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Would You Have Jumped? Teen Gets Huge Surprise When He Leaps Into Seemingly Small Puddle

Mar. 13, 2013 8:21am Liz Klimas

A teenager dared to jump into a puddle — seems harmless enough — was dunked in icy water after it turned out to be a giant hole.

Teenager Submerged Over His Head After Jumping Into Hole He Thought Was Just a Puddle

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

The puddle jumper named Lakeem in the video is wearing a bright white pair of shoes, but they aren’t the only thing that get drenched in the dirty water. He is submerged over his head.

(Images: YouTube screenshot)

His friends filming the $1 dare laugh hysterically — so much so, at one point the man filming is on the pavement — as Lakeem quickly removes himself from the water and another steps in to help him out.

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Watch this WPIX report with footage of the dare:

According to the original video, which has more than 1.5 million views since being posted to YouTube Saturday, the dare was conducted in the parking lot of a Family Dollar store. Those looking on swear they didn’t know the puddle was actually a deep, water-filled hole.

Watch the original video (Content Warning: Strong language):

Moral of the story is it’s pot hole season. As you can see in the surrounding environment in the video, there are still mounds of snow hanging around. Freeze-thaws throughout the winter season could have created gaping pot holes — puddle jumpers be warned.

Update: Some have brought to our attention that, like many videos posted on YouTube these days, there is the potential it is fake. We investigated further and found more information. ABC News 57 in South Bend, Ind., identified the teen further as from nearby Elkhart and had more about the hole. Lakeem Cook said he, like his friends, thought the puddle was only about ankle deep.

It turns out this wasn’t just a giant pot hole as we originally speculate. City of Elkhart Utility Engineer Tory Irwin is reported as saying it was actually an empty dry well, which collects water and “allows it to infiltrate into the ground.”

For now, the hole is marked and covered. The landlord of the property is having it repaired by a crew next week.

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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BarackInsaneNobama
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:15am
Waaaahhhhh, the Blazze is dumb now, wahhh h this isn’t news, I’m going tttttttto whine and say this is dumb and not neews.t thehe laughter was real! And it’s entertainment, not neews! Yes it’s obviously fake you can tell, t c’mon its in the entertainment section!!! And if your so disgusted with it, dont click or comment, because the Blaze goes by views and comment, the content in your comment won’t matter unless your another person commenting. There is plenty of News Worthy links on the site and you click on this one to complain about it. You are dumb people. I enjoyed it, it was entertaining, now i will check some news and another few entertaining videos.Now as I said it was obviously faked, he did a pencil jump there was obviouisly some sort of squaremetal object around it as the video clearly shows. Now the LOCAL News that reported it did it becuse localnews sucks anyway there is never REAL news on my local channels here. So people quit whining and just dont click! It’s not like Mr. Beck posts, well any thing on here he has hundreds of people who find entertaining news and fun storys so seriously people enjoy iy and get on with your morning!

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- armyofnibiru
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:30am
  but it is funny as he’ll
  
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- duhTruth
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:00pm
  Yes, we know it’s a fake story – look at the water marks around the hole before he jumps etc. I enjoy some of the interesting NON NEWS story’s that TheBlaze posts. I think a lot of us are unhappy about the way this story was portrayed to us as being true, when it most likely is not true.
  
  I think there is a story here though. There is value in adding this footage of your database, because sometimes things aren’t always as they appear – and that is the story here. I would have not portrayed this event as true, and that is why we are bothered, because we demand the truth from TheBlaze!
  
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- Old Truckers
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:46pm
  His body language and extended preparation indicates he knows the water is deep. This is fake.
  
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- MALICIOUSDISORDER
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 6:34pm
  If Obama had a son…
  
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- Sodakwhitetail
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:12pm
  Fake, is kind of a strong word, it might be misleading but not fake. He does jump into a 4 foot deep water hole in a family dollar parking lot.
  
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- HappyConservative
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:24pm
  I couldn’t agree more!
  I for the most part come on Blaze these days for their entertaining “off the wall” posts these days. I can’t bear a single more news story about guns (an issue I do NOT care one iota about – don’t own a gun and never will). And I already know how criminal the obama administration is. Don’t need to be reminded of that either. Just trying to survive the next 4 years and if fluff posts get me through my days, I say ‘Thank you, Blaze!!”
  
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jungle J
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:07am
Some white people set this up hoping he would drown.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:15am
  You work for the DOJ???
  
