How drunk do you have to be to try this?

[Pharaoh]

[struggle4progress]

1. hain't never been drunk enough t'know th'answer

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. Taking "straw man argument" to a whole new level!

Yikes!

[babylonsister]

3. Isn't that a riot?

Saw it on FB and could not believe what I was seeing...

[RKP5637]

4. Has to be a teabagger to do that one!

[beveeheart]

5. I don't know much about farm machinery,

but couldn't that be dangerous?

[Ian David]

6. Maybe he already lost his penis in the machine LAST year and figured he had nothing left to lose? nt

[beveeheart]

15. I guess that's really what I was wondering.

[benld74]

7. SHould let him loose in the cow pasture at feeding time, then see how fast he can run

[Drunken Irishman]

8. I'm callin' bunk!

A baler would compress this dude beyond recognition.

[AtheistCrusader]

19. Exactly.

Complete hoax. the bale would have fallen apart entirely, if the machine hadn't applied sufficient force to also kill him dead.

[Speck Tater]

9. Completely fake.

The amount of pressure used to compress a bale would squash a human body flat. And the trim knife would have cut his head off.

There was probably another person hidden in the wagon with the straw suit already on.

All you have to do is watch a real baler in action to realize the baling mechanism was not turned on.

[Submariner]

10. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......

This is the Sunday night DU contribution to "Fox & Friends", which would probably show this as real tomorrow morning if people like you didn't come along and apply logic and stuff and screw up the Plan.

[appleannie1]

11. People have been killed in hay baler accidents and that ass voluntarily jumps in one. Idiots are

smarter than he is.

[struggle4progress]

13. I personally think it's faked

[Initech]

12. The redneck's famous last words: Hey!! Y'all watch this!!!!

[mysuzuki2]

14. That's got to be scratchy.

In all the wrong places.

[niyad]

16. would be a darwin award winner, for sure

[ZombieHorde]

17. Even if it is faked, the video is still pretty funny. nt

[Pharaoh]

18. yes, and that is the point!

It is funny! Bunch of serious people up thread just want to pick everything a part. It was meant to be funny. Nobody really insinuated it was real.

[AtheistCrusader]

20. Really?

There's nothing about the video that warns anyone that it is a fake, and that attempting it will kill you in real life.

[marble falls]

21. Oh jeez. Do you think anyone not drunk and inbred will be tempted to really try this because they...

don't know this is a trick? Its a hysterically funny piece, and I hope we don't thin the herd by influencing anyone to try this at home.

[AtheistCrusader]

22. If one removes all possibility of it being real

and watches the video in that context, is it still funny?

[littlemissmartypants]

23. That would depend on

the definition of humor "one" has and whether or not "one" laughed, I think? N would have to equal more than twenty for me to read the research and I would prefer a three way analysis... and you?

[AtheistCrusader]

24. See? Now THAT was funny.

I actually found the video a bit offensive. It plays on a stereotype (dumb drunk farmer hick).

I know a lot of farmers. Not a one of them is dumb (though a couple do drink). You pretty much can't survive as an independent farmer and be dumb. (and every last one of them I know is a true-blue democrat, but that might be a PacNW thing)

So, as with any play on stereotypes, I tend to take a dim view of it from the start.