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caught on camera. here we go. i'm going to take you on a ride. >> stunts too much to believe. >> i would like maybe to crash this car. >> animals acting like humans. >> and not once does the bear hit himself in the face. that's really impressive. >> it's impossible not to join no. >> and pranks that push the limit. >> it took my breath away. >> we were both really scared. >> i'm like oh, this is bad. >> millions of clips, but what is the truth. >> you sort of gasp.
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that can't be real. >> we've got the answers. caught on camera. viral videos, fact or fiction? hello. i'm con testa grewer. only a second view videos really grab the public's attention and go viral. if you watch like me, sometimes these videos seem a bit suspicious. in this hour, we'll watch some of the web's most popular videos and uncover if they're works of fact or fiction. >> hey, sherry here, obviously. >> in august, 2010, a mysterious video, purporting to be a piece of courtroom evidence starts to circulate across the web. it's dubbed exhibit b-5. >> it has an element of like
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where did this come from that you're really curious about. >> i'm recording this so that you can share in this amazing step by step process of my brilliant practical joke. >> the video is about an attractive young lady who is setting up a friend of hers to be pranked. >> you need to water this. are you making a movie? >> she gets ready with one of her friends who dresses up like some kind of criminal intruder. >> this is a classic surprise prank. >> that's her. hide. >> you know something is going to happen, but you don't know what. you can't tear yourself away from it.
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>> we have to warn you here. what you're about to see and hear is disturbing. >> rachel! >> it sparks vigorous debate. some believe it's really leaked trial evidence. >> awkward moments when they aren't saying a lot. >> many others think this is a sick and twisted hoax. >> this is definitely fake. >> rachel! >> if somebody gets hit by a car, are you going to keep your camera running? >> our instincts are to drop and go help your friend. >> what is the truth? >> well, i just got back from the funeral. >> wait, there's no way -- >> hi, i played rachel on exhibit b-5.
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and i am all good. >> oh, that's more like it. >> rachel! >> exhibit b-5 is a ghoulish take on prank videos. it comes from kyle rankin. >> i think people like to watch videos like this because it's similar to getting on a roller coaster. it's skirting death. >> kyle has worked on numerous films including the battle of shaker heights and the post apocalyptic thriller nuclear family. >> i like to keep writing, and i want to challenge myself to do something i haven't done. so building up to a very realistic car hit i thought would be pretty cool. >> kyle writes the jipt for exhibit b-5 and hires professional actors to star in the video. >> the shoot was really short
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and simple. >> there was no special lighting, no special sound. it was just a flip camera. >> he knew what he wanted. and he knew how he wanted it to look. >> now it is time for me to even the score. that's my accomplice. >> challenges that were fun, how to make this thing feel really real. the way to do that was the hand held shaky cam. having the actors interrupt each other. >> but kyle knows the believability of the video hinges on how realist particular the clie mack particular car hit looks. >> rachel! >> it ended up being so much fun, it was kind of cool to see how it was made. >> this three second special effects shot takes hours to create. >> you shoot basically several layers. so from the top of the stairs i shot the road empty.
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the car pass. cindy running into the middle of the street and jumping up. then did a pass with the car parked on the hit spot and cindy rolling out there in different positions. >> kyle then sends these layers to zane rutledge to work his magic. >> it's three shots stitched together in a couple of subtle and deliver ways. the original hand held shot up to a moment and then the final hand held shot at the end but in between we're seaming that together with the cheated hand held simulated in the computer. >> to create that shot zane uses a process called rote owe scoping. >> it's a pains taking screen by screen shaping rachel. and by isolating her on in that way we're able to drop her onto the other shot. >> but the devil is in the details. after viewing the effect, zane
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and kyle decide sidney's moves on top of the car aren't realist particular enough. >> if we didn't kite quite have the right movement on this arm. we had to ice late the movement from another moment in time and build the fake arm and animate it and drop it in into its on little spot so we could get the performance we needed. >> with the effect complete, kyle sends the finish video to the cast and crew. >> even though i knew what was going to happen i didn't know it was going to look that good. >> when i saw it, it took my breath away. >> it was so real. >> even worse, it was me. it was me that i was sighing. >> rachel! >> satisfied with the response, kyle launches exhibit b-5 online. he released it under a false
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name. her story was that her dad used to be a judge and she was taking court evidence and putting it on youtube. >> but exhibit b-5 doesn't catch on right away. to help it gain momentum, kyle reaches out to his friend rain wilson. >> i e-mailed him and said would you mind tweeting about this? he said, yeah. man, and it really took off because of that. so really, we owe the success of exhibit b-5 to dwight on the office. >> within a year, the video scores more than 6 million hits. >> i had no idea it would get the response it did. >> comments roll in from viewers. >> people are arguing about it's real because of this. it's fake because of these top things. and that's the phenomenon that's kept it going and made it viral.
