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>> massive waves take out surfing fans. >> everybody, look out. >> hearing this crowd yelling run, run, run. >> a bull charges into the stands. >> spectators attack. >> what happened there? one of the fans came in. >> came at me with two fists right to the chest. >> bleachers collapse. a plane crash lands at a baseball field. >> desperation set in at that
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point, and we thought -- >> an off road vehicle veers off track. >> something had gone seriously wrong, but i had no idea what. >> it's want always fan appreciation day. >> caught on camera, watch at your own riffing. >> welcome to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. when you buy a ticket to a sports event or comedy show, you expect a couple of hours of entertainment, a chance to sit back, relax, and enjoy, but the spectators you'll meet in this hour got much more than they bargained for. they thought they were watching for their own amusement. instead, they were watching at their own risk. >> everybody, look out. >> fans run in fear as monster
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waves take down everything and everyone. >> look at these people. >> there was no control. you didn't know which way was up, and you didn't know what was going to happen next. >> it's february 13th, 2010, and it's the mavericks surf competition known as the super bowl of big wave surfing for good reason. >> the condor, looking solid. >> the competition is held only when conditions are just right to create the most incredible waves on earth. some as high as 50 feet, and only the best surfers are allowed to ride these giants. >> the mavericks event itself attracts 24 of the biggest names in big wave surfing by invite only, and people flew in from all over the world to hit those waves. >> surfers are given barely 48 hours notice to jump on a plane and get to half-moon bay in northern california for the
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competition. extreme sport videofwrafer tyler short receives word of the contest two days before. >> i got an e-mail about 2:00 in the afternoon saying it's go time. the 24 surfers have given it the green light, and they're going to convene at half-moon bay that saturday. >> 140 miles north of half-moon bay dan quarrels and his fiance, betsy foreman, are planning a romantic valentine's weekend when they get word of mavericks. >> my fiance and i had decided to take turns with who was responsible for the plans of february the 14th for valentine's day, and this is his year. >> betsy is a surfing fanatic. dan knows that taking betsy to mavericks will be a dream come true. >> she had never got to see an actual surf competition before, so this would have been her first competition and actually be a spectator at. you know, she was really excited to get to go. >> on the day of the contest
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betsy and dan hit the beach. >> the ocean was quite turbulent. i remember being rather fascinated that waves were coming to the left and waves were coming to the right. it definitely was an active ocean that day. >> hundreds of speck taillightors and media are setting up, including tyler short. >> i was just standing at the podium looking around for a place to watch. >> the surfing competition takes place about a half mile off shore, and tyler can't get a good vantage point. he forgets about the competition when he notices the tide creeping in. >> i was watching the waves get closer and closer, and they were coming up underneath the podium. >> down the beach dan and betsy are not worried about the waves off in the distance. >> we would have water come maybe this deep, you know, just the water and wave would just come in and some of the foamy water would come in and it would almost get your feet wet.
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>> but dan, betsy, and tyler have no idea what is coming. >> i was watching the water. i saw that another surge was beginning to form, and it was just racing right up close to the people. >> tyler jumps into action grabbing his small flip camera. >> as soon as i hit the record button, it was just blowing up in my face. people are just getting trashed on my left and my right. you know, there's folks and dogs and little kids just disappearing under the water. >> another angle shows the wave wiping people off a ledge. tyler surveys the beach. >> thank you, boy. thank you. that's my dog. >> are you sure it's my dog? >> that's my dog. >> people are standing up covered in water and sand with a few cuts and bruises ask stuff like that.
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didn't seem like anybody got badly hurt. >> i'm in pretty good shape. >> but it isn't over yet. that wave is a warning to many spectators and some like tyler decide to move back a little farther. >> i wasn't too interested in getting swept to the other side along with all those people, so i figured get the best shots of what was going on down at the beach. i would just go up the bluffs and start shooting down there. >> tyler hauls his equipment up a small cliff. down on the beach betsy and dan decide they've seen enough. >> we were leaving because it was getting uncomfortable. we were all moving more and more towards the cliff. >> but it's too late. from the cliff tyler sees an enormous wave barrelling towards the hundreds of media and spectators, including dan and betsy. >> it was getting closer and closer. >> the people on the cliff and in the media tower try to warn everyone below of what's coming.
