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rescue workers battle to save a man teetering at the brifx niagara falls. >> i said we've got to go, we've got to go get him. >> a daredevil attempts a stunt that goes up in flames. this guy pummels his own lawyer. and a twist in the story in investigative reporter never saw coming. >> you hear him scream to his wife, honey, get the gun. >> videos that don't get anymore shocking. >> he said i'm going to push your kid. what are you going to do about it. >> any more strange or any more
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sinister. >> the puppy could have died if she had broken the dog's neck. caught on camera, sinister, strike, shocking. journalists are taught to stay objective to avoid becoming part of the story. an investigator reporter in san diego is not afraid to chase down any lead, but in trying to find a bad guy he found himself smack-dab in the middle of an unbelievable story. and it was all the evidence that the cops needed to slow someone in jail. >> a confrontation between a local tv reporter and this irate woman could have ended here. but it quickly escalates into a shocking assault that leaves san diego tv reporter battered bruise and bleeding when her husband shows up.
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>> hey, joe, joe, call the police. call the police. >> the video is broadcast nationwide. >> i assume you've looked better than you look this morning. >> some video you just got to see. >> this vicious beating is the result of a series of reports by mattis into the affairs of this man, sam seoulman, local is developer. he has been reporting on his business dealings for the fox business station, news 6 in san diego. >> i've been investigating him and his real estate empire which was based on allegations of mortgage fraud. >> no fraud charges are ever filed bit san diego district attorney, but mattis continues to report on him but he gets a frightening phone call. >> you're an insect. >> mattis says threatening late night calls to his cell phone
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become regular and freak wefrea went. >> all of the threats were directed at shutting me down. >> the now notorious mauling happen when is mattis is interviewing this man. >> this is our house. >> phillips lives next door does one of sulman's buildings and they have a neighborly squabble. as phillips walks back to his home on a sunday afternoon, he says sulman crosses the line. >> he screeched open his car, ran out and was posturing like i'm going to kick your butt. i'm going to beat your ass and a bunch of other colorful expletives. >> they get a restraining order against sulman. so when reporter john mattis comes to interview him, he's all too happy to share everything he
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knows. >> i'd basically had enough harassment from this man. john was just about to interview me when rosa ber assa shows up. >> she comes running up and starts screaming. >> why are you doing this? >> and i'm thinking, what am i doing? you just invaded someone's private property. you invaded our perm space and now you're interfering with an interview. now she's proceeding to smack me with a bottle. >> it doesn't end there. berassa's asking him where on the other side of the mexican border he wants to be buried. next, burrassa focuses on the
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cameraman. >> as he pulls his camera back if you listen very carefully you can hear tires screeching. s sulman shows up. i think he's coming to fight with me because we've had words so many times. i got there in enough time for, what i thought was enough time. he fights like a badger, you know. >> i feel this hand come across my the face. he's trying to rip my hands off trying to rip my mouth apart. three of us were in this pile of flash trying to fwraple. but he's proceeding to shred my face. and this continues on. and i'm thinking, okay, my life is flashing, okay. i'm thinking i'm going to be maimed. i'm going to lose my eyesight. then i hear him scream to his wife, honey, get the gun. >> a gun? it could have gotten much worse.
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but lucky format i no gunfire. >> they were so excited about the opportunity to whack me they forgot to bring the gun. >> by this time, a crowd has gathered and the police are on the way to this very bizarre street brawl. >> turn around, get on the ground! get on the ground. >> sulman's a crazy person, obviously. when the sirens started getting close her and closer you could seat switch in his eyes where the adrenaline must have stopped pumping and he looked like oh, what have i just did. he looked like he was chemically imbalanced at that time. >> tourists who came upon the fight scene thought this was all scripted and this was some type of hollywood production because of the setup with the cars in the middle of the street and with his wife running around looking for the gun. they couldn't believe that the gun flying around was anything but fake. >> but the break and the
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injuries to john mattis are all too real. he's all cut up, bruised. a few broken ribs and has to spend the night in the hospital. >> get on the ground! >> in court, sam sulman pleads guilty to assault. his wife pleads guilty to misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon and placed on three years probation. she's also ordered to do community service. john mattis is still concern thad this may not be over. >> that the sentencing judge gave mr. sulman an opportunity an opportunity to apologize to me and yet he turned to me and said that man was the cause of my problems. that man is dangerous. he uses a microphone as a deadly weapon. >> mattis is thankful that phillips decided to intervene. he's also thankful the cameraman decide the not to intervene. >> he kept shooting all the time
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so when the police came it couldn't be mr. mattis attacked me. the cameraman says why don't you look at the tape. they looked at the tape and that was it. the cameraman saved the situation. saved me. coming up. rescuers battle to save a man at the edge of niagara falls. and this man wants a new lawyer. when caught on camera, sinister, strange, shocking returns. all business purchases.
