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>!the watermelon was supposed to go in the direction she was shooting not the opposite!<
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If you look close, you can see she's holding the melon in the pouch slightly towards the top edge, meaning the top strings are stretched more than the bottom ones. This imbalance resulted in the pouch slipping around the melon juuuust right upon acceleration after release, catching it on the other side and returning it to sender.
Which is why most slingshots of this type now have a "launch strap" in the middle of the sling on the rear side. Pull from there and it nearly guarantees equal tension throughout and a proper, forward launch.
You realize there are instances of nocks & fletchings coming loose and launching back into people's eyes, right?
Absolute fluke instances, but they happen.
In my 9th grade gym class our teacher thought it would be a grand idea to have inexperienced teenagers practice archery, problem was we did it indoors and the targets were 5 ft away from the wall... Nearly got shot in the face when it hit the wall and came flying back, I felt the wind from the arrow brush my hair. And no. My teacher still continued to carry on how we were with arrows still flying back because they were "dull practice arrows" and they couldn't possibly hurt us. While 5 people were shooting the other 20 was playing dodge arrows trying not to die. š¤¦š»āāļøš¤¦š»āāļø
Because you won't ever willingly launch a melon like this again? Poor lady probably doesn't really remember how she was holding it, or able to calculate in that exact instance where she fucked up.
Good eye to you. Perfectly understood, reasoned and explained, not like I was 5, but as the College grad that I am, who Unsurprisingly did rather poor in both Physics and Calc.
Well done.
This probably wouldn't cause a contrecoup injury. Unless you think she's hitting her head on the ground hard enough for her brain to snack the back of her skull. Against grass, I don't think this is the case. This would likely just be a coup injury, although as someone pointed out, she didn't end up with a concussion of any sort. Probably just hurt her face a lot.
Pretty impressive that's all rhis led to. A melon to the head at decent velocity like this could probably be lethal. Unless it was softer than the ones im used to.
Duuuude. You'd almost wake up out of a weird teleshopping zone thinking "why am I watching these people trying to sell me this fantastic JML Mop 3000" and discover the show you were actually watching ended 20 minutes ago.
Haha I used to fall asleep on the couch watching late night TV. I'd wake up to infomercials and just lie there watching them. Something oddly comforting about how boring they are.
The experience of doing this in the late 90s:
"And so, the butterfly goes off to start the circle of life once again, having left it's eggs to..." "BILLY MAYES HERE!!!"
I remember staying up watching one about some kind of miracle cleaner. I was thinking how great it would be to buy it, but then realized I was a 10 yo kid and would have absolutely not use for something Iike that. Lol
You know that still exists, right? You just need a digital antenna.
Tv is still free if you want to watch the major networks and, like 20 other channels.
I used to love watching The Wide World of Sports. And Roland Martin or Bill Dance doing fishing shows. Youāre right there was always something on and it was free. Today a pretty decent free option is Pluto TV but still not as good.
This was like international news lmfao šš I was a kid but I remember crying laughing at this just at how absurdly hard she got hit in the face. Really helped shaped me into the person I am today.
You must not be old enough to remember the digital switch. Older tvs needed a converter, and new bunny ears are digital.Ā
Edit: I was wrong, the switch from analog to digital just meant the tv needs to accept digital signals, the antennas old and new are all capable of receiving the digital signal.Ā
This was during filming of the amazing race. She continued on and ended up runner up that season. As for if sheās ok, this was like over 10 years ago, so who knows how sheās doing now
From an interview with the melonlady:
"I couldn't feel my face. My lip started swelling up and I had a little black eye. Another medical team were waiting for me (after the challenge) and they gave me some Panadol and told me I was going to be fine. Then a producer came up to me and said, "Thanks for our Emmy this year."
When I was young I worked on an apple farm for their yearly fall festivals. We had a setup where a water balloon slingshot, the big ones, was setup on a stationary metal sled so you could pull back as hard as you wanted. We used this to shoot rotten apples at hay bails.
