tv Right This Minute ABC February 19, 2013 2:00pm-2:30pm EST
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. y.> hi, everybod 'mettrutn. t'stime to waot ise." >> a 3-year-old in a wheelchair is terrified of tsa workers who -- wanted to pat this little girl down. >> now her dad reveals details behind the video that's touched a nerve with travelers everywhere. >> she was specifically singled out because she was in a wheelchair. a french driver sets out to -- >> do something that cars aren't meant to do. >> see if it does he. it's a naked protest by a man. >> perhaps in an altered state of mind. >> why that's not the only thing that was altered in the freezing cold. we've also got the tuesday buzzword for your chance at an ipad mini. plus the painful way to pay off a bet.
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and a song to brighten your day. even at -- >> the dmv. >> meet the man behind the high energy serenade. ♪ i am booked on a feeling we're going to get things started with a video that is about to go viral. this video picks up at the checkpoint at the st. louis international airport and you hear the cries of a young child. that little 3-year-old lucy, going through the security checkpoint with her parents on the way to a trip to orlando, florida, to disney world. as you can see, lucy is in a wheelchair. according to the mother who posted this video, the tsa officers wanted to pat this little girl down. mom is saying, you know, i'm not comfortable with this. and begins to record this incident. the reason this video is getting so much attention is how upset the child is.
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>> i want to go to disney world. >> kids cry at the airport no matter what. >> tsa has to follow protocol. >> do they pat her down or what actually happened? >> to tell us about this incident we have lucy's dad nathan from missouri. >> after 20 minutes or so they backed down and decided that it wasn't worth it. they swabbed her wheelchair. i'm assuming for bombs or drugs, i don't know. but that was it. they did not end up patting her down. that was after a 30-minute delay and a lot of embarrassment and humiliation standing in line. >> what was your main concern about them actually patting down your daughter? >> as an attorney i think we have to respect basic civil rights. would you let a stranger come up and pet your child? no. now that stranger slaps a tsa badge on and it's okay for them to put their hands all over their child and we accept that, that doesn't work with me. >> what happened after the cameras stopped rolling? >> yeah. actually they ended up asking us to remove her from the chair and
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i just picked her up out of the chair and walked her through. the alarms didn't go off. that was it. the thing that's offensive to me, she was specifically singled out because she was in a wheelchair. that's their protocol. that's something that really bugs me as the father of a disabled child. >> what are your goals for releasing this video? >> i think the purpose of this was to try to encourage people to say look how out of control the tsa has gotten. look how many of our freedoms we have forfeited. this is ridiculous. we have to get together and stop this and say enough is enough. . what do you do when you don't get your way? you pitch a fit and take off your clothes. in russia. the metro station is closed for the night. >> what? >> so in order to show his displeasure, he strips down to his underwear and starts
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throwing what looks like a trash can or cigarette receptacle against the glass doors and hurling expletives as well. >> [ inaudible ]. >> if you're wondering if it's cold, yes. and in russia, i had somebody translate this for me, they're asking him, are you cold and he says, yes, i'm cold. >> [ inaudible ]. . >> what's the purpose of taking off your clothes? >> his strength doesn't seem to be scaring anybody. maybe a little flash of the manhood might get something done. >> oh! >> now it's a full monte. >> he's flexing too. >> oh! >> surprisingly, maybe, to you all, he never does get into the metro station but you don't see it in this video but the police do give him a free ride down to the station and eventually he
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gives up, gathers up his clothes sort of like a sad dancer on a pole and walks off. >> no dollar bills for this man. >> no dollar bills. ♪ police on both sides of the pond are looking for some criminals. let's start in the uk where the three women believed to be eastern european show up at a jewelry store. but you see these two women to the left. they're going to go to another part of the store with the woman behind the counter. the woman all in black, she's checking back and forth. she sneaks behind the counter. she's looking, checking, and she doesn't take like one or two, she takes a whole tray of rings. these women are believed to be behind the theft of $93,000 in gold rings. >> whoa. >> wow. >> and she casually walks back to where the other women are. >> on this side of the pond in brevard county, florida, a woman who owns a restaurant about a month ago bought some surveillance cameras and caught somebody on camera stealing the plants where her customers eat
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outside. this person brought a dolly to carry them out. for a while the person stands there casually like nothing is going on. gets the dolly and rolls it out. he comes back with the dolly to execute more thievery. >> the joke is on him. he thinks he's getting away with something all swift and sneaky and instead somebody is going to recognize this guy and turn him in. >> right. >> hardy har. tuesday's ipad mini giveaway is not far away. >> you need tuesday's buzzword and have to be 18 or older to enter. >> hang with us. >> good luck, everybody. tell me this doesn't sound like the plot of the next scary movie to hit theaters. group of guys on their fishing trip here and decide to take a little detour in british columbia, canada. the detour to the abandoned town known as ocean falls. ♪
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>> this town used to have somewhere around 4,000 residents. w,nlbecame alst cplel abandoned in the 1980s when a paper mill shut down. ocean falls is known as the home of the rain people because the area gets somewhere between 150 to 200 inches of rain per year. ♪ >> only accessible by boat. no roads in, no roads out. look at all the buildings that this group walks through. they go inside an old hotel. they go inside an old school. they go inside a short-term living center that was six floors and 250 rooms. but the creepiest part in my opinion was right around here when they discovered this old sort of staircase. >> oh. that is really freaky scary. >> you see them going up the flights of stairs.
