Perfect tree felling between two fenceposts - GIF

[Loose Ctrl]

I like this one too.

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Is it me or do those roots look like they have been cut? Makes me wonder if there are some buried cables that caused the root system to fail.

[owen moore]

I would say that persons life might be one big flat tire!

[Hoosiersmoker]

The definition of "Near Miss"!

[old kodger]

A friend of mine had a tree from a local church fall on his car as he drove past, he suffered quite a serious injury but survived (with brain trauma), and as I said to him later God just warned you!

[Scotsman Hosie]

That 1st video, to have missed the house — and put it through the open gate — was incredibly lucky. Lucky that it didn't twist, going down. Also, he just stood there — waaaaay too close — for the sake of his personal safety.

[Paul Alciatore]

Second luckiest man in the world!

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[Jon]

We have a new winner. A last second push of the tree trunk, an extremely lucky landing in between two guys, and then an inexplicable pinata-breaking moment where everyone rushes to...grab a piece of the tree?

[ranald]

why, just why were they allowed to congregate within approx 3 times the height of that columnar tree? Absolute carelessness of life!.

[Ralphxyz]

What made it swing to the right halfway down? It was heading right for the crown of people. that little boy almost got hit.

Ralph

[dave_rupp]

It appears to have caught the roof over the entrance doors to the building and that diverted the direction of fall - - - Luckily!