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Video: Very Narrow Mountain Path

How the hell did the build the path?

Update: Seems that the path is the Caminito del Rey in Malaga, Spain. [Thanks fee]

Here are some more videos:-

Video: Plane Gets Struck By Lightning

Would have been interesting to have been on that plane. I wonder what the passengers would have experienced.

Video: Firefighter vs Burning Magnesium

A firefighter tries to extinguish a truck that is on fire. The truck is coated with magnesium and if you've ever experimented with magnesium in chemistry class you'll know that burning magnesium and water don't mix.

Video: Plane Hits Car On Runway During Takeoff

Amateur footage of a Boeing 737 hitting a utility car left on the running on Henri Coanda Airport in Bucharest during freezing fog. The plane veered off the runway, banked powerfully on one side, and came to rest on a field 150 m from the runway. No injuries were reported.

Video: Child With Rabies Restrained In Hospital

A disturbing video of a young child with rabies. [via]

Man Nearly Sucked Out Of Plane

Imaging sitting in a seat on a plane when the window breaks and you get sucked out. That's what happened to Chris Fogg when the window on the air ambulance he was in broke whilst at 20,000 feet. He suffered lacerations on his head that required 13 staples. A chunk of flesh was also ripped from his arm.

Luckily for him, the headset he was wearing prevented him from being knocked out and allowed him to pull himself away from the broken window. Link (w/ video interview)

Chinese Aircraft Maintenence

You may want to think twice about travelling with a Chinese airline in the future because this is how one of them repairs its engines.

Video: Minivan Gets Stuck By Lightning

Footage of a minivan being struck by lightning whilst driving along a motorway. [via]

Video: The Dangers Of Working In Iraq

A video shot by a civilian working for Halliburton who gets fired upon by Iraqis after taking a wrong turn. He kept the camera rolling during the shootout, even after he was shot. Luckily he lived to tell the tell but some of hos co-workers were killed. As for being protected in Iraq whilst working, they drove off shortly after being fired upon. [via]

Video: Huge Fire In A High-Rise Building

A video of a huge fire in Kowloon, Hong Kong where a guy leaps from 60ft high and manages to survive with only minor injuries. [via]

Video: Mouth Cancer

As hard as giving up smoking is, this advert surely must help a few people give up.

Video: Trapped In A 40ft Deep Hole

A team of people spend 18 hours trying to free a 2-year-old boy who is stuck at the bottom of a 40ft hole. [via]

Video: Trapped In River

This woman must have had luck on her side when she got trapped in a river. [via]

Dangling Upside Down

Terrified thrillseekers were left dangling upside down at 60ft after a fair ride got stuck. One woman was taken to hospital after a panic attack. She was among 17 people stranded for six minutes. - The Sun

Quadruple Murder Caught on 911 Recording

A recording of a 911 call from a Forsyth County, Georgia home was recently released that contains chilling details of an attack that left four people dead and three injured. Around 10 pm on March 19, two mean, one armed with a knife and the other with a .40-caliber pistol methodically made their way through a two-story farmhouse, stabbing or shooting everyone in their path.

Listen to the recording here. Ogrish also has more information about the recording.

Video: Life In Northern Ireland

How life used to be on the streets of Northern Ireland. [via]

Video: IED Attack

A video showing what it's like to be on the receiving end of an IED attack. It is not known if anyone was killed. [via]

Video: Photographer Saves Man's Life

A photographer saves a man from a burning car. [via]

This Is Your Face After Been Sprayed With CS Gas

Dan Ford, 21, of Dorset, UK was briefly hospitalized after police sprayed him with CS Incapacitant Spray (CS Gas). Witnesses say Ford was trying to intervene in the arrest of a fellow bar customer and friend when officers turned their attention towards him.

After the incident his father, Ray Ford, said "My son's face virtually fell off. It looked like his face was melting. For several days he couldn't see or speak." Doctors familiar with the case say the golf ball-sized blisters may never go away.

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Update: For anyone that doubts if this image is real, here's a related news article and an image of what it looked like shortly after the incident.

Video: Double Parachiute Failure

What's worse than your parachute failing? Your reserve failing as well. [via]

Butchered By The NHS

Not everyone gets a good service from the NHS. Here are a few horrors...

# A man had the wrong testicle removed — meaning he ended up with none.

# The wrong set of lungs were given to a transplant patient with a different blood group.

# Holes were drilled into the wrong side of the head of neurosurgery patient.

# A circumcision was carried out on the wrong child because of an address mix-up.

# A hysterectomy was carried out on the wrong woman after a records mix-up.

# A lad born with one testicle had it removed when docs wrongly diagnosed cancer. He needs hormone jabs to stop him growing breasts and female characteristics.

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Video: Baby In The Bag Rescue

Here's footage of the 'baby in the bag' being rescued. Related news story. [via]

Video: Russian Building Fire

Shocking uncensored footage of a fire that occured in Vladivostok, Russia on Monday. Watching this footage does make you think about whether or not you would make the same choice if you were in such a situation. [via]

Video: World's Largest Nuke Explosion

A video of the world's largest nuke explosion. Detonated by the Russians, the bomb is 4 times larger than anything the Americans have detonated. Scary! [via]

Video: The Dangers Of Skydiving

When you are skydiving one thing you probably don't think about is hitting something on the way down. This skydiver had a close call when a plane cut across his path. [via]

Related: Video: A skydiver recalls the day she 'lost her face'

Video: Amusement Park Ride Maplfunctions

It's hard to tell but it looks like two men on a cherry picker are trying to fix an amusement ride when it starts to fall, taking the cherry picker with it. [via]

Video: Bricks Fall On Woman

Sometimes it's just your time to go.