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i would get messages that say i could not sleep last night, please write me back and tell me it's fake. >> we almost felt like we should tell them that this was not real, this was fake. >> but online he does nothing to quench those theories. >> i just let them swing in the wind. >> we may have exposed here that exhibit b-5 is pure fiction, but one thing about the video remains an enigma. >> the real thing is how can his pants be that tight. >> if he makes them any tighter he is going to pass out from blood loss. >> chicks dig them. >> rachel! coming up, two guise make an airport their personal playground. >> i'm pretty sure this is illegal. >> and put viral video viewers
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we've all been there. flights delayed or canceled. hours to kill at the airport. you're basically stuck. in this video, two young men appear to make the most of this often frustrating and boring situation. and, if you can believe what you're seeing, what they get away with is shocking. >> the fun of this is the weirdness of the situation, that it's an empty airport and it's like some weird dream of running amok in a place you're not supposed to run amok. >> i wish i could do things like that and get away with it. i'd get deported.
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>> did anyone call bend over? >> when the video titled stuck hits the internet june 2011 it spreads like wildfire and leaves viewers to wonder in the age of post 911 security, how could this video possibly be real? >> when you're at the airport you're so conscious of not doing anything to scare anybody or get tsa breathing down your neck. >> this can't be a low budget amateur film, can it? >> there's just sounds and background noise and a bunch of cuts that make it look very, very artistic. >> my first impression is that it's fake. >> but it's not. stuck is the brainchild of professional cameraman larry chen and joe eye all la. and what they usually shoot is
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the antithesis of being stranded at an airport. >> we're pro cameras for the formula drift. >> whatever happens whether it's japan or africa, we follow drifting. >> they are flying home after a dwrift competition in florida. >> we're just doing a layover in dallas, ft. worth. >> but the plane had to be diverted and we weren't able to land. we missed our flights. >> they are booked on a flight leaving dallas fairs thing in the morning. >> they offered us a discount hotel. and we're like it's not even worth it. >> we decided to sleep there. >> pretty much the entire airport is shut down for the night. >> with ohours to kill, they do what they do best. >> you know what we could do? we could shoot a skit.
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>> we had all our equipment us because we never check in our camera, lenses. because the airlines can get a little rough with it. i guess between him and i we had $40,000 worth of gear. >> our original goal was just to make something to show our friends and family, you know, what we did at this airport while we were stuck here for eight hours. >> the two men unload their gear and start shooting. >> we didn't have a tri pod. we had a magic arm. >> we just clamped a camera. we rolled it everywhere we went. >> and they went everywhere. behind the gate. >> i'm pretty sure this is illegal. >> on the tram. and even in the bathroom. amazingly, security agents don't interfere with their taping. >> they would just kind of look and see that we're just taking pictures or doing video and they
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would just leave. >> it was really surprising. so we just took it to the next level and started doing handstands and making more obnoxious noises. >> this is my favorite shot. like getting on an escalator. it's total genius of what the physics that what you're playing with turns out silly and pretty. >> the outtakes he actually gets stuck in the escalator. so we tried it a couple times. >> i got a couple bruises, and it was pretty rough, but i think it was worth it. >> but the peace de resistance comes when they visit the local watering hole. >> people think, there's no way they grabbed a beer for themselves. >> that beer would be $16 in all
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the arab ports i've been to. >> i love the fact that it's a little ice cream glass, it's all flowery and crystal. >> i washed up after myself, cleaned the cup and put it back. and that was it. >> eventually, the guys board a plane and head home. soon after, larry and joe post stuck on line. >> we didn't expect it to blow up. maybe i expected a thousand views at most. >> but just one week later, the video has more than 100,000 hits. in chat rooms and comment sections viewers dissect the video debating its authenticity. >> a lot of people are saying oh, this is going to take at least a six man crew. >> we getting away with stuff that most people wouldn't get away with. >> especially here in america, everyone is to tense about it. >> with notoriety comes new fears. >> people say that can't be appropriate.
