Monday, October 18, 2010
Animals The Russian Traffic Cop and the Wolves
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:48 AM
The thing I love most about this video is that moment (it lasts for five seconds) between the cop noticing something strange in the distant shadows and that something becoming visible to the camera. His body language completely changes from an enforcer of the laws of society to a human animal in the wild, a human in danger, a man made of esculent meat. He leaps into the backseat.
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This was on boing boing days ago and they were trying to figure out if it is fake. Last I checked they were leaning towards the "fake" angle.
Nothing like a lack of context to make Charles seem like he has a point.
Happy Monday.
Nothing like a lack of context to make Charles seem like he has a point.
Happy Monday.
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Now you know what it’s like being respectable and having an iPhone on the #48 bus down in the Valley after dark.
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It is fake. Proof is comparing it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMSN8HW4V…
This is ostensibly a video of the same incident shot from inside the car. In the CCTV video, the driver does not hand the cop his papers. In the inside the car take, he does hand over his papers, and the "wolves" make a silly growling noise as they run.
Also, in the CCTV version, the cops's backup turns on his flashers when he warns of the coming wolves. In the inside the car version he doesn't.
Another possibility is that this happens to these cops all the time at that particular location, in which case it is unremarkable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMSN8HW4V…
This is ostensibly a video of the same incident shot from inside the car. In the CCTV video, the driver does not hand the cop his papers. In the inside the car take, he does hand over his papers, and the "wolves" make a silly growling noise as they run.
Also, in the CCTV version, the cops's backup turns on his flashers when he warns of the coming wolves. In the inside the car version he doesn't.
Another possibility is that this happens to these cops all the time at that particular location, in which case it is unremarkable.
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The whole video is fake. You can tell a man to jump in a car. It's hard to get a bunch of wolves to do anything you want.
The whole video is fake. You can tell a man to jump in a car. It's hard to get a bunch of wolves to do anything you want.
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My impression - possibly totally incorrect - is that European wolves are indeed far more dangerous to humans than North American wolves.
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Regardless of whether or not it is fake the only thing that came to mind is to remind Charles that we are animals at all times. Regardless of our feelings of transcendence of basic instincts in a cosmopolitan society we still follow our basic instincts of survival and reproduction daily. The only difference is we are scared of losing our jobs instead of scared of wolves, the difference is the same.
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@6 the combination of cutesy hyperbole and cutesy bad internet grammar is stupid as shit. stop it.
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