(Photo: YouTube)
A man in Argentina reportedly loved his car so much that when a freak hailstorm struck Mar de Plata, he leaped on the roof of the vehicle and positioned himself as a body shield.
Video seemingly taken by a neighbor shows the man lying on his stomach, his arms and legs moving frantically as though doing a spastic breast stroke or his best impersonation of a swimming frog. In reality, he’s probably just trying to cover as many square feet as possible, utilizing his arms and legs as impromptu windshield wipers.
According to AOL, an estimated 5,000 cars, homes, offices and schools were damaged in the span of just ten minutes by the golfball-sized hail.
“If I needed to protect my car from hail, I’d just throw a couple thick blankets over it, but this guy certainly wins on style points,” Jalopnik concludes.
Here’s video of the unusual sighting, uploaded to YouTube on Sunday:
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RuthD
Feb. 27, 2013 at 4:52pmfound it here http://www.jokeroo.com/videos/funny/hail-protection.html
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RuthD
Feb. 27, 2013 at 4:46pm“This video is private”
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1WhoQuestions
Feb. 27, 2013 at 2:55pmSo instead of using blankets to protect the car, he decides to use his body and suffer the injuries from the hail. Let us hope he hasn’t reproduced.
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flatbroke
Feb. 27, 2013 at 2:20pmI can understand this, we had a hailstorm last year, baseball sized hail, and a lot of vehicles were damaged, so anything you can do to prevent this is a good thing, but i would have gone with the blanket idea.
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Stoic one
Feb. 27, 2013 at 1:27pmThe video is now gone :(
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hi
Feb. 27, 2013 at 12:19pmAww! That is so cute!
Shouldn’t he be doing it to the hood. One cannot see the roof.
Prius owners would not do this because they would deny that hail was falling.
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kadster01
Feb. 27, 2013 at 11:39amAlcohol was not involved.
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FeliciaJewel
Feb. 27, 2013 at 11:29amGlad I have a home with a garage.
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dealer@678
Feb. 27, 2013 at 11:28amIf he had done that on a new car dealerships lot he would have been fired
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BurntHills
Feb. 27, 2013 at 11:07am“HILARIOUS”! really? well, several mature adults here saw it and no one thought it was very funny. “amusing” as in ‘watching someone be obamavoter stupid’, sure.
then someone made the observation that most of THEBLAZE’s articles must be picked by youngsters raised on AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS, where getting hit in the face by a running chainsaw is “HILARIOUS!” or “EPIC!” or described as “HILARITY ENSUES!” — we wish THEBLAZE articles would stick to timely national NEWS that tips us off to what obama’s trying to pull on us, not this BS filler.
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codygreenhalgh
Feb. 27, 2013 at 2:36pmJust curious, when you go to buffet, do you complain because they offer food you don’t like? You get to choose what stories you click on and read.
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teddyc73
Feb. 27, 2013 at 10:50amWhile this is a bit extreme and the man is a complete buffoon I admit I have left work early and raced home to get my car in the garage after hearing a weather report of an imminent storm producing large hail.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Feb. 27, 2013 at 10:20amNuts, plain nuts.
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woodyee
Feb. 27, 2013 at 9:38amWhile watching the video, I couldn’t help but think ‘Obama-voters’…I mean, what a stupid mother-shut-your-mouth!
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SpankDaMonkey
Feb. 27, 2013 at 9:25am.
I thought he was really Loving his car…..
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txswalker
Feb. 27, 2013 at 9:12amGood to see Argentina has stupid people as well. Thought American Libs had cornered that market for a while.
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ColoradoMaverick
Feb. 27, 2013 at 8:58amIt certainly looks like his rear bumper is touching the front bumper of the car behind it.
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ColoradoMaverick
Feb. 27, 2013 at 8:57amHow funny! I wonder how much damage he caused by crawling on the roof and doing that? Cars roofs aren’t like they used to be, they cave in with the weight of a grown man on top.
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Tri-ox
Feb. 27, 2013 at 8:57amIt’s too bad that they guy doesn’t have a six-foot kangaroo tail, so that he could have protected the hood and windshield as well.
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MOLONL4BE
Feb. 27, 2013 at 8:47amWhat a dumba$$. Dude, if you are going to protect anything with your fat belly, at least lay on the hood because that is the hail damage you see every time you drive the car.
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DYNA
Feb. 27, 2013 at 8:59amGood point.
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Mr.Fitnah
Feb. 27, 2013 at 8:46amThat’s what a duvet is for
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KickinBack
Feb. 27, 2013 at 8:44am“Car port! Car port! I should’ve paid the extra 100 bucks for a car port!”
*AllState Mayhem cackles in the background…*
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DontStopBelieving
Feb. 27, 2013 at 9:32amLmao
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DZ-015
Feb. 27, 2013 at 8:41amIs that stroke called the Argentine Crawl?
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RANGER1965
Feb. 27, 2013 at 8:40amUnnecessary Personal Pleasure eh?
So was the plastic surgery you recieved 5 years ago, you idiotic, liberal, hypocrite.
Molon Labe
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