Wait, what? What was wrong with that one?
Horrific accident that resulted in serious injury?
Sure, but the image itself is totally work safe.
I feel like I’d rather see this without the silly filter and the Pikachu.
Well, yeah, that’s because you’re in denial about Pikachu being a total bastard.
-Tom
So Pikachu can cloak now? Man, he’s even more of a bastard than I thought!
-Tom
Yes. But knowing the ending kinda makes it no longer funny to watch… and whatever little we can do to not spread it further is good.
Rimbo
1670
“Anyone who knew the story behind the video was probalby unnerved by the laughter, but to be fair, it’s kind of hard to fact check a five year old web video.”
In its own way, the above statement is almost more disturbing than the video.
It’s the new media. Fact checking is HARD… especially when it happened years ago. It’s not like there’s some sort of connected computernetwork where you can look things up.
Obviously the information is out there but do tell how is one supposed to know what to look for when trying to fact check the events of an animated gif especially when the source site and file name have no bearing on the contents?
Jag
1674
I don’t recall the exact search query I used, but I think it was “bicycle jump on moving van” which returned a number of results detailing the facts. I only linked that Deadspin article because it was A) comprehensive enough and B) safe to click.
They didn’t show a gif they showed the original movie. As others have said, you don’t have to be a MD to see that this fall ends badly, so doing a search or two would be prudent… and if you can’t find any information at all, then perhaps you shouldn’t put the clip on national television.
Hell, if you can’t find any information at all, you don’t actually know if you have any rights to show the clip and might end up with a copyright case on your hands. I don’t know about the US, but over here “Google didn’t tell me who owned the rights” is not enough to get you off the hook.
It’s not like he killed himself in the fall - there’s ton of internet videos where the worst that comes out of it is some broken bones (like this one). It’s unfortunate it lead to long term recovery issues and eventual suicide, but videos where people end up in the hospital are not out of the norm for the internet.
No, but they are here as per Toms rules and in my opinion they should be too on television for pure entertainment (which is what we were talking about).
And again, they are a tv-station “There are plenty of videos where people don’t kill themselves a year after, how could we know?” might be an ok excuse for a forum poster, but not for a television show (which is what I was commenting on). Higher standards and all that.
I agree with the first part of this statement. I disagree with the second. World’s Dummest would go away completely! But I DO think that the host shouldn’t be able to say “He was fine! Don’t worry!” as she does in that clip. I don’t think that should be an FCC rule, but rather up to the good taste of the producers.
And that would be bad, why?
