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>> happy new year, everybody. i'm beth troutman. today we're bringing you om of our favorite videoed of 2012 and new videos to kick off 2013 "right this minute." ♪ >> a wild mustang jumped some train tracks as curious onlookers are. >> amazed what they saw. >> the show's about to getter as cops move in. if you want to light a flame. forget matches. >> am i seeing some type of rocket employed here? >> see the sure-fire way to get your bonfire on. it's an extraordinary wrestling match as a 13-year-old with s
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cerebral paulsy has a moment of victory. the champ and his dad reveal the story behind the viral video. you won the wrestling match. how did that feel? >> good. >> he said that guy was not playing around. >> and a baby goat going down in deep water. look who comes to the rescue. a look at one of the freakiest things of the year as we kick the rails can be a quick, easy, efficient way to get where you're going if you're in a train. if you're in a late model mustang, not the best way to get around. trapped on the tracks in the staples center in l.a. this happened in july. the guy who got this video recently uploaded it. you see a couple of guys on the flat perform amazed at what they saw. they saw the mustang get on the tracks up the road, whipped out the cell phone cameras. i don't understand how you end
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up in that position. how do you make that wrong of a turn and now you're on the train tracks? >> as you can see, lapd assessing the situation. uploader claims one of the police officers got out with his weapon drawn. as they approached the car, the mustang takes off. >> you're kidding? >> [ bleep ]! >> this is so dangerous. >> yeah. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> he really guns it. >> mario says the car took off and got stuck in the tunnel down the track. >> yeah. yeah, dude. >> lapd were able to catch up with him and get him in custody. >> it's a mustang. it's not like you can take your tires over those big rails. you're eventually going to come to an intersection where the rail splits and what do you do? your car fall as part. >> once in a tunnel, where do you go? >> what about the trains that might be coming and cause a bigger collision, a bigger problem? >> we put a call into lapd.
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we're waiting to hear back how this came ended up. >> [ bleep ] dude. >> i think we should call this segment things that you should not try at home. a couple of videos. this first video shot in the united kingdom. a bonfire. >> i know it's a bonfire but am i seeing some rocket employed here? >> dale, you're seeing a bazooka. >> a big bonfire. >> watch this thing go. they light it up and they're about to shoot this giant wooden bonfire structure. >> oh! >> well, i'd say it's lit. >> where do you get your hands on a shoulder of mounted rocket. >> they call it a home made bazooka. >> no matter what it is, it made a pretty big boom. i've got to try this. >> i said don't try this at home. >> i've got bail money for you. >> if you don't have the ingredients around to make a home made bazooka to light your bonfire --
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>> that's not a bonfire. that's an explosion. >> that's arson. >> looks eerily similar to the other video except it's daylight and this accelerator was asset tone. >> nail polish remove. >> keep that in mind. >> sounds like you've had a bad experience. >> don't want to talk about it. >> the rule of a good bonfiring everything stays in one place. this went everywhere. it's like shrapnel. >> do not try this at home. home made bazookas, bad idea. >> nobody got hurt. great video out of it. i'm going good idea. >> what happened to bundling up old newspapers and starting it with a match. >> not dramatic enough. >> happy new year! >> want you guys to take a look at this video, first glance appear to be standard video diary online. this was posted by a 19-year-old identified as hannah of nebraska. that's her sort of video diary
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goes on, she's got subtitles here and a pen and pad. look what she writes right about here. i stole a car. then she goes on to tell us about the car that she stole. a shiny, new, pontiac grand am, she says, and even dangles the key of the car. >> what? >> proud of this? what she's accomplished? >> feels accomplished. i took the license plates off and threw them away. i've got my tracks covered. >> though she posted it on youtube? >> yeah. it gets worse. look what it says here. >> what? >> she robbed a bank? >> yeah. i robbed a bank. want plea to prove it? i'll show you the money. look at this $6,256. now she goes on to say, why did i do this? because, you see, i am a victim of the government and goes on to say something about how the government took her baby and charged her with neglect. though she's not a mother now, she says she can still find a
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purpose in this life. now you're probably wondering, what the heck is this? >> yeah. >> this is real. shortly thereafter, york county sheriff's department took this girl, 19-year-old hannah, into custody, on charges that she robbed a bank and stole a car in york county. look at pictures i want to show you from the york news times. here's all 19-year-old hannah getting arrested. >> it's the same outfit she was in when she shot the video. >> yeah, good observation. also the same outfit she was in when she robbed the bank. >> wow. >> no way! >> this case is like signed, sealed, delivered. >> show this to a jury. i think you're done. >> same shirt. same shirt. money, the keys, we're done. ♪ >> these images are of nicole colvehouse, hanging out with her family in columbia. but this is the first time after
