>> ^xxovercastxx:

There appears to be 2 potential deaths here:
~7:07 a baby carriage rolls onto the track and is promptly demolished by the train pulling into station.

That incident was here in Australia - the baby survived with only minor injuries, fortunately. The mother had been distracted by a phone call and forgot to set the brake on the stroller. Unfortunately, the same thing happened in the same city seven months later, but again, the boy survived.

>> ^Arkaium:

Oh. My. God @ -7:15, with the guy jumping away from one and then back from another. That was some Mission Impossible-style bs. My goodness, he looks like he works for the train, too. How could he be so stupid to not see/hear it coming?


Many people have called bullshit on that particular segment. I agree, it looks faked.

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Strange tingling in my feet, just like when i've been working somewhere high. Nowadays i hate high working places, not for me anymore. Too many near misses and slips. This video does bring unusuallly strong physical reactions.

This looks fantastic! I cant wait, I have tickets for next Friday night, I wonder if that guy always almost trips, or was that a near miss?

How lucky can one man be? Well, today I had ZERO near-misses with high-speed trains. So I think I'm fair luckier than him.

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The owners are letting the cat run around the neighborhood, which is irresponsible. I've had neighborhood cats destroy my gardens with their feces and urine. I sympathize with someone who decides to protect their property by taking out local predators.

I'll bet that cat won't be going back to the yard where it was shot, though. So a near-miss is as good as a kill in this case.

Thanks to motion-controlled video (only frames where something is happening get saved), the near-misses he seems to do are actually several minutes apart.


Looks like a hoot though.

>> ^Xaielao:
Yes it's not a bird strike, it's a plane strike. It's like when people say 'a bird hit my windshield.' No.. your windshield (and car,) hit a bird.


That is all a matter of perspective and no observer has an absolute claim to motion. Both can claim that they are still and the object hitting them in the one in motion. We have no ability to see the objective nature of their motion so the claim that one hit the other isn't really valid, both can make the claim and both are also right...from their perspective. So both a plane strike and a bird strike happened

Now a funny phrase that I really like is a near miss. Near miss would mean that you nearly missed them, so you hit them. But that isn't want is meant by the phrase. A near miss connotative means that it was a really close miss as opposed to a really far one. I still think the term is funny though. (thank you George Carlin)

>> ^dcmisha:
Of course there are accidental discharges. Yes almost always the trigger must be pulled (though there have been cases where it wasn't). Accidental refers to the intent to discharge the weapon.
Out on the range a friend of mine who didn't know what he was doing pulled the trigger while a man was down the line. What do you call that? Is that an accidental discharge? Are we talking semantics? What would you call it then? A unintentional near miss?


You finger that trigger, that is intent to maim and possibly murder. Draw that weapon and you better be prepared for the consequences.


Ignorance is no excuse.

Of course there are accidental discharges. Yes almost always the trigger must be pulled (though there have been cases where it wasn't). Accidental refers to the intent to discharge the weapon.

Out on the range a friend of mine who didn't know what he was doing pulled the trigger while a man was down the line. What do you call that? Is that an accidental discharge? Are we talking semantics? What would you call it then? A unintentional near miss?

And criminally speaking, intent matters. That is not to say that a lack of intent will get you off or make something excusable, it doesn't. Intent can make the difference between bars and a needle.

You're welcome, that's a super post and I nearly missed it!

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I lean towards a traditional Japanese belief system.

"We are all dying to know life in every breath, every cup of tea, every life we take. That is bushido." - General Katsumoto Last Samurai

What does this mean? I try to stay neutral on all ideas, I do not waste my time praying to a god, I try to live frugally, I try to do every thing to the best of my abilities, and most of all I try not to get worked up over any thing, including near miss accidents (IE car accidents, hit and runs). We say these things almost happened, in my belief they did not happen.

On the other hand, it dominates the way I defend myself, I do not defend from a defensive stance I defend from an attacking stance, martially and figuratively always on the attack.

How do I feel about death? I feel nothing, except the occasional emotion that comes from seeing what may be left behind.

"When faced with a truly tough decision there is only the quick choice of death" - Ota Dokan. This means choose death, in that taking the risk may be the right choice.

How did I come to this belief? I learned that god does not exist, but only in our minds. That hate, love, greed, wealth, corruption, and envy, all of these are human constructs created by the environment in which we live.

There is only life and death.

my attitude to design is: everyone is stupid. make it as foolproof as possible.

in the case of road design that is very very true. there is clearly a simple signage problem or visibility problem or white lines in the wrong place problem.

the only time i was stopped for "bad driving" was at roundabout i had driven before, only they had put new traffic lights in there, and the supports of the flyover above me blocked the view of the lights around the ccorner, so i just drove straight through. No crash, not even a near miss... but there was a police car behind me.

He wrote on his little piece of paper that my excuse was i couldn't see the damn light, and i asked "so will they analyse this and conclude that the light is in the wrong place?"

he said "nah nobody looks at this, we just have to fill in the box somehow. it's a formality."

fucking cops. he was polite, but still, he didn't seem to understand how retarded that procedure was.

I should have asked him "so why did YOU run the red light as well then?"... but you know, i didn't want him to search my car.