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it's time for the best videos of the day and the stories behind them, "right this minute." >> put up the window! put it up! >> a car sinks like a rock at a reservoir. listen to what's going on in the background. you see the panic to figure out who was in the back seat as the car started to sink. they never bothered this crazy
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cameraman before, but on this time, the shark changed course. >> and did come right for him. >> hear what the cameraman did right to survive a great white. a hip-hop drummer has a terrible bike accident right before a big gig. so he says -- >> you know what? i think i'm still going to play. >> the wheelchair performance that was a fan favorite. >> got up and one foot moved. and running from a bull. he should have done it as soon as the bull was released. the video that should be titled, "sorry, bro. it's too late." we're going to get our show started today with a frightening moment caught on camera. >> wow! ah -- >> [ bleep ]. >> wow, that went down quick. >> went down incredibly quickly. at the bear river reservoir in california, and this suv apparently went down the boat
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ramp, ended up in 30 feet of water. >> oh, my goodness. >> now, according to the poster of this video, the boat ramp was actually closed for loading boats because the water level was down. >> oh, my gosh. was anybody in the car? >> there was someone in the car when it first went into the water. according to reports, a guy was asleep in the back seat of the car as the car started going down the boat ramp. he was able to crawl out of the window in time before it sank, but the strange thing is, he just happened to be parked near the top of the boat ramp, and while he was sleeping, the car ended up rolling down the boat ramp into the reservoir. >> hmm. >> according to the poster, this driver did not have the emergency brake pulled up, even though he was at the top of this steep boat ramp, but worse than that -- he's not the owner of the car. >> oh! >> according do the poster of
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the video, the car's still there. >> yeah. that's a tough text message to send your friend. >> [ bleep ] -- we found a story on wrtv in indianapolis, and you see a man with a hoodie attempting to buy some cigarettes. >> looks nervous. >> uh-huh. >> he does look a little nervous, and has is because she about to attempt a robbery. he pulls out a gun and pulls it right at the clerk of this convenience store. once she manages to open the register she hands him the cash drawer. he takes it and proceeds to run out the door. >> ah -- took the whole drawer? >> the whole thing. except reeshs wind about few seconds. that person that just pulled up is a cop. officer daniel rhoten. look at what happens when this robber attempts to leave this
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convenience store. >> no way. they practically bump into each other. >> at the door. as the guy is trying to walk out, the cop is walking right in. the cop, of course, acts very quickly. the guy just gets down. >> wow. >> and looks like that cop was just going in there to buy some gum or something. >> yeah. >> you know? just happened to catch this guy. >> talk about bad luck. like karma is going to catch up with you. this guy, he caught ya. yeah. yesay i showed is video and we alllittle annoyed. [ horn beeping ] >> wow. i have no idea what this guy is doing. >> the driver comes up to two cyclists and just continually lays on the horn behind these guys. won't pass them up, actually stays behind them for five whole minutes. was that we got at bit of an update. they dent fiched the driver.
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a 75-year-old man named james ernst. cited for improper use of aen ho, impeding traffic. >> sounds like an angry old man, period, and deserves that citation. >> in denver, caught up with hi son, david ernst. >> i don't know what happened. maybe something precipitated, i don't know. he's a gentle old man. >> and one of the cyclists said they didn't do anything to provoke this guy. >> just like, this is insane. i'm not sure if this is going to get ugly. >> colorado state law does also say that a driver has the right to cross the double yellow line to pass a cyclist, if it is indeed safe, and you saw, there was plenty of room there. >> this is a guy who just got up, grumpy pants, decided to take tout on everybody else, including these people who were out enjoying a lovely day. >> this is a nice sunday bike ride for me. you guys ready for a close encounter of the tooth kind?
