Hazard of being an Anchorwoman...
Mon May 22, 2006 9:49 am
Mon May 22, 2006 11:28 am
meh
Mon May 22, 2006 12:54 pm
OUCH!
Mon May 22, 2006 1:21 pm
hahah.. that musta stung.
Mon May 22, 2006 1:33 pm
Those lights have to be pretty heavy.. Not to mention HOT!!!!
Mon May 22, 2006 4:11 pm
haha! ouch!!!!
Mon May 22, 2006 4:14 pm
Is it fake? Something doesn't seem right. I hope it' fake. It looks like it hits her somewhat toward the back of the head, then suddenly it winds up two feet forward in front of her falling body to land square in the middle of the desk.
Mon May 22, 2006 4:15 pm
Good thing it wasn't Melissa Theuriau.
Mon May 22, 2006 4:26 pm
Yeah it's fake. Real accidents like that would be very definately fatal and wouldn't make a 'crash' sound. What you'd actually have would be a sort of dull, sickening thud and possibly a damp cracking as her neck gave way. No-one would be laughing...
Mon May 22, 2006 5:37 pm
Originally posted by SavageParrot
Yeah it's fake. Real accidents like that would be very definately fatal and wouldn't make a 'crash' sound. What you'd actually have would be a sort of dull, sickening thud and possibly a damp cracking as her neck gave way. No-one would be laughing...
Fake or not, they aren't that heavy (probably about 20 pounds, 30-40 if you include the clamp that's supposed to hold it up).
I used those lights in theater, and they do get pretty damn hot though. That's a news room so it's probably got a 1KW lamp inside or higher.
Mon May 22, 2006 5:58 pm
Looks fairly real to me hehe..
Mon May 22, 2006 6:42 pm
Originally posted by Evan
Fake or not, they aren't that heavy (probably about 20 pounds, 30-40 if you include the clamp that's supposed to hold it up).
I used those lights in theater, and they do get pretty damn hot though. That's a news room so it's probably got a 1KW lamp inside or higher.
20 or 30 lbs from that height will easily kill you. It's like having 2 bowling balls dropped on your head from height.
I was at a theatre a while back setting up for a show (I was just putting the programmes on seats that sort of thing nothing technical for me as I am a menace to society with that stuff) On the stage there were 2 stage hands checking the electrics and repositioning the lights using a mobile scaffold. They had one of the spotlights on a hoist, holding it in place at the top of the scaffold, which rather than tying off he'd opted to stand on (doh!) while his partner fixed the angle of the mounting and checked the electrics. Anyway he wanted a smoke but had left his lighter in his jacket and in a momment of madness he stepped off the rope and went to get his lighter. He must have realised what he had done right away because instead of carrying on to the jacket (which would have been expensive but safe) he made a grab for the rope, which was dumb as it left him right in the path of of the spotlight as it came down. It caught and effectively shattered his collar bone.
They carried him off in an ambulace and he was white as a sheet. He didn't look good at all. Anyway the point is I heard that thing hit him from way up in the nosebleeds in that theatre and it wasn't a nice sound like that one made. It was naaasty...
Mon May 22, 2006 6:44 pm
was reported real
Mon May 22, 2006 6:49 pm
Well I guess on a tv set the lights are lower than in a theatre and if the lamp were aluminium. I still say it's a fake though, quite apart from anything else where's the lawsuit 
Mon May 22, 2006 7:20 pm
Originally posted by Sabres
Good thing it wasn't Melissa Theuriau.
Damn straight! We would have had to riot, take to the streets and smash light poles, light bulbs etc in retaliation!