At first I thought he was just going to chuck it at the pavement repeatedly. Although I'm pretty sure you'll just end up with canned food seasoned with dirt.

Let me understand this. He is armed with a loaded weapon and an assailant was suddenly somehow on top of him with his head against the pavement (11:07), but he doesn't reach for his weapon. Instead, he yells out, hoping the nearby residents will save him.

"He just kept slamming and slamming and I just kept yelling help!"

So someone is "slamming and slamming" your head into the pavement, and even though you have a gun, you don't even reach for it. You just lay there, head being slammed into the ground, loaded firearm at the ready, yelling for help while your head is caved in.

Freudian Slip at 11:46 ... [spoiler]"hand on his nose" ... [/spoiler]

It just gets worse from there.

>> ^sillma:

>> ^Quboid:
EiA, surely?!

Surely not as nothing bad happened.
Although one could argue that every video could be classified as EIA, but I'm on the side of classifying only clips that witness stupidity which leads to injury.


I would argue that intentionally dragging your head on the pavement going at that speed (helmet or no helmet) is stupidity -- but then I guess there's always a fine line between daredevilry and stupidity.

weird how the people are effectively getting up from it while still sliding across the pavement

>> ^Mauru:

My question then: can anybody provide a video/image-link to a "proper" super-hero landing?
Let's say the conditions are as follows:
A) you need to be mobile afterwards
B) you are holding a potentially breakable/stabby/shooty device
OPTIONAL C) You are jumping/falling from a certain height
Try to give conditions for that landing to succeed for bonus points. Let's also say bonus points for style.
I immediately get a image of parcour-style stuff...

I dont have evidence from a movie or w/e, but a good landing should look something like this: http://www.monkeysee.com/play/11426-parkour-landing-and-rolling


The idea is you want you legs to absorb some of the force, but also transfer some into the roll. You want to distribute the energy of the fall over the longest period of time (or space - see http://www.ehow.com/video_2360720_break-fall-jujutsu.html). I think the reason the 3 point landing is so bad is also the reason it "looks cool" - its a big impact entrance, it dents the pavement and creates a little shockwave. Unfortunately in real life all reactions have equal and opposite reactions...

>> ^raverman:

Is fining revenue gathering? Of course it is.
Is speeding endangering the lives of your fellow citizens? Of course it is.
(It's not a matter of opinion. It's proven and documented statistical probability.)
So the secret to beating the system? Just don't speed.
With any luck you'll hit a tree and remove your idiocy from the gene pool - but sometimes you'll hit one of us and hurt our loved ones. So we asked our government to do something to keep us safe from you. That's why there are laws and enforcement.


you talking to me?
because i speed all the time and i mean SPEED..none of that mamby pamby pussy speeding,im talking red-lining as fast as my car can go baby!(ok..that may have been a tad hyperbolic,but you get my point).

do i do this in a 25mph zone? no.
where residential homes are and possibly children? of course not,dont be absurd.
busy highway? with cluttered traffic? again that would be pretty dumb.traffic by its nature has a flow to it and 5 miles more per hour wont make much of a difference.

i am an adult who can make rational and reasonable choices concerning my safety and those around me and i CHOOSE to let my car rip with the windows down and the music cranking usually late at night when few cars are on the road and always a well lit road and/or highway.
i am not risking anybodies safety but my own.the only thing i am truly risking is getting popped by a cop and that is also a risk i chose.
i am ok with that and i have been pulled over a few times with not ONE citation for speeding (though i obviously was).

because that IS the point of this video yes?
a cop pulls me over on a lone highway doing 110mph and all i get is a warning but an automated surveillance camera does not make those distinctions.nor does it differentiate between 1 mile over the speed limit or 30 mph over.it does not discriminate because safety has nothing to do with its function.it serves entirely as a revenue gatherer...period.

