I enjoyed that IMMENSELY

I ride 15 KM a day on a 450 dollar bike. If that happened to me I would be crushed, because I cant afford to replace the bike as well the fact I cant afford to replace it would deny me one of the only things that I take pleasure in . I would want to have taken the guys hand, he got off lucky.

funny and i want to believe its real... I have a feeling paintball hits in the dark with gun type noises mentally equates to being shot

Three things make me believe that it is bogus.

1. What security camera has sound? At least it is rare at best.
2. The quality of the security camera is also very very similar to the quality of the video footage they are shooting, also way too high for a security camera.
3. Cops got there just a bit too quick and dramatically and the cop sounds seems dubbed in like the music.

Nice concept, but it just seems iffy.

>> ^ponceleon:

Three things make me believe that it is bogus.
1. What security camera has sound? At least it is rare at best.
2. The quality of the security camera is also very very similar to the quality of the video footage they are shooting, also way too high for a security camera.
3. Cops got there just a bit too quick and dramatically and the cop sounds seems dubbed in like the music.
Nice concept, but it just seems iffy.


its 2010

not 1990

So, in the space of 30 seconds or so, someone not only noted the ruckus but called 911, made a report to the dispatcher, the dispatcher radioed out the call and sirens are heard converging from a few blocks away.

If you're going to go to all that effort to fake something, at least run the script by someone who has 2 neurons to rub together.

Also.. "he's got a knife"... If you did have a knife, you wouldn't run at a van where they are also shooting you with a paintball gun. Secondly, those paintballs would do serious damage at that close range. Most thieves would run like hell. It's a viral ad for whatever the stupid hand logo goes to, or maybe paintball equipment.

*viral for sure. All the hallmarks of shaky "amateur" camerawork catching the drama just right, including a "fallen soldier" pose with a perfectly lit paintball shot hitting the spine, topped off with the hollywood-style cop-arrival ends the action sequence.

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obviously fake.

Let's not forget the re-used sound effects and the fake nightvision camera look...

I thought security cameras specifically avoided recording audio because of first amendment problems. It's pretty difficult to legally record what somebody says without their permission.

Maybe the red-handed club has a member that's really into video editing and dubbed everything well. But really, it's fake.

I'm sorry, I must have missed something, what does the year have anything to do with any of my points? We have rather modern security cameras where I work and due to the volume of video they have to take, the quality is low and there is no sound (or perhaps it is because of the legal implications as someone else pointed out). Yes, there is a lot of fancy video surveillance equipment out there, but given that this was a bike rack at some no-name university, you really believe they are going to use night-vision, high-def, 30fps 24/7 video to secure that?

>> ^BoneRemake:

its 2010

>> ^joedirt:

. It's a viral ad for whatever the stupid hand logo goes to, or maybe paintball equipment.


Definitely not a viral add for the Paintball gear. Those looked like Vl maxis guns (http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/3826/) which are very low end. Also, no paintball company would want their product seen being used in that way. It would be extremely bad for business.

*wheels

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>> ^ponceleon:
I'm sorry, I must have missed something, what does the year have anything to do with any of my points? We have rather modern security cameras where I work and due to the volume of video they have to take, the quality is low and there is no sound (or perhaps it is because of the legal implications as someone else pointed out). Yes, there is a lot of fancy video surveillance equipment out there, but given that this was a bike rack at some no-name university, you really believe they are going to use night-vision, high-def, 30fps 24/7 video to secure that?
>> ^BoneRemake:
its 2010



Just saying, but modern HD security cams use video-motion-detection to start and stop recording. The same tech used in that web cam "game" where you can hit an on-screen beach ball. If it doesn't see movement, it records nothing. There was a sift in the last year of a guy driving his Town Car through a government office. Those cameras were like that, the system only recorded when the car or people were on-screen.

Even if it is real, wouldn't it have been a tad smarter to just beat the shit outta him and make him take them to where ever he took the bikes to get'em back?

Clearly bullshit. Oh let me just roll around a bit dramatically clutching myself, oh woe is me. As if a thief wouldn't immediately bolt in some random direction, adrenaline flowing you'd probably be able to keep staggering along even if you got shot by a small pistol.

Cmon, gotta try harder to fool us.

> Secondly, those paintballs would do serious damage at that close range.

i have shot a friend at 1 foot range with paintball guns

i have been punched hard by friends too

They should have topped it off by dubbing in the Wilhelm Scream.

..so..

..is NOBODY else curious as to how they got the security cam footage for this video?

Even if they managed to get it by asking nicely, how did the thief miss two guys sitting in a truck?
They pulled forward like, 5 feet to shoot him.

Not to mention, anybody that's played paintball knows that if you get shot.. It doesn't hurt that much. ESPECIALLY if you're wearing thick padding like..say..a hoodie.

and last but not least.. why is the complete video pg-13? Guy's getting shot and in pain.. and in the heat of the moment they're shooting him..but not a single swear word? They actually say "We got you, ya puke".. I don't think i've ever called someone that, nor will I ever because I can think of far more..colourful words.

Infact, 2:10.

He walks directly infront of the truck with 2 guys in it. Unless they were crouched down (Which wouldn't make sense because then how would they see the light?) how would he NOT notice them?

Hell, just before we get to the shot of the front of the car, we have a camera shooting him walking in front of them.

plus what is with the boom microphone that dips into view

with the string of recent revenge videos against bike thieves in mind, this clearly seems to be a dramatic enactment in vain of such a video. but why? are they opposed or for such retributive acts? anyone find any other sources on this?

I remember seeing the southern california revenge videos where they let the thieves steal broken bikes that would fail in purposeful ways when the thieves rode them away. I don't think it's ok to steal bikes, but it equally doesn't seem ok to try to hurt people intentionally for stealing one either.

>> ^deathcow:

plus what is with the boom microphone that dips into view



Boom, headshot?

What?! Someone had to say it =)

>> ^deathcow:

plus what is with the boom microphone that dips into view


time index?

Nowhere does it say or suggest that the video we see of the event is true to time. If this is real they could have cut out the boring stuff to make it dramatic.