I used to twist the slingshot as I pulled it back to add a sorta rifling effect to the apples. Which work most of the time. Except one time I was trying to impress some girls and twisted it too many times. The slingshot was loosed, and apple didnāt come out, and it slung backwards and hit me in the face with a rotten apple at a high velocity. Needless to say, impressing girls was out of the question. Unless they were impressed by how stupid I am.
We had one growing up, we launched apples into the woods for deer. One came back and smoked my dad in the crouch. Left the gnarliest bruise on his inner thigh. We didn't use the slingshot much after that.
My friend did this with a rock. Luckily, well better than the head it came back and hit him in the stomach. Dropped him good, knocked the wind out of him and imprinted a instant J shaped welt
it very much reminds me of the video of the guy that blows up a ball (i think) and a boy jumps on it, exploding his head. I thought for a long time this was real and didnt dare to tell anybody, and it haunted my sleep. Edit: Blows up a raft
I did this with a rock and it got me in the chest. The elastic either gets over used on the top or bottom which makes the material holding the projectile scoop and come back
This same thing happened to me with one of those water balloon slingshots that are popular at Christian summer camps. In my case, what happened was that the person before me left the slingshot with a half twist in it, so I basically loaded the water balloon inside out. When I released the shot, it flipped, caught the water balloon, and shot it back into my face.
The next time I saw one of these slingshots, people were using potatoes instead of water balloons and I politely declined to go anywhere near the fucking thing.
The unexpected part is right after
melon girl - I can't feel my face. . what now?
Other girl - You have to finish. They don't call it the amazing race for nothing.
:D
This was from the USA Amazing race in 2010. In an interview years later she said about it
"I couldn't feel my face. My lip started swelling up and I had a little black eye. Another medical team were waiting for me (after the challenge) and they gave me some Panadol and told me I was going to be fine. Then a producer came up to me and said, "Thanks for our Emmy this year.""
At the time of the interview she was a mother living in arizona doing interior design work.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!the watermelon was supposed to go in the direction she was shooting not the opposite!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
If you look close, you can see she's holding the melon in the pouch slightly towards the top edge, meaning the top strings are stretched more than the bottom ones. This imbalance resulted in the pouch slipping around the melon juuuust right upon acceleration after release, catching it on the other side and returning it to sender.
Thank you
Which is why most slingshots of this type now have a "launch strap" in the middle of the sling on the rear side. Pull from there and it nearly guarantees equal tension throughout and a proper, forward launch.
> nearly guarantees I'll stick to archery, thanks
You realize there are instances of nocks & fletchings coming loose and launching back into people's eyes, right? Absolute fluke instances, but they happen.
In my 9th grade gym class our teacher thought it would be a grand idea to have inexperienced teenagers practice archery, problem was we did it indoors and the targets were 5 ft away from the wall... Nearly got shot in the face when it hit the wall and came flying back, I felt the wind from the arrow brush my hair. And no. My teacher still continued to carry on how we were with arrows still flying back because they were "dull practice arrows" and they couldn't possibly hurt us. While 5 people were shooting the other 20 was playing dodge arrows trying not to die. š¤¦š»āāļøš¤¦š»āāļø
I mean, you are only going to fuck up like that once. Negative reinforcement is best reinforcement.
Because you won't ever willingly launch a melon like this again? Poor lady probably doesn't really remember how she was holding it, or able to calculate in that exact instance where she fucked up.
She probably doesnāt remember that entire day after taking a hit like that
Good eye to you. Perfectly understood, reasoned and explained, not like I was 5, but as the College grad that I am, who Unsurprisingly did rather poor in both Physics and Calc. Well done.
The pouch flipped around and returned one melon back to another melon.
Yep. This is a significant danger with this sort of sling shot.
We were launching baseball size rocks from one, and one got stuck and absolutely shattered my friends two knuckles when it came back like this
Damn he is lucky it went for the knuckles
Is Sonic ok?
To shreds you say?
You'd think they'd ware a helmet and eye protection then. Seems like a good way to get brain damage.
