Calling fake. I think it’s a toy grenade and probably a coke/mentos or dry ice “bomb” underwater to make the relatively safe explosion that’s so poorly cut in at the end.

Notice he calmly holds onto the “grenade” for 3 full seconds before tossing it just feet away. No sane person would do that with a real live grenade that has a 4-5.5 second fuse and a fatality radius of 5 meters. Were it real, it easily could have exploded before hitting the water and he would be dead or severely injured. He didn’t even have a safety shield to hide behind.

A real golfball grenade sitting on the bottom like that would punch a hole in the best made pool, especially right next to the drain like it was, and the shockwave through the water would likely crack the walls.

Here’s what it really looks like (explosion at 1:14)

This works well but it's hard to see if someone's done it right. when sailing I coil in a figure-of-eight, either by hand or with one end around a winch.

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I had honestly thought his first performance of that song on TV wasn't until 1978, where he did my favourite. Maybe the above doesn't count as it was a stage show that happened to be filmed.



Apparently he was good friends with Jim Henson, which only makes it sweeter.

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OK, so I'm one character off, but...

I assume this is this well-known Irish ad:
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When I saw what they were trying to do I immediately thought of the trailblazing Ron Obvious, with the assumption that the result would be similar...

I do love this stuff. There was a previous post of Oh Four Tuna (https://videosift.com/video/Oh-Four-Tuna) but it's dead and I can't find an accurate backup. There are a few of them out there, such as this though:



The fun this is they all seem to agree on the gonorrhea.

... because it didn't want to swim




Having said that, I seem to remember that piranha don't actually attack capybara, and that the above video was faked. If I were a capybara I'd still stick to the road just in case.

I don't think that was a smart thing to do, just a panicked thing.

It was interesting seeing some people get straight up clocked by the shockwave while others were able to run (though perhaps with hearing damage, based on the last clip).