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Mythbusters Top 10 - Killer Ceiling Fan

Mythbusters Top 10 - Killer Ceiling Fan - (01:52)

Could a ceiling fan take off your head? Meet the Mythbusters cast and crew

  • Added: 18-Jul-2008
  • Popularity: 42 views this week

Video Transcript ( less )

" 2 myths, 2 rigs. The myth of the jumping kid calls for a rig to raise a head into the fan from below. For the myth of the lover's leap, they'll need a rig to carry a head into the ceiling fan at the neck level. From which begs another question."

" Wait, wait, before you'd say raise a head, where we to get a head?"

" Well, we're going to have to duplicate one."

" A coating of Latex is painted on the insides of the molds."

" In goes the cranium. The molds are then filled with ballistics gel. Used by forensic experts to replicate flesh and tissue, and finally, arteries and spine. First up on the myth buster's chopping block will be the common household ceiling fan. The fan spins up to top speed."

" 3, 2, 1."

" Ohhh. "

" It really didn't have much of an impact. It didn't cut through the ballistics gel. Didn't crack the skull open."

" Myth number 1 is busted. Time for myth number 2, the lover's leap."

" 3, 2, 1."

" Ohhh. "

" Wooohh."

" When it comes to a household fan, both myths are busted. It's time to step things up a gear. Bring on the industrial fan. It goes twice as fast as the household fan."

" Ohhh. "

" Look, it cracked into his skull."

" A little fracture."

" Hold on to your hats, we're going neck first."

" 3, 2, 1."

" Ohhhh."

" Jugular. "

" The fan actually sliced through his neck, through the jugular and even into the vertebrae. I mean, that's as deadly to me."

" Deadly, but not decapitation."

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