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>> everybody, look out. >> we're hearing this crowd yelling run, run, run, and in that split second i look over my right shoulder, and i see a very powerful surge coming towards us. >> the gigantic wave knocks dan and betsy off their feet. >> it's pretty much just like being a reagan doll. have you no control. you didn't know which way was up, and you were just rolling. >> first of all, i wondered am i going to drown, and then the second one was what am i going to hit? >> it's like a horror movie. look at these people. damn it. >> from the cliff tyler short can't believe his eyes. >> p.a. tower got knocked over. you could just see big groups of people just getting swept away with this horrendous amount of water. >> the wave carries dan and betsy more than 100 feet. >> i ended up landing on a rock, and i had some big guy land right top of me, so i was pinned
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down. >> when the water subsides, the beach looks like a war zone. >> there was a lot of screaming, a lot of people hollering for help. heard a lot of people screaming for medics, you know, and it was just a lot of chaos. >> dan fractures his tail bone, but he is able to walk. betsy's leg is broken in three places, and she's in excrucia excruciating pain. >> my foot was completely dislocated from my lower leg, and if it wasn't for skin, i would have lost my foot. the pain was pretty incredible. >> dan is ecstatic to see betsy alive, but he fears that another wave could hit at any moment. >> i'm telling the doctors get her off the beach, get her off the beach. i don't know how many times i repeated, get her off the beach. >> it was survival at that point, and i just needed to get to safety. >> paramedics put betsy on a
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gurney and are able to carry her away. >> with relative calm restored, the mavericks competition goes on as planned. >> there's some broken legs and broken boards, broken spirits, but the contest rolls on. >> and tyler finally gets the show he has been waiting for. >> i had never seen waves like that before. you see these tiny, tiny people only these giant waves half mile off shore. it was amazing. >> betsy foreman is still a surfing enthusiast, but coming face-to-face with a monster wave has given her a greater appreciation for the power of mother nature and has bonded her and dan in ways they could have never imaged. >> knowing how precious life is definitely brought dan and i together. i realized, wow, in the blink of an eye, i could have been dead.
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i could have lost my fiance. >> coming up, a driver runs over everything in sight, including a fan. >> the only thing i remember is my car moving under me as everything was still black to me. >> and, later, bleachers collapse sending spectators to the ground when "caught on camera, watch at your own risk" continues.
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careening into the crowd. >> i knew right then something had gone seriously wrong, but i had no idea what. >> rock crawlers can conquer just about any obstacle in their way. bob standitch has been driving these vehicles for more than six years. >> driving a rock crawler is an adrenaline rush. i know a lot of guys get it from speed, but believe it or not crawling around sitting 50 feet up on the side of a hill and you can feel the tires inching off of a rock underneath you, it's a pretty good rush. >> on july 7th, 2005 in portland, indiana, bob competes in a rock crawler tournament. fans pack in to cheer on these vehicles that look like something straight out of "mad max." >> some people watch for the'ses. some people watch for the race. you have people there to watch you and people can't wait to see what's going to happen, if one is going to fall off of a rock, and they do. >> the competition is fierce,
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and the custom built rock crawlers can be dangerous. >> in essence, you're trying to defy gravity to some extent. sometimes you don't win. gravity does. ♪ >> you are in a confined area. any time you have gasoline, fuel in a car, there's danger of fire. >> drivers receive penalties for errors like hitting cones or going out of bounds. >> if you accomplish that course in enough time, then you had time to go try the bonus line. >> bob runs through the course without a hitch and approaches a 20 point bonus obstacle aptly named the wall. >> crawler went up a little ways and slid down. so we backed up. natural thing you do, you're going to hit it just a little bit faster. >> the second attempt yields the same results. bob backs up a bit and hits the gas for a third try. no dice. with time running out, bob decides to push it even harder.
