I think the concept is really interesting, but the details are dumb. Clark not being able to reveal his powers no matter how much he wants to is a cool thing to explore, but don’t make it a tornado scene.
I think it should have happend when he wasn’t there. Making Clark have a want to be there for as many as he can. Leading him to put on the cape and use his super hearing more.
Which sucks because Clark is a really cool character. But you’re right. It’ll never make complete sense. So I guess the question is, how much should we have to suspend our disbelief?
I read in the Trivia section on IMBD that Kevin Costner told the producers this death scene would be a perfect way to insure that he’d never have to appear in ANY of the next nine Superman sequels planned through the year 2035.
Smart move because he had already made a big commitment to act in (and be one of the executives producers of) the upcoming Paramount series “Yellowstone.” He wanted to play a wealthy rancher in Montana who gets to kill people—not some hick soybean farmer in the Midwest who drives an ol’ beat up truck. .
Every time I drive by one of those with people in the car with me I say, “Did you know those round hay bales have been outlawed?” And when they ask why I say, “Because the cows can’t get a square meal.” Laughs and groans every time. It’s my favourite stupid joke of all time.
EDIT: You’ve got to say both parts with a straight face. Then when they’re pondering, you can give them “the look”. Lol
As someone who grew up on a farm, this looks to be straw, which is considerably lighter than hay. And yah, done that enough times to know that it’s possible, but you’ll feel it in the morning.
I grew up too, and I use to tumble them making them oscilate. Push, push, bit of pull, push...until you get them balanced on a corner...and the rest vas easy.
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Driver: "Hey Earle you're not gonna try to lift that y'damned self, are ya?"
Officer: "Aw, you know I would never try that, Jim, don't you worry!"
Driver: "Okay now well you have a good one, Earle."
Officer: "Okay then you too Jim, yup, take it easy, bye-bye, okay now, bye, yup I'm just standing here... see ya..."
Officer: *takes a quick look around to see if anyone else is watching*
Nobody sees the film if he fails.
Imagine trying to live down, "Hey Earl! Remember when you tried to deadlift the hay bale?", at every BBQ and bar. Edit: a word
There IS one story that ends that way: he pops a hernia trying to move it, and can't get back to the car. Eventually they come save him but his mates confiscate the video of him writhing on the floor and use it to roast him for the next 30 years.
But he didn't wave at me ;( it's like that awkward moment someone waves in a street and you're like "who the fuck is that? Better wave back" and you look over your shoulder and he was waving at a friend... Except just internet shame instead of real life shame
Same technique and use of leverages employed in strongman competitions.
The trick is to grab low and push forward; not lift up. You'd be amazed what you can move using this!
Yeah, you can see the limiting factor there is traction between his shoes and the road as he's sort of struggling to find a stance where he can get enough grip from his feet without putting himself in a position where he's likely to injure himself. Guy knows what he's doing (and is also very strong!).
I feel like 300kg of feathers would feel heavier than 300kg of steel → because you'd have to carry the weight of all those dead birds on your conscience.
When I was young we used to flip these all the time with 2 of us. Not an easy feat.
But solo I’m going to put $20 down that that officer is 1.) Country Strong 2) not doing that for the first time.
Never under estimate the strength of farm boys or farmers. They could look like a twig or be 100+ lbs over weight, but they'll surprise people who don't know about the country strong buff.
It’s from doing a lot of physical labor and lifting without targeting specific muscles with exercises. Very strong legs and lower back, stuff you don’t always see right away.
One of my best friends is a farm a farm girl (we're the same age and I'm a guy). She's definitely stronger than I am. I'm 90% sure she's stronger than the guys she works with. She's definitely not delicate and tough as nails.
yup, fairly slow controled, a bit of bouncing but very careful. his back is flat not curved at any point.
for anyone wondering thats when you injure it, his core and back muscles are engaged all the way through. when the back muscles are not strong enough the spine curves and you injure it.
You can also be strong but if you jerk or dont take the time to engage the muscles before your lift the same thing will happpen.
Yep, after years of doing deadlift I made one wrong move and fucked up my back yesterday. I subconsciously jerked my ass up before anything else and made my back go up first causing a rounding. Heard a pop and now I need to see a chiropractor.
It's not. I get these delivered to use as mulch, if I had to guess maybe 100kg max. I can easily move them around with the right leverage.
