Kids in 'lethal' roundabout stunt

[Secret Squirrel]

A park stunt where two girls were thrown from a roundabout powered by a moped is being investigated by police.
Officers were alerted to the incident in Crawley, West Sussex, after seeing video footage of the prank on a US-based website.

The video shows a spinning motorcycle wheel being placed on the outer edge of the roundabout by two teenage boys. Two girls are crouched in its centre.

Insp Mark Piper said the stunt was similar to a "high-speed road crash".

The roundabout eventually reaches a speed of about 20mph (32kp/h) and the girls, believed to be 12 or 13 years old, are flung off violently.

'Phenomenally dangerous'

Mr Piper added: "This is an extremely dangerous practice and for the safety and welfare of all concerned we are urgently trying to contact and speak to the participants."

A spokesman for Crawley Borough Council described the stunt as "phenomenally dangerous" and said it could have ended in a fatality.

"It is a bit like Jackass but this is a lot more dangerous because it involves children rather than people old enough to know better," he said.

"We have checked local hospitals and we have been assured that no emergency admissions have been made relating to this."

link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5236590.stm)

And yes it's that video that's been posted 5 to 10 times before so I'm not posting the video.

[mi35d]

Dangerous? Yes.

Ball busting funny? Oh, my yes.

[americanbychoice]

Hmm... shall we have another fun round of "Guess what secret anti-US message SS is trying to communicate with this post"?

/sometimes annoyed by what Secret Squirrel posts, but I find it funny that there's a bunch of people wondering what Secret Squirrel is "actually" trying to say

[Hellfish]

The fact that it was a US based web site practically guarantees that those dirty American pigs are exporting cultural terrorism to the rest of the world.

[americanbychoice]

The fact that it was a US based web site practically guarantees that those dirty American pigs are exporting cultural terrorism to the rest of the world. x2
Very insightful analysis of Secret Squirrel's post!
I think that is very close to what Secret Squirrel had in mind.

Also...
"It is a bit like Jackass but this is a lot more dangerous because it involves children rather than people old enough to know better," he said."

Since Jackass is from an American network (MTV... one of the worst exporters of the horribly invasive American culture), it's probably no coincidence that SS chose this particular article to reinforce his secret thesis (i.e. that American dirty pigs are exporting their virulent and poisonous cultural terroristic values to the civilized world).

[Bia]

The fact that it was a US based web site practically guarantees that those dirty American pigs are exporting cultural terrorism to the rest of the world.

That's right....VIA playground equiptment

[scrybe]

"It is a bit like Jackass but this is a lot more dangerous because it involves children rather than people old enough to know better," he said.

Ha, so if you know better you bounce harmlessly, but if you are a child it automatically becomes fatal? Fascinating...

[Macs.]

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[Asheren]

Ha, so if you know better you bounce harmlessly, but if you are a child it automatically becomes fatal? Fascinating...

Well kids have a bit "weaker" survival instinct and most important are less experienced. Overall they less consider potential consequences. Besides in this example child certainly is weaker than aldut soo more ****e to fall off while aldut would remaing holding roundabout and having "fun".

Childrens are more ****e to some kinds of injures while more "resisstant" to other due to their difrent perception of pain.

[wulfstan]

Amazing how bozos like us see it on the net weeks before the moral highground is claimed by the authorities. I saw it on the national news here last night...

[scrybe]

I figured the video was from the UK. Guys that drive scooters here don't get too many opporunities to talk with girls willingly, let alone interact with them.

[wulfstan]

Deffo the UK. Chavs meet Darwin, as someone here pointed out when it was first posted.

[scrybe]

Then why the hell are US officials getting involved? As if our idiots aren't giving them enough to worry about...

[Macs.]

Then why the hell are US officials getting involved? As if our idiots aren't giving them enough to worry about...

You may won the independence war, but you don't own the UK...

OR IS WEST SUSSEX IS THE US ?

Ich don't think so.

[B25Hmitchell]

I know those 2 girls, and you sir, are neither of those 2 girls.

[scrybe]

OR IS WEST SUSSEX IS THE US ?

Ich don't think so.


Ich no comprende.