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- DREDGE
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:22am
  Works for me!!!!
  
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- ltb
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:47am
  I saw white fingers in front of the camera lens, which means whoever filmed this had white fingers. This was obviously a racist, hate crime.
  
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- Kisses6350
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 6:38pm
  Seriously? Stop baiting and hating! Good laugh for the day! Real or fake!
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:53am
If obama had a son……..

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- Kisses6350
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 6:41pm
  Lord! Stop it! The line has played out! Get another one! Was the “white arm kid” your son?
  
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perry1980
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:52am
you can’t judge a book by its cover

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fed_up_w_the_blaze
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:47am
I’m so sick of you all. I used to like the blaze, but it has turned to trash…BUT worse than that are you idiots who respond. I live in the area where this happened. The kid is borderline OCD about his shoes, EVERYONE of his friends, teachers, coaches knows this. Teens hanging out, saw a puddle…dare. It backfired, but is pretty funny. HE WAS HOLDING HIS PANT LEGS UP, not putting his arms to the side idiots.
I can’t stand the negative attitude this place has taken, I’m sure Glenn wouldn’t either.
SEEK the TRUTH.

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- SREGN
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:59am
  Lighten up, Francis. They vast majority of posts here were laughing with the kid, not at him. Who among us has not been the victim of a practical joke? If any of you haven’t, let me know who you are and I’ll try to stop by and play one on you. It’s an important way to learn to laugh at yourself. I’d consider it a public service.
  
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- Texas Chris
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:59am
  In the words of Curly Bill from Tombstone:
  
  “Well… Bye!”
  
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- Hermit_boy
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:02am
  Interestingly enough, I read quite a few comments about this until I came to this comment, which was the first negative comment I read.
  
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- tyuchic
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:25am
  borderline ocd about his shoes, but he jumps in a muddy puddle with them on? that doesn’t make sense.
  
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- armyofnibiru
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:36am
  you are guilty of every complaint you make.troll
  
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- darkknight91
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:59pm
  He’s a long standing member since…3/13/13. Uh…ok.
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:11pm
  I’m fed up with you.
  From now on, don’t post above me…
  
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- Sodakwhitetail
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:54pm
  eeasy there, its not that bad. You know what you need? you need a nice hug. (……………..) there you go.
  
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SovereignSoul
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:33am
Something about this story doesn’t ring true. No self-respecting teenager would be wearing his pants that far above his rear end!

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countryfirst
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:14am
It’s not water he will drown in it’s the debt that his hero BHO is creating

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kenndeaux
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:00am
Bull Sh_t… you can tell by his body language that he knew it was a deep hole…

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- duhTruth
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:33am
  Bit by bit, day by day, story by story TheBlaze is descending into irrelevancy. Here is an entirely faked event and TheBlaze is reporting it as a true story . . . Lis Klimas wraps up her account with “Moral of the story is it’s pot hole season. As you can see in the surrounding environment in the video, there are still mounds of snow hanging around. Freeze-thaws throughout the winter season could have created gaping pot holes — puddle jumpers be warned.”
  
  TheBlaze refuses to proof read their stories before publishing them and thus they are often laden with errors. For me I am clicking on TheBlaze less often each passing month. I need a news outlet that publishes the truth, TheBlaze is demonstrating to me that they are not up to that task. I find that sad!
  
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- ozchambers
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:36am
  Yeah, not to mention that he wasnt anywhere close to “nearly drowning”. And I was so looking forward to seeing someone nearly drown :-P
  
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- bbyrdhouse
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:51am
  @DUHTRUTH
  
  Its sad … it really is.
  The Blaze is the National Enquirer of “Conservative” news.
  
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- Berbel73
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:52am
  @Duhtruth, so the blaze is becoming “irrelevent” because they post a few articles that don’t meet your standards for serious journalism? Really? OK well I guess its time to shut it down then.
  
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- duhTruth
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:15pm
  @Berbel73
  
  I welcome some of TheBlaze stories that don’t meet the standard of serious journalism. Interesting clips are fine with me. My problem is all of the grammatical errors. My point is this. In order to publish a story that is accurate you must look it over to ensure that what you wrote is what you intended to write, or to ensure that you laid out the facts correctly. If you proof read your article for correctness (The Truth) before publishing it, then it would seem that you would catch the obvious errors.
  
