It has been an exceptionally good day for viral videos.
The Chick-fil-A rap wasn't bad. If you haven't watched the Japanese game show "slippery stairs" contest yet, please rectify that immediately. But the best video might just be a random bus in Atlanta with perhaps the worst timing imaginable.
The NFL's Atlanta Falcons Monday bid farewell to their old home, the Georgia Dome. The classic venue was brought down through an implosion, which is usually visually stunning. A massive building being reduced to dust in no time at all with a couple of bangs—what else could you want? It took 4,800 pounds of explosives to bring down the stadium built in 1992, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. You can see the full video of the implosion here, via NPR.
But even better than the implosion was what appeared to be the Weather Channel's planned live feed of the event, which was improbably blocked by a bus passing by. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted the video of the incident on Twitter, and it's hilarious.
The Georgia Dome sits plainly in view in the video while a countdown to the implosion tocks away. Right after the first bang of dynamite, a MARTA bus rolls into frame, blocking nearly the entire implosion as it stops to watch the stadium crumbling in on itself. The audio is just as hilarious as the video.
"Bus, [BLEEP], get out of the way!" yelled a voice presumably belonging to a cameraman. Many more expressions of exasperation, including quite a few bleeped expletives, follow suit and a final, loud BLEEP punctuates the implosion's conclusion as the bus drives away.
The 42-second video quickly, uh, blew up online. There's something deeply human about a key moment ruined by the random and unpredictable.
As the saying goes, "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry...when a bus comes out of nowhere."
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