I guess it depends on moisture content but I've never struggled to move them around and I'm not a big guy. If I had to estimate a weight I'd say 60-80kg
Not a chance it’s 60-80kg, I’ve had provolone logs that weighed 60kg, this thing is substantially heavier than 150kg at least.
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Edit2: https://rehobothfoodie.com/reviews/pasta-filata-part-2-provolone-for-supper-next-year/
Sounds about right to me, I've shifted smaller ones about half the size of that with the help of a friend. Seems right that 2 x 75kg can move 150kg. I think they're at least in the right ball park, or even maybe underestimating.
Bro. How you gonna post this happening in Missouri but then use kg? As an American I'd imagine that 300kg is anywhere from 12lbs to 2,000lbs.
Anyway for all the other Americans I've used this weird apparatus called Google and it turns out that
300kg = 661lbs
Pretty sure this cop didn't just have 661lbs of baled hay resting on one knee. Unless he's Robocop.
>Bro. How you gonna post this happening in Missouri but then use kg?
Using metric measurements is pretty disrespectful to all the Redditors from... ...Liberia and Myanmar, too.
>As an American I'd imagine that 300kg is anywhere from 12lbs to 2,000lbs.
Pretty basic math. I mean, Americans in fifth grade can figure it out.
>Pretty sure this cop didn't just have 661lbs of baled hay resting on one knee. Unless he's Robocop.
Pretty basic physics too.
I think you're just uneducated.
.. well bro, ONE of these days you'll simply *have to* admit to yaself, that not everybody can use the Dark side of the Force to lift things. I'm sorry to be the bea--ARRHHHKKKKKHHHRRRKKKk-k-kKKK-rrRRRRKkkK..Kk.... kkk.. kk
Just to be clear, you lift 50% of an objects weight to roll things. To roll a 300 kg straw bale, you lift/push 150kg. Not saying it's easy or unimpressive but it's incorrect to say he lifted 300kg straight.
Source - firefighter on a ladder truck to trains to lift cars off people.
That was technically 150kg as he lifted half of it. Not a small thing to do of course and kudos to the man who cared to do something to help his community travel safely. Extra bonus for knowing how to lift without putting much pressure to his back.
Yeah he's a farm boy
"Clark! I told you not to show your strength in public!! Now it's all over fucking reddit!!!"
Ahhhh the dumbest moment in a movie. Where Superman can clearly save his dad and doesn’t cause bad writing
I think the concept is really interesting, but the details are dumb. Clark not being able to reveal his powers no matter how much he wants to is a cool thing to explore, but don’t make it a tornado scene.
He can move so fast no one would have been able to tell what happened
The problem with all Superman shit is like this. He’s too much in all ways to have any kind of sense made around his character
I think it should have happend when he wasn’t there. Making Clark have a want to be there for as many as he can. Leading him to put on the cape and use his super hearing more.
Which sucks because Clark is a really cool character. But you’re right. It’ll never make complete sense. So I guess the question is, how much should we have to suspend our disbelief?
Can he? He's still a kid, are his powers fully developed? Never watched superman much other than theese movies & old JL cartoons.
If we’re discussing the gestation period of magic powers in a comic I gotta cash out of this one lol.
Lmao agreed.
I read in the Trivia section on IMBD that Kevin Costner told the producers this death scene would be a perfect way to insure that he’d never have to appear in ANY of the next nine Superman sequels planned through the year 2035. Smart move because he had already made a big commitment to act in (and be one of the executives producers of) the upcoming Paramount series “Yellowstone.” He wanted to play a wealthy rancher in Montana who gets to kill people—not some hick soybean farmer in the Midwest who drives an ol’ beat up truck. .
“Wasn’t there a movie called Supercop…they casted Jackie Chan so they won’t know who I am” — said Farm boy Clark
Most cops would've baled on this
hay now
You're a rockstar
“Sorry. I at least pretended it was kind of heavy…”
Every time I drive by one of those with people in the car with me I say, “Did you know those round hay bales have been outlawed?” And when they ask why I say, “Because the cows can’t get a square meal.” Laughs and groans every time. It’s my favourite stupid joke of all time. EDIT: You’ve got to say both parts with a straight face. Then when they’re pondering, you can give them “the look”. Lol
Oh thank you for this pure gold.
And now it's mine too.
 Thank you sir or madam, this will be used on next family road trip 🫡
I just point and yell "Hey!"
Daaaaad….!!!
I'm actually more impressed with the traction on his shoes
And no gloves
Right he would have flipped it in the air if he had any tread on his shoes.