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sergeant pat moriarty is on duty. >> our radio man yelled down the hall and said just got a man from the canadians. there's a man on the ice. >> not a safe place to be. this is a point that sits as close to the falls as you can get. >> the drop at that point is over 180 feet straight down. if you go over, you're not going to survive. >> when moriarty arrives on the scene, it's even worse than he expected. the man is not on the icy formation on land. he's waist-deep in frigid water. >> i saw the victim standing
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almost in waist-deep water. the hair on the back of my neck went up. >> he calls the fire department and the helicopter rescue and the power company. he asks them to lower the water. >> where the victim is standing is almost impossible to fathom. it is one of the most dangerous positions that a person could put themselves in. if i was a betting man, i would bet 99.9 times out of a 00, that no one can stand that close to the falls. >> moriarty and the rest. rescue team meet to come up with a plan. there isn't much time. darkness is setting in, and it's only getting colder. >> our training experience tells us you only have slight minutes to get him out of that position or he pea go into shock or cardiac arrest and into hypothermia. >> the decision is made to lower
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moriarty into the water. these two men need to trust even other. >> we shook hands, but looked at each other in the eye. i think we understood i'm there to save your life and you're there to save mine. >> they both have two ropes attached to their harnesses. one is tied to the shore and the other is controlled by about 20 rescuers. they will use all thereof strength to keep those men from getting swept over the falls. >> the water at going such a rate creates this tremendous thun defrmt you feel like you're in a small earthquake and it's an unsettling feeling. >> looking down from shoreline, directly down river from us the water had undercut the ice. i said if we lose our footing, we'll under up under the ice under the water. and that was the last thing i
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wanted to have happen. >> moriarty can't know it yet, but he would soon face his greatest fear. but for now they inch out into the raging waters, hoping to get the man a life ring on shore. on land, a rescue worker now finds a suicide note. but they know nothing about the note and they're able to make contact with the victim. >> we wanted to reassure him, that we're coming to get you. >> he was able to yell loud enough that i can't stand here much longer. i'm cold. and he said he's getting weaker. >> moriarty can't stand there much longer either. >> we could feel our feet being pulled from under us. i said this is going to have to be a no go. so plan b would have to be the option. >> the helicopter hovers above trying to get a rescue basket
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close enough for the man to grab. >> we made four or five attempts to get close to him. problem is with the treacherous air currents, it was almost impossible to control the aircraft. >> at some month he said i'm running out of power. we're not going to be able to do this. >> another failed attempt. the chopper returns to land so the team can come up with plan c c. >> correlly and moriarty know this is not going to work. >> am i going to be able to grab onto him and hold him? our victim who is soaking wet is telling us he can't last much longer. now he's been in there over an hour. i'm very concerned that we've run out of time. >> the life ring they've been tossing is repeatedly washed
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back by the currents. they try to get the life ring to him from the air. >> we try to toss this ring out to somewhere he can get ahold of it. i knew our biggest problem was the rotor wash from the wind itself. i was afraid we going to knock him over. >> but they're willing to give it a shot. >> we're probably only a foot or two off the water. i was trying to get our side of the aircraft in close to him so he could throw the gentleman the ring. and as soon as we got that rotor wash next to him, we could see the guy starting to stumble. i was looking right at him. he got a little disoriented. then he got wobbly and he fell. >> seeing his head go under i cringed and closed my eyes a little bit and said a little prayer and said oh, boy, he's gone. >> can rescuers get to the man in time? >> the danger level increased 100%. >> what was a difficult rescue
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it's march 19, 2003. rescuers have been trying for more than an hour to save a man from falling nearly 180 feet over the edge of niagara falls to his death. from the air, rescuers are attempting to toss him a life ring, but suddenly, the man slips. and they fear they've lost him for good. >> when he first fell, he grabbed onto the rock. and within a few seconds he slid back probably another two or three feet, and at that point his legs actually went over the brink. >> but against all odds, the man is able to pull himself up onto a rock. >> and then there's just jubilation. he stands up and it's miraculous. it's unbelievable to see the sheer drive of somebody to not go over and stand up. >> he's up, but it's not time to
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celebrate yet. the man's footing is still unstable. the pilot knows he has precious seconds to act and only he can save the man now. and spray is tossing him in the face. so blindly he tosses the ring into the teeth of a swirling wind. >> the current took it right across about two foot in front of him. >> now it's do or die for the man who has hung on for so long. >> he actually had to let go of what he was holding onto to get the ring. he let go, and he grabbed the ring. we did see that his legs went right over the brink. >> on shore, rescuers start pulling the rope, plucking the man from certain death. >> i can't describe the feeling of for 30 seconds, anyway, of feeling just relief that finally we have something connected to him, not on his own anymore. and we start to bring him in.
