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Shocking Viral Videos

I saw a video on the Internet (you can probably guess where) today.  The video showed a guy being filmed while he was dancing into a road with traffic moving. The guy walked up to the street and began dancing into the middle of the street.  All the while, cars were driving on this road in both directions. I can only guess the guy was confident that the cars would swerve and miss him (writing him off as a crazy man dancing in the middle of the street).  Unfortunately, the guy miscalculated (unless he had a death wish) and then - an ice cream truck hit him! It doesn't appear from the video the man was hit head on by the truck, but was clipped really well. The guy was hit hard enough to throw him to the side and on the ground. The video shows the shocking impact. The person filming the video immediately lets out an expletive and the camera pans to the ground as the videographer appears to move toward the subject of the video. The video ends with the camera view on the ground so we never see if the guy is conscious or even alive.
Now, to my point.  It seems to me, that the availability of the Internet, video cameras, cell phones etc, is bringing out all kinds of would be shock artists. It only takes a few minutes to upload a video and have it broadcast to the world. I use the technology myself and can't knock the availability, however, some would use the technology for purely shock value - stuff you shouldn't try at home as it were.
After viewing the video I described (and I'll not post the link as it can be readily found), I had to ask myself rhetorically if the subject and videographer (if you can call him that) were trying to cause an accident. Maybe the dancing man voluntarily went into traffic because of a dare of some sort?  Maybe he thought cars would swerve and crash to avoid hitting him (and how funny it would be....???) ? 
I guess we'll have the answer if the guy survives and posts a follow-up video.  I can only hope if this happens, he labels the video:  "What not to do on a busy street." 

Reminds me of a favorite movie quote:
(man) ".....It's just that, uh, very few people surprise me."  (lady):  "Yeah, well you're lucky, most of 'em shock the hell out of me."  (from "Pretty Woman")

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