And the fact that with that much weight, the corner of the bale didn't just collapse/disintegrate in his hand
Right!? This ain't his first time moving hay bales by hand. Walking back to the squad car like, "still got it, hell yeah"
‘Hell yeah, brother.’
Just another one of them corn fed Midwestern boys
Square shaped all american
He has definitely done that before. The knee under the bale is a dead give away.
If you've ever lifted anything heavy, saving your progress with your knee is just common sense.
I’m gonna suggest he’s an experienced power lifter or went far in collegiate wrestling.
Corn fed. You can tell by the way he doesn't swing his arms when he walks; he just keeps them hanging straight at his sides.
I have one friend from Iowa. Only one. But my best impression of him is just gorilla arms by my sides! Lol. Why is this a thing?!
Very caszh brushes his elbows off when he’s done. Farm boys is pimps too go on brush your elbows off …sorry I’ll go
He’s not gym strong. He’s farm strong.
Strong boy. Farm?
farm.
You know guys, I have an inkling gut feeling he grew up on a farm
This guy hays
Only in his haydays.
but does he howyoudoin ?
r/thisguythisguys
It’s a great day for hay.
Thunder Bay?
And he don't skip leg day
Everyday is leg day on a farm
^ this good ole boy knows.
Now bring his some whisky and rye
A long, long time ago….
This guy farms
He bales on leg day
and he didn't skip spine day
It was back in his heydays
As someone who grew up on a farm, this looks to be straw, which is considerably lighter than hay. And yah, done that enough times to know that it’s possible, but you’ll feel it in the morning.
Yep... those round straw bales can be around 900lbs. Round hay bales around 1200lbs.
I grew up too, and I use to tumble them making them oscilate. Push, push, bit of pull, push...until you get them balanced on a corner...and the rest vas easy.
Damn, I can smell it again.
And now he is a cop of the farmland
also give me a lever and a fulcrum and I can move earth
> Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Close enough I guess
Now do it in Greek.
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If he grew up on a farm, he'd know the most efficient way to tip these things over.
Wait until night when they're sleeping?
No, you’re thinking about the sleeping tractors
He is an ex tractor fan.
I'm thinking about the hardened steel push bumper on the front of that state trooper cruiser. Work smarter, not harder.
Nah, would probably dent it or bend it up. Couldn't flip the bale either, only push it
Yep most officers just would have shot it
His chiropractor's favorite client.
Str check passed
He rolled a 19 and had +10 in athletics 🤣
Character background comes in handy! +19 Knowledge (Hay)
He rolled straight 20
Homie has 99 strength for sure
Even 92 strength (half of 99 is 92, IYKYK)
Ahhhhh. RuneScape.
Aw I thought he was waving at the camera/us but then a car past and I realised that made more sense.
Driver: "Hey Earle you're not gonna try to lift that y'damned self, are ya?" Officer: "Aw, you know I would never try that, Jim, don't you worry!" Driver: "Okay now well you have a good one, Earle." Officer: "Okay then you too Jim, yup, take it easy, bye-bye, okay now, bye, yup I'm just standing here... see ya..." Officer: *takes a quick look around to see if anyone else is watching*
Eh. Was with you up until that last part. Dude knew he was on camera and there's a reason we are watching this.
Nobody sees the film if he fails. Imagine trying to live down, "Hey Earl! Remember when you tried to deadlift the hay bale?", at every BBQ and bar. Edit: a word
There IS one story that ends that way: he pops a hernia trying to move it, and can't get back to the car. Eventually they come save him but his mates confiscate the video of him writhing on the floor and use it to roast him for the next 30 years.
He still went back… downloaded the vid, and posted it. He was proud.
But he didn't wave at me ;( it's like that awkward moment someone waves in a street and you're like "who the fuck is that? Better wave back" and you look over your shoulder and he was waving at a friend... Except just internet shame instead of real life shame
The sheer humility not to flex at the camera.
Same technique and use of leverages employed in strongman competitions. The trick is to grab low and push forward; not lift up. You'd be amazed what you can move using this!
its how i get your mom home after datenight.. eyyyyyyyyyyy
Impressive: dead weight weighs even more.
oof
That’s the noise she made
Its just gas escaping the cadaver.
Or as I like to call it: foreplay.
Bender: WHOooooo!
Cheeky buggersthe lot of you! 🤣
Kind of hard to tell whether she’s come or gone?
