Now for those of you who are big fans of MTV India, you would know that recently MTV ran a show called Pulsar MTV Stunt Mania. As the name suggests it showed really mind blowing bike stunts by the contestants. The stunts performed by the contestants were damn good. Oh! Somebody had to see the boldness of the contestants either while riding inside a burning truck, or jumping into the sea, or on being thrown down from a copter. But the stunt men were trained professionals and were doing the stunts under expert supervision and proper safety requirements.
Now a few weeks ago one of my friends a great fan of Stunt Mania and a speed maniac tried to do a stunt himself. His dress code is ought to be mentioned in this regard. He simply wore a half pant (literally) and a sleeveless T-shirt. He is thin and tall. Now with that attire absolutely with no safety provisions at all he tried to do a stoppie. But one thing that was positive was that he was on a bicycle.
He started riding the bicycle with a great speed. We were watching from quite a distance. He sped up toward us. He was riding on a traffic free steep street and he was coming down the street. He sped up and sped up towards us and he was within yards with us, this was the when he was supposed to jam the front brake. He did apply the brake. But when he had braked the bicycle's front wheel was in a somewhat small pothole or crack on the street. The front brake of the cycle was really good. We had first thought that he wouldn’t be able to do the stunt. But surprisingly the rear wheel did go up. And then……………….
The front wheel apparently stuck in the street crack, with the brake jammed. The rear wheel went up a lot really a lot. When it was about at right angles with the ground, our ‘respected stunt man’ jumped off the bicycle to the front. And then the cycle took a overturn. Thank God the cycle didn’t fall on him. All this happened too quickly for us to react. When apparently we got back our senses we saw blood. The boy's leg was intensely bleeding. We helped him wash his feet. And saw that almost a bit of his flesh had come out. Later he told us that the bleeding was not stopping at all and he had to go for a dressing. He limped through out the durgapuja and is still limping after about a week and a half. He just told me that he would perhaps go for a X-ray soon.
However he learnt a lesson. He was just telling me a few days ago that he was never going to try a stunt any more and he advised us too not to try a stunt ever. He finally learnt to pay importance to the “Do not ever try this at home” message shown during the intervals of the show.
