Actually it's kind of fascinating seeing that he isn't there yet with fusing his cognition with his balance and motor skills. It's like he's looking at the ball thinking "I know what to do" but his subconscious is fighting him saying "We need to stay upright! Hold on!"

It's sad that people laugh at a video like this. Obviously, what's occurring is what pediatricians call "Orb Mind Control". For years, the medical community has known that orbs have the ability to control people's minds. Even mainstream Hollywood has known about this phenomenon since 1981's animated classic Heavy Metal. "Balls", as children commonly call them, have been known to control the minds of young people for hundreds of years. Just look at high profile cases such as Michael Jordan, who's advanced case of OMC made him come out of retirement and win ANOTHER 3 straight NBA championships in a row. Or look at the Tragic case of Barry Bonds, who engaged in steroid use under OMC, and has lived his life with no conscious knowledge of it.

Yet this video demonstrates a rare sub-type. Because of the aspherical design of the football, the ball is unable to assume complete control of the boy's mind. So, while it's obvious that the ball is attempting to get the child to murder his father, and ingest his fresh, juicy brain, the ball is never able to fully coordinate the movements of the child, and we see the rare physical manifestation of "Orb Mind Control Imperfectus", which has been known to silicone valley game designers, and has been incorporated into mainstream media, through what gamers commonly refer to as a "glitch". Thus the boy's movements perfectly mimic any one of the cheat-accessible glitches that have become commonplace today.

It's a sad case really.

It's an infinite loop: PrepareToKick --> if (ReadyToKick && UnlikelyToHurtSelf) goto Kick; else goto PrepareToKick.

It's the UnlikelyToHurtSelf that's the trouble. There must be an anomalous call to his DanceAround function in PrepareToKick causing UnlikelyToHurtSelf to always return false.

maybe he has a half-a-second precognition ability that cuts in whenever he's about to do something stupid

I actually remember doing this when i was his age.. From what i can recall, i kept thinking that i had to kick as soon as i dropped it (even though i knew to wait as well), but every time i raised my arms to release the ball, it put me off balance so i couldn't kick and raise my arms at the same time.

When i added up the "wait after you drop it" connection with the "raise arms and kick", i could do it.

it looks like he thinks his arms are longer than his legs, so even after he lets go of the ball, he has to run to get closer before he can kick it.

*cute

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Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

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Bastard!

Border Collie upvote!

OMFG LMFAHS

That's sad. The kid's cerebellum is simply not developed enough for him to predict the path of the ball as it falls from his hand. Essentially he's incapable of kicking it in mid-air by anything other than random coincidence. Why not force him to take an algebra test and see him fail at that. Whee what fun!

I love the dad's helpful advice too.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
That's sad. The kid's cerebellum is simply not developed enough for him to predict the path of the ball as it falls from his hand. Essentially he's incapable of kicking it in mid-air by anything other than random coincidence. Why not force him to take an algebra test and see him fail at that. Whee what fun!
I love the dad's helpful advice too.


Dick...

how long till someone slaps a techno beat on this for a little meme action.

Za Speedo! Its cutting za blood off from ze brain!

HAHA that was hilarious when he started running around after the ball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=servC1JbxEk

>> ^residue:
how long till someone slaps a techno beat on this for a little meme action.