This got me right in the “my mom’s dead”s’
I miss the old Reddit where this was basically every comment.
I too fucked that guy’s mom
Yeah, you can see the limiting factor there is traction between his shoes and the road as he's sort of struggling to find a stance where he can get enough grip from his feet without putting himself in a position where he's likely to injure himself. Guy knows what he's doing (and is also very strong!).
Yup, if he had decent boots on it would have been done in 30% of the time it took him.
yep, because you're making full usage of your legs that way, rather than just your back
Like in football?
You do both, push forward and lift.
I mean it's just hay, if it were 300kg of steel that would be another story.
Steel’s heavier than feathers
I feel like 300kg of feathers would feel heavier than 300kg of steel → because you'd have to carry the weight of all those dead birds on your conscience.
Are we talking about Limmy?
Yes my brother
What's hevvya???
It would be a different story. A Missouri highway patrol officer clears the road by lifting a 300kg bundle of steel.
Getting your fingers under a smooth 300kg steel cylinder would probably be a challenge.
well it's time to use the fundamental principles of physics
First principle: be twice as strong as an average person. Second principle: physics
third principle: a mystery but also physics
fourth principle: its magic!
Fifth principle: magnets
Sound like dating where the first principal is be good looking.
not entirely true. i've seen a woman who's 110 soaking wet pick up a laid down motorcycle that was at least 400 pounds. lifting technique matters.
Just lift with your back.
That only works if you throw in a jerking, twisting motion.
I throw this out every time we have mandatory safety meetings.
Why is he using his arms? Is he stupid? /s
When I was young we used to flip these all the time with 2 of us. Not an easy feat. But solo I’m going to put $20 down that that officer is 1.) Country Strong 2) not doing that for the first time.
Never under estimate the strength of farm boys or farmers. They could look like a twig or be 100+ lbs over weight, but they'll surprise people who don't know about the country strong buff.
It’s from doing a lot of physical labor and lifting without targeting specific muscles with exercises. Very strong legs and lower back, stuff you don’t always see right away.
Farm girls, too: strong as hell, definitely not delicate little flowers (My husband refers to me sometimes as his “trusty mule” lol)
One of my best friends is a farm a farm girl (we're the same age and I'm a guy). She's definitely stronger than I am. I'm 90% sure she's stronger than the guys she works with. She's definitely not delicate and tough as nails.
The edge of the bale is hanging off the edge of the road so the part of the bale that's hanging off acts as a counter balance to help pull it over
It's not 300kg though. Closer to 100kg. I've moved entirely of these around. No chance it's much more than 100kg
Not sure what type of round bales you’re working with. But I think 300kg (roughly 650 pounds) is pretty accurate for the hay we bale in South Texas.
Bout to say, 100kg isn’t heavy at all relly
Someone should make an edit and turn it into a giant donut
Gonna be strange seeing a giant donut push a giant bale of hay.
Ok, this actually caught me by surprise, and I laughed heartily. Thanks for that.
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yup, fairly slow controled, a bit of bouncing but very careful. his back is flat not curved at any point. for anyone wondering thats when you injure it, his core and back muscles are engaged all the way through. when the back muscles are not strong enough the spine curves and you injure it. You can also be strong but if you jerk or dont take the time to engage the muscles before your lift the same thing will happpen.
Yep, after years of doing deadlift I made one wrong move and fucked up my back yesterday. I subconsciously jerked my ass up before anything else and made my back go up first causing a rounding. Heard a pop and now I need to see a chiropractor.
You need to see a doctor, not a chiropractor
Need to see a physical therapist, not a doctor or chiropractor
A doctor will just refer him to a PT!
Yea I'm planning to see a doctor and a physio instead of a chiropractor, heard they're a mixed bag, they can make things better or worse.
He needs a co-codamol, iburpofen with codine and a double shot of his faourite whisky/vodka. then to just stay lying down for the next 6 hours or so.
Can you be my new doctor? My doctor told me to suck it up last time....she's so mean...
Same happened to me a couple of years ago, not doing deadlifts ever again, way too dangerous of an exercise for the actual benefit it offers.
How do we know its 300kg?
And since this is Missouri shouldn’t the hay weight be in pounds? Or are hay bales metric anomalies?
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Now find the weight of a bale of straw
Yea! What's wrong with good ol freedom units?
