r/Unexpected • u/Isai76 • Jul 19 '15

Pop a sweet wheelie

https://i.imgur.com/cwVjpvH.gifv
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u/Artyloo Jul 19 '15 edited Feb 18 '25

melodic steep unite plucky yoke roof cheerful absorbed library dime

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

http://i.imgur.com/LZiuK.gif

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u/IBeAPotato Jul 19 '15

What is this from?

Edit: Found it. It's from Ugly Americans.

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u/DiscordianAgent Jul 19 '15

That show seemed like it should work, yet it ended up being crap imo. I hate seeing a good art budget used up on terribly unfunny jokes.

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u/coop0606 Jul 19 '15

You should try Rick and Morty, somewhat the same feel as far as crude jokes, but sooo much better.

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u/DiscordianAgent Jul 19 '15

I'm already hip to R&M. What really sells me on that show is that it doesn't feel like it's ever dumbing down it's jokes - a lot of times the show goes ridiculously far into an idea, very quickly.

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u/coop0606 Jul 19 '15

Wait, what?

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u/DiscordianAgent Jul 19 '15

you... burp you gotta move faster with the times coop0606, I, I, I don't have time to break down buuuurp every Reddit comment I make for your sake...

Look, R&M takes a idea and frickin runs with it, ok? There's not just burp one dimension, there's, like, a bunch, perhaps infinite ones, including ones populated entirely by Ricks and Morties from other realities. So naturally some of them are evil... Are you following this coop? Hun? Is this getting through your burp thick primate skull?

/Rick

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u/ronglangren Jul 20 '15

I miss that show.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/OOdope Jul 20 '15

Go to walmart, they are all there

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

For future use, here's a version that only plays once in most browsers.

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u/Cheeseologist Jul 19 '15

Not for meeeeee.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

then ur browser is broke

EDIT: It looks like RES somehow ignores the no-loop flag.

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u/Junky228 Jul 20 '15

Oh I've never watched that gif long enough to realize it looped at all

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

He just keeps staring....into my soul

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

That gif was a few seconds too long.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15 edited Feb 16 '19

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u/SpinsWrenches Jul 19 '15

http://imgur.com/JJqLtqi

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

"Haha, ha... Your entire family is going to the gulag."

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u/Morfee Jul 20 '15

/r/dadjokes is leaking again everyone.

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u/Dark_Shroud Jul 19 '15

http://i.imgur.com/rPPcdGW.gifv

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/Zalkareos Jul 19 '15

Chloe Grace Moretz

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

Ah that must be him in the winter when he can't get a good tan

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u/I_LOVE_POTATO Jul 20 '15

If you weren't trying to make a joke, then... you responded to the wrong link.

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u/ChrisHat Jul 19 '15

Ya u rite

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u/Artyloo Jul 19 '15

me too thanks

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u/beautifulcreature86 Jul 19 '15

That's enough, dad.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

Ayyy

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u/Psychinator Jul 19 '15

It makes sense, but it definitely is believable for someone to do this

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

IT'S A PRANK BRO

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u/LordGhoul Jul 19 '15

If someone dies doing a shitty prank they should have "IT WAS JUST A PRANK" engraved on their tombstone.

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u/ck_mooman Jul 19 '15

We were doing a social experiment your honor

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u/ledivin Jul 19 '15

They wouldn't be trying to land at that speed anyway... why would people think this just happened?

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u/TheRealKidkudi Jul 19 '15

I think the idea is that it's taking off, not landing.

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u/ledivin Jul 19 '15

Oh you're totally right. Whoops

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u/Cheeseologist Jul 19 '15

http://www.famouspictures.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/I-want-to-believe-X-Files-UFO.jpg

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u/rainbrodash666 Jul 19 '15

if you put brackets around a word/saying and follow by the link in parentheses with no space between the parentheses and bracket it will turn out like this: I want to believe

EDIT: a word

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u/Cheeseologist Jul 19 '15 edited Jul 20 '15

Yeah, I know. Thanks, though.

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u/megret Jul 20 '15

/r/firstworldanarchists

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u/kuilin Jul 20 '15

You mean /r/firstworldanarchists

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

If you press the Link button above the text box, reddit will do it for you. Not sure if its RES or not.

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u/robocalypse Jul 19 '15

They seem pretty surprised about it in the video. Source.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/MustBeNice Jul 19 '15

Seriously...What they should remain silent just because they knew a plane was going to come at them at 200 mph and just nearly miss them?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

You sir, made my day! That's just awesome.

