Holy shit!

Love the stop at the middle, "NYAH NYAH!"

I think he ended up cutting it a bit closer than he'd thought. Pity it hadn't been even closer

Timing is too perfect I call BS.

close-timing is everything...

Yeah, why would there be a camera there?

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Yeah, why would there be a camera there?


Collecting license plate numbers of idiots like this?

Mission "Save 30 Seconds" accomplished!

the person could've waited a few seconds and let the train pass. That wasn't even a long train.

Curses, Darwin, you missed!!! Better luck next time, buddy! :-D

Any possibility that the driver's first intentions were to show off, then realized they have minimal time to get the hell away? That'd explain the camera there.

must be fake. check the car on the left 20seconds in. just disappears.

Well, if it is real I bet the driver had what I like to call "severe sphincter sphacter" or SSS for short.
Translation: Extreme clinching of the buttocks.

>> ^Ghostly:
>> ^MarineGunrock:
Yeah, why would there be a camera there?

Collecting license plate numbers of idiots like this?

Maybe... but it's not exactly ideal placement to see plates.

>> ^Elyas:
must be fake. check the car on the left 20seconds in. just disappears.


Good call. I just reviewed it and the car just pops off the screen. At the end of the video, you see further cars coming down the same street and there is no sudden "disappearing act" of them.

At the very end of the video after the car pulls away from the track, you can see some type of ghosting of the vehicle that appears somewhat unnatural. Perhaps it's just the distortion of a Flash-based video, but something seems fishy to me.

And this can't be a license plate cam because it is in incorrect placement for one. It would be head on with the crossing. It could just be a safety cam watching the intersection.

Hes right, the car on the left just disapears.

Fake, its a stop motion vid. Look at the car stop on the tracks and theng go. Also looka the cars on the left.. some of them dissapear.

Even before the supposed dissapearing act by the car on the left, you can already see the train in the distance, and it doesn't appear to jump at the same point.

The ghosting is just an interlacing effect smoothed out by the small res and compression of the video which is only noticable for rapid motion, and you can see it on the train too.

The car stops, because it appears the barrier only blocks the incoming lanes of traffic, so the driver entered in the opposite lane and had to navigate around the barrier on the other side, but obviously failed to do it smoothly.

Timing being too perfect is not proof of anything, there are many examples of crazy near misses.

I do however, concede poor camera placement for license plate collection, but it's not necessarily evidence of fakery, and the other evidence given is weak at best.

Actually, now that you all mention fake, there's no way a car can go around those baracades, and this one did without touching the right hand one. They get especially built to block off both lanes of the crossing to try to stop the fools like this portrays. Look at the shadow of the baracade arm, the car drove through it.

Darn, he just missed getting that well-deseverved Darwin Award.

I clearly saw from the title that the driver doesn't get hit, and yet my heart was pounding while watching it. Silly humans.

Look around 17 seconds at the car on the left passing the trees. It disappears. Look at the same area after the train passes to see how the car "should have" looked.
I think this was done in one of 2 ways.
1) 2 separate shots filmed at very clos to the same time. Probably train first, then car, to minimize change in lighting. The 2 films were then merged with most of the background being masked out for the car, which would explain why the car on the left disappears. It is entering the mask area.
2) Real train, CGI car.

Eh, it's probably fake but the proofs provided above are pretty bad. First off the car that disappears actually makes a right hand turn. The sun glinting off the side of the car obscures it a little bit but if you watch closely you can see that's what's happening.
Plus you have no idea what country this is in. I live in Boston and I've seen more than one amtrack crossing where it's possible to weave between the two arms. Just because crossings in your area are designed to prevent this doesn't mean that it's the same everywhere else.
Other than the "unbelievability" (which is hardly grounds for dismissal), I see no evidence that this is fake.
Oh, and look up the design strategies for mass transit systems like railroads. Cameras are often strategically positioned not to get license plate numbers but to aid in proper train management and scheduling.

Ahh the theorist... everyones out to dupe the net!

Its not fake, just idiocy. The disappearing car could be explained by a number of things. There is clearly a house or barrier there that could block sight of anything going behind it. Its very possible the road actually splits into a Y there (infact 3 blocks down from me is exactly just that).

The pause in the middle of the train track is not only uncommon, but ANYTIME ive seen someone navigate a gated crossing (which generally only has arms long enough to block the incoming lane on each side of the crossing) they make a pause at that point because theres not much room (or less then they thought) and need to make a sharp enough turn as to not put a new racing stripe in the side of their car from the gate arm.

As for the camera...considering there isnt much that we DON'T video tape, I imagin to catch such incidents as this, they have a camera that is linked to the alarm system. Its only designed to see when people do it, not who. If they find alot of people are circumventing the gates then they can step up to things like quad gates.

It's a Dutch train, so its in the Netherlands. Don't know about the authenticity though.

fake or no, we'll never know. :-S

The driver should have let the train hit him to prove it wasn't fake! Boy, they really dropped the ball on this one...

I know bugger all about trains but wouldn't the driver have some sort of emergency brake that surely he would have reached for.. the train kept going at full speed. seems fake to me... still made me gasp but

Most of you miss the obvious part where the car moves through the barrier which descends before a train comes by the railroad crossing. It's just some simple video editing. Someone placed a camera there, drove a car through, stopping slightly, and then accelerating, and then started filming when the train would pass by again. It's not difficult to edit a shot like this when the camera isn't moving. The background is basically static.

Collective, welcome to video editing 101. If you seriously want to apply that to this, then you MUST apply it to %80 of the stunts on video sift and declare everything fake.

Infact lets get it out now... all videos must have multi angle shots, uncompressed so we get the original video, and GPS cordinates of where and when it was shot.

*wheels

Adding video to channels (Wheels) - requested by schmawy.

Take a look at the handle or whatever it is in the foreground, wtf is going on there?