Social media has these days become a platform for people to gain instant fame. The quality of content hardly matters for them. Sometimes we see people go to the extent of risking their lives for views and likes on their videos. The latest such viral clip shows a biker riding his two-wheeler through a river. Yes, you heard that right.
Shared on the microblogging site Twitter by @MotorOctane the video opens to show a man riding a bike with a backpack on his shoulder. Further in the video, he has taken off his shoes and folded up the sleeves of his pant and shirt as he descends down a plank and takes his bike into the river. He keeps driving in the river for some distance before the clip ends.
"The perfect example of 'Where there is a will, there's a way'. Thoughts about this? Very clever or just very risky?" reads the caption of the post shared on Twitter.
The clip has so far garnered over 6 lakh views, 2,937 likes and tons of comments.
"Obviously risky. What happens to the engine if the water enters the exhaust?," wrote one user after watching the video.
While another differed and wrote, "Locals know their river he must be living there since childhood, its common in Assam."
"We sometimes can’t even Imagine the risks one has to take to earn his daily bread," wrote a third.
"He will be the guy telling stories to his grandchildren that ‘Once Upon a Time I used to cross river water on bike to go to Office..and now you guys are used to this Work from Home culture…," wrote a fourth.