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How would you react if a homeless person gave you money? In a video, Yousef Saleh Erakat disguises himself as one on the streets of Los Angeles to find the answer to that question.

How would you react if a homeless person gave you money? In a video, Yousef Saleh Erakat disguises himself as one on the streets of Los Angeles to find the answer to that question. Holding up a sign reading, “No one has ever become poor from giving”, Erakat tries to offer some cash to passers-by. The responses are often unkind. One man says, “I don’t need your f*****g money… I could buy you”, before throwing the money back into Erakat’s face. Another tells Erakat, “Well, let me give you something. You see that? That’s a (Mercedes) Benz. You gotta earn your way up, pal.” The video has been watched over 3 million times since it was uploaded on April 19.

Death-defying feat

BASE-jump athlete Alexander Polli makes skydiving look easy when he leaps off a hovering helicopter and flies through a six-foot-wide cave opening on a mountain in Spain. The Italian-Norwegian athlete, who wears a wing-suit with no harness, reaches speeds of 250 kmph while manoeuvering his way through the narrow opening, known as ‘Batman cave’. The video, watched over 12 million times since it was uploaded on April 16, is shot completely in HD and includes extraordinary shots from a camera attached to Polli’s helmet. Polli, who has now fulfilled his life-long dream of being able to fly, hopes that his feat will inspire others not only to “climb over mountains, but also fly right through them”.

Perfect Doomsday

In 1980, pessimistic CNN employees prepared a video that was only to be played at the end of the world. The only problem — somebody leaked it early this year. Plus, it featured a marching band and was far too boring. So in a video posted on April 19, watched over a million times, John Oliver posted a happier doomsday video to replace it. Starring actor Michael Sheen, the video looks at mankind’s greatest accomplishments — harnessing fire, inventing languages and “total domination of every other species on earth” — and some of the “fails” — a Nazi rally and a nuclear explosion. Now watch the world go out in style!

Source:: Indian Express