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Posted by zardoz on Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:18 AM
 Poppa_Zit wrote:

BTW, what is it the guy removes from his pocket at the beginning of the video? Why is that significant?  

Just a little one-toke pipe.

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Posted by zardoz on Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:16 AM
 Poppa_Zit wrote:
 zardoz wrote:

 Poppa_Zit wrote:
Fortunately, it looks like Joey got beamed up just before being struck by the train.

If so, the video was very clever.  I ran it frame by frame and it sure looks like he gets smushed.

Easy to do. Set camera up on locked-head tripod focused on tracks. Make one tape of train going through. Now make tape of Joey doing his thing immediately after train goes through so lighting and shadows are exactly the same. After timing videos, run videos simultaneously on two different channels into a third "mixing" channel. That will give you Joey and the train at the same time. Use a slider bar to fade out Joey at the instant Joey is about to get hit. Not much different than when the ballplayers faded into the cornfield in Field of Dreams.

Some expensive online software allows a person to edit this way, but every college and most high schools own a TV board that does the same thing. This looks like a school project to produce a safety PSA.

BTW, what is it the guy removes from his pocket at the beginning of the video? Why is that significant?  

Ah, so!  Very interesting.

Considering the ability you mention, and the cleverness of the images in the "fraud photos" thread, it seems as though one can no longer trust any media image. 

I wonder where the really good UFO pictures are.

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Posted by squeeze on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:41 PM
After stopping the video on full screen, looks like a pipe to smoke some "kinickinic."
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Posted by CNW 6000 on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:38 PM
Maybe it's part of the PSA, if that's what was intended.  I think it was some type of mind-altering substance.

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Posted by Poppa_Zit on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:03 PM
 zardoz wrote:

 Poppa_Zit wrote:
Fortunately, it looks like Joey got beamed up just before being struck by the train.

If so, the video was very clever.  I ran it frame by frame and it sure looks like he gets smushed.

Easy to do. Set camera up on locked-head tripod focused on tracks. Make one tape of train going through. Now make tape of Joey doing his thing immediately after train goes through so lighting and shadows are exactly the same. After timing videos, run videos simultaneously on two different channels into a third "mixing" channel. That will give you Joey and the train at the same time. Use a slider bar to fade out Joey at the instant Joey is about to get hit. Not much different than when the ballplayers faded into the cornfield in Field of Dreams.

Some expensive online software allows a person to edit this way, but every college and most high schools own a TV board that does the same thing. This looks like a school project to produce a safety PSA.

BTW, what is it the guy removes from his pocket at the beginning of the video? Why is that significant?  

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Posted by JSGreen on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:44 AM

even more interesting is the one that appeared right below it when I checked out the video....

car hit by train,  on Youtube 

aparrently someone is trying to show why you shouldnt be parking, even temporaily , on the rails, even in a vehicle with a 5-star crash rating.  pretty inpressive...

you dont suppose the posts on the front of the engine is designed to punish stupidity, do you? Evil [}:)]

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Posted by Mr_Ash on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:24 AM

Maybe it was like one of those 3rd rail trains and like he was on the 3rd rail and when the train hit him it like completed the circut or somthing so like insted of going splat he was umm instantly turned into ash and or maybe even dematerialized Shock [:O]

 FAKE lol My 2 cents [2c]

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Posted by zardoz on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:07 AM

 Poppa_Zit wrote:
Fortunately, it looks like Joey got beamed up just before being struck by the train.

If so, the video was very clever.  I ran it frame by frame and it sure looks like he gets smushed.

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Posted by Poppa_Zit on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:02 PM
Fortunately, it looks like Joey got beamed up just before being struck by the train.
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"Educational Video"?
Posted by CNW 6000 on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 8:15 PM

Wonder if this would deter or encourage?  You be the judge!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNRAdNVUpxY&NR=1

Dan

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