shocking video, strange stories, and surreal moments. the nation watches mesmerized believing a child is trapped inside a homemade flying saucer. >> could you say once and for all, was this is hoax? >> a camera captures a bucket wish list that leaves an 80-year-old woman dangling at 11,000 feet. >> he kept saying hold on. i said, i'm holding. >> and a plow truck plows into police. >> i was thinking stop this thing. >> heart pounding rescues. >> she said to me, mindy, kendall's horse is going to die. i was like what? >> harrowing moments. >> it's just unconscionable what

that kid did. >> and dangerous traditions that will have you saying -- >> what was that? the nation is transfixed by a bizarre story of a boy trapped inside a runaway balloon. >> i had to find my son. that was the only thing on my mind. >> october 15, 2009. ft. collins, colorado. self-taught scientist richard heene, his wife mayumi, and three sons bradford, rio, and falcon are in the backyard launching a test aircraft. >> the intention was you and i and everyone could hover off the ground and go to work using high voltage. >> but as the aircraft rises --

>> bradford yelled at me and said falcon's inside. i'm thinking he's right behind me, because that's where i saw him last that i could remember. this takes off. shooting off to the airport area. my first thought was call the faa. because it's going straight to the airport. i did what i had to do. >> richard calls the faa, 911, and a local tv station because he says they have a helicopter that can follow the craft in flight. >> hello? >> is this richard? >> yes, it is. >> how long has the 6-year-old been missing? >> minutes. >> was the flying saucer in the backyard? >> yes. >> but could a little boy be inside this balloon-like object, more than 1,000 feet off the ground? >> this thing takes off, your kid tells you falcon's inside. are you really going to stop and justify and find reasons why maybe he's not in? >> within a few short minutes, the story sparks a media storm and the balloon boy goes global. >> i had no clue that there was

even media outside. mayumi and i were dumbfounded, baffled why this thing got attention and people were in our front yards. we simply wanted it to go away. >> the country watches live wanting to know the fate of the boy supposedly inside the runaway aircraft. after more than an hour in flight and covering 50 miles across three counties, it crashes softly to the ground. the sheriff's department rushes to the saucer but finds no one inside. rescue crews continue searching for the missing boy. but shortly after the balloon lands, as police hold a news conference, world comes in the heene boy had been found. >> he's alive. he's at the house. >> i knew i had to come out soon or he would yell at me and i'd be in trouble. >> it turns out he's hiding in the rafters of the garage the entire time.

his parents are ecstatic that he's safe. >> we were both in tears. what more would you want than him safe? >> however, that night when the heenes set down for an interview with wolfe blitzer on cnn, this odd and outrageous yarn begins to unravel. >> why didn't you come out? >> you guys said that we did this for a show. >> falcon apparently reveals it's a hoax, a publicity stunt to help the heenes get their own reality tv show. public sympathy begins to turn into suspicion. but richard insists his son misunderstood the question. >> a japanese guy asked falcon can you show me how you got in the attic for his tv show. he was referring to a guy that asked him how he got into it for the tv show. >> the following morning the tide of public sentiment continues to turn on the heenes with falcon's "today" show appearance.

>> whoa! >> after the fact, we have since learned as many of you have that these people are actors. >> could you just say once and for all, was this some sort of publicity stunt, was this a hoax, and will you talk to the police today? >> absolutely no hoax. >> it's horrible. i think we live in a very negative society. they said look, we need a bad guy of the week and you're it. >> two days later, charges are filed. >> the misdemeanor is false reporting to authorities. the other charges are felonies. >> on november 13, 2009, richard pleads guilty to a felony charge of trying to influence a public servant. his wife pleads guilty to filing a false report. richard serves 90 days in jail, mayumi, 20. they are ordered to pay $36,000 in restitution. despite pleading guilty,

richard stands by his claim. >> it was never a hoax. not once. the threat of deportation for mayumi was imminent. i had to save my family. >> in 2010, the heenes leave colorado and relocate to florida. >> we just simply move on. if you live in a negative energy, you must get out. otherwise, you're going to get swallowed up. >> "caught on camera" visits the heenes three years after the balloon boy incident. despite having a youtube presence and doing our interview, richard says they generally avoid the spotlight. >> we found activities to do to isolate ourselves away from other people who had negative opinions about us. one of the other things that came out of it is the kids started their own band. and they're damn good. >> they're aspiring heavy metal rockers with the hair to prove it. >> if everybody had long hair, we'd have short hair. or a mohawk. whatever. we just want to be different.

