Best Work Safety Video EVAR: Forklift Driver Klaus

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.

Muhihihi, it's been such a long time since i last saw this... about time it made it on here :)

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/

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.

this is a classic!

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

That was so unexpected! :)

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?

Das war ausgezeichnet!!

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

@Hans : Ausgezeichnet! Bloody Ausgezeichnet!

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

Not enough Hasselhoff. Germans love Hasselhoff.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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."

oops, video is no longer available on here or on youtube.com either.

this clip is no longer available dude! do something about it.