VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A man was recovering in a Vancouver-area hospital after an attempt to film a mock hanging as a stunt accidentally became the real thing, police said on Thursday.



The 23-year-old man thought he had protected himself by wearing a harness when he went to a suburban park on Wednesday to have a friend record him dangling lifelessly from a tree, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.



"Unfortunately things did not go as planned and the male was unintentionally hung from the rope he had placed around his neck," according to a police spokesman who said the friend initially did not realize anything was wrong.



Neither man was trained as a stunt actor, according to the police statement that added: "The 'Don't Try This at Home!' disclaimers on commercials and movies are there for a reason."



(Reporting Allan Dowd, editing by Todd Eastham)





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they just never cease to impress me..

Some of us get a little too bored

in the us we put warnings on the rope. also if people are walking through a park the cops make sure and harass them to figure out what they are doing. It's really a full time job protecting people from themselves.

Warning! Hanging oneself by the neck can result in death!



So now we won't be able to buy rope without seeing those words on the label, or some slimeball lawyer will accuse the manufacturer of selling a "dangerous" product to an unsuspecting public.



What's next? Rope control?



Ropes don't kill people. People kill people!

There prolly is already a warning on it. For christ sakes you gotta have id to buy wd-40 these days.

sometimes I forget canada exists, then the winter comes and I remember how all that cold air comes in from canada.



build a wall I say!

no way, then we cant mooch all your hot air when the jetstream changes!

A wall can't hold back their hot air.

HA HA, yea. Anyhow i think we need a wall with some barbwire and **** just to let Canada know we're better then them. Cause you know we did bring democracy to the middle east and that's something canada and many other countries are obviously jealous about, i mean look how much they dislike us now that we did it. It's obvious.