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>> we're just going to just get into the throttle and let's see if it will get over it. >> bob jams on the gas and attacks the hill, but things go terribly wrong. >> the right rear tire actually leaned into the wall and touched. when it did, it spun the car around basically in midair and came down forward. >> the rock crawler comes crashing down. bob slams his head against the steering wheel. >> i hit it hard enough apparently basically knocked me out. >> unconscious, bob's foot hits the gas launching the rock crawler full throttle towards the spectators. >> only thing i remember is the car moving under me as everything was still black to me. i was just kind of like a rubber man inside the car. >> people in the crowd run for safety. bob plows into another vehicle, but it barely slows his momentum. a man trips and falls to the ground as the rock crawler runs right over him. bob rolls on top of another
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vehicle. finally putting ab end to his wild ride. >> at that point the lights came back on, so to speak, and i was sitting up on top of another vehicle looking at the crowd, which was very strange to me seeing as how just 60 seconds before that the crowd had been behind me. >> bob is shaken, but only suffers minor injuries as a result of the crash. shockingly, no one else is hurt. not even the man that was run over. bob meets the lucky spectator after the competition. >> he had a tire tread across the front of his t-shirt at an angle, and he said, yeah, right here is your tread mark. i'm never washing this shirt again. i'm going home and putting it on the wall. >> even though no one is seriously hurt in the crash, bob knows that he and those around his out of control rock crawler are lucky to be alive.
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>> to see that it was kind of scary because you're actually out of control. there's nothing can you do about it. it's just different seeing it than being told about it. >> coming up, a hockey fight erupts off the ice. >> one of the fans came in. >> bleachers collapse. and a bull makes a daring escape. through the crowd. when "caught on camera, watch at your own risk" continues. you pi? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here! (cop) too late. i was gone for five minutes! ugh! move it. you're killing me. you know what, dad? i'm good. (dad) it may be quite a while before he's ready, but our subaru legacy will be waiting for him. (vo) the longest-lasting midsize sedan in its class. the twenty-fifteen subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru. toenail fungus? seriously?
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all hell breaks loose when a hockey player steps off the ice and into a fist fight. >> oh, what happened there? one of the fans came in. >> i'm in a situation that i need to get out of, and i'm going to do whatever it takes to get out of it. >> february 4th, 2007. eugene, oregon. the junior b league hockey playoffs are in full swing. >> there's the pros. there's the minors. there's junior hockey. if they love the game, they can play it their whole lives. they're not going to necessarily make it big. it's kind of a last frontier of
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organized hockey for kids. >> we're underway. >> tonight's matchup is between the hometown eugene generals in white and the visiting seattle totems in green. john strong announces the game. >> there had been some nasty games between the teams. there had been some fights. >> this is game four of a best of five series, and the generals are looking to eliminate the totems tonight. >> you always have an extra element in these elimination games where you had one team that was very -- they're caged animals. it was going to be an absolute battle. >> you know what tonight could mean if they lose. their season is done. >> the two teams face off, and the seattle totems strike first taking an early lead. >> he has brour and in for a goal. once again, seattle is on the board first. >> minutes later the generals left winger matt vassel scores big. >> the back side. gets it in, and the generals have tied the game. >> the two teams match each other's goal for goal.
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>> he skorscores. scores. >> turg the battle on the he's, there are several penalties for foul play. >> you see the pushing and shoving. >> daniel bell directs the broadcast. >> there is a lot of hitting going on in the game. hard hits. >> hard collision there with brower. >> lots of physical contact in that game. lots of talking. lots of chattering. them saying stuff to us. us saying stuff to them. >> with time running out and his team winning 7-5, matt vassel collides with the totem's lead scorer. >> he was the one that got tripped up by vassel. >> i got what they call a kneeing penalty, and that's where i supposedly stuck my knee out to stop a guy that was going by. >> the totems erupt in anger. >> and the totems coaching staff irate right now. >> rather than go into the penalty box matt vassle is told to hift hit the showers.
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>> there was only a minute and a half left in the game, so there was no reason for me to stay in the box if i wasn't even going to be playing the rest of the game. >> vasle skating off to the dressing room. >> i was trying to get shots because it was dead puck. finally they skate vasle off, and i told camera one guy to follow him off the bench. >> before leaving the ice vasle and a totem's player exchange words. >> eric english comes over to say something. those two have to be separated. >> that's when i'm kind of pointing up to the scoreboard letting him know that they're done and, you know, good luck next year and, you know, you guys go home and you guys suck and that type of stuff. >> vasle still talking. oh, what happened there? one of the fans came in. >> then out of nowhere vasle is bum rushed. >> i had enough time to maybe kind of turn my head while he was jumping up in the air. he came at me with two fists right to the chest, and we both
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went down to the ground. >> that's just really disgusting to see. >> it was basically like a cartoon where you see two characters fighting. just basically a giant cloud of dust. that's all we could see. >> i tried to slam him down on to the ground. i believe his head actually hit the concrete wall, so i don't think that had to have felt too good. >> this is getting ugly and unfortunate. it's still just junior hockey. >> the stadium is in shock. no one knows who the attacker is. >> we had no idea if it was a fan or a player. >> i can't tell by looking at him if that is a totem scratch or if it's a fan. >> the attacker sprints to the totem's dressing room. moments later the broadcast booth reveals that he is a scratch player for the totems. >> every night you have a couple of guys that call them healthy scratchers. basically they aren't dressed for that night. they sit in their street clothes and watch from the stand. >> what happened there? >> the scratch player had plenty of time to think about what he was doing as he made his way from the bleachers.
