Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!
Look over there! It's a bird! It's a plane!
It's....just some guy.
Brazilian comedian Luiz Ribeiro de Andrade, in costume as Superman the man of steel himself, filmed himself pretending to use his superpowers to stop a large bus driving down the street.
Except the bus didn't stop.
It quite literally hit him instead.
Ribeiro, 35, was pitched forward as the bus came to a stop.
Luckily, he got up unscathed and uninjured, proclaiming (in Portuguese) he "really [was] made of steel."
Me in the buspic.twitter.com/oJ226RMFdn— Minh (@Minh) 1622740445
We don\u2019t use clonked enough— Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (@Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho) 1622733971
This is what happens when you have two braincells and they are not on talking terms.— Boblo\ud83c\uddff\ud83c\uddfc (@Boblo\ud83c\uddff\ud83c\uddfc) 1622733353
The bus to Krypton?— robert emmett (@robert emmett) 1622738651
Clark can\u2019t.— Obi Wan Two Three (@Obi Wan Two Three) 1622733651
He then joked the vehicle's brakes were "not working," but later said he'd made an error in judgement.
"I went to the bus company so that the driver would not be penalized. There was no problem with the brakes," he told F5 News in Brazil.
"It's a stunt I always do, but this time it almost turned into an accident, and it wasn't serious because the hand of God was there...I didn't feel anything with the knock,"
wowpic.twitter.com/K7ArHf67IA— Lvcaz (@Lvcaz) 1622733335
Nut cases out there folks!https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1400470723571949574\u00a0\u2026— ivan (@ivan) 1622755078
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1400470723571949574\u00a0\u2026— Willy Aitch (@Willy Aitch) 1622746766
What was he expecting to happen? https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1400470723571949574\u00a0\u2026— Beware the Batman (@Beware the Batman) 1622744730
Dumber than a locomotivehttps://twitter.com/nypost/status/1400470723571949574\u00a0\u2026— Ben Cost (@Ben Cost) 1622743058
Ribeiro has indeed been doing this stunt since at least last year, where a video shows him walking through the streets of Aracaju, Brazil maskless at the beginning of the pandemic.
I am weakhttps://twitter.com