Is this staged? Looks like someone washing a car with gasoline.

[bcla]

This was originally posted to TikTok, but many have pointed out that it doesn't look like a real gas hose.

The liquid coming out seems a little bit too thin to be gasoline. Also (from experience) if it were gasoline there would be a ton of fumes and it would cause a lot of optical distortion of the background. The hose is way too thin and too flexible to be a vapor recovery hose.

I found there are water dispensing handles that are styled after fuel pump handles. I understand they're supposed to be more convenient for things such as filling horse water troughs where they will automatically shut off when full.

 

[Grand Koalafornian]

I’m with you. Looks staged.

In addition to the fluid looking too clear, the hose is too long and narrow. Even at gas stations where it doesn’t matter which side your fuel door is on (IDK if that’s a thing everywhere, it’s pretty rare where I live), they have the hose hooked up to a cord so it doesn’t just dangle on the ground in coils if there’s slack. They don’t want people accidentally running over it!

Probably meant to be a prank.

 

[fly girl]

Look at the hose, way too long and not a gasoline hose. The acting is horrific too.

I think I saw people like this putting a boot on someones car that cut them off. It was fake too, not buying it.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Sorry hose is to long for it to be a gas hose

 

[mrodgers]

Staged. Those people have videos all over that are staged garbage.

 

[neverlandsky]

Fake. Hose is way too thin to be a gas hose. Plus when gas hoses are extended out they are tethered so they don’t overextend and slide back in. This hose isn’t tethered.

 

[LuvOrlando]

If you look at .03 seconds it looks like a hose is running under the pump and it looks like someone missed CGI'ing out the hose behind the pump, maybe even on the concrete floor because it totally catches the sun, there is probably vehicle with a water tank parked behind this one full of water that was erased with CGI or whatever. I can also see the hose extension it in around .11-.14 in the car spot for the pump behind the one she is at, .32-.34 as well.

I really dislike the dangerous tone in some of the horrendous stunts spread with this, I hope they are liable for content.

Reminds me of Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear :/

 

[bcla]

Reminds me of Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear :/

Yeah. That was actually quite simple in concept. He had the audience and cameras on a platform, and he turned them around slowly over the course of a half hour or so. They recreated a reasonable enough facsimile of the pedestal.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Yeah. That was actually quite simple in concept. He had the audience and cameras on a platform, and he turned them around slowly over the course of a half hour or so. They recreated a reasonable enough facsimile of the pedestal.

I really had no idea how he did it but knew the Statue didn't move, and had way more arguments with people about this than should have happened ROTFL. It could never happen today, first, we have zero sense of humor or want to believe and second, the city would be full of hecklers taking video of it NOT happening. Today we are all so woke, shaken and stirred 24/7 that there is no room for fun, sigh...

 

[bcla]

I really had no idea how he did it but knew the Statue didn't move, and had way more arguments with people about this than should have happened ROTFL. It could never happen today, first, we have zero sense of humor or want to believe and second, the city would be full of hecklers taking video of it NOT happening. Today we are all so woke, shaken and stirred 24/7 that there is no room for fun, sigh...

Again - pretty simple. They had the two towers holding up the curtain, and the audience and cameras were sitting on a big lazy Susan. Everything else was just showmanship, including the "radar" supposedly losing visibility of the statue. I saw video of it, and it wasn't a pedestal (which supposedly vanished), but they did somewhat recreate the platform that the pedestal sat on.

The helicopter shot was on fairly low-res video and it was dark, so they didn't have to perfectly match the pedestal. The audience couldn't see the platform. And yes it would be impossible to pull off these days. There would be some joker tipped off about it who would then do something like shine lasers at it from the shore to mess with the illusion.

The other thing about it would be that the National Park Service wouldn't approve anything like that any more. David Copperfield got the cooperation of the National Park Service a lot during the 80s, but they wouldn't allow it now. He supposedly levitated across the Grand Canyon in one special. Also the escape from Alcatraz where they somehow allowed them to use pyrotechnics that they claimed would cause severe personal injury but wouldn't damage the walls.

 

[tvguy]

Staged. But it is not unheard of in the collector car to world wipe down a car with gasoline. Not soak it, wipe it down

 

[LuvOrlando]

Yeah. That was actually quite simple in concept. He had the audience and cameras on a platform, and he turned them around slowly over the course of a half hour or so. They recreated a reasonable enough facsimile of the pedestal.

I really had no idea how he did it but knew the Statue didn't move, and had way more arguments with people about this than should have happened ROTFL. It could never happen today, first, we have zero sense of humor or want to believe and second, the city would be full of hecklers taking video of it NOT happening. Today we are all so woke, shaken and stirred 24/7 that there is no room for fun, sigh... I was born a hardcore skeptic but miss seeing the wistfulness in others. The Statue of Liberty thing wa silly, this stunt though, of a vehicle with a combustible engine being doused in a flammable liquid, is neither wistful nor playful, its crazy and dangrerous.

Again - pretty simple. They had the two towers holding up the curtain, and the audience and cameras were sitting on a big lazy Susan. Everything else was just showmanship, including the "radar" supposedly losing visibility of the statue. I saw video of it, and it wasn't a pedestal (which supposedly vanished), but they did somewhat recreate the platform that the pedestal sat on.

The helicopter shot was on fairly low-res video and it was dark, so they didn't have to perfectly match the pedestal. The audience couldn't see the platform. And yes it would be impossible to pull off these days. There would be some joker tipped off about it who would then do something like shine lasers at it from the shore to mess with the illusion.

The other thing about it would be that the National Park Service wouldn't approve anything like that any more. David Copperfield got the cooperation of the National Park Service a lot during the 80s, but they wouldn't allow it now. He supposedly levitated across the Grand Canyon in one special. Also the escape from Alcatraz where they somehow allowed them to use pyrotechnics that they claimed would cause severe personal injury but wouldn't damage the walls.

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