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check this out!!!!
First time I ever saw this. If you love the exhaust note of a Ferrari check this out. Professional driver hammers his way thru downtown Paris!!! Like some of the comments I think the engine sound and tires may be a little dubbed or enhanced? Still sounds nice though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHrCLt3Geo
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On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris early in the morning. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.
No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.
The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians and driving the wrong way up one-way streets.
Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground. If you haven’t seen this before it is a classic..
Webby
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That was actually very stupid and reckless.
I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
Agreed!Webby
I felt the same way. I also could not believe he did not happen upon any police at all. On a closed course i'd be all over that, but on open streets that was a little too much.
Family.....They're always there when they need you.
Well, it looks like it was done around 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning. And I can recall being in Paris and leaving for the airport around 7:15 and being very surprised at how little activity was going on even then.Still, he darn near clipped a lady at 6:30 into the run. Neat to see, but I wouldn't want to view it in my neighborhood.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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dang, I've been looking for this, and don't mean to burst the bubble, but Lelouch confessed a while back that the car he drove was actually a Mercedes and he later added the Ferrari sound effects,
still a cool badazz thing to watch though,
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Yeah that is what someone commented on ytube.
My question is if there was a sound overdub wouldnt they have had to run the same course with the ferrari? If not that was an awful lot of work to synch the sound to the film, so well that is.
Webby
Edited 5/14/2009 2:36 pm ET by webby
so you're saying Claude Lelouch doesn't know how to make a movie :).
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No I want to beleive it is real. However there is a lot of talk about it being enhanced with ferrari sound and tire noise. Not to mention the talk of how fast is the car really going.
Anyway it is still cool.Webby
August 1978 what so dangerous about driving 140 mph though Paris?
Early in the morning (Probably a Tuesday) Wrong way down one way streets? Run Red lights!!!Big deal!! No charges or arrest until it is shown in public movie house?
Why? Because Paris is empty!!! It is shut down !!!Nobody home!!!It's AUGUST!!! Vacation Month !!!Not a Parisian to be found anywhere in the city limits!!!Not even the Police!!!!A few stray tourist perhaps but that's all. All the Parisians are in Normandy or Provence or Burgundy or Alsace or Cannes, BUT NOT PARIS !!!
There is more traffic and congestion at the Bonneville Salt flats that day than in Paris!!! A tourist type slipped a couple of francs to act terrified for a sense of reality....the cops didn't even know it happened until the movie came out...SCANDAL Mon Deiu So much fun....
Wow, my foot is still reaching for the brake!http://www.tvwsolar.com
Now I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill
I would set him in chains at the top of the hill
Then send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille
He could die happily ever after"
Supposedly the chase scene in The French Connection was run on a regular street without blocking traffic. The couple of near-misses were staged, but some of the other traffic dodging was not.
Of course in that case they had the ability to adjust the film speed a bit to make things seem a little hairier than they really were.
And probably it's not something the film co lawyers would let you do anymore.
Try that now and you would get run over by motorcycles or motor scooters.
Surprised there are not more dead motorcycle riders these days.
Thats fast but Our SHEP can start in Hackensack with his Mustang and drive to Beach Haven by the time it takes to watch one episode of 3s company all the while eating a Taylor ham with one hand and a Big Gulp in the Other!!!!
when you young its 'Oh how cool" when you get older and get to know what fear is, you wish they pick up the jail and drop it on him
It's already in my will that the sound track be blasted, graveside, at my funeral, followed by taps with a real person there playing the bugle.
Whatever car it was, that was really incredible. Reckless for sure, but wow!
Here's the non-motorized equivalent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au0Zjn3eB9k&feature=related
Oh yeah, if you like engine noise--check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSHToyGIxWE&feature=PlayList&p=017B3CB7449422D8&index=0&playnext=1
I especially like the guy on the right, standing there next to it, all nonchalant with his legs crossed... He moves away eventually, but holy cats! I'd be watching carefully from behind something or someone!
Pretty well convinced that when you have really really HOT, and lots of Fuel--together, then you get big big explosions, right?
Crazy.
I think those things go like 19,000 rpm?!
Frenchy problably knows?
You mean the deaf guy on the right ?Greg
Hi webby,
hammers his way thru downtown Paris!!! Like some of the comments
From my wife - witnessed a motorcycle rider do something similar - found him dead underneath the back of a car he ran into a couple of miles up the road, little girl in the backseat was injured.
