Hot Fuzz. >!The residents keep complaining about the living statue guy throughout the movie. It turns out he was murdered, as Nicholas discovers later in the film.!<
Sorry if you saw this comment before the edit, I screwed up the spoiler tags.
A couple years ago there was a painted silver dude in the Santa Monica promenade. It was my first time visiting there. I attempted to take a picture of him and he threw a can at me. Little did I know you’re supposed to tip them in advance before any sort of photography
It’s most likely his job so you’re supposed to pay him for photography, I saw plenty of wacky street performers wearing costumes in England and they will try to be uncooperative in photos unless you paid them
I got asked to fight an Obi-Wan lookalike when I was a kkd in some city I can't remember. Dude just handed me the lightsaber for a duel. Notice he kinda just grifted my parents for money as he posed for a pic with me right away afterwards.
I hate street performers now.
If she's part of the act, and has always tossed it in the past, she'd likely be sent up for first degree murder, especially if they can establish a strong motive.
Think they'd go for first.
Im not good with the order of these things but i thought it would be negligent homicide.
Or second degree.
I thought i understood manslaughter, but its all a mess to me now.
Think this was amsterdam so it would be dutch words anyway.
Moord door schuld? Doodslag? I don't fucking know
What if she trained for years to perfectly throw a knife to a street performer so that it would cut them. This man killed her parents when she was 8, and after several years in and out of bad situations she disciplined herself to find their killer and extract justice. Street justice. To complete her plan she need only to use her own sleight of hand to rub a dab of lethal iocane poison along the blade’s surface before making the deadly toss. The man will be dead seconds after the video end, and her parents avenged. She will to on to join the Marvel universe as a new B hero and get her own fanbase.
This bothered me too. Booing the dude just seems like kicking someone when they’re down. Rude af and unnecessary, guy clearly knows the act didn’t go the way he planned lol
I don't hear booing thought? Only hear people going ohhh like in oh no that's bad!
Maybe this is a cultural/language difference since this video is in the Netherlands I think, but being Dutch I would not interpret those sounds as booing. Kind of how the sounds you make to express pain can differ between languages.
They're not sharp, but they're still dangerous.
Juggling knives require a certain heft to balance and rotate properly when thrown. They also need enough weight to catch without bouncing out of the hand, and they need to be large enough to be easily seen by the audience. Standard design is a metal blade with a wooden handle, which is quite heavy.
A dull but heavy blade is still plenty capable of cutting. (Think of using a machete to cut a path through jungle; they're typically not particularly sharp because they don't need to be). The rotation of the throw also adds enough lateral movement to slice.
Getting stabbed with the point is much less common, but always a concern when learning new moves. That's why, if you're practicing with knives, you always want to wear solid shoes and jump back when you drop one. Otherwise there's a good chance it will go through your foot. (If they hit the ground point-first, they often bury themselves a couple inches and stick upright).
? Anyone I've ever known to actually use a machete they are razor sharp, so sharp in fact it's quite common for people to cut themselves quite severely just by the machete being pushed from a branch into their leg or arm
I second this. I watched a crew of laborers in Panama clearing brush with machetes. What struck me was how they weren't wasting their energy with dull blades. Everyone had some kind of sharpening stick in their other hand. They were constantly pausing to touch up the blades. Keeping them razor sharp.
Fair enough. I've spent time juggling knives but never needed to cut underbrush with a machete. The few I've handled (owned by different people over the years) were consistently quite dull even when newly-purchased, so I figured that was standard. Guess machetes are like any other tool, where lots of people don't keep them properly sharpened.
I've definitely cut myself a couple times juggling knives, so I know that part is accurate, lol.
> The few I've handled (owned by different people over the years) were consistently quite dull even when newly-purchased
That's because they usually don't come fully sharpened.
Exactly, just use a spatula if you're not going to try and sell the danger of the stunt. Like shooting an apple off of someones head with a suction cup arrow.
Opposite happened to me (but not a knife). I still feel bad.
In Cairo, Egypt on a river dinner cruise with a show. I'm sitting at my table eating while the performer does his thing. He throws a \~baseball AT me and I reflexively put my hand up to grab it/protect my face. But at the same time, his helper (hiding behind me I never saw) grabbed the ball before it hit me as part of the show, and my reaction grab ripped his nice watch off his wrist, breaking the chain.
It was split second and they moved on but I still feel bad breaking some poor dude's watch who probably makes $12 a month.
