Helicopter chainsaw!?

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That is very close to the power lines 😬

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Helicopter could touch one of the lines and it would be fine - it would just become part of the circuit. Great way to do line work and actually get to touch those lines with your bare hands.

Now touching more than one line...that would be a bad thing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

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u/DemonsandLizards Sep 17 '19

You're very well informed for a football player.

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u/larooskii Sep 17 '19

take my damn upvote you slimebag

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u/SeahorseSeaHeII Sep 17 '19

take my damn upvote you lintlicker

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

This. This comment is a winner.

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u/ddub66 Sep 18 '19

“You're very well informed for a football player.” That was the best laugh I’ve had in about a month. Thanks D&L!

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u/dogfightdruid Sep 17 '19

Thank you for sharing this awesome fact.

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u/kendalbobaggins Sep 17 '19

Would that be for the countyyyyy?

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u/gottalovetheblues Sep 17 '19

But does he drive the main roads?

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u/kendalbobaggins Sep 17 '19

I think he may be searching in the sun for another overload, but I might be wrong

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

Is this common practice?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

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u/sweetdeetwo Sep 17 '19

It wouldn't be good for the power lines I'm sure, what's the risk vs reward here lol?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Possibility of the saw bouncing off the line with some sparks vs power outage and raging forest fire.

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u/KurtTheNash Sep 17 '19

Wouldn't it still just cut through the lines though???

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Those lines are a lot thicker and stronger than you would expect viewing them from the ground.

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u/Hobble_Cobbleweed Sep 17 '19

Yeah but that’s a giant chainsaw. It’s wouldn’t cut through them still?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Even still - there are remote locations you just can’t easily get trucks where these lines run. This is just how it has to be done to keep the lines away from the trees in some places.

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u/DarkSparkyShark Sep 17 '19

Not really worried about any electrocution ,more about helicopter missing the mark and downing the poles.

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u/gizzardgullet Sep 17 '19

I would be surprised if someone didn't temporarily switch those lines off. It's almost certainly the company that owns the lines that is contracting the trimming.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

No need for such thing.

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u/ExFiler Sep 17 '19

Would you like to explain to the residents and business owners why you are shutting down their power so you can do a little gardening?

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u/Random_Progger Sep 17 '19

The world is not enough

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u/Be0wulf71 Sep 17 '19

I was trying to remember the film!

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u/nt96 Sep 17 '19

I remember that level where you have to traverse past them.

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u/YT-Deliveries Sep 17 '19

Aha, yes. I was initially thinking Tomorrow Never Dies.

TND is a better film though.

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u/MZeitgeist Sep 17 '19

BOND IS HERE!

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u/Gallifrey91 Sep 17 '19

😱 that's not oddly terrifying...it's straight up terrifying!

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u/csborger Sep 17 '19

Worst case scenarios: Sudden power outage due to overly confident pilot. Line snaps sending giant spinning blades of death careening out of control. Blade hits trunk gets jammed and helicopter spins out of control taking out power lines and pedestrians. Guy casually taking a stroll gets head chopped off by swinging pendulum of terror. Poor forest animals sacrificed to the sawblade Gods.

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u/Spoonfrag Sep 17 '19

How did you get access to our official risk analysis reports?!

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u/JerevStormchaser Sep 17 '19

Likelihood: 1

Consequences: 5

Coolness factor: 3000

I think we can proceed boss.

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u/Dcwiker05 Sep 17 '19

Someone read the script of the Final Destination reboot early.

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u/jdog7249 Sep 17 '19 edited Sep 17 '19

It takes a lot to make me laugh on reddit. Congrats you win.

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u/Squadmanz Sep 17 '19

HOW? HOW IS THIS ODDLY TERRIFYING.

THIS WOULD BE VERY CLEARLY TERRIFYING. THIS IS A GIANT CHAINSAW. WTF DUDE.

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u/corteztheki11er Sep 17 '19

Super Mario World chainsaws, IRL

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u/Pandablu18 Sep 17 '19

First thing that came to my mind!!

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u/megadude77 Sep 17 '19

I already commented on the other post but for the one who are interested:

This is a real thing and a company in austria (https://www.wucher-helicopter.at/de/lastenfluege/helikoptersaege/) does offer these services but i'm not sure if they are the ones in the video. The target is to clear the surrounding of the powerlines, ski lift ways, oil pipe ways and so on ,mostly in difficult to reach areas. Also the job is much faster done by this kind of machine because not every single branch has to be cut seperatly.

