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Wow! Those guys really ARE unconscious!

September 4, 2007

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

Comments

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

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

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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 …

 

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.

 

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