En 1952, Albert Gunter a réalisé un sacré exploit en faisant sauter son bus par-dessus le Tower Bridge à Londres. Je veux dire, parlez de culot ! Il a accéléré avec son bus à deux étages et l'a envoyé voler par-dessus le pont-levis ouvert, avec des passagers à bord et tout le tralala. C'était comme une scène tout droit sortie d'un film d'action ! Toute la ville en parlait après, et Gunter est devenu une sorte de légende locale. Pouvez-vous imaginer être dans ce bus ? Parlez d'une montée d'adrénaline ! Animation créée par Sympa.
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00:00 This is not a movie scene.
00:02 An Imperial bus once jumped over the void
00:05 while the Tower Bridge in London was raised.
00:08 Let's go back to the day when all this happened.
00:10 December 30, 1952.
00:13 It was an ordinary day for Albert Gunther,
00:16 the driver of the 78 train.
00:18 He was driving his bus through the Tower Bridge
00:21 towards Shoreditch.
00:22 Then he noticed that the bridge was opening
00:25 and that his bus was rising with the rocker.
00:27 What do we mean by rocker?
00:29 This is how we call the two sections of the bridge.
00:32 They rise at an angle of 83 degrees
00:35 and each weighs more than 1,100 tons.
00:38 The bus was running at only 20 km/h
00:41 when the rocker began to rise.
00:44 The timing was perfect
00:46 and the other side of the rocker was not yet too upright.
00:49 This is how Gunther managed to make the bus
00:52 bounce from a height of 1 to 2 meters.
00:54 13 people were injured
00:56 but all passengers survived.
00:59 How did the bridge get raised?
01:02 At the time, a guard was ringing an alarm clock
01:05 and closing the barriers
01:07 before the bridge was to be opened.
01:09 However, that day,
01:11 it was forgotten.
01:13 That's why the bus kept moving on the bridge
01:16 thinking that everything was fine.
01:18 Why did we have to raise the rockers of the bridge first?
01:21 Well, because a ship had to pass underneath.
01:24 The bus driver also stated
01:26 that the traffic light was green
01:28 when he crossed the bridge.
01:30 He said he had two options.
01:32 Either stop his bus
01:34 and hope that someone notices it in time
01:36 or jump over the precipice.
01:38 If he had stopped the bus,
01:40 he could have slipped backwards
01:42 and maybe even fallen into the river.
01:44 Our sincere congratulations to this hero of everyday life
01:47 for being able to make the right decision
01:49 in a fraction of a second.
01:51 Not only did a bus reach Imperial,
01:54 but a plane also crossed the Tower Bridge.
01:57 In 1912, an aircraft had to fly
02:00 between the two bridges and the upper bridge.
02:03 The vertical distance between the two was 43 meters.
02:07 The pilot, Francis Maclean,
02:10 was then aboard a modified hydroplane
02:12 capable of taking off.
02:15 That's how his flight was crowned with success.
02:18 He would have been the first person to fly under this bridge.
02:23 For many of us,
02:25 it seems as dangerous as it is frightening.
02:27 But for him, it was like a walk in the park.
02:30 He said to the press,
02:32 "It's not as risky as it seems,
02:34 because the arches of the bridge are huge
02:36 once you get close to them."
02:38 The man was a civil engineer,
02:41 astronomer, photographer and aviator.
02:44 The perfect combination for this kind of feat.
02:47 Why did he only decide to do this?
02:50 The fact is that he had a meeting in town.
02:53 Everything happened on a Saturday morning.
02:56 Maclean thought,
02:57 "Why not go there in a hydroplane?"
03:00 He took off at 6 a.m.
03:02 and two and a half hours later,
03:04 he landed in Westminster Pier.
03:06 Do you want to hear the story
03:10 of a joker who lived in London
03:12 at the beginning of the 19th century?
03:14 Theodore Hook and his friend
03:15 were hanging out together as usual.
03:17 Then, they made a bet.
03:19 Hook bet that he could turn
03:21 the most ordinary house
03:22 into the most popular address
03:24 in less than a week.
03:25 They believed in the power of rumour.
03:27 So they chose a house
03:29 randomly in the city.
03:31 An ordinary woman,
03:32 named Tottenham, lived here.
03:34 Hook wrote many letters
03:36 to the whole city,
03:37 from lawyers to pastry chefs.
03:39 After a week,
03:40 guests as prestigious as
03:42 the Governor of the Bank of England
03:44 and the Lord Mayor of London
03:45 came to his door
03:46 because they had received an invitation.
03:48 Not only guests,
03:50 but also the delivery
03:51 that Hook had been waiting for
03:52 since the morning.
03:54 The whole of London
03:55 quickly began to turn
03:56 around this address.
03:58 Imagine this.
04:01 You wake up at 5 a.m.
04:03 after hearing the doorbell.
04:05 You see a stranger on the threshold.
04:07 He says he's here
04:08 to clear the chimneys.
04:09 You didn't ask for anything,
04:11 so you send him away.
04:13 A few moments later,
04:15 someone else knocks on your door.
04:17 Another ramoneur tells you
04:19 that he was asked to come.
04:21 Poor Mrs. Tottenham
04:22 had to send another 20
04:23 ramoneurs to her.
04:25 Unfortunately,
04:26 the farce didn't stop there.
04:28 Repeated deliveries
04:29 of large quantities of coal
04:31 and wedding cakes
04:32 were also addressed
04:33 to her house.
