Wall retaliates against vandal
Video of a gentleman who attempts to kick a wall to pieces, but is surprised when the wall exacts revenge. (via Arbroath)
Video of a gentleman who attempts to kick a wall to pieces, but is surprised when the wall exacts revenge. (via Arbroath)
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Oh SNAP.
Wow. That wall totally ate his leg.
Wasn't something like this in Naked Gun?
Is it just my browser? Is it a result of traffic? This video isn't working for me. This is not uncommon - it happens on every single popular blog I visit. If the author used youtube, the video doesn't work, ultimately. The little spinny thing spins and then up come the words: "We're sorrry, this video is no longer available."
Holly crap! Were they able to save his leg??
The Wilhelm Scream may now have a new successor.
that video reminds me of a jack handy quote, "If you ever accidentally drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone."
it's called "gravity"
OM NOM NOM...
Com'n boy! Dun let that inatimate object get the better of ya!
"Ouch," Darwin chuckles.
It's the 21st century equivalent of the Barber Stone.
(Short synopsis: hengestone in the Avebury ring is attacked during the middle ages by pious Christians looking to destroy pagan monuments. Stone decides to take one of its attackers with it to Valhalla, they find his skeleton under it in the 1930s.)
cframp
When in doubt I always switch to a backup browser. (IE for me). This clip is working for me in firefox tho. Your problem sounds a bit unusual. Congratulations.
I would really like to see a follow up on this. How did they even free his leg? What a nightmare.
I like a zany pratfall as much as the next guy, but I'd rather not see any more people dismembered on BoingBoing, kthx.
"There are always consequences."
cframp - try a different browser or revert to an older version or your current one. It may also be a problem with a plugin such as flash or java. If you have noscript enabled that could a problem too.
@4 CFRAMP
The same thing happens to me in Firefox on my work computer. I can only view about 1 out of 20 YouTube vids. I assumed it was because we are behind a firewall, but then I tried them in Safari and Internet Explorer and they worked fine. I dunno whats up now. Anyone know? Is it because of YouTube's recent switch to higher quality, differently formatted video files? YouTube used to work fine in Firefox.
Ow! That made my stomach churn.
Darwin is certainly chuckling, but in all fairless you usually expect the boards in a fence to be actually attached to the fence posts, not just resting on top of each other.
Probably the one who is really chuckling is the anti-yobs-doing-dumb-shit-for-laughs imp...
nom nom nom...
I am an anti-yob-doing-dumb-shit-for-laughs imp in this case.
Gentleman? Methinks not.
I'm not sure I would call this guy a "gentleman" ("yob" does seem much closer to the mark). But it's to his credit that his first response was to call for help rather than curse up a blue streak, which is what I would have done.
Dang! Did it sever his leg or just crunch it a bit?
@4 CFRAMP - before switching to another browser, reinstalling your current browser or sacrificing virgin goats when mars in in alignment with neptune, try refreshing the page or viewing the clip in the freshly opened comments page. Took me a while to figure this one out.
The little morons never learned physics, good for the wall. I hope the wall held him until the police came.
Wow, you sould check out the comment on youtube.. angry, angry people.
Tetris wall WINS!!
och! relax everyone,it takes a good deal more than that to sever a foot. All he got was a hundred kilos of concrete dropping on his ankle spread over a five centimeter width. With no distance for acceleration he likely didn't even get a broken bone,just a damn good pinch. For all we know,we was the owner of the wall. A month of hopping around and hopefully he's wiser.
say.... you don't suppose the other side of this wall opens into a dimensional rip leading to the Strait of Georgia?
Let's hope that it wasn't as bad as it looks, or this is denting my karma: Wall monster
#17
Looks like a sound wall for traffic noise (like the ones that are behind my house). They just slide the panels in, and they are held with nothing but their own weight. Occasionally I will where a car crashed through a wall and all of the panels have slid out. I can't even imagine how much weight came down on his leg if all the panels above that one remained intact.
Yikes, that looks painful, but coming from someone who's done his fair share of sledghammering (concrete slabs, walls, gazebos, etc.), yow - they most likely had to demo the remaining panels to free him up, and he's hopping on one leg the whole time.
