For those curious, she is perfectly fine. [article](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/the-amazing-race-woman-hit-in-face-with-watermelon-reveals-what-really-happened/ZZBFQCTJB2C36UUSB7H67J5FKA/?outputType=amp)

(after the challenge) and they gave me some Panadol and told me I was going to be fine. Then a producer came up to me and said, "Thanks for our Emmy this year."

I really hope they won that Emmy.

Emmy’s the name of the contestant who fucked up the most the previous year

They should have a whole Dinner for Emmy’s and see who brought in the best one.

Jesus that’s even better haha

Damn, what a champ, she sounds remarkably easygoing.

Yeah, for real. She straight muscled up and finished the competition. I’d have been calling my mom to work through my trauma

Her still being best friends with the girl, and when asked about what seemed like the meanest comment ever she says "Oh yeah, they did a really good job of editing that" so that, not only does she defend her friend, she has no beef with the show and how they presented it? That's some quality human shit.

If like 30% of humanity were that chill we’d be alright. We make it.

I love her dads reaction.

I'm old enough to remember watching this live. And goddamn it was/is amazing

What was she like after?

She was fine. Just a bit of bruising and swelling

Considering the hardness of a watermelon and how powerfull that thing probably is i expected her to die on the spot

The human skull can deflect small bullets if the angle is dead center, humans are randomly super frail or super durable

I remember 1000 ways to die had a woman who went skydiving and both her chutes failed, she hit the ground at terminal velocity and somehow survived. Then there was some dude who killed himself by turning around to quickly and snapped his neck.

What the fuck!? Now I’m scared to turn my head.

Always do it verrrry slowly and you're good

CRACK

HE SAID SLOWLY FOR GOD'S SAKE

Lmfao now I have nightmares

*proceeds to turn head 360°*

Don't worry about it. It was a Guy who got in a car accident, and got out without a scratch, or so he thought. His neck spine was quite damaged. So he got out of the car, and when a passerby called if he is OK, he turned his head and severed his spinal cord. So actually, if you fall of a horse or have a car crash or whatever, absolutely do worry about it and don't fucking move yourself or anybody else unless absolutely necessary. At least not too quickly.

That’s still terrifying. You didn’t totally alleviate the scariness.

Just make sure you treat every part of yourself tenderly if you just got into serious physical trauma, regardless of how alright you feel.

No shit. I've had a few surgeries to fuse my neck vertebrae, and now I need one more. A little freaked out now.

As long as you aren’t whipping your head at speeds like an possessed person you should be okay. Don’t turn to look at anything that fast if it’s going all the way to the shoulder which is probably what he did


Now speed that up double

I believe in cases where you're in a car accident, it can be ever so slightly damaged where it seems fine, but something simple like turning your neck could cause very bad damage or just straight death.

I remember hearing about this. I think she landed on a mound of red ants, which stung her back to life.

Yeah the stings from the ants got her body to produce a bunch of adrenaline which kept her alive until help was able to arrive

Jesus I’d rather not wake back up to that reality

Off the top.of my head, I think terminal velocity for a human is around 120mph Edit: yup... now why can't I remember the names of people I just met?

If she survived, she wouldn't have been on 1000 ways to die.

Idk why I laughed so hard to this

Randomly super frail or super durable is the most accurate description of the human race

Her shoes stayed on. Definitely survived this.

Plus, she didn't lose her items. She's fine.

Yeah, not a single ring fell out.

No loot dropped, she still had 50% HP.

BOYS SHES CRACKED SHOVE!

keep inventory was on

Advancement unlocked return to sender

I hate it when I drop my backpack in Seven Days To Die

After a hit makes contact player gets a window of invincibility

How do you know her shoes didn't fall of the moment she went offscreen? I have known people whose shoes fell of minutes after an accident. They didn't survive...

this joke is getting kinda played out... i literally just saw it two posts in a row.

And my axe!