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that must be dangerous and saying why didn't the airport stop them. >> we were at an event, and co-workers come up to us and ask us when are we going to jail. when are the cops coming for you. >> the joke becomes dead serious when the filmmakers are contacted by a representative of the dallas ft. worth airport. >> i take it off of youtube right away. i was curious about the outcome of what they wanted from us and what we going to do about it. >> but when the renegade travelers call the airport they get a surprising response. >> our conversation was really good. they seemed to really like the video. the airport's like hey, we know what you guys did, and we're okay with it. so just don't worry about it. >> it was kind of relieving, because i could actually talk to the people who were in charge of it to sort of straighten things out, let them know we meant no harm. >> nothing really inappropriate
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happened other than maybe the guy taking some beer without paying for it. >> you know, i would actually love to see these guys unstuck. if this is what they can do in a quiet environment with virtually nothing going on, i would like to see them in something more fun and see if they could take it to the next level. coming up, a mayor takes justice into his own hands. >> it's very bad ass. >> the video's real, right? >> maybe. maybe not. find out when caught on camera, viral videos, fact or fiction continues. humans. even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance.
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this mayor of a european city hates parking violators, so much so that he's ready to go to war against them. >> this is the dream of like every 12 year old in the word, to take a tank or an armored
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personnel carrier and drive it through the streets, crushing things along the way. >> it's like the demolition derby of dealing with ordinary annoyances. >> it's very bad ass. and that sort of thing is not what we associate with our leaders. >> he had like two staff members hanging out with him. if politics had a tv show like entourage, that's what it would look like. yo, grab a tank. we'll go roll over sommer said ease. >> and then comes the home of truth. the mercedes owner confronts the mayor. >> supposedly this is the guy whose car got run over. >> sunglasses on the top. >> this guy screams a-hole. >> you're waiting to see if the guy is going to freak out and attack them. >> shockingly, the man is not too upset about his car being crushed. which makes many wonder, is this
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really a mayor caught on camera during a very unstatesman like rampage to punish a parking violator? or is this another work of viral fiction? well, let's ask the man himself. our tourist, the mayor, the capital of lithuania. >> you know, what is real in our life? the writer toy everski. he wrote. then you think about a crime is already a crime. >> all right. that might be a little deep. let's just say it's a little of both. >> the video's real, rate? there's nothing being fake, like the car being crushed is not being faked. >> this guy actually got into an armored vehicle and actually crushed a car on an actual
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street, but everything about it i suspect is completely staged. >> that is correct. the smashing of the mercedes is a set up. but why? in lithuania, wealthy citizens flout the law and park their luxury automobiles wherever they want. >> i could see fancy cars parked in bike lane for example, and i don't like that. if you are wealthy and you own big and expensive cars, it doesn't mean you have more rights in the city. in lithuania, the first fine will be $5, the second one would be much bigger and the third one could be just 200, $300. >> he comes up with a plan that he thinks will have a bigger impact than fines. >> my idea was to create kind of
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a provocation or social campaign just to start to talk about illegal parking. >> that campaign comes in the form of a youtube video where the mayor taps into human kind's most primal urges. >> if you see a car when you exit from your house or office, what usually you think? usual you think maybe i would like to crash this car. >> with this in mind, he and a camera crew hit the streets with a used mercedes they purchased for the video and an armored personnel carrier borrowed from the local military museum. >> it's very popular. it was in the soviet union, even now they use this. but a more modern version. >> the filmmakers park the mercedes illegally in a bike lane and then have only one chance at getting the perfect shot. >> we have only one shot on the mercedes, but we prepared very well, and we succeeded easily.
