https://youtu.be/2RIEPKEhE2s a faithless recreation of the incident!
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This channel is so god damn good
Bobby Fingers for God!
The tie in with Adam Savage and the slomo guys is gold
Bobby Fingers makes the Internet worthwhile.
I did not expect to finish that whole thing when I started it. Gold.
I just wanted to thank you for linking this and introducing me to this channel. I don't think I ever laughed this hard about anything on YouTube.
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This reminds me of a time I took a highly religious friend for a hike through the Australian landscape. As we were walking through I mentioned the specific area we were about to walk through was an indigenous shamanic area and we should be respectful. He immediately choked on a fly.
Told me after that he was scoffing in his mind at a "shamanic area" when the fly flew down his throat.
Ironic that finding meaning in random events made religion. Or he's getting the love that he's showing. Whatever you believe.
"Nuked"
Can we use the words that mean what happened instead of throwing random verbs around
Nope, you’re about 70 years too late for that
You want "Slammed"?
How about bit, pecked, headbutted, divebombed, clawed, flew into, you know something informative
To be more accurate, the bird flew into a camera rigged on the front of the coaster intended to capture Fabio's reaction during the ride. None of that footage was used because that camera didn't survive the impact with the bird, and pieces of it are what hit Fabio's nose. At that time cameras weren't able to wirelessly transmit digital video. So anything it recorded was lost.
So, sliced might be the best word to describe the interaction.
The swan sliced him? I like nuked better.
Tell you what, here is a compromise; the Swan OBLITERATED the camera, and the camera fragment sliced Fabio. Could also say the camera DEVASTATED the Swan.
Though also, to be more accurate, no swan was involved. It was a goose.
It was only important to the point this person was trying to stretch over the incident that the bird be a swan, as it metaphorically related better that way.
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His face got Nagasaki-Naanking'd it was so epic
Yeah, that my face whenever it's covered in blood.
"Well obviously something cool happened, but sometimes this is a bad thing, especially if it's mine."
Oh my god that was 1999???
Better take my fuckin back pills I guess...
Are the pills made of back or is the back made of pills? The man screams because he ails from age related degeneration
I take only sustainably sourced, free range, organic back pills. The guy I get them from works at a morgue and assured me they're only the highest quality.
one could claim it was a sign of Apollo's rejection. but then again isn't that image metal as fuck? was his face even damaged or was he simply anointed with the blood of the sacred animal?
I thought that was his nose bleeding.
holy shit is it?
oh.
well then maybe the woman behind him is actually anointed by Fabio
You don't normally get blood on that part of the nose.
The bits of the camera that the bird hit, cut the bridge of Fabio's nose. Probably most of the blood we see in the shots is indeed Fabio's.
On a 9th grade trip to six flags, we were riding the brand-new Titan roller coaster, and my girlfriend at the time decided to ride with her best friend while I rode with the friends BF. We rode the train after, and when we got off she was standing on the platform covered in blood getting screamed at by some woman who had been riding behind her claiming that my GF had bled all over her on the ride. It turned out that someone at the very front of the ride got hit in the face with a bird on the first big drop and sprayed blood all over everyone behind them the rest of the ride.
Yelling at anyone that's bleeding is unhinged but a 14 year old covered in blood???
Yeah, it was quite the scene. My girlfriend's friend was screaming right back at her and was about to get in a fist fight with the woman. Her BF had to hold her back.
The kind of friend we all need.
I was under the impression it was a ride issue, and Fabio didn't want their reputation ruined, so he called it a bird. Regardless, it's not nearly as clear cut as the image would have you believe. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fabio-hit-goose-rollercoaster/
Read this Snopes article. Fabio never claimed the goose hit him, he said the goose hit a video camera in front of him, there to record his ride for a promotional video he signed up to do. A piece of the destroyed camera hit him on the nose causing a small cut that required one stitch. He refused to take part in suing the rider operator.
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Edit because TrackinDaKraken already posted much the same thing. I will add though that the link says nothing about wanting to protect their reputation. In fact, in one interview quoted he clearly wants the ride shut down or fixed.
In a 1999 local news interview at the end of the clip, Fabio was visibly upset about the incident, "It wasn't a freak accident, and it's going to happen again, and I cannot live in my conscience to know that the ride is still running. And even a person, even a child, can be killed."
He's in a band called King kong kompany as well that's pretty cool if you're into the genre (I'm not affiliated with him or then, just a fan!)
Edit: band name is king Kong company, evidently I just can't spell. (leaving the original for context of the replies)
I'm sorry what's the bands name? 👀
Bands name is king Kong company, I'm just an idiot.
I get that he's not American, but KKK is hard to see.
Sorry that's my bad, accidental alliteration. They're definitely not even on the same continent as KKK (both figuratively and literally)
The media got the story wrong (he wasn't hit by a bird) but...they never reported it was a swan.
Because this part is also wrong (it was a goose)
Wasn't it a goose?
I don't understand paganism enough to see what this has to do with it.
The implication is that Apollo's most favored bird took offense to Fabio's comparison or that Apollo encouraged it to do so, resulting in this "attack."
There are other clarifications about the actual circumstances in thread that are worth reading, but they don't really change the humor of OP, IMO.
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The joke is just that Fabio claimed to be Apollo, and then Apollo smacked him in the face with a bird as punishment. I don't think it's necessarily meant to be a play on the personality of Apollo specifically, by Olympian standards he was pretty chill
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My favorite was the brochure Busch Gardens put out the following year which had a quote from Fabio saying he didn’t care for apollos chariot.
That ride slaps by the way
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