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TEEN TOWN — The great thing about being a kid is discovering how the world and physics work.
Sure, sometimes kid-world experiments are really, really bad ideas. For example, I’m sure more than one of us thought about jumping from a height with an umbrella to slow our descent was a good idea. And I bet a few of us even made the attempt (personally, 5-year-old me had serious plans to jump with an umbrella, but thankfully I never did).
Then we head into our teen years when perhaps a mix of boredom, opportunity, and peers result in even worse ideas coming to fruition. I will omit examples just so no one gets any funny ideas.
But sometimes, those bad ideas turn out to be OK by means of miracles or good fortune. And if we’re really lucky, it’s hilarious and caught on video. And if we’re really, really lucky, we stumble upon such a video four years after it was first published to delight us afresh.
You guessed it, this featured clip is just such a video.
You can almost hear these teen brains ticking as they get a fit of the giggles when placing a ball next to a running treadmill belt. My guess is they expected the ball to pop with an exceptional sound, but what happens is so much better.
You really have to watch it with the sound way up to appreciate it. But, “Thwup … thwup, says the treadmill ball” is probably the best way to describe it in words.