From my daughter - witnessed a car on the highway recently doing something similar and lost control as a vehicle in front made a signaled lane change - driver dead - vehicle he ran into contained 3 passengers of whom all went to the hospital, one was airlifted.
From me - I love the two girls above so much that if I ever get my hands on someone doing this in a public place, non sanctioned, I'll make Hanoi Hilton and water boarding seem like a kindergarten playground.
I have no problem if you want to risk your own life but when you risk someone else's you need to be taken out slowly and painfully but permanently as an example to others contemplating the same.
Get on a sanctioned race coarse, buy some land of your own, get permits and all safety needs squared away, do whatever you legally need to do but do not put yourself above the life sacredness of my family!
Has Pedro the Mule made himself clear?
Oh it goes with out saying. I don't condone it AT ALL!!!
Titled it dangerous but awesome. I for one don't drive like that and don't appreciate people who do. Thats why the filmmaker was arrested. The driver would have been too if Lelouch would have named him.
Perhaps I admired the skill of the driver but I am smart enough not to try that.
Has Webby made himself clear!?!?!?
Anyways there is also a controversy over whether it was 140 MPH or 140 KPH.
Might have been doing only around 80, 90 MPH
Webby
Edited 5/15/2009 8:35 am ET by webby
Certainly if one were that interested it would be possible (assuming the film is running at normal speed) to reference some landmarks and estimate speed fairly accurately.The film suffers from the problem that Howard Hughes had with Hell's Angels -- speed is often not visually apparent due to the lack of a background to reference.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
Hi webby,
Anyways there is also a controversy over whether it was 140 MPH or 140 KPH.
Might have been doing only around 80, 90 MPH
OK, so what! It's still better than double the legal limit. There is a reason that there are limits. It's called reasonable safety for 99% of what Murphy may throw at you. There simply is nothing awesome about a film that is distributed in mass to would be addrenaline junky inexperienced stupid mostly teen drivers that view it as "OK" because someone else has already gotten away with it.
According to another poster - No one accidentally still in Paris during vacation early in the morning. Heck that's when I'd be there, nice quiet peaceful time of year and boom.....get run over by some @$$4ole getting his kicks at my expense....geeez
My 3 cents adjusted for inflation.....AWESOME is this clip......makes a point.....builds adrenaline.....and "all party's involved" volunteer to put themselves at one anothers risks. That makes them "purposefully, intentionally, mutually involved". Even the camera crew involved in this film is aware of the conditions unlike someone in Paris out for an early morning walk.....and what if that pedestrian is deaf?
Enjoy the following Awesome clip.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21_JCx3_vlc
Pedro the Mule - I'll stomp on anyone who doesn't value life - that's what African Elephants are doing!
Great little race there!
here is the explanation in 2006 by Lelouch, it's in French but you get the idea
I was disappointed after this showed up since the original looked more scary, since it seems the sound fx added a sense of speed ...... the Mercedes looks to run at similar more normal speeds in some spots....too bad really
Lelouch debunks the film and from the comments we know now that he didn't drive that morning either
but don't look if you don't want to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHn5Q15kaIA
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What if you lived on one of those streets? What if your kids went to school on them?
ETC, ETC.................
People in cars driving like they own the road have screwed up whole areas of the country.
Will Rogers
I remember reading about a public safety ad in Quebec. Some teenagers filmed their friend blasting down a back road in his mustang, which he flipped, rolled, and killed himself in.
The family allowed the gov't to use it as a public safety message.
It was fairly powerful viewing.
I'm just sick and tired of it. And the police looking the other way.
I saw a guy get hit on his bicycle yesterday right in front of me.
The car rolled through a stop sign. Oops!
Of coarse the car won as usual.
I just got back from visiting my family in L.A..
What a hell hole! Why? A large part of it is cars.
"There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading, the few who learn by observation and the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."Will Rogers
Edited 5/15/2009 5:36 pm by popawheelie
You ever driven in Quebec City? How about Copenhagen? Two places where the traffic is quite mad.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
The whole province of Quebec is filled with "adventerous" heel/toe drivers.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
Ah, Montreal driving. Where else do you see signs on every traffic light that say, 'Wait for the Green Light'....
