By This is how they deal with purse snatchers in China:
Two thieves on a motor-scooter flew by and snatched a womans purse on a street in Wenzhou, China. Surveillance video shows a man riding a bicycle. As he was passing by the front of a hotel near where the thievery happened, he stopped, calmly got off his bicycle, picked it up, and then threw it at the thieves. The bicycle hit them, they lost control, and crashed to the ground.
7:46 pm on January 7th, 2010 1
That is awesome!
I loved how he calmly approached the two guys on the ground… but when they got up, he turned and ran… very, very Buster Keaton.
I saw a guy snatch and dash once as I was driving by. I pushed in on the clutch and rolled quietly up behind him as he ran down the street. Inches behind him, I hit the gas and scooped him up on the hood of the car… and then hit the brake and he went flying ass over teakettle… sitting up with a stupid look as a couple shop owners and bystanders approached quickly in my rear view mirror.
I wanted to stick around but thought better of it.
Later inquiries confirmed that mob justice is ugly but satisfying.
I smile when I think about it…
…but, then, back in the day, I hot-glued razor blades to the back of my friend’s under-dash 10 meter radio.
It was still hanging by one screw… and there was a lot of blood on the driver’s seat and what appeared to be skin.
A society that takes an active stand against the shytbags, be it with bicycles or handguns, is certainly safer and more polite.
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January 7th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Just curiosity, and if this were ‘Walmart’ I would well understand, but where did the camera ‘video’ come from. It appears its stationairy video along the street at selected places. Is this the ‘norm’ in China now? If so, its possible that there is vid of the ’snatch’ as well. No?
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January 8th, 2010 at 11:04 am
“very, very Buster Keaton.”
Was going to comment that it would have been even better if he had kicked their ass, but when you look at it that way it’s pretty awesome indeed.
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January 8th, 2010 at 11:14 am
By the way,
Here’s his last silent performance. I remember watching this as a kid in Canada. It really captured my imagination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOSbOU8a_p8
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8:05 pm on January 7th, 2010 2
Help take a bike out of crime.
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January 7th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
LOL
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3:42 pm on January 8th, 2010 3
Teadrinker,
You have broken my heart. I have avoided that film because I suspected it was what it turned out to be.
Few realize the extent in which I worship Buster Keaton.
…not the sad old man trying to recapture a bygone era… such as the Railrodder (your link), Beach Blanket Bingo or Mad Mad Mad Mad World…
…but the same 1920s Buster Keaton that Jackie Chan shamelessly copies (and sometimes improves upon).
I beg, from the bottom of my heart, for everyone here to buy/download/copy/pirate/steal movies such as “Sherlock Jr.” or “Neighbors” with Buster Keaton.
It will change your idea of what California/America was in the 20s and it will give you a new level of disgust at the absolute unadulterated multi-million dollar shyt that Hollywood squirts out of its shameless anus… 80 years after it was proven that a simple yet amusing story and inspired acting with an incredibly low budget can supply absolute life-changing entertainment.
Further, there are unbelievable special effects that were done long before CGI and unbelievable stunts that were done by real people taking real risks and fantastically improbable actions (such as the trick pool shots in Sherlock Jr.) that were done by an actor who had real ability rather than a warm body with simple notoriety based on a blurry sex tape… as so many modern “stars” have.
Even worse, Harold Lloyd, Fatty (Rosco) Arbuckle and Buster Keaton are eclipsed by Charlie Chaplin who really only made one good movie (Modern Times… which is truly FUNKING FANTASTIC… maybe the best).
I’m getting all teary-eyed… I’d better stop. I can go on and on concerning the nuances of certain 20s and 30s movies.
I recently went to Hollywood/Los Angeles and conned my way in to several of the places where some Buster Keaton films were made just to spend a few moments of silence… oblivious to those around me who were ignorant of what lay before them. I didn’t even say anything… as it would have been lost upon them.
Without telling anyone close to me, I have a couple of items that belonged to Buster Keaton (and Chaplin and Lloyd) that I treasure.
I would give anything to re-appear in Hollywood in 1925 or so. Watch the background of Sherlock Jr and you will see how amazing the city was at that time. North Hollywood (in the mountains) is still magical.
One of my life goals is to make the ultimate silent movie… and the brilliant part is that it is stupid cheap and easy to make… I’m just waiting for the right person to star… and I figure I have another 50 to 70 years to find them… and when I do, I’ll sell everything I own (if that’s what it takes) to fulfill this dream.
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January 9th, 2010 at 3:10 am
Radio Canada (French language CBC) used to show Harold Lloyd movies every week during summer and winter breaks when I was a kid, sometimes one or two movies a day. I must have seen every Harold Lloyd movie 10 times, at the very least.
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1:40 am on January 10th, 2010 4
That was hilarious!
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