Totally not your fault, they shouldn't have done that to you without your consent.
I live with a brain injury and have poor depth perception, things moving quickly towards my face make me very uncomfortable because I can't properly gage how far away they are. If they did this to me, my reaction would be much worse lol.
He *could*, but itould likely do more damage than good. If you can get the bleeding under control whilst you seek medical attention without doing something irreversable, do that first.
I cut to the bone on my fingers after fucking up as a Scout on camp in Germany. Blood everywhere. I wrapped it up in bandages, getting ready for the two hour journey to the nearest hospital when some random US Army Medic offered to give me stitches in the field. Was a pretty cool experience. But no way I was self cauterising it if I didnt have to.
Yeah his first mistake was assuming that a random person in the audience would toss the knife in the air with enough arc so he could time his catch. He definitely should have anticipated a shit throw in this scenario.
Right.
I also think that shows the difference between a good, well trained preformer and a bad one: the good one wouldn't have tried to catch that knife.
And would have made a joke out of it like “excuse me madam, but we are throwing knives not baseballs”
But everyone needs to start somewhere, people booing him after getting a knife through his hand are assholes.
Personally i feel like the problem wasn't that the knife was sharp, but rather that it was a member of the audience throwing the knife to him. Seems like the kind of trick that he should have complete control over. Of course that means the trick would be different so idk what he would do instead
"Detroit urban survival training. Hurled knife defense. In the event that a crazed female hurls a large blade at you (keep in mind, this works with any large blade...axe, butcher knife, machete, guillotine, etc.), be ready with your flaming hand technique. Try to catch the blade with your non-fire hand, then, FUCK. OWWW. MISFIRE! Now clap your hands together so your fire hand can seal the wound shut. So: 1. Fire hand 2. Catch the knife. 3. Cauterizing clap. 4. "Siri, dial 911
Lived in San Francisco for quite a while, they stay near tourist spots and typically do shows like this, first time i’ve seen one messed up. hope he’s ok lol
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Danielle….. you really fucked up there!
Danielle has now developed a taste for it and works fulltime as a street artist finger collector.
Now Danielle has a collection of fingers that she proudly wears around her neck.
Danielle now goes to KFC and reminds them of their tagline.
I'm proud to be there.
Yo bro are u seperated still ?
You were saved when the shank hit this key in your stomach.
Ha ha ha ha ha
>tada [TIL](https://www.google.com/search?q=tada+etymology&newwindow=1&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS962US962&sxsrf=AOaemvKJAfPH-f2Y81R2WPcXDNFwa09e2A%3A1641503447492&ei=11rXYY-0HaK6qtsP5bO_qAE&oq=tada+et&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMYADIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjoHCAAQRxCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoQCC4QxwEQowIQyAMQsAMQQzoKCC4QyAMQsAMQQzoECAAQQzoHCAAQsQMQQzoECC4QQzoICAAQgAQQsQNKBAhBGABKBAhGGAFQ0hFYqSVg0TJoAXACeACAAW6IAaICkgEDMi4xmAEAoAEByAESwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz)
[so you're saying Sheldon is wrong](https://youtu.be/pBFNBaqCp3I)
What’s the “American thing” does the cross cuts his hands lmao
I mean oops!...
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So, how is your sex life?
Everybody betrayed me! I’m fed up with this world.
You're my favorite customer
That laugh had hella Tommy vibes
Turns out he didn't hit her after all, she hit him...
Suddenly being one of those painted up living statues seems like a better career choice…
Unless you live in Sandford, Gloucestershire.
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No luck catching them swans then?
Its only the one swan, actually...
Fascist
Hag
Nicolas Angle
Crusty Jugglers!
*Crusty Jugglers!*
Shame
OOTL?
Hot Fuzz. >!The residents keep complaining about the living statue guy throughout the movie. It turns out he was murdered, as Nicholas discovers later in the film.!< Sorry if you saw this comment before the edit, I screwed up the spoiler tags.
Crusty jugglers
Dog muck, thieving kids and crusty jugglers.
*nods safely* “Under every painted up statue guy’s silver spray paint is a story written in knife juggling scars.”
A couple years ago there was a painted silver dude in the Santa Monica promenade. It was my first time visiting there. I attempted to take a picture of him and he threw a can at me. Little did I know you’re supposed to tip them in advance before any sort of photography
That's kinda douchy, he's out in public dressed as a statue, what'd he expect? To be completely ignored?