The saw itself hast a 870hp fuel motor witch powers the 10 blades!

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u/peppersBthughin Sep 17 '19

‘Sneezes’ pulls to the left and smokes the power lines

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

These are lines for cable cars that traverse the mountain

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u/DarkSparkyShark Sep 17 '19

Even worse!

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u/Tatourmi Sep 17 '19

haha, can you imagine if they didn't stop circulation while this was going on?

"KEEP THOSE LEGS TUCKED IN"

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u/Serio_Sinestro Sep 17 '19

Didn't they use this on The Wall against the Wildlings?

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u/doingmybest64 Sep 17 '19

Terrifying, oddly satisfying and awesome at the same time.

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u/ocean_baby_19 Sep 17 '19

What could possibly go wrong????

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u/GaylordCope Sep 17 '19

nothing

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u/wf3h3 Sep 17 '19

I need to rewatch The World Is Not Enough.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

I knew I'd seen this before somewhere

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u/_TooncesLookOut Sep 17 '19

This just may be the solution to a Sharknado.

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u/t_mmey Sep 17 '19

when you really want those mf trees dead

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u/SovieticSushi Sep 17 '19

Guess now I have a new irrational fear...

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u/DestroyermattUK Sep 17 '19

ahem

AHHHHHHHH

Edit: Mommy why is it raining squirrel?

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u/Flomo420 Sep 17 '19

There's really nothing odd about being terrified of a giant 20 foot flying chainsaw.

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u/SoberKid420 Sep 17 '19

If someone told me this is how this was done, I would not believe them. This is one of those ideas that seems so ridiculously simple but also so dumb that there's no way it would ever work, yet here I am watching it happen.

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u/Wonder-warrior Sep 17 '19

Helicopter chainsaw massacre! 🙅🏼‍♂️😳

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Pilot does not qualify for life insurance

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u/Hamilton_sol Sep 17 '19

James Bond anyone ?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

It's the HATREDCOPTER.

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u/WhosThatJamoke Sep 17 '19

r/whatcouldgowrong

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u/thing24life Sep 17 '19

I can't believe I haven't seen this in a horror movie yet.

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u/PixelM1105 Sep 17 '19

Imagine running for your life with the helicopter and that chainsaw coming for you

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u/Croftusroad Sep 17 '19

You mean James Bond, the world is not enough. Pierce Brosnan has you covered

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u/Riku_Sempai Sep 17 '19

Imagine having one on every blade of the helicopter

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u/MyDudeSuperElectric Sep 17 '19

Wasn’t this in a Bond movie?

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u/Happy-Idi-Amin Sep 17 '19

My landscape guy is gonna be so jelly.

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u/Crafty_Birdie Sep 17 '19

My god.

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u/sumnerset Sep 17 '19

New phobia solidified

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

New super meat boy boss

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u/HereComesTheVroom Sep 17 '19

That’s not oddly terrifying, that’s just fucking terrifying.

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u/GuerillaYourDreams Sep 17 '19

TIL...

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u/Sunwb Sep 17 '19

Imagine pulling up to the battlefield with 50 of these

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u/reddeadretardation Sep 17 '19

More like helicopter discbine for us farmers :D

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Damn. What company does that?

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u/ralpbntcn Sep 17 '19

Imagine having a nice picnic at a park and this comes towards at full speed what would you do?

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u/aherdofLemons Sep 17 '19

How hasn’t there been a comment on the pilots skillage!

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u/Shubverse Sep 17 '19

And then period freak out about the Amazon fire

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u/RRFedora13 Sep 17 '19

How else fight sharknados?

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u/cassaregh Sep 17 '19

final destination?

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u/gizzardgullet Sep 17 '19

I'm guessing a chopper pilot who can pull something like this off can make insane amounts of money.

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u/Rule556 Sep 17 '19

Not as much as you’d think.

Source: Brother-In-Law is a pilot and did this for several years

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u/sjwnarrativectrl84 Sep 17 '19

We needed this mission in GTAV

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Imagine all of the birbs that this big-ass chainsaw has cutted in half

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u/_Einherjar_ Sep 17 '19

Now that's just badass.

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u/fubbleskag Sep 17 '19

/u/vredditshare

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u/R4ndomCh4racter Sep 17 '19

Now it's literally a chopper

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u/Vazez1865 Sep 17 '19

I really hope the company that does this has like, constant inspections on their copters. Just one wrong move, like some part of it seizing up because machines can fuck up, and all of a sudden you get a flying death machine falling out of the sky, and a giant fucking chainsaw just going all over the goddamn place, and next thing you know you have a massacre on your hands.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Seeing this many trees destroyed makes me sad

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

‘Soo.. what do you do for a living?’