Maggots Found On Patients Face

The Sun: Maggots found on patient

A grieving daughter told yesterday how she found maggots crawling on her stricken mum’s face in hospital.

Horrified Nyree Ellison Anjos saw the fly larvae near a feeding tube attached to mother Christine at Gloucestershire Royal.

The 50-year-old mum died two days later of an unrelated illness.

Footage Of Huge Explosion

I don't watch much news on a Sunday so I missed this huge explosion, believed to be the largest in peactime Europe. The BBC has a collection of footage of the explosion.

Video: Robbery Goes Bad

A robbery quickly gets ugly when a thief is locked inside a jewellery shop. [via]

Video: Christmas Tree Fire

This video shows how quickly a Christmas tree fire can destroy a room. [via]

Video: Tram Derails, Hits People

A tram in Prague derails and hits a group of people. [via]

Video: Subway Train Drags Mother, Baby

CCTV footage of a woman and her baby being dragged along a subway station after her pushchair got stuck in the train's door. Both mother and baby escaped serious injury. [via]

Video: Bungee Cord Wraps Around Jumpers Neck

A bungee jumper is almost killed when the cord wraps around his neck. [via]

Hurricane Blows Plane Into Another

A passenger jet is left with a huge hole in its fuselage after another plane smashed into it at an airport.

But no one suffered so much as a scratch in the scary-looking drama — for the jets were empty, parked and simply blown into each other by Hurricane Wilma. - The Sun

Mind The Gap

The Sun: Please mind the gap

A packed train balances precariously over a raging torrent after bridge supports were washed away in a storm.

Had the locomotive travelled just a few feet more, its weight would have pulled ten carriages over the edge to disaster.

The Milan-bound express had been thundering through the darkness at 100mph towards the bridge near Bari, southern Italy.

But luckily the heavy rain had loosened the tracks — causing it to derail and stop just in time.

Video: Firemen Engulfed In Flames

Firemen get engulfed in flames during an explosion. Luckily nobody was killed. [via]

Video: Prolifers vs Police

The LAPD use nunchucks to subdue a non-violent protest by prolifers. The reason for using them was because the protesters were able to withstand a lot of pain and in order to arrest them the police had to use even more force. The video shows a police officer using a nunchuck to break one of the protesters arms. [via]

Weight Flies Inside Angler's Eye

BBC: Weight flies inside angler's eye

A freak accident saw an angler's lead weight fly through his eye socket and become embedded inside his cheek.

Darren Williams, 34, of Wrexham, had a five-hour operation to repair his shattered cheekbone with a metal plate.

The machine operator was on a fishing trip on Anglesey when his line became snagged and the weight flew up.

"I was so lucky - if it had been a few millimetres in the other direction then I would have lost my eye," he said.

He is keeping the weight as a souvenir after doctors gave it back to him.

Related: University student gets eye poked out while attempting to photograph bird

Video: Crosswind

This Portugese TAP 321 is forced to crab the approach at 60 degrees off runway heading to compensate for a brutal crosswind. Then as it floats in the flare, a gust knocks it to a full 90 degrees off runway heading. The pilots desperately kick rudder trying to align with the runway, but succeed only in getting into a bad wing-rock lateral oscillation mode. Note how the gear comes within 2 feet of the runway with the airplane turned sideways to its own flight path. Every pro pilot commenting on this vid says it's the scariest crosswind go-around they've ever seen, with winds obviously well in excess of the A321's max allowable crosswind component of 29 knots.

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Aaarrrgghh!

She's quite a catch. [via]

Video: Assassinated

Update (25/09/05): For those how wondered what this post was about, it was supposed to be a link to a video clip instead of just an image. The link has now been fixed and the video can be viewed by clicking here.

If you find a broken link on AWV, please let me know so that I can fix it. I usually find out about broken links a day or two later when I'm checking my stats. This means that a lot of people will have missed the real link.

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Last Words...

Listen to, or read, the last words of pilots as they are about to crash. [via]

Listen To An Exorcism

Listen to an excerpt frmo an 'actual' exorcism. [via]

Video: The End Of A Skydiver

If you ever go skydiving, remember that there is a reserve parachute that you can use if your main fails. This guy either didn't realise that he had a spare or just couldn't be bothered to pull it. [via]

Video: Shot In The Head

A camera crew guy gets shot in the head whilst on location in what looks like a war-zone. Miraculously he survives to tell the tale. [via]

Video: Mob Justice

A man is beaten up by a mob in Guatemala after robbing a 12yo girl at knife-point. It seems that this is a common occurence in Guatemala. [via]

Air Crash Recordings

A small collection of air crash recordings including the scary United Airlines 232 (video | article | transcript (pdf) | photos) and the strange Delta Airlines Flight 1141 (article) in which one of the pilots jokes with a flight attendent that they should record the 'dating habits of flight attendents' so that the investigators will have something to listen.

Man Killed In Factory's Blender

BBC: Man killed in factory's blender

A 42-year-old man died when he fell into a large blender at a chemical works plant in Greater Manchester.

The incident, described as "horrendous" by the county fire service, happened on Wednesday morning at Building Chemical Research on Mount Sion Road, Radcliffe.

Thirteen firefighters with heavy duty cutting equipment were sent to free the man and an emergency medical team of nurses and doctors was called.

But the man, who was from Radcliffe, died in the machine.

Video: British Convoy Gets Attacked In Iraq

Scary stuff. [via]