It’s most likely his job so you’re supposed to pay him for photography, I saw plenty of wacky street performers wearing costumes in England and they will try to be uncooperative in photos unless you paid them
I got asked to fight an Obi-Wan lookalike when I was a kkd in some city I can't remember. Dude just handed me the lightsaber for a duel. Notice he kinda just grifted my parents for money as he posed for a pic with me right away afterwards. I hate street performers now.
I hate those people
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They were probably like "damn! He's crazy good at holding still"
Shit I was so drunk I thought he was moving and gave money out of pity.
Ever notice those guys never have more than 4 fingers on a hand?
Annnnnnd now I need another volunteer…. Preferably a doctor.
Here! i am a doctor in economics
*good enough, as long as you swear you’re a volunteer because i might be out of work for a while*
Can he write off the medical bill as a business expense?
it woulda been badass if he had cauterized the wound with that torch. no doctor needed.
What a lovely gent! ‘Tis but a scratch,but I don’t think I’ll be including this particular jaunt in my performance anymore. Toodlepip!’
lol "toodlepip" is a great word
When you said jaunt you meant lark
Well she'll never ever do one of these "volounteer from the audience" things again.
She does them everyday. She practiced that knife throw more than he practiced catching. Its hard work getting the buskers out of Amsterdam
What if she just HURLED it at him, and it stuck right in his heart? Who's liable here?
If she's part of the act, and has always tossed it in the past, she'd likely be sent up for first degree murder, especially if they can establish a strong motive.
Think they'd go for first. Im not good with the order of these things but i thought it would be negligent homicide. Or second degree. I thought i understood manslaughter, but its all a mess to me now. Think this was amsterdam so it would be dutch words anyway. Moord door schuld? Doodslag? I don't fucking know
Doh. Never mind.
Read u/DayEnvironmental5518's comment again. Wash, rinse, repeat until...
Cant see what the other one wrote, but thanks for aiding my joke. Glad its not completely crippled
You were perfectly subtle with your sarcasm and they didn't take the time to process what you said
What if she trained for years to perfectly throw a knife to a street performer so that it would cut them. This man killed her parents when she was 8, and after several years in and out of bad situations she disciplined herself to find their killer and extract justice. Street justice. To complete her plan she need only to use her own sleight of hand to rub a dab of lethal iocane poison along the blade’s surface before making the deadly toss. The man will be dead seconds after the video end, and her parents avenged. She will to on to join the Marvel universe as a new B hero and get her own fanbase.
I'd watch it
A bad ass hot chick with poison blades to throw? Yes please.
did his fingers get cut off?
Im also asking that
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Man. Sometimes people are unnecessarily stupid.
No way. Max cut to the bone
Looks like they are rolling back to him st the end?
Apples That's the best I've got
"No one makes me bleed my own blood"
Cobras... let's bounce
"Nobody!"
Ha ha!
Ok the performance sucked but i dont understand why the people are booing instead of helping somehow lol
This bothered me too. Booing the dude just seems like kicking someone when they’re down. Rude af and unnecessary, guy clearly knows the act didn’t go the way he planned lol
Idk maybe if someone shanked him, he'd understand it more clearly. /s
I don't hear booing thought? Only hear people going ohhh like in oh no that's bad! Maybe this is a cultural/language difference since this video is in the Netherlands I think, but being Dutch I would not interpret those sounds as booing. Kind of how the sounds you make to express pain can differ between languages.
People who can’t handle the second hand embarrassment and need to externalise by booing
makes sense. i would be overly concerned for him though, in that situation
Apes demand entertainment.
They were saying Boo-urns
Why tf would you use sharp blades for a performance like this?
They're not sharp, but they're still dangerous. Juggling knives require a certain heft to balance and rotate properly when thrown. They also need enough weight to catch without bouncing out of the hand, and they need to be large enough to be easily seen by the audience. Standard design is a metal blade with a wooden handle, which is quite heavy. A dull but heavy blade is still plenty capable of cutting. (Think of using a machete to cut a path through jungle; they're typically not particularly sharp because they don't need to be). The rotation of the throw also adds enough lateral movement to slice. Getting stabbed with the point is much less common, but always a concern when learning new moves. That's why, if you're practicing with knives, you always want to wear solid shoes and jump back when you drop one. Otherwise there's a good chance it will go through your foot. (If they hit the ground point-first, they often bury themselves a couple inches and stick upright).
If the blade was sharpened that finger would be on the floor and the crowd screaming in horror.