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>> the stairs next to the bleachers is where the totems scratch ran down, comes across the doors, makes his way and meets vasle right where we are standing. >> luckily, no one is injured in the attack. >> the generals end up winning the game. vasle chooses not to press charges against his attacker, but the totem scratch player receives a 14 game suspension. >> i don't think he thought about any consequences that might come up from what he did. it was just kind of like a dire type of thing to do to just do whatever he could to hurt us because they knew we were going on in the playoffs. >> vasle still talking. what happened there? one of the fans came in. >> john strong looks back in amazement when he thinks about the night the action moved off the ice. >> that was completely unique. that was completely outlandish. it was beyond anything that i had seen then, and anything we
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have seen since. >> if you think a spectator attack from the stands is an unusual occurrence, watch what happens to spectators when the stands themselves come crashing down. september 19th, 2010. in brazil. hundreds of fans come out to watch a drag race. more than 500 people packed the bleachers when suddenly without warning the grandstand collapses. a domino affect occurs as twisted metal and bodies come tumbling down. there's chaos as people search for loved ones in the wreckage and paramedics treat the injured. more than 100 spectators are injured in the collapse. 22 of them critically. an investigation is underway, but authorities suspect structural fail urdz to blame for the shocking incident. coming up, one bull in the
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stands and another on the loose at a parking lot full of kids. >> i saw the bull, and i froze. i was absolutely terrified. >> and, later, baseball fans are thrown a curve ball. when "caught on camera ", watch at your own risk" continues. sur? in fact, america is now the world's number one natural gas producer... and we could soon become number one in oil. because hydraulic fracturing technology is safely recovering lots more oil and natural gas. supporting millions of new jobs. billions in tax revenue... and a new century of american energy security. the new energy superpower? it's red, white and blue. log on to learn more. when i started at the shelter, no one wanted benny. so i adopted him. he's older so he needs my help all day. when my back pain flared up i was afraid i would have to give him away.
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welcome back. there's an old adage if you want go something done, have you to take the bull by the horns. when a real bull is involved, you better run for cover. screams of olay turning to terror as a raging bull jumps into the stands. august 18th, 2010, tefala spain, near the famous site of the running of the bulls. at the plaza de tourus, a bull tries to make a daring escape. he jumps the stadium wall, hop az wire fence spshgs charges into the stands. horrified fans skraum bell to get away. a man pulls a child out of the bull's path in the nick of time. the half ton bull gores another
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man in the back and tramples a woman standing next to him. then someone in the crowd grabs the bull by the tail to stop him, but when another person throws a cape to distract him, he charges and crushes several more people. frantic spectators leap from the stands into the bull ring for safety. after 15 terrifying minutes, stadium workers finally restrain the bull with ropes. it takes more than a dozen people to subdue the bull. miraculously no one is killed during the incident. the bull's rampage swrurz more than 30 people. five months earlier another bull wreaks havoc stateside. a rodeo bull escape from a stadium and runs wild in a parking lot filled with children. >> i saw the bull, and i froze
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because i didn't know what was going to happen. >> march 7th, 2010, houston, texas. the annual houston livestock show and rodeo is in full swing. >> it's an all encompassing entertainment extravaganza. it's a not for profit that benefits youth and education. >> the event has been going strong for more than 75 years. it's a texas tradition that features lone star staples like great music, down home cooking, and, of course, a top notch rodeo. >> we're the largest festival in north america. we're the largest rodeo in the world. >> scott and denise barrett have been taking their 12-year-old daughter sarah marie to the event for years. on this day sarah marie is especially excited for the headline music act. >> we went to the rodeo to watch the jonas brothers.
