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charge ahead of the rest in the hov lane. ♪ e. hello, everybody. i'm beth troutman. it's time to take a look at some great videos from the web, "right this minute." you know it's a bad day at the track when you race your own truck and -- >> you got to get a ride home. >> how the last lap for the pick-up became a big downer. firefighters bring the heavy equipment to reach a cat on a window ledge. >> why not just go inside and open the window and pull it in. >> see why that would have. way too easy. they've been on a ten year e road trip but this time one of them took a nasty spill.
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>> took them weeks to get to a hospital. >> the remarkable story of how a couple made it out of the amazon alive. >> literally a case of get up and get moving or sit down and d die. and just when you think we're going to talk about a wet t-shirt contest. >> we're going to talk about signs. >> the story behind a valuable consumer experiment. >> why do i feel like i'm about to be ed? >> you're no. >> a pair of videos that show how not to drive your pick-up truck. first video from the beach ridge speedway in new england. the blue ford ranger pulls up to the line but not before it does a nice burnout, getting the crowd revved up. this is one of those run what you brung races. he's pulling up looks to me like an old jeep of sorts. >> like clark w. griswold. >> not impressive. >> the speedway announcer calls it a jeep and looks like the jeep is out in front of that flashy blue pick-up the whole
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way around the short track. >> you're going to let a jeep beat that fancy pick-up? >> the guy driving the blue pick-up truck gets a little out of shape and despite his fancy wheels, this happens. >> oh! >> yeah. you don't want to roll over your nice shiny blue truck. >> i got that! >> he's okay. head over to the drag track, another pick-up truck lined up against little white toyota on the other side. another burnout. steven you and i know something about drag racing. >> a bit of an expert. >> tell me what this guy does wrong. >> does the burns out and backs up. >> keep an eye on the rear of the truck. >> he doesn't put it back in drive. >> exactly. the "r" does not stand for race. oh, what a dummy. oh. just hang your head down. oops. and you have to finish then. like they make you go down to
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the finish line. great. >> he did lay a nice burnout before he had the embarrassing moment. it appears we got a case of a civilian -- sticking it to the man. guy with a camera on the streets of philadelphia, see this big truck parked on the street. moves over to the parking sign that says no stopping any time. i would say that truck is stopped. >> yeah. >> wait until you see who is driving the truck. the philadelphia parking authority and listen to what the guy says. >> i'm wondering why you guys are parked illegally? and who's going to write you a ticket? >> no. >> can i park my car and eat lunch in a no stopping any time zone? he said yes. >> these dudes apparently are eating lunch in an are where youca park. >> the freeze frame with the dumb founded faces where the guy brings the camera. >> that look you're describing occurs again.
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watch. >> why are you parked in a no parking zone and there's a ticket on a person over there and you're parked over here and you're the parking authority. don't you think you should be leading by example. >> there it is again. the guy with the white glasses has nothing to say. >> i don't know. >> he knows. >> civilian justice. >> totally. the guy is a slack job, like drooling at that point. >> we contacted the philadelphia parking authority and told us no statement will be issued. >> thanks for your time, guys. >> it's not every day you can walk into your city center and play with the deer but you can in japan. in this studio you can see the kids in the city center and deer with them and watch how the deer don't mind getting petted by the kids. it's almost like a public petting zoo. >> where did the deer come from, they're in the middle of a city? >> they're city deer so the kids interact with them as they come across. one kid puts a cracker in his mouth. and the deer eats it.
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>> what? >> elsewhere in the middle east, a different kind of animal video. this one has the civil defense called in to rescue something. >> a cat. >> you got it, beth. >> seriously? >> seriously. >> as you can see, they're raising this ladder truck so they can get up that night. if you look, you can see there's a white something behind. >> i see it. >> once they get up there, it's pretty easy work getting the cat out. there you can see the cat is kind of like sim ba and the lion king. they hold it up so everybody can see. it think it was probably named snowball. >> what we learned from this video is that firemen around the world have to rescue cats. i guarantee you're going to get chills watching this video. you're looking at mount everest, it was first climbed 60 years ago and 60 years later, almost to the day, a russian sports
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star named valerie rosef is going to jump from the top of mount everett. everest. >> has anyone ever done this. >> nope. he's going to jump off the north face and he had to climb mount everest first, took four days to climb, you see it in this individual, any time there's a someone in a individual doing something awesome red bull is involved. there he goes. >> oh. look at him leave the people standing at the top and then his wings kind of pops up and he free falls, his parachute opens and he lands safely in snow. now he faced really terrible weather conditions but he chose to jump anyway and because the air is so thin at that alty dude, he needed more time than usual to transition from the free fall to the flying.