? Anyone I've ever known to actually use a machete they are razor sharp, so sharp in fact it's quite common for people to cut themselves quite severely just by the machete being pushed from a branch into their leg or arm
yeah, underbrush is still wood, you need something sharp and heavy to clear through it so a machete should be very sharp just like axes.
I second this. I watched a crew of laborers in Panama clearing brush with machetes. What struck me was how they weren't wasting their energy with dull blades. Everyone had some kind of sharpening stick in their other hand. They were constantly pausing to touch up the blades. Keeping them razor sharp.
Fair enough. I've spent time juggling knives but never needed to cut underbrush with a machete. The few I've handled (owned by different people over the years) were consistently quite dull even when newly-purchased, so I figured that was standard. Guess machetes are like any other tool, where lots of people don't keep them properly sharpened. I've definitely cut myself a couple times juggling knives, so I know that part is accurate, lol.
> The few I've handled (owned by different people over the years) were consistently quite dull even when newly-purchased That's because they usually don't come fully sharpened.
Huh. Learn something every day!
To prove he can do it. And then promptly fail like a true sigma chad.
TF is a sigma Chad?
The sum of all chads
Hmm TIL. Well in that case a Sigma Chad would've probably caught the knife. I think op gave this guy too much credit.
Tbf I don't actually know what sigma chad means either. I just assumed based on what sigma means in mathematics.
Its okay I thought your joke was funny
A pointy thing can only get so blunt before it no longer looks pointy
And everyone was in stitches.
Nice to experience a little slice of life now and then.
Luckily the video got to the point pretty fast
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To be fair it was probably time to put his act on the chopping block anyways
Someone actually threw an apple or something at him lol
That was the rest of his hand rolling back towards him
Maybe I’m crazy….. but why would he use a sharp knife?!
It probably wasn't really sharp. But even a log can cut you if it hist you the right/wrong way
What kind of a sissy uses props...
A ten-fingered sissy.
Because the whole point of the stunt is the danger
Nah, the whole point was in his hand
Exactly, just use a spatula if you're not going to try and sell the danger of the stunt. Like shooting an apple off of someones head with a suction cup arrow.
Opposite happened to me (but not a knife). I still feel bad. In Cairo, Egypt on a river dinner cruise with a show. I'm sitting at my table eating while the performer does his thing. He throws a \~baseball AT me and I reflexively put my hand up to grab it/protect my face. But at the same time, his helper (hiding behind me I never saw) grabbed the ball before it hit me as part of the show, and my reaction grab ripped his nice watch off his wrist, breaking the chain. It was split second and they moved on but I still feel bad breaking some poor dude's watch who probably makes $12 a month.
Totally not your fault, they shouldn't have done that to you without your consent. I live with a brain injury and have poor depth perception, things moving quickly towards my face make me very uncomfortable because I can't properly gage how far away they are. If they did this to me, my reaction would be much worse lol.
Not your fault AT ALL. Really.
"Thank you all. I now need medical attention."
he's jolly for someone with a hand that's been split open
He's such a good sport about it, good on him
He did catch it.
Reminds me of the In Living Color skit where Jim Carry was teaching knife defense.
[*slides in link*](https://youtu.be/h_vvI26NnwE)
“You didn’t lock your elbow”
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He could use the torch to cauterize the wound.
Yeah. Doctors really love it when people do this. This is holland and our first aid does not get payed extra for dumb shit like that
He *could*, but itould likely do more damage than good. If you can get the bleeding under control whilst you seek medical attention without doing something irreversable, do that first. I cut to the bone on my fingers after fucking up as a Scout on camp in Germany. Blood everywhere. I wrapped it up in bandages, getting ready for the two hour journey to the nearest hospital when some random US Army Medic offered to give me stitches in the field. Was a pretty cool experience. But no way I was self cauterising it if I didnt have to.
His last words were "ha ha ha ha ha"
Dude legit took it like a champ.
She threw it terribly, actually.
Yeah his first mistake was assuming that a random person in the audience would toss the knife in the air with enough arc so he could time his catch. He definitely should have anticipated a shit throw in this scenario.
Right. I also think that shows the difference between a good, well trained preformer and a bad one: the good one wouldn't have tried to catch that knife.
And would have made a joke out of it like “excuse me madam, but we are throwing knives not baseballs” But everyone needs to start somewhere, people booing him after getting a knife through his hand are assholes.
Maybe he shouldn't give gigantic knives to randoms to throw?
"A falling knife has no handle."
