Question: would it hurt if you wrap yourself in 70m of bubble wrap and role down a hill?

Asked by forest to Hannah, Yashar on 7 Sep 2012.

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  1. Photo: Hannah BrownHannah Brown
    answered on 7 Sep 2012:

    Hahaha! Great question, forest!

    I’m not sure it’s ever completely safe to roll down a hill, but 70m of bubble wrap sure is alot of protection!

    Here’s a tonne of videos i found on youtube of people doing the same…

    I think the biggest worry might be a head injury… the ones i watched had lots of heads flapping around!

    Sounds like you should email the Myth Busters and have them test it for you so you don’t hurt yourself!! 😛

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bubble+wrap+roll+down+hill&oq=bubble+wrap+roll+down+hill&gs_l=youtube.3…94.10166.0.10321.36.26.7.2.3.3.509.5102.8j4j3j7j1j1.24.0…0.0…1ac.1.ADOjYfhTC-E

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  2. Photo: Yashar RazaviYashar Razavi
    answered on 7 Sep 2012:

    Although the idea is sound (meaning it should work), the fact that you need to breathe and hence can’t have bubble wrap all the way around you (as you’d suffocate) means you’d probably come away with head injury!

    The “giant rolling ball” does pretty much the same thing, just with no suffocation and less change of injury 😀

    https://www.virginmedia.com/images/rolerball-431×300.jpg

    So I wouldn’t try it. Hope that helps

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