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i'm a big jonas brothers fan. >> and they're off. >> when the barretts pull into the parking lot, the rodeo's chuck wagon event is getting underway inside the stadium. >> if you have ever been close to these chuck wagons when they'll race, there's a lot of noise. the horses are making noise. the rigs are jumping up and down and rattling. >> back stage a bull named hardball is in his holding pen. >> hardball is a bucking bull. that night he was scheduled for what we call a reride, and on any given night a cowboy may get a reride because of something a bull doesn't buck or a horse falls down or it slams into the chute coming out. >> as the chuck wagons roar across the stadium, hardball startled. >> he ran forward into a gate that was -- he pushed it forward and allowed -- >> the gate unlocks and hardball races out towards the exit. this surveillance video catches hardball as he makes his escape
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out of the stadium and into the loading dock. >> it was quite exciting out there in the loading dock area. people were trying to stop him, trying to push him in. >> it's no use. hardball charges forward. he sets his sight on the parking lot where thousands of spectators are gathering for the concert. about the same time scott barrett and his family approach the stadium. >> the parking lot was full of kids. i mean, a lot of kids were there. they were coming to see the jonas brothers. >> slid a commotion breaks out. >> i see all these people running, and i figured, oh, maybe they saw the jonas brothers. >> i saw people running. i mean, just moms grabbing their kids and running. you know, the opposite direction. >> the barretts quickly realize an 1800 pound bull is on the loose. denise and sarah marie run for cover while scott wlips out his video camera. the bull kept in a bucking back and forth and zigzag and people were jumping back and they didn't know what to do because the bull came different -- at different directions.
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>> i was absolutely terrified because i thought that a bunch of peep were going to get hurt because there was no sign of anyone that was trying to do anything. >> a female wrangler steps up to the challenge. hardball charges her and throws her to the ground. >> he actually bucked a girl and hit her right in the chest and knocked her back. i feared for her. i was really afraid that she was hurt very severely because he hit her really hard. >> spectators jump the fence to escape hardball's charge. a man tries to distract the raging bull with garbage barrels. >> the bull, like, almost bucked the trash can and almost hit a guy. >> the distraction buys enough time for security officers to arrive at the scene. one of them whips out a takes ever and confronts the powerful bull. >> you see this guy with a taser gun? that's like swat be an alligator with a fly swatter. >> the officer gets within a few
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feet of hardball and lets the taser fly. >> that just made the bull even angrier because how would you like to be tasered? doesn't feel fwood. >> the bull charges the officer, missing him by inches. then when all hope seems lost, the cavalry arrives. >> here comes the cowboy. he will take care of this. watch this. here's a cowboy. >> in a scene straight out of an old western three wranglers rush in on horseback. >> there was a lot of tension in the parking lot. are they going to be able to get him? are they going to be able to pull him back away from everyone? >> within seconds one of the cowboys ropes hardball. >> they got that bull. they got that bull. >> you don't have a cowboy on a horse with a rope, you can't control a raging bull. it just doesn't happen. a tazer gun is not going to do the trick. it's got to be a cowboy.
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>> the cowboys, they could have just sat back and said, oh, well, the police are going to take care of it, but, no, they got on their horses, and they took care of business. >> just three days after hardball's escape, he is back in action. >> okay, folks. tyler thompson has got a bull that took a little walk. >> bummer thompson rides that buck bull for more than eight seconds where are. >> now let's see how many minutes of coverage they'll put on him. >> since hardball's escape, precautions have been taken to make sure the rodeo stays indoors. >> there are now four levels of gates that a bull or a horse or anything else would have to go through before they get out. >> two rodeo employees suffer minor injuries from hardball's wild run. but those who were there know things could have been much worse. >> with all those children attending the jonas brothers concert in that parking lot,
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there could have been a lot more mayhem, a lot more injury. perhaps even death because a bull loose in a parking lot after being tazered is not something you want to mess with. >> spectator sarah marie is thankful that no one was seriously injured and gains a valuable lesson for jonas brothers fans. >> my word of advice, when you go to a jonas brothers concert, watch out for screaming fans and bulls. coming up, fans watching in horror as a plane comes crashing down near a baseball field. >> at that point you realize there's no tomorrow. >> and later, a heckler attacks a comedian on stage. >> when "caught on camera, watch at your own risk" continues u la. you worry. you do whatever it takes to take care of your family. and when it's time to plan for your family's future,
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. baseball fans in alaska witness danger from above as plain crash lands during the middle of a game. >> oh, my god. >> people on the baseball field turned around and saw this thing happening and waving and saying no. >> at that point you realize this is it. you know, there's no -- there's no tomorrow. >> we had a great afternoon fishing. the weather was perfect. >> condent with their catch, the fisher brothers charter a plane to shuttle them to anchorage near ron's house. at 7:45 p.m. the siblings, along
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with another passenger and the pilot, take off. >> the sun is still up. it's still july, so it's land of the midnight sun. perfect alaskan night. >> 40 miles away the midnight sun signs on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is underway. in addition to baseball tonight the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and it's filled with fans. >> there's a lot of events going on. there's a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane ron and mark cross the inlet and enter anchorage airspace. >> all the buildings have the reflections on them. probably the prettiest thing we've ever seen when we were flying. >> suddenly the plane's engine dies. >> i look at mark. >> that's not right. immediately we start dropping. that elevator feeling, you know?
