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Bear Chases Mountain Biker

Have you seen this video of a large Bear chasing a mountain biker? It may be one of the most intense things you’ve ever seen!

Too bad it’s fake.

A video that has gone viral today shows a horrifying mountain biking ride gone wrong, when a man is chased down by a big bear and is seen peddling as fast as he can to safety. Your palms sweat as you watch it and nervously await his fate, and you feel like you’re right there as the GoPro camera he uses to capture the incident makes it feel all to real.

Well, this particular footage is not real, but this popular video sure does a good job of making 1.5 million viewers believe it is. The bear is just a little too crisp when you compare it to the surroundings. The bear is the only thing in the GoPro video that doesn’t seem to suffer from motion blur. If the CGI wasn’t obvious, surely you must have noticed how stupid it would be to just get off your bike because of a little branch, jog to a tree, and just stand there staring in the opposite direction for several seconds without looking if the bear was following.

However, what is real is the original story of this horrifying incident along with the actual footage from it (shown at the bottom of this article). Apparently this YouTube user and graphic artist extraordinaire didn’t think the actual clip of the event showed enough of the bear, so he put his skills to work to make that happen.

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Bear Chases Mountain Biker

 

Amusing Funny

Grizzly Bear Surprises Film Crew

On an advertising shoot for washing machines in Canada to show off the cold wash performance, the Samsung film crew is surprised when a bear wanders on to the shoot location.

Enjoy!

“Huge Bear Surprises Crew on EcoBubble Photo Shoot in BC”

This commercial for the Samsung EcoBubble Washing Machine makes you think it is a behind-the-scenes shoot, showing you how the actual ad was made, which was interrupted by a grizzly bear showing up on the set. It begins with the crew setting up the EcoBubble washer which can supposedly wash clothes just was well in cold water as warm water through its new technology. They aim to prove this by setting up the machine to pull water directly from a frozen lake, but when the bear shows up, everything has to stop. Everyone moves back and the bear stands up and takes off it’s “fur coat” exposing his skinny legs and boxer shorts. He puts his coat in the washer and waits. As he does, he reads a newspaper, juggles fish, plays the guitar and “sings”, takes pictures of himself with the crew’s cameras, builds a snowman (snowbear?), and even break dances. When his coat is clean, he pulls it out and it’s all white. That’s when we learn he was a polar bear all along. At the end, we see that he has told his bear friends and they stop by to wash their fur too.

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Grizzly Bear Surprises Film Crew

 

Funny Jokes

Employment Wanted

The following is an actual “position wanted” ad that appeared in the National Post in Toronto, Canada, in March 2001. It’s confirmed real: I’ve seen it.

FORMER MARIJUANA SMUGGLER
Having successfully completed a ten year sentence, incident-free, for importing 75 tons of marijuana into the United States, I am now seeking a legal and legitimate means to support myself and my family.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE: owned and operated a successful fishing business — multi-vessel, one airplane, one island and processing facility. Simultaneously owned and operated a fleet of tractor-trailer trucks conducting business in the western United States. During this time I also co-owned and participated in the executive level management of 120 people worldwide in a successful pot smuggling venture with revenues in excess of US$100 million annually. I took responsibility for my own actions, and received a ten year sentence in the United States while others walked free for their cooperation.

ATTRIBUTES: I am an expert in all levels of security; I have extensive computer skills, am personable, outgoing, well-educated, reliable, clean and sober. I have spoken in schools to thousands of kids and parent groups over the past ten years on “the consequences of choice”, and received public recognition from the RCMP for community service. I am well-traveled and speak English, French, and Spanish. References available from friends, family, the U.S. District Attorney, etc.

Please direct replies to (National Post Classified, Don Mills, Ont, Canada)

After running the ad, the paper interviewed the man, Brian O’Dea of Toronto. He told the paper he hopes “someone will read that ad and realize, jeez, not only did he operate that scheme, but he did it in secret. That shows tremendous coordinating ability.”

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Amusing Political

The Beer Fridge – O Canada

Molson built a beer fridge that can only be opened if you sing ‘O Canada’!

They should do something like this in the United States. Only require that Welfare recipients sing the US national anthem to collect their checks.

Enjoy!

We’ve built our most Canadian beer fridge for Canada Day and there’s only one way to get inside – sing O Canada. It’s time to start practicing our national anthem.

 

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Scorpion Pizza

Scorpion Pizza
Scorpion Pizza
Photo: Calgary Stampede

Hungry yet?

Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo and cultural festival in Calgary, Alberta. Like some state fairs in the United States, it’s noted for exotic and innovative foods. When it is open this year from July 4-13, visitors will be able to taste at least 32 new foods, including this pizza covered with scorpions. That’s great because spicy food should sting you a little bit.

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