Downvote... Sorry, just didn't think it was anywhere near funny enough to justify putting an NBC-produced promotion up. I think I might just be developing a gag reaction to corporations trying to "embrace" viral marketing.

Just a heads up... this is from the same guy that did the GMail/GoogleTV prank a week or so ago. This video is a joke, and should be labeled "Humor", not "Geek".

Someone should *nsfw this one.

rembar, I wasn't saying that this was a -bad- video. In fact, I'll even say it's a good video. But it's not hands-down the best video I've ever seen on Videosift ever, which is what that overwhelming number of votes suggest it should be.

I guess I missed the novelty of all the points on which other people were impressed. Namely, that Canon in D is a recognizable song, that band geeks have all their own inside jokes that no one else finds funny, and that pop music is incredibly unoriginal and repetitive and thus an especially easy target of criticism.

That said, I guess I'll go ahead and join the bandwagon and upvote this. As I said, it's a decent video.

"we need the eiger guys to team up and speed glide over avalanches. i'd chip in $20 to see it."

Can the music for that video be Canon in D? That would make it vote-tastic.

Dupe or not, it's annoying.

Make that another upvote for the wonderful 80's porn music.

Not to rain on the parade, but can someone explain to me why this video is so popular? I found it somewhat entertaining, but not that particularly entertaining to be #1...

Wow. A typo -in- the video... "Let's see it that again"?

Didn't Bill O'Reilly just go on a rant about using kids for political commentary? Isn't this child abuse by his definition?

Upvote, since it's funny. But Fox News has some really serious problems with logic and consistency.

What's with the downvotes? Funniest thing I've seen all night.

The very end, where he talks about population control, caught me a little off guard. Haven't the New World Order conspiracy theorists been warning us about this sort of thing?

Changed the title for the sake of accuracy. My original title was "Helicopter Induces an Avalanche - Awesome Footage", but it's obviously the explosive charges that actually induce it. The helicopter's role is unclear.

Before anyone beats me to it... Looking at the footage, I don't think the helicopter is actually what sets off those charges, I think it's just flying around to film the event. My guess is that those charges were already planted. Still pretty cool though.

This is actually a repeat. http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=4433