Because safety first, this is a video from a German construction site where a 68-ton toppled crane is being righted by another crane when the cables give way and almost drops it on two workers standing directly beneath it. Thankfully for them, the original crane’s support footing manages to keep
This is a short video of a fisherman reeling in a fish when the hook comes loose, launching it right at his face and getting stuck in his eyebrow. Talk about close calls. So, is this what eyebrows were designed for? Because I’ve just been accidentally burning mine off in
This is a selfie video captured by steeplejack (a tradesman who scales buildings to inspect/repair them, originally named for climbing church steeples) James Marksbury while hanging onto the top spire of the Chrysler Building in New York City at approximately 1,000-feet. For reference, I’m just over 6’1″, so he’s at
This is a video of a woman who left a zero-turn lawnmower doing donuts in the yard and is trying smack its handle with a rake to stop it. Shouldn’t there be some sort of failsafe that prevents this from happening? I feel like somebody tampered with this machine to
This is a video from some whale watchers in kayaks hoping to catch a glimpse of Moby Dick when a whale breaches right in front of them, yelling the whole time in very loud whale language, “GET OUT OF THE WAY YOU FOOLS!” Per the person who reposted the video
This is a video of a mantis shrimp, presumably very angry it was yanked up from Bikini Bottom, punching the fisherman who caught it, slicing through his new bootie and foot and causing him to bleed. The dude sounds pretty upset about the booties, which he repeatedly mentions are new
This is a video of thrillseeker and pro wingsuiter Luigi Cani using a human slingshot to be launched off the roof of the tallest building in Brazil (the currently under construction Yachthouse Residence Club Towers in the beach resort city of Balneário Camboriú), speeding from 0 to 34MPH in just
As if I needed another reason not to go parasailing (I didn’t), this is a poor quality video from Aqaba, Jordan on the Red Sea of a man getting a piece of his foot bitten off by a shark while waiting for takeoff. According to reports he suffered “several torn