Crazy Video: Heat Wave Buckles Wis. Highway, Launches Car Into The Air
- Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:07am by
Mike Opelka
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“Smokey And The Bandit.“ ”The Dukes of Hazard.“ ”Fast & Furious 2.” Everyone has a favorite movie that shows a car (or two) being tossed into the air during a chase scene. One of my personal favorites is the car jump seen in the Bond film, ”The Man With The Golden Gun.” This short clip shows a full 360 rotation of the car as it jumped a river. Of course, 007 was at the wheel:
That scene, like most movie stunts, required an army of professionals to build, test, and execute it.
Highway 29 near Eau Claire, Wisconsin only needed the recent heatwave to create a car-launching ramp.
An amateur videographer was just trying to record the heat-triggered ramp created in the road. He happened to be in the right place at the right time. Most of the cars that approached the buckled section of the road were able to slow down and get past the rank. This car apparently missed the warning signs:
CNN reports that the people in the car were not injured… just embarrassed.
(H/T: Jalopnik)
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Comments (76)
Halloween
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:15pmThis guy needs to learn how to hold a camera when shooting video.
Report Post »Gorp
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:56pmAMATEUR is right. Why can’t anybody taking video hold the camera still and on target? I can understand it if someone is getting shot at but it looks like this person was on an overpass.
Report Post »rocktriviagod
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:32pmAccording to our local news, this video was taken by accident.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P7HVT8UUHY
FoeHammer865
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:23pmyeah, no kidding.
Report Post »Black Manta
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:23pmAmen..I hate when people don’t know how to record…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:52pmI have a better video than that. I just forgot to remove the lens cap.
Report Post »dalek
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:00amI think he started laughing so hard he couldn’t keep the camera on track. LOL Yeeeeeee haaaaaaaa !!!
Report Post »Thunderchicken
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:53amThe video was taken by accident. The person using the phone was calling 911 when she finished the call and discovered the vid. (Or at least that’s how our local news reported it.)
Report Post »mountainmover101
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:42pmIt is pretty scary when it happens. I didn’t do it myself but I came up on a very similar scene in Texas a few years back. Not fun at all for those involved.
Report Post »NotALiberal1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:32pmThat road buckle is Bush’s fault! Notice that after hitting the impediment the driver veered “HARD LEFT”! :-)
Report Post »CorePatriot
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:56pmfunny!
Report Post »FoeHammer865
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:22pmLol !!!
Report Post »Treason_Fighter
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 8:30amIt looks to be a failed leftist attempt to say that the road buckeled under the extreme heat so suddenly that the driver was caught unaware. Then it can be interpreted by CNN as more evidence of global warming.This was staged as is most so called “news” today.
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:22pmFire the cameraman. He holds steady as the car comes onto the scene, but as the car twists over the hump, it’s the photographer who tilts. The car’s dash cam would have provided better footage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:10pmSomehow the libs will blame Walker
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:59amthat almost looked fun!
Report Post »Dont-hate-on-me-2
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:28pmAlmost looked fun. I’m on my way!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:57amWhen mountains move from their places and the isles fled away this will be forgotten.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:54pmThat only gives us three weeks.
Report Post »Macrobat
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:17amWhat‘s funnier is how the Enviroids always belittle anyone who doesn’t buy their bag of crap about MMGW when it snows during their conferences, saying “that’s WEATHER stupid, not CLIMATE,” but trumpet the EXACT opposite when there are warm days – then I get to deflate their balloons by pointing out to them that the current temperatures aren’t even records.
Report Post »shakedowncrews
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:50pmThat’s just so false. Before George Bush, summers were never hotter than 80º, hurricanes didn’t exist, tornadoes were nothing more than a light kiss on the cheek.Natural disasters only occured when God was really mad. Otherwise, earth was a tranquil paradise.
Report Post »Emanuel Goldstein
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:51amDunny how we only hear about Global Warming on very warm days in the Summer. I think global warming is real too, it happens every summer and morning.
Report Post »cyntro
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:01amUh huh. I say the person on the overpass who just ‘happens’ to accidentally have his phone in video mode was a co conspirator and freaked when the car careened over into on coming traffic. It was a stupid stunt, set up for youtube.
Report Post »caveman74
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:01amagreed, notice the cars parked down the street from the “ramp”? What kind of car is that? a mid 80s dodge van? So the camera man just happens to be there at the moment a car (that just happens to be a junker that no one would care about) gets airborne, and there are more cars parked down the street on this stretch of highway with nothing for miles to be parked for…..How much do you want to bet that more angles of this “accident” will surface shortly on utube?
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:07pmyeah, you’re probably right. Why the lack of sound? Cuz we might here teenagers giggling and whooping as the car launches? That being said……..it’s still funny after realizing no one is hurt, but I would never condone such idiocy.
