Because Halloween is time for smashing pumpkins (Billy Corgan, let’s ride!), this is a video of hippos at the Cincinnati Zoo chomping pumpkins whole. There’s also some footage of painted dogs (aka African wild dogs, not dogs that have been painted — playing poker or otherwise) enjoying some pumpkin fun.
This is a video of a dude swinging for the fences on a piñata, which immediately decides it’s had enough of this life and is leaving, hitting the two twins from The Shining and the camerawoman during its hasty exit. Hey, you see an opportunity, and you take it. God
This is some footage of a large tree effortlessly lifting the sidewalk and resting its trunk on the hood of the owner’s Kia during a hail storm. I was surprised how little the car’s owner (who was filming) reacts. OH NO — DON’T DO IT, DON’T DO IT! SON OF
This is a video of LA Dodger fan Ricardo Saurez attempting to propose to his girlfriend Stephani Gutierrez on the field in the middle of a game against the Diamondbacks and getting absolutely crushed by an overzealous security guard, who may have mistaken this for a football match. TARGET NEUTRALIZED.
This is a short video of a man at some family fun center mistaking the padded floor of a basketball court for a trampoline, wrecking his back and knees in the process. Or maybe he just did it for the LOLs. Whatever the case, he just took twenty years off
This is a video of a good Samaritan attempting to fix a malfunctioning traffic/crosswalk light and bringing the whole pole down in the process. From what I could gather, the pole was being supported entirely by that tiny stick at its base, the same way you’d prop up a box
The Arecibo Telescope, probably better known for its appearance in GoldenEye than for any of its scientific discoveries, made an unplanned crossing of the Rainbow Bridge on December 1st after several catastrophic cable failures dropped the telescope’s 900-ton receiver through the dish below. The collapse was captured on video both
In well at least you won’t need them until next summer news, this is a video of the former 11’8″ bridge (aka the can opener bridge), now the 11’8″+8″ or 12’4″ bridge (previously) claiming the two rooftop A/C units of an R/V being hauled by a truck that blatantly runs