SO the set-up for this one take was

1 Col. George Taylor POA Heston doll (Snapped on E-Bay when Heston died, new -in-box)
1-paper cut-out Statue of Liberty lower, left frame)
2-Estes D rockets, duct-taped to back
1-scavenged fuse from leftover Chinese sky-candy
1-Micro-cassette recording of National Anthem (Foley)
1 FUJI Finepix F1000

The tree-bounce-around is off-camera....only one recording of that so here it is: As soon as he leaves frame he's in the tree and barley freed himself of the tangled bounce in the top before ditching in the pond at full throttle-Had he made air he had about 40 feet up inna swirl before thrust would have pooped-out.

...done this before so any way it could have gone might have-

I was hoping they'd expand the national anthem portion

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It is a bit surreal for me to hear the Huapango de Moncayo which is almost like our national anthem here in Mexico, while viewing Obama´s Legacy. Am used to seeing very Mexican patriotic images with that music.

... but hey, its an awesome timeless piece.

>> ^NicoleBee:
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Fixed. Thank you.

>> ^mintbbb:
Sorry, dead again


Thank you Mint! It's fixed now.

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by kulpims.

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>> ^Jinx:

Fuck the anthem, but its still respectful to the athletes.
And hey, at least yours doesn't start "god save our gracious queen".


...or has the name of your own country repeated like 30 times. As if we'd forget who we were...

I believe it's polite for athletes in track and field to stand during a national anthem, unless they are performing their actual sport. There's a lot going on in that stadium at the same time.

You wouldn't know class if it pooped in your mouth.>> ^gorillaman:

Fanatic nationalism is not class.

>> ^siftbot:

Invocations (dead) cannot be called by Unsung_Hero because Unsung_Hero is not privileged - sorry.


I know. Just testing you Sifty

.Thanks for being polite about it. If you ask me you're much more awesome than that new "Siri bot."

class or pandering? wonder if he'd do this for any other national anthem?

Fail videos are so ubiquitous that one can usually predict the outcome based upon the setting and props involved. Ramp/pond/bike, guy on roof/folding table on ground, skateboard/stairs, skateboard/park bench/handrail, skateboard/steep hill, merry-go-round/motorcycle, large group of people posing for picture/dock/platform/stage, rope swing/lake, rally car/rally, idiot(s)/fire, idiot(s)/fireworks, concert/stage diver, cat/slippery counter, dog/slippery floor, pickup truck/guy riding something attached to pickup by a rope, park/parkourer parkourering, motorcycle/ramp, motorcycle/wheelie, poser/posing with animal, person buried in sand/dog, inattentive jogger/signpost, ridiculously expensive luxury car/just drivin' down the road, car/trolley, car/bus, car/train gate, car/other traffic control devices, singer/national anthem... etc.

I still like watching them, though. The misfortune of others can be very entertaining (as long as no one gets seriously hurt).