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>> as corrello and moriarty have hope, the stakes are about to go up even higher. the man slips under that menacing ice shelf, the very thing moriarty feared most. >> upon being dragged underneath the ice flow, the danger level increased. he is now unable to be pulled back because he goes underneath the ice he's also being dragged by a current that's unbelieve be. because now it's pressurized. he he'salmost like a water-skier being pulled out. >> i said we got to go. we've got to go get him. >> rescuers on top of the ice cautiously give moriarty the rope they need to reach the man who is still holding onto that
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hive ring just a few feet from the edge of the falls. >> the water was literally running completely over his face. he was looking up at me under water, looking. it was surreal. >> i never will forget this as long as i live because his arm was outstretched. he's almost losing the ring. pat reaches under and grabs the only thing he could, the fingers that are out of the water. sfwli pulled as hard as i could. i was able to get his face out so he could breathe. >> he could breathe and talk. >> just told us let me go. he just gave up. he said save yourselves. let he go. let me go. we more or less had some choice words for him and told him we didn't come this far to let you go now. that all of us are going up. you've got to help us. >> corrello is able to get underneath the victim and slip a harness around the man. he braces himself. >> pat yelled for them to pull,
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and i tell you what, it was the quickest i ever thought i would go up an embankment. but it must have been the adrenaline because we slid out of there in a matter of seconds. >> and minutes later sergeant moriarty is pulled to safety too. but now both on solid ground the two men sefrp for each other in the crowd. >> we shook hands, and it was an understanding, only people that do this can understand the feeling of gratitude and pride in the job. i just can't believe you just did that. >> every time i see pat, i get that little smile and that feeling inside and i think back to that day. and i noel' be a friend for life. coming up, parents out of control at a kids' football game. >> i pushed your kid, what are
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here's what's happening. over the past few days the bodies of at least three women have within found in a suburban cleveland neighborhood. they have a suspect, a registered sex offender in custody. but he has not been charged. after a woman fell to her death in a texas amusement park, they are inspecting that coaster. now we're going to bring you back to caught on camera. is there anything more
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innocent, more fun than kids playing sports? they play for the love of the game and between the lines of the playing field they can learn respect, responsibility, rules. all valuable life lessons. so what happens when a huge fight breaks out? the grown ups calm things down, right? well, what if it's the adults who are out of control? the roar of the crowd, the pop of the pads. it's friday night in western texas. and it's intense. but far, very far from those famous friday night-lights, on a saturday morning here in stockton, california, these boys play for the love of the game. and they know how to hit pretty hard, too. it's less than a minute to go in the game when the referee blows the whistle on number 58, 13
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year old brian woods of the stockton bears. seconds later, a friendly game of football turns into a brawl. an assistant coach is seen on home video charging onto the field. his son is the one on the receiving end of the late hit. to everyone's horror, he finds woods and knocks the teenage player to the ground. >> i was going off to the sidelines. i wasn't like expecting it. caught me off guard. >> you don't run out onto the field and take actions into your own hands and tackle a child. >> bryan's mom can't believe what she's seeing. >> the next minute there's people running onto the field. there's kids crying. it was just a big chaos. >> when the dust settles, the man who started it all, 36 year old father and assistant coach is nowhere to be found.