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quite easily. >> as for the owner of the mercedes. he's played by a local actor. >> we try to find a guy who looks like the real owner of a mercedes. and you could see similar like this guy of the mercedes quite often in the city. >> with all forgiven, the mayor cleans up after his mess. >> i like how they have this little scene with the mayor sweeping bits of crushed grass off the highway to advertise his sense of civic responsibility and duty after crushing a mercedes. >> on august 2nd, 2011, the mayor launches the clip on his youtube page. in just a few days, it goes viral, getting millions of hits and petrifying parking perpetrators worldwide.
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>> i was of considers surprised of such popularity of this film. the reaction was so huge everywhere in the world. >> videos of destruction have a tendency to really be fascinating to people. it's like destruction porn of watching a building be smashed or a car be smashed. >> does it really deter parking violators? after watching the mayor and his car crushing adventures, any wonder if a u.s. politician could pull off the same stunt. >> michael due kakis, in 188, he put on a helmet and looked silly. >> we live in a less soviet country. here we try to look less oppressive. >> he continues to combat parking violators in new and
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unique ways. >> so we printed this special sticker, and we will distribute this for free. >> his latest innovation is a three step sticker system. >> the step one, if we see your car parking bad way we just put the sticker on the glass step two, if you see the same car you will put much bigger sticker and if you see for the third time, please call to me, and i will come. coming up. a black belt black bear. >> it's like always on the verge of going out of control. >> but is he a master of kung fu or a master of trickery in. >> well, how the hell did it do that? that's crazy. >> that does look really fake. it's just so fast. >> when caught on camera, viral
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>> this starts out like a shot by any tourist at a zoo, but it turns into crouching tiger black bear? >> it's like always on the verge of going out of control. and not once does the bear hit himself in the face. like that's really impressive. >> i love this one. it's the kind that you watch it, and even if you're all by yourself and your computer, you start giggling. you can't stop yourself. >> but nobody has ever heard of the teenage mute tants ninja bears. so is this the work of a cameraman? >> when animals do something that looks human, we're just taken aback by it. we think, well, how the hell did it do that? that's crazy. >> i was sort of waiting to find
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out what camera trick they did to make it look so smooth. >> amaidingly, the kung fu bear sa 100% factually accurate. >> as it turns out, it's just a very talented bear. >> for years, claude the bear has been wowing visitors at the zoo in japan with his mastery of martial arts. he taught himself serious stick skills after zoo keepers gave him a staff to play with after his arrival in 2002. >> this poor bear is like bored out of his mind, well, i've got this stick and i'm really smart. >> but i doesn't gain worldwide fame until this teenage servicities the zoo on a family trip in 2009. >> the zoo is generally really quiet. we were looking around and i walk off by myself. >> soon, alex comes face-to-face with claude the bear. >> so i take out my camera. >> alex can't believe his eyes when claude picks up the stick.
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>> i was pretty amazed when i saw claude playing with the stick and doing all these amazing tricks. at the time while i was filming this, i was thinking this could get millions of views on youtube. >> alex decides to make his vision a reality. i comes home from his trip and edits together a montage of claude's best moves. the bear's tricks are so unbelievable that even alex's sister thinks it's a fake. >> there's a ton of crazy stuff in japan. so i thought it was a show or something. and he's like no, it's real. >> alex uploads the video in september 2009. >> start getting like thousands of views, started getting really excited. and then just week after week it kept blowing up. >> before long, the video entitled kung fu bear receives more than three and a half million hits on youtube.
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it spawns many parodies. >> it's like the entire internet was riffing on this video for a little bit. >> give' sign of things like mortal combat. >> the late saver version where the bear's carrying a light saber instead of a stick. >> people want to recon tex actualize anything that's popular. >> it's a way people can participate in the viral revolution. >> but with growing population comes growing skepticism. many people think this video is a fake. >> the part where he flips the stick in the air and catches it, that's where people call it fake. it's too incredible to believe. >> to quash rumors about the ill legitimacy, alex posts an extended version online. >> this video is 100% real.
