This happened in Taiwan:
(Via Metafilter.)
IN THE COMMENTS: Ivy observes that you can see the beginning of this amazing incident at 0:03. She tells you where to look, but I won't put that on the front page. It's more interesting to watch the first time without the spoiler. If you watch this once, you will watch it more than once. I had watched this about 10 times without seeing what she pointed out.
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I really enjoyed what happened around the one minute mark, when the driver of that white car gets out and seems to try to punch the boulder.
Life sure can change from one instant to the next.
Someone cashed in their good karma that day.
At about the 4 second mark, you can see some of the top of the hill collapse.
woough. Back up slowly and find a diaper changing station for self.
Close one!
That is one big Falling Rock.
Okay, who did it? Godzilla or Iron Man?
Result of a typhoon, I believe. Too much rain.
Incredible reflexes!!!!! Wow!!! It looked like he had no time to react, and then the dust clears and he's in the left-hand lane with the rock almost rocking over on to him.
Looks like the Pacific Coast Highway in California.
Boom, you are dead.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you always carry a spare pair of underwear in the glovebox.
Lots more landslide video at http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/category/landslide-video/ . Lots of technical discussion, too.
When I was in high school in the late70s, a tree that appeared perfectly healthy fell and hit a car driving by, killing the driver. That was one of my first introductions to the randomness of life.
"Rock of Ages, dropped on me.
Let me drive away from thee."**
** I know, I know. 3 Our Fathers & 4 Hail Marys
Most dashcam videos turn out much worse.
Peter
About 20 years ago, a rock about that size fell onto the Topanga Canyon Hwy in Los Angeles during a rainstorm. Nobody hurt and not caught on film, but they had to dynamite it to break it into pieces in order to remove it.
The idiot just got out of his car... heck I'd have backed up ASAP before more of that hill came down on the road.
at .03 you can see the rock fall away at the very top of the cliff.
That white car is lucky lucky lucky.
It appears a blast of earth pushed it out of the way before the giant rock had a chance to smush the car into a pancake.
Paul, there are some photo at the site in the related video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=73d_1378025648 . It explained why the white car cannot back up. The front passenger side of the vehicle is totally smashed.
Live Leak has an updated video showing a house collapsing in this landslide, along with still photos of the road cleanup. While the driver of the white car was lucky to avoid being squashed, unfortunately the car suffered extensive damage and probably cannot be saved :(
Peter
YH, I heard it as
Rock of Ages, fall on me.
Wash my body out to sea.
@ironrails: People are just crazy behind the wheel. I was driving oin the Smoky Mountains, on a winding mountain 2 lane rd., 25 MPH speed limit, and a car actually passed me. Insane.
I hope the white car's driver bought a lottery ticket while his good luck still held... After changing his underwear, of course.
BigFire,
Ok... then he should have run like heck!
That rock would have crushed that car like, well, a car crushing a tin can.
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