Man kicks sand with "incredible power," forcing tourists to go home

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TV news reporter: "The wind blows with incredible power, there are moments when it is impossible to stand up here. The wind blows the sand at over 60 km per hour. The wind blew away the beach umbrellas and the tourists had to leave in a hurry."

(Pan to news crew worker kicking sand into the air.)

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corydodt

I like how the cameraman clearly doesn’t like these shenanigans.
EH

LOL…missed it the first time through. :)
- Glen Able
  
  I didn’t miss it, but I did spectacularly miss the point, which I blame on Mark’s headline :)
  
  I thought it was a story about a beach that was ruined because of some mad bloke who hangs out there all day, kicking sand at people.
  - blueelm
    
    I thought the same thing and was really excited to see this epic sand kicking.
    - SomeGuyNamedMark
      
      It could be exercise. In China they do tai-chi in the morning. In Romania they get up early and kick sand.
  - http://profiles.google.com/joshuabardwell Joshua Bardwell
    
    Likewise.
  - robuluz
    
    In fairness, that was some awesome sand kicking, regardless of the intent.
http://twitter.com/dhparlee dhparlee

Reminds me of one morning on the Today show, when they were trying to show how terrible the flooding was in New Jersey. The reporter was sitting in a canoe in the middle of the street. Suddenly, a man with water nearly up to his ankles came strolling in to frame.
- http://twitter.com/matcatastrophe mat catastrophe
  
  Two men, in fact. And it comes less than a minute after Katie Couric talks about an upcoming story about staging interviews with returning Iraq veterans.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRRMV_nDBt4
  - http://www.facebook.com/csismeiro Carlos Sismeiro
    
    I guess she was propelling the canoe by pushing the paddle into de ground.
    
    Edit – should have seen the video till the end first…
    Katie Couric always comes out with those “gotcha questions”
BDiamond

First thing I thought of.
http://bmj2k.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/manoutofmac.jpg
- Culturedropout
  
  Dammit. I came here to post that very thing. ;-)
  - http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch
    
    I was thinking exactly the same. But BDiamond got there first, and is thus HERO OF THE THREAD.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  A weakling weighing 98 pounds
  Will get sand in his faced when kicked…..to the ground.
  - That_Anonymous_Coward
    
    And soon in the gym, with a determined chin
    
    The sweat from his pores, as he works for his cause
    
    Will make him glisten…and gleam
    
    And with massage…and just a little bit of steam
    - Donald Petersen
      
      Missed it! Missed it! Now ya gotta kiss it!
      
      -Crazed Imaginations, Ken Cinema, San Diego, c. 1990
      - That_Anonymous_Coward
        
        *breaks out the squirt gun and rice*
Jay Converse

Christ what an asshole
sethgodin

That must have been absolutely exhausting. Can you imagine kicking the sand over and over for so long?
That_Anonymous_Coward

So this is from his demo reel to show hes ready to work for FauxNews?
darkfire79

Woops
Suburbancowboy

According to the comments on YouTube, it’s a guy from another news crew kicking the sand, pranking them while they are on air, because they got to the scene too late, and the wind had already died down.
- penguinchris
  
  Not that I doubt the veracity of comments on youtube (ahem), but that sounds exactly like something you’d say to cover your embarrassment :)
ImmutableMichael

After Effects, guys.
Finnagain

This could not be more perfect.
http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

I had to read the comments to understand what the fuck is going on. :p
Ultan

Well, at least they weren’t doing it all in studio the way that CNN did in 1991
http://twitter.com/ErnestValdemar Ernest Valdemar

This sounds like a job for . . . Dynamic Tension™!
roytruax

Certainly make you wonder what else goes on pre-edit…
Snig

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. ”

M. Twain (possibly)
http://aqfl.net Ant

“‘Gafa jurna…’
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