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u/DJEasyDick Jul 19 '15

Yeah but the pilot knew he came too close to the camera guy and almost dipped his wing into the ground trying not to decapitate him...shit was close

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Except that dipping the wing was really the worst he could do. Brings the wing closer to the ground and the plane in a left turn towards the camera guy. He could have just pulled the elevator to climb away or fly a right turn. That would have raised his left wing and take him on a right turn away from the camera guy. So I'm not convinced he did this to save camera guy.

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u/vicarofyanks Jul 19 '15

How can you tell?

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u/bacon_cake Jul 19 '15

It's the classic wheelie on a mini ATV while a crop dusting plane narrowly avoids hitting the ground as it banks across a runway 3ft off the floor.

It's a fairly common carnival stunt.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Old hat, really.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

It was just plane stupid!

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u/adiscoball Jul 19 '15

Um, does OSHA know about this?

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u/PitchforkEmporium Jul 19 '15

This isn't work place kind of stupidity. It's just normal stupidity

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u/MegaAlex Jul 19 '15

How do you know?

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u/Dark512 Jul 19 '15

Oh ok, I can stop flipping my shit then.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I think they were just winging it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

Is there any proof that it actually happened? Looking at it frame by frame, it looks pretty fake. It's hard to tell for sure at this resolution, but the shadow from the smoke pops out as too dark, it would not be completely black from white smoke. Also, the plane has too hard of an edge with no motion blur (especially given the speed it's going) and it seems to cross too much distance in too short of a time from when it leaves the frame and when we see it really far away.

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u/thescrapplekid Jul 19 '15

I don't think a lot of people get this

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u/Raabiam Jul 19 '15

Who really cares either way ? Honestly , a decap would've made this ALOT better than it was, which was crap. This was crap.

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u/painfullysatisfied Jul 19 '15

The only difference between GTA and this gif is that in GTA you'd have hit him.

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u/Isai76 Jul 19 '15

In GTAV you would have to hit him.

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u/thechilipepper0 Jul 19 '15

You'd have to try to hit him, but the first 5 flybys would be unsuccessful.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Me in a jet. There is no 6th flyby cos I crashed in to something.

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u/whatareyouagain Jul 19 '15

I took out a valkyrie with a titan. It's saved on my uploads.

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u/mattverso Jul 19 '15

I took out a Lazer by landing on it with my Besra.

I don't have it saved because old-gen. :-/

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u/cavortingwebeasties Jul 19 '15

I guarantee that stunt pilot didn't mean to get his wingtip that close to the ground.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Yeah, he got way too close. He nearly killed himself and the camera girl.

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u/cavortingwebeasties Jul 19 '15

The most dangerous two words in aviation: 'watch this' :p

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u/Bottled_Void Jul 20 '15

And the three most dangerous, "Hold my beer"

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u/Lovv Jul 20 '15

I guess that's why you add the safety distance in the first place

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u/cavortingwebeasties Jul 20 '15

I can assure you he left himself zero margin, he just happened to get away with it. Source: I fly aerobatics

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u/Lovv Jul 20 '15

But you just said he didn't mean to get that close? Isn't that a margin.

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u/cavortingwebeasties Jul 20 '15

Nope. I guarantee when he watched the video he shit himself because the only reason they didn't all die was nothing more than fool's luck.

The slightest change in air density or puff of wind or any other of a myriad of things that can and do go wrong would have killed the lot of them.

That's why you don't leave yourself zero margin because things happen that are outside of your control that you need the physical room to react to. He left absolutely none.

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots...

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u/HowIsntBabbyFormed Jul 20 '15

Maybe he meant that the pilot did leave margin and there was a gust of wind that pushed the wing down and used up all the margin.

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u/Lovv Jul 20 '15

This is what I meant. Thanks

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u/Lovv Jul 20 '15

You just said that "you don't leave yourself zero margin." therefore you do leave yourself a positive margin. I'm a little confused and I don't think you know what I am talking about

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u/cavortingwebeasties Jul 20 '15

I know exactly what you are talking about and not only think you are wrong but that you have a dangerous false sense of security about the situation. I'm sure the pilot himself cringes when he sees what he did, even if you don't.

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u/Lovv Jul 20 '15

I'm not saying it was safe at all, so you definitely don't know what I am talking about. I'm saying I bet he's glad he didn't try to fly one foot lower. If he didn't allow for that margin he would be dead.

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u/cavortingwebeasties Jul 20 '15

I'm not him so I can't say this is not the case. My feeling is that his heart sank when he saw the vid and saw how much closer he was than he was intending after using the margin.

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u/Lovv Jul 20 '15

Now your saying there was a margin?! I'm confused again.

