> Why you shouldn't be impatient with old folk.
>
>http://www.digitalfog.com/gallery/granny.html

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...and Simon Isaacs spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
>> Why you shouldn't be impatient with old folk.
>>
>> http://www.digitalfog.com/gallery/granny.html
>
> excellent, she even manages to set off the airbag, which must have
> cost a fortune!!!!!!
To me, that was the funny bit. Not the chuckles of the sk8ers, or the arse
getting what he deserved for harrassing an invalid pensioner, but the look
of bemused horror as the airbag slowly deflates in front of him. He's
getting out at the end - I would like to know what happened in the next 30
sec.
I thought airbags were supposed to deploy only in serious frontal impacts.
This was a half-loaded shopping bag! Mercedes quality control?

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Ian Rawlings - 08 Jan 2006 21:27 GMT
> I thought airbags were supposed to deploy only in serious frontal impacts.
> This was a half-loaded shopping bag! Mercedes quality control?
More like a fake video, perhaps as part of some comedy programme or
other. There's no puff of powdery smoke that I've seen when an airbag
explodes, they're inflated with a small explosive charge, and are
supposed to deflate immediately because they're not airtight (although
it does appear to deflate when he pushes it out of the way).
Also if the old lady is standing at the edge of the road and needs a
horn beeping to wake her up then why did he screetch to a stop in the
first place (which you don't see, only hear).
In the mpeg version of the video I've seen you can see the airbag take
about 1/3-1/2 of a second or so to inflate (you can see it take
shape), which seems far too slow for the descriptions of airbag
inflation I've seen in which it happens so fast that the air displaced
can supposedly harm hearing and/or blow out a window, and if it
happens too late or the driver is too close to the wheel, can cause
nasty injury.
Finally of course, it seems too funny to be true, especially the
comedic jump of the old woman just slumped there at the side of the
road, put together the whole thing just doesn't ring true. There's so
much fakery around that if it doesn't ring true it probably isn't.

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Ian Rawlings - 08 Jan 2006 22:08 GMT
> Finally of course, it seems too funny to be true, especially the
> comedic jump of the old woman just slumped there at the side of the
> road, put together the whole thing just doesn't ring true. There's so
> much fakery around that if it doesn't ring true it probably isn't.
Not to mention that only one airbag goes off and the force the old
lady puts on the crush can doesn't crush it and if it triggered at
that level of force it'd go off if you went over a speed bump too hard
or nudged a car when parking etc etc etc....
It's got to be a fake basically. Probably a cutting from an advert or
some comedy programme or sommat like that.

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Mother - 09 Jan 2006 09:12 GMT
>It's got to be a fake basically. Probably a cutting from an advert or
>some comedy programme or sommat like that.
I'm tempted to agree. Still kin funny though!

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Austin Shackles - 10 Jan 2006 10:04 GMT
>>It's got to be a fake basically. Probably a cutting from an advert or
>>some comedy programme or sommat like that.
>
>I'm tempted to agree. Still kin funny though!
yeah, I liked it when it first impinged on my attention.

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Richard Brookman - 09 Jan 2006 19:24 GMT
...and Ian Rawlings spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
>> Finally of course, it seems too funny to be true, especially the
>> comedic jump of the old woman just slumped there at the side of the
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> It's got to be a fake basically. Probably a cutting from an advert or
> some comedy programme or sommat like that.
Big spoilsport.

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Ian Rawlings - 09 Jan 2006 20:48 GMT
> Big spoilsport.
Sorry :-P
Well given the crap that people have been believing since the dawn of
time in churches and mosques etc all over the world, I'm sure you can
be forgiven suspending disbelief on this occasion!

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Mother - 09 Jan 2006 21:53 GMT
>Well given the crap that people have been believing since the dawn of
>time in churches and mosques etc all over the world, I'm sure you can
>be forgiven suspending disbelief on this occasion!
I'll raise your churches and mosques with...
... The Arizona Desert
Ian Rawlings - 10 Jan 2006 00:17 GMT
> ... The Arizona Desert
Ssshhh!
<looks fearfully skyward>

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Tim Hobbs - 10 Jan 2006 14:07 GMT
>> Big spoilsport.
>
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>time in churches and mosques etc all over the world, I'm sure you can
>be forgiven suspending disbelief on this occasion!
Of course, those of us who have the delight of owning a Mercedes can
actually believe that their airbags, in common with the rest of the
car, are fragile shite.
Took ours for first MoT this morning. As it's basically a town car I
took it for a good thrash on the way. Revved it out in first and the
engine stopped dead. Wouldn't restart, until about 2-3 minutes later.
That would have been a long two minutes if I'd been in the middle of
the road....

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