Instant Karma
 

Ok let me ruin any suprises for anyone who hasn't seen this...

In the following video, a group of teenage boys in a car are video taping one boy opening the car door to kit a cyclist they are passing.
The boy holding the door swings out of the car by mistake after hitting the cyclist, and hits a parked car head first. (No blood, or spattered brains or anything)

Instant Karma

The friend who showed me this clip assured me that the boy in the video was dead (she heard it... somewhere)
I can only imagine that at his funeral his friends and family remembered him as "A great guy who was always ready for a laugh" instead of a thoughtless jerk he undoubtedly was, when he was plucked so willingly from the gene pool.

I can't lie, if that was *me* on the bike, I'd have been laughing my BUTT off when he hit the car... The kid was an idiot, along with all his idiot friends, and he *deserved* to get hurt.

Your thoughts?

Darwin strikes again.

I haven't seen the video, and I don't plan to, but I know from experience that when you get a group of teenage boys together with no supervision or structure, the median IQ of the group drops by about 40 points. This phenomenon becomes more apparent the greater the interval between times of supervision.

The boy who opened the door was probably a decent kid when left to his own devices.

Peer pressure. It does horrible things to decent kids everywhere. And while the kid DYING might be a bit extreme, I do think it's "turn about's fair play" when he thwacks his head on the car. Karma can be a reeeaaalll bitch!

I was riding my bike home from the pool when I was probably about 14. Some jokester leaned out of the passenger seat of the car he was in and slapped me on the ass as they drove by.

I was pissed! I couldn't do much, because even the Temper of Shawnee could not propel that bike as fast as the car could go.

They could have hurt me, run over me, knocked me over for the next car to run over me...

But I didn't want to see the kid get his head smashed and die.

Kids do stupid things all the time.

So sad...but yet so true....I will admit, I did check out the link and OH MY.....yes, you can tell his friends were totally into it, too.

wafflepirate - That is sad - I see no humor in either his intent nor the outcome. The kid was doing something incredibly stupid and payed what appears to be the ultimate price for it. Glad you found it so funny? WTF is funny about that?

Where did wp say it was funny?

Um, right there...

This is such an extreme example, but I'm sure what he is enjoying is that perpetrator of 'meanness and cruelty for the sake of entertainment' got his comeuppance. Not that it is funny like a joke or something.

Yeah, but that was conditional funny, not actual funny.

Right here - I assume you would be "laughing my BUTT off" because you thought it was funny. No?

The guy's head was smashed into tiny bits, presumably. Now, how is that funny under any condition? Who doesn't like to see the perpetrator of poor actions step in dog poo or something, but to say you would laugh your head off (was pun intended?) because someone who did something stupid got their head smashed to bits and probably died at a very young age is, to me, more "meanness and cruelty" than a stupid kid prank gone awry.

:eyebrow:

No, its not funny. But neither would it have been had the biker been seriously injured or killed either. It is altogether unfortunate all the way around.

I agree, the prank wasn't funny. I don't think the kid dying is funny either, and I think that is just the point c-man was trying to make.

I'm glad none of us ever did stupid things when we were young. Think how empty the Cellar would be, since apparently the cost of the stupidity of youth is instant death in which you can't even have a decent open-casket funeral.

This seems to be waffle's wish, anyway.

Will you be my waffle-headed wife? lol

I've seen that before, and as I recall, the kid did NOT die. they play it several times over in the video, and he catches a face full of rear bumper, and gets yanked off the door he had swung out on....but you don't see any blood, or anything like that. he probably took a broken jaw, and possibly neck.

regardless: It's not nice to laugh at retards. not even mean retards.

Wow, it looked like a smashed head to me. Glad not.

Though, wp was waxing on the premise that kid was smashy-head.

As you were...

maybe you read it too fast

I know Ive had a few close calls...but I was lucky. Sometime life just isnt forgiving. Sometimes being stupid can kill you.

Did I ever mention the time I was a teenager and my friend and I tried to get rid of a stump by pouring gasoline all over it and throwing a match at it? Then, when it wasn't burning enough, my friend poured gasoline directly from the tank onto the open flame? But I was never stupid in my youth.

I may have read that part too fast, but I was dwelling on this part! :p

edit: I took it to mean you couldn't see blood or brains in the video...but watching the video it sure seems to me it would do some hurtin' on a skull.

Sure, and I was once literally inches away from getting run over by a motorcycle because I darted out into the road like a moron. But there's a difference between being stupid and being malicious. This kid wasn't doing something dumb to himself a la "Jackass," he was deliberately trying to injure a bicyclist for the fun of it. That's not a prank to me, that's very different.

let's look at this from a kids POV. he wasn't trying to INJURE anyone. it was apparently kids on the way home from school, and the kid swatted another kid on the ass as they drove by. hitting him hard enough to injure him in that way probably would have broken his arm. the problem was that the driver swerved and the kid lost balance, and then he swerved again, tossing him right into a parked car.

AHA - the point I was about to make.
I don't think the kid deserved the payoff - I'm against the death penalty after all.

But to me it's a long way from just being stupid.
Leaning out of a train window is stupid (with potentially similar consequnces, which is why you can't opn them now).
Deliberately doing something to injure another person for your own amusement is not stupidity. I can only hope there are three less malicious people in the world now - because his friends changed their idea about physical injury being funny after something bad happened to their friend.

Perhaps I misunderstood then. I thought the intention of the prank was to open the car door into the biker as they passed, knocking him off his bike at a minimum of 30 mph.

no, if you watch, he leans out the door....past the door, by holding onto the open window and reaches out and smacks the kid in the red shirt on the ass. but, then, he loses balance, and the door swings out, and he falls.....chin first into a parked car's bumper.

Yeah, I saw the impact, but crap was moving too fast for me to follow what was happening before that.

I'm not sure whether the intent was to hit cyclists with the car door or by hand. Surely the most likely to cause injury to the smacker would be to hit them personally - arm extended outside of the door would take the impact, while the door would be providing an ongoing force. Really badly expressed, perhaps someone could do better. I think it's more likely that the door was intended to take the hit, but the driver would surely have had an issue with damage in that case.

Anyway, even the slightest pat to a cyclist can result in injury - just falling off your bike can leave inches of skin on the road (major ouchie!) and depending on how you land, broken ribs and collar bones are not uncommon. I know from being friends/ related to cyclists.

However they were hoping to disrupt the cyclists' trips, it was still unacceptable and dangerous rather than amusing.