Shot near Virgin Utah & Zion National Park. Footage by Kent Wilson.

>> ^kymbos:

@Deano, agree it was the best, but that doesn't say much. And still there's the whole 'wearing glasses - Clark Kent, no glasses - Superman' silliness.
I saw a great idea for Superman written somewhere. Maybe Reddit. I've googled it and can't find it. It's something like Superman is around in the 1940s, but Lex Luthor puts him into stasis until around now. In the meantime, Luthor builds a mighty media conglomerate and slowly convinces humanity that Superman wasn't a hero, but in fact was evil. When Superman re-emerges, the world sees him as a massive terrorist and loathes him. He has to overcome the distorted power of modern media and a malleable, ignorant populace to defeat his enemy.
Something like that. Not my idea, but a great way to modernise the story a little.


That idea sounds a bit weak to me. He'd only need to get a good PR firm and a twitter account and he'd be sorted!

@Deano, agree it was the best, but that doesn't say much. And still there's the whole 'wearing glasses - Clark Kent, no glasses - Superman' silliness.

I saw a great idea for Superman written somewhere. Maybe Reddit. I've googled it and can't find it. It's something like Superman is around in the 1940s, but Lex Luthor puts him into stasis until around now. In the meantime, Luthor builds a mighty media conglomerate and slowly convinces humanity that Superman wasn't a hero, but in fact was evil. When Superman re-emerges, the world sees him as a massive terrorist and loathes him. He has to overcome the distorted power of modern media and a malleable, ignorant populace to defeat his enemy.

Something like that. Not my idea, but a great way to modernise the story a little.

No, no NO you guys! Didn't you see the differences?! Clark Kent is a crab fisherman now! It's completely different!

Cocaine is a hell of a drug!

>> ^bareboards2:

This is an absolute true story --
My friend was driving me back from the airport about 10 pm. Dark country road in rural Washington State. Olympic Peninsula.
And we both saw a kangaroo jump in front of the car. A kangaroo. In rural Washington State.
Blew our minds.
Granted, it turned out to be an owl who was swooping down in front of the car and changed its mind as we barreled down the road, but we both saw a kangaroo. (I was sitting in the front seat, feeling a proper idiot for thinking a KANGAROO jumped in front of the car. But it was too funny to pass on exposing my own absurdity. So I said to her -- you will NEVER BELIEVE what I thought that was at first. She didn't miss a beat, she answered matter of factly and with great assurance. "A kangaroo." Dang, the human mind.)
You know I am sharing this video with her.

Apparently the wallaby is called Wesley, who escaped from a farm in 2004 and has been hopping around the nearby countryside ever since. Back in 2009 in the village of Pluckley nearby where this was filmed there was a sighting of a wallaby going over the zebra crossing - that must have looked pretty surreal! This BBC News article describes one family buying wallabies to help trim the garden, got to feel sorry for their postman...

>> ^jjw001:
wallabys have huge front claws.I think you mean rear claws.

Both Kangaroos and Wallabies when provoked will lean back on their tails and kick at the stomachs of their attacker with powerful kicks. The intention being disembowelment. With some species reaching 3 metres in height, they are not to be approached lightly in the wild.

wallabys have huge front claws. get in it's way and you'll know about it. extremely dangerous animals. why do you think we call our rugby team after them?>> ^Yogi:

>> ^oritteropo:
A cornered wallaby can kill a dog, and even though that dog is probably almost big enough to be safe, the vet bill would not be pleasant.>> ^Yogi:
I like her panicked reining in of her dog that was about to chase the wallaby down and sniff it to death.


Any cornered wallaby can kill any dog? Or has this happened like two times before?

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Usually a large dog will kill the wallaby, and the owner probably wouldn't have wanted that either.

If it's only ever happened twice, then my Dad must know the two unluckiest former dog owners in the world, but I can't provide numbers. The dogs involved were border collie sized, so a bit smaller than the one in this vid, and their end was due to being disemboweled (same as with kangaroos).

p.s. Oops, didn't mean to put the reply here... oh well, too late now.
In reply to this comment by Yogi:
>> ^oritteropo:

A cornered wallaby can kill a dog, and even though that dog is probably almost big enough to be safe, the vet bill would not be pleasant.>> ^Yogi:
I like her panicked reining in of her dog that was about to chase the wallaby down and sniff it to death.



Any cornered wallaby can kill any dog? Or has this happened like two times before?

>> ^oritteropo:

A cornered wallaby can kill a dog, and even though that dog is probably almost big enough to be safe, the vet bill would not be pleasant.>> ^Yogi:
I like her panicked reining in of her dog that was about to chase the wallaby down and sniff it to death.



Any cornered wallaby can kill any dog? Or has this happened like two times before?

A cornered wallaby can kill a dog, and even though that dog is probably almost big enough to be safe, the vet bill would not be pleasant.>> ^Yogi:

I like her panicked reining in of her dog that was about to chase the wallaby down and sniff it to death.

Im pretty sure it was either 4 or 6 I know it was less than 10 but I really think it was 4.
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I hadn't noticed that about this video.
Hey cab, how many votes did this have when you promoted it?

>> ^ctrlaltbleach:

promote


>> ^speechless:

Tangentially, is this the first time a video has transitioned from being personal queued to #1?
Seems like the best example of why the queue exists and maybe the best self-promote ever.