Tidal Wave
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  • did he say nobody died? How is that possible? good to end on a positive note

  • Laid back locals just going with the flow

  • This was all normall untill i took an arrow 2 the knee-god

  • RUUUUUNNNNNN!!

  • Facepalm i was there their not idiots normally the waves don't come over the wall this is a very rare event.

  • Why are people so stupid?

  • morons

  • i wonder what "FUCK MY LIFE" is in chinese

  • Thats what they get for standing there waiting for it :|

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  • I wonder what "OH SHIT!!!" sounds like in Chinese

  • no offense but WHEEEEE WATER SLIDE!!!!

  • haha, asian go down the hole

  • hahahahahah that was so funny watching them run!

  • RUNN FOREST RUNN!!!

  • oh hey guys, lets go to the shore to watch the tidal wave!

  • Curse you merciful Poseidon!!!

  • And 5 minutes later tsunami comes

  • the bit where he goes wee is actually rom the earth quakes i seen it on the news not from one they where prepaird for lol

  • @solidale21 - I had to watch again when I saw ur comment. Far out he's a ninja

  • Anyone else see that one guy who doesnt give a damn on the left side of the video?

  • @solidale21 yea till the last min haha funny as shit

  • waves: level asian

  • Chinese person:hey look it is coming toward us wait why is it higher then the wall....OH MY GOD!

  • So u wan fri rice or chips??????

  • 0:39 the guy got is falling

  • 0.42 Weeeeeeeeeeeee

  • Gosh.

  • KYOKO you say its a tidal bore ...i thought it was quite interesting.

  • lol what a bunch of retards "yeah lets all stand right on the beach when a small tsunami is coming..."

  • haha props to the guy on the pole, he's got the best view!

  • OH SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT RUN FOREST RUN!!!!

  • da fuck everyone is running while some dudes just chillin on some poles lmao

  • I love when they replay and highlight specific deaths that you may have missed.

  • this is what happens when earth gets its mexican beans....bad stumach

  • lol that guy just standing there if you can see him standing still

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  • anybody notice that dude in the white shirt who just stands there as people run past him

  • haha guy on the pole priceless

  • LOLOLOLOL "I'm just gona stand here and stare at the tidal wave that is 9 feet high and when it is 3 metres away from me i will run" LOLOLOL typical asians

  • LADYBOY pole dancer uses skills to escape tide

  • the natural slip n slide

  • It's a tidal bore. It usually doesn't get that high, so they probably didn't think they had anything to worry about until it was on top of them. They were just lucky no one got killed.

  • why arethe top 2 comments are the same >(

    im gonna go take a shit and when i come back my comment better be up there

  • @1scoobysteve1 why do people like you care so much about the top comments or being the top comment?

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  • the people that got taken died?

  • I would have gotten on top of the car any of them!!!!!

  • omg

  • Rita was here.

  • Don't think they have very good reflexes, you could clearly see the tide approaching yet they just stood there.

  • surge of water? isn't that a tsunami?? 

  • @L3PK11 Tsunami is multiple waves, Tidal wave just one. (I think)

  • to be honest a "tidal wave" is just a nontechnical term for a tsunami. Or just a big wave. Tsunami is a surge. A sudden powerful forward or upward movement by a natural force such as the tide. :P something gay like that

    I dont rly care haha

  • haha just found the smartest person on that view, the guy on the pole in the middle of the screen xD

  • I used to love tidal wave, but then I took an arrow to the knee

  • It's Gawd's idea of having fun with his creation.

  • Godzilla, run for your lives!

  • Everybody say "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

  • Omg but when it happens omg the end of the world but it happens every damn fucking year

  • so they come every year to get killed?

  • the guy on the pole took away my attention from everyone else getting rammed by the tsunami bbahhahhaa

  • how dumb are those people ,like you have the whole year of warning before it comes at the exact time lol

  • @WangkorWat its china, wtcha exspect lol

  • @WangkorWat Pay attention to the early part of the clip. Normally the wave height is far less & their viewing point is perfectly safe. They had no idea it would get so high this particular year.

  • @WangkorWat This event is annual. It is no different than you or I going to watch a Carnival and one of the floats losing controle and running into the crowd. It simply should not have happend. It was not predicted and therefore not expected.