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i haven't added my effects to it. it's completely 100% true. >> two years after claude's meteoric rise to fame, alex's younger sister takes a trip to japan. one of her first stops is a trip to the zoo. >> i thought if i could see it for myself i could brag about it to my friends. >> at first, things look bleak. >> i'm videoing. >> then to her excitement, claude starts up his old tricks. >> he's doing it again. >> he looked a little like lazy, kind of. he wasn't exactly doing the same tricks as fast. it was, he was still doing the same old stuff, but maybe a little slower. >> older and wiser, claude continues to excite crowds at the zoo and around the world on youtube. many wonder what his next trick will be. >> he can probably run the banks
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>> i'm going to try to do a stunt and see how this works. >> he dashes out into the road where there's obviously dangerous oncoming traffic. >> he waits for the right car. >> and he quickly goes out to the road. >> and springs up safe and sound having apparently done a very daring stunt. >> dangerous, yes. crazy, for sure. but is it fact or fiction. >> initially you gasp and you're like no. no way. that can't be real, can it? >> it's unlikely that you will survive laying down under a bus. many things can go very wrong. >> it looks like something that maybe that could work, but there's just no way. >> definitely do not try this at home. it is 100% fake. so trying this for real could cause 100% injury. the stuntman is visual effects
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editor daniel saltd bar who creates the video while on break in high school. >> that summer day i was bored. i wanted to do something. >> he wants to test out multiple shots and layer them on top of each other to create the illusion of being one over by a bus. >> i set up my tri pod. watched traffic go by for a few minutes. >> first he needs a shot of himself lying in the middle of an empty street. but in the process, his special effect nearly become as reality. >> i one out there, rlay on the floor and the driver goes what's going on? >> he gets the shot. daniel takes the footage and begins the tedious process of
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rote owe scoping. >> you do it frame by frame. >> those elements are layered onto a shot of the empty street. but there's a problem. because of the long duration between the shots, the lighting is off. daniel uses some hollywood magic to mask the error. >> shadows aren't necessarily completely right. so i added the lens flare to cover up the sun changes. >> but for many, this is a telltale sign this is fake. >> this is not acceptable to home video. >> in addition, there may be one other slight issue with the video's believability. >> i just really don't brief the bus would barrel right over like that without hesitating a little bit. >> i'm this bus driver and i see a dude in the middle of the street. oh, you know what? i don't like my job. i'm just going to try to kill him. oh, that's that kid that lays under my bus every time i go by.
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>> it worked. daniel's clip receives hundreds of hits. but for those who believe they can do the bus stunt without special effects, daniel has a message. >> my video is definitely fake, so do not do this at home. it's a lot of computer geekiness making something look cool. >> from a stunt that seems super human to a dog that wants to be human. >> i love you. >> oh, the three little words we all long to hear. >> i love you. >> but imagine hearing the graze from your dog. >> i love you. >> good girl. >> i love you, doggie. oh, my god. >> raur raur raur. it's impossible not to join in. >> good girl. >> everybody's wanted to know if
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their dog loves them. >> how could this dog possibly talk? >> it's so unbelievable that a dog could say i love you. >> this is the easiest thing to fake. >> you could probably dub over the animal. >> all you need is a tape recorder and someone who has a raur, raur, raur, dog like voice. >> it's too good to be true. >> unbelievably, myshka can talk. >> in february of 2008 after discovering her of talent, her owners posted the video online. >> i love you. >> astonishingly it racks up more than 60 million hits on youtube. >> it makes you smile and giggle every time you see it. >> i love you. >> animals are awesome. we love to see them acting in ways that we don't expect. >> i love the howling. it's like i'm so frustrated.
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stop making me say this. >> but the owners want myska's voice to be heard. they post videos chronicling her daily life. she becomes an internet sensation and a desirable tv show guest. mishka and her owners stop bit today show to talk with ann curry. >> how can you make this discovery that she could mimic these words in this way? >> she was always talkative, one time it sound like i love you. so we said it back to us. >> i love you. >> she doesn't want to stop saying i love you.