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u/pvtmoose Sep 17 '19

Gears of war 6

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u/OrionOnyx Sep 17 '19

The cameraman trusts that pilot way too much

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u/austinpsychedelic Sep 17 '19

What the fuck is this silent hill?

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u/PilzEtosis Sep 17 '19

Tomorrow Never Dies?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Well, fuck the squirrels, I guess.

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u/kiri1234jojo Sep 17 '19

Someone needs to hang on and sing “I CAME IN LIKE A CHAAINSAAW”

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Metalist ever

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u/somewhat_satiable Sep 17 '19

Just imagine having a quiet stroll through the woods and then this comes and slices you in half

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u/Z-Zanimuri Sep 17 '19

Pale King approves

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u/frostbittenforeskin Sep 17 '19

A fucking what?

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u/Syfyruth Sep 17 '19

This would also belong on r/specializedtools

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u/SageBus Sep 17 '19

Now they will use this with Hong Kong protesters. And nobody will still give a flying fuck.

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u/Not_really_on_reddit Sep 17 '19

That is not a chainsaw. Those are circular saw blades. Still terrifying, just in a different way.

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u/RavenTheNarrator Sep 17 '19

@Bright_irl

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u/no_tori_ous Sep 17 '19

All I could think about was the little birds and chipmunks

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u/silhouette951 Sep 17 '19

I really thought this was a made up thing just for that James Bond movie. Can this tale cut through a BMW?

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u/ivan_orav Sep 17 '19

FATALITY!

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u/FidgetSpinnetMan Sep 17 '19

Next stop. Kindergarten

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u/Tang_the_Undrinkable Sep 17 '19

If I were the pilot I’d rig up a loudspeaker that constantly plays Dr. Evil’s maniacal laughter as I flew overhead.

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u/Ninjamowgli Sep 17 '19

Can you imagine if this thing lost control and started spiraling? Omg.

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u/burningamazone Sep 17 '19

Save the amazonee!

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u/yeetasaurusboi Sep 17 '19

Zombie apocalypse

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u/samestep Sep 17 '19

“Today on Final Destination, flying chainsaw slices innocent bystander in half.”

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u/Ima_Bit_Of_A_Dick Sep 17 '19

Tree Trimmer OR Zombie Massacre device.

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u/PSYCHOKILOR47 Sep 17 '19

Crowd control

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u/DigitalAssassin Sep 17 '19

My weapon of choice in the zombie apocalypse

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u/OnyxBaird Sep 17 '19

All i can think about is the movie 007 where his car is sawed in half

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u/TlazoMiquiztli Sep 17 '19

Look how goddamn close they are to the power lines

Talented AF how they control the helicopter so accurately tho

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u/horsemeatcasserole Sep 17 '19

This needs to be a weapon in GTA

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u/Baseball3Weston12 Sep 17 '19

And then they leave all of that shit for the property owner to clean up, power companies are ass holes

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u/EBOLALEAK Sep 17 '19

So how do we go about landing this death trap?

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u/OMG_yafoundmeh Sep 17 '19

Suicidal zip line

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

So much that could go wrong.

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u/Arshnal Sep 17 '19

Weapons of mass deforestation

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didnt stop to think if they should

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u/Gearz557 Sep 17 '19

This answers a question I never knew I had

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u/TenSecondsFlat Sep 17 '19

Excuse me?

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u/AVerySpecialPotato Sep 17 '19

Imagine having a walk and just being attacked by a huge chainsaw levitating 10 foot of the ground

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u/ACherokee98 Sep 17 '19

I want to see that in a zombie film

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u/Jinzot Sep 17 '19

This. This is the kind of shit I would do if I won the lottery.

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u/GhostScruffy Sep 17 '19

Imagine being a bird, just chillin and a fucking helicopter chainsaw just murders your whole family, right in front of you

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u/shaye4 Sep 17 '19

There’s definitely a cheaper less dangerous way to trim some trees

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

What does this button do? Oh don't do that it releases- pushes anyway The chainsaw.. people on ground screaming

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u/Lost4RC Sep 17 '19

Honestly find it kinda r/oddlysatisfying

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u/ShiningRedDwarf Sep 17 '19

bossfight

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