German TV contestant suffers head injuries during botched stunt

[somone]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8182447/German-TV-contestant-suffers-head-injuries-during-botched-stunt.html

German TV contestant suffers head injuries during botched stunt
The biggest live TV show in Europe had to be stopped midway through the show after a 23-year-old contestant suffered serious head injuries during a stunt.
By Allan Hall in Berlin 5:17PM GMT 05 Dec 2010

Robbie Williams, Phil Collins and Cher were among the guests taking part on 'Wetten, Dass?' (Want to Bet?) – a German show where celebrities make bets with contestants over stunts – when student Samuel Koch landed on his head during the botched segment.

Mr Koch bet the show's host Thomas Gottschalk that, using springs on his feet called power jumpers, or kangaroo shoes, he could somersault over five cars coming towards him at 15 miles per hour.

On his fourth attempt, while trying to jump over an Audi driven by his father Christoph, he landed on his face.

Realising he was no longer moving, the host rushed towards the student, calling for a doctor...

[htuttle]

1. "Halten Sie mein Bier und beobachteten diese"

[CurtEastPoint]

8. GOOD ONE!

I had to Babblefish it, but... "Hold my beer and watch this!"

[woo me with science]

2. If they had outlawed bake sales,

this never would have happened.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Robbie Williams, Phil Collins and Cher

German crap TV: where failed talent goes to die.

These three had nothing better to do?

[somone]

4. Well...

... Justin Bieber, the teenage Canadian musician, had been due to perform after Mr Koch's segment, and later asked his followers on the social networking site Twitter to pray for him.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. fake failed talent too

[Ian David]

10. I pray for Justin Bieber every day. I pray for him to die.

I'm kidding.

[WinkyDink]

6. Wow. You have no clue. Cher is hailed in the CURRENT movie "Burlesque." PC can rest on his

substantial laurels:
http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Phil_Collins.html

And Robbie Williams just re-formed Take That:
http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?Section=Movies&ID=ENTEN20100160841&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA&keyword=music&nid=67855

In any case: do you mean to say that people who were once giants in their field are "failed" if they age without "hits"?
J.D. Salinger was quite the failure, then, for about 40 years.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. wait, you are telling me these idiots don't have failed careers?

and they still have nothing better to do than show up on crap tv? Wow. Cocaine habits?

[WinkyDink]

9. I think I wrote plainly, in English. But if you need more:

What is your definition of "failed", re: These three?

A NEW CD AND A WORLD TOUR, maybe?
Cher: http://www.cherworld.com/news/?p=1043

Robbie: http://www.omgmusic.com/news/take-that-announce-2011-tour-dates-updated

Phil: http://www.montreuxjazz.com/2011/en/news/news/117

Like I said: You have no clue. (And it's called: "Keeping in view of foreign fans.")

[Warren Stupidity]

12. Gambling addiction?

[JVS]

13. The german concept of celebrity leans a bit more to the concept of spectacle than the American.

[Safetykitten]

15. That's why it is so fun to watch.

[JVS]

17. 16 was meant to be here

[JVS]

16. Yeah, but if you're bothered by celebrities like Paris Hilton and such...

the German celebrity hierarchy will really piss you off.

[Ian David]

11. OMG... I MUST have these!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvMjXZygZC4

[JVS]

14. I think Katt Williams noticed these things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-jiBABaAs