now maybe you are speaking of those drivers who zip in and out of lanes,always having to gain that 5-10 of pavement,cutting in and out and driving aggressively.
or the drivers who scream down a residential road doing 50mph where kids play and people walk their dog.
well i can agree with you whole-heartedly on those points.those drivers are disregarding the safety of other people and should be fined etc etc but (and this is the main point) you will NEVER find one of those surveillance cameras in those areas.
why?
because most people dont drive like that and usually only speed on open highways.
(this is not opinion but statistically documented)
there is more revenue to be had on the open highway than there ever could be on your side street.hence surveillance is (usually) on open highways and freeways.
this is about money,moola,scratch and little to do with safety...or the law.

i am sure you did not direct your post at me @raverman nor people who may speed on occasion like i do.i am just using your comment to make a point and to express something that i am seeing more and more and i have to admit that it is a bit troubling to me.
how many of the people i encounter are becoming more and more comfortable with tactics such as this and then rationalize it in a way that,on the surface,does seem reasonable but i ask you...
i ask all of you..
to think a bit further when a government implements such tactics as automatic surveillance under the guise of safety because when we look at it honestly it is anything BUT about concerns for safety.

i do not obey blindly and i aim to misbehave.
i might just start doing that wearing a nightgown.
lets be honest..that was epic.

>> ^CaptainPlanet:

as maestro has astutely pointed out, you've errantly assumed this truck can full stop in zero time. Hurp de durp de durpidy pthhhhhhhhhhh
>> ^Jinx:
>> ^maestro156:
Seems likely to me that he'd be able to brake faster than the truck could break, and if the truck started pulling too far away leaving him exposed, he could coast on the shoulder till he can safely stop.
I'm not saying I would do this, but it doesn't seem all that dangerous. I guess the one thing to worry about would be road debris, since he can't see it coming.

I dont think its about who can stop the fastest, its about how fast you can start stopping.
He's about half a metre away from the back of that truck. He's doing 90kph. Human reaction time is about .2 of a second. Lets do the maths.
90,000m/3600s = 25m/s
25m/s 0.2s = 5m
He's going to travel 5 metres before he even starts slowing down. If that truck has to brake hard he will go into the back of it. Granted, his speed relative to the truck won't be very high but it would prolly be enough to send him arse over tit. at close to 90kph. and he aint exactly in leathers.
I'm not even sure he could stop faster than the truck. Sure, the truck is heavier, but it has 4 wheels, big thick tyres and a lower centre of gravity. Lets do the maths.
The coefficient of friction between road bike tyres and average russian tarmac is...no I kid.


No I didn't? I just assumed the truck would slow enough that he could go into the back of it. So ok, the truck travels 4.8ms, the bike travels 5m. He's now 30cms from the back of the truck, and only now is he gonna start braking. Assuming they decelerate about the same, and I'm not even sure you can stop faster than a truck on a bike, there is still a 3m/s difference in speed with 30cms of room between them. Like I said before, he won't be going very vast relative to the truck when he collides, but his wheels are still going to be spinning prty quickly and I'd guess that would be enough to put him on the pavement...or you know, the risk is large enough that I wouldn't want to try it.


And this is ignoring all the myriad other risks from travelling at 90kph blind. Maybe his attention is on somebody in a car with a video camera in the lane next to him, and suddenly his reaction to the truck braking is delayed...maybe a pothole appears under the truck. Or a puddle. I'd rather base jump than do that.

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>> ^bareboards2:

As probably the only person to see your original comment, allow me to congratulate you on your edit. It is a glorious example of glass half empty being converted to glass three quarters full.
I love that. Honestly.

>> ^xxovercastxx:
edit: (nevermind)



It was more a case of my poor memory suddenly kicking in and remembering more about how it all went down.

As probably the only person to see your original comment, allow me to congratulate you on your edit. It is a glorious example of glass half empty being converted to glass three quarters full.

I love that. Honestly.