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>> i saw that the coach jumped over the fence and theres with a car waiting for him. >> that day he turned himself in to stockton police when he learned they were looking for him. >> this is a reporter who covered the case. >> he was arrested originally on felony child abuse charges. >> but he has no previous record. as part of a plea deal, the charges are reduced to a misdemeanor, inflicting injury on a child. he's sentenced to 45 days of community service and instructed to take an anger management class. >> i really wasn't push being the issue fort jail and court and all that. because things happen. people get upset. i was really looking for an apology. >> the apology never comes, but denise and her son are trying to put the whole ordeal behind them. >> i have to teach my son to move on and do what makes him happy. we can't let this get the best of us.
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>> brian is moving on. he's trying out for his high school football team. >> continue to fight leave that all behind. >> down the road in southern california another shocking piece of amateur video. parents out of control at a kids' football game. just before this raucous scene is caught on camera, 12, 13, and 14 year old boys are playing football. the quarterback drops back for a long pass. but the ball is intercepted. after the play, a little extracurricular activity. watch as a very upset player says something to his coach and points towards the stands. then secs later an unbelievable brawl breaks out between parents. spilling out of the bleachers and onto the fields.
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>> renee is the mother of the boy who just said something to his coach. she thinks a parent of a player on the opposing team pushed her son, and she's mad. >> so i turned around to the parents in the bleacher, and i said i want to know what parent pushed my kid. and a man in the blue jersey stood up and said i f-ing pushed your son, what are you going to do about it? >> his name? desi tubbs. he says he never made those threatening comment does renee. but as for pushing her son, it couldn't have been him. >> i wasn't even in the field. i was in the stands. >> but after a short confrontation, tubbs soon finds himself out of the stands in a vicious melee. >> some guy starts hitting me. i get on top of him and i was able to get a few punches on
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him. i was pulled off him, kick, beat, stomped, everything. he even tried to pull my pants down. >> the man seen on the tape doing most of the kicking and stomping are these two brothers. after cops get ahold of the footage, the brothers find themselves in real trouble. they're arrested on felony assault charges and both plead no contest. joe is sentenced to five years and gino to two. >> they have a hard time explaining to the kids just what their parents were thinking. >> their innocence got taken away from them. this is a football game. they're 13 year olds, 14 year olds and 12 year olds. coming up. a man robs a bank with a bomb strapped to his neck. is he in on the sinister plot or an unwilling participant?
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>> but unfortunately, what's best for the puppies may not always be best for the store. >> because the puppies are out in the open for people to be able to play with them and touch them and hole them, we've had a number of thefts. >> these dogs can cost anywhere from 500 to $2500. it's not the loss of revenue that bothers cindy most. >> a man walked into the store, stopped and looked at the puppy, he reaches out and pulls the puppy out by the neck. he puts the puppy under his shirt. the puppy could have died if he had broken the dog's neck. >> cindy quickly releases the video to the local media and thanks to tips, the puppy is recovered in good health. this next canine theft is more of a team effort. >> three young girls came into the store, walked around for a
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few minutes. one girl put a puppy in a purse. another girl gave her jacket to a girl who concealed the puppy. as the thieves make their get away, it appears this woman has a change of heart. the girl with the stolen puppy in her purse strangely puts the dog back. but what seems like a stroke of luck for one pup turns out to be bad news for another little guy. >> she did steal a different puppy instead. so she took the puppy out of that purse, put the puppy back and chose a different puppy. >> again, cindy releases the theft video to local media, and, again, the puppy is returned unharmed. only the girl who carries the puppy in her purse is arrested. cindy has more than a dozen cameras in her store. and she wants thieves to take notice. >> we have cameras. we have signs that tell you we
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have cameras. we're not hiding the fact. i don't understand why people continue to steal knowing that that day they're going to be on the news. >> but cameras won't stop everyone. these thefts can happen in the blink of an eye. like this one. watch as this woman asks an employee questions about a chihuahua. >> one of my employees that hadden abohad been helping her had to step away. in that amount of time she reached into the crib, shoved the puppy underneath her jacket and walked out the door. >> she gets the puppy snatcher arrested and charged with grand theft. she may soon have to put those innocent puppies behind bars too. >> every time it happens, i lose more and more faith in people. i really don't want to put the dogs behind glass or in cages. but if this epidemic continue,
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i'm going to have no choice. 911, what's your emergency? >> i'm calling about that bank robbery. >> august 28, 2003. a bizarre robbery is reported at the pnc bank in erie, pennsylvania. >> what happened? >> the guy just walked out with a -- i don't know how much cash in the bag. he had a bomb or something wrapped around his neck. >> minutes later, the suspect is arrested and handcuffed. but strangely, he's not hauled off to jail. instead, what happens next leaves a police force and an entire town scratching their heads in utter disbelief. the bank robber is brian wells, a pizza delivery man. strapped to his neck and shoulders is a bomb attached with a crude looking metal collar that locks.
