Yesterday we mentioned how this year will go down in history as the year that Splendour In The Grass went viral, the year that the show going down online almost rivalled the one that was happening up on the stage.
Arguably the biggest viral moment came thanks to one young man who apparently sustained the single most gruesome bodily injury ever to come out of Splendour In The Grass. The unnamed man’s ankle had completely twisted 180-degrees.
At the time of writing, the video of the unfortunate Splendour punter proceeding to walk on the severely broken ankle (presumably with the aid of some sort of chemical aid), which was uploaded to the official Splendour event page, has garnered 18,000 likes.
But it’s all a fake. According to the punter himself, twisting his ankle around is a party trick he’s always been able to without any pain whatsoever. “It’s weird, it just twists around,” Sam Cooper told Triple M’s Merrick Watts (via Pedestrian.tv).
Apparently, one day Cooper just “took an awkward trip pretty much and looked down and it didn’t hurt”. Ever since then, he’s been using his unique, easy-to-dislocate ankle to freak out the public, though rarely on such a scale.
“Me and my mate Isaac, it was just us two at the start doing it to this one person walking across the street,” he recounted. “I’d trip over them with it and be like, ‘What’d you do!? What’d you do!?’ And I’ve never seen people run so fast in my life.”
That’s mean, and also hilarious. You can check out the original footage below, but even though you now know it’s fake, we’ve gotta say it’s still kind of stomach-churning, so discretion is advised.
