This is a video of Destin from Youtube channel Smarter Every Day using a supersonic baseball cannon to blast various objects with baseballs at speeds up to 1,189MPH (for reference, the speed of sound is ~767MPH). The baseball just blasts right through the gong, and the mirror shot is particularly
This is a video from Front Street West and Spadina Avenue in Toronto of a high-rise construction job gone wrong when a large window pane being hoisted by a crane begins swinging and spinning in the wind, eventually striking the building and raining shattered glass onto the street below. Apparently
This is a video of violinist Ray Chen snapping the E-string on his instrument during a Tchaikovsky solo and smoothly trading his violin for another musician’s, who in turn trades his instrument with another, until I assume the lowly sixth chair violinist is left with no violin at all and
This is some security cam footage of a tow truck driver that drops the car he’s towing while taking a turn, then returns to pick it back up and gets out of the truck without properly setting the brake, and it proceeds to smash the car and run into a
♬ Because you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you find, you get what you deserve ♬, this is a video of a man trying to break a large limb from a dead tree and Mother Nature exacting her revenge on him. I particularly like
The Kool-Aid Man: he knows how to make an entrance. Me? I prefer to sneak in and out of social engagements so stealthily it’s like I wasn’t there at all. Probably because I really wasn’t and stayed at home on the sofa ignoring text messages. Enter this Kool-Aid Man inflatable
This is some footage of a family playing some sandlot baseball at a beach house when dad grand slams the ball so hard it creates a shockwave that destroys the split-rail fence his family is sitting on behind him. Or, who knows, maybe the wood just couldn’t take all the
This is some home security cam footage of a kid popping a giant gender reveal balloon with a toy sword while his mom is on the way to the car with it. SURPRISE: It’s a girl! I don’t think this is the mother-to-be though, I think it was just a