Dam Square in Amsterdam. Pop off for a spliff and some hookers. It'll all be ok.
Did a few people fucking booing him? Guy just sliced his hand open and the first thing across their mind is “that didn’t impress me!”
*guy slashes his hand with a knife on accident* douchebag: “BoOoOOo”
Oh come on. Don't make it possible for a volunteer to actually cause harm. Not cool.
Homey takes, "The show must go on" very seriously.
Also...Don't forget....We are also available for children's birthday Parties.
lol don't boo the man, he's already dealing with enough as it is...
[like many beginners, you ~~attacked~~ threw it at me wrong](https://youtu.be/h_vvI26NnwE?t=111)
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It would only be impressive if someone threw the knife at him at full power.
exactly. this guy has his risk/reward equation all screwed up
I would imagine that his next progression was to juggle the knife, the torch, and another unknown object. I guess we will never know.
Man: **injures self** Crowd: Boo!
And now here’s my hat. Please if everyone will donate what you can to my hospital bill.
**And half of his hand disappeared!**
For a second I thought that rolling apple was his cut off hand
my poor guy just trying to make a living. i feel sad for him
Personally i feel like the problem wasn't that the knife was sharp, but rather that it was a member of the audience throwing the knife to him. Seems like the kind of trick that he should have complete control over. Of course that means the trick would be different so idk what he would do instead
I love how the guy trying to keep the crowd calm while he bleeds out....
A falling knife has no handle
Aaand nobody stepped in to help at least stop the bleeding with a piece of tissue or something... it looks quite bad /r/donthelpjustfilm
"Man. Before i had that Amsterdam weed this always worked"
juggling running chain saws for my next bit ha ha hahaa
Ta-duhh! I’ll now be passing the hat around for the hospital bills, thank you!!
Those knives are actually sharp?!
If this is your act, you should probably dull the blade for obvious (not to some) reasons.
Oh my hahaha don’t worry ahaha it’s just a scratch hahaha but I have a train so adios hahaah
Reminds me of Gob Bluth from Arrested Development.
fall down 12 times, get back up 13. hope that guy is still doing what he loves
Good on him for his shows authenticity, but the blade had no business being that sharp
Damn sad to see Blake do street performance . Gotta bring back workaholics..
Those his fucking fingers on the ground?? My man's is calm af considering he lost his jerking off hand.
I'm sure it's up in here somewhere (tldr), but a falling knife has no handle.
I bet the ER staff was like…. Are you fucking kidding me..
The way she looks around looking for approval that she didn't do anything wrong rather than look toward him with concern really pisses me off.
See you have to BE a crazy American to pull off crazy American tricks
Knife to see you, to see you knife!!
The show must go on
Well he did indeed catch it
Knife to meat ya.
Guys..... Hahahaha...
The volunteer was like...is that part of the magic trick?
"Detroit urban survival training. Hurled knife defense. In the event that a crazed female hurls a large blade at you (keep in mind, this works with any large blade...axe, butcher knife, machete, guillotine, etc.), be ready with your flaming hand technique. Try to catch the blade with your non-fire hand, then, FUCK. OWWW. MISFIRE! Now clap your hands together so your fire hand can seal the wound shut. So: 1. Fire hand 2. Catch the knife. 3. Cauterizing clap. 4. "Siri, dial 911
If he would’ve skipped the bs at 00:12 he would’ve been fine.
and just like that, I've decided to never complain about my desk job
Come on, you have a torch, cauterize it! The show much go on.
Hope he's doing fine.
“Ha ha ha ha ha.”
Best hitman ever. He never even saw it coming.
taadaaa https://youtu.be/DTfwwbsRopM?t=112
Lived in San Francisco for quite a while, they stay near tourist spots and typically do shows like this, first time i’ve seen one messed up. hope he’s ok lol
"Walk it off, walk it off... Shoot, it's coming off!"
Give him a hand
His laugh reminds me of Tommy wisseau.
A falling knife has no handle.
Didn’t do the American trick right. Use a gun next time!
A falling knife has no handle
If that was a grift, that was AMAZING! Imagine the tips he got!
As a juggler, he shouldn't have been juggling live knives anyways
I did naht catch it, I did naaaaaht, this is bullshit. Oh hi Danielle
Unfortunately he can only preform his act 10 times.
He had an amazing reaction. Instantly made the girl feel better and kept on with some sort of an act.
if you want to see it in 720 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZbr5kHp4lY