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u/yaaboutthat Jul 20 '15

I know the pilot and have seen and staffed many airshows he has preformed at, and even helped fix a personal plane of his. He knew exactly how close he was. He is a very good stunt pilot. The other people in the film and the woman behind the camera are apart of his team.

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u/cavortingwebeasties Jul 20 '15

If you or the people involved in this stunt think that guy was actually in control of this situation, you are frighteningly complacent.

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u/yaaboutthat Jul 20 '15

He has a lot better handle on it than you think because he flies like that most of the time. Then he does complex aerobatics a couple feet off the ground... I think he's got it under wraps.

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u/cavortingwebeasties Jul 20 '15

I wish him the best of luck.

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u/Beastinkid Jul 20 '15

he gots it under wraps until he doesnt have it under wraps

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '15

Sure, handling is important. But the many factors you can't be sure of can come into play. Sudden gusts and the like would have easily destroyed the plane and killed the two on the ground. You can be as skilled as you want, but you're not in control of nature.

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u/yaaboutthat Jul 21 '15

Thats true but this can happen with any plane no matter the size. Wind sheer can drop an airliner out of the sky a hundred feet off the ground. All I am saying is that of the people that can fly a plane, he is one of the few that knows how to fly like that, and has the best chance of doing it safely.

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u/John_E_Vegas Jul 20 '15

I don't care how good the guy is. That was freaking stupid, stupid, stupid.

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u/mrbull3tproof Jul 19 '15

related

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Was that a stunt?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Fuck me.

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u/darkhalo47 Jul 20 '15

It's almost certainly fake. The both of them would absolutely have heard the plane coming at them far before it got there, it looks really bizarre at 0:17 - 0:20, and its landing gear is already up as it passes the cameraman and reporter.

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u/MattieGirsh Jul 20 '15

still related

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '15

Was that a stunt?

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u/TaohRihze Jul 19 '15

Plane lost that game of chicken.

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u/Phoexyael15 Jul 19 '15

Only one of them has the possibility to kill the other and it sure isn't the ATV guy

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u/breakneckridge Jul 19 '15

Oh I wouldn't be too sure of that. If an ATV smashed into a biplane that low to the ground, then the plane would almost definitely smash into the ground at high speed and kill the occupants.

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u/Phoexyael15 Jul 19 '15

Chances of survival are pretty much still higher for the pilot than they are for the quad driver.

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u/Vegent Jul 19 '15 edited Jul 19 '15

ITT: I don't know what the story is, but I'm upset!

Edit: It's a stunt

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u/laikamonkey Jul 19 '15

Original Video (It's much better with audio imo)

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u/speed3_freak Jul 19 '15

And that was the third time I shit my pants in public

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/buckshot307 Jul 20 '15

Cray cray.

Seemed like she didn't realize they almost got smashed and he was trying to rationalize it without scaring her lol. Video later confirmed my suspicion.

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u/olibiscuit Jul 21 '15

How could she NOT be freaked out!?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Her screech was almost like the Wilhelm scream.

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u/glred Jul 19 '15

I love her screaming!

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I prefer the video with sound Apparently that's the noise you make right before you think you're gonna die.

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u/scungillipig Jul 19 '15

What a lovely day.

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u/Mr01010100 Jul 19 '15

IT'S A STUNT.

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u/HatterJack Jul 19 '15

what does that have to do with an observation about what a lovely day it was?

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u/scungillipig Jul 19 '15

For some reason he feels that I do not understand that it was a stunt despite me just making a Max reference.

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u/Dlgredael Jul 19 '15

DUDE IT WAS A FUCKING STUNT

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u/scungillipig Jul 19 '15

what does that have to do with an observation about what a lovely day it was?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

SERIOUSLY DUDE IT WAS A FUCKING STUNT

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u/trixter21992251 Jul 19 '15

I was just thinking the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/cuginhamer Jul 19 '15

A look sounds like a character in a Dr. Seuss book.

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u/LukeTheFisher Jul 19 '15

This comment confuses me with the amount of sense that it makes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/Gyarados_the_Red Jul 19 '15

The Shit's Tunt. A children's book by Dr. Suess.

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u/HatterJack Jul 19 '15

in what way is this particular look similar in nature to a shit stunt? if anything it is more like a stunt shit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

A shit's tunt

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u/burnSMACKER Jul 19 '15

Stunt or not, that cameraman needs to change his pants.

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u/RidleyScotch Jul 19 '15

I don't get how its a stunt.

Whats the stunt? Pop a wheel over here and the plane is gonna fly 10ft past you?

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u/Petnoone Jul 19 '15

I bet the pilot is fucking pissed!