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state police corner him in the parking lot of an eyeglass center. as the employee dena mcfee watches. >> he must have said something about a bomb, he had something on him because the police officers proceeded in running in different directions. >> as the area is evacuated, cameraman dan holland holds his position. he has his lens trained on the scene where wells is trying to convince the police he was forced to rob the bank by someone else, same person who put the bomb around his neck. >> the man was strangely calm. he was just kind of sitting there. i mean, i know if i would have had a bank of america bomb on my neck i probably would have been in a panic mode. >> as witnesses look on, wells talks out loud about the bomb to anyone who will listen.
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for 20 tense minutes, police keep their distance, waiting for the bomb squad to arrive. in obvious distress, wells pleads with police as the clock ticks. >> he seemed to be having a conversation with the police, just very, very eerie stuff. >> media crews are urged to move back. >> if there's shrapnel we could get hit, but i think we're safe. >> a few seconds later, time runs out. the bomb explodes. the footage too gruesome to show. police react instinctively running closer with guns drawn. but brian wells is dead. >> it was pretty much a shock. i remember standing there for a few seconds in disbelief, not thinking anything like this could have ever happened.
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>> local news stations go live. >> we want to interrunt regular programming. >> wells' death leaves more questions than answers. the 46 year old delivery man, a long time employee of mama mia's pizza rhea lived in this modest home with thinks cats. >> how did this happen? brian did not do. this is so far out of character. >> the bizarre case baffles law enforcement. was he part of a conspiracy? or bass was he telling the trut? >> if he was doing this on his own, why did he use a live bomb? >> the fbi launches an investigation. he left mama mias to deliver two pizzas that only add to the
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mistry. >> he made that delivery down a dirt road. at the end of the dirt road was radio tower. and that was all that was there. >> the next time he's seen is in the bank demanding $250,000 with a bomb strapped to his neck. >> this is the first time we've ever seen anything like this where somebody has actually put a live bomb around them and alleged that other people have told them to do this and then the bomb has actually gone off and killed them. >> with so many unanswered questions, the fbi announces a $50,000 reward. but the case remains unsolved for four years. then in 2007, federal prosecutors announce indictments against two local people. they say wells was not an innocent victim but instead, almost unbelievably, in on the plan, at least in the beginning. >> it may be that his role transitioned from that of the planning stages to being an
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unwilling participant. >> the indictments say this woman, 58 year old marjorie armstrong apparently planned the robbery with the other person charged, kenneth barnes. prosecutors say armstrong needed cash to pay barnes to murder her father. so they enlisted wells to rob the bank. they say armstrong and barnes even watched wells rob the bank from a safe distance. wells' relatives insist he didn't know anything about this plot. >> that's why they had to lure him to the tower. >> police say wells could have alerted police. kenneth barnes pleads guilty to two felony charges and is sentenced to 45 years.
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it's february 4, 2008. peter is in a courtroom on burglary charges, and he thinks he deserves a better lawyer. >> i'm telling you, this ain't working. i can, i'd rather have the prosecutor be my attorney than him. he'd probably give me a better trial.