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some doors are locked. >> tell me this doesn't write like a scary movie. >> it writes itself. >> like a hollywood location scout video. >> right. >> i'm sure somebody is going to see this and be like perfect location for our next movie. he's got mad skills and now -- >> he does parkour video tutorials to teach other people. >> meet the dude who says -- >> pretty much anyone can do it. >> we're taking you on -- >> quite the arduous drive. >> find out how long it takes to get through
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those are huge potholes and there are lots of them. >> the cars are basically maneuvering on this road, often times driving head-on against each other, trying to avoid driving over these potholes. >> it's a mine field. >> get this, a few years ago, because the ukraine was going to be a host nation for euro 2012, repaired this road and it already looks like this. >> rough winter driving. >> i got a solution for this, mash the gas. that way you skip over the potholes, don't go down into them. >> the government is promising 30,000 kilometers of this type of road will soon be repaired with better infrastructure. this is a really nice road in russia, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't also be careful on a road like this. >> yikes. >> oh! >> man. >> talk about scary, as this guy approached the intersection, another guy seems to be running a red light, sending this guy in
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the direction of all those pedestrians. fortunately missing them. hitting the pile of snow. stopping the car. nobody injured. amazingly. >> the one time where you're actually kind of happy there was a snow bank there. that's what stopped the guy. he could have kept going right into that building. time for a little extreme ice parkour. this is ronnie shalvis in salt lake city, utah. and he is a professional free runner. this guy knows what he's doing. he's not just doing parkour. we've seen parkour. he's doing parkour on slippery, icy, snowy surfaces on ice skates. this guy pretty much does it all. >> notice all the snow stuck to his clothing too which gives you an idea how cold it is too. >> remember this video, we had several months ago here on "right this minute," the parkour real-life assassin crede individual. >> this was really need. >> that's ronnie. this isn't just about showing people what he can do.
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he does parkour video tutorials to teach other people. a youtube channel called ronnie street stunts and he joins us via skype "right this minute" from utah. welcome to the show. how can you teach this to other people using individuals. >> really it comes down to simple basic things like climbing a fence or doing a s summer salt and progress from it. i happen to take it farther, working with ice and snow and slippery surfaces. it's all about body control. i have to spend a lot of time training so i can do those safely. i've never received any serious injuries because i've trained it correctly and that's what i try to teach people. >> you make it look so easy. how many times did you bif it? >> there were a couple times on the ice skates trying to do a flip on ice skates over one of the boxes and i just didn't set it right and i landed flat on my side. no serious injuries. >> i there an age cutof chne do it because parkour is going to our
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roots doing what our body is already capable of doing and so i've seen kids who are 5 or 6 years old doing parkour. they'll jump over boxes or climb fences. my dad does it and he's 46 years old. >> what's been your best experience so far? >> since i did that video with seven super, i've received a lot of opportunities to do stunt work. i've done commercials and it's awesome being able to see people love watching it and want to learn it themselves. i want them to see the power there is and what they're capable of doing running parkour and free running. >> it's a family video where dad feeds the animals in a very scary way. >> you want to know what's scary. they probably tell you don't do this before you go out. came out of nowhere. >> see how far dad goes to entertain the kids. >> that was awesome. >> still to come, this guy is about to jump in a cactus. because -- >> they said if they got up to
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children of posidian, this is the cactus body slam. >> oh. >> what happened? >> oh! no! >> if you think he's screaming then, wait until you hear this. >> what did you think was going to happen? you idiot. >> this kind of cactus is actually called toya cactus, pulling the needles out one by one. his screams start to sound pig-like. >> this kind irritates your skin for weeks. >> strike through the hand and didn't even help. >> it's called a glove. >> one of the things stuck in his elbow. >> oh, no. >> haven't you ever wondered what would happen if -- >> no, i have not. >> you might recognize this crew of dudes because we did a cactus grab stunt not so long ago. two guys grabbing on to a cactus. >> i'll give him credit for one thing, at least he tried to put
