Best Work Safety Video EVAR: Forklift Driver Klaus

• Shervin
  April 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

  This reminds me of the final destination movies with all of the absurd deaths. Overall, I think its a great instructional movie. I learned my lesson.

• Aeris
  April 20th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

  Muhihihi, it’s been such a long time since i last saw this… about time it made it on here

• t
  April 20th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

  maybe it’s obvious, but i think you should include a note to clarify that this is a parody of the “instructional film” genre, not just a crazy German thing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289477/

• hansel
  April 20th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

  i don’t think this is funny, my buddy Hans was impaled by a forklift, then chopped in two by a runaway chainsaw. laugh it up friends, while i go put flowers on his grave.

• oezicomix
  April 20th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

  this is a classic!

• CheeseDuck
  April 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

  Klaus didn’t learn his fork lifting procedures very well did he?

• Justin
  April 20th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

  That was so unexpected!

• Alannah
  April 20th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

  I fail to see the humor in these senseless deaths. Why did the camera man keep rolling film? Why didn’t someone get Klaus off the damn forklift? Why do you need a chainsaw in a warehouse, anyway?

• Hans
  April 20th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

  Das war ausgezeichnet!!

• ted
  April 20th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

  It kinda becomes a senseless orgy of destruction, doesn’t it?

• Christophe
  April 20th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

  @Hans : Ausgezeichnet! Bloody Ausgezeichnet!

• Ali S.
  April 21st, 2008 at 12:08 am

  Mein Gott! That was amazing! I laughed so hard watching this.

• R Pyle
  April 21st, 2008 at 6:36 am

  Not enough Hasselhoff. Germans love Hasselhoff.

• Namowal
  April 21st, 2008 at 7:46 am

  Ha ha! Classic. From the same country that gave the world Struwwelpeter

• cuimhne
  April 21st, 2008 at 9:58 am

  Old but good It’s a proper short film as I recall, not just a joke thing.

• Fran
  April 21st, 2008 at 10:02 am

  On a different note. Am I the only one that’s sick and tired of the “EVAR”. Reminds me of Valley Girl speak from the 80s and like VG speak, needs to totally disappear. Enough already.

• stacyj
  April 21st, 2008 at 10:26 am

  Looks like the video’s been removed from Youtube at this point. Though in reading the comments I think I’m kind of glad I missed it - I realize it’s just meant for humorous purposes but seeing violent accidents always really -gets- to me no matter how staged they are, I’m a whuss when it comes to those things …

  As for the “EVAR” - strangely enough I still rather like it, it’s obviously being used in a semi-mocking sense, not actually trying to be like the Valley Girls so much as appropriating their speech for humorous effect … So yeah … “EVAR,” still funny; “humorous” injuries/death, not so much - that about sums it up for me!

• Jacques
  April 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pm

  Man, that was like a video of all the stupid things we used to do with forklifts when I worked at a brewery (labatt) in the early 80s. My foreman once had me stand on a pallet and he lifted me to the top of a row of beer that was leaning kind of precariously. The next morning the entire row fell down (this was when we went from stubby bottles to the long neck bottles and they hadn’t figured out how to stack them yet). another time, we get a little pissed befoer the friday night shift, and when I jumped on my forklift for said foreman, he asked me to shift a pallet off the palletizer and I wasn’t paying attention and rammed the forks through the bottom row of boxes. pop pop pop pop

  don’t drink and drive a forklift.

  I’m really pretty lucky to be alive.

• Robert
  April 24th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  I am sad to think that “Klaus” was a parody, just because it is so brilliant.

  So, I nominate “Shake Hands with Danger” as best genuine safety movie. See link for embedded video.

  http://www.archive.org/details/ShakeHan1970

  “…May be frightening and surprising to some viewers, and contains great country-style song by a Johnny Cash-soundalike.”

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