How about Copenhagen
Remember the movie where a semi drove over all the Hell's angels' bikes outside a bar.
That scene crosses my mind every time I see the thousands of bicycles parked outside the Copenhagen train station!
You know quite frankly I am getting about dam sick of this site.
The past two things I have posted on here have been blown way out of proportion and I have had to defend my character due to something someone assumes about me!!!!
I want everyone in this thread to understand me when I say I did not post the link because I thought the premise of the video was cool, it was not it was dangerous, reckless, illegal, and stupid. I am nearly forty years old and anyone who assumes I think driving like that is cool can f off. I dont drive like that and dont condone anyone who does.
I posted the link for others to view. I tend not to pass judgement immediatly on things like this. So I posted with information in the post designed to give others an idea of what was in the video because I personally dont like it when someone just throws a lnk up and says "hey look at this". I thought others might have seen it before. Also as I stated in another post i am not defending the driver but one can still appreciate the objective skill in vehicle handling.
To others not on my #### I am sorry for the tone and this is not directed at you.
I think this may be my last post on breaktime I am just tired of it. You can get info on here when you need it that is if you can weed out some of the smartazz comments and critical judgement and bickering that dilute this site.Webby
I watch all the crazies on youtube, cars, trucks, motorcycles, 4 wheelers, etc. It was a stupid stunt, but very interesting.
Would you believe that people are less judgmental if you post in the proper section (ie, the Woodshed Tavern)?...No, I didn't think so, but thought I'd ask.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
You think thats bad , Go into the Tavern and admit Ann Coulter is your dream goil!!!!!!. Sure when i go to town they kick my dawg around and talk about my goil but they cant stop me!!!!!!;]
I think you're taking some of the comments a little too personal. A lot of the criticism was directed at the imbecile who was driving dangerously (supposedly). Not at you.
No need to go away. Just thicken up your skin a little and be glad that your post inspired so many comments... and besides, I still want to know whatever happened with that cell phone charger.
webby,
You know quite frankly I am getting about dam sick of this site.
The past two things I have posted on here have been blown way out of proportion and I have had to defend my character due to something someone assumes about me!!!!
Let's see, you come to a web site focusing on quality home construction and post about something completely irrelevent......which is not necessarily a problem, none the less it is disregarding the intended purpose.
You then specifically request feedback but since it's not the feedback you dreamt of you're now upset......
I want everyone in this thread to understand me when I say I did not post the link because I thought the premise of the video was cool, it was not it was dangerous, reckless, illegal, and stupid.
This did not come out clear in your first post on the subject.....
Since you thought it was awesome for someone to blatantly break the law and endanger innocent bystanders, it is the simplest conclusion to draw that you are glad this was filmed for your entertainment.
Had you posted the link and ask for support of bringing the law down on such recklessness, then we could in your words - "Assume you were against it".
Do not ask for feedback without parameters and then get all ticked off when you get it.
Pedro the Mule - Attitude makes an adult, not age
Listen to me you self righteouse son of a ####. I didn't ask for feed back and I certainly didn't ask some old #### like yourself to pass judgement on something I posted on here. Like you never hotrodded a car in your younger days, get real. I am glad you love your family. I love mine too and am concerned with their safety.
You are not a moderator. Dont EVER presume to tell me where to post a ###### comment If you dont like it keep it to your dam self. Let the moderators move the comment if they feel it is in the wrong catagory, they do that all the time.
How about this--
Since you assumed I was in favor of the content of the film. How would you feel then if I assumed from your screen name that you were a mexican and then presumed to judge your character based on racist and ethnic stereotypes. Dude you neeed to lighten up. Im sorry that you have lost good friends in accidents or see people commiting traffic violations every day and are powerless to do anything to stop it. I see the same thing I drive too. If you're that wrecked about it get our #### off here and enroll in the police academy and become an officer of the law.
Otherwise as Bosshogg put it stop standing on my dick. I didnt' do anything to you however you took something personally that I put on here. It was a '70s era filmwork -a piece of art, not all people like all art obviously this piece doesnt agree with you, TOUGH. There is still a thing in this country called free speech, and freedom of expression. Mods didn't have a problem with my post, or the catagory it is in, you dam well shouldn't.
PERIOD. thats all I am going to say to you. So step off dude!!!!!!!!!!Webby
Bad time of the month?
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
actually I think he's doing pretty good!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-V-Pm44wk&feature=related
Thanks for the link!