>> and richard continues to chase dreams, inventing contraptions. like a pickup truck robot that loads and unloads heavy equipment in minutes. >> the heene truckloaders is a dream come true. so i got the prototype finished. now it's time to get them marketed. >> he's also trying to reinvent himself. >> no matter how bad things get in your life, just remember there's always something positive that's on the other side of the pendulum. no matter how far that negative pendulum swings, it's going to go to the positive every time. we're coming right in. >> a stolen dump truck rips through an ohio suburb and takes the police head on. >> he rammed me. he's going to ram another cruiser. >> march 7, 2010. a crisp winter saturday morning in stow, ohio. just outside akron.

officer steve miller is on a call about a dump truck stolen the night before. miller surveys the scene and returns to the department to file a report. but as he pulls in, dispatch notifies him that the truck owner he just left has tracked down his missing truck. and he's following it. >> i'm just thinking who would steal a dump truck, still be driving it around in the city after they stole it during the night. >> within minutes, officer miller spots the dump truck as it approaches a stop sign. miller approaches behind and prepares to pull it over. but whoever is driving that truck has no intention of stopping. soon another officer is on the scene in an suv. a third officer, sergeant ron jones, speeds towards the scene while his fellow officers use their cruisers to box in the monster truck. >> i'm just thinking, okay. he's stopped. he's going to bail out. he realizes this isn't going to happen.

>> but the thief doesn't stop. far from it. he uses his truck as a weapon putting it in reverse, bulldozing the suv and pushing it nearly 40 feet before coming to a stop. >> as he starts pushing me backwards, i spun my steering wheel. i was able to spin out of the way. >> the vehicle used for construction continues its path of destruction. now driving backwards down a busy highway. the scene moves toward a line of oblivious drivers stopped at a crowded intersection. sergeant jones uses his cruiser to shield the unsuspected drivers. >> as it was going down, glass was popping and spewing out inside the truck. it was terrifying actually. >> the truck destroys jones' cruiser and slams into three other cars. a few minutes later, two people

jump out of the passenger side. both are detained by officers. the driver, however, has other plans. by now officers from stow and five neighboring cities join forces as the truck pulls on to a major interstate. the rogue truck rumbles southbound on i-77. police deploy stick strips and block the on-ramps to limit highway traffic. but the driver rolls on undaunted. even throwing bricks and a tarp out his window. but alas, all things must come to an end. the spiking attempts pay off. the front tire goes flat, and the driver grinds to a halt against a guardrail 52 miles away from where the chase began. the joyride is over. and thankfully no one is seriously injured. police take the suspect, stow resident joshua giles into custody. he's only 17, but he's already

got a lengthy rap sheet. >> we had dealt with the suspect before. i knew the name once i had heard it. >> according to the police report, giles stole the truck the previous night to get to a friend's house. the next morning he invited two other friends on a joyride. the two passengers say they had no idea it was stolen. giles is convicted on multiple counts of aggravated assault and one count of auto theft. he pleads guilty and is sentenced to three years in juvenile detention. it took a team effort to run this reckless teen down. and it was all "caught on camera." coming up, a desperate prize winning stallion in over his head. two miles out in the ocean. when "caught on camera: odd and outrageous" continues. i missed a payment. aw, shoot. shoot! this is bad, isn't it? oh no! we're good! this is your first time missing a payment. and you've got our new card, so we don't charge you a late fee for for that.

