Destructive, weird and absurd acts recorded in super-duper-slo-mo

This impressive slow-motion video was submitted to the Danish TV show "Dumt & Farligt." The video was captured with a 2500fps Phantom Flex camera, and the filmmakers really racked their brains for the most absurd, dangerous and weird destructive acts to record under extreme conditions, including running over a milkshake with a lawnmower, exploding a sealed bottle of red wine with a microwave, and overfilling a waterbed until it ruptured.

Best Slow motion Ever – Stupidity captured at 2500 Frames per secondThanks, Fabien!)

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Sexy Destruction!
nathan foote

Awesome! Even better for using
Trentemøller for the music
- http://obsidian.kokolis.net Chloramphenicol
  
  My thoughts exactly. Somehow ‘vamp’ is the perfect track for this video.
GawainLavers

Here’s hoping their ad revenue can pay for a new house…
http://www.facebook.com/gerafin Mike McDougall

The music choice was great! Also, it’s amusing to ponder that the bill for all the things they destroyed (not to mention cleaning up that house) is still smaller than the bill for renting one of those cameras for a day.
Dolphin Bunnywolf

I’m pretty sure this was filmed by one of my (former) tenants.
giantasterisk

Balloon + Face is still my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90VyvOhPmA0
http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.cundiff Jonathan Cundiff

At 2:36 – 2:36 you can clearly see the “bullet” come back into frame after passing through the Coke can and traveling back toward the direction fired. Scary.
http://twitter.com/BonzoDog1 BonzoDog1

The bullet-disposable lighter reminded me of a near-fatality of when the Bic first came on the market and a welder had one in his shirt pocket until a welding spark popped in. The story got around in the trade and they all went back to Zippos.
- teapot
  
  I don’t buy it:
  http://youtu.be/oqT7uwz79Zk?t=4m18s
  Does that look like a “near fatality” to you?
  
  This video is amazing though. Who knew wine in a microwave would be so devastating?
  - bcsizemo
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=V9Gn0auLFUA
    
    Alright it’s not wine, but I still question a man’s sanity when he blows up a microwave inside a garage…
gothicgeek

How I laughed!

:)
franko

:O
“indoor fireworks”
“flour & candle”
“waterbed & needle”

so… much… destruction…. mind can’t comprehend. i’d love to know more about the aftermath of the waterbed. who’s place was destroyed to get *that* footage?
http://twitter.com/ManekiNico Maneki Nico

Sure, your whites may be a little singed, but for sheer efficiency it’s hard to beat the rocket-propelled drying rack.
http://www.facebook.com/people/George-Herbert/100001916116969 George Herbert

The flour+candle one almost replicated an accident I had when much younger, that ended up with a severa-foot-across fireball of gasoline vapor with my head and upper body entirely within the fireball. I do NOT recommend anyone replicate these, if you’re breathing in at the wrong second you can get mouth, throat, or even lung burns, and the face and hair and clothes on fire are not fun even if you avoid fatal internal injury.
timquinn

What is the value of the “meh” comment? Well, it is sort of a minimal criticism suggesting that the author has not pushed hard enough, has not ‘really’ dealt with the material, has not honored the audience by delivering on tacit promises.

meh.
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  Please notify me if/when you shoot your own slo-mo reel of awesomeness.
  
  I will be most interested.
  - timquinn
    
    That is a highly bizarre standard to expect a critic to uphold, whatever the level of seriousness intended.
    - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
      
      Your reply indicates an unfounded assumption.
dragonfrog

Not that it makes much difference, but it’s a carton of creme fraiche, not a milkshake, that they chuck into the lawn mower.

In that one, and the chainsaw + bottle of coke, I like the remnants of the previous awesome stuff-demolishing experiments…
mat catastrophe

Less destructive, but no less cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGmEYopFcVg
richard wright

doesn’t the title translate to “dumb and dangerous”? love it!
http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

Oh goody, another one for the Phantom Flex subfolder in my HD vids directory
: )
Love the tune, too.

/looks up Trentemøller

Thanks, Nathan : D
http://twitter.com/librtee Sasha@librtee

wot did i just watch???
10xor01

Excuse me, but I must go make a small modification to my dryer rack.
chupsahey

Sooooommmmmeeee mmmeeeeeeennn juuuuuuuusst waaaaaaantt tooo waaatch thhheeeee woooooooorrlld buuuuurrrrrrnn.
noah django

ROCKIT PROPELLLLLLLED DRYARRRRR RAAAAAAAAACK!
sgeorge

“Flour and Candle” – I expect that people might be surprised that a handful of flour can instantly catch file, when released above a candle. However, in flour packing factories, they are constantly worried about static electricity, since a spark can ignite flour in the air, and cause a huge explosion. The same problem exists with grain elevators.
- http://twitter.com/bazimmerman Brad Zimmerman
  
  Anyone that has read Monstrous Regiment is not surprised.
http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain

I love that camera so much.