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Quote:Bladimir Barreto, 19, had to be airlifted to Holmes Regional Medical Center with several broken bones and head injuries.


His mom told Local 6 they are not leaving his hospital bedside. Barreto has 89 stitches in one leg and hasn't woken up since the crash.

In the video, Barreto is seen running toward the moving car and attempting to jump over it. Instead, he was hit and thrown over the car.

Barreto's 17-year-old brother Jerome, was driving the car near Palm Bay's Knecht Park Wednesday evening, while another brother, Giovanny, caught the terrifying crash on camera.

"I feel really bad for them, I know they weren't expecting that at all," said long-time neighbor and friend, Cameron Tennant.

Tennant went to West Melbourne Christian Academy with the Barretos and is shocked by what happened.

"I mean he's always doing stuff like that and he's always getting it right, so I guess he just got over confident," said Tennant.

It's a stunt perhaps made most famous by Kobe Bryant. Millions of people have now watched him jump over a moving Aston Martin on YouTube and plenty of other people have attempted similar jumps.

Palm Bay police said Barreto wanted to record his jump, hoping to impress college football recruiters.

"He was an athlete, the kid could run up the side of a building, do all kinds of crazy flips, he was just that phenomenal," said Barreto's next door neighbor and family friend, Chops Moyer.

Police said charges are pending against Jerome Barreto for driving without a license and possibly reckless driving.

There's a video in the link
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Video-T...index.html

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Never a shortage of potential candidates for Darwin Awards.

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Haha. This belongs in this thread.

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Same thing happend to a guy who was doing a stunt in a German live tv show. His dad drove the car and dude is now paralyzed from the neck down.

I observed a cultural difference:

Here in Germany no tv station would air the footage and it cant be seen on Youtube neither, they took it down due to its graphic nature. In the US, you get to see this shit over and over again, even in slow mo...

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(10-30-2012 09:10 PM)BoiBoi Wrote:  Same thing happend to a guy who was doing a stunt in a German live tv show. His dad drove the car and dude is now paralyzed from the neck down.

I observed a cultural difference:

Here in Germany no tv station would air the footage and it cant be seen on Youtube neither, they took it down due to its graphic nature. In the US, you get to see this shit over and over again, even in slow mo...

That's the reason why 'Murkans watch the news - not to be informed but rather to see and hear about violence and death and to get offended.

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Das right guys. In Europe certain things are banned for good reasons. Not sure why they sensationalize everything in the US. Except for nudity, of course. God forbid our chillren see them titties.
Please no ban me Roosh. I'm too drunk to be taken seriously. Yeah!

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(10-30-2012 09:10 PM)BoiBoi Wrote:  Same thing happend to a guy who was doing a stunt in a German live tv show. His dad drove the car and dude is now paralyzed from the neck down.

I observed a cultural difference:

Here in Germany no tv station would air the footage and it cant be seen on Youtube neither, they took it down due to its graphic nature. In the US, you get to see this shit over and over again, even in slow mo...

It's the same reason people watch NASCAR. Not the speed, but the crashes.

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Yeah, that kid is pretty dumb, but you just feel invincible at that age.

I remember doing a lot of dumb shit when I was 17-20. Nothing quite this reckless, but definitely shit that could have landed me in the hospital or jail.

Some guys just push it too far, and their luck runs out.

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Kobe has inspired a generation of dumbasses.