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07:30 September 4th, 2007

Wow! Those guys really ARE unconscious!

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Quick quiz: what we’re seeing here is…

  • Yet another lame remake of ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
  • A bumpy section of the Tour de France, sponsored by a bluejeans maker
  • Some madcap pranksters who have filled Paulo’s tires with helium
  • Rare archive footage from testing of the first gyrocopter

Well, whichever is the right answer - and please feel free to suggest alternative explanations - at least we know who’s who, thanks to a caption telling us that the guy on the bike in the air is the one performing the stunt, instead of, you know, the fourth one from the left on the ground.

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Paulo Victor Aguilera (top) of Bolivia, Latin American champion of BMX bicycle motocross, or “Bicicros”, performs a stunt in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, August 28, 2007. REUTERS/Carlos Hugo Vaca

4 comments so far

I’ll have a caption for this after I stop laughing at the 4 guys towards the right end.

- Posted by Lady Weasel

Well, I’ve always wondered what it would be like to open a can of sardines and see tiny people packed in there…

- Posted by K

Paulo Victor Aguilera (top) of Bolivia, Latin American champion of BMX bicycle motocross, gives a master class on how to breach the 700-mile fence planned for …

- Posted by John C Abell

Paulo Victor Aguilera (top) of Bolivia, Latin American champion of BMX bicycle motocross, makes a low-budget remake of “The Great Escape” for Funny or Die.

- Posted by John C Abell

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