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Humans are funny things. We take a naturally occuring substance such as rubber and somehow through sheer force of will transform it into a implement of fun, destruction and sometimes pain. Please observe the following episodes in the seemingly never ending video show, 'What Can We Do With A Slingshot Today?'
This is perhaps the most famous human slingshot that's out at the moment and it really is a great spectacle. Whoever these people are and how then came up with this is irrelevant to the fact that they totally FLING-THAT-GIRL!
Here's a typical group of English university students doing what students do best - trashing stuff for the sake of laughs. The fact that the CRT monitor lived to tell the tale after being slingshotted with objects of increasing density is what really makes this video. I mean, it survived a can of beans for crying out loud. What do they make these things out of?
This is cheating a little bit because it's in fact a Sprite commercial but it involves a giant sling shot nonetheless. And we all have a friend that we wish we could do this to. Or for some of us - many friends.
What happens when some good 'ol boys watch too many episodes of 'Jackass' and decide to have some fun? Someone gets a lipstick bullet slingshotted into their head at way too high a velocity. Let's all be thankful that he didn't try this with a steel bee-bee or something that would send him to prison on manslaughter charges.
These next two are very similar and show that people can be foolhardy on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. The first one is an American stuntman and the second vid is entirely in French, so I don't really know who the heroic victim is. Both show a human slingshot that is taken to its natural extreme conclusion - slinging a human so high in the air that he has to parachute down to stop from plummeting to his death. Nice.
I don't know what to say about this one. I don't know whether to be shocked that he almost fell out or amazed that 'Janice' laughed it up the whole time. Am I a bad man to find the repeated phrase, 'It hurts...it hurts' just so bizarre that it's funny?
And here we have a slingshot from that crazy annual event that we call 'Burning Man'. The problem with this is that it's just so lame. Like really lame for a wild rockin' freakshow like Burning Man. C'mon people shouldn't you be painted purple or have fireworks in your ears while you do this? At least try to go a little bit faster...I'm beginning to think that investment bankers have more fun at their parties.
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