04:35 While these deliveries
04:36 and these workers
04:37 rushed to her door,
04:38 always other people,
04:40 like doctors and priests,
04:41 went to this house
04:43 explaining that they had been called
04:45 to assist someone.
04:46 Hook and his friend
04:47 rented a small room
04:48 nearby
04:49 to observe
04:50 how far the challenge would go.
04:52 A crowd of people
04:53 showed up
04:54 and allowed Hook
04:55 to win the bet.
04:57 Rick Buckley
04:59 is another farce lover,
05:01 but he is also an artist.
05:03 In 1997,
05:05 he modeled his own nose
05:07 and displayed it
05:08 in various places in London
05:09 with glue.
05:10 Excuse me?
05:12 Yes, his goal
05:13 was to protest
05:14 against video surveillance.
05:16 A creative mixture
05:17 of humor and art.
05:19 At first,
05:20 he glued his noses
05:21 around 35 monuments
05:23 across London.
05:25 Among them,
05:26 the seven Soho noses
05:27 are quite famous.
05:29 I imagine he doesn't like
05:30 people to stick their noses
05:31 in his business.
05:33 It's time to jump
05:37 from the roof to the roof,
05:38 to place our noses
05:39 in incongruous places
05:40 in the city.
05:41 Let's move on
05:43 to the oldest place
05:44 where people
05:45 used to get their noses
05:46 in the face of harmful cosmetics
05:47 out of love for good taste.
05:49 We have to mention here
05:50 a pioneer of her time,
05:52 Queen Elizabeth Prime,
05:54 who had a major influence
05:55 on fashion.
05:57 Not only the women's clothes,
05:58 but also the male style
06:00 was influenced
06:01 by her wardrobe choices.
06:03 But here,
06:04 we will talk more
06:05 about her emblematic white look.
06:07 It was obtained
06:08 thanks to a white foundation
06:09 called Ceruse,
06:10 which was designed
06:11 by mixing white lead
06:12 with vinegar.
06:13 At that time,
06:14 people also wanted
06:15 to whiten their redness spots
06:17 and hide their imperfections.
06:19 This type of cosmetics
06:20 contained ingredients
06:21 such as sulfur,
06:22 terebentine
06:23 or mercury.
06:24 And as you can imagine,
06:26 these ingredients
06:27 are extremely harmful.
06:28 They end up
06:29 leaving the skin gray
06:30 and wrinkled.
06:31 Not to mention
06:32 the other health problems
06:33 caused by these
06:34 magical cosmetics.
06:36 Michael Holmes
06:38 is a professional skydiver
06:39 as well as a parachutist.
06:42 And no,
06:43 he is not related to Sherlock Holmes.
06:45 He is on our list
06:46 because he survived
06:47 against all odds.
06:48 One day,
06:49 he was busy
06:50 training new skydivers.
06:52 It was for him
06:53 a day like any other.
06:55 He was on the plane
06:56 with 16 students
06:57 who had to jump
06:58 from a height of 400-500 meters.
07:00 All this was quite simple
07:01 on paper
07:02 and would allow them
07:03 a free fall
07:04 of about one minute.
07:05 Their parachutes
07:06 had to open
07:07 at 1500 meters.
07:10 That day,
07:11 things did not go
07:12 as planned.
07:13 Michael opened his parachute,
07:15 but he did not know how to deploy it.
07:16 He then spent
07:17 several seconds
07:18 trying to get rid
07:19 of the main parachute
07:20 to be able to open
07:21 the emergency parachute.
07:22 As he was struggling,
07:23 he was also turning
07:24 on himself
07:25 in the middle of a free fall.
07:27 He described this fall as follows.
07:29 "I was turning so fast
07:30 that I almost fainted
07:31 because of the acceleration."
07:33 He had found himself
07:35 in a similar situation
07:36 before
07:37 and had to release
07:38 the cords
07:39 between the harness
07:40 and the sail.
07:41 He knew
07:42 he had a rescue system
07:43 and that this system
07:44 would save him
07:45 from the fall,
07:46 so he did not panic.
07:47 At least at the beginning.
07:48 This time,
07:49 he could no longer
07:50 get rid of the main sails.
07:52 While he was
07:53 at about 1200 meters,
07:54 he decided
07:55 to open the second parachute
07:57 and nothing happened.
07:59 He was doing his best
08:01 to stay calm
08:02 and find a way
08:03 to land safely.
08:04 The cords
08:05 were still stuck
08:06 and the main sail
08:07 was still in place.
08:08 He could not
08:09 reach his small harness
08:10 either
08:11 and he had to
08:12 cut the lines.
08:13 Worse than
08:14 spinning,
08:15 it was that
08:16 time was running out.
08:17 He was starting
08:18 to run out of options
08:19 while getting closer
08:20 to the ground
08:21 at a speed
08:22 of about 130 km / h.
08:23 He also had
08:24 a camera on his head
08:25 recording the incident
08:26 in continuous.
08:27 After trying
08:28 all the options
08:29 and nothing worked,
08:30 he said goodbye
08:31 to the goal.
08:32 Fortunately,
08:34 his story
08:35 did not end here.
08:36 Remember
08:37 what we said
08:38 at the beginning.
08:39 Our man
08:40 miraculously survived
08:42 by landing
08:43 on a wall
08:44 about 3 km
08:45 north of the Lake
08:46 Topo of New Zealand.
08:48 He was only
08:49 slightly injured.
08:50 This means
08:51 that a person
08:52 can fall from the sky
08:53 and survive
08:54 if the right conditions
08:55 are met.
08:56 What would you do
08:58 if you found yourself
08:59 in such a situation?
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