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>> good girl. good girl. >> good job. what a good job. >> but i can't help but wonder, what is going on in her mind when she says i love you. >> i'll put it very simply. what the dog is thinking when the owners ask him to do something is treat. i love treats. i love treats. coming up. look to the sky. it's a bird. it's a plane. it's a kayak? >> it's just crazy. that must be fake. >> it gives me so much anxiety watching it. >> it's not something you see every day. when caught on cam rarks viral videos, fact or fiction continues. probiotic that helps maintain digestive balance. probiotic ♪ stay in the groove with align. ♪ need help keeping your digestive balance in sync? try align. it's a probiotic that fortifies your digestive system
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with we're used to seeing daredevils push themselves to the limit, but this video combines two extreme sports and
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pushes the boundaries of believability. >> we have a guy in a kayak skydiving, which is obviously not something you see every day. >> and he's sort of rolling around and though like he's in the jetsons or something flying through the air. >> i see people jumping in skis, but this is something new. >> i wanted this to be fake because it gives me so much anxiety watching it. >> so is this an extreme sport or extreme fiction. >> it almost feels like it's an ad for testosterone body spray or something. >> it's crazy. that must be fake. >> well, let's ask the man in the boat, miles.
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>> sky kayaking is very real. >> skyaking is very real. >> it can be traced to 1995 when he attempts his first skydive. the experience changes his life. >> it was just hook line and sinker, you know. this is what i want to do. as a matter of fact i quit my job and spent all my money on jumps and living the dream. >> as if simply jumping out of an airplane and plummets to earth isn't enough of a thrill, dasher keeps upping the challenge in order to chase new highs. >> i was actually the first person to land a bicycle sky biking. it's like et. look at me. i'm on a bike. this is awesome. take my picture, quick.
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i'm doing it. >> ah, dude, thanks a lot. i'm trying to jump off this -- >> i'm a base jumper. i jump off of antenna's, bridges with parachutes. now i'm sitting with more base jumps than anyone on the planet. >> a buddy of his makes a unique request. >> a fend of mine makes movies, and he asked me if i could jump out with a kayak. >> i've kayaked some rivers. it's scary. your legs are locked into a boat. as soon as you get upside down and you've got rocks flying by your hid under the water. and you can't breathe. >> never one to to back down from a challenge, he decide does give it a try. >> i was real nervous. i had a good escape plan to get
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out of the boat just in case things went wrong. >> luckily, dasher doesn't have to use it. >> not only did i sit-up right on the boat. i could do spins, a flat spin. i could pump back and fort and tuck up and roll the boat, just like you roll a kayak. >> he even sticks the tricky landing. >> when you're landing in this boat, you're in an l seated position. so you want to take the impact with your back. so you want to nail it and skim and settle it in real nice. >> from that moment, miles is hooked and attempts numerous jumps. >> you need the right tool for the right job. and sometimes i consider myself an all purpose tool. i've got the reflexes of a jungle cat. >> dasher's tools of the trade
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include a very specific kind of kayak. >> it takes the right boat. if you have a boat that has concave tops to it, it's going to cut the air. >> he also equips it with an emergency parachute to ensure it won't plunl et to the ground if he needs to bail. >> it's perfect for a 30 pound kayak. >> so he has a pimped out kayak and nerves of steel, but can he actually make a ca yelifornia r out of this? >> he's like i'll go to your birthday part in a kayak. >> he has parlayed it into dollars as a member of the red bull army. >> we're nonmilitary. we're just a power in the sky. we're an aerial team. we go around the whole world.
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we go to cool air shows, do all kinds of events. >> so with sky biking, base jumping and skyaking conquered, what would be next for miles asher? >> i think jumping with animals. >> no parachute, just plummeting. i don't know how you get more extreme than that. >> a lot of people say i have a death wish. no contrary. i just have a life wish. i want to have more fun than i can possibly have in my whole life. from skydiving in a kayak to running over a car in an armored personnel carrier, the web is full of amazing videos. whether fact or fiction, one thing is for sure, these videos are certainly entertaining. i'm contessa brewer.
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