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36 years that she's seen them. in 1975, nicole was kidnapped from a park where she was playing out with her brother. she was adopted from an orphanage in columbia and ended up with an american family in the united states. she reached out to a blog called see colombia travel. when they heard her story they actively helped nicole fine her family. >> my family. these are my mother and father and brothers and sisters. >> how old was she when she was kidnapped? >> she was 4 years old when she was kidnapped. she apparently had a little argument with her brother and he walked away. so this moment, when she's reunited with her brother, has special meaning for her because he was the last person that she saw before she was kidnapped. via skype right this minute from california, we have nicole and and her daughter jordan. nicole, what was that moment like? >> i dreamed about it for so
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long and then to actually have it happen was -- it was surreal. >> do you remember being kidnapped? >> i do. the woman was very nice to me. she said, why are you crying? i said because my brother left me. those words haunted me all of these years i thought, did she think i was abandoned? my mother had a vending booth there. she went looking for mean at this point i was already gone. >> do you feel like youienow? >> everybody's been so gracious and loving on both sides. it's made it a wonderful experience. >> now one of the people that helped make this reunion happen is marcella from see colombia travel. why did you want to help her find her family. >> i have a 10-month-old daughter. when nicole started sharing her story with me, it went straight to my heart. >> driving really fast down a snowy road. >> look, you can't be two feet,
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the roads and you can't see anything, please, please, don't do this. we think this is somewhere in eastern europe. we've got a guy if a big truck with a dash cam and he's passing these cars, flying. he's going too fast. you can't even see a foot in front of this guy at this point. you can see nothing what's coming ahead. watch this. >> are you out of your mind? >> big surprise there. the guy diving for his life over the guardrail. that's scary. >> the guy's going entirely too fast out there. >> zero regard for his
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surroundings. you see people stopped. the visibility is horrible. and you just keep plowing along. it's a stupid decision. might as well drive with a blindfold on at this point because you can't see anything out this guy's windshield. >> are you out of your mind? >> and the funny part is, he acts surprised like he didn't see it coming. like, oh, look, what happened? >> right. it sounds like he's like, oh, there's a stopped car here. just don't do this. just don't do this. >> stay home. >> are you out of your mind? ♪ >> i'm sure you guys remember this amazing video. this is jared stevens, a seventh grader with cerebral palsy wrestling in franklin, tennessee. and jared wins this wrestling match. we spoke to jared and his father, phil. jared, you won this wrestling
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match. how did that feel? >> it was like i was finding wins. >> were you nervous for your son? >> we're fairly supportive of him. jared's healthy. he was nervous going out there. first time, right? >> yeah. the guy was not playing around. >> how did jared end up wrestling to begin with? >> at first i wanted to help. and then i thought maybe they would let me. >> he asked could he get on the mat. they look at me. i'm like, put him out there. >> phil, did you get to talk to justin, the other wrestler? >> i went over to tell him thank you. what's interesting is that first time they met when they shook hands on the mat. it's amazing. i went over there, asked the coach, tell me the player with the biggest heart.
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the coach picked him out. >> we wanted to find out more about justin. "right this minute" via skype we have justin and his father, craig. welcome to the show, guys. justin what was that like for you? >> well, i just went to wrestle him and i chose to do the right thing and what i felt would make everybody happy. i noticed he couldn't move, so i like sat on the mat and pulled him over on top of me with his arms. >> you look like you were getting a pretty good beating from jared. >> craig, i have a question for you. how do you raise a kid to have a heart that big? >> i can't take real credit. just justin's always been a sweet kid. i couldn't be any more proud. >> justin, what would you say to other young people your age who maybe wouldn't have made the same decision that you made? >> not 100% of the time that isn't just about winning, it's about doing the right thing. >> videos shows one delivery guy
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dropping off the package. watch what the surveillance camera captures next. >> the next delivery heist on "right this minute." a son catches his mom doing a bit of sleepwalking. >> i was trying to open the -- >> hear from the son who tells is how mom reacted when she wahed the video. d ats stuck and cries out for help. look who comes to the rescue. >> the most unlikely hero.
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i'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is the epic rescue of the year. >> the epic rescue of the year! >> goat in the water! >> this is a poor little goat and he's stuck? the water. he's struggling in this water at a petting zoo. but look who comes to the rescue. a pig comes to the rescue and saves the goat! >> he just like swims over and pushes him over to the side. >> yes! >> what? >> if you weren't going to do anything about this, i'm going to have to. >> the pig's been trained in rescue attempt. i feel like phil collins' "night in the air" should be playing.