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a boat nearly three miles offshore. an unusual deep sea rescue that causes unbridled relief. >> this horse is something different than i've seen in all my years of breeding horses. >> may 15, 2012. summerland beach near santa barbara. william, a beautiful 7-year-old arabian show horse, is asked to be one of a select group of horses for an afternoon photoshoot workshop. he's there with his trainer jim lowe. >> if you envision an arabian and what people talk about them, they have a picture of a white horse with a scoopy head, big tail, prominent wither, sharp ears, large nostrils. william is almost a stamp of that. >> it's william's first time at the shore, and as jim finds out, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him pose. just as william is getting acclimated to the ocean, a wave

crashes on the shore. >> of course he was startled. he was jumping around, pulled me into the water. i end up in the water with two hands holding my reins. he's jerking me around like a fish on the line. i can't hold him and he breaks away. >> it's about 4:00 p.m. when a panicked william bolts and runs into the ocean. he bezbips swimming along the coastline. another trainer tries to lasso william, but the spooked horse slips away. >> the rope was on the back of his ears, over his nose. the way the water was going when he started to reel in the rope, it came above his nose and slid over his ears. >> william turns right and doesn't look back making a beeline out to sea. his owner, arabian horse breeder mindy peters, is several miles away when she gets a call from a close family friend. >> she said to me, mindy kendall's horse is going to die.

i was like what? >> william actually belongs to mindy's 14-year-old daughter kendall, who just got him a few months ago and witnesses him swim away. >> horses can swim but they're not great swimmers. that's not their forte. that's for fish. >> i said, well, there's sharks. i knew there was a great white shark was in the area two days before and attacked a kayak. >> william is getting farther and farther away. eventually swimming out of view from everyone on shore. local water rescue agencies are notified of william's predicament. and several water craft are dispatched to search for the elusive arabian sea horse. officer ryan kelly is part of the search team. >> in order to find him, it was just a matter of taking in conditions into account and start a search pattern like for a man overboard. >> two hours pass and william is still lost at sea. his rescue is becoming a race against the clock.

the odds of william surviving through the night are not good. >> we really had a finite amount of time to find him. it was getting to the wire at that point. >> and just as the sun begins to set, william is spotted. another searcher records the action. >> i was actually astonished we were able to find him. when we look at the distance off shore, i was more amazed. >> by the time officer kelly's boat gets alongside the bewildered william, they are two and a half miles from shore. but the horse is reluctant to be rescued. >> can i be of any help? >> i think we're okay though. >> the closer his boat got to ours, that agitated the horse even more. >> finding william alive is a tremendous feat, but getting the thousand-pound beast back to shore, that's a horse of a different color. >> luckily the horse still had its saddle and reins on. we secured as best we could to the side of the boat.

both the life guards and the fire were able to kind of help with one of our rescue buoys for flotation keeping his head above water. >> it takes more than 90 minutes in the chilly 58 degree water before william makes it back to the beach. by now it's dark outside. and everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief for william's safe return. >> kendall, put that blanket on him. >> all we could see three miles out was the boats and their lights. we couldn't see even them. then when he came on shore, he was from you to me before i could see him. >> one of the things we were worried about was once we got him on shore if he was too collapsed from exhaustion. to everyone's surprise, he was able to walk to the trailer and get treatment almost right away. >> william is checked for hypothermia and is not seriously injured. in fact, a little more than a

month after his ordeal, william and kendall are competing at the earl warren show grounds in santa barbara. kendall's proud father is film producer john peters. >> when they go in there, they're bonding together, these two. lights are on them, there's distraction, people yelling and screaming. >> the family is happy to have william back safe and sound. and officer kelly's family watches william in action. this time on land. >> thank you so much for what you did to save him. >> how far out was he actually? was he out by the towers? >> he wasn't that far, but he was about -- just under two and a half miles. >> that's amazing. >> yeah. you really get the perspective out in the boat. it's incredible. >> well, we saw the lights of you guys coming in, and that's all we could see. were the little, little lights in the distance. i was like he can't be out that far. it was incredible. >> thanks to the rescue efforts, william and kendall continue strutting their stuff winning at the arabian horse association's