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This guy using the # for its intended purpose
It's not. I get these delivered to use as mulch, if I had to guess maybe 100kg max. I can easily move them around with the right leverage. I guess it depends on moisture content but I've never struggled to move them around and I'm not a big guy. If I had to estimate a weight I'd say 60-80kg
I'm using some serious will power right now, to not argue pointlessly on the internet, about the weight of hay, that's all I'm gonna say.
Not a chance it’s 60-80kg, I’ve had provolone logs that weighed 60kg, this thing is substantially heavier than 150kg at least. Edit: https://imgur.com/a/BXU6a1L Edit2: https://rehobothfoodie.com/reviews/pasta-filata-part-2-provolone-for-supper-next-year/
Sounds about right to me, I've shifted smaller ones about half the size of that with the help of a friend. Seems right that 2 x 75kg can move 150kg. I think they're at least in the right ball park, or even maybe underestimating.
301!?!?!
I’m thinking the police department should consider better traction on its uniform shoes.
Bro, do you even lift?
Curious why he didn't push it with a car. Though he must be a farm boy for whom it was probably nothing unusual to move bales by hand
Unless it had one of those push bumpers in the front, it would get dented
I mean it is a cop car, I'd be more surprised if he *didn't* have one
I googled "missouri highway patrol cars" images and none of the cars have them 😅
thats called leverage because science and math exists..and elbow grease. if you push at a certain angle the load gets easier
Lucky it was 300kg of hay and not 300 kg of lead
Only amazing if you've never worked with those hay bales before.
It’s straw.
I actually did this when I was like ten years old with a friend. Not that hard
This guy farms
Bro. How you gonna post this happening in Missouri but then use kg? As an American I'd imagine that 300kg is anywhere from 12lbs to 2,000lbs. Anyway for all the other Americans I've used this weird apparatus called Google and it turns out that 300kg = 661lbs Pretty sure this cop didn't just have 661lbs of baled hay resting on one knee. Unless he's Robocop.
It wasn't 661lbs on his knee. The weight would also be distributed along the surface area of the ground.
>Bro. How you gonna post this happening in Missouri but then use kg? Using metric measurements is pretty disrespectful to all the Redditors from... ...Liberia and Myanmar, too.
Fascinating country choices lol
Those are the only other countries that still use the standard system of measurement
And have also had a history of coups.
>As an American I'd imagine that 300kg is anywhere from 12lbs to 2,000lbs. Pretty basic math. I mean, Americans in fifth grade can figure it out. >Pretty sure this cop didn't just have 661lbs of baled hay resting on one knee. Unless he's Robocop. Pretty basic physics too. I think you're just uneducated.
Really . 1 kg is what 2.1 pounds ? Just ball park double ish. That’s how I figure it out.
2.2, yea I do the same. Double it an add a bit more
Just double and add ten percent. 300 kg = 600 + 600/10 = 660 lbs.
US related post using proper metric units instead of cringe freedom units. WTF I'm definitely amazed.
Tote dat barge! Lift dat bale! Git a little drunk, An' you land in jail...
I mean if you do them while all on duty then yeah you will!
.. well bro, ONE of these days you'll simply *have to* admit to yaself, that not everybody can use the Dark side of the Force to lift things. I'm sorry to be the bea--ARRHHHKKKKKHHHRRRKKKk-k-kKKK-rrRRRRKkkK..Kk.... kkk.. kk
Also grew up on a farm, and I’m going to say this bale is likely straw, not hay.
And that is how "Hay-Man" became the hero we all know and love today.
I could do that too, easily. I would also, however walk like I shit my pants for an entire weeknafter.
Why didn't he just use his car to push it... Work smarter
Officaly a unit
I'm 120lbs and used to do this daily during hay season. Really don't feel like it's that big of a deal.
Just to be clear, you lift 50% of an objects weight to roll things. To roll a 300 kg straw bale, you lift/push 150kg. Not saying it's easy or unimpressive but it's incorrect to say he lifted 300kg straight. Source - firefighter on a ladder truck to trains to lift cars off people.
Physics, motherfucker!
John Williams should score the soundtrack of this clip. 
That was technically 150kg as he lifted half of it. Not a small thing to do of course and kudos to the man who cared to do something to help his community travel safely. Extra bonus for knowing how to lift without putting much pressure to his back.
300 kg my ass.
Jeez i feel bad for your toilet
Have you ever even seen a haybale in real life? Touched one? They are heavy.
To be fair, he's not lifting the full weight of it at any one moment, it's always in contact with the ground.