  • I used to ride tidal waves, but then i took an arrow to the knee

  • @howarethingsindenver Fuck off with that damn knee shit. Its old

  • @xxCOMBATBEARxx I bet that you used to be a nice person in the past, but then you took..........you know the rest

  • @howarethingsindenver shattered shin bones. Sure why not

  • Lol at Chuck Norris waiting for his bath to arrive

  • I found this video difficult to masturbate to

  • Would have been awesome if it was chocolate tidal wave!

  • @bim2x4 yea because those occur often....

  • guy synchronizing a view point

  • guy on the pole: im safe try and get me now wave

  • when was this? which was this non normal year?

  • the guy on the pole is my freaking hero

  • did I just watch a bunch of people die?

  • @b0xel

    you didnt. learn to listen

    

  • that guy sits on the pole. LIKE A BOSS!!

  • 0:37 ==> Guys, are u stupid or what ? you just stand there waiting ... ^^

  • his early days as a ladyboy POLE DANCER paid off.

  • god damn guys pay ateention to that guy on the pole give him a fucking medal for gods sake

  • Kewl :3

  • 0:57 team kill XD

  • So a tidal wave is basically water on top of water?

  • hm kuckt auf mich bin n hamster

  • "It sweeps dozens of people away "... not the pole guy, he one of tim' ninja dudes I seen on T.V with Maurice !

  • pole man,, hes a monkey!!!

  • That pole guy is my hero :)

  • the guy on the pole, LIKE A BOSS

  • awkward moment when top comments say the same thing :/

  • wish i was there with my rifle to pop that gook on the pole in the back of the head....

  • IT IS NOT LIKE A LOCOMOTIVE NARRATOR, I'D RATHER GET HIT BY THAT WAVE THAN A LOCOMOTIVE ANY DAY, BAD COMPARISON.

  • Chinas Sea Needs A CLEAN

  • The Response Video, "Newspaper Kids", has nothing to do with this video, but it's very, very, GOOD. :)

  • @gregorybrandt Dude your vids are good, they are so good you don't have to put them on vids like this.

  • @mattplasse88 I know they're good. I need to get people to see them, so I can move out of this homeless shelter and live the life I deserve to live. -Greg

  • @gregorybrandt I'll help you out man, I love your 4 months in jail and mescalin stories I found them like a year ago randomly searching drug stories. Love for humanity

  • Surely you would of none it was going to come over the wall when it wasnt right on top of you

  • doesnt even get wet!!!

  • 0:39-0:45 This is SPARTA!

  • geil hab was geiles entdeckt haha

  • Getting Taken... Like a B0:55

  • It happens every year, they know it's coming, but still they stand and wait like idiots.

  • @sjtom57 Lol i thought it wasn't going to reach them cause they were all just there.

  • @sjtom57 Yes but this was the first and maybe the last time that the wave was that big. It was bigger this time because of a Hurricane.

  • @sjtom57 natural selection is beautiful

    

  • ha Always a good time with me

  • zoom to the guy on the pole in the end "Im Batman !"

  • It's "Wu the epic chinese guy"

    On a Stiiick!

  • God these people are so fucking stupid...

    'Ya lets go sit and wait for a tidal wave that comes every year and then for fun we can try and outrun it, but most likely we will just get swept away and risk dying'.... people in the asia are fucked up.

  • NO THere are three Pumped Up Roid-Norrises. HAHAHA they got tiny legs tho, the one holding his jacket full of roids in his hand running like stupid. OhHH i love Asians

  • No you are mistaken. Chuck Norris is the one who out runs the waves look carefully on the right. Chuck on Roids outruns Tsunami wave. The guy on the pole must be a Marihuana addict, he'd rather relax and let Roid-Norris Run. what am i doing with my time?

  • No you are mistaken. Chuck Norris is the one who out runs the waves look carefully on the right. Chuck on Roids outruns Tsunami wave

  • Chuck Norris patiently leaned on the pole while his bath ran.

  • @jayrave4 hahahahahah GOLD!!!!

  • People drown from this?? I'm sorry but that makes me laugh.... Look at that one man with balls of steel stud there... I mean drown?? How??