I hadn't seen that before and enjoyed it greatly. On a side note- Your arguing with a guy who calls himself a Mule ?
Jeff- thanks.
Popawheelie-no problem.
Henley-very true.
Maddog3- thanks.
Now I gotta go perform a miracle on some undersupported polybutylene in some guys trailer. Wish me luck.
Webby
Edited 5/16/2009 7:55 am ET by webby
Well let's edit this again.....2 hours with a chainsaw can change an approach, I'll try to keep the sweat off the message paper here.
webby,
From last post --- I didn't ask for feed back
From first post --- First time I ever saw this. If you love the exhaust note of a Ferrari check this out. Professional driver hammers his way thru downtown Paris!!! Like some of the comments I think the engine sound and tires may be a little dubbed or enhanced? Still sounds nice though.
Musta read it wrong.....I have been notified that the comment portion was apparently a part of the youtube info
Since you assumed I was in favor of the content of the film.
Well, let's see you did put the word "dangerous" first so I'll take it upon correction that that was your way of stating that it would have been way cool without the illegal stupidity so I stand corrected as to your first intent.
How would you feel then if I assumed from your screen name that you were a mexican and then presumed to judge your character based on racist and ethnic stereotypes.
Not sure how you are corrolating this but I will say I think highly of the vast majority of Mexican's I've been blessed to know. All went through the process of obtaining legal entry, work their tails off and intentionally speak English in their homes so their kids will have an even better opportunity than they did. Spanish is still part of their heritage and is spoken but it's not a priority. Our daughter is fluent in Spanish to the point that she has far surpassed her hispanic friends in the written language and normally speaks to them in Spanish while they speak to her in English...pretty funny to listen to.....Dark haired, dark complexion, English Speaking....Blonde haired, pale face, Spanish Speaking.
Sorry to disappoint though.....no Mexican here....though I have a large number of taste buds that think they are.....alas that's one ancestry I didn't inherit in my list of six.
obviously this piece doesnt agree with you, TOUGH. There is still a thing in this country called free speech, and freedom of expression
Freedom of speech, hmmmm, I express my freedom of speech and you get mad....that's very interesting.....please tell me more.
Pedro the Mule - Stubborn as always - good luck and best wishes for a happy well balanced, prosperous life webby
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He's talking about the youtube comments. He didn't ask anyone to comment to him.I think both of you need to knock it off.
Yup. Cool it, Dudes. Neither of you is getting ANYWHERE with this...........unless you actually/secretly ENJOY arguing on the internet.
unless you actually/secretly ENJOY arguing on the internet.
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"Sir, I'm here for an Argument.""I'm sorry, this is Abuse. You'll find Arguments three doors down."
Hi kenhill3,
Yup. Cool it, Dudes. Neither of you is getting ANYWHERE with this...........unless you actually/secretly ENJOY arguing on the internet.
Nah...simply fluffing my mule feathers
kenhill3 personal quote: Be excellent to each other.
Consider it done.
To: webby - Can I buy you a cup 'o' joe?....got some wonderful Jamaican whole bean coffee I can send......
Back to kenhill3 - Best friends can slug it out and five minutes later have pizza and beer together.....hopefully coffee will buy him off.....I don't think I can mail beer.....<mule eatin' brier's grin>
Pedro the Mule - My heart's gettin' soft but the stubborn's still inside
Hi Dam_inspector,
He's talking about the youtube comments. He didn't ask anyone to comment to him.
Correction understood....thank you for being the one to clarify.
I think both of you need to knock it off.
Agreed.
If proper safety precautions had been in place for the filming; I would completely and entirely concur with webby "Awesome", without those things in place......well I've made my point previously.
Thank you to webby for being a battering ram and thank you to Dam_inspector for bringing order.
Pedro the Mule - Concede 'til the next fight
There's plenty of fighting to be done in the political threads if you're up to it. I have grown pretty tired of it myself.
Hi Dam_inspector,
There's plenty of fighting to be done in the political threads if you're up to it. I have grown pretty tired of it myself.
I could probably go for that for a few days at a time, but only a few....have to kiss and make up then.....please enlighten me......where?.....is this where I tell 'em that Ann Coulter is my heart throb?......actually she's number 3.....Sarah Palin's number 2 and my wife is number 1 and truthfully the only......
