Sunday, December 03, 2006

When Stunts Goes Wrong..

A'Famosa Resort - Animal Safari's entrance, approx. 200 metres from the entry gate, where the car is parked.. and where a stunt that none of us would even think of doing, happened..

the rain was pouring with supreme orgasm, waiting 20 mins in the souvenir shop and 1 rm3.50 cornetto, patience went dry and we walked to the drop off area where lotsa similar ppl like us were stucked.. staring around for any possible equipment to cover and run to the car.. sadly, nothing came close except for taking a plastic beg to cover the head - silly thought. Approach the indian receptionist and asked to borrow an umbrella, apprently she had lent hers to some1 else already. Her next statement "go take the resort shuttle and ask the driver to drop u at ur car la" Genius, we tot of that but i hesitated.. somehow after the indian's comment we ran straight to an bout to roll shuttle, honking with halfway already out of the drop off zone.

Hopped on and then instantly the shuttle moved on. Immedietly realized that we have no way to communicate with the driver, fuck! we were at the last couple row out of 8 rows and no path to get even close to the driver. For some security reasons the driver and passenger were divided with a divider. next...

"1108, jump!" the next thing.. she lays face down on the road side, my next move was without a concious mind, pure instinct with no objective of action but to JUMP! While i was supermaning in the air, something strucked my mind "jian no matter wat u need to slow down the force by running with the direction of the shuttle b4 stopping" .. smart, not sure where that tot came but it was smooth and cool landing, phew~!! thanks to hollywood, now when think back, really wonder how gaya it looked if it was filmed but screw that, turned back and ran towards her.. besides the behind car who witnessed all these stunts for free and applausing for enchos by honking so damn loud, she is no where at sight.. ahhh~ already in the car, i went in too.. thank up down left right that it's nothing more than bruises on the knees and eye brown.. and we changed in the car.. to be honest, changing underwear, wet underwear to be exact with the added stickiness and moisture, on the driver's seat is asking hell out of me.. i was without undies all the journey back home..

Stunt Summary:
Platform: Shuttle bus with 1.2+ meters elevation from ground
Speed: 30-40 km/h moving vehicle speed
Duration of Action: with gravity (9.8 ms-1) and only 1.2m height, 1.2/9.8 = 0.1224 seconds / stunt - plus in some few split seconds for running towards the edge (pre-stunt movements)
Plot of Stunt: Instinctive dive when seeing target (1st stuntman), or target down (2nd stuntman)
Physics Reason for Failure: Trying to beat the inertia by drastic maintaining of still position and squating
Physics Reason for Success: Following the flow of direction and beating the inertia by slowing it down
Casualties: 2 years old watch, some skin and flash, blueblack with handphone mark
Lesson learnt for next stunt: Yes
Possible reason for not wanting to attempt future similar stunt: phobia