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a fisherman in the gulf of mexico hauls in an odd catch. >> we have dog fish up on the west coast, but they're quite different than the one i caught. >> saturday, january 7, 2012. web developer and fisherman rory oervegs connor is in sarasota, florida, visiting his parents and spending the afternoon fishing off the beach. while in the water, o'connor often mounts a portable video camera to the kayak. >> i fish alone. if i catch a big fish, nobody's going to believe me. plus i can brag to friends

saying look what i caught. >> but he has no idea of the heartbreaking fish story his camera is about to catch. he's been out for a few hours when he hears something. but this is no fish. >> i looked over my left shoulder and i saw a dog. my first thought was why is he coming straight at me? you know, i was a little worried he was going to try to attack me or something, but as he got closer, i could tell he was really in distress. just by the look on his face. i knew he needed to get out of the water. i grabbed him by the collar and hauled him on to the kayak. i had this milk crate i keep my fishing gear in. i went to the nearest boat to see if they lost a dog. >> you didn't lose a dog, did you? he came swimming up to me. >> no one on the boat is missing a dog. the mystery only deepens when he paddles to the nearest shore point. >> i walked him down the beach

and asked people if they lost a dog, and everybody looked at me confused. i didn't know what to do. i knew this dog needed to go to a vet, because he was bleeding pretty bad. >> he calls his sister keira for help. she also lives in sarasota and by coincidence is at the beach just a few hundred yards from the mystery dog. the dog appears to be a vizsla and they conclude he must have an owner. she takes the wounded retrieve tore a vet, where he's treated and scanned for an implanted microchip. it turns out the dog has one. for security reasons they are told only that the dog's name is barney. that night he posts his encounter online. >> i thought, this is interesting. i'm just going to cut this into a video and put it up. and just show my friends. here's a weird thing that happened. i was out fishing and a dog swam up to me. >> earlier that same day while o'connor is out fishing,

semiretired emergency physician dr. wellington chen gets a visit from police. >> obviously when the police are at your door you wonder if you did something wrong. >> he is told the gut wrenching news that his wife of 26 years, the mother to their three children, 53-year-old donna was hit and killed by a drunk driver. >> some friends of ours had witnessed the accident and said that she had been walking or running the dog and obviously we knew that he was missing. at that point we assumed he was hit by the car as well. >> it's undetermined if the injuries come from the drunk driver and why he is found more than three miles away from the scene of the crime and a half mile into the ocean. later that evening, authorities reunite a battered and bruised barney with the chens. >> a sarasota family is grooefg tonight after a mother is killed

by a drunk driver while walking their dog. >> this woman had been killed in a hit and run dui. and she was with her dog. so for us that was all the proof we needed. >> 22-year-old blake talman was driving the car that hit donna. according to state troopers, his blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit. authorities say he had just crashed into another car and was fleeing the scene of the accident when he struck donna and barney, altering the chen's lives forever. he pleaded not guilty to vehicle homicide and driving under the influence. he's currently awaiting trial. >> it's a devastating experience to go through that. i had to assume duties of being both mother and the father. and there's a lot of psychological trauma that will have an effect over years. >> sheriffs deputies report

seeing talman drinking on the beach prior to the accident. drinking is legal on siesta key beach. dr. chen is on a crusade to change that. >> 95% of the beaches in the state of florida and in fact across the country don't allow alcohol or public drinking. we've had petitions online and discussions with the commissioners. i don't think the residents here want to have alcohol associated with our beach. it would certainly be a tribute to donna, help us feel better about her death if those laws could be changed. >> once o'connor knows the whole story, he updates his post on youtube. >> i updated the notes on it so the people could see that it was resolved not in a happy way but it was the mystery was solved. >> rory and dr. chen have met a few times since that day. and the video has given dr. chen a bit of solace.

>> to see how it happened and how he was rescued and to read people's comments about it. as far as i'm concerned, rory's a hero. >> i'm lucky i was there at that time to be able to at least get their dog back to them. that's the time you need your family pet the most. coming up, a bucket list adventure takes a terrifying turn as an 80-year-old woman clings to life at 11,000 feet. when "caught on camera: odd and outrageous" continues. ♪ using telemedical and mobile technologies, verizon innovators are connecting trauma surgeons to patients in the field. helping them get the attention they need, before they even reach the hospital. because the world's biggest challenges deserve even bigger solutions. powerful answers.