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>> what's the pig's name. >> mitch baconon. >> mitch bacon. >> you think he knew what was -- he had to have known what was going on or he wouldn't have jumped in the watt. >> yes. i mean, that was his buddy. who cares about differences. love your fellow animals. i feel like i've seen the end of the internet. >> congratulations, everybody. >> we've reached the end. we are done. >> there he is. the hero pig. >> every once in a while you wake up in the morning and somebody says, do you remember what you did last night? you go, oh boy. well, nick, who runs four popular youtube channels caught this video. this is his mom. she's sleepwalking. you have to hear this. >> what exactly are you doing, ma'am?
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>> after that dance-like saunter she did in the kitchen, nick started to interview his mom, patty, while she's still asleep. >> i was trying to open the tomato cage. >> the tomato cage. where is this tomato cage? >> some place. >> here before she looks like heads it back to bed she does one last little move. now, nick made a reaction video with his mom. >> come on, nick who is -- [ laughter ] >> so we had to find out more. we've have nick on the line joining us via skype to talk about his sleepwalking mom. nick, we are to ask, first things first,s this thing real? >> yes, it's real. my mother, she sometimes wakes
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up in the middle of night and just eats random things in the kitchen. so this time it was complete darkness, i went down tears to get some tea, she's in the kitchen rustling about and i happened to have my phone with me, i was like this is going to be good and i recorded it. >> your mom was a pretty good sport about this. my mom probably would have killed me. she wasn't mad at all? >> no. my mom's awesome. >> this cat became an internet sensation. >> they're mean. their t-shirts. >> the owner of the grumpy cat who hates to share the spotlight. >> trying to push him off the screen.
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we have another awesome video from devon supertramp. in lake powell, utah. these guys are hooking on some skis, courtesy of blue house skis in utah, and headed down a zip line into lake powell. >> so cool. a zip line to water ski. gosh. they're going like one after the other. >> that's the key to the video. it's called a zip line catapult. watch them. keep your eye on the second guy. >> how did that happen? where's the other end of the zip line? is it tied to the boat. >> yeah, the other end of the zip line is tied to the boat. when the first person releases
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it catapults that second person up into the air. >> i get it. >> not only do we have the zip lining, we've got cliff diving, parachutes. >> to hang out with them, you've got to be insane. >> new york i think you've got to be willing to have a lot of fun and do what he says. everything he shot look looks a total blast. >> ladies, take your drama mean. a tour on northern california and oregon with apparently a guy doing a little bit of flight training. look at this. right over the coast. and through the narrow canyons. really low level intricate flying with this guy. i mean it's -- this is "top gun" stuff. can't you hear, da, da, da, da, dada, right? >> i think the song you're thinking about is "danger zone" by kenny loggins. >> definitely. the only soundtrack to play when watching something like this. >> flying really hard. he's going one way and really
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quickly the other way. i feel like i should be like tilting my head like i'm in a plane, like the cat watching the video on the tv. >> if you tilt your head it helps you feel not as dizzy. >> some comments are saying this guy's show boating and hotdogging. the comments seem to be by other pilots and he saying he's flying like this, trying to help offset the hard g-forces. curving upside down, going back and forth will relieve some of the hard pressure on his body. >> imagine being the passenger like -- >> remember we were some of the first people in the country to show people video of a grumpy cat? and guess what? it's gone super viral. they're t-shirts, website. via skype we have tartar sauce's owner tabatha to tell us what's going down with the cat. what made you first start
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posting videos? >> my brother brian came to visit from ohio and thought the cat was cute. he put her on his read it account and youtube. >> how does the cat get the name tartar sauce? >> my daughter picked it. i work at a seafood restaurant. thought it would be funny to name her tartar sauce. >> she's the weird one in the litter. her mom had three kittens that look like tartar sauce. >> does she act grumpy? >> she's a little bit grumpy sometimes. she never hiss at us or scratches us. she's never hurt me. i won say she's grumpy. she likes to be alone in the dark hiding under the bed. >> how old is tartar sauce? >> tartar sauce is 6 months old. >> still a kitten. >> i don't think she's going to get bigger. she has a brother. this is pokey, tartar sauce's brother. >> is he grumpy. >> he's the grumpier of the two. >> do you think because he's
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getting most of the attention. >> probably because she's trying to push him off the screen. >> big hollywood offers for tartar sauce to star in the next like finding nemo movie or something? >> i haven't gotten anything. waiting for our own reality tv show. >> life and times of tart. >> bye-bye. ♪ >> that's it for the special edition of "rtm." enjoy the rest of your new year's day, everybody. bee we'll see you next time.
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