Heh, looks to me like it's a father picking up his daughter/friend. The one that rams into the windshield looks like sheès 12ish.

they are not "destroyed" but snow chunks, probably with ice, falling from 7 story tall building, will break windshield and dent the roof.

They always seem to turn on their rear windshield wipers, as seen in:
http://videosift.com/video/Idiot-driver-hits-person-on-a-ladder

looks like distortion caused by some liquid near the camera (on lens or window). Some sort of light diffraction is happening like when you look out your wet windshield and see how the little mounds of water on the windshield distort the image.

-karl

A (possibly unimportant) detail - the people are in a bus, not a car. The angle of the windshield, the dash arrangement and the acoustics felt like a bus, and the YouTube description confirmed it.

In reply to this comment by steama:
Deepak talk total crap. He mixes his breed of mythology psycho-babble to the point it is sickening. I have never heard a man make more unsubstantiated claims than Chopra.

Sorry, I assumed that people would get the sarcasm using the bug and windshield analogy. As for Gupta, of course death has a process if there is 'time' but often the luxury of time would be gone if we were squished by a large boulder let's say! Science will continue to uncover the mysteries of the human mind. It's amazing.

In reply to this comment by Trancecoach:
actually, check out "The Serpent and the Rainbow." In it, Wade Davis describes that the pronouncement of death is actually a much trickier and more ambiguous process than is commonly understood. People have recovered after being "clinically dead" (i.e., no brain activity, no heart rate, etc.) for several minutes, or even longer. If a person goes into cardiac arrest during a coma, the declaration of the time of death is, in this sense, simply the time at which the doctors have decided to stop working on revival.

>> ^steama:

Deepak make statements regarding the brain, mind, consciousness, that he cannot back-up with any evidence at all. He obviously likes to hear himself talk.
When the brain dies the mind is gone — period.
Also, Gupta stating that death is a process and doesn't happen all at once. Well ask that bug that hit your windshield how long the death process took.

Deepak talk total crap. He mixes his breed of mythology psycho-babble to the point it is sickening. I have never heard a man make more unsubstantiated claims than Chopra.

Sorry, I assumed that people would get the sarcasm using the bug and windshield analogy. As for Gupta, of course death has a process if there is 'time' but often the luxury of time would be gone if we were squished by a large boulder let's say! Science will continue to uncover the mysteries of the human mind. It's amazing.

In reply to this comment by Trancecoach:
actually, check out "The Serpent and the Rainbow." In it, Wade Davis describes that the pronouncement of death is actually a much trickier and more ambiguous process than is commonly understood. People have recovered after being "clinically dead" (i.e., no brain activity, no heart rate, etc.) for several minutes, or even longer. If a person goes into cardiac arrest during a coma, the declaration of the time of death is, in this sense, simply the time at which the doctors have decided to stop working on revival.

>> ^steama:

Deepak make statements regarding the brain, mind, consciousness, that he cannot back-up with any evidence at all. He obviously likes to hear himself talk.
When the brain dies the mind is gone — period.
Also, Gupta stating that death is a process and doesn't happen all at once. Well ask that bug that hit your windshield how long the death process took.

actually, check out "The Serpent and the Rainbow." In it, Wade Davis describes that the pronouncement of death is actually a much trickier and more ambiguous process than is commonly understood. People have recovered after being "clinically dead" (i.e., no brain activity, no heart rate, etc.) for several minutes, or even longer. If a person goes into cardiac arrest during a coma, the declaration of the time of death is, in this sense, simply the time at which the doctors have decided to stop working on revival.

>> ^steama:

Deepak make statements regarding the brain, mind, consciousness, that he cannot back-up with any evidence at all. He obviously likes to hear himself talk.
When the brain dies the mind is gone — period.
Also, Gupta stating that death is a process and doesn't happen all at once. Well ask that bug that hit your windshield how long the death process took.

Deepak make statements regarding the brain, mind, consciousness, that he cannot back-up with any evidence at all. He obviously likes to hear himself talk.

When the brain dies the mind is gone — period.

Also, Gupta stating that death is a process and doesn't happen all at once. Well ask that bug that hit your windshield how long the death process took.

I can't tell what it is but if you watch it step by step, that object doesn't behave in a human fashion, it also goes incredibly flat for a human. I think it just landed to appear like arms and legs. My best guess is it's just some clothing that was propped up on the back windshield.>> ^dracoirs:

Is that another kid flying into the ditch in a red shirt and green pants?

I got a piece of 8 x 4 lattice into my car once by bending it in the front and back. I had to look THROUGH the lattice while I was driving home since I had to run it through the center of my car and bend it across the front windshield to fit

offsetSammy gets an upvote from me for getting the video title smack-on target. Now
could some kind soul please contact Garnet Hertz & say just one word to him?.........
WINDSHIELD!!!!

'Kthanksbye.

DUH, this is why you do not park in the Sun without one of those windshield covers.

Perhaps the little guy is in a state of shock/discombobulation; from a collision with the windshield perhaps?

I've heard many a small <THUD!> against my windows only to find a small bird lying near-paralyzed on the ground outside, motionless but breathing/watching me with its eyes. The reflex to grasp things with their claws is usually still present in this state, which is convenient for transporting the poor things to the branch of a nice, quiet bush to let them recover.