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>> no. >> this is about the coast of south africa, in the deep blue waters, you see a great whitey. this is from a crazy cameraman. charles maxwell was out there getting, just some stock footage. >> this particular diver, we just looking at stock footage. into action. >> why does he even have the cage? get in the cage. >> get in the gauge, dude. >> we often go out of the cage, in the cage you're restricted. you can't get good camera movement. >> he does know that it's easier for the shark to eat him this way? >> outside of the cage. >> right. outside of it. >> maxwell says the shark changed his m.o. and did come right -- boom. >> did he crack the lens? >> kind of kissed it and scratched the lens. >> the camera used for protection, otherwise it would probably have got me. >> that's what i said's if he would have turned to try to run
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away from the shark, that's where you get -- >> you get dead. >> and then he went back in the cage. i would hope. right? he went in the cage after that? >> how can you move after that to get back to the cage? i would think all your private parts just got stuck up into your body. >> yeah, and then you pee your pants. >> actually in the wrong job. this woman is the commander of the international space station. and she is going to compete in a triathlon in space. >> oh! how's she going to do that? >> see just how she does it, next. this motorcycle is flying by crazy fast. >> but watch the close call. what? whoa! >> see the motorcycle near miss that's too close for
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welcome back to the show. but don't forget to check in at rightthisminute.com. great videos all day long. i have another update of the
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hollywood traffic meter drama. >> i'm getting a ticket right now, but as you can see, it's six minutes left -- five minutes left. >> we found out this dpi got a ticket justifiably. he said i had a few minutes left. the city said, huh-uh. we have a record that shows somebody put a dime in to add time to the meter. so the guy was like, okay, i didn't put a dime in, but we said, maybe somebody put a dime in. well, that person came forward. he made a statement on the guy the youtube page saying, i dropped a dime because i saw the parking guy. trying to save you from getting a ticket. it didn't work, but he wanted to clear the meter maid's name along with the guy who shot the video. the guy who dropped a dime, it's called, "my parking story.com." go online and share your parking story. >> a good samaritan. trying to keep a person he didn't even know from getting a parking ticket. neither did he know how smart
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the marking meter maids are. >> he should have known, should have put more money in. both of them were doing the right thing. some people just like to do a lot with their day. >> like this woman. her name is sunita williams. often known as sunny williams. the commander of the international space station. you think that would be enough with your danchts there's, like, responsibility the. >> sunnyci g particate in the malibu triathlon from space. >> oh! how's she going to do that? >> she's going to do it by simulating the different events. first, the swim. >> i didn't know the iss had a pool. >> it does not have the a pool, nick, as you can imagine. instead, sunny is doing this workout routine that utilizes the same muscles she would use in the swim. she does this for the equivalent of the amount of time that it would take for her to swim a half a mile. >> at this point, she's transitioning to the bike event. they going to bike for 18 miles
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on this floating bicycle. >> you know, the exercise, astronautses have to exercise. this is perfect for her. >> and they have these machines there for the astronauts to work out on every single day for exactly that reason. >> that bike looks like it's made up out of old pc parts. >> then straps herself to a treadmill. >> and run as four-mile track. >> with he calculations did it in 1 hour, 48 minutes and 43 seconds. >> is she just doing this for fun? >> she was actually competing in the triathlon. >> and got her bib number hanging right there. number 83. >> back in 2007, when she was on the international space station, she ran the boston marathon. when you think of quebec, canada, you think of, i don't know. croissants. hockey -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> or rodeo events. apparently that exists. this is a rodeo school, if you
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will, that happens in quebec, canada. apparently these guys are freestyle rodeoers, i don't know if they're learning how to be rodeo clown, because no one is riding this bull, at the end of the class, no one wanted to take this bull on, except this guy in the white shirt who says he's always up for a good fight. at first he's doing a good job, but then -- it looks like the guy pops up right away. looks like without any serious injuries. looks like he's okay. >> he did pop up and run away, like show have done as soon as the bull was released. >> i do want to point out, the break at the end, bull coming at him with the horns. watch right here. spins around. almost does like a spinorama. >> he got what he went out there for. stand there, wave your arms at the thing it comes at you, i guess you're asking for it. >> [ bleep ]! oh!
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a football team a big youtube hit. now she's back. >> i am a are noal person. . >> meet her next, "right this minute." and still to come -- hurt in an accident and still rockin' out in a wheelchair. >> kind of sad. kind of pitiful, but you've got to give the guy credit. >> hear why the show must go on from the man with the road rash, "right this minute." and it's a poppin' device that had us super psyched. >> but sadly, this whole thing wasn't real. >> we've been duped. >> the real story
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the best of "rtm" time. that means bonus videos. go for it. >> beth, up and coming youtuber andrew hails with another prank. this time walks out of a room carrying an armful of papers, notebooks, et cetera. drops them. very nice people come by to help him pick his items up, but andrew just stands there. doesn't help. let's them do the work. you got to see this. >> i have a great video. we've all been to an ikea. you know how hard it is to find the exit in an ikea? this girl went into ikea just to get meatballs. not only kl she not find her way out, she asks others, they can't seem to find their way out either. >> are the meatballs at ikea even that good? >> oh, yeah. they're delicious. to see this, go to our website and click on --
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>> best of "rtm." the lego great ball contraption is here. >> wow. that looks like so much fun. >> looks like a mile long. >> it's actually about 101 feet long. >> the lego scale is a couple miles long. >> at least. it was created and moved 500 balls t modules. basically, this guy spent 600 hours creating this contraption. >> and i wonder how much money buying all of these legos? >> i mean, just look at all the little intricate moving parts of this thing. like, every little thing moves in such a unique way. >> he should sell this to the lottery. this could be the way you get the balls every week. >> i love it. really, really creative. this guy spent so much time. >> like a crazy contraption that took years to build and all it does, really, is sort balls. >> doesn't even -- sort them.
