Another youtube stunt.

Henry Ford III · 22-07-2010 7:57am #1

Featured on Newstalk. The RSA are apparently all over this one too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYmekxl7N0&NR=1

Mena · 22-07-2010 8:07am

Doesn't look like a public road to me? If not, I don't really see the problem...

Owen · 22-07-2010 8:10am

It's not a public road. It's a farmyard, but sure they'll go mad about it anyway.

TheInquisitor · 22-07-2010 8:11am

That was amazing!

antodeco · 22-07-2010 8:13am

As others have said, if its on private property, and by a "professional" stunt driver, there aint much wrong with it!

Tabnabs · 22-07-2010 8:13am

Allegedly the jump is over a public road AFAIK?

Henry Ford III · 22-07-2010 8:17am

Yep.

http://www.newstalk.ie/programmes/all/breakfast/clonakilty-joy-riding/

trad · 22-07-2010 8:19am

Birds fly over public roads all the time.

Mena · 22-07-2010 8:20am

Dyflin wrote: »

Allegedly the jump is over a public road AFAIK?

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Yep.

http://www.newstalk.ie/programmes/all/breakfast/clonakilty-joy-riding/

Ok that's a whole different story then... :mad:

Abelloid · 22-07-2010 8:37am

Dyflin wrote: »

Allegedly the jump is over a public road AFAIK?

Seriously? Where did you hear that?

Henry Ford III · 22-07-2010 8:38am

Read above and follow the links.

Abelloid · 22-07-2010 8:49am

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Read above and follow the links.

Oh yeah, sorry. I don't wake up until 10:30.. :rolleyes:

Run_to_da_hills · 22-07-2010 8:50am

They weren't actually on the road, they should be done for not having a pilots license.

I can now see the latest craze, posting anonymous Utube stunts and trying to get away with them

Henry Ford III · 22-07-2010 8:56am

The jump itself was great, but over a public road?

Slidey · 22-07-2010 8:58am

You can see there is someone standing on the road, probably would stop anyone if they happened to come along. It doesn't look much bigger than a one car road anyway

I don't see the issue tbh. Ballsy stunt, saying that he could have killed himself if it landed nose first

I.S.T. · 22-07-2010 9:08am

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Featured on Newstalk. The RSA are apparently all over this one too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYmekxl7N0&NR=1

They never should have made such a big deal out of the first one. Every idiot is going to be at it now.

langdang · 22-07-2010 9:21am

I'm sure they had people (maybe with radios) to stop up traffic, twas hardly a motorway. FFS, the RSA will be able to do you for picking your nose in your own driveway with the engine off soon...

qz · 22-07-2010 9:39am

langdang wrote: »

I'm sure they had people (maybe with radios) to stop up traffic, twas hardly a motorway. FFS, the RSA will be able to do you for picking your nose in your own driveway with the engine off soon...

It's a public road, where if one thing went wrong someone could be killed. And I doubt they had radios if they allowed pedestrians to stroll underneath. If someone was walking in the wrong place they could be clipped by the back wheels and be stone dead. Sorry, but I think it's retarded.

wyndham · 22-07-2010 9:41am

I thought he was going to lose it on the bend and smash into the concrete shed that the cameraman was standing on.

Abelloid · 22-07-2010 9:46am

qz wrote: »

It's a public road, where if one thing went wrong someone could be killed. And I doubt they had radios if they allowed pedestrians to stroll underneath. If someone was walking in the wrong place they could be clipped by the back wheels and be stone dead. Sorry, but I think it's retarded.

I really don't think that was a strolling pedestrian.

MagicMarker · 22-07-2010 9:52am

I'm assuming it's not that high off the road? If so, what if there was a truck, or tractor driving down the road at the same time?

langdang · 22-07-2010 9:53am

qz wrote: »

It's a public road, where if one thing went wrong someone could be killed. And I doubt they had radios if they allowed pedestrians to stroll underneath. If someone was walking in the wrong place they could be clipped by the back wheels and be stone dead. Sorry, but I think it's retarded.

Tis hardly a randomer out walking the dog now is it? It's obviously one of the lads, off to one side.

langdang · 22-07-2010 9:55am

MagicMarker wrote: »

I'm assuming it's not that high off the road? If so, what if there was a truck, or tractor driving down the road at the same time?

Then the pedestrian would have DIED! OMG!

Or waved them down as you would if cattle were crossing the road or whatever.
One is more likely than the other..

MagicMarker · 22-07-2010 9:57am

langdang wrote: »

Then the pedestrian would have DIED! OMG!

Or waved them down as you would if cattle were crossing the road or whatever.
One is more likely than the other..

Would you stop if some randomer waved you down on a quiet country road?

the_syco · 22-07-2010 9:58am

At 0.11 you see a car going along the "road". The car looks very small. I'd estimate that there's no chance in hell of the car in question being able to make it to that road at the speed that they went at.

SV · 22-07-2010 9:59am

that is brilliant

qz · 22-07-2010 10:02am

JustinOval wrote: »

I really don't think that was a strolling pedestrian.

langdang wrote: »

Tis hardly a randomer out walking the dog now is it? It's obviously one of the lads, off to one side.

Watched it again there and you're right it does look like he was involved. Still though, on private property that would have been excellent, but inches above potential traffic on a public road is lunacy.