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>> the pilot scrambles to get the motor started. seconds later the engine starts up. >> once he got the plane going again, it was happy times with me. >> but the happy teams don't last. before the brothers can relax, the motor cuts out again. >> you just keep hoping get it started. come, on man. get it start. he looked a little frantic up there. >> this time the pilot can't restart the engine. >> can i see the color. i can see people walking on the sidewalk down there. get it started. desperation set in at that point. come on. get it going. get it going. >> like on cue i'm looking out the window, looking out here, and we look towards each other. it was just identical. we said we are -- >> that was our last parting words to each other. >> the plane plummets from 800 feet. mark and ron know the pilot is
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going to crash the plane. the question is where? >> he was scrambling to find a place to land. he didn't try to start the motor anymore. it was done. it was over. we're going to land this baby. >> see the baseball field, and we were headed straight for it. >> on the ball field the hometown bucks are taking a beating, down 7-0 in the top of the third. bucks pitcher andrew cowan is in the radio booth when he notices something strange. >> there was a plane that was flying unusually low coming over the right field fence, and problem the plane was no longer moving. it looked initially like the plane was going to land directly in center field. >> i'm standing over here kind of playing around watching the action, and all of a sudden i see a plane in the sky, and it's like, whoa, man. >> the umpire sees the falling plane and waves off the piper. >> looking at that right fielder and kind of an unreal moment. just wanted to wave to him and
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say, hey, dude, how is a game going? you know? then it dawned on me i'm about to die. >> fans and players watch in horror as the plane heads directly for the field. >> and the total feeling of helplessness. i'm in no control here. i've got nothing to say. we're screwed. >> right before the impact the plane's left wing clips a chainlink fence. the engine tears off and the plane cart wheels across the running track. >> the second we hit it was -- it was instant and my right foot was snapped. it was noisy and brutal. >> the plane catches fire. fans and players, including andrew cowan, rush to the crash site. >> everyone was afraid that right away that there was going to be a massive explosion. >> adrenaline was pumping. i just said i need to get out of here. in case this thing blows up. >> ron fisher escapes the burning cessna.
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injured, but safe from the flaming wreckage, ron's thoughts turn to his brother, mark. >> i thought he was dead. it was really scary to think that you may have just lost your brother. >> moments later andrew cowan and others pull mark from the plane. >> we tried to move them a safe distance away so that the paramedics could assess him and assess the situation. >> mark has numerous broken bones, but he is alive. >> we're still here. you know, we're not dead. how can that be? pretty deep moment for me. it was. it was a realization that we played it through that busted up and all. >> mile an hour abbing russly, the pilot and other passenger are able to walk away without swrr. looking back, spectators and survivors of the plane crash commend the pilot for keeping a cool head under pressure. >> the pilot did a really good job of where he laid it down because if he goes to the left, they probably would hit the
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fence, and there's probably some fatalities involved. if it goes ten yards to the right, he lands on the soccer field, and there's potential to hit children and young people. >> but an investigation by the national transportation safety board finds the crash could have easily been avoided. >> in this case we obviously have a healthy live pilot to be able to talk to, so that's where we're going to be centering in on. >> the ntsb says the reason for the engine failure, pilot error. the pilot ran out of gas and didn't switch over to his reserve fuel tank. >> in the hospital he came up. i thanked him for saving our lives because he did. he landed the craft and walked away for the most part. however, in the same breath, damn, i wish he wouldn't have crashed our plane. >> in the years since the plane crash, the fisher brothers have recovered from their injuries, but neither has set foot in a small plane again. the accident has given them a
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new lease on life. >> it made us both realize that time is more important than anything. time with your family. time goes fast. i want to use it. >> mark and ron spend that time together. since the crash, they're closer than ever. >> it's definitely made us tighter. i mean, i still don't like him a lot, but i like him more than i did. he is a good dude. >> coming up, a comedian gets a whole new definition of the word "punch line." >> i just remember somebody coming out of the light. >> when "caught on camera, watch at your own risk" continues. go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big wander more care less beat sunrise chase sunset do it all. on us.
