Originally published at: Men try in vain to stop hundreds of oranges that spilled out of a truck from rolling down the road | Boing Boing
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They were probably stored in the large version of those bloody supermarket plastic produce bags that seem designed to break and spill.
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That damned gravity is at it again. If something isn’t done about it untold harm will come to people.
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That was a pithy little video. Still, one of them tried, at least, which was better than staring at his navel.
Was the truck a Citron?
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Somebody should make a law about gravity.
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Was that possibly staged? It looks like something at the other end is catching them, and of course, the perennial question is always “if not staged, why isn’t the person holding the camera helping?”
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If I don’t curse gravity - or friction - at least once a day, it’s been a good day with no inanimate objects out to get me in some sort of conspiracy with the laws of physics.
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Maybe they just did the mental math and decided it wasn’t worth getting their clothes dirty by laying down in the street to save someone else’s oranges.
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In similar news…
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v. soothing video.
also, men not failing to multitask, just failing to task, so…
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The discount version of the Sony Bravia advert from a few years back
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Orange you glad they weren’t bananas?
(or any other easily damaged fruit)
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Obligs
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Thoroughly enjoyed that boing. This would have been the best soundtrack for more bounce:
Edited to take out unintended Python reference.
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These kinds of incidents have been known to get out of control.
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Reminds me of a scene in the old 1949 film noir “Thieves’ Highway” where a produce truck crashes on California’s Altamont Pass, scattering hundreds of apples down a hillside.
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Yeah I was about to chime in with that
Yes
We have no, bananas
We have no, bananas, today
Yes
We have no, bananas
No bananas, in Scranton, PA
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