Professional snow-boarder and kite skier aside, -I bet this guy wrecked his shorts during this adventure! An unexpected updraft lifts a snowboarder many meters into the air and drops him down again, -seemingly unhurt, quite a distance away. This was dangerous folks but doggone amazing all the same!

Amazing Waterspout in the Road!

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I don’t know why but this video just makes me happy and joyous. The music helps and while the motorists involved must have been terrified, watching this video from the safe and omnipotent view of the surveillance camera just makes you feel grateful that it’s not you. Watch the pedestrian on foot fleeing the impending second eruption of this watery geyser. For this person, this must have been scary-sick.

Ill-Prepared Helicopter Nearly Crash Lands

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A helicopter attempts to lift off from a Greenpeace vessel off the coast of Scotland encounters difficulties and hard-lands, nearly decapitating a support-crew member. Apparently, a retention strap (visible atached to the tail section) had not been removed and the helicopter lifted prematurely and was jerked back down when the strap became taut and broke.

Window Washer Platform Disaster

A window washer platform on what appears to be Denver Place Plaza Tower is buffeted in high winds and repeatedly strikes the side of the building, knocking out windows and sending showers of broken glass and office supplies raining down upon the streets. Reminiscent of the planes that struck the World Trade Center Towers in the terrorist events of 9-11, this video is scary and almost painful to watch. Note the pedestrian briefly visible on the left side of the screen on a cellphone, presumably adding his call to the hundreds of others to reporting this event to authorities.

Denver Place Plaza is one of the newest and most energy efficient office complexes in downtown Denver, Colorado and in June of 2007 was sold to a California-based investment firm for some $200-million dollars. I have not been to Denver in maybe seven years now but know of the building and may even have taken pictures of it when we visited the nearby 16th Street Mall shopping district.

Trapped Under a Flipped Tractor Trailer, Motorist Unscratched!

A drive of a sedan is buried beneath a flipped tractor-trailer and rescuers frantically attempt to rescue any survivors. First, the attempt to lighten the load of the trailer portion and using heavy moving equipment, roll the trailer over and amazingly, the driver is still alive. Using the jaws-of-life to extricate the driver, he climbs out and is escorted to a hospital where he is found to be without any injury whatsoever!

Accidental Blooper, Auf Deutsch 

In German, a news anchor apparently gets her queue wrong and speaks presumably something embarrassing. This infectious laughter of her just makes my heart glow. Give it a listen and if your German is better than mine, share with us what she is saying. We’d all like to know for sure but until then, just enjoy the giddy humor.

Best of All Program Endings : Leave Them with Humor

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Do you remember that deranged NASA astronaut-stalker Lisa Nowak (image below) ‘love triangle’ case?

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Back in early 2007 Ms. Nowak drove 900 miles in her car wearing a disguise to conceal her identity in what turned out to be an attempted murder of a female rival for the affections of yet another astronaut. She wore a wig and allegedly also wore an ‘adult diaper’ so as to not have to take toilet breaks during the road-trip.

A newscaster had a perfect way to end their program which briefed upon her story. A one-liner quip from the news anchor sent his fellow co-anchor into fits of laughter. Delightful!