Pedro the Mule - Plow takin' a hard right
Those threads are in the Tavern. You have to beg to be let in. God rest your soul if you are granted permission.
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=88430.1
I need Pedro and his mule in the tavern!!!!!
Hi bobbys,
I need Pedro and his mule in the tavern!!!!!
Well, I put in my request for a bar stool.......now we'll see......
Hey, I didn't see anything on your profile.....so what's yer MO?
Pedro the Mule - Got my saddle ready
and just what are you gonna do to the mule????
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Hi IMERC,
and just what are you gonna do to the mule????
I'm curious too cause bronc bustin' is a heck of a lot easier......
Pedro the Mule - Polished the harness this morning, ready to plow ahead
I know not if there be a mule but if there be i admire his Panache and sprit, Thus will place his mule up there alongside Sheps Mustang.I dare say riding in a Mustang would impress the young maidens more so then riding a mule but placing a feather in ones cap would add a dash of gaiety!!!
yur really a polotician in 'guise..
ain'tcha....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Hi bobbys,
I dare say riding in a Mustang would impress the young maidens more so then riding a mule but placing a feather in ones cap would add a dash of gaiety!!!
That Mustang might be quick on the draw but I know how to break wind!
It'll be the ride of a lifetime.......
Pedro the Mule - What's that smell, Taco Bell
LOL like that Seinfield episode when Kramer fed the horse bulk food!!!
now you did it !.
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Another man ruined for life.
Hi Dam_inspector,
Another man ruined for life.
Hey I was ruined the first time I got my left front hoof caught.......uhhhh never mind.
Pedro the Mule - Some things are better left unsaid
Pedro,
No coffee needed. Everything is cool and the points you made are understood.
I apologize for the venom in my remark.
Hope you and yours are well now and in the future. Regards.
Webby
Hi webby,
Everything is cool and the points you made are understood.
Agreed....it's always nice to make a friend no matter how it happened!
Thank you friend,
Pedro the Mule - Now let's have some more fun......
I'm not trying to slam this down anyones thoat. I didn't mean to get personal.
Maybe it's a delayed reaction thing. Sorry if I was over the top. "There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading, the few who learn by observation and the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."Will Rogers
geez take it easy it's only a movie and an old one at that,
I figured with your handle you'd be the last guy agitated by itquit beatin on webby.
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Your clip was sane, here's some real fruitcakes driving in the city of New York.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0
I wasn't beating on webby. I see cars doing stupid, dangerous, life threatening things just about every day and I'm sick and tired of it. Period.
The police won't do their job and I'm not allowed to take the law into my own hands.
So the only thing I can do is to speak up every time I can about it. and that's what I do.
If anyone doesn't like it they need to take a long hard look at their contribution to the mess we are in with cars.
I'm making a stand and i won't make excuses for it.
A friend of mine died recently because a big truck killed him dead.
Once again the truck won. And my friend is dead.
"There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading, the few who learn by observation and the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."Will Rogers
Edited 5/15/2009 5:37 pm by popawheelie
I really am sorry to hear about your friend..but you're strident about something that was filmed.....filmed....... 30 years ago, and wailing on a guy that wan't even therethe moviemaker even fessed up that the whole thing was rigged, different car, dubbed sound, heck for all we know the entire story is a fabrication.
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I'm not trying to slam this down anyones thoat. I didn't mean to get personal.
Maybe it's a delayed reaction thing. Sorry if I was over the top.
"There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading, the few who learn by observation and the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."Will Rogers
Edited 5/16/2009 1:07 am by popawheelie
never saw that before ...
pretty cool to watch.
I do think the motor revs and brakes is completly fake and added after the fact. If U look to the side in most shots they're not going all that fast. Especially when they encounter trucks or people on the sidewalk ... people who they were never close to actually hitting.
To me ... that Ferrari fit into some pretty small spaces ... I'd guess it was all filmed from a motorcycle at speeds no where near 140mph that blem thru a coupla red lights.
Still fun to watch.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
webby sign in the Tavern these threads fit in there nice.
Of course half the people there are mad at the other half all the time but one gets used to it after awhile!!!!.
Edit sorry you are already in there , You should have put this thread there!!!
Edited 5/17/2009 1:33 pm ET by bobbys
Yeah I deliberated about that, but didn't think it was going to turn into such a thing!Webby