22-07-2010 10:05am

the_syco wrote: »

At 0.11 you see a car going along the "road". The car looks very small. I'd estimate that there's no chance in hell of the car in question being able to make it to that road at the speed that they went at.

That is a person.

shedweller · 22-07-2010 10:10am

Nanny state here we come.

Martron · 22-07-2010 10:10am

MagicMarker wrote: »

Would you stop if some randomer waved you down on a quiet country road?

yes!

there could have been a flyiung car that hit a cattle truck or something!!!

Abelloid · 22-07-2010 10:11am

the_syco wrote: »

At 0.11 you see a car going along the "road". The car looks very small. I'd estimate that there's no chance in hell of the car in question being able to make it to that road at the speed that they went at.

Under the car, not in the distance.

langdang · 22-07-2010 10:12am

MagicMarker wrote: »

Would you stop if some randomer waved you down on a quiet country road?

You're right, I'd engage a lower gear to keep up backpressure in the exhaust, then drive through the livestock at a suitable pace to create a bow-wave but not draw livestock into the intake. Oh wait, that doesn't sound right?

no1beemerfan · 22-07-2010 10:13am

We used to something like this when we were younger in a field but the jump was only half as big as that! The buzz was mighty! We'd a lolvo 340.

Slidey · 22-07-2010 10:14am

langdang wrote: »

You're right, I'd engage a lower gear to keep up backpressure in the exhaust, then drive through the livestock at a suitable pace to create a bow-wave but not draw livestock into the intake. Oh wait, that doesn't sound right?

Abelloid · 22-07-2010 10:17am

no1beemerfan wrote: »

We used to something like this when we were younger in a field but the jump was only half as big as that! The buzz was mighty! We'd a lolvo 340.

LOLvo?

I.S.T. · 22-07-2010 10:28am

At least he has his seat belt on

Hal1 · 22-07-2010 11:46am

A jump through a ring of fire was all that was missing there, they could audition for fossett's then :pac:.

Cmar-Ireland · 22-07-2010 12:13pm

Maybe we need to get this sign updated.....?
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mike65 · 22-07-2010 12:23pm

They have been laughing if a massive double timber truck with dodgy brakes came along at the wrong moment.

Big Nasty · 22-07-2010 12:23pm

Feckin hell! :eek:

I would ****e meself doing that!

SV · 22-07-2010 12:27pm

mike65 wrote: »

They have been laughing if a massive double timber truck with dodgy brakes came along at the wrong moment.

you're joking right?

Atomic Pineapple · 22-07-2010 12:43pm

The RSA should campaign for a bridge to be built for them, its terrible that the roads are so bad they have to jump from field to field!

Seriously though its a jump over a back arse road in the middle of nowhere exactly the same as where my home place is and you'd see 1 or 2 cars a day, people you know that would stop no problem for the lad on the road.

No need for RSA involvment at all, they are a waste of our money!

mike65 · 22-07-2010 12:56pm

SV wrote: »

you're joking right?

I was just making a point about the unexpected, which is what kills most people on the roads.

zilog_jones · 22-07-2010 1:02pm

How do we even know it's a public road? That Newstalk link doesn't work, maybe it was removed because it was a load of bollocks?

mb1725 · 22-07-2010 1:13pm

More of that Micra here http://www.youtube.com/user/luuigee1#p/u/1/JG2I-qnoH6g

langdang · 22-07-2010 1:20pm

"Just some good ol boys, never meaning no harm..."
"Someday the Micra might get them but the Law never will...."

no1beemerfan · 22-07-2010 1:22pm

JustinOval wrote: »

LOLvo?

It sure was! We couldn't kill it

Henry Ford III · 22-07-2010 1:32pm

Had the driver stayed in the field nobody could have complained. The fact that they jumped the road changes things though.

The degree of danger to the public isn't important, but the fact that they took it upon themselves to pose a risk is.

Posting a video of the stunt on youtube is pretty stupid too.

22-07-2010 1:42pm

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Had the driver stayed in the field nobody could have complained. The fact that they jumped the road changes things though.

The degree of danger to the public isn't important, but the fact that they took it upon themselves to pose a risk is.

Posting a video of the stunt on youtube is pretty stupid too.

They didn't touch the road so technically they did nothing on a public road. Come on, in reality if it even is a public road it is a single lane way like the one into my house which is technically a public road but is not treated as so by us and our neighbors, its basically an extension of the farms along the road, often we would have gates up blocking the road so we could keep cattle cornered etc.

yop · 22-07-2010 1:52pm

Bit daft but if they are doing it in their own fields fair enough.

Regardless of whether they are on the public roads or "over" them then I think thats what has got them in bother. Its a bit like airspace, an extreme comparison I know!

Hope the apes had helmets in the car, if he hit that wall or missed the jump he was in bit trouble.

This could start a real snowball effect with videos on youtube of young lads

The RSA will be busy

Henry Ford III · 22-07-2010 1:58pm

Vivienne Dry Tinder wrote: »

....Come on, in reality if it even is a public road it is a single lane way like the one into my house which is technically a public road but is not treated as so by us and our neighbors, its basically an extension of the farms along the road, often we would have gates up blocking the road so we could keep cattle cornered etc.

No point in getting into minscule detail on this.

As I said above if they consciously potentially endangered the public in their stunt regardless of degree it's pretty stupid. They could have jumped higher/furter within the field and nobody would have said "boo" about it.

Similar logic to doing massive speed on a deserted road I'd have thought.

Another youtube stunt.

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