Video of 33 Chilean Miners Trapped 2200 Feet Underground for 22 Days
Move over Chuck Norris, Vladimir Putin and Justin Bieber: Brass-balled manliness has a new set of standard-bearers.
They’re from Chile. There are 33 of them. And, for the last 22 days, they’ve been trapped a half-mile underground after a mine collapse.
Not only are the 33 miners still alive, but in this video of them, they are happy, joking and singing. And I thank God I can’t smell them.
The video was made by sending a camera down a small bore-hole into the chamber where the men have been living ever since countless tons of rock fell down on top of them. The men survived the first 17 days by stretching 48-hours worth of emergency food and water. Now they are receiving supplies through the bore hole while they wait for someone to figure out how to get them out.
Needless to say, I would’ve handled the whole situation differently than these men. First, I would’ve figured out some way to kill the other 32 miners so I could keep all the food and water for myself. Then I would’ve eaten and drunk all the supplies in one 8 hour burst of serious nervous consuming. Then, having gone through all my food and water, I would’ve rocked myself slowly back and forth in the dark, feeling the 32 sets of dead eyes boring into me, until I myself died of hopelessness or thirst, whichever set in first.
Bad plan. But, I’m not as level-headed as a Chilean miner. Also, unlike a Chilean miner, I can’t hammer spikes into solid rock with my penis while singing a merry tune passed down from my ancestors the hill-folk. You know what they say: A Chilean miner doesn’t breathe, he holds air hostage.
