Why do pople love watching other people get mildly injured? What is so absolutely hilarious about a guy being hit in the nuts or someone walking straight into a glass door they did not see? I'm pretty sure it was the creation of America's Funniest Home Videos that enabled humanity to fully embrace their love of seeing other people's pain and misfortune. But like many cultural memes, the torch has been passed. AFHV is out, and the Internet is in. YouTube is brimming with amusing videos of stupid people doing stupid things with humorous results.
Today I turn my attention to a specific sub-group of people being owned on video: little children. That's right! This post is about nothing except videos of little kids getting hurt. This may sound like a awful topic for a post, and you are probably right. But one thing is for sure. If you have the stomache to actually watch the following videos, chances are you will watch them more than once.
Please note: I have no idea what happened to any of these kids except where noted, and I sincerely hope that they were all ok. But I doubt it.
May I present: The Top Five Videos Of Little Kids Getting OWNED!
Number 5: Owned By Water
Fairly innocent and amusing, this little kid learns a lesson about the power of water.
Number 4: Owned By Long Shot
A classic. This sets up a reoccuring theme: Parents... keep you kids with you at sporting events and when people are dancing!
Number 3: Owned By Traditional Dancing
In ceremonial dance, you do not bust moves, the moves bust you!
Number 2: Owned By Wide Receiver
This is just crazy. Since this ws semi-local, I can tell you the kid was fine... after thirty stitches!
Number 1: Owned By Breakdancer
Hot off the presses, this vid hit the net only three days ago. I dare you to only watch this once.
Coincidence is the noteworthy alignment of two or more events or circumstances without obvious causal connection. (Wikipedia)
Where would the completely irrelevant phenomenon of blogging be without the time honored tradition of reposting other people's completely irrelevant blog posts? Nowhere, that's where. Except perhaps your parent's basement. May I present my personal edit of this link. Please keep in mind that I only feature stories with references, and that I did absolutely no fact checking whatsoever. Just be entertained.
A bullet that reached its destiny years later
Henry Ziegland thought he had dodged fate. In 1883, he broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide. The girl's brother was so enraged that he hunted down Ziegland and shot him. The brother, believing he had killed Ziegland, then turned his gun on himself and took his own life. But Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet, in fact, had only grazed his face and then lodged in a tree. Ziegland surely thought himself a lucky man. Some years later, however, Ziegland decided to cut down the large tree, which still had the bullet in it. The task seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up with a few sticks of dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland's head, killing him. (Source: Ripley's Believe It or Not!)
Twin Boys, twin lives
The stories of identical twins' nearly identical lives are often astonishing, but perhaps none more so than those of identical twins born in Ohio. The twin boys were separated at birth, being adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James. And here the coincidences just begin. Both James grew up not even knowing of the other, yet both sought law-enforcement training, both had abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and each had married women named Linda. They both had sons whom one named James Alan and the other named James Allan. The twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women - both named Betty. And they both owned dogs which they named Toy. Forty years after their childhood separation, the two men were reunited to share their amazingly similar lives. (Source: Reader's Digest, January 1980)
Three strangers on a Train, with complementary last names
In the 1920s, three Englishman were traveling separately by train through Peru. At the time of their introduction, they were the only three men in the railroad car. Their introductions were more surprising than they could have imagined. One man's last name was Bingham, and the second man's last name was Powell. The third man announced that his last name was Bingham-Powell. None were related in any way. (Source: Mysteries of the Unexplained)
Two brothers killed by the same taxi driver, one year apart
In 1975, while riding a moped in Bermuda, a man was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi. One year later, this man's bother was killed in the very same way. In fact, he was riding the very same moped. And to stretch the odds even further, he was struck by the very same taxi driven by the same driver - and even carrying the very same passenger! (Source: Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, John Michell and Robert J. M. Rickard)
Swapped Hotel Findings
In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy he found found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin - a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters - was a good friend of Kupcinet's. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie - with Kupcinet's name on it! (Source: Mysteries of the Unexplained)