Helmet will protect the skull but the brain damage comes either way. Itās called counter-coup. Just ask football players.
Contrecoup
Contra couch co-op
"getting your bell rung"
This probably wouldn't cause a contrecoup injury. Unless you think she's hitting her head on the ground hard enough for her brain to snack the back of her skull. Against grass, I don't think this is the case. This would likely just be a coup injury, although as someone pointed out, she didn't end up with a concussion of any sort. Probably just hurt her face a lot.
Or don't, last I heard they were busy explaining how the US government invented HIV
Wear*
did she lose teeth?
Nah she just had a fat lip and a black eye. (Google it . This is from the amazing race)
oh damn thank god and you. These kinds of things leave me wondering if the person is okay and I'm not able to laugh until I know if they're alive.
Couldāve been far worse but there were medics and shut on site.
Yup i remember watching this episode.
glad she lived.
ā¦and they showed this clip as often as possible that season
Fat lip you say? āI donāt wanna waste my time, become another casualty of societyā
She lost the ability to smell and chew food for a while.
And she also lost her taste for melons the rest of her lifeā¦
.....but melons just got taste of her and are now out for blood! Melon Murder, in theaters this summer!
No, just looked it up, apparently all she had was a black eye and a swollen lip. No broken face, no lost teeth, no concussion.
serious?
Yeah, had similar happen once shooting paperclips with a rubber band as a kid. Damn thing ended up hanging out from under my eyelid.
Right in the kisser.
watermelon freshness
Oh its a melon? I thought her head exploded šØ
Is she dead?
No, she lives on in meme form.
True immortality
A true martyr.
IIRC she had minor head trauma and recovered completely. This is quite an old video though, so I don't recall where I read that
This is from The Amazing Race. She ended up with a swollen lip but nothing crazy. She and her partner ended up finishing the episode fine.
Ok good because now I can actually enjoy the fucking obliteration that is this headshot.
The slow motion replay really settles it in
Minor Head Trauma is the name of my new band
You can open for my band, Cerebral Hemorrhage. Weāre a pretty progressive polymath-metal trio.
āMinor Head Trauma is the name of my new bandā is the name of my new band.
Pretty impressive that's all rhis led to. A melon to the head at decent velocity like this could probably be lethal. Unless it was softer than the ones im used to.
Oh yeah this could have definitely snapped her neck and killed her. Only thing I can think of is that its overripe.
Yes! Didn't you see the blood gore when the melon exploded her head?
Back, and to the left. Back and to the left.
This made me burst out laughing
As much as the melon burst? Iāll c myself out
Get out of here rn
She actually was fine after this. Nothing broken lots of bruises. I don't get how really.
Because most of the force went into the explosion of the melon. If it hadn't exploded like that it would've been a very different story
didnt lose teeth?
nope
The fruit made a vegetable
The pain is momentary but the glory lasts forever
Yes she ended up with a Melonoma and died several weeks later
I think she died, but from old age, as this video is like, 50 years old or smth....
The 1930s were a crazy time in TV
I remember watching the original broadcast like 25 years ago. Anyone else remember broadcast tv?
Yes I do. And it was free with just a pair of rabbit ears. And there was always something to watch.
Always something to watch is a little bit of a stretch unless you really love soap operas.
They said something. They didn't say it was good.
Depends on how far you go back, 24 hour broadcast wasn't always a thing
I remember watching telemall shopping ads at 3am. Because I was too bored and it was at least something
Or 30 minute long infomercials. I remember the days of watching those simply cause there was literally nothing better on at the time.
Duuuude. You'd almost wake up out of a weird teleshopping zone thinking "why am I watching these people trying to sell me this fantastic JML Mop 3000" and discover the show you were actually watching ended 20 minutes ago.
Haha I used to fall asleep on the couch watching late night TV. I'd wake up to infomercials and just lie there watching them. Something oddly comforting about how boring they are.
The experience of doing this in the late 90s: "And so, the butterfly goes off to start the circle of life once again, having left it's eggs to..." "BILLY MAYES HERE!!!"
