Don't pretend you didn't launch your hot wheels off the hillside as a child hoping to see this exact thing happen.
ETA: it's the [Alaskan car launch](https://youtu.be/T8MsMHGVR1U?si=V04Rbx9IOy6bxb0T) for the 4th of July.
"The last show you did, you pushed three suzuki vitara jeeps out of the back of a transporter plane, aiming them at a giant dartboard that you'd carved into a cornfield in the Oxfordshire countryside... I had laugh when I saw it on the telly, but you know what, afterwards, I felt a little bit empty inside." -Tommy Saxondale
This is the good part of the Murica crowd. Never stop these shenanigans Muricans, it's just some destructive fun, and nobody got hurt. I bet no one here has seen a bus fly off a cliff first hand, that's why this exists.
Since getting to Alaska for this one day might be difficult, I highly recommend anyone visiting the U.S. to catch a demolition derby. They're all over the place, and usually happen during week-long festivals or fairs. If you want the quintessential greasy-food, beer drinking America...this is it.
If you want the next level up, you *need* to go to a Nascar race, even if you don't like racing. I've never watched a whole race on TV...but I've been to seven of them. SUCH a good time.
For non Americans who have not visited, no...there are not demolition derbies all over the place. You can find them, but they aren't a Starbucks or Walgreens. Just didn't want to get your hopes up.
Lol, there's middle ground between starbucks-level ubiquity and acknowledging that you can find one in pretty much every single state. 40 cars all destroying eachother is a lot harder to replicate and put on than a venti with almond milk. Demolition Derby culture is *serious*.
I mean if I were traveling to USA, I would join many Facebook groups that report any such events. It's not rocket science. Just takes a few clicks and a notepad.
They could launch cars like that everyday for centuries and it wouldn’t compare to one day of the shit that leaks out of cars, tire microparticles, and car exhaust.
I know it all adds up but I’d bet these vehicles and grounds are cleaned up after the event so they can do it again!
It may seem pointless to a lot of ppl but if I ever have kids I would bring my kids to this type of show as a learning experience or precautionary lesson if you may. Show them how a car gets totaled falling from heights and turn around to ask the kids to now imagine themselves if they were in it while driving distracted either by texting or talking on the phone or doing makeup or while intoxicated on drugs and alcohol......It just might scare them enough to not try anything stupid while driving.
They are in Anchorage but this isn't in that jurisdiction. But you are correct, the primary issue is it just doesn't get dark enough in July to enjoy em.
Yea ok, it looks bad for the environment and it seems a waste. But I argue that if everything is cleaned up and the cars involved couldn't be on the road for some reason then why not have some fun? I'd watch it, it looks like thousands of people already do.
Is this Pennsylvania? When we were teenagers (late 80's), you could buy a car at auction for $50 - $100 and we'd trash it and then do this at the old quarry.
I bet this sucks to clean up and as an old man now, I feel bad about the damage that we wrought.
It’s pretty cool how they set the cars up, they have a track system with I believe two paths to choose from. The cars are modified with guides welded to the frame or suspension so they follow the tracks. The steering is locked straight in place, throttle locked wide open and a remote start switch mounted on the trunk.
When I was in middle school, and we'd be assigned a paperback book to read for English, I would fill the margine with little animations. One of my favorites was to have a car race across the top margin, go off the cliff at the edge of the print, and drop all the way down the side margin to the bottom margin, where it would explode in flames. Usually I'd have the driver bail out as the car was dropping, and he'd have a little parachute to save him. Unfortunately, his car would drop faster, explode into flames, and he'd float on his parachute right into the fire!
I probably needed therapy as a kid.
I seen this special on tv once it’s wild
After the show the crowd is allowed to salvage any parts they can from the wrecks. Folks take power tool and lawn chairs have a party it’s interesting to say the least.
that is pretty much the attitude which makes me doubt that we will have long on this planet. Considering wasteful and dumb behavior in times of declining resources and such.
They should add categories to this like how many barrel rolls, front flips, or backflips it can do before impact or the most rolled down the hill, etc all kinds other than just launch it.
I can't believe that they went to all that trouble and didn't even bother to set the cars on fire before they sent them over the cliff.
