Aguas! aguas!
June 21, 2017 1:16 PM Subscribe
Freakishly fast dog runs around 2000 feet in Mexico city traffic, with a biker trying to catch up. They cross at least 5 big intersections. Amazingly, the dog gets caught and no one gets run over. (Warning: dog goes under a car at the beginning but seems to not get hit. ) (SLTwitter)
The biker keeps saying "aguas! aguas!" which literally means water but in Mexican slang is more like "watch out".
The biker keeps saying "aguas! aguas!" which literally means water but in Mexican slang is more like "watch out".
Drop your fucking phone and grab the dog, asshole! Jesus. I cannot even.
posted by The Bellman at 1:24 PM on June 21, 2017
posted by The Bellman at 1:24 PM on June 21, 2017
Drop your fucking phone and grab the dog, asshole! Jesus. I cannot even.
Uh, I'm pretty sure that's some sort of head mount go-pro type camera, not to mention that I can't imagine grabbing a tiny, sprinting, dog while in the midst of a metro traffic situation while on a [road?] bike.
This biker is doing all he can by keeping it in sight and trying to herd it into the masses for a quick snatch. Well done.
posted by RolandOfEld at 1:27 PM on June 21, 2017 [24 favorites]
Uh, I'm pretty sure that's some sort of head mount go-pro type camera, not to mention that I can't imagine grabbing a tiny, sprinting, dog while in the midst of a metro traffic situation while on a [road?] bike.
This biker is doing all he can by keeping it in sight and trying to herd it into the masses for a quick snatch. Well done.
posted by RolandOfEld at 1:27 PM on June 21, 2017 [24 favorites]
I believe they were wearing a GoPro...? Comments in Twitter seem to mention that.
posted by CrazyLemonade at 1:27 PM on June 21, 2017
posted by CrazyLemonade at 1:27 PM on June 21, 2017
Fair enough. I retract the comment.
posted by The Bellman at 1:27 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by The Bellman at 1:27 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
That thank you at the end is so heart-felt. You can feel the emotion. Oh man, I was sweating and had goosebumps the entire time.
Happy ending.
posted by Fizz at 1:37 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
Happy ending.
posted by Fizz at 1:37 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
watching this I suddenly had Apollo 440's Stop the Rock stuck in my head, and it took me a while to understand why.
posted by bigendian at 1:38 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by bigendian at 1:38 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
Relevant: “BENTON!!!!!!!! JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!! BENTON!!!!!!!!!”
posted by Fizz at 1:38 PM on June 21, 2017 [17 favorites]
posted by Fizz at 1:38 PM on June 21, 2017 [17 favorites]
¡Un largo plazo para un pequeño perro!
posted by ricochet biscuit at 1:40 PM on June 21, 2017
posted by ricochet biscuit at 1:40 PM on June 21, 2017
Everyone at work was treated to me yelling "NO! Nooooo! NO!" That was a real roller coaster.
Once, while driving, I saw a dog being pursued by its hapless owner. I pulled over (perpendicular to the oncoming dog), leaned over and opened the passenger side door, and the dog jumped in my car. That is one of the proudest moments of my life.
posted by Missense Mutation at 1:43 PM on June 21, 2017 [56 favorites]
Once, while driving, I saw a dog being pursued by its hapless owner. I pulled over (perpendicular to the oncoming dog), leaned over and opened the passenger side door, and the dog jumped in my car. That is one of the proudest moments of my life.
posted by Missense Mutation at 1:43 PM on June 21, 2017 [56 favorites]
The cyclist, @calaveritabike, posts many bicycling in Mexico City related videos. He is some kind of cycling activist on social media. This is not the first dog he rescues.
I can not find the link, but someone looked the chase up on google earth it was ~600 meters. Still fast for a tiny dog, but the wide angle camera makes it look way more faster.
Translation and cultural trivia:
Aguas!: Watch out. Literally 'waters'. Folk etymology: This is what people would yell as a warning to pedestrians when throwing the liquid contents of their chamberpots out the window in the morning. This brought me back to Mexico City.
