Comments for "How Not To Deploy A Flashbang in Room Clearing" Video at VideoSift.com

By my15minutes

my15minutes (http://my15minutes.videosift.com) — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:59:24 -0700

so, someone's already in the room, with a camera...

ready to have a flashbang thrown in with him?

By QuadraPixel

QuadraPixel (http://www.videosift.com/member/QuadraPixel) — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:06:19 -0700

I do that a lot in call of duty 4.

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:16:18 -0700

where's the hilarity? I mean I don't doubt there is any because they're all laughing but I don't get it.

By rasch187

rasch187 (http://rasch187.videosift.com) — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:24:25 -0700

I've always said the Norwegian military is a joke.

By SDGundamX

SDGundamX (http://www.videosift.com/member/SDGundamX) — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:06:17 -0700

That's pretty much me in Counter-strike. I seem to have the uncanny ability to bounce the grenade off random bits of geometry so that it comes back towards me. It's why I don't bother buying flashbangs anymore.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:36:23 -0700

>> ^my15minutes:
so, someone's already in the room, with a camera...

ready to have a flashbang thrown in with him?

I don't think there is someone behind the camera. Just a camera on the ground.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:37:54 -0700

>> ^rottenseed:
where's the hilarity? I mean I don't doubt there is any because they're all laughing but I don't get it.

They're laughing because they screwed up badly.

By CaveBear

CaveBear (http://www.videosift.com/member/CaveBear) — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:44:27 -0700

I'm guessing the Flashbang was supposed to be thrown into the room where the camera was, otherwise why set up a camera?

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:11:59 -0700

Ha ha ha all you want now - if that ever happened in a real situation, you'd all be dead.

By Quboid

Quboid (http://www.videosift.com/member/Quboid) — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:43:43 -0700

There seems to be some confusion about what's going on here. The room shown, with the camera, was to be 'assaulted' in a training exercise. Throwing a flashbang (grenade that deafens and blinds people) in first is a common tactic, but some tit threw it into the door and it bounced back at them, not into the room. I'm something of a God with 'nades in first person shooters to be honest (I suck at everything else, I should play basketball games) but I still get the occasional bounce back. I'm generally using shrapnel grenades, not so funny!

On reflection, this was probably the single best training they got that week. They had to react to a situation no one would have predicted and avoiding the light and noise is good to learn!

By Quboid

Quboid (http://www.videosift.com/member/Quboid) — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:44:28 -0700

By bigbikeman

bigbikeman (http://www.videosift.com/member/bigbikeman) — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:54:01 -0700

I think MG was referring to the "real" type of situation whereby the camera in this room is replaced by a room full of people with guns and bad attitudes to match, who---if they had any training in said real world situations---would promptly kick the door out and starting shooting first.

That being said, this is why you do training exercises; and it is pretty funny because it's such an epic fail with minimal consequences.

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:10:05 -0700

Never mind kicking the door down. Anyone on the other side of that wall would just shoot right through it.

By bigbikeman

bigbikeman (http://www.videosift.com/member/bigbikeman) — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:20:26 -0700

Hehe. Good point. I obviously play too many video games with non-realistic materials.

By budzos

budzos (http://www.videosift.com/member/budzos) — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:30:13 -0700

MarineGunrock - That is a 'real' situation - with that nick, I thought you'd know. Flashbangs are real equipment and if the same thing happened the same damage would be done. They probably wouldn't laugh as much...

This reminds me of my friend who gets all agitated and contradictory when I say that wrestling is not real...

By jimnms

jimnms (http://www.videosift.com/member/jimnms) — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:03:41 -0700

I bet they wouldn't be laughing if it was a cannister of CS.

By Shepppard

Shepppard (http://www.videosift.com/member/Shepppard) — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:05:54 -0700

Ahh, this somehow reminds me of metal gear.

'!'"What was that noise?"

maybe if they just got a really big cardboard box..

Like a fridge box, or something along those lines.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Never mind kicking the door down. Anyone on the other side of that wall would just shoot right through it.

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:18:54 -0700

Proper Dynamic Entry Procedures

By charliem

charliem (http://www.videosift.com/member/charliem) — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:41:41 -0700

The fact that all norway kids when they turn 18 have to enlist, makes it all more relevant, being that they are all of the age that they would be playin games where they do this shit all the time.

Freakin hilarious.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:24:47 -0700

>> ^CaveBear:
I'm guessing the Flashbang was supposed to be thrown into the room where the camera was, otherwise why set up a camera?
That is correct and they're practicing.

By Quboid

Quboid (http://www.videosift.com/member/Quboid) — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:30:24 -0700

Good point, they could all be dead by blinding/deafening themselves and alerting the enemy inside, I was just thinking of the actual explosion. "They probably wouldn't laugh as much" was referring to the aftermath, with classic British understatement.

By Zonbie

Zonbie (http://zonbie.videosift.com) — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:38:42 -0700

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Ha ha ha all you want now - if that ever happened in a real situation, you'd all be dead.

nah! the enemy would be in stitches! you can just open the door again and fire! they will be helpless laughing on the floor!

I wonder if thats the plan? LOL

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:32:40 -0700

Someone cross posted this on LiveLeak using the same titles and description. No link back to VS though.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dae_1211322309