Chinese Stuntman Walks on a Sharp Giant Knife

Ji Jingyu, a 48-year-old stuntman, from China, is walking barefoot on a giant knife, during a performance, in a park in Nanjing. I knew China hosts some really weird events.but I don’t see how it can get any more bad ass then a dude walking on the sharp edge of a custom made giant knife.

Most Dangerous Dinosaurs

Some of World’s Largest Dinosaurs. Most Deadly Dinosaurs that Ever Lived..

10. Sinosauropteryx (The Most Colorful Dinosaur)

9. Liopleurodon (Marine Dinosaur)

8. Ankylosaurus (The Armored Dinosaur)

7. Triceratops (Last Dinosaur before Mass Extinction)

6. Stegosaurus (Spiky Dinosaur)

5. Archaeopteryx (Only Avian Dinosaur)

4. Compsognathus (Smallest Known Dinosaur)

3. Amphicoelias fragillimus (Largest Known Dinosaur)

2. Velociraptor (Raptor)

1. Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex)

Burning Man Festival 2011

Burning Man is an annual gathering in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada full of impromptu art installations, throbbing music and happy citizens, many of them naked. The event starts on the Monday before, and ends on the day of, the American Labor Day holiday (August 29 to September 5, 2011). The 25th Burning Man Festival came to an end Monday. Nearly 50,000 people gathered in Nevada’s Black Rock, where they lived, partied and celebrated “community, artwork, absurdity, decommodification and revelry” for a week.

The theme for this year’s Burning Man was “Rites of Passage.” The event which used to be free now cost $360, with tickets going for as high as $1000 on Stub Hub.

The Terrifying Thaipuism Festival

Spending their time in prayers and fast on that day, they even shave their heads, but mortification of flesh is the real reason for this festival taking place, the greater pain a devotee enduring. the greater the blessing of God, so devotees pierce their faces and bodies, with sharp skewers, also trying to pull heavy weights via hooks, piercing their flesh. Not a tourist attraction for the squeamish.

Dangerous Cheese Rolling Festival

The Cheese Rolling Festival is held every May in Cooper’s Hill, Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom. The festival involves an official tossing a cheese down the extremely steep hill, after which hundreds of people begin to run down the hill (risking life and limb) in order to catch the cheese. Each year the event results in casualties and for this reason children are not allowed to participate, though oftentimes boys from the local town will join in anyway. For the children, there is an uphill race. Women and men race separately in the main event.

Dangerous Thaipusam Festival

Thaipusam is a Hindu festival (celebrated mostly by Tamils) held in January/February each year to celebrate the birth of Murugan (the son of gods Shiva and Parvati). The participants shave their heads and perform a pilgrimage, at the end of which they shove very sharp skewers through their tongues or cheeks. Some of the practitioners put hooks into their back and pull heavy objects like tractors. The aim is to cause as much pain as possible – the more you endure, the more “blessings” you receive from the gods. The festival is popular in India, but the largest celebrations take place in Singapore and Malaysia, where it is a public holiday.

Goose Clubbing Festival

Until recently, an annual festival was held in Germany in which a goose was tied by its feet to a post and then clubbed by the local men until its head came off. As a result of complaints from animal rights activists, the festival-goers now hit a goose which has previously been killed. A very similar event occurs in Spain (surprise surprise) every year in which a man hangs from the goose until the head comes off. Again the goose is killed prior to the event which dates back 350 years. The Spanish festival is called Antzar Eguna.

Top 10 Most Dangerous Traditions Around the World in Modern Era

Tradition (Latin: traditio) in the simplest sense is something that has been done for a long time and become part of the lives of a group of people, usually from a country, culture, time, or the same religion. The most fundamental thing of tradition is the information transmitted from generation to generation, both written and (often) oral, because without it a tradition may be extinct. In some parts of the world, some traditions is physically harm and sometimes even death, the following list of harmful traditions in the modern era.

10. New Years Dive: Siberia, Russia

Russian divers perform the tradition of diving into the lake, which reaches 5390 feet to bring the new year trees and the trees planted in it. It seems not that dangerous, but the lake that some persons called the deepest lake in the world is under the ice, and to do this We have to cut the surface of the ice in very cold condition. This tradition has lasted from the year 1982.

New Year Dive

9. Polar Bear Plunge: Maryland, USA

Tradition done in the winter in many of countries that involve many participants to jump into cold water. In Maryland tradition carried on Sandy Point State Park. Each participant actually must sign a document containing the statement that “this is very dangerous leap, can cause serious injury , such as paralysis, hypothermia, and even death “. But still some brave people do that.

Polar Bear Plunge

Polar bear plunge - The dangerous Leap

8. Firework Battle: Chios, Greece

Strange tradition, which occurred in Greece. Originates from the saturation when people prayed in church, and they were burned firecrackers to release the saturation. Then the people begin to burn Fireworks with the target is their church and they often fought each other church congregation fireworks between one with other churches.

Firework Battle, Chios Greece

7. Baby Dropping Ritual: Solapur, India

Muslims in western India, at Solapur exactly, lining up to drop their babies from a tower with a height of 15 meters.This ritual has been done for over 500 years, and believed to make their child grow healthy and strong.

Baby Dropping, Solapur India

6. Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling: Gloucester, England

Festival held each May at Cooper’s Hill, Gloucestershire in England. This festival involves cheese rolled down a very steep hill, and then hundreds of people start to walk down the hill (risk life and limb) to catch the cheese.

Cheese Rolling

5. Onbashira: Tokyo, Japan

Obashira means “the pillars of honor” in English. This tradition done once every 6 years. The tradition done by riding a cut down tree trunk down the hill.

Onbashira, Tokyo, Japan

4. Goat Tossing Festival: Spain

Spain have a lot of bizarre festivals such as the goat tossing festival. Every year on the fourth Sunday in January, the local people from a small town named Manganeses de la Polvorosa gather for the festival of goat tossing in honor of St. Vincent de Paul, their patron saint. This festival has lasted so long and no one knows when this began.Festival involving a young boy who found a goat in the village, a goat tied up, and then rises to the top of the belfry of the local Church. He then dropped a goat from a height of more than 50 feet in which the goat is (hopefully) caught by the villagers who held the tarpaulin sheet. Village officials have been banned this festivals but It still continues. Humane agencies complained about this, but this tradition is still run.

Goat Tossing Festival

3. Yanshui Beehive Rockets Festival: Yanshui, Taiwan

A tradition of 15 days after the Chinese Lunar New Year holidays is releasing fireworks into the sky, but not in Taiwan, They are directed the fireworks toward people crowd.

Yanshui Beehive Rockets Festival, Yanshui Taiwan

2. Running of the bulls: Pamplona, Spain

Very famous in the World. But also very dangerous. This festival is to honor the patron saint for the city. In this festival people run with the bulls.

Running of the bulls, Pamplona Spain

Running of the bulls Pamplona Spain, The Route

1. College Hazing: Bandung, Indonesia

Facts around the world concluded that 49% of new students will experience college hazing. But this one that done in Bandung, Indonesia is very bad college hazing practice.Even It’s rejected by the school, but It do happen. A lot of protest to disperse the school as each year always fall victims. Violence in the form of beatings and kicks in the chest with a reason is a part of coaching on this college and has become a dangerous tradition of this college. This is just a case. I’m sure there’s other college hazing as well in various part of the world.

College hazing Bandung, Indonesia

Those tradition have to be re-thought as more bad aspect rather than good aspect. Do You think So?

Dangerous Festival IN Spain

A Spanish tradition dating back from 1620, baby jumping is a practice that take place every year.