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Grape Stomping Woman Falls on Face
05.21.04 (1:31 pm)
Blaaahahaha! Ok, this is not funny. Ok, yes it is. Check this out. Right click on [url=http://www.sleestakk.com/spic...]this link[/url] , then choose "save target as," then save to your desktop or whatever. Launch it and prepare to laugh away!

If you can't open it, or whatever, here's what happens:

Two women (reporters) for Fox 5 in Atlanta are doing one of those stupid live field reports on the news. They're at a winery, reporting on an impending grape stomping contest, or what have you. The women are in buckets, stomping grapes at a moderate pace, while one of them is talking about the contest. Apparently, s/he who stomps the most grapes in a certain time period is pronounced the grape stomping champion and gets some shitty prize (probably a bunch of grapes).

All of a sudden, Woman #1 (let's call her Jane Doe) yells "stop!" Her companion (Woman #2) dutifully complies, and Jane Doe, sensing victory close at hand, starts stomping double-time. She achieves such a frenetic pace that she pitches forward off the platform they're standing on and face-first into the ground. I mean face-first, no arm bracing or anything. JD begins howling in pain, saying she can't breathe, and the other woman stands there uselessly for 5 seconds before going to JD's aid. Jane Doe keeps howling, the camera keeps filming, and we cut back to the studio, where the anchor people are shaking their heads and clucking their tongues (trying not to burst out laughing) and saying "ooh, looks like she's in pain! Hope she's ok." Then they cut to commercial.

Priceless.

Disclaimer: I, too, hope she's ok. However, if I fell down and smashed my grill while grape stomping on live TV, I'd expect to see that on the Internet, too.
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