Agarrenlo!: grab it! or catch it!. One of those 'divided by the same' language things between Mexico and Spain. In Mexico 'agarrar' is used to mean 'grab', 'catch', sometimes even 'hold'. In Spain agarrar is more rarely used and more specific. The common word is 'coger'. Someone from Spain would have said "Cojelo!", which in Mexico would mean to fuck the dog.
At the end he thanks the dog catcher and says that he will now have to find the owner, this dog belongs to someone else.
posted by Dr. Curare at 1:45 PM on June 21, 2017 [42 favorites]
I can not find the link, but someone looked the chase up on google earth it was ~600 meters. Still fast for a tiny dog, but the wide angle camera makes it look way more faster.
Translation and cultural trivia:
Aguas!: Watch out. Literally 'waters'. Folk etymology: This is what people would yell as a warning to pedestrians when throwing the liquid contents of their chamberpots out the window in the morning. This brought me back to Mexico City.
Agarrenlo!: grab it! or catch it!. One of those 'divided by the same' language things between Mexico and Spain. In Mexico 'agarrar' is used to mean 'grab', 'catch', sometimes even 'hold'. In Spain agarrar is more rarely used and more specific. The common word is 'coger'. Someone from Spain would have said "Cojelo!", which in Mexico would mean to fuck the dog.
At the end he thanks the dog catcher and says that he will now have to find the owner, this dog belongs to someone else.
posted by Dr. Curare at 1:45 PM on June 21, 2017 [42 favorites]
Run Lola Run!
posted by Kabanos at 1:49 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Kabanos at 1:49 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
“BENTON!!!!!!!! JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!! BENTON!!!!!!!!!”
Benton, of course, is too busy listening to a quiet, compelling voice deep in his limbic system:
"BENTON...BENTON, IT IS I, YOUR ANCESTRAL MEMORY. THESE HERDBEASTS ARE UNRULY, BENTON. YOU KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE."
posted by Iridic at 2:04 PM on June 21, 2017 [11 favorites]
Benton, of course, is too busy listening to a quiet, compelling voice deep in his limbic system:
"BENTON...BENTON, IT IS I, YOUR ANCESTRAL MEMORY. THESE HERDBEASTS ARE UNRULY, BENTON. YOU KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE."
posted by Iridic at 2:04 PM on June 21, 2017 [11 favorites]
It's not the biker's dog?!?!
I'm not crying, you're crying
posted by donnagirl at 2:06 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
I'm not crying, you're crying
posted by donnagirl at 2:06 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
“BENTON!!!!!!!! JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!! BENTON!!!!!!!!!”
It was all I could do to stifle a NSFW guffaw.
posted by DrAstroZoom at 2:11 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
It was all I could do to stifle a NSFW guffaw.
posted by DrAstroZoom at 2:11 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
Ahhhh, how stressful! But I'm glad he states outright he found the owner -- for once I'm happy about a spoiler. That terrier will probably be grounded for a week or year or life, though.
posted by paisley sheep at 2:13 PM on June 21, 2017
posted by paisley sheep at 2:13 PM on June 21, 2017
*adds Missense Mutation to the Wallflower Wall of Righteous Humans*
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:15 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:15 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
“BENTON!!!!!!!! JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!! BENTON!!!!!!!!!”
It's Fenton. Previously.
posted by christopherious at 2:21 PM on June 21, 2017 [5 favorites]
It's Fenton. Previously.
posted by christopherious at 2:21 PM on June 21, 2017 [5 favorites]
For my fellow wimps: watching the first 15 seconds gets you to the eyes wide open not breathing moment (you'll feel like a daredevil making it that far!) and then skipping to the last 15 gives you the exhalation of relief.
I couldn't even conceive of watching that whole thing, I don't have the emotional stamina.
posted by A Terrible Llama at 2:51 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
I couldn't even conceive of watching that whole thing, I don't have the emotional stamina.
posted by A Terrible Llama at 2:51 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
This was way scarier than that CURVE thing.
posted by ldenneau at 4:07 PM on June 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by ldenneau at 4:07 PM on June 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
FREEEEDDDOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!
posted by 4ster at 4:25 PM on June 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by 4ster at 4:25 PM on June 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
GRACIAS *wheeze, huff* ....graciaasss.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 4:48 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 4:48 PM on June 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
Whoever it was honking in the middle of that deserves a couple of Mike Hammer face slaps.
posted by bonobothegreat at 4:50 PM on June 21, 2017
posted by bonobothegreat at 4:50 PM on June 21, 2017
Aguas!: Watch out. Literally 'waters'. Folk etymology: This is what people would yell as a warning to pedestrians when throwing the liquid contents of their chamberpots out the window in the morning.