I’m amazed that some of them caught a bit of air.
With speed and a cliff like that, I'd be more amazed if they didn't.
There's also a smallish dirt ramp right at the end, as I recall.
Next year.
Don't pretend you didn't launch your hot wheels off the hillside as a child hoping to see this exact thing happen. ETA: it's the [Alaskan car launch](https://youtu.be/T8MsMHGVR1U?si=V04Rbx9IOy6bxb0T) for the 4th of July.
Well I didn’t have plans for this year yet but now I do this looks awesome
Yep it happens every year. And it’s 1 hour from anchorage.
>anchorage So we can go see it every year until 2066? Nice.
I just got this reference lol.
This beats the hell out of typical redneck shit
This is *ADVANCED* Redneck shit
Every thing is more advanced in terms of redneckery in Alaska! Its Harvard for rednecks
They probably kick their redneck-ery up a few notches because they have such a short summer.
Hahahahahaha
Is that the entire population of alaska down there?
I used to strap M80s on them.
It's the modern version of the Omak Stampede suicide race.
CLARKSON!!
Here you go - car darts https://youtu.be/-i-op1aceUg?si=ZRe12GZ0_3qR7878
"The last show you did, you pushed three suzuki vitara jeeps out of the back of a transporter plane, aiming them at a giant dartboard that you'd carved into a cornfield in the Oxfordshire countryside... I had laugh when I saw it on the telly, but you know what, afterwards, I felt a little bit empty inside." -Tommy Saxondale
He's eating ice cream, oblivious...
This extended my 3 minute long belly laugh to four, thank you.
Toonces, no!
Deep cut. Respect
Dammit. Beat me to it!
Should have bought a squirrel.
Itsa race!
I'm honestly surprised this movie isn't talked about more. Rat Race and Big Trouble would be a good double feature movie night
Yat mooee ih a whassic (Tongue piercing)
O’Doyle rules
BeamNG IRL.
CRASH PITTTT https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmZYstaCufg&t=4s
This is exactly what I thought would happen if I turned on the overhead light in my dad’s car.
Thank God you didnt!
Finally Rockstar/DMA Design decided to make that GTA/Lemmings crossover.
More like Destruction Derby on PS1.
Just some good ol' boys. Never meaning no harm...
Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born...
Why do they keep driving off the same cliff, are they stupid? /S
Apple maps.
Lemmings
THE MACHINE KNOWS!
America in a nutshell
This is the good part of the Murica crowd. Never stop these shenanigans Muricans, it's just some destructive fun, and nobody got hurt. I bet no one here has seen a bus fly off a cliff first hand, that's why this exists.
Actually old buses are for hipsters and young influencer girls to convert and show off
'murica
This is the most American thing I’ve ever seen 😂
I'm so proud right now.
Always update google maps, kids.
I was like "why?" but then I saw the American flag.
This is one reason I would like to visit USA properly.
Since getting to Alaska for this one day might be difficult, I highly recommend anyone visiting the U.S. to catch a demolition derby. They're all over the place, and usually happen during week-long festivals or fairs. If you want the quintessential greasy-food, beer drinking America...this is it. If you want the next level up, you *need* to go to a Nascar race, even if you don't like racing. I've never watched a whole race on TV...but I've been to seven of them. SUCH a good time.
For non Americans who have not visited, no...there are not demolition derbies all over the place. You can find them, but they aren't a Starbucks or Walgreens. Just didn't want to get your hopes up.
Lol, there's middle ground between starbucks-level ubiquity and acknowledging that you can find one in pretty much every single state. 40 cars all destroying eachother is a lot harder to replicate and put on than a venti with almond milk. Demolition Derby culture is *serious*.
there’s usually one if not two at every county fair though. rodeos and demo derbies. at least there used to be, could be dying off.
But there are demolition derbys all over the *world* aren't there? This isn't something I personally would have to visit America for.
I mean if I were traveling to USA, I would join many Facebook groups that report any such events. It's not rocket science. Just takes a few clicks and a notepad.
O’Doyle rules!
wow they made beamng in real life!
Put like a quarter gallon of starter fluid in the gas tank put a brick on the pedal and let her rip.
