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• #32727
What's with the blond guy - looks like he's being dazzled by awesomness...
He's there to catch him if he pulled off earlier and headed into the road...
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• #32728
Here's the original.
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• #32729
Looks planned, why are there 2 cameras on it?
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• #32730
Considering that it was uploaded to the tube by "carsandchases" I call fake.
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• #32731
I find it very had to believe that there would be pedestrians wandering around in the impact zone if it was a planned stunt.
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• #32732
Surely if it was planned there would be a person on the street filming for it to look best. As opposed to a dash cam from a van and what looks like a CCTV/security camera.
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• #32733
When they do the air cannon car flip stunts, the cannon is mounted inside the car. It's a big piece of mild steel tube with a piece of telegraph pole which gets rammed out under pressure. Here, you have a manhole in the ground on a residential street. There is no way of rigging that up as an air cannon. Regardless of whether it is staged or not, the car does flip because of the metal grille which is welded to the manhole cover. Look as the car rolls and you'll see it bounce on the ground. It's clearly caught on the car, and the corner has been severely bent up by the forces involved. The fact it's a residential street with peds walking around would seem to suggest it is highly unlikely that it is a setup. Unlike with an air cannon, the crash is entirely uncontrolled, and you wouldn't risk having the car fly off into someone's house/the pavement and kill someone.
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• #32734
Plural for LEGO is LEGO.
cognoscenti
Cognoscento. Cognoscenti is the plural.
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• #32735
Exactly.
I was implying that he was one of that group. -
• #32736
Thus the pluralization.
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• #32737
When they do the air cannon car flip stunts, the cannon is mounted inside the car. It's a big piece of mild steel tube with a piece of telegraph pole which gets rammed out under pressure. Here, you have a manhole in the ground on a residential street. There is no way of rigging that up as an air cannon. Regardless of whether it is staged or not, the car does flip because of the metal grille which is welded to the manhole cover. Look as the car rolls and you'll see it bounce on the ground. It's clearly caught on the car, and the corner has been severely bent up by the forces involved. The fact it's a residential street with peds walking around would seem to suggest it is highly unlikely that it is a setup. Unlike with an air cannon, the crash is entirely uncontrolled, and you wouldn't risk having the car fly off into someone's house/the pavement and kill someone.
tl;dr
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• #32738
fart build-up in the sewer
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• #32739
My self-realisation was more:
gif consipiracy thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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• #32740
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• #32741
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• #32742
So repped. Saving the page and ting.
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• #32744
I reckon its a compressed air cannon and the van behind is filming.
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• #32745
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• #32746
Lol:-)
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• #32747
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• #32748
Christ, that's worse than those fuckin Dolan Duck efforts
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• #32749
should have cc'd in monday
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• #32750
Should have posted a meme
Gys pls, you're not looking closely enough. If you look at the manhole when it bounces off the pavement, you'll see it is welded to a heavy duty grille (off centre).
Like this:
The manhole is more like a deep cylindrical section. I would assume the corner of the grille which is welded to it was sticking up which caught something on the undercarriage of the car. The thickness of the manhole suggests it is wedged pretty hard into the hole, allowing it to anchor the instantaneous load when the car hits, at least enough to allow the car to be flipped. If you look at the grille when it hits the floor, it is heavily deformed (though still attached to the manhole), evidencing the large forces it has borne before the manhole was ripped out of the ground.