  • yeah! amazingly! Mother Nature is full of deadly surprises and yet harmless.

  • i didn't even see the ninja til i read the comments : D

  • was that guy owling? what a dude.

  • well they did want to watch a wave... hmm surprising people got hurt. obviously there is nothing else entertaining.

  • God man. That's easy to escape, just fly!

  • AquaPark

  • the guy on the pole spreads his arms after the waves go buy lol, so this is where they got karate kid

  • dumb. fucks.

  • The guy on the pole. Most epic guy EVER!

  • runn little nigga run

  • HAHAHA LETS WATCH IT!

    FUCKING RUN OH SHIT!

  • hahha, fucking idiots

  • look at the guy by himself in the middle of the wave at 0:43 BAMF! =O

  • da-amn!

  • They were watching because they didn't expect the wave to be that high, and only at the last moment did they realize it was bigger than usual. Its like having a gun and you shoot it all the time, then suddenly it decides to go runaway. You didnt expect it to happen but it did. But those views from the chopper/plane were awesome.

  • if they knew it was coming why the hell would they be standing right at the shore line

  • Why the hell would you stand and watch a deadly tidal wave knowing its coming? Yeah, that's a great idea..

  • while everyone runs for their life, one guy sits on a pole in safety like a ninja 0.o

  • @naduongruto where?

    

  • @Momai777 Right at 0:44 he is embracing his mighty water element style ninjutsu. Too much Naruto...

  • @naduongruto ehh...that is China, no Japan...ninjitsu came from Japan...

  • @Oceanstorm80 From where in my post do you even conclude that I stated this took place in Japan? I am well aware of my nationality and geography, and by no means am I generalizing asia culture. I cant read your intention but please spare me of silly lectures.

  • @naduongruto I am not making silly lectures, just making the point. You know that many people generalize the whole asian contient. Even in a single country we can find different nations. Sorry if you was offended, its was not my intention.

  • @naduongruto Hahaha! But deep in his heart he was actually panicking!

  • @naduongruto well its china right?

  • @naduongruto In the Day After Tomorrow, this guy won't run when a giant wave came. This wave is nothing but a snack for him.

  • @naduongruto one of the many circumstances in life where ninja skills come in handy

  • watch that guy pull off Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

  • And we wonder why they are still eating rice and so poor....this explains it all. OOH big wave coming, ill sit and watch.

  • Epic win for the guy on top of the pole top left of the first white car.

  • tbh.. thats what they get for sitting that close trying to watch it come at them

  • "Yeah! Run away! Maybe we'll outrun the rushing waters traveling 50 miles per hour!"

  • RUN FORREST RUN!!!

  • The mother of all bore tides!

  • The guy on the pole is a baller.

  • did any1 noticed that 1 guy didnt even run? behing the white car a bit to right

  • did any1 noticed that 1 guy didnt even run?

  • That's one cool dude!!  (Guy on the pole standing on one damn leg) Zen Mode!!

  • That's Cool

  • wtf? They could've drowned easily... Maybe even did.. -_-

  • their running too slow...get a NIKE shoes

  • Nature doesnt like to be gawked at

  • now i know how ant's feel when i poor water in their whole =P

  • 0:37

    Everybody thinking : '' Oh crap...''

  • the dude at 0:41 is like i ain't afraid of no wave nigga!

  • @Andaldhinio hahahhaa

  • guy at the pole xD

  • I HATE TIDAL WAVE !!!

  • Glad no one died in that footage

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  • people were swept like ants

  • HAHAHHA the guy at 0:44 is like you idoits look whos dead now haha

  • hrm Be kind and nice with me and I will be with you

  • Guy 1: Hey, the wave is coming closer; should we move?

    Guy 2: Nah let's wait until the last second and run.

    Guy 1: Ok

  • Guys! He's moving! It's gonna be okay!

  • Jelify water..

  • @lilluke153 retard

  • @DaleJohnPorter Its a 'From Dust' joke you utter twat.

  • @lilluke153 OHHH i wanna jelify it and i dont think alot of people would know it was from from dust

  • and others just stay in the top of the pole and watch everybody die.