>> ^xxovercastxx:

edit: (nevermind)

>> ^bareboards2:

I know how to settle this whole rape thing.
Let's start making castration jokes. The male equivalent of being raped -- something violent and horrific and something devotedly to be avoided, but it will be a joke! It'll be funny!

Actually, I made a castration joke here a long while back and most people did find it funny (based on the upvotes). One person was especially unamused, but I think she actually thought I was making a joke about something else.

I upvoted the naughty jokes because I have funny bone. You can either laugh or cry, and I'd rather laugh than cry about something I really have no power to change alone.


That, and I have a sick sense of humor. I assume its one of the reasons my wife married me...

I'd say your lack of humor is anti-human. But then again, we're just anonymous internet folks sharing our unsolicited opinions now, aren't we?

>> ^tsquire1:

The fact that a comment critiquing rape culture gets downvoted, and one that promotes rape culture gets up voted, reveals a heavy nerdbro tendency on this site that is really quite sick.
No, I dont care if it is 'just a joke'. You infantile nethipsters that make these comments never have to worry about being raped, never have to worry about what they wear walking down the street and if it will promote 'catcalls'. You don't have to worry about facing violence by going out at night or, if you do get sexually assaulted, have to worry about who will even believe you.
Plainly, you have no idea what you are talking about.
That is why it is funny to you. Because you are that removed from reality. Your laughter is a privileged laughter. Your cynicism is anti-human.
>> ^Hybrid:
You wouldn't be saying that 30 mins after I put some Rohypnol in your drink.

Nah. This is a good try, but it doesn't quite work.

If you cast yourself as a victim, then it isn't funny.

Try again?

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^bareboards2:
I know how to settle this whole rape thing.
Let's start making castration jokes. The male equivalent of being raped -- something violent and horrific and something devotedly to be avoided, but it will be a joke! It'll be funny!
We can start a trend, here on the Sift.
It would have to be worded well -- I am not clever that way.
We have lots of clever folks with words here -- can someone come up with a catch phrase that involves castration? That is funny? Oh, and it has to be clear that a woman will be doing the castrating, from a powerful position. Something Lorena Bobbitt-esque.
Once we can get on an equal playing field in terms of jokes about sexual violence, then maybe @tsquire1 and others (like, me) won't get so upset about casual references towards sexual violence towards women.
That's the real problem, isn't it? The one way street of "jokes"? Let's empower women with the funny idea that any given night, they might snap and cut off the penis of the man lying in bed next to them, sound asleep.
Then we can all laugh together.
Works for me.

I used to be able to tell rape jokes, but then someone took my balls away. I used to find rape jokes funny, but then my balls got taken away. I used to be able to laugh about castration jokes, but now I just sing soprano!
I used to find all jokes funny, but since my balls got taken away, I just sit on the internet all day telling people what's funny

>> ^bareboards2:

I know how to settle this whole rape thing.
Let's start making castration jokes. The male equivalent of being raped -- something violent and horrific and something devotedly to be avoided, but it will be a joke! It'll be funny!
We can start a trend, here on the Sift.
It would have to be worded well -- I am not clever that way.
We have lots of clever folks with words here -- can someone come up with a catch phrase that involves castration? That is funny? Oh, and it has to be clear that a woman will be doing the castrating, from a powerful position. Something Lorena Bobbitt-esque.
Once we can get on an equal playing field in terms of jokes about sexual violence, then maybe @tsquire1 and others (like, me) won't get so upset about casual references towards sexual violence towards women.
That's the real problem, isn't it? The one way street of "jokes"? Let's empower women with the funny idea that any given night, they might snap and cut off the penis of the man lying in bed next to them, sound asleep.
Then we can all laugh together.
Works for me.


I used to be able to tell rape jokes, but then someone took my balls away. I used to find rape jokes funny, but then my balls got taken away. I used to be able to laugh about castration jokes, but now I just sing soprano!

I used to find all jokes funny, but since my balls got taken away, I just sit on the internet all day telling people what's funny