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attacks. >> i just remember someone coming, you know, like with just a fist. >> now as many of you may have already realized, i'm not a doctor. >> jim jeffries is australia's bad boy of comedy. >> ever ask a nondrinker why they don't drink? same [ bleep ] answer every time. you say why don't you drink? they say i don't like the taste of it. nobody does! no one likes the taste of it. we drink because we [ bleep ] have to. >> the foul mouthed funny man books hundreds of dates a year bringing his act to comedy clubs across the globe. >> no one has ever had a shot of tequila and gone, oh, that's lovely. next time i'll have that instead of pudding. >> i try to just do jokes, you know, try to be funny, but people get upset. you can't stop people when they're upset, you know? >> april 2007 jim jeffries is
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midway through the first of two sets at the comedy store in manchester, england. the club's in-house cam are captures the performance. >> none of you will ever know for sure because no man is going to tell you because we're good people. >> jim notices a man in the audience doesn't seem to like his act. >> he stormed out of the room early on in the piece and may have said something like you're [ bleep ] or something like that. >> that's a bloody mystery, eh? >> like most comedians, jim is used to dealing with hecklers. >> the secret is for the most part the audience want you to win if there's any battle. they're on your side. i can't think of a time i've lost an altercation verbally with a heckler. >> jim doesn't think anything of it and continues with his act. >> i think it's because although fat is pushing it inwards. >> hang on. >> out of nowhere the angry man returns and rushes the stage.
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>> i just remember someone coming like and a fist being thrown. i just moved to the side. >> jeffries is in shock as the man wales on him. >> it takes a long time for you to react. often i'll get people e-mail me and say why didn't you fight back. that's like asking why j.f.k. didn't try to dodge the bullet? if you don't know it's coming, you don't know it's coming. >> within seconds members of the audience and security jump on stage to restrain the man. rattled, jim retreats back stage. >> i was shaken, obviously. you know, i was shaken. physically i wasn't really hurt at all. you know, a little lump on the back of the head. >> the crowd boos the attacker as security escorts him off stage. the audience wants jim back, and they let him know. >> i was in the dressing room downstairs and the whole building was shaking. the audience was asking for me
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to come back out. >> welcome back, jim jeffries. >> the show must go on. jeffries triumph antlantly retuo the stage. and the audience goes wild. in true comedic fashion, swrim makes light of the attack. >> what many of you don't know is that i employ that for when gigs are going badly. >> at least even if i'm a bad fighter, at least i have some type of courage. >> if you have enjoyed my show, which some of you have, right? [ cheering ] >> and you want to see more of me, i'll be getting my head kicked in in the alleyway. ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for having me back. good night. >> jim leaves the stage to a standing ovation. later after doing a second show
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the comedian watches the tape of the assault with the police. the reality of the attack sets in. >> turns out i was hit a few times in the back of the head, and as soon as i watch the footage i felt the back of my head, and there was a big lump in the back. >> jim has minor injuries, but does not press charges against his assailant. >> he was having a tough night. you know? it's no harm, no foul, you know? i wasn't hurt, so what do i care for? >> jeffries continues to tour like mad. he figures the comedy store punch-out won't be his last time getting up close and personal with the audience. >> i probably have done 2,000, 3,000 shows in my career, and it's only happened once, so it's statistically not too bad. there have been other comics that it's happened to. i'm the only one that's really caught it on film. >> the next time you want to check out that comedy show, baseball game, and or surfing competition, the best and the safest seat in the house might just be right in front of your
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