So, similar etymologically to the Australian "chunder", meaning "to vomit" and originating from the shouted warning "watch under!"
posted by acb at 5:01 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
So, similar etymologically to the Australian "chunder", meaning "to vomit" and originating from the shouted warning "watch under!"
posted by acb at 5:01 PM on June 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
I saw a small dog get rolled under a car at an intersection in Nuevo Casas Grandes, just like at the beginning of this video. I was sure it was dead, but it popped out the other side upset but apparently unharmed and headed to safety.
Good for him for helping return it to its owner. That dog was small but fast and would have been hard to catch.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:19 PM on June 21, 2017
Good for him for helping return it to its owner. That dog was small but fast and would have been hard to catch.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:19 PM on June 21, 2017
Damn that is a fast little dog! And the Fenton/Benton clip made me tear up in laughter, so thanks for throwing that in here.
posted by Fig at 7:29 PM on June 21, 2017
posted by Fig at 7:29 PM on June 21, 2017
The biker is a woman! But she is totally rad. Her twitter has many other good videos.
posted by tooloudinhere at 9:19 PM on June 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by tooloudinhere at 9:19 PM on June 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
When did "biker" stop meaning "bruiser on a motorcycle" and start meaning "ordinary person on a bicycle"?
I'm genuinely curious, because to me the word instantly associates with Hell's Angels types. I may have just drifted from American usage over the years, because in the UK we're always fighting against the word "cyclist" being spun in destructive ways (mainly by people who make it sound like "communist" or "anarchist"). To me a "biker" sounds like someone who will motor up and smash your windows before taking off into the desert.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 1:29 AM on June 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
I'm genuinely curious, because to me the word instantly associates with Hell's Angels types. I may have just drifted from American usage over the years, because in the UK we're always fighting against the word "cyclist" being spun in destructive ways (mainly by people who make it sound like "communist" or "anarchist"). To me a "biker" sounds like someone who will motor up and smash your windows before taking off into the desert.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 1:29 AM on June 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
The video immortalised in comic form!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 1:33 AM on June 22, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 1:33 AM on June 22, 2017 [6 favorites]
Agarrenlo!: grab it! or catch it!. One of those 'divided by the same' language things between Mexico and Spain. In Mexico 'agarrar' is used to mean 'grab', 'catch', sometimes even 'hold'. In Spain agarrar is more rarely used and more specific. The common word is 'coger'. Someone from Spain would have said "Cojelo!", which in Mexico would mean to fuck the dog.
Thanks. Not that I'm a Spanish expert, but having spent three months of Barcelona, my brain was indeed expecting "coger" in this situation, and was wondering why it felt so alien. Was briefly wondering if I forgot my Spanish classes.
I suppose you most certainly should not shout coger el ladrón if you get pickpocketed in Mexico, then.
posted by the cydonian at 7:03 AM on June 22, 2017
Thanks. Not that I'm a Spanish expert, but having spent three months of Barcelona, my brain was indeed expecting "coger" in this situation, and was wondering why it felt so alien. Was briefly wondering if I forgot my Spanish classes.
I suppose you most certainly should not shout coger el ladrón if you get pickpocketed in Mexico, then.
posted by the cydonian at 7:03 AM on June 22, 2017
You're the one that seems so hard up, why don't you fuck the dog?
posted by e1c at 8:50 AM on June 22, 2017
posted by e1c at 8:50 AM on June 22, 2017
Dr. Curare: Aguas!: Watch out. Literally 'waters'. Folk etymology: This is what people would yell as a warning to pedestrians when throwing the liquid contents of their chamberpots out the window in the morning. This brought me back to Mexico City.
Ooh, this makes so much more sense now, thanks!
posted by filthy light thief at 10:44 AM on June 22, 2017
Ooh, this makes so much more sense now, thanks!
posted by filthy light thief at 10:44 AM on June 22, 2017
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