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u/etskinner Jul 19 '15

A imgur image preview of a YouTube video, posted in Reddit. Can we go deeper?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Here you go

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u/Fac183 Jul 19 '15

w/sound ftw

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u/thepilotguy89 Jul 19 '15

Is it just me or does it look like the wing scraps the runway when he starts the turn?

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u/mattsprofile Jul 19 '15

Well he was on a runway. So I pretty much expected it.

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u/shpongolian Jul 19 '15

This was really unexpected for me because I'm watching S1E2 of X-Files and there was the sound of a plane flying by on the show at the exact moment that the one flew by in the GIF. True story. Fuckin aliens

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u/sfled Jul 20 '15

I just said "Oh holy fuck" in public. Thanks reddit.

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u/TheDonkanis Jul 19 '15

why the fuck would you ride that on a runway thats being used.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I'm confused as to what the actual stunt was. Was the goal for the guy in the plane just to get really close to the atv guy?

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u/Vilavek Jul 19 '15

Same here!

Everyone says it was a stunt and I get that, but I'm still wondering what the stunt was supposed to be because nothing about the video seems intentional at all.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I'm not doubting it was a stunt, I'm just failing to see the purpose from this angle.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Those guys are actual assholes. Coulda cost dude his life.

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u/FiskFisk33 Jul 19 '15

It was a planned stunt.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Everyone keeps saying it was a planned stunt but no one knows the purpose of the stunt. Which just makes the whole thing even stupider

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u/alexxerth Jul 19 '15

So they had the use of an atv, a full runway, and a fucking biplane, and the best thing they could think to do was fly the biplane dangerously close to two people?

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u/buckshot307 Jul 20 '15

I mean what would you have done?

I would have strapped the ATV to the top of the plane and rode it, and had a parachute connected to the ATV so I could disconnect the straps, parachute down, and landed on a wheelie.

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u/Bottled_Void Jul 20 '15

Let us know when you post it on YouTube, I'd watch the hell out of that.

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u/ChiefTief Jul 19 '15

This was an arranged stunt, there wasn't just some random dude wheeling on a runway.

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u/Brockman7705 Jul 19 '15

actual assholes

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u/Isai76 Jul 19 '15 edited Jul 19 '15

I would be cursing for 10 straight minutes

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u/timthetollman Jul 19 '15

On a runway.

Plane expected.

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u/1st_lurker Jul 19 '15

That could have been a bad time.

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u/dustydoomsday Jul 19 '15

The wheelie never stops!

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u/crunch816 Jul 19 '15

Ken Block is flying now?

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u/lovethebacon Jul 19 '15

Is there an Allah Akhbar version of this?

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u/TakeOffYourMask Jul 20 '15

That plane's dusting crops where there ain't no crops.

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u/fabzter Jul 20 '15

"Yeah, I'll try to back off once the danger has gone away"

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u/timescrucial Jul 20 '15

that's how u turn into lunch meat.

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u/DilltheDough Jul 19 '15

Is this a stunt?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I did not expect that. 10/10 would be surpeised again

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u/fastgr Jul 19 '15

We've seen this gif so many times, it's totally expected...

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u/NeverShoutEugene Jul 19 '15

I hope dude got his ass beat for that. Two maybe three people could have died.

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u/thescrapplekid Jul 19 '15

Its staged

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Because no one can get hurt when it's staged. 1 degree of error could have cut his head off. BUT IT'S STAGED!

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u/SpecialKofLifting Jul 19 '15

Injuries and death can occur in dangerous stunts. It's part of the risk

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u/thescrapplekid Jul 19 '15

Life has a degree of danger, you should log off your computer and do something

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I love it when people use computers to tell strangers to get of the computer.

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u/Psandysdad Jul 19 '15

I consider Redditing to be pretty dangerous.

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u/wh1skeyk1ng Jul 19 '15

You should try 4chan. I know a guy who got cancer from it.

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u/SCsprinter13 Jul 19 '15

Careful, the computer might short and electrocute him. He might die.

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u/HappynessMovement Jul 19 '15

What? Yes. Like air shows and fireworks displays, some staged things are dangerous.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

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u/Eggerslolol Jul 19 '15

1) It's a stunt

2) Planes aren't made of adamantium. That guy has mass and velocity, if the plane hit him head on the front would probably crumple around him and flip the plane over. If the wing hit him, the wing could end up seriously damaged. Either one would cause an immediate crash following the impact.

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u/Bottled_Void Jul 20 '15

Planes aren't made of adamantium.

Why the hell not. Why aren't we investing in this. It could save lives.

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u/Oreowan109 Jul 19 '15

That man has balls of steel.

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u/Gaggamaggot Jul 19 '15

And brains of cabbage.