AS A CARRY ON FROM THE TETHERED FLYING THREAD, I THOUGHT I WOULD ASK PEOPLE FOR THEIR NOMINEES FOR THE AWARD!!!!
OF COURSE THIS HAS TO BE IN THERE....
AND I ALSO NOMINATE THIS........
heres another link to the same vid........
Kamikuza - 4-12-2010 at 05:50 AM
... probably shouldn't say this but ... I once got inside an unused water wheel with a buddy to balance it out and someone spun it. Did you know those
bearings are nearly frictionless? I didn't rocfighter - 4-12-2010 at 12:30 PM
Alway a good idea to tie yourself to the ground but not the kite. Can you say slingshot effect?
Kami where you a kid when you did this( under 21)? if not your in the running!!:bigok:shaggs2riches - 4-12-2010 at 02:09 PM
They deleted the second I guess we'll never know.lad - 4-12-2010 at 06:14 PM
The girlfriend running up to her fallen, brainless beau, camcorder still running in hand, Cloverfield style, seemed a little contrived...? :piggy:Kamikuza - 4-12-2010 at 06:49 PM
Would have been close - 19 maybe??shaggs2riches - 4-12-2010 at 08:52 PM
Now if those two had harnesses rigged to keep them inside that merry-go-round they probably could have been turned faster. Imagine the G-Forces at
that speed:o Not only that but at that speed you would have had to hold your head straight IMO cuz I'm sure that letting it get snapped backwards
wouldn't have been very safe. Should have made the guy who stayed in get up and try to run in a straight linesnowspider - 4-12-2010 at 10:08 PM
My dad built a thing he called the "whirly gig" it was a long plank mounted in the center to an axel cemented into the ground. One day he decided to
mount a model airplane motor on one end and I as always vollunteered to be the test pilot on the other end. It ran out of gas about the same time I
changed my scream from "its too fast its to fast" to "I cant hold on I cant hold on." Just one of the many times I've dodged the Darwin award.Kamikuza - 4-12-2010 at 10:53 PM
We had handpowered things like that - we called them "Chunder Machines" ... you sat on a seat and spun yourself by pulling on the wheel in the center.
The older we got, the faster we could make it go ...
at snowspider ...!bobalooie57 - 5-12-2010 at 07:03 AM
@ snowspider, Now I understand where you get your build it yourself gene from!
@ kamikuza, we had those too, I forget what we called them, prolly just whirlygig, My older brother would always promise to go slow, but
never kept that promise!pokitetrash - 5-12-2010 at 09:21 AM
Ok, kind of like jumping off the see-saw to let the other guy slam his ass down! Now THATS funny!! :evil:Kamikuza - 5-12-2010 at 06:42 PM
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Originally posted by pokitetrash
Ok, kind of like jumping off the see-saw to let the other guy slam his ass down! Now THATS funny!! :evil:
Guys who did that when I was a kid got punched in the head. Now THATS funny!! :evil:speleopower - 8-12-2010 at 08:54 PM
Naw this is the real darwin award. what a dumb#$$. Don't know if it's real or not but if it is :eekdrull: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAK5T0fbF38Kamikuza - 8-12-2010 at 10:16 PM
Looks fake to me.erratic winds - 8-12-2010 at 11:52 PM
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Originally posted by speleopower
Naw this is the real darwin award. what a dumb#$$. Don't know if it's real or not but if it is :eekdrull: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAK5T0fbF38
Did you get fooled by the Hi-Tec water-walking commercial too? they don't get much faker than this.
FreddieW(the asian guy) is becoming a rather well-known VisualEFX person, I'm surprised you have not seen one of his videos before. He does really
pretty amazing work with simple digital tools, check some of his videos out!