The right tools make the job easy.
The wrong ones, er... Make it painful.
nice fake leg there
#30 I was going to say...you have to be mighty daft to keep on kicking at a wall like that. I mean, what did he think was going to happen?
*shudders*
I clicked on a related video on YouTube, Scarred - Conor Lee.
There seems to be a whole subculture of getting scarred doing dangerous stunts. Broken bones, femurs popping out of the skin, nasty stuff. Especially if you do it skateboarding. I really didn't want to know this.
Only two things are infinite in the universe, hydrogen and stupidity, and I am not sure about the former. This video proves the latter.
#4 and #16:
Upgrade your Flash Player.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/
That fixed it for me.
To be fair to the dummy who may or may not have lost his foot, how many of us didn't forsee how that clip would end? Some things only seem painfully obvious in retrospect.
I bet there's a whole pile of severed would-be ninjas' feet behind that wall.
#35: The quote is "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ... idiot!
I'm going to cry and GIS "unicorns".
#35: The quote is "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ... idiot!
It looks like a fence not a wall. If its concrete then why does it make that sound? Its probably wood. He didn't lose his leg
Definitely thin wood panels. He'd be saying a lot more than "help me" if those were concrete blocks.
It's interesting that the panels were floating in vertical rails rather than fastened to the fence posts. This must allow for the panels to expand/contract without warping the fence.
If they are like all the similar structures I've seen in the UK and Ireland, they are concrete. Thin maybe, but concrete.
@41: they make fences/walls like this out of concrete in some parts of the world. concrete vertical posts and thin concrete slabs slid into slots in said posts. around here they are built mostly right next to highways when there's a subdivision on the other side. cuts down on traffic noise, and will eat a lot of the force of a car that goes off the road.
They're not "Blocks" of concrete, they're sheets, about an inch and a half thick. They don't use stone aggregate, like is used in a sidewalk - I'm not sure if it's foamed concrete, or if they use styrofoam beads instead of aggregate, or what... but they're designed to block sound and slow down an out-of-control car before it smashes into a back yard or a house. Not to hold up 20 floors.
The boards are lighter than the kinds of concrete you're used to seeing in construction - they're not really load bearing... but they're still heavier than, say, pure styrofoam would be. Dunno if they're somewhere around hardwood in density or what, but that would be my random-observer guess.
http://www.ndpfencingcentre.co.uk/concrete.htm
Click the link above, and scroll down to:
"Post and Panel Fencing"
"Aggregate Fencing"
"Acoustic Fencing"
"Smooth Panel Fencing"
Trent Hawkins (38):
It's a little presumptuous to assume TMF didn't know the quote, and alter it for giggles or indeed dark nefarious purposes beyond our ken.
Calling TMF an idiot was rude, and unnecessary.
Would have appreciated more of a warning. What's next for BB? Beheading videos? Goat sex?
@48: I couldn't agree more. When I read "vandal" I assumed there'd be some harmless spray-painting involved, not actual destruction. Poor wall.
(But, seriously. How many ways do you think a wall can "retaliate" that don't involve causing pain to a person?)
ETI, where can we register our vote?
Goat Sex!
shoesaphone: it's the guy with the camera calling for help, the guy stuck in the wall is too busy screaming...
heh.
Where's my freakin' unicorn chaser?
Learner @14, no traumatic dismemberment. There'd be a lot more blood and screaming, and he'd fall over backward.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
Aaaaghony. I thought he was going to break his leg somehow, not break the wall so the wall could eat him up. Omnomnomnomnom...
Gaghaghhhh. No dismemberment, but I bet he just broke all the bones in his ankle and possibly splintered his tibia.
@ Arkizzle (46): I followed the link and found the description of the "Smooth panel fencing" very apt:
"Very strong anti vandal type fencing"
Emphasis mine.
One might normally categorize this under: Hans Moleman's "Man Getting Hit by Football." rather than Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things. However, it does have useful insights for the Do-It-Yourself'er, a subject frequently explored in this venue.