  The fact that there are so many errors tells me that they don’t do much checking for accuracy before they publish. That is a problem, and leads me to wonder if the story is correct or not. When I send an important email, I read over it first to make sure it’s right. I CAN’T IMAGINE posting a story for millions of people to read without going over it first!
  
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txswalker
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:57am
They didnt know it was deep? several teenagers always gather in family dollar parking lots and film friends jumping into a puddle for a dollar. Not to mention the kid has his arms fully plastered to his side so it doesnt scrape them on the way down. Poorly done and compleat setup. Surely we are not this dumb.

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blackfeather
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:26am
an ovomit voter.

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eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:19am
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackass and Eric Holder to scream “HATE CRIME!” in … 3 … 2 … 1 …

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huey6367
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:13am
And this guy is how old and jumping in puddles?

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bannedfromCNN
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:13am
Obama voter takes a bath.

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- RayOne
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:25am
  Low information voter taken to a new depth.
  
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- ProudAuthoritarianFollower
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:38am
  Hey Blaze Readers…
  Lets watch videos of black people doing things that inspire hatred instead of reviewing Paul Ryans bankrupt, indefensible budget proposal that has no hope of clearing the senate !
  
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- FlagWavingPatriot
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:52am
  Hey Proud,
  
  I counted four white kids and one black kid in that video. Why is this about blacks? All five kids were doing something stupid. Racists are always the first to suggest racism.
  
  But, I digress. Perhaps we should spend our time doing something else, as you suggested.
  
  I think I’ll go review the president’s bankrupt, indefensible budget proposal that wasn’t able to get any support in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
  
  Naw, maybe I’ll just go take a tour of the People’s House. Oops, can’t do that due to your buddy’s political stunt.
  
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scrapadapolis
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:12am
I wear boots in the winter so walking through puddles is nothing new to me,But what a suprise I would have gotten.

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:08am
Old Ben Franklin himself said to believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see. He’d probably revise that if he were alive today (to believe nothing you see).

This video is clearly a setup. The kid braces for the big drop, you wouldn’t do that if you thought it was just a puddle (notice his knee posture and his hands very tight to his sides). And why would you purposefully ruin new shoes unless you knew it was for a good reason (their YouTube video). Did you ever jump in a puddle as a youngster? Did you have TWO of your friends recording video of it from different angles? Of course you didn’t. This was just another setup in a long line of setups to get that viral video on YouTube.

And it worked. People are just too gullible.

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- FlagWavingPatriot
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:19am
  Also, if you look at the frame right when he’s getting ready to jump (at the top of this page), you will see a rectangular outline around the hole (impression in the blacktop). There was probably a metal sheet or board covering the hole and these kids removed it. I’d even bet there was another marker on top of it, like a construction barrel or warning tape, that they removed too.
  
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- FlagWavingPatriot
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:24am
  Even further, notice the vehicles in the parking lot (how they’re parked as if they drove up to the hole). These just weren’t kids walking through a parking lot, spontaneously egging a kid on. They drove to the hole for a purpose.
  
  Okay, I’m done now.
  
  I just hope the kids were smart enough to cover the hole back up so someone didn’t get hurt later.
  
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13th Imam
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:05am
Pull my finger.

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willkauffman
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:51am
this hole reminds me of liberal thinking on bigger government! like the young man who allowed others to convince him that listening to their advice would end well for him, but in reality it will swallow our country up.

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Eastinfection
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:43am
there should be multiple holes like this at Philadelphia polling stations.

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piper60
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:43am
Sinkhole, perhaps? They seem to be happening a lot this year.

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willkauffman
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:43am
loved it

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NoMoMrNiceGuy
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:36am
Whatever.

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- redfish52
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:46am
  The real headline might have read ” Toddler dies in what mother thought was just a water puddle”
  
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Melika
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:35am
And this is news, why? Oh, it’s Liz Klamas.

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poorrichard09
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:34am
Old saying: still waters run DEEP!

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mrunner
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:30am
Reminds me of the leap of faith so many low information voters made in voting for rat bastard Obama.

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termyt
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:26am
All those guys around and they have the girl behind the camera?

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:52am
  and your point is? women cant work a camera as well as men?
  
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- teddyc73
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:56am
  So what? What’s your point? Girls can’t run cameras or is running a camera considered sexist? What an odd comment.
  
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- lynda1276
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:46am
  huh?
  
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