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>> when the judge says no, what happens next can only be described as shocking. >> i just hit him. i mean, i just went into rage and, you know, i didn't realize what i was doing until i was like, you know, i was on the ground when they grabbed me. >> i've had some bruising in the face. some swelling. i had a cut on my cheek. >> doug is the attorney you see in the video. >> they took me to the hospital after it occurred, ran a ct scan, checked me over and came out okay. >> he's been a public defender for ten years. and despite being slugged by his own client, he's not angry. >> i think he was frustrated. he'd been in jail for some time. he's looking at significant jail time if he's convicted. he has some new charges coming at him. he's got some anger management issues. i think he just snapped. >> the incident wines up costing
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hafer. in an interesting twist, he gets his wish. he's appointed a new lawyer. an ill-conceived stunt goes horribly awry in sidney, australia. a 39 year old aspiring stuntman lights himself on fire and rides a bicycle off of this roof onto these mattresses. >> we're about to watch bryan do a bit of a stunt. and this is his preparation. that's his landing pad. that's his son over there. >> the voice you hear is one of his kids who films and narrates
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the action. >> he's going to set himself on fire just on the edge of the building, get on a motorbike, and land on those pads. >> he builds this crude ramp out of milk crates and gets on the roof of a public restroom facility. >> i had all the necessary safety clothing. >> the stunt doesn't seem to make much sense, but brian says he's performed several successful fire stunts before. this time, he doesn't take all the precautions he needs. >> wasn't 100% prepared. i didn't go to enough trouble to organize a safety crew there. a few people didn't turn up. and i went ahead, stupidly. >> tell us what you're doing. >> don't put me off. i got to think. >> i'm not interviewing you. i'm just showing the preparation. >> please. >> as he prepares for the stunt,
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a small crowd gathers. and a couple of unexpected guests arrive, too. >> okay. well, brian's preparing for the jump. and we have some company here. the police has arrived. ooh. the landing pad. i think we're getting ready. >> brian says he panics. >> the police pulled up. and they started to watch. i knew it was a matter of time before they were going to can this. >> so he hurries, faster than he originally planned. now, doused in gasoline he lights himself on fire. and away he goes. a loud thunk. brian lands just short of his intended target, the mattresses. falling from a height of nearly 30 feet. ouch.
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>> i hit face first. broke my nose. got a big flash of light. thank god it didn't knock me out. >> dazed, confused and on fire, he stumbles around looking for the trash can of water. as precious seconds tick away, what was supposed to be a fun stunt turns gravely serious. >> my life was in pairless danger. and i've got to do something quick otherwise i'm going to burn and fry. >> he said his broken wrist makes it impossible for him to lift the trash can and pour water on himself. >> my knees started getting burned and going through the clothing. >> no one seems to know what to do. finally he lays down as one of the police officers who stopped to see what was going on comes to his aid and goes for that can of water. >> picked it up and doused the
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man that was on fire out and called for an ambulance to attend. [ applause ] >> when it appears brian is okay, the crowd laughs and applauds. he's alive but in serious need of medical attention. >> oh, he's alive. >> but police are not amuzed by the situation. >> this is a serious and dangerous stunt. and it's one that we do not encourage. >> i'm a little singed. >> he spends three days in the hospital. >> i'll catch up with you soon, all right? >> all right. >> hope you do better. he set himself on fire. say bye-bye, brian. >> police decide not to charge brian with anything, but the
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incident makes him ask himself, what was i thinking? >> that was just crazy. >> but brian says he isn't giving up entirely on his passion of lighting himself on fire or his hopes of becoming a professional stuntman. >> every bit of experience you learn from. i was more organized and cautionary, i might be more recognized for my skills. >> brian sees himself as one of the most extreme daredevils in the world. and despite the danger, he says he won't stop pursuing his dream of becoming a professional stuntman. and he says he's fixed the flaw in the stunt that nearly killed him. he hasn't stopped lighting himself on fire, but these days he combines it with another passion of his -- cliff diving. that way he'll always be able to
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find the water. that's all for this edition of caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer.  they are young women and girls who imagined america as a place of endless opportunity. >> people are being held against their will and being raped in essence, a dozen plus times a day. >> but dreams of upward mobility meant be being trapped in a life of abuse and exploitation. incredibly, many of these trafficked girls were first victimized by their own parents. >> the vast, vast majority have been sexually abused as kids. >> both my mother and my father trafficked me. >> tonight on sex slaves, we travel to california

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