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>> that's interesting. i can't believe it hasn't been done before and somebody would try it. >> he reached speeds of 125 miles per hour. he trained for two years to prepare himself for this jump. >> what? >> it's a big old swarm of bees and this dude. >> he climbs up on that tree to get a close view of the bees. >> what he tried to do that left him with a whole lot of stings. and as a little boy, this was an adventure. >> when you grow up it looks more like this. >> why a grocery store let a professional rider run wild down the aisles. [ man ] get the 20 piece mcnuggets.
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today, the music be took a different tune with this. >> here it is again. >> the bees. >> that is a gigantic swarm of bees on this tree, but wait until he pans the camera over and you realize where he is. >> i don't have a way to film this. as i said i'm pretty far in the trees. >> why would you do that? what do you do if they come after you? you're in a tree. >> yeah. >> this is where gets interestie secure the camera. >> slowly. >> and then his hands gets really close into the swarm. these are honey bees so they're busy bees but can hurt. >> maybe he's trying to add this swarm into a farm area. put these in a box and they can create honey you can harvest in your backyard if you are, in
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fact, a bee keeper. >> he did post on his facebook page he ended up getting stung 50 times trying to catch these bees. ladies, if i start this video about a minute and 38 seconds in, you're thinking okay, somebody was filming something at night. it's really, really dark. but then go back to the beginning of the video and you see a building that was there just a few moments ago. this is in germany. this is an old plant demolition. here comes the big boom. huge boom and the building topples over. but then watch this black smoke and ash completely darkens the entire area. you can't see anything. the big cloud moves over to these people who are standing in like a safe area. people who wanted to watch this demoliti demolition. you see there, they came prepared with umbrellas.
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looks like it's night. >> you know what's interesting, is like how much smoke this thing put off. i wonder if there was years of soot that settled and that stirred it all up. >> the world through the eyes of a little boy looks something like this. when you grow up, it looks more like this. >> oh. >> except you don't have to make the motor sound. >> exactly. that's julien perrea on his trial bike riding through the supermarket, a popular supermarket chain in europe. they do this cool video of what it was like to be a little boy and the thoughts you had to what it is like now and what you can do. >> that's the equivalent of having knives thrown at her head. >> pretty cool. you see him jumping over that woman laying on the floor. knocking down the cans. >> how did that girl get that job? like did they pay her to do that? did she volunteer to do that? >> pretty impressed.
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didn't leave any skid marks. >> impressed she didn't leave any skid marks. >> she may have. we don't know. >> this has gone viral to promote the supermarket. a couple years ago they had another one come out called domino. this went viral as well. reportedly the night shift at the supermarket put this video together. it's pretty fascinating. you remember this one? >> yeah. we t ago. >> exactly. the trials bike is the second version of this viral video campaign for the supermarket. >> interesting marketing campaign. look at all the cool ways you can destroy our store. if you got a long rope and tall bridge. >> i think this means it's summertime. >> taking the rope swing to the next level. next "right this minute." and still to come -- dude makes it his mission to rescue a dog. >> i'm going to catch this [ bleep ]. >> he's got to get close enough to get the phone number off the tag. >> see the funny way he finally does it. >> come here.
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streets because this mother [ bleep ]s is running in the middle of the road and trying to get hit by a car, commit suicide all [ bleep ]. >> the greatest part about this dog rescue is the commentary. this guy is dedicated to rescuing what looks like a small black chihuahua, maybe chihuahua mix. >> i'm gng to try to catch this mother [ bleep ] d r him. lucky i found you little guy. you got to come here. so i can call the number on your tag. >> he does have a collar with a number. he just has to get close enough. >> oh, my gosh. i cannot catch this mother [ bleep ]. >> he's having trouble catching the dog. he's chasing him all around the parking lot. he starts making dog noises. >> come here. come here. come here. but it's creepy. it starts to work.
