I don't think any of us are this stupid

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Oh, get this. I didn't know where else to put this. I don't know whether to laugh or cry over this. I mean i'm sad for him and all, but the way he told it to me is just too funny. My friend Steve, who lives in a big Southern city ok, he was at this guys place who he knows. they got in a fight. The guy lived in a four floor walkup. Over the sidewalk. So Steve pushes the guy out the window during the fight. Guys ok now. But Steve saw him laying there on the pavement still breathing and moving. Here comes the funny. Steve decides he's going to JUMP OUT THE WINDOW LIKE A f*****g NINJA and land on him doing a Bruce Lee yell. He said his yell was perfect. Then he landed on the pavement, feet first, three feet away from the guy and his Ninja yell turned into "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD"He's gonna be ok now too. But he broke every bone from the waist down. Here is the even funnier part. Know who he's mad at? Ninjas.

The one good thing about people doing things like that is that it makes me feel a lot less stupid.

He's in the hospital for god knows how long and he's still MAD AT NINJAS! he's in a very big metropolitan hospital where people of all races, faiths and nationalities are. Know what I want? One of those Muslim women in the black to come into his wrong by accident. HE WILL THINK SHE IS A NINJA. He can't do nothing but yell. I mean he can't move. LOL When he told me about it I said what the f**k were you on? He said nothing yet, I was sober. I said so you, sober you, thought you were a GODDAMNED NINJA and jumped out a fourth story window, planning to land in a guys chest but missed him by three foot or so? He said "Well, yeah". I said "are you that much of a dumbass". Then, now oh my f*****g god, get this. He said to me, the one true redneck response. He said "It seemed like a good idea at the time, don't hate!"

I wish people who are interested in "ninjas" would actually study and learn about ninjas instead of basing their understanding on motion picture theater versions of ninjas. Real ninja were as much actors and spies as they were assassins. A ninja might have had to masquerade as a female servant or something like that for months at a time if not longer to get into position to do what the job requires. Or it may well be just a matter of using martial arts to thrash the cheerios out of someone. think the reality of the culture is much more fascinating than anything we see portrayed in a Raymond Chow Kung Fu Dragon episode.

As I understand it, the real ninjas were elite samurai who were used by the shoguns to get rid of people they didn't like. Ninjas would have to work their way into the trusted inner circles of their targets-Japanese nobles were always on alert for somebody taking them out, so a ninja would have to gain the trust of the target's inner circle. As for Hollywood "ninjas", I have four words: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That big barfola was HUGE when I was a teen, and an entire generation thought of those characters as ninjas. Going back further, you have the Hong Kong martial arts movies which led to the TV series Kung Fu. TMNT was a sendup of 70s ninja movies, but a lot of the younger kids didn't get the joke.

Oh yeah, I think that it's hilarious that the person mentioned in the OP shattered his legs trying to be Bruce Lee. Movies make it look easy. Jump from a four story tall building and land on your feet, intact? No problemo. They don't show the cushion placed under the jump site, nor the fact that many movies used stunt doubles.

Wow . . . I would attribute behaviour like this to drugs, mental illness or a combination thereof. I can't find anything funny in this. It makes me feel sad.

OMFG you are my hero!! !! I know exactly what to send him now! A s**t ton of Teenage Mutant ninja Turtle balloons!! !! !! !! I'm so gonna! I love you for thinking of those!! !! !! !! !! !

Really? You REALLY DONT see how this is funny?

I'm not sure what the joke is. Unless its just slapstick humour like the Three Stooges; which is fine except that he was seriously injured.

Because he THOUGHT HE WAS A NINJA and JUMPED OUT A 4 STORY WINDOW!! !! !!

Yep, That's disturbing on so many levels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja

Here is some info on Ninjas.

If this was a legit attempt at self harm, I might consider 'mental illness' but this just sounds like dumbassery that plenty of non-mentally ill people take part in. Hasn't anyone seen the various shows on t.v of people doing stupid crap for fun and getting injured...mentally ill people may not be immune to that kind of thing but attributing any stupid behavior to mental illness...seems to kind of down play how much of a struggle actually having mental illness is.

If the guy really believes that Ninjas are out to get him and not joking it sounds like some sort of paranoia.
On a funny note,in the Fayetteville police report someone had called in to complain that there were ninjas in a local parking lot fighting. I clipped the article to save because I never knew we had ninjas in Arkansas.

I wouldn't necessarily attribute stupid behaviour to mental illness, nor would I say that mental illness necessarily makes you behave stupidly. I don't see how this isn't an attempt at self harm (knowingly or not) though. Something's misfiring.