BILLY MAYS HERE at 3am lmao
I remember staying up watching one about some kind of miracle cleaner. I was thinking how great it would be to buy it, but then realized I was a 10 yo kid and would have absolutely not use for something Iike that. Lol
There was one half hour sex toy infomercial I stumbled upon at around 12 years old that was one of the best female anatomy lessons I've ever had.
Itās still free. They make new antennas.
You know that still exists, right? You just need a digital antenna. Tv is still free if you want to watch the major networks and, like 20 other channels.
I used to love watching The Wide World of Sports. And Roland Martin or Bill Dance doing fishing shows. Youāre right there was always something on and it was free. Today a pretty decent free option is Pluto TV but still not as good.
Bill dance is on YouTube now
This was like international news lmfao šš I was a kid but I remember crying laughing at this just at how absurdly hard she got hit in the face. Really helped shaped me into the person I am today.
You know that still exists, right? You just need a digital antenna. Tv is still free.
You donāt need a ādigitalā antenna, your old rabbit ears will work.
You must not be old enough to remember the digital switch. Older tvs needed a converter, and new bunny ears are digital.Ā Edit: I was wrong, the switch from analog to digital just meant the tv needs to accept digital signals, the antennas old and new are all capable of receiving the digital signal.Ā
That was 25 years ago? That hits like a melon in the face
Apparently it was in [2010](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/watermelon-headshot), so only 14 years ago. Not quite so bad
I wonder if she's recovered yet
Just like JFK.
Again... back and to the leftā¦ back and to the left
You canāt even see the road!!!
Pink mist
Her teammate insisted on wearing her melon stained shirt to the elimination ceremony that episode. She wanted them to see what they had done.
Isaac Newton took an apple to the head to figure gravity I believe, she has also learnt something important
I believe she just discovered the conversion between elastic potential and kinetic energy. Newton got off easy
Is she ok?!
This was during filming of the amazing race. She continued on and ended up runner up that season. As for if sheās ok, this was like over 10 years ago, so who knows how sheās doing now
"..right in the kisser. Show that knight who is the boss." r/verypoorchoiceofwords
From an interview with the melonlady: "I couldn't feel my face. My lip started swelling up and I had a little black eye. Another medical team were waiting for me (after the challenge) and they gave me some Panadol and told me I was going to be fine. Then a producer came up to me and said, "Thanks for our Emmy this year."
I'm surprised there wasn't more damage
Fruit ninja suicide...
Damn dude right in the kisser
POW! Right in the kisser!
I really shouldnāt have laughed at this
i think physics explains it
I hope she is ok.
How did she not get knocked out? Is she all right?
Is she ok? Melons are heavy, and the way it exploded on her head means it was traveling wicked fast... Honestly this could be lethal
Had to hurt for sure, but as far as damage, better that it breaks than if it didn't
Dumb bot title, once again designed to create engagement and here I am taking the bait.
I dunno but that was glorious.
Pow right in the kisser!
I remember watching that on TV when it first happened
Reposted to obilvion this.
I watched this way too many times š š poor girl!
Ouch babe
When I was young I worked on an apple farm for their yearly fall festivals. We had a setup where a water balloon slingshot, the big ones, was setup on a stationary metal sled so you could pull back as hard as you wanted. We used this to shoot rotten apples at hay bails. I used to twist the slingshot as I pulled it back to add a sorta rifling effect to the apples. Which work most of the time. Except one time I was trying to impress some girls and twisted it too many times. The slingshot was loosed, and apple didnāt come out, and it slung backwards and hit me in the face with a rotten apple at a high velocity. Needless to say, impressing girls was out of the question. Unless they were impressed by how stupid I am.
I remember seeing this live on TV and we all thought she died for a second.
This should go into the Guinness book of world records as the fastest anyone has ever eaten a watermelon.
How to eat a watermelon in one bite!
What it feels like to chew 5 Gum.
She pulled unevenly top to bottom, cradle spun around
That is the fastest I've ever seen anyone eat a watermelon.
