Sunday
Aug012010
Oops...
Sunday, August 1, 2010 In high school, I was tray sledding with a bunch of my buddies on campus, when we spied a group of elementary kids walking toward our hill. One of my friends packed a snowball and hucked it straight up into the air. It was one of those moments where you half-intend a result, but never expect that it will actually happen. We watched with amusement as it sailed straight up, tracked it as the force of gravity overcame its upward velocity, sending it plummeting back to earth, and all stood mouth agape as that snowball accellerated at 9.81 m/s2 until it met the equal and opposite force of the top of some poor 3rd grader's head, 20 yards away.
Now I have two such moments. I have Airsoft guns to thank for this.
Reader Comments (21)
Have I told you that I think you are the most awesome dad ever? I do. You make me smile every time I see you with your kids. They will remember the fun they had growing up with you for the rest of their lives.
Bummer about the camera, man. Glad you got the storm troopers, at least...
Looks like a game my son would love-if in fact I try it, thanks for the advance warning on protecting the camera, OUCH!
Look forward to meeting you, Thursday at McCormick and Schmick's
You had to take out the camera to erase the evidence, right? Totally worth it on the Flip, may it rest in pieces.
After that little setup I had to watch the video. Thanks for the laugh, sorry. Great shots by the way.
Nice. You can be a secret secret-service team! (Even an inter-galactic one!)
Sigh. So many of my conversations with my son begin with "Do NOT do XXXX" and end with "I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO XXXX. And this is why." I am already tired and he is not yet 4. Did I say SIIIIIIIGH already?
HA Epic.
Where's the picture of the smashed screen? You know, for the full "don't try this at home" effect?
dude hellooo what did you think was going to happen? haha! You were asking for it from the start! At least it reminded you of a little bit of your physics classes.
But Fury is always too cute :) I think I say that too much huh?
I love the prophetic, "whoa..." "Oh no...!" at the end.
and your response was a mild "oh no" wow, you are amazing, I saw my husband use a lap top like a frisbee because his connection went down when he was trying to level up in a game.. You obviously have a boat load of calm about you. I am envious..
Nice KILL?
Nice kill indeed, Flip. May he rest in pieces.
It's all fun and games until a camera gets hurt. It still looks like fun and games to me.
"No, I don't want you to break the camera. Do NOT shoot the camera. Don't break the camera." (smash) "Okay."
At this point, you invoke the parental curse upon your son: "May you have twins."
LOL LOL "They can pry this airsoft gun from my cold dead hands"
Does this mean no more videos for a while?
Will Fury make it to his 9th Birthday?
Tune in next time......
I love the way you parent. You're totally awesome. Also, my boys had no idea what AirSoft guns were till now. THANKS, PAL.
Bloggerfather linked to this post! Hilarious! My first thought when I started watching the video was, "I hope there is some plexi glass in front of that camera..." This brought back many great memories i had of shooting GI Joe's and Star Wars figures with BB guns in my backyard with my two brothers. On more than one occasion, we had BB's ricochet off of things and hit us in the head. We were a little trigger happy back then though...
Brilliant intro! Great shooting, but My God - the camera lens is busted and you just say "oh no" ? I'd have turned into a screaming banshee!
Now this is what I call quality time! The next step to to starting setting things on fire. ;)
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You'll shoot your eye out.