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suicide after a long battle with depression. back to "caught on camera." "caught on camera." a bucket list wish has this senior clinging on for dear life. when she starts to slip out of her harness 11,000 feet above the earth. >> i had no idea how much danger i was in. >> may 7, 2011. lodi, california. laverne is taking the ultimate leap of faith. >> i love to see them come in gliding down from the sky. that's a thrill. >> laverne has wanted to skydive for a few years, and for her 80th birthday, her sister ginny helps make it happen. >> when she told me she wanted to sky dive, i thought she was a little bit nutty, but i thought you know what? if this is on your bucket list,

we have to go for it. >> she rounds up some family friends including 84-year-old eileen sambesetti. >> she knew i had been wanting to go and so she called me up and said my sister wants to go. do you want to go? i said, yeah. >> is this something you wanted to do? >> for years. >> life hasn't been easy for laverne. she's already lived through a broken neck and a heart attack. she's been a widow for more than 40 years raising two children on her own. for laverne, this is one time she'll look death in the face on her own terms or so she thinks. a plane taking off from the parachute center holding a dozen or so skydivers soars up to 11,000 feet. laverne and tandem master dennis mcglynn are the first to jump. two fellow instructors shoot the adventure using helmet cams. one from inside the plane, the

other hanging onto the fuselage outside the plane's door. once they get to the door, her body tenses up. >> yeah, it was spooky when you get to the door. i got to the edge and it was just hard for me. >> after a few moments of trying to pry her hands from the doorway, someone gives them a boost. laverne and dennis go tumbling through the sky. dennis tries to stabilize them, but something isn't right. >> i knew my top harness fell. i didn't know if it fell off, down, or what. but i knew it slipped. that's all i knew. >> her jacket covers her face shielding her vision. >> i don't know what would have happened if i could have seen the shape i was in. probably was a blessing, actually. >> mcglynn has made more than 8,000 jumps and has never experienced anything like this. a nearby instructor is shooting the action. a desperate mcglynn hails him for help.

>> i looked at the camera guy and said i could use a hand here. the leg straps were coming up past the knees. we were able to get the leg patches below the knees again. >> once her knees are secured in the harness, he pulls the rip record, thousands of feet sooner than anticipated. they grasp on to each other the entire time down. locking hands for more than five grueling minutes. meanwhile back on the ground, everyone who's jumped after laverne has already landed. >> that was great. >> and then i looked way over to the right and i see somebody coming down really slow with their bottom hanging out and their feet almost touching their head. and i'm freaking out. >> laverne and dennis land in a nearby field. and miraculously she ends up with only a few bruises and a scraped knee. >> well, i put my life in the

lord's hands. that's how i did it. >> the lord's and dennis', that is. >> and he kept saying hold on. and i said i'm holding. >> it was definitely the longest five or six minutes of my life. longest canopy ride imaginable. >> he deserves a gold star. he's a lifesaver. >> "caught on camera" reunited members of laverne's skydive party to watch the video together. they recall the first time they saw it. >> i think every single one of us were in tears. it was like the most intense thing to watch. you could see her in the air and you didn't really realize what had actually happened until you saw that video. >> i couldn't believe that someone lived through that. dangling in a "v" almost all the way to the ground. >> i cried. i wouldn't help it. it was so surreal this happened right the same time when i jumped. >> it's hard to believe it's me, but it is. >> nearly a year passes before a

family member posts the video online. and an overnight sensation is born. >> did you get injured based on the way you were hanging there? >> i just got a few bruises and a scraped knee. >> every channel there was aunt verne. all of our friends would call and say your aunt is dangling from the sky. >> to think i've lived a fairly normal, quiet life and then all of a sudden explodes. it's kind of exciting. >> laverne and dennis remain in contact. and after examining the video, he now knows what went wrong regarding laverne's loose harness. >> i overestimated laverne's physical abilities and underestimated her physical limitations. when we're sitting in the plane, they seem to be tight, the hip junctions. when you squatted down, that's when it was exposed they weren't as tight as they could have been. laverne's knees collapsed. in the door she was in a squatting position. when she was squatting down, the harness fell down to the knees.

