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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 11/11/2013 : 09:49:19

[url="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fZuhXUHGBQE/UoDOMpNz0YI/AAAAAAAAjeU/wbWhmB0oLfU/w450-h253-no/13+-+1"]Self-inflating raft.[/url]

David
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Sirius Lepak
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 09:55:35

It's good to know that they work when you need them!

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 11:06:19

It took a couple looks to notice the store worker getting launched.

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islander
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 12:39:34

Clean Up in aisle 3.....

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 14:12:35

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by dlucier
 It took a couple looks to notice the store worker getting launched.
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I had to go back & look again to see what you were talking about. I thought you were referring to the guy in the back right, but there's the poor stocker getting slammed against the aisle directly behind the guy who pulls the lanyard.

Edit: just looked again, it's the same guy, he just gets launched through the intervening aisle full of stuff.

Watched it a couple more times and I'm beginning to think it was staged, notice in the upper right corner, a bunch of inflatable rings start falling to the floor before the raft pushes him far enough to impact anything. Maybe just a coincidence, but seems suspicious.

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jerlim
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 14:20:42

I vote staged...as funny as it is...why was the camera exactly/perfectly in the right place to capture the scene?

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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 16:01:03

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by jerlim
 I vote staged...as funny as it is...why was the camera exactly/perfectly in the right place to capture the scene?
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Security camera.

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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 16:03:51

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by delliottg
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by dlucier
 It took a couple looks to notice the store worker getting launched.
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...notice in the upper right corner, a bunch of inflatable rings start falling to the floor before the raft pushes him far enough to impact anything. Maybe just a coincidence, but seems suspicious.
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Convection current. The half-height shelf fixture gets pushed to the right. This pushes a whole bunch of air to the right near the floor. Continuity equation dictates that there would then be a return flow of air in the other direction near the ceiling. It doesn't take much to push the feather-light inflatable rings off the shelf.

I hope the guy wasn't killed or injured. It looks really severe to me.

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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 16:08:56

My wife just saw the clip. She recognized it from a movie. So not a hoax, but definitely a set-up.

Real life rafts inflate MUCH slower than that.

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 17:50:42

That's a scene from the Adam Sandler movie Grown Ups 2. Just watched it Saturday.

The movie is a typical Adam Sandler movie (not that funny).

If you watch it over and over I think that's a dummy you see fly across the aisle. Near the end of the clip it appears either who or whatever it is is limp.

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pastmember
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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 18:05:59

But Opera Man could sure sing.

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 11/12/2013 : 08:40:14

Laughed out loud! Felt sorry for the guy until I read it was a movie clip. Makes more sense now.

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