So as a point of pedantry....he could have totally made that corner if he had stayed off the brakes kept a steady throttle and leaned harder to the left (he was on course to make the corner if the car hadn't startled him). Braking is almost never the right thing to when in or leaving a corner, it just stands the bike up and sends you wide.

Target fixation is a bitch!

However, solid white lines mean no overtaking/crossing to the opposite lane for good reason (the entire manoeuvre was technically illegal here in the UK because of said solid lines). It was foolish to even attempt what he did there and doubly so if you haven't mastered proper corner control/reactions to be able to deal with the unexpected effectively (which he clearly had not as evidenced by the vid).

All of that said, we all make mistakes. This chap might normally be a better rider than he appears here and simply made a poor judgement call entering that corner which resulted in him panicking and having to bail. (He may also have been a retard with too much power and a death-wish. Those guys are definitely around)


Also Re: @Darkhand and @bcglorf

Bikes very rarely kill car drivers. It's generally only a side on collision with a door that can do that and even then only at serious speed. Bikes rarely weigh over 250kg and most sports bikes are sub 200kg. They simply don't carry anything like the kind of energy a car would even at 100mph+.

I'm not saying it's impossible but it would be very unlikely here. He however could have easily broken his neck if he'd hit the car head on. My brother had a head on with a car about a year ago at 60-70ish (combined) and fractured his (fortunately made a complete recovery since).

Bikers are almost always a far bigger danger to themselves than anyone else. This was reckless but mostly for himself.

I suspect however that lessons were at least learned!

Your artwork is stunning.

However, given that it was sent as an email to me, letting me know I had a comment on this vid, it was also quite startling and momentarily felt like you were mad at me.

Ha.

It was under 9 seconds of some minor shaking. I understand being startled, or even scared during (you never know how bad it WILL get), but this insanity after such a tiny quake is ridiculous...to me.

The appearance of larger than average waves is a known statistical phenomena to sailors---or should be. Looks like these guys might want to learn about the same rules (especially the two guys that reappears in the channel at 47 seconds)

So, if there are regular 10 foot waves, you should plan with startling regularity, on running into 20-25 foot high waves that will appear to come "out of nowhere"

This translates, BTW, into prudent navigation; since you know that waves start to "break" when the bottom is half the depth of the wave height, in a 10 foot swell, you should stay in water 25 feet deep with your boat unless you want the way-to-frequent for comfort big wave to come crashing down on top you as it "breaks" rather than sliding underneath your boat.

The most recent sailing accident attributable not following this rule was the sinking of the sailboat "Low Speed Chase" off the coast of the Farallon Islands (San Francisco Bay)---when she shaved a corner and ventured into the shallows and was crushed and sank by a breaking wave---(drowning some of her crew and the captain).

This video is a startling reminder (or revelation, depending on your age) of how insecure was Macho Man's relationship with Elizabeth. RREAL.

"Witch! Turn that flashlight off --"

YOU STARTLED THE WITCH!

Because the animals in australia are, on average, super fucking deadly and it flings towards his face. Have you honestly never been startled by something like that? If not, you need to live more! And don't forget, he didn't KNOW it was going to happen, it could have left the snake behind - and then suddenly there's a snake flinging around in front of your face.

I have seen the one that looks like varicose veins as it formed (did not appear as this one did, like air-bursts from fireworks). It was just above the tree-line about 40 feet away, I did not see it at 10,000 FPS but it probably looked similar.

Had lightning crack just behind and above me once-That one sent a sonic shock through my abdomen to my balls and scared the holy shit outta me! I heard the damn thing forming was what startled me so much, and could smell the intense ionization in the air just prior....surreal.

I'm always a bit happily startled to witness actual intelligent discourse on a television program. Far too rare a sight.

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Define 'bad for ya'. Whatever I've read has always had startlingly arbitrary ideas about what constitute negative outcomes.

I am startled that so much hand labor goes into producing each baseball. I always thought they were slightly expensive to buy, but now I think they should cost more.

Also, I've probably watched 40 episodes of How It's Made, and it's almost always Canadian factories. I've never seen what might be called a "sweatshop". Maybe they're branching out.

I just like how it all comes back around.

Some guy sitting at a stop light is startled and confused over some Deja-vu scenario he is going through. She is there to witness it, annoyed, and unwittingly falls into the same schism, as she is set on a similar path.

Only this time, the guy having the original hallucination becomes that delusion and she sees him not once but twice during her experience.
It ends with her being the person sitting at the green light in the Deja-vu scenario, the same as the first guy, with someone behind her honking.

The twist is that her delusion is a strange loop of the first guy's delusion.

We are left to wonder how the first guy's delusion started and continued and we are left to wonder who will next take on the delusional loop - the person behind her, honking, maybe?

I don't agree with @Orz's explaination. This story held no allusions to stereotypes, opinions of others, equality or anything else like that. (at all) That' just reading things into it that aren't there..
I saw a great loop of events that make you stop and think wow, that's some messed up trippy Twilight Zone stuff right there..

I honestly don't think it is. This report is made by a local divison of NRK, which is Norways "BBC", and near the end, the reporter tries to startle him to see if they are faking.

At least he is a good sport and has a sense of humour about it. This so easily could've have been a bunch of arseholes abusing and terrorising another employee. I'm surprised he isn't a nervous wreck being that easily startled.