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they all are together. just moves them. >> in an interesting way. after you watch it once, though, it's not, like, something you want to see over and over again. >> that's true. it would become a little monotonous. >> and a pain in the wazoo to clean, too. i bet that collects all kinds of dust. skunk and kitty love. ♪ ♪ scooby doobie doo, doobie doo ♪ ♪ >> to get in a bicycle wreck and find yourself looking like this -- >> whoa. >> you might want to clear your
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schedule for the rest of the day. maybe take some time off to recuperate. the guy we're looking at in these photos is named kelly bets. he's part of a hip-hop group in missouri known as diggy splash and the bad decisions. now, kelly got in a bike accident at about 5:30 p.m. 15 stitches to his face. you're seeing him there. fractured clavicle, fracture ed elbow, wrist, road rash all over the body. unsure how to ride the thing. got a face full of curb and that's what he ended up liking like. kel hi kelly had a show that night and kelly said, you know what? aye think i'm still going to play. >> he went? >> look at this video. a venue known as the bridge in columbia, missouri. you see kelly there bandaged up, stitches on his face in a wheel. chair. there's somebody, i don't know if it's a band member,
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maneuvering him around on the stage. it's kind of sad. kind of pitiful, but you've got to give the guy credit. >> the band name says it all. the bad decisions. was this just one of the bad decisions? >> maybe. maybe. let's find out. because we've got kelly on the line right this minute from missouri. >> i did the show, because i wanted to. i had to get it done, but it was, maybe like 20 people there. even though they expected hundreds. but now at least everybody watching this just saw it, so it makes it all worth it. so i'm feeling really good right now. >> kelly, you've got to describe this bicycle accident. looks like you got hit by a train. how bad was this accident? >> i curbed myself. i was learns how to ride a six-gear bike. i wasn't going to make a turn and slam and my hand brakes which i only had on my front, you know, tire. it sent me flying over the front part of my bike and i just slammed my face into the curb.
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>> at any place during the day after you got a face full of curb, did you think, maybe i'll just skip this show? >> no. i always thought my face was too pretty for punk rock and never had any scars. i have really good teeth and had never broken a bone. now i just did this in one move. going for a little jog -- why not on the train tracks? >> well, that's just plain stupid. >> find out what happens when the t
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and out there, for christians, senior, people with ocd. >> find the right online di wash your hands of loneliness. it's time to meet someone who really gets you. welcome to ocd -- >> that's right. ocdk cupids. >> this isn't real. is it? >> i'll make you feel safe. i have a few techniques. i never step on cracks in the sidewalk. i always touch the same part of the refrigerator when i walk by. pretty effective in making sure no harm comes to anybody i love. >> by looking at that, nick, you figured out that this -- is real. this is from lando comedy. >> wondering if you lock your car door? you probably didn't. >> somebody wrote, i have been diagnosed with ocd. laughing helps when it comes to coping, at least for me whrchlts
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it comes for romance, it's just what the doctor ordered. obsessive compulsive disorder. earlier this week i brought you this video of the popinator and we were all super psyched. the idea behind the machine, it was a voice-activated device that when you said pop, it would recognize where your voice was and shoot a piece of popcorn or where the sound came from. >> right. very excited about this. >> we're all going to have to wait to get a popinator, because this whole thing wasn't real. >> and we have to give credit to cnn, because one of their reporters actually uncovered the story. >> way to crush my dreams, troutman. >> turns out this whole thing was a viral marketing campaign ad put together by a company for popcorn indiana. >> we've been duped. >> popcorn indiana is a real company. so it's really actually brilliant, because this video has gone viral. the popinator is actually a prototype, but it doesn't operate on voice command. it's remote control operated.
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so many people saw this video once it went viral that companies actually reached out to find out if they could license this popinator. so that they could mass produce it, and now, according to reports, people are trying to work on making the actual voice-activated popinator. >> tell me i didn't waste my time all week figures out like the perfect place for the popinator in my apartment. >> hopefully some genius is out there right this minute working on this device and making sure that it's voice activated. >> sad, still. steven, got a two-for for you. dashcam, a couple guys enjoying a nice motorcycle ride. a good clip. around the 100 mile-per-hour mark. out of the blue, some guy who seems to know what he's doing even more races by him. but watch the close call. >> whoa! >> wait. another guy was passing this guy's dashcam on the left and someone coming from the other way. did you see that? >> yes. >> you pretty much have three
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bikes, three wide on this narrow road. >> oh, my goodness. these people were like -- >> yes. thankfully, everybody got out okay, but a risky move. now, the second one is plain stupid. a little dashcam video. there's a man jogging. you see him approach from the right, but he's jogging on the tram track whamplts is this guy thinking? >> he just got a tram enema. the tram slows down, jams on the brakes just enough to not really injure the guy. gives him a little -- don't you realize that the jogger has tracks going through it probably not the safest play to goes for your run. >> dopey move. >> a couple of dopey moves. that it for our show. we'll see you next time on "right this minute." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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