I'm going to have to stop posting videos like this.

ouch

I would just like to hear the conversation between these guys before they decided to do this. I'm sure one of them was trying to convince the other two it was a good idea.

"Hey man, let's go down that big hill over there on a couch.... Ahh come on.... We'll wear helmets!"

Not long the other two say, "ok, as long as we have helmets"

There needs to be a *stupid channel or a *darwin channel or something for videos like this. Situations where the massive amount of pain experienced could be avoided simply by thinking about what they are about to do.

man, i want that couch, didn't it seem sturdy? lol

morons

darwin - i love you man!

ROFL @ "ragdoll physics" tag!

i love how it ran the guy over, tossed them out, and then smacked into them at the fence.
that earns a ...... MMMMMMMMMMMMONSTERKILL!!!!! for the couch bike thing.
what a great study of crash physics. wonderful!

Not only do they get completely owned by a comination of speed/gravity/ground, the (probably quite heavy) couch hits them at the bottom.

one thing i'd like to note is that they looked to be conscious atleast until the bottom, as they were contracting muscles in the arms and waist just a little, even while flayling like rag dolls.

Most serious spinal cord injuries (as in >50% of paraplegics and quadraplegics) occur to people under the age of 20 in vehicle or diving accidents. And >80% are males.

... upon further review, I would like to modify my comment, as the first kid to hit the hay (the one in the middle) appears to be unconscious in the air. He hits the ground very hard right after the couch flips


Do they hit that person on the ground, seated, facing downhill at the middle mark, causing the couch to flip? blaaarg! looks like it might just catch on their picnic blanket, but I can't tell.

I think what makes this video so morbidly entertaining is the ammount of crap that goes wrong, from the person getting run-over halfway down to the getting-hit-by-the-tumbling-couch finale. You can just tell from the opening frame that no good will come out of this.

Aside from the disaster, downhill couch racing looks like a really exciting sport! I want to try

After watching that a number of times, it looks an awful lot like it's little kids on the sofa. In the slow-mo replay, right before they hit the fence, you can see one of the flying people is wearing short purple shorts and has a small scrawny leg flapping in the air. It's also mostly small kids standing on the right side of the track just before the sofa goes airborne. The sofa did not appear to moving fast enough to flip several full grown people through the air that many times. One of the people rushing to help at the very end looks somewhat dad-like. And a sofa racing event is awfully similar to a soapbox racing event which is a stereotypical kid thing.

Hey, who borrowed my bike?

I agree with the *darwin channel, because then I wouldn't have to see shit like this. Fuck.

Forget the kids' sanity, what parent would let their child do that?

I don't think that its children on the couch. Its hard to tell, but it doesn't really look like kids, but more like late teens or early twenties, and the whole thing looks like some kind of staged event. If it is children, then this whole thing should not have been allowed to happen.

I had seen this one time on tv, but never again, and have wanted to see it again for so long. I didn't remember it being so brutal though. Good lord . . .

I don't understand how anyone could ever have thought that this was a good idea.

*darwin

i like the satisfying crunch at teh end. the reason one of them get flung so far was because he was catapulted by the bike seat part of the bike, flipping him quite violently.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Too gut-wrenching for my vote. Something like this happened on a sled to some neighbor kids when I was growing up. Gravity is a harsh mistress.

I think they asked for it and totally deserved it.

It's been mentioned before, but I for one would really appreciate it if we had a Schadenfreude channel.

Hey, unfortunately my boyfriend was on of those boys on there. This event is the furnature event of the Sandblast competition which used to be a yearly event in Prince George, B.C. Canada. None of them were seriously injured, they broke all the records in the furnature comp, however all of their prizes went to the person they ran over. Needless to say this was the last time anyone competed in Sandblast. If They hadn't flew off the couch when they did they would all be dead becasue there was a semi sitting at the bottom that they would have hit.

they were clocked at 87.5 km per hour

bizinichi, that's the spirit!!! Hope for at least one of you!!!

*eia

Adding video to channels (eia) - requested by karaidl.

upvote for the shoe flying through the air. im glad to hear they're all ok.

*promote the madness

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, February 8th, 2007 12:57pm PST - promote requested by Norsuelefantti.

>> ^driven333:
Hey, unfortunately my boyfriend was on of those boys on there. This event is the furnature event of the Sandblast competition which used to be a yearly event in Prince George, B.C. Canada. None of them were seriously injured, they broke all the records in the furnature comp, however all of their prizes went to the person they ran over. Needless to say this was the last time anyone competed in Sandblast. If They hadn't flew off the couch when they did they would all be dead becasue there was a semi sitting at the bottom that they would have hit.


If that person wasn't that close to the track in the first place, they wouldn't have gotten run over... It's not like you can control a couch on wheels.

>> ^karaidl:
eia


this channel really needs to be named properly
nobody knows what "eia" means unless someone explains or they stumble upon it

*wheels?

Adding video to channels (Wheels) - requested by kulpims.

bigtime *fail

Adding video to channels (Fail) - requested by SlipperyPete.

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, August 20th, 2009 12:53am PDT - promote requested by Norsuelefantti.

*terrible

Adding video to channels (Terrible) - requested by Norsuelefantti.