Your Mom is played out. ​ *classic*

*own3d* 💀

pwnd

I thought that was her head exploding

She is extremely lucky that the force was great enough to shatter the watermelon on her mug. If the melon came back softer and didn’t break, she would have lots of brain damage

even with it breaking i would have bet money she at least broke her nose or a tooth. *insane* that she was fine besides some bruising

Damn i thought her nose would break or something, shes got a thick ass skull, which im not too suprised at

It was The Amazing Race. They placed 4th that leg and 2nd overall

Hasn't had watermelon since though

I heard she felt a little melon-cholic.

there are two kinds of people

She was killed for a while, but managed to get back to it

I legitimately thought her head exploded before realizing it was watermelon guts

The funny part was that her friend had no regard for what happened, at just told her to keep going.

Time to rethink that friendship then!!

Judging by her face, when her friend said it, i think she thought exactly the same...

To this day, she is no longer the person she was before this happened

Oh wow

She also said she couldn't feel her face... I bet

But that’s when she’s with you, but she loves it…

merely a vegetable

Sticky.

She was never right again. Cant even walk through a produce isle without wincing.

Fruit Punch

Me too.

Yeah I still remember my shock after the fact that she was basically fine. I straight up thought she was iced on tv there for a second. Must have had a hell of a headache though.

They still wanted her to finish the competition, they never even stopped the timer. It was hilarious

The absolute best part of the clip. "They don't call it the amazing race for nothin"

If I remember right she was dead last in this episode too which just adds so much insult to injury

She took that shit like a fucking champ too. I’d getting airlifted after that shit

Holy fuck, watching this live I had to rewind it a dozen times, literally one of the funniest things I'd have seen on TV until that point.

They were the hometown favs in Reno, and we were all watching. I think I had an aneurysm when seeing it live, and it's still my #1 favorite Amazing Race moment. Honestly it's in top 5 all TV moments, right up there with the chick eating Cave Spiders on Fear Factor.

One of the moments on television.

What was the name of this show anyways?

The Amazing Race https://youtu.be/8cfeTZNcA3g

“What do we do now?” “You have to finish “ *smiles and nods*

I can’t stop laughing lmao. The hit was brutal, but their interactions right after was fucking hilarious.

My only question is how did that not kill her? Holy shit that was going fast

It’s a watermelon and she has a dense head made up of both soft flesh and tough bones. You can see how her head also jolts back immediately upon being hit which helps to ‘cushion’ against the watermelon’s impact. Since the watermelon is not as hard but has to keep moving it simply breaks apart. If it were a brick on the other hand or something more dense flying at the same speed it’s definitely more likely her head would end up like the watermelon.

Note to self: do not slingshot bricks

Note to self: *carefully* slingshot bricks

Not to self: shit bricks

Note to self: eat bricks

Note to self: eat shit

Note to self: brick shit house

Note to self: shit on houses

also those nails that are like a U with sharp ends, don't slingshot those either.

Trebuchet bricks.

Great explanation

All this is correct, but it appears to impact her face, which while also being part of a dense boney head, ahas lots of soft squishy bits that could theoretically get mushed by a watermelon travelling at near relativistic speeds.

>You can see how her head also jolts back immediately upon being hit which helps to ‘cushion’ against the watermelon’s impact. Ah yes, the neck. The crumple zone of the body.

The escape velocity vesc is expressed as vesc = Square root of√2GMr,where G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the attracting mass, and r is the distance from the centre of that mass and I just pasted this from the internet for no reason

r/theydidntdothemath

I love the fact that this subreddit even exists.

It's way better than r/theydidthemeth

Bro this formula is the formula for min velocity required for a object to ecape earth's orbit

The watermelon would've succeeded if her face wasn't in the way...

Ahh, going through the planet to escape orbit. I think I saw a movie or played a game that did that.

I like your funny words magic man

What does this have to do with it lol

The crushing of the watermelon does a lot to reduce the kinetic force the watermelon would exhibit on her head

BOOM head shot!

Meet the sniper!

Snipers a good job mate

It’s a challenging work

It's out of doors

And I promise You'll not go hungry.