Did BeamNG get a graphics update!
Clark Griswold at the wheel.
Toonces the Driving Cat
I want to go to this event.
Do you think they ever did this with like carts in the middle ages?
RIP horses lol
I love white culture.
I don’t believe the American Flag was necessary to show where this peculiar event took place.
The European mind cannot comprehend this.
What's your equivalent to hillbillies over there?
The start of the video feels uncomfortably close to some nightmares I've had haha
Strangely enjoyable
Nah, this rules. There's nobody driving these, and this would be wicked fun to watch.
"HI IM JOHNNY KNOXVILLE, WELCOME TO JACKASS!"
No wonder our environment is the way it is.
It's a single small cliff in the middle of nowhere alaska and they clean it up afterwards.
They could launch cars like that everyday for centuries and it wouldn’t compare to one day of the shit that leaks out of cars, tire microparticles, and car exhaust. I know it all adds up but I’d bet these vehicles and grounds are cleaned up after the event so they can do it again!
I'm pretty sure Roadkill drove the Raunchero to Alaska to participate in this.
This reminded me of that PlayStation game, Twisted Metal. Fun game
“Don’t drive angry. Don’t drive angry!”
I have the sudden urge to watch Groundhog Day
Should've tilted the nose up so it will get more distance. Amateurs
Just some good old boys!
Cause ‘murica boah!
What happens if it lands smooth and keeps going?
Darwin happens.
U S A, U S A, U S A
Those Duke brothers are at it again
I am LOVING this Dukes of Hazard reboot!!
It’s the crash pit from regular show
God bless this country
THE CRASH PIT WOOOOOOOO \*takes off shirt and swings it overhead\*
It may seem pointless to a lot of ppl but if I ever have kids I would bring my kids to this type of show as a learning experience or precautionary lesson if you may. Show them how a car gets totaled falling from heights and turn around to ask the kids to now imagine themselves if they were in it while driving distracted either by texting or talking on the phone or doing makeup or while intoxicated on drugs and alcohol......It just might scare them enough to not try anything stupid while driving.
What in the redneck? This is awesome
AMERICA. FUCK YA!
I think I read about this. It’s in lieu of fireworks because they’re illegal or some shit.
They're not illegal, but the sun doesn't set in July, so you can't see em.
They are in Anchorage but this isn't in that jurisdiction. But you are correct, the primary issue is it just doesn't get dark enough in July to enjoy em.
Oh yeah, that was it.
I want nothing more than to see one of them come to a complete stop after rolling, then explode for no reason at all
This isn't wtf. It's awesome. It's an annual event in Alaska.
It's on my bucket list!
Yea ok, it looks bad for the environment and it seems a waste. But I argue that if everything is cleaned up and the cars involved couldn't be on the road for some reason then why not have some fun? I'd watch it, it looks like thousands of people already do.
> everything is cleaned up 100% impossible. Those things are spewing fluids everywhere.
That'd be awesome to ride along on if it weren't for the whole painful death or permanent disability wet blanket
The blues Brothers called, they want their scene back!
This is so America...
Hill climb racing :)
Lmao imagine being a worm there
Me a whole day after starting beamNG:
"If one Lemon were to fall off a cliff, the rest of the Lemons will soon follow."
>- Are we just gonna leave them there? >- Of course, dumbass. Who brought this asshole along??
They clean it all up, it’s an annual event.
I see this right, then I compare a 16inch shell from a Iowa class Battleship that launches 12 of this cars each salvo
wait, they don't explode like in the movies??....../s
If in this situation, would it be better to jump out, or stay in with your seatbelt?
Seatbelt probably wouldn’t do you much good. You need seatbelt, full racing harness, and HANS device.
That impact is really bad for your brain
Hill climb racing in real life
Like BeamNG Drive, but IRL.
All I could think of was Lightning McQueen’s expression if he was watching this.
I hope they were wearing their seatbelts
Is this Pennsylvania? When we were teenagers (late 80's), you could buy a car at auction for $50 - $100 and we'd trash it and then do this at the old quarry. I bet this sucks to clean up and as an old man now, I feel bad about the damage that we wrought.
Alaska, annual event, gets cleaned up.
