Guy Hit with Shopping Cart at 70mph

[Titana]

Well, for some reason the video was titled: Shopping Cart Idiot
I quess that kind of says it all.


Titana...;)

[Vermonter]

I've seen worse. Unprotected yahoo (no gloves, jacket, helmet, just clothes and shades) on his crotch rocket does a lowside while following his buddy with a camera. Luckily his arms take the brunt of it. And by lucky, meaning that only his forearms and hands had to be bandaged and fixed, instead of his face. Stunts like that only do well to remove you from the gene pool. You don't be diving into the shallow end, buddy.

[SolusLupus]

Why would someone do this? This dude allows himself to get hit with a metal shopping cart going 70mph.

Curiosity.

[Swift]

As I've said before, the expression "No one could be that stupid" should be removed from the English language. ;)

[SolusLupus]

As I've said before, the expression "No one could be that stupid" should be removed from the English language. ;)

I just thought of something...

I often see people continually calling others "stupid" for doing certain things; swimming with sharks or whales, putting themselves in risky situations (such as the Bear Man), and hitting themself with a shopping cart going 70 MPH, which I assume was done just to see what would happen... which, IMO, is pretty silly.

However, ignoring all but the last part, what makes the dream of swimming with sharks any dumber than, say, climbing mount Everest "because it's there"?

[Lance]

However, ignoring all but the last part, what makes the dream of swimming with sharks any dumber than, say, climbing mount Everest "because it's there"?
That is a very good question. More people die attempting Everest, or on the descent, than you would imagine.

Life and Death on Mt. Everest:
Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering (http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s6695.html)

[jt-3d]

I concider mountain climbing dumb too. It's safer to stay in ones house with that shades closed and do nothing. Pretty boring but safer. I concider getting hit with the cart not as dumb as mountain climbing because while you may break the occasional ankle, you're very unlikely to get killed by a shopping cart, as was proven.

P.S.Some of the stuff on that site is NSFW btw.

[Frog march]

that didn't look like 70mph.

[Roy Batty]

That is no way a real shopping trolley... ever tried getting one of them things to go exactly where you want them?? It's obviously a fake video :D ;)

[LurchGS]

since I've taken all the video (*&%(^ off my box, I couldn't see the video.. but I, too rather doubt it was either a real cart or that it was 70MPH (that last should be relatively easy to determine)

given that a shopping cart weighs in at 20 or 25 kilos (pure guesswork)... at 70 MPH, that's a substantial transfer of momentum. (yeah, assume the guy is 100 Kilos.. it should still do a fair bit of damage, based on no calculations at all)

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some things we don't need to know - like how far down in the pickle jar you can get your tongue...

[Vermonter]

He was bleeding pretty good after the cart smacked him. Looks like he damaged his leg, and the cart itself was pretty much mangled.

[ToSeek]

I've removed the OP as a spammer (and the quoted link). I wasn't able to check that site at work, but now that I'm at home there's definitely some inappropriate stuff on there. I'm sure those of you who want to find this video can do so if you want to.

[AGN Fuel]

I often see people continually calling others "stupid" for doing certain things; swimming with sharks or whales, putting themselves in risky situations (such as the Bear Man), and hitting themself with a shopping cart going 70 MPH, which I assume was done just to see what would happen... which, IMO, is pretty silly.

However, ignoring all but the last part, what makes the dream of swimming with sharks any dumber than, say, climbing mount Everest "because it's there"?

Swimming with sharks, climbing mountains, bungee jumping...sailing across an unknown ocean, searching for Livingstone, landing on the moon...

This dropkick is a different breed altogether. If I were a triage nurse, I'd give him a bandaid and an aspirin and the address of the nearest vet, rather than allow him to take up a hospital bed from someone who might be legitimately sick or injured.

And I agree with the above - there is absolutely no way that cart was doing anything like 70mph on that road surface.

[Titana]

Hummm, strange I didn't start the thread. I imagine ToSeek must have changed that too?.....:think:




Titana

[SolusLupus]

Swimming with sharks, climbing mountains, bungee jumping...sailing across an unknown ocean, searching for Livingstone, landing on the moon...

This dropkick is a different breed altogether. If I were a triage nurse, I'd give him a bandaid and an aspirin and the address of the nearest vet, rather than allow him to take up a hospital bed from someone who might be legitimately sick or injured.

Well, what if it was a scientific study? I've seen worse!

Okay, I'm mostly being silly here. Like I said, ignore the whole "getting hit by a cart" thing in my posed question...

[ToSeek]

Hummm, strange I didn't start the thread. I imagine ToSeek must have changed that too?.....:think:




Titana

I moved the first post to our "Removed Threads" section before banning the author as a spammer. (Else there was the risk of one of you getting banned by the Spam Decimator software the way Frogmarch was.) This leaves you as the first poster on the thread now.

[Titana]

I moved the first post to our "Removed Threads" section before banning the author as a spammer. (Else there was the risk of one of you getting banned by the Spam Decimator software the way Frogmarch was.) This leaves you as the first poster on the thread now.


Oh, I see..........;)



Titana

[Frog march]

this is your thread now Titana ;)

[GDwarf]

OK, now, how can we determine how fast that car was going? Anyone see any points beside the road that are always (or usually) X distance apart?