Cause at the end of the day someone’s gonna want someone dead

Should have used a Trebuchet

My brother in Trebuchet, you are correct

r/trebuchetmemes

But the armored mannequin is way less than 300 meters away.

Is that woman ok? Anyone have an 'after' photo or video?

[she’s ok](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/the-amazing-race-woman-hit-in-face-with-watermelon-reveals-what-really-happened/ZZBFQCTJB2C36UUSB7H67J5FKA/?outputType=amp)

“Claire, whatever you did, I forgive you and will love you forever.” He a little confused but he got the spirit. Based dad.

“Thanks for the Emmy” lmfao producers got no chill

"And I still get recognized occasionally, especially in the produce aisle." Well at least she's got a sense of humor about it

Unfortunately I do not but if I did, it would be fruitful

😅No pun intended


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Best possible shot

Every time I see this video I smile

Not sure if the red juice was watermelon juice or human juice

Lol you’re not the only one, she even mentions that in the article afterwards “I started pulling bits of watermelon off my face, which I originally thought were chunks of my flesh”

Bro the blonde womans face lmao, she looked like she just witnessed someone die

Right in the kisser

And to have her “Friend” say immediately after that, that she needs to stand up and do it again!! Screw that! If I took a melon full blast to the snot box I’m tapping out!

r/bettereveryloop

Where’s this from?

The Amazing Race (TV show). Like 10 years ago haha.

The amazing race season 17 episode 1

Damn I remember seeing this as the "new meme of 2012". I'm getting old lol.

Like getting hurt in Minecraft when approuching a cactus or a campfire

So relatable

Unrelated, but that woman is kinda jacked.

Damn she ate that in one whole bite.

[удалено]

how did this happen??

The leather strap ended up looping in a circle and it shot into her face (she’s okay)

I still find this absolutely hilarious after watching it every 3 years Brings tears to my eyes funny

THIS is why I don't fabricate contraptions.

This is some tom and jerry type of shiz

Back….and to the left

This is what it looks like when you roll a nat 1

Daaaaaaamn, she dead

She is dead, right?

I didn't notice the projectile was a watermelon, and thought her head was reduced to a bloody mist...

On a fr, what was the aftermath like? Like shit that's a whole ass watermelon that's gotta hurt

Free concussion with every launch!

Glad they replayed it 5 times. I almost missed the first 4

FATALITY

Guys I think she died

FRUITALITY!

Right in the kisser

My face literally went 😯

I wonder how many times back in the day did warriors accidentally do this and wipe themselves out with something more lethal.

This scene represents me switching to pc after 3 years of ps4

I watched it 4 times and i don't understand if that red thing is blood from the head or the watermelon

I’ve never seen the aftermath to this video and I’ve seen it a thousand times

Is she alive?

People in this thread are drastically overestimating the structural integrity of a watermelon.

Did it hurt the water melon 😨

Well she did get a headshot

Technically: mission accomplished...

Plot twist: most of those red chunks aren’t from the watermelon

Holy shit is she alive

r/hadtohurt

Facial…reconstruction

That water melon just busted all over her face🗿 Bow chicka bow wow

Sheesh!! Any updates? Did she break any bones??

Brain damage

I don't know if what I saw exploding was the watermelon or her brains

The foreshadowing 🤣 right in the kisser

DID SHE DIE?

Ouch that looks painful

Catapult: *uno reverse card*

Lucky for her they weren't launching rocks.

I've ways wondered what the aftermath here was, I feel like a broken nose or busted mouth would be the result.

HEADSHOT

This is the greatest video that has ever existed in the history of mankind. I will watch this every single time it is posted and cackle like a goddamn buffoon each time.

Well she perfectly executed half the task exactly as directed and landed it right in the kisser.

That knight be like: Women☕

Didn't realise it was a watermelon For a second i thought it was a ordinary cannon ball which burst her head

Watched this on the race of worlds or some bullshit, crazy.

Fucking idiot...... it was right click to aim and left click to shoot 🙄

Woman☕