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Watched by Jason F. on December 27 2009:

Superhuman tape measure skills.

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12 comments so far

Ari Rochmann 27 Dec 09

Wow, impressive. Where is the sponsorship from DeWalt, etc?

Doug 27 Dec 09

@Ari The video is brought to us via a “builder skills” blog which is run by a window/door company (their logo appears throughout the video). His skills are good, but this is already an advertisement.

Sahil Lavingia 27 Dec 09

You’ve been punked, it’s fake.

Julie Lewis 27 Dec 09

Fake, but funny.

Matt 27 Dec 09

LOL !!! Fake or not, that’s some funny sh*t!

Bruno Miranda 27 Dec 09

Fake.

Vindexus 27 Dec 09

When grabs the keys you can see the tape pass through his hands.

Dave M 27 Dec 09

No wonder it takes f-ing forever to get anything built in this country!

Laynie - the marketing muscle 27 Dec 09

Fake or not … it’s clever. But I do have to ask does he know how to measure with it, and that 6 inches is still 6 inches?

Stefan 28 Dec 09

Nice. What do you thing about this one:

Bernhard speaks himself while putting on the tie (unfortunately only German)

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/369681/Bernhard_Wolff_Wie_man_sich_eine_Krawatte_bindet

(how to put on a tie starts at 1:03)

He also knows how to make bananas:

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/369629/Bernhard_Wolff_Wie_man_Bananen_macht

JL! 28 Dec 09

I wasn’t expecting this, but the thing that really tipped me off that this wasn’t real was the fact that the sound was too clear. The mics were too well-placed to have been done by a random construction worker.

Guilherme 29 Dec 09

There’s also a video of a worker chopping a piece of wood with a sawblade… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHGIwCHfESg purely fake for me…

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