when i went over the top of her, it tried to pull the harness of top of her. i didn't conceive of that happening. you're a tough lady. there's no doubt about that. i was there those five minutes and nobody else was there. >> laverne is just thankful to walk away from her perilous plunge. because it was caught on camera, future sky dive instructors now have a visual to help prevent a situation like this from happening again. >> other people will learn from this. it's going to be into the learning instructing. when you become a tandem instructor, you will see this video. >> and if dennis has his way, he'd like to take laverne up again and do it right. >> that's a big void in my career now that i wasn't able to deliver what i know i can deliver. i think you can put a stamp on your legacy if you were to go again. >> but is laverne still game? >> who knows? i may do it again. coming up, a spanish tradition proves the bigger they are, the harder they fall on

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at the concurs de castells in spain. this pits rival villages against one another to see which ones can erect the biggest and tallest human castles. this woman is a chief communicator nor the ten 2010 championship. >> because it's the only official day that is a competition. at the end the winner receives a trophy. >> they have won the last five in a row. a castell is only considered a success if it can be dismantled without collapsing and crushing those at the base underneath. >> the oldest people and the

people, the tallest one and biggest one, in the base of the structure. but then you can find the children in the top. >> that's right. children. some as young as five years old climb atop the human towers. and salute the crowd. >> translator: when i'm on top, i get nervous. >> a nine or rarely achieved ten level castell can exceed more than 40 feet in height. that's a long way up with very little protection. >> it's normally just for the children. the helmets. but also here in our group we have teeth protection for the children. it's important, the belt for protecting your back, but also for the people who climb up the castell it's important because it's a point of support. and i think that the best

security measure for the rest of the people of the group is to know that the position and the practice. >> because of the element of danger, paramedics are on stand by at the concurs. they take castelling seriously. often well into the night. >> we practice three times a week here in our building to be sure that when we go a place to build a structure, we won't fall down. >> and it's that kind of communal commitment that keeps them the top dogs of this tradition. from traditions to innovations, the triathlon. a test of endurance involving swimming, biking, running, and for a crazy few juggling. >> if you're sitting there worrying about drops, you'll never get far.

>> april 21, 2012. juggling joe salter looks to cleat the first triathlon while juggling. >> the swimming juggling takes a lot out of you. >> growing up as the youngest of four boys, he pays attention to his dad mickey, a professional entertainer. >> he'd take a foam block and stick it on his head when he was 3 and balance it. >> as joe grows up, he played sports and drops juggling for a time. eventually picking it up again as a young adult. >> i was always using juggling in weird ways to help my coordination. i got into running and juggling at the same time. i heard about combining them. the rest is history. >> joe becomes what you call a joggler. >> that's juggling and jogging.

if you can juggle and run and not be afraid of what people think, i think it's healthy for you. >> in 2009 joe joggles two marathons. finishing each in an impressive 3 1/2 hours. but afterwards he looks to do something different and takes joggling to the next level. he comes up with the idea of competing in a triathlon while juggling. swimming, biking, running while keeping the balls in motion throughout the entire race. his wife cheryl isn't surprised by his quest. >> he's always been that type of person to go for it. and nothing was going to stand in his way. >> he asks longtime pal royce wagner to document his adventure. >> i knew it was important to him and something that had never been done. i thought it would be cool to be part of it. i was trying to get the best shots i could. >> while on the bike, joe juggles two balls instead of the three allowing one hand to steer.

swimming while juggling is a feat within the feat he takes credit for innovating. >> it exhausts you, especially being in saltwater and waves hitting you in the face and knocking you over. you feel like you're in a washing machine out there. >> there's thousands of jugglers. but to come up with swimming and juggling at the same time is what i think is amazing. i'm proud of him for that. >> after ten months of training, joe juggles through the quarter mile swim, 16.2 mile bike ride, and 4 mile run. finishing the mulletman triathlon in 1:57. ahead of 2/3 of the competitors, none of whom were juggling. but for joe it's not about his race time. it's about the time he's having during the race. >> i'm doing stuff off my head for the crowd. they want that out of you.