It is of great public benefit for us to encourage the DIY enthusiast to consider the concept of "Potential Energy". Objects that appear to be in a benign, neutral state may in-fact have considerable capacity to wreak havoc upon the unwary.
What immediately comes to mind are admonishments by my dear father to avoid injudicious investigations prompted by youthful enthusiasm involving television picture tubes, garage door springs, and large dogs who stand motionless, staring at you.
Let us hope that all persons, young and old, will find within this tragic video, lessons for their personal edification.
http://symphoniq.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/beaver.gif
I've helped take down a garage made of those panels before - each one probably weighed about 25-30kg, and there's probably 3 of them above the one he kicks out. I also know that once they have dropped down, if they drop even slightly skewed, they get almost totally stuck.
I'm glad I'm not him anyway, I could easily see that leading to losing a foot.
I don't want to see this kind of thing. Please.
the resistentialism is strong in those panels
Freeze-frame it at 12s. The gap between the upper and lower blocks is about, ooh, three-quarters of an inch, I'd say. About the width of a human tibia... minus a bit.
I think most satisfying feature is the way the wall resets itself after munching the victims foot - the blocks slide down one rung and it's good to go again.
#64
Ready for the next foot :)
1) It is clearly concrete. If you haven't seen walls like this, perhaps you could think about opening your eyes and looking around. They're all over (US and Japan anyway).
2) In his defense, I wouldn't have assumed they were just slotted in there without anything holding them. I would have assumed, as he probably did, that you kick one out and there's a hole in the wall. Not really THAT stupid (aside from the vandalism angle).
3) Why is there always some idiot who says that everything is photoshopped or faked? I worry for that person, because he must have a very rosy view of the world and the horrible things that can and do happen in it. Granted, I grew up looking at photos of mangled cars full of gore (insurance). Terrible shit happens all the time; there's no reason to make it up or fake it.
4) Whether he just lost that foot depends on how many slats are above it. Even though it clearly didn't sever right then, if they don't get the weight off of it fast, the foot could die due to lack of circulation. Even if that doesn't happen, if he smashed the bone, he could be walking with a limp for the rest of his life. If he's lucky, there weren't many more slats. If he's not, it could be a very serious injury.
5) Have you ever seen someone with a very serious injury? There's this great thing called "shock," wherein your body graciously shuts the pain down for awhile and heightens your awareness so you can do things like say "Help me. Help me." It sounded to me like he was really, really hurt, because of the clarity and simplicity and repetition of that message. People can be astonishingly clear when they are really really hurt. I don't recommend learning about this via a motorcycle accident, so I hope that you'll just take my word.
@Irene Delse
It defeated him, didn't it?
A pessimist would say he's lost a foot, an optimist would say he's got one foot left to kick with.
"My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike to ever mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way."
-Charles Fort
I know people who could put their bare foot through that wall. An inch and a half of concrete ain't much.
~70 .takuan,
thats some one dimensional thinking right there
Instant Karma, just add jackass!
Best comment on youtube I saw: "All in all it's just another foot in The Wall."
The very best Instant Karma video I have ever seen (by far) is this one, and it's a taken from a security camera at a safe and not-gross-to-watch distance: http://www.wimp.com/criminals/
aw, that's so perfect,it's gotta be staged!
@71
yup, it's called "kime"
Takuan: I thought that too at first, but look close at how the impact of the blocks really move their heads, as would be expected if the blocks were more massive than their heads. The window flexed perfectly (the light reflections seemed right), and more than anything else "I WANT TO BELIEVE!"
oh yeah, I want to believe too!
One word - KARMA...
I'd say he got what he deserved.
Not to try and sound harsh, but the little idiot got what he deserved. It reminds me of the anti grafitti walls in Demolition Man, only vandal proofed.
What is this doing on BoingBoing? You guys are losing your touch.
and again:
"What'sa matter you, hey, gotta no respect
Whatta you tink you do, why you looka so sad
Itsa not so bad, Itsa nice-a place, Ahh shaddupa you face!"
glad to see #62 recognized resistentialism at work; I believe this is a particularly malignant example of the conspiracy of objects and gravity, against which I am advocating the advent of antigravitism. f'reals.