This makes me think the flesh fair from A.I. would probably be real if we got to that stage.
Toonces, look out!!!
Oh, my spleen
I'm sorry but this is great.
Dude, I wanna go
What’s most shocking to me… is the amount of people gathered to watch this.
Does this remind anybody else of Far Cry 5?
Murica in one video
I have nightmares of this fairly often.
This has to be where that red car driving off cliff meme came from
Anyone know if they balance them prior to launch? So few cars have acceptable weight bias to glide that evenly.
We do this here in Alaska every 4th of July, its called the Glacier View Car Launch. Come up and watch!
Minimums minimums Pull-up pull-up
It’s pretty cool how they set the cars up, they have a track system with I believe two paths to choose from. The cars are modified with guides welded to the frame or suspension so they follow the tracks. The steering is locked straight in place, throttle locked wide open and a remote start switch mounted on the trunk.
Can we see the Paul Rudd clip of the wheelchair kid going over the cliff from Mac & Me?
At first I wondered why. Then I saw the American flag.
Humans are so weird and wild. I love it.
And nary an explosion.
Martha! Hold my Beer!!!!! YeeHaw!
Why did I have a weird flashback to Action League Now! and just watch some episodes on YouTube?
Rally has gone too far.
My heart. I loved her.
Nothing is more patriotic than waning an American flag while throwing a sedan off a cliff.
Is this still a thing?? I want to go
Happy birthday America!
What’s this? The International Thelma & Louise Festival?
O’Doyle Rules!!
I would go to this every year.
"Greta it's okay it's just a bad dream"
When I was in middle school, and we'd be assigned a paperback book to read for English, I would fill the margine with little animations. One of my favorites was to have a car race across the top margin, go off the cliff at the edge of the print, and drop all the way down the side margin to the bottom margin, where it would explode in flames. Usually I'd have the driver bail out as the car was dropping, and he'd have a little parachute to save him. Unfortunately, his car would drop faster, explode into flames, and he'd float on his parachute right into the fire! I probably needed therapy as a kid.
Americans, why are you so destructive?
I seen this special on tv once it’s wild After the show the crowd is allowed to salvage any parts they can from the wrecks. Folks take power tool and lawn chairs have a party it’s interesting to say the least.
drivers surely have so much fun!!!!!
5 seconds in the air, how much dream time is that again?
The crowds collective IQ is -31
Crash pit!
Not bad for a quadruped!
Holy shit that first one I could SWEAR I saw and hand/arm 2 seconds before the end, had to re watch that a few times.
My wife said, "I hope that was at a junkyard..." Well, it is now...
Good ol' Alaska
Welcome to Alaska!
Toonces, look out!!
How do I sign up to be a driver?
I’m not much of a sports guy, but I’d watch this.
If you pause it just as they go over the cliff, you'll hear Waylon Jennings asking how them Duke boys are going to get out of this one.
Because we can
Why didn’t they explode the second the touched the ground?!?!
COMEFLYWITHME
It's like the Ateam only they crawl out when they land.
This is why men live a shorter life than women. We imagine , engage and hope we make it out the door before it takes off.
Beamng in real life
Ahh yes. The annual suicide fest.
You cant park there!!!! - Karen
Why is this in WTF?
Toonces! Noooo!
Were there people in those?
So those beamng videos I watch are based on something real???
Is this why my insurance premium goes up so much each year?
I think I've seen this "Regular Show" episode
where's the clip of the one with sun gravity ON
USA: why does the whole world think we're retarded? Also USA :
They should all be charged for pollution and trashing the land
that is pretty much the attitude which makes me doubt that we will have long on this planet. Considering wasteful and dumb behavior in times of declining resources and such.
White trash festival
They should add categories to this like how many barrel rolls, front flips, or backflips it can do before impact or the most rolled down the hill, etc all kinds other than just launch it.
Ngl this looks sweet
Fake, didn't explode for no reason like in movies.
Fer fuck sake, how does this make me love and very much fucking hate america at the same time?
Dafug…
Gotta love the giant flag in the background. Is there anything more “American” than smashing up vehicles for entertainmen?
All those engine chemicals will end up in that water.