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come here. >> you resort to anything in this scenario. >> notice while he's making these dog noises you can hear his car door is opened going ding ding ding. >> sometimes even if you open the car door the dog is like i want to go tore a ride. >> watch this. >> oh, my god. i left my door open and i ran outside to open the gate and this [ bleep ] jumps in my car. >> a dog rescued itself. >> i caught you. we need to return you because i have to go to work. penguin photo op. ♪ >> imagine going to the ends of
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the earth with the one you love. this is simon and lisa thomas. they have been on the road on motorcycles for over ten years. they have an unofficial world record for the longest continuous journey by a team of more than 320,000 miles. when they set out from england ten years ago, they expected to see the world in 18 months. that trip, obviously, went a lot longer. several years into their journey they sold everything, sold their house and have continued traveling the world. to give you a scope of their journey check out this map. >> oh, wow. >> they've been everywhere. >> looks like they've been everywhere. with this kind of journey comes some risk and danger. they were in the amazon, traversing putty paths over rickety old bridges when simon had a bit of an off. >> the ancient bridge gave way as the wheels of my bike struggled sending me head long
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into the rock undergrowth below. >> five hours later simon was on his feet with impaired vision and paralysis gripping his left side. >> over the course of the next week we were pushed beyond measure as i was passing out regularly with the pain. >> took them weeks to get to a hospital. joining us "right this minute" via skype are simon and lisa thomas. guys, tell me how you got yourself out of that predicament and what were your injuries? >> the injuries, i didn't know at the time, were a broken and dislocated neck. i was paralyzed on my left-hand side, blind in my left eye and literally a case of get up and get moving or sit down and die. there was no brave choice because there was no choice. it was a three-week ride where i used the word ride loosely to get from where we were to a hospital. nobody was coming to get us. we got ourselves into that situation. it was up to us to get ourselves
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out. >> tell us about the people you've met along the way. >> our experience the world over has been that people generally are warm hearted, generous, hospitable and often the people with seemingly the least are the ones that want to help and support the most. it's humbling. >> is there an end to this journey. >> another year and a half, two years. >> that's what i'm telling everybody. i'm adding things and changing the route here and there. might be two years, might very well be three. >> this is actually her trip. i'm just following her. >> are you afraid of like moving back into a house and being a regular married couple after this. >> have we ever been a regular married couple? >> not really, no. guyism sets up an experiment. >> what better way to see if it works. >> i don't want to know what it is. >> why not a wet t-shirt contest. >> find out if the shirts soak it up next. ?.=(=pcpcpcpcpcpcpcpcpc2h
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weather.com. >> this is a wedge tornado. one so wide it looks like a block of clouds but it was massive. >> right there. >> what's incredible to me is how close these guys appear to get to these things even without using the zoom lens. >> you never know at any second it could just turn right towards you. >> luckily looks like these are touching down in field areas. almost like heavily populated residential areas. >> sadly in kansas about two dozen homes were destroyed or damaged because of the tornadoes. miraculously no one was hurt. you can always depend on a child to just tell it like it is. >> adelewhat's happening in october? >> a baby is coming out of mommieses -- >> that's not what i was expecting. >> she said the word right. that's what surprises me. >> yep. she got it right and knew the correct an know tomcle language
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this is 3-year-old adela and she tells it like it is and it was so darn cute and so darn effective that this is the way mom and dad decided to let friends and family know they were expecting. >> oh, boy. >> what's happening in october. >> a baby is coming out of mommy's -- >> she said it with confidence and whatever. i'm going to eat my cereal. this is what's happening in october. these are frosted mini wheats. >> i like parents told her where babies come from, the actual terms instead of other terminology. >> twait until she asks how it got there. >> she probably already might know. because we have the ladies over there and the dudes over here, you might think i'm going to talk about something that is going to make you mad, some argument. no. we're going to talk about science. >> this is ryan jones with guyism, we're here to test an exciting new product called
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liquipel. >> that substance you put on your phone, waterproofing technology. you can skirt soda all over your iphone. it's very cool. >> why do i feel like i'm about to be duped. >> you're not. they wanted to figure out, does this stuff work. and what better way to see if it really works. >> i don't want to know what it is. >> why not a wet t-shirt contest. >> we have liquipel pretreat a couple shirts, send them our way and how they stack up under the arduous conditions of the wet t-shirt. >> the guys at guyism did a scientific and thorough test to see if it works using, a, super soakers. ♪ they had two -- that was a fail. see the water soaked through. and the other was just a bucket of water.
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is does look as though the bucket is repelling the water. >> wait. i'm sorry. this is a lamo excuse to fire women at these girls boobs in the name of science. it's bogus. >> why are you pouty faced about this. this is technology coming to your clothes. when you spill something on it, this could be the future. >> the results from our completely scientific experiment have shown the wet t-shirt cons test is still safe for modern technology. >> thank goodness. that's it for our show, everybody. thanks for joining us. we'll see you next time. [ birds chirping ]
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hello, everybody. i'm beth troutman. get ready for some great videos and the stories behind them "right this minute". it's worse than a needle in a haystack trying to reach an injured hiker in a dense forest. >> this is not an easy place for a helicopter to put down a rescuer. >> how they pulled it off and pulled her out. a snowmobiler needs to cross a pond so he decides -- >> to try to jump this snowmobile and skip it across. >> we got two words for you. glug glug. >> an
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