Report Post »pudssweetie
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:19pmHmmm did you ever stop to think that other cars that are parked on the side of the road are there because they too hit the buckled pavement and might have blown out a tire or did some other damage to their car? I live in WI and see this all the time, pavement buckles but people are in such a hurry they don’t slow down until it is too late. See this every Friday night on I90/39 when it’s bumper to bumper Illinois people heading to their WI cabins, camping or second homes. They drive way above and beyond the speed limit weaving in and out of traffic and are the cause of many Friday night car crashes.
Report Post »oicu814me2
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:52amSpeed up so we can see what those big orange warning signs in the road say!!
Report Post »uffdaubet
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:44amA simple example of the Earth’s “balance of nature”. SUV causes global warming, Earth eliminates SUV.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:34amIdiot!
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:27amCould you do that with the Chevy volt? If so it would be cool with the flames coming out.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:43amI am sure all the “gerbils” would die of heart attacks before you go enough speed built up to do that in a volt…ha ha ha
Report Post »kindling
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:53amI believe it is things like the Volt that causes the road to buckle. It does not weigh very much and is causing the roads to wear wrong and buckle.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:17amIt would have been helpful if the jerkball who was recording this with his phone would have actually POINTED IT AT THE ACTION. The car jumped, it looked cool, then this clown decides that we’d rather see concrete. The rest of the action is left to the imagination because, inexplicably, the mental midget with the phone was incapable of filming it. How disappointing because it could have been one of the coolest YouTube videos of the year…..
Oh, and here‘s a tip if you’re going to shoot video from a phone: turn it sideways! Otherwise, it’s in the upright and makes for a lousy video.
Report Post »Redwood Elf
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:30amAccording to the person who posted the video, the cameraphone was in video mode by accident…they weren’t deliberately watching the action, and just thought they had snapped a picture of the bump.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:50am@Redwood Elf—-stogie guy needs a new stogie!
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:04amSo when will the Global Warming/Climate Change nuts going to start using this as another example of “global warming” and how we need more taxes. Was it really the heat that caused this or poor quality?
Report Post »einwolfsrudel
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:44amMr. Beck and the Blaze,
Report Post »You people surprise me. I thought of any news site yours would make sure and do your homework in an effort to make sure you are 100% accurate. The James Bond movie clip is in fact from “Live and Let Die,“ not ”The Man With the Golden Gun.” You people really need to do a better job, don’t give the enemy any ammunition.
thop1960
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:52amAmmunition? Really?
It’s almost sad that you knew it was wrong, 007.
Report Post »mdeputy7
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:11amTo be fair….nobody really cares. lol.
Report Post »turk182
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:45amthe clip is from “ The Man with the Golden Gun” the sheriff comes out in both movies
Report Post »caveman74
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:07amCNN Reporting
This just in.. Conservatives cant be trusted to run the country…Glen Beck cant even identify James Bond movies, and some conservatives like Glen Beck….Tell me America, can we afford 4 years of mislabeled Bond movies in this economy? Conservatives…Bad for news reporting, bad for movie trivia, bad for America
Is that the kind of ammunition you are worried about? :P
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:11pmThe irony here is that the arrogant einwolfsrudel is totally, completely, utterly wrong. The clip IS from “The Man With The Golden Gun”.
Shows what you know, liberal troll.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:15amThe state announced it’s moving the stretch of road south, as an amusement ride, to the Wisconsin Dells. They will position it somewhere between the “Ducks” ride, and the Tommy Bartlett Water Show.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:01amAnd here I thought it would be moved to DC and added to Pelosi’s playground and sandlot.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:39amMaybe they shoulda put a few more signs up, further back……
Report Post »grudgywoof
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:34amMaybe they should shut down the road.
Report Post »Rick16803
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:09amIm sure they did . I see advance signs for raod hazzards usually 1/2 mile ahead. But now with texting & Sexting going on by drivers, they probabaly never saw the signs.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:05pmThis is Wisconsin. Where are all of the tractors?
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:31amIn this version, it’s not the Dukes, it’s the “pick a German name”, and instead of moonshine, it’s bootleg cheese.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:28amI find these spots all the time on my Harley, where I get mildly airborne at 70 mph. I know where there are 2 right now on I-65. Sux when I forget where they are. They just kind of pop up every now an then. The one they found in the car was particularly nasty.
BTW, big ORANGE signs on both sides of the road should be a huge hint to slow down. Even if you can’t read.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:26amMaybe the are not from this country – - just here to work.
Sorry, no paperwork.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:27amThe only thing that would have made that better..
Is if that was a was a bus load of OWS protesters..!
Hey Trumka ..forget about the brown shirt…have any brown pants…?
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:19amJust a good ol’ boy.
Report Post »strewth_cobber
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:21pmNever meaning no harm…
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:16amAirborne, Yeah!
Report Post »It beats jumping out of a perfectly good airplane!
Where is that, I’d like to make the jomp on my scooter!
slimkendall
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:14amI needed the video to freeze when the car was in mid-jump and for a narrator to give me a little statement of the peril that Bo and Luke were in for after the commercial break.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:34amI loved Dukes of Hazzard when I was a kid but, my favorite car jump scenes are from Smoky and the Bandit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8-4exGiFxQo
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