2010 viral video countdown - Fruit face to bin-disgrace
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Source: [url]http://news.ninemsn.com.au/viral[/url]
#10:
[quote]A Sydney man became one of this year's viral stars after he delivered an intense imitation of a vicious dog on national television.
Ray Graham, 57, appeared on A Current Affair during a segment about a pair of dogs that were allegedly terrorising a street in Marsfield.
He said his canine impression, which quickly caught the attention of viral media websites, came "out of nowhere".
"It was something I've never done before — it was casual, informal, off the bat," he said.[/quote]
#9:
[quote]A bongo-loving hippie named Paul Vasquez grabbed a shining moment of fame when he cried with delight at seeing a "full-on double rainbow all the way across the sky".
Vasquez, a mountain of a man, gave full voice to his spiritual side when he filmed the rainbows near his house beside Yosemite National Park in California.
Vasquez sobbed. He whooped. He asked, "What does this mean?" He moaned like he was having a very different kind of "intense" experience.
And while he was widely mocked, Vasquez's video landed him an advertising gig with Microsoft.[/quote]
#8:
[quote]It's a clip that makes you want to scream: "Look out behind you!"
An unlucky German sports reporter was smacked in the head with a soccer ball while conducting a pre-game interview.
The ball is seen flying across the pitch before striking Sky Sports reporter Jessica Kastrop in the back of the head.
Stuttgart player Khalid Boulahrouz raced over to apologise to the sportscaster, who was uninjured but surprised.[/quote]
#7:
[quote]While most rappers get their start on the streets, this year an Aussie lyricist became a hip hop sensation busting rhymes at a quarantine unit in hospital.
"I'm not sick in the sense of being sick but I'm sick in the sense of being sick sick," he said in his first hit posted on YouTube.
Christiaan Van Vuuren's rap videos, recorded while he was being treated for tuberculosis in Sydney, became an internet phenomenon and led to him being featured on television programs such as the TODAY show.[/quote]
#6:
[quote]How could putting a watermelon in a giant slingshot go so wrong?
An American contestant on the reality show The Amazing Race is lucky to still have a head after she accidentally launched the hard-shelled fruit directly into her own face.
Despite an explosive impact, the contestant walked away with only minor injuries.
The producers of the show managed to capitalise on their luck, using the incredible clip as promotion for their 2010 series.[/quote]
#5:
[quote]A domestic cat became an online hero after staring down two alligators seemingly to protect a young boy.
Amateur footage shows Mugsy the cat's no-nonsense exchange with the two deadly predators on the banks of a river swamp in the southern US city of New Orleans.
Mugsy hisses and swats at the much larger reptiles while a young boy stands nearby.
"It was pretty bizarre … It went up to the gator as if to protect the kid," a tourist who filmed the video said.[/quote]
#4
[quote]It took one letter for Caitlin Burke to solve a puzzle on the US version of Wheel of Fortune.
The magazine editor needed only the letter "L" to correctly identify a mystery seven-word phrase as "I've got a good feeling about this".
Despite accusations of cheating, Burke's freakish powers of deduction earned her a holiday in the Caribbean.[/quote]
#3:
[quote]It was a moment of random cruelty that may have passed unnoticed 10 years ago.
But a combination of CCTV and the internet propelled Mary Bale to worldwide infamy when she picked up a cat and dumped it in a bin.
Bale is seen in the CCTV footage stroking four-year-old tabby Lola. She then looks around, grabs the cat by the scruff of the neck and drops it in the bin.
Lola was trapped for 15 hours and Bale was slugged with an animal cruelty charge.[/quote]
#2:
[quote]Video of an toddler with a 40-cigarette-a-day habit caused a massive scandal in Indonesia.
Two-year-old Ardi Rizal's practised smoking technique horrified parents all around the world. He reportedly threw tantrums if his cigarettes were taken away.
But intensive specialist care helped the little boy to kick the habit and play with other children instead.[/quote]
#1:
[quote]It was the catchiest remix of the year — and it's a story with more depth than you might think.
Alabama resident Antoine Dodson vented his anger at a rape attempt on his sister with a unique rant about the need to "hide yo' kids, hide yo' wives and hide yo' husbands".
The video inspired autotune maestros the Gregory Brothers, who took Antoine's raw talent and created a hand-clapping nu-soul masterpiece.
The song reached the charts and earned Antoine so much money he was able to move his family to a better neighbourhood.[/quote]
The only good thing about Antoine making so much money that he was able to move further away from me.
I did not know that Antoine actually made money off what could be best described as humiliation.
I laughed at simply reading #6 again, I'm surprised it wasn't higher.
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