It all started with a bet and one tweet.
It read “500 rts and I’m jumping off Town Lake bridge naked and going on Instagram.”
Sophomore Tyler Hudson didn’t know what he was getting himself into when he tweeted on Oct. 14. He ended up getting a total of 511 retweets and 50 favorites by Oct. 17 and actually jumped off of the bridge naked on Oct. 19.
He didn’t come up with this idea on his own though.
“I picked this because my YoungLife leader said that his friend did it because he lost what are the odds and we were talking about it and that’s when the whole bet thing came up,” Hudson said.
Hudson’s plan was to videotape the jumping off the bridge and putting it on the popular social media network, Instagram.
My friends and I made a bet because they didn’t think that I would do it so I told them if I got five hundred retweets in four days that I would,” Hudson said.
When Hudson first tweeted, he only expected to get 70 retweets at the most, but once the number grew higher and higher, he started to get nervous.
“I started regretting my tweet as it got closer and closer and then when I was at four hundred I just started planning it out so I wouldn’t get arrested,” Hudson said.
Public indecency is class one misdemeanor and public indecency to a minor is a class 5 felony, so when he jumped, he was fast to be careful not to get caught by the police, especially because there was a lot of traffic by the bridge.
“I probably would have ran if the cops came and if that didn’t work then I guess I would get arrested,” Hudson said.
After he completed the cold jump he was relieved that it was over and that he didn’t have to do it again.
“I was happy it was over with and hoped my friends didn’t mess up the video and that no cops would pull up,” Hudson said.
Hudson’s video can be found on his Instagram profile, tylerhudson16.