This is some helmetcam footage of skier Francis Zuber rescuing a snowboarder trapped in a tree well (aka a spruce trap — the area directly under an evergreen’s branches that doesn’t get as much snow as the surrounding area and creates a pit you can fall into and get buried)
This is some security cam footage from a laundromat of a dryer spectacularly exploding in a fireball, narrowly missing a customer who just left the business with his clean whites. People are speculating what caused the explosion, suggesting everything from lint to a lighter in someone’s pocket to fart-soaked underwear.
This is some dashcam footage from a California highway where a truck loses its left front tire and a Kia Soul in the adjacent lane immediately hits it, launching the vehicle like it just reached the end of a Hot Wheels Ramp. I like how the driver applied their brakes
This is a video captured by the residents of a 21st story apartment in San Francisco, who witnessed their sofa fly off the balcony and attempt a half-hearted trip to Oz during high winds. Unfortunately for it, it only makes it as far as the road below. Fortunately for locals,
This is a first person POV video of a trip riding shotgun with the conductor along the steep cogwheel train that summits Switzerland’s Mount Pilatus in the Alps. I’m pretty sure I rode that same train in God of War Ragnarök. It made me nervous then, and it still makes
In news that’s sure to excite any aspiring shark dentist or ENT, this is a video from diver and film director Zimy Da Kid of a shark grabbing a 360-degree video camera, providing an up-close-and-personal look inside its mouth. I knew there had to be another way besides letting a
This is a video from southwest Florida of an alligator effortlessly bending the bars of an aluminum fence to squeeze it’s chompy head through. It doesn’t bend a hole quite large enough for its entire body though, and gets stuck trying to squeeze its rear legs through. Thankfully (unless you’re
Seen here already deep into the hell no portion of the video, this is a visualization from Global Data (previously), comparing the sizes of both living and extinct sea creatures, from the diminutive to the terrifyingly colossal. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that in the entirety of