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an internet safety video goes from a simple mess to sudden mayhem in a flash. >> there was a huge boom. and it made the whole apartment shake. and then obviously i was like -- >> what was that? >> oklahoma native and aspiring actress halle lou hudson moves west in 2006 with just two things.

a dream of making it big in hollywood -- >> it's a lot harder than i thought it would be, but it's been a fun journey. >> -- and her pet dog a corgi named yogi. >> he's literally my best friend. i've had him since he was 2 1/2 months old. yogi's one of the most important things in my life. he really is. >> march 2, 2012. los angeles, california. when a friend suggests halle use yogi in a video for the youtube channel the pet collective, she figures why not let yogi have a moment in the spotlight? >> this particular show we needed to find animals and owners with animals that had issues. >> kevin toomey oversees the pet sense video project. >> he attacks cleaning supplies, he's always barking. you know, giving her a hard time. he's a good dog, but he just like a lot of dogs out there he had a couple issues. >> they got me doing a couple

things, sweeping, and the biggest thing is when i opened up the cabinet underneath the sink. i thought that's where you put cleaning supplies. >> yogi starts attacking the cleaning supplies. going nuts in there. >> obviously i don't let him do that. i put him outside when i clean my apartment. but i knew that he would do this so i let him do this not thinking it was going to turn into such a hazard. i was laughing because it's ridiculous. and then boom. he grabbed a can of spray paint. it was going in a circle and black paint was going all over my white kitchen, me, yogi was covered in it. >> come here. >> halle grabs yogi and rushes him to the bathroom for a cleaning while kevin and his cameraman stay in the kitchen. >> it's one of those moments where you're not sure, do we stop rolling? or is it where you keep rolling? >> moments later, the scene goes from comical to critical.

>> sure enough, the camera pans right back to the spray paint can sitting there. that's when you see the explosion. >> whoa! >> what was that? >> me and the camera operator were looking down in the view finder of the camera. when it happened, i just felt the heat on my forehead. i instantly knew probably shouldn't be standing there. >> when i heard it, i was more confused because i didn't see it happen. i just heard it. >> what was that? >> your house just caught on fire. >> then when they were like your house is on fire and they were taking off for the front door, then i got scared. i was like oh no. >> the guys come back inside and help extinguish the flames as halle calls 911. >> we immediately rushed over and tried to fill up, you know, anything -- we tried to fill up water containers to put out the fire. >> they were getting water and tossing it everywhere. everywhere i saw fire. i was like no there. >> in there! in there! hurry.

>> i was confused and panicked. >> the camera open operator is holding the camera by its side. it's not good coverage of the flames. we tried to throw as much water as we could on the fire. >> firefighters arrive on the scene as they extinguish the last of the flames. the question remains, why did the spray can burst into a fireball to begin with? >> the fire chief came in and he said oh, you had your pilot light to your stove right here and the fumes caught it. >> it's not the story they intended to shoot, but the pet collective team posts the video online anyway, because the internet loves dogs and explosions. and it goes viral. >> it became way bigger than i ever, ever imagined. hundreds of thousands of people started watching it within a couple of days. >> when you watch it, it grabs you. you don't expect that big of an explosion to happen. at the end of the day, everyone was safe.

everybody came out unharmed. so that's all you can ask for. >> the intentions were good. i don't put my dog in danger. i've been praying and praying and praying that some day i'll be on tv or on the big screen. god ice like, you want to be on tv, do you? here you go. it hasn't boosted my career. it's not about me. yogi is a celebrity now. >> that's right. it's yogi who hit the big time. you may even recognize him in the carly rae jepsen parody video. "call me maybe" starring korgi ray gener jepsen, aka yogi. >> everybody was convinced when i came out here that yogi would become a star before i did. he's proven that. if i had to manage my dog's career and it became very successful, i am happy to do that.