It looks like it bounces off the ground around 0:23, too, and it looks pretty small.
Iâd duck. That crowd is way too calm.
The end of a legendary clothing factory. It used to be the local clothing producer for decades. Then the Revolution came, after it the economic reforms, and stuff stopped being made and instead was outsourced to China. Thousands of jobs gone.
More here, in Czech, use machine translation.
The rock was quite small. And there was surprisingly low amount of surprisingly mild obscenities uttered, so it must really have been a glancing blow.
Edit: Another video here:
More to find by âOdstĹel OP ProstÄjovâ query.
Small or not, if itâs going fast enough, thatâs bad news.
Larger, and itâs still bad news even if itâs not going fast. I recall seeing a video of some demolition where a larger than cannonball sized chunk of rock or concrete bounced through the crowd, killing or maiming several.
Love the slo-mo version - everyone reacts too late. They move further away after itâs already passed them by.
Mandatory LOTR link:
Yeah, itâs funny how movies and TV shows portray human reaction times to explosions, gunfire, car accidents, etc. In reality, humans are slow. By the time we figure out whatâs happening, itâs usually too late to do anything except try to not bleed out.
Yea, it was obviously in the guyâs parachute.
The âowâ wasnât the one who got hit, it was the sympathetic âowâ from the one watching the one who got hit. That one just fell down and bled some.
Hey - has anyone else noticed that if you click to play a small video on Boing Boingâs feed, itâs impossible to make it stop playing? The video window doesnât respond to the mouse over, so it doesnât show any controls to change volume, pause, etcâŚ
um, small? well, palm-sized. traveling at 40-60mph.
big enough.
Never before has a youtube video made me flinch. Yes, I tried to dodge the rock that was surely going to fly through my screen and hit me.
I want to see the guy in redâs reaction when he sees the video and how close the hunk of concrete came to hitting him.
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