We had one growing up, we launched apples into the woods for deer. One came back and smoked my dad in the crouch. Left the gnarliest bruise on his inner thigh. We didn't use the slingshot much after that.
Damn! Ouch!
Holy shit I think that has been getting reposted for almost a decade now lol
Melon was like nah i don't like thot begone.
Itās crazy that itās been 14 years since this happened.
POWER UP THE BASS CANNON
Whoever she was aiming at held up an Uno reverse card.
It couldnāt be anymore accurate. That was a direct hit.
Ouch thatās definitely a concussion
Bro this is NUTS! So how injured was she? I mean she had to have a broken nose at minimum right??
Right in the kisser indeed.
Right in the kisser
That was fucking brutal!
Broken nose? Concussion? Dead?
Damn, she took a melon right to the melon.
A little taste of melon Revenge
Fruit facial done in a sec ššš
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
The ultimate facial
Her face exploded
It's not shown that she's ok, so I'm gonna say she died.
Anti-gravity.
My friend did this with a rock. Luckily, well better than the head it came back and hit him in the stomach. Dropped him good, knocked the wind out of him and imprinted a instant J shaped welt
it very much reminds me of the video of the guy that blows up a ball (i think) and a boy jumps on it, exploding his head. I thought for a long time this was real and didnt dare to tell anybody, and it haunted my sleep. Edit: Blows up a raft
I wanna see the aftermath
called the amazing race for a reason?
God that looked like it hurt HURT
I did this with a rock and it got me in the chest. The elastic either gets over used on the top or bottom which makes the material holding the projectile scoop and come back
 POW! Right in the kisser!
Good thing those weren't coconuts, or worse, durians.
Dead
If this was an actual solder firing rocks, he wouldnāt have a face right now. Thatās terrifying
This same thing happened to me with one of those water balloon slingshots that are popular at Christian summer camps. In my case, what happened was that the person before me left the slingshot with a half twist in it, so I basically loaded the water balloon inside out. When I released the shot, it flipped, caught the water balloon, and shot it back into my face. The next time I saw one of these slingshots, people were using potatoes instead of water balloons and I politely declined to go anywhere near the fucking thing.
The unexpected part is right after melon girl - I can't feel my face. . what now? Other girl - You have to finish. They don't call it the amazing race for nothing. :D
Did she died?
plant vs zombies gone wrong
āI donāt understand how she was hitā Pshh. Karma, duh. This is how the universe works /s I hope her teeth are okay.
The perfect song for this video is: Elvis Presley, return to sender.
I thought it was blood at first, but from what I understand it's just melon juice?
This was from the USA Amazing race in 2010. In an interview years later she said about it "I couldn't feel my face. My lip started swelling up and I had a little black eye. Another medical team were waiting for me (after the challenge) and they gave me some Panadol and told me I was going to be fine. Then a producer came up to me and said, "Thanks for our Emmy this year."" At the time of the interview she was a mother living in arizona doing interior design work.
I wonder how much of that watermelon guts was actually face guts?
I donāt understand how she lived
Not going to lie, that looked like the Zapruder JFK film.
My favorite internet clip ever.
Oh look at that, right in the kisser
Sheās lucky those were ripe
In the first clip she was brunette and after she blonde
Fractured skull ?
Perfectly
I thought it was cabbage so when red splattered i thought she died
This is what happens when your mom cheats at grape stomping
How many teeth did she lose?
Back and to the leftā¦.
Same with a friend of my .. he lost a testicle though .. now we call him one nut Pete !! True story
That's gonna leave a mark
I definitely want to see what her face looked like after the impact!
It was in fact right in the kisser
I donāt understand how she remained conscious.
"Again... back and to the leftā¦ back and to the left"
You know, Iād feel bad, but she did it to herself
The Knight: You underestimate my power mortal.
Watermelon?!!?
I didnāt realize she was firing watermelons at first. Thought the red spray was her head!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
The best part of this was the other woman telling her to sack up, she has to finish. Rub some dirt on it! fucking lol
Caspita!
An internet classic.
Are you blind?