BDC Now: Daniel Radcliffe May Have a Second Career as a Rapper
If you ever wanted to see a wizard rap, this is about as close as you’re going to get. Seriously, with how good Daniel Radcliffe is, we’re a bit disappointed in the lack of rap battle scenes in the Harry Potter series. Watch him take the mic in today’s BDC Now, and read more about a GoPro strapped to a lioness’ back, the obese crash test dummy, a German thief with a creative weapon, and Tony Hawk’s unusual longevity as a skateboarder.
Harry Potter Can Bust a Rhyme
We normally try to do a little more than rehash Jimmy Fallon’s latest attempt at Internet virality, but Daniel Radcliffe left us no choice here. The Harry Potter star was on “The Tonight Show’’ last night and was so bold as to take on a performance of Blackalicious’ “Alphabet Aerobics.’’ And let us tell you, the kid spits fire like an incendio spell. Radcliffe is maybe the last person we would expect to be a master of hip hop, but apparently his self-professed “obsession with memorizing complicated, lyrically intricate, and fast songs’’ is legit. Of course, we all know what Fallon has to do next, right? After Emma Stone’s incredible lip sync cover of Ludacris’ verse on “All I Do is Win,’’ the world needs Stone and Radcliffe to face off in a rap/lip sync/awesome-ness showdown. It would literally break the Internet. Get on it, Jimmy.
GoPro Lets Us Go Hunting With a Lioness
Is there anything out there that GoPro can’t do? It helped capture criminals in the act, it got us up close and person as people got drunk at a wedding, and now it has taken us on the back of a lioness as it stalks and kills a waterbuck in South Africa. The video doesn’t really explain how the camera got on the lioness’ back, but since it features a guy whose nickname is “The Lion Whisperer,’’ we’ll just go ahead and assume he knows what he’s doing and did the job humanely and safely. The video does do a great job of showing just how powerful and impressive this animal is. She was just casually on the prowl before taking off at the 2:40 mark. The scene that follows could be considered graphic, but it’s also an incredible look at nature. It took five seconds for the lioness to reach and take down its prey, and it didn’t even look like she was trying.
America: So Fat It’s Changing Car Safety
When more than one-third of a country’s population is considered obese, it’s bound to change a few things. There’s probably going to be more restrictions on unhealthy food and hopefully there will be a bigger push to encourage physical activity. But what about the way that country tests for car safety? Yes, that, too, will apparently change, because obese people are 78 percent more likely to die in a car crash. So in the United States, where 78.6 million adults have a BMI greater than or equal to 30 and are considered obese, crash test dummies used in car safety testing are starting to change to more accurately reflect the way Americans are built. According to CNN, Humanetics, the world’s leading producer of dummies, are working on a prototype for an obese dummy that would weigh 273 pounds and have a body mass index of 35. Humanetics CEO Chris O’Connor told CNN that the prototype is necessary because humans get fat in the middle of their bodies and that often puts them “out of position in a typical seat.’’ So there you have it, America. You’re so collectively out-of-shape that you literally found a way to make driving even deadlier.
German Thieves Are… Creative
It sure seems like they do things differently in Germany. We’re not just saying that because they dedicate 16 days every year to dressing up in traditional garb and getting hammered. We’re also saying it because their reputed commitment to efficiency manifests itself in some pretty bizarre ways. Take this alleged thief, for example. Unlike your typical robber, she didn’t want to waste money or time procuring a gun for her robbery of a pharmacy on Tuesday – especially when her body apparently already had a perfectly capable weapon. Evidently, the alleged thief had recently given birth because, after asking for a breast pump, she “suddenly uncovered one breast and used her fingers to squirt milk from it at the pharmacist.’’ The pharmacist was understandably surprised and didn’t realize until later in the day that she woman had used the distraction to snag 100 euros from the cash register. Officers told The Local that the incident was “almost unbelievable.’’ Seriously? A woman allegedly shooting off breast milk in the commission of a robbery being almost unbelievable and not entirely unbelievable is a special kind of disconcerting.
46 Years Old and Still Shredding
With its helmets, pads, and high-flying tricks, skateboarding never really struck us as a low-impact sport. So you’ll have to excuse us for being a bit confused as to how Tony Hawk is still riding and doing stunts on a halfpipe at age 46. Seriously, how is that possible? Hawk made his professional debut in 1982 at just 14 years old. It’s been 32 years since then. His video game came out in 1999. It’s been 15 years since then. And yet there he is, recording a new video of him doing things even some of the most athletic 25-year-olds aren’t capable of. The man’s a freak of nature and it’s incredible.
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