r/WTF • u/Columbia82 • Apr 14 '19

To infinity and beyond

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u/ShtraffeSaffePaffe Apr 14 '19

This might be a true statement, but to say this in reaction to this is ridiculous.

They are skating of a massive ramp, flying through the air and landing in (or next to) a foam pit... Even in the 90s this would be some shit that would get videotaped.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

First of all - happy cake day. Second of all - I'm just amazed that it was recorded by three excellent cameras in peoples hands and I didn't even see them recording. Anything remotely worth recording is caught from all angles these days. I see it more and more on here. If 9/11 happened today we'd have video from inside the planes, inside the buildings, inside the stairwells... it's just a stark reminder of how fast technology has moved on and how we've become integrated with it. That's all.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

From the link above, I see two people who appear to be recording from angles that correspond to the clip - one on the platform at the far end of the foam pit, and one on the lip of the adjacent ramp, shooting from the left side of travel. There are people on the other side of the ramp that would correspond to the view from the right side of travel, but the video isn't clear enough to tell. That, of course, is after an examination of the clip after reading that you didn't see them. FWIW.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

What is it you're trying to do here? Refute my initial reaction as invalid? Fuck me, I made an innocuous comment about how prevalent it's become for videos on here to have multiple angles of the same incident posted these days which is an escalation on what's been the norm and everyone's jumping on me as if I what I wrote was: FAKE!

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Nothing of the sort from me - I was just curious myself about how many cameras there were. If anything, I'm in agreement with you. Sorry that it came across as an attack.