Hazard of being an Anchorwoman...

by **Evan** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:04 pm

Originally posted by SavageParrot
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...

There is a big difference between being hit with a bowling ball and an aluminum PAR can at that height..

by **cavalierlwt** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:57 pm

What if it's an aluminum PAR can filled with a bowling ball? Did ya ever think of that! huh? I didn't think so!!
Fact: every day roughly 24 people are killed by falling PAR cans filled with bowling balls.
Stop the madness people!!

by **ferret963** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:13 pm

Looks fake to me, look at her facial expression, not to mention that it looks like they filmed her talking and then she just purposely falls, then add in the light falling to the table later on and if you time it right, add a little noise, you have one nice internet hoax.

by **Tchinnychin** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:12 pm

That was to clean with no blood. Metal on flesh from 20 ft above is gonna cause something to give. The impact did not cause any after effect except for a false looking fall from the desk. This is a good hoax if it is one.

by **cartboy519** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:39 pm

Yeah it looks fake to me, i mean as previously said it broke the one guys collar bone. Hell that big thing hitting her head wouldn't knock her off her chair, it would just like knock her out and her head would just fall to the desk. lol

by **SavageParrot** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:57 am

Yeah that's another thing she falls sideways. Not slumps sideways but actually falls and quickely. That ain't normal

by B » Tue May 23, 2006 10:40 am

http://www.break.com/index/reporterhit19.html

Here it is with some slo mo at the end.

by **Bromsin** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:59 am

I still say it looks real. That slow motion shows how the light angles when it hits her and if it is 30 lbs and she is out cold i could see how it could make her fall to the side..

by **Tommy Boy** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:20 pm

Originally posted by Sabres
Good thing it wasn't Melissa Theuriau.

ROFL

by **cartboy519** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:00 pm

hell yeah that is fake, after seeing the slow-mo, you can kinda tell the woman and the light are different images!

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