History Series / WorldsMostAmazingVideos

* TuckAndCover: UsefulNotes/{{Australian}}n teenager Mandy Radford was knocked unconscious during an air show when an ultra-light plane took off without its pilot into a crowd of spectators. Her grandfather rushed in and lay on top of her to shield her until it stopped.

** The fifth-season episode "Wasted, Reckless, and Out of Control" is dedicated entirely to this theme. Among the clips featured are a severely intoxicated man in Florida attempting to do tricks with his skateboard and instead hitting the concrete and knocking himself out, drunken college students in South Carolina {{streaking}}, and a drunken man in Vancouver performing flips off a parked police van.
** One of the more egregious cases featured on the show involves several giant loading cranes in Moscow collapsing, which is later revealed to have been the result of the workers drinking vodka on the job.

* ConstructionVehicleRampage: In Season 2 Episode 4, a front end loader is used to smash open the wall of a Danish prison, thus allowing thirteen inmates to escape.

* HonorableElephant: The elephant is a considered a revered and beloved animal in Thailand. When one gets stuck in mud, an entire village comes to try and save it.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Season 1 episode 10, one robber points a gun in a clerk's face...only for it to go off at point-blank range. Had the gun been pointing one inch lower he would have killed her.

* TuckAndCover: Teenager Mandy Radford was knocked unconscious during an air show when an ultra-light plane took off without its pilot into a crowd of spectators. Her grandfather rushed in and lay on top of her to shield her until it stopped.

* ConstructionVehicleRampage: In Season 2 Episode 4, a front end loader is used to smash open a prison wall in Copenhagen, Denmark.

** Also gender-flipped and combined with PapaWolf with heavyweight boxer Larry Holmes, who refused to fight Trevor Berbick, leading Berbick to try to shame him into a grudge match. Initially, Holmes refused to take the bait - until Berbick decided to insult his wife and children, resulting in Holmes unleashing a can of whup-ass on Berbick and attacking him.

** The fifth-season episode "Wasted, Reckless, and Out of Control" is dedicated entirely to this theme. Among the clips featured are a man in Florida attempting to do tricks with his skateboard and instead hitting the concrete and knocking himself out, intoxicated college students in South Carolina {{streaking}}, and a drunken man in Vancouver performing flips off a parked police van.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: A frequent subject of the clips is incidents brought on by intoxication or just general rowdiness. The fifth-season episode "Wasted, Reckless, and Out of Control" is dedicated entirely to this theme.

* BatterUp: Season 4 episode 1, a store clerk keeps a bat behind the counter as a precaution. Good thing too as he then successfully uses it to chase away a crook attempting to rob him. Another man chases down a carjacker with one.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Usually averted but in one case a bride was sent flying after the horse-and-cart she was riding in tipped over. Not only was she completely unhurt but the groom noted that she didn't even have a mark on her dress.
* {{Determinator}}: Season 2 episode 8, a young cheerleader named Andrea suffered a misfortune when her front teeth were knocked out by another girl ''during'' a competition. Heroically, and despite the pain, she continued the whole routine without a missing a beat and insisted upon finishing the performance with the rest of the team, despite her two coaches being perfectly willing to pull out because she didn't think it would be fair on the rest of the team.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Season 1 episode 10, one robber points a gun in a clerk's face...only for it to go off at point-blank range. Had the gun been pointing one inch lower he would have killed her. As it is the bullet passes so close to her head that you can see it part through her hair on the CCTV clip.
* MamaBear: Season 4, episode 8, a fugitive driving the wrong way down a freeway slams into a woman in her car. Her baby daughter was in the backseat. The mother (named Diana) was so enraged that he'd nearly killed them that she got out the car, hit his window and yelled at him. Stacy Keach even notes during the clip that the guy seems more frightened of her than armed police.