Ordinary Paper Airplane Goes for Quite a Trip

I don't believe it.

I'm probably over-analyzing this but:

1) Throwing paper planes off the roof: why would they think filming that would be interesting?
2) Why would they name the planes? (Trying too hard to make it look legit.)
3) The guy who proposes to name the planes calls his own plane "paper airplane"?
4) What's with the maniacal laughter?
5) One guy is calling for the bin pretty quickly when the chances of that happening are astronomically small.
6) Their reactions... not convinced.
7) The plane in question is out of the frame at some point; so easy to fake the rest.

The only reason why I think this might be real is that it's too stupid to bother to fake. Then again: that's probably also the only reason why people would believe it. ;)

Yeah, he was calling for the bin way too early, almost as if he knew it would go there.

Almost immediately after the planes were launched, the viewer thinks "Why would someone film something this asinine?"

Planned or not, what amateurs.

When launching paper airplanes off a tall structure, you ALWAYS go for distance (not to a bin a whopping 8 meters away from the building), and often light the plane on fire.

Oh yes, definitely shenanigins! Why make a plane out of paper? Even if you could find passengers small enough, you'd never be able to take the weight of them AND their luggage. And nobody's even considered air-traffic control. And it would get wet if it rained and cause a terrible accident. And it's on the internet. Yes it's definitely a fake. Everything on the internet is. In fact, Neatorama must be fake too.

...sigh...

ok first of all nothing was planned, naming the planes was just an after thought (great odin's raven= I had just watched Ankerman) I didn't actually think it was going to go in the bin, I wasn't aiming for there, the fact that I said it was just wishful thinking. And come on how are we meant to fake it? That would take too much effort... people are so cynical. and it was the first attempt btw :P

Nice Reddit link. Did Neatorama take over Reddit? :P

>> That would take too much effort...

Uhmm... the internet is filled to the brim with things that should have taken "too much effort". ;)

In this particular case I think that for somebody with experience in adding visual effects to film this might not have taken more than 15 minutes.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxC5WI6Owcw

So the odds of the plane landing in the bin are astronomically small. Or so it seems to me. You could probably throw that plane a million times off the roof and it would never land in the bin. On top of that you happened to be filming it at the same time, making it even more unlikely.
Video editing makes faking this relatively easy these days.
On top of that a lot of things struck me as odd in the video (see list).
And yes I'm a cynic. *
So there you go. ;)

(Actually I should have said "I'm skeptical". Real or fake, both possibilities are entirely possible imo.)

* If everybody is honest, the one person who cheats wins. As a result EVERYBODY cheats. Welcome to reality. ;)

Fact: People with video cameras never film anything mundane.

Fact: Nothing cool and seemingly impossible ever happens, ever.

Fact: No one on the Internet is a cynical douchebag.

My "why would someone film something this asinine" had less to deal with the reality of the film clip and more to do with the asinineness of the actions. Sadly, people film themselves doing all sorts of tedious and silly things all the time, and it's not quite a case of infinite monkeys typing Shakespeare, which would admittedly be more entertaining to watch than this.

Enjoy your time in the sun, guy in redshirt (if that is your real name). If Star Terk has taught us anything, you do not have long to live.

@ Wes

Sorry that questioning the authenticity of this video is so offensive to you. Buy as I said: just trying to say that real or fake, both possibilities are entirely possible imo.

In case you're not convinced that faking videos is pretty common place these days check this out:
Ultimate Batting Practice.

It sure would be great if we lived in a world where we could simply believe everything we saw, but we don't live in such a word anymore (if ever we did).