r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bendubberley_ • 1d ago

A police officer in Mexico prevents someone's suicide attempt, on a bridge, with no safety equipment.

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u/DC-Gunfighter 1d ago

Is that an athletics, acrobatics, or dexterity check?

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u/Minirth22 1d ago

All!

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u/arbitrary_student 1d ago edited 1d ago

You only need checks for the hard stuff - the challenging part of this is the leaping tackle, I'd say. Balancing on the beam is easy, and the person is "safe" once they're knocked over.

So, a single athletics check to leap-tackle would do it. That's the heroic bit, that's the bit that gets the dice roll.

You... could argue there's a stealth check first, though.

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u/Negrofluorescente 1d ago

Those beams in Mexico City (walked that same street many times before) are made like an irregular pentagon kind of shape. Precisely to prevent people from sitting/stepping on them. After many years the yellow paint starts to make hard bubbles on the surfaces under the sun making even more difficult to step on them. It looks very rectangular in the video, must be the lens or the angle lol