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on some protective gear. >> santa shorts. >> if they got up to 3,000 likes on facebook, they would do this. >> they did this just for 3,000 li what do you do if you really like somebody or if somebody has done a really good job at something, you want to brighten their day? you send them a singing telegram, but better. this guy, mr. philharmonic. this guy is heading into the dmv to serenade someone and he's singing seal's "kiss from a rose." ♪ baby like a ♪ kiss from a rose ♪ oh, yes >> and this is a full-on performance. he gets into it. >> he chose the one day nobody goes to the dmv. >> philharmonic sweeps out as quickly and dramatically as he sweeps in. there's only one person in the
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audience and he's covering his ear because he's talking on the cell phone and didn't enjoy the performance. >> i'll tell you who enjoyed the performance. she's got two thumbs and this lady. >> that was really cute. >> thanks. >> we've got mr. philharmonic from kansas city, missouri, also known as philip russell newman. was this whole singing in random places your idea and how did this start? >> a friend of mine knew i was a singer and was like my mom, it's her birthday. do you care what song? i don't care. i go to the deli shop and sang this song and ran around and she died. a week later i was like would you have paid me to do that? she was like, oh, hell yeah. absolutely. that kind of sparked it to go further. another friend is like you should call yourself ilharmonicnae.ry here, who's th guy who sent you? >> his name is adrian and her name is kate and kate just went on the website and put in an order to my website and i got it saying he's going to be there at
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this time and go ambush him. do "kiss from a rose." i was like you got it. i know they're married. i have like occasions and next to the occasion she put just because. every day is a day to show your love, right. >> i love that. >> would you serenade us right now? >> right this minute. ♪ i can't stop this feeling ♪ inside of me ♪ girl you just don't realize what you do to me when you hold me in your arms so tight ♪ ♪ you let me know that everything's all right ♪ ♪ i am booked on a feeling ♪ believing that you're in love with me ♪ [ applause ] it's time for the tuesday edition of the ipad mini giveaway. >> you need tuesday's buzzword
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and have to be 18 or older to enter. >> when we give you the buzzword that's when you head over to our facebook page, if you're using a tablet or mobile device go to the post on our facebook page and tap on the mobile link. >> here we go. the tuesday buzzword is -- giraffe, head to facebook.com/rightthisminute and click on the win an ipad mini button. >> and enter tuesday's buzzword giraffe, that's giraf-i-r-a-f-f for your chance to win an ipad mini. good luck, everybody. got the ball lined up. punts it with the front of the car. >> can this car score? see what happens. and can this mini make a major back flip? >> i didn't know that the car is going to react this way. a can of del monte green beans?
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time to be amazed, nick, christian, and america, this is amazing tricks two, courtesy of our friends the soccer art team at a warsaw, poland. doing all sorts of tricks over their head into that tiny cup. >> this is impressive because it's not one guy doing a trick shot over and over again and getting it right and putting it on camera. two guys have to be on. >> yes. >> and get it right to make this work. >> you got to spin a ball on a water bottle here, but my favorite, favorite part is this. your buddy's drink needs a spoon. check that out. looks like they've got a tea or something there, hits the spoon, right into the guy's drink by the laptop.
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>> are we getting duped here? is it possible they're faking this stuff. looks too good to be real. >> i do believe that it's real. not very many people can do stuff like that. that's why it's unbelievable. >> practice and you can be amazing. i got a pair of videos showing cars doing things they are not built to do like in this demonstration from top gear in the uk, james may and jeremy clarkson playing rugby with cars. my most favorite show. i love this. >> here we go. >> got the ball lined up. punts it with the front of the car. >> yes! oh, no, no, no. >> he almost got it too. >> i know. >> that's awesome. >> no scrums in this. i think that might cause some dings on the car. >> this is just a promo for this "top gear" episode and those guys aren't forren to smashing up cars. i would bet there will be dents and skrafrps. let's move to france where they are loaded up into a heavily
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modified mini. so again, do something that cars aren't meant to do. see this huge kicker ramp setup with the big mountain of a landing snow ramp. you know there's a jump coming up. >> oh, boy. >> no! >> what? and he did a flip, a back flip? >> how do you know that the car is going to react this way? >> yes. it's not like you can use your body to flip it. it's nuts. >> you're right. speed, the angle of the ramp and if you listen to the car in the air, he has his foot in the throttle the whole way through. the spinning wheels, ting to ee eg he spin it all the way around. >> we don't have any error videos of this? >> this is all we got. >> first try? >> to see them in the back going -- i hope -- >> i forget to carry the one.
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