hole. I have claustophobia and have a small kid, so that really gave me anxiety

I didn't know the country refused help, what other countries offered to help??

another child dies, because of hubris. it makes me so sick.

Same in Spain