Superbaby vs. Automobile

WARNING: The following video contains moments of what would be graphic violence, if not for the fact that for some reason the child involved was not even slightly injured. Viewer discretion is not really necessary.

Okay, maybe if you have kids and are really sensitive, you might not want to watch. But come on, it's really cool!

Actually, the most offensive think about the video is the music. If you'd rather watch a more serious handling of the subject matter, without the obnoxious techno, there's this. I would have just gone with this one alone, but the view is somewhat obscured by the "Hey, look over here" circling by the news station:

Be sure to eat your spinach, kids. You can grow up big and strong and impervious to late-model automobiles.

5 Comments

Comment by James Marshall on February 7, 2010 at 6:51pm: Wow! I was a a teenager when I got hit by a car and the car won the battle. Amazing. Yeah, that music is pretty offensive, in or out of context of the video.

Comment by Tim Tompkins on February 7, 2010 at 7:03pm: In college I saw a friend get hit by a car in a similar fashion, and he too walked away unharmed. This was a week before another friend accidentally walked through a plate glass window, ala Michael Myers in Halloween II. Again, uninjured. One week later, I stepped off of a curb and a motorcycle sped by and ran over my foot. I too was unhurt. We began to think that our dorm had some kind of magic powers (or a really inefficient curse).

Comment by Joe O'Brien on February 7, 2010 at 9:51pm: You don't have to be particularly sensitive to be bothered by this, if you have kids. In fact, if you have kids and this footage doesn't bother you, you may wanna go get that checked out.

As we become old, brittle, easy-to-injure adults, we tend to forget just how resilient children can be. My daughter has taken spills that would have put me in traction for weeks and walked away with nothing more than "I'm okay!"

Of course, my wife knows someone who got creamed by a passing vehicle as she stepped off a streetcar and was more-or-less fine -- due in no small part to the fact that she was utterly shitfaced at the time of the collision, and essentially bent around the car as it hit her.

Comment by Tim Tompkins on February 8, 2010 at 3:57am: As we become old, brittle, easy-to-injure adults, we tend to forget just how resilient children can be. My daughter has taken spills that would have put me in traction for weeks and walked away with nothing more than "I'm okay!"

Hey... wait a minute... Are you sure your kid isn't Zoe Bell?

Comment by Joe O'Brien on February 8, 2010 at 9:49am: If she's not, she's certainly cut from the same cloth.

Superbaby vs. Automobile

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