Actually, if anything is a good sign that it wasn't 70 MPH, they seem to be inside a town, and a car that pulls onto the road after them is, if anything, going faster then they are, so unless you've got two maniacs driving around...

[ToSeek]

It certainly didn't look like 70 to me. And I'm also astonished that they found a shopping cart that could go in a straight line for more than six inches.

[Tog_]

It certainly didn't look like 70 to me. And I'm also astonished that they found a shopping cart that could go in a straight line for more than six inches.

I can't seem to find the video. One of the little game I used to play while shagging cart on the graveyard shift was giving them a push toward the door and playing the hook so they'd end up where I wanted them. After 4 years I got pretty good at it.

A long time ago we had carts that had a rectagular basket that wasn't very deep, but it sat quite high up. This whole basket raised up for storign the carts. One day I was outside and happened to see a cart start off across the lot. The basket was up and there was a news paper ad acting as a sail pinned to the basket part. I was still in reasonable shape then and could run the 100 meter dash in about 12.5 seconds. Not great but still an average of about 18 mph from a stanfing start. I never had a chance to catch that thing. It hit the curb on the far side of the lot with enough force that it flipped 3/4 of the way over and bent both front wheels to the point they were useless. I'd guess it was going close to 30 mph when it hit.

[Sp1ke]

shagging cart on the graveyard shift

Not quite sure what this means to you, Tog, but it has a quite different meaning in the UK. Not the sort of hobby most people would talk about :):)

[Tog_]

Not quite sure what this means to you, Tog, but it has a quite different meaning in the UK. Not the sort of hobby most people would talk about :):)

Heh, I figured someone would say something about it when I wrote it. Shagging here is a term used for gathering things. Baseball players shag flies. As a kid, when my dad would shoot it was my job to shag brass (empty shell casings). On the track team we had a guy whose main job was javalin shagging.

As for not talking about it... you meet some odd folk on the night shift.:shifty:

[Strider1974]

could someone repost the link?

[Frog march]

just google "shopping trolly 70mph"

[ToSeek]

Not quite sure what this means to you, Tog, but it has a quite different meaning in the UK. Not the sort of hobby most people would talk about :):)

I hope by "shagging" he means "collecting in the parking lot".

[ToSeek]

could someone repost the link?

Posting the link to a video showing a guy's bare derriere is not appropriate for this forum (and would be treated accordingly), but taking Frog march's advice should work.

[Strider1974]

I just tried to google "shopping trolly 70mph" as advised by Frog march and the only site to come up was - a link to this thread
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22shopping+trolly+70mph%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

[Strider1974]

No matter

I was just curious as to what was being discussed and I thought the above was amusing

[Gruesome]

What is the significance of pulling his pants down?

[Lance]

What is the significance of pulling his pants down?
To look even more stupid?

[HenrikOlsen]

What is the significance of pulling his pants down?
That it violates the US taboo on showing the human body.

[Roy Batty]

That it violates the US taboo on showing the human body.
Unless it's internal organs :)
IIRC the original video showed the severe bruising he had on his backside afterwards.

[Musashi]

Not to mention the probably broken and certainly bloodied ankle he got when the lower part of the cart hit him there.

[Phaedrus]

OK - 2nd post - this is a seriously messed up thread 80

[cjl]

I just tried to google "shopping trolly 70mph" as advised by Frog march and the only site to come up was - a link to this thread
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22shopping+trolly+70mph%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Try googling "shopping cart 70mph"

[farmerjumperdon]

I just thought of something...

I often see people continually calling others "stupid" for doing certain things; swimming with sharks or whales, putting themselves in risky situations (such as the Bear Man), and hitting themself with a shopping cart going 70 MPH, which I assume was done just to see what would happen... which, IMO, is pretty silly.

However, ignoring all but the last part, what makes the dream of swimming with sharks any dumber than, say, climbing mount Everest "because it's there"?

It's their way of saying they would not, or don't, do it. It is a bit over the top calling it stupid, because although it may not take the kind of study and knowledge as some more cerebral activities, it does require knowledge, focus, and execution to properly climb a challenging mountain, perform a tricky skydive, or other similar stuff.

Look at it another way. Some people might think it is stupid to sit in an office all day while the excitement of life passes by. Just depends on how you get your kicks. For some the challenge of scouring accounting records for errors is all the excitement they want. Others get a charge out of building things. I personally get my stimulation manuevering my body in freefall as part of a group choreography exercise we call relative work.

The "because it is there" thing is all about challenge. Do you have the physical and mental ability to accomplish a task? When you complete something like that, or even just in the learning how, there is a reward in the form of accomplishment.

In the riskier stuff, there is also a release of tension; a cleansing effect. There is often recognition of the uselessness, or ineffictiveness, of fretting over so many of life's little trivialities. The blood flows very sweetly and there is much joy in returning from the edge of the abyss. It is a strange mix of focus and freedom. There is renewed focus on what really matters (different from person to person) and the recognition that you really are free to go about your life in the manner you choose.

It's a lot of things, and different things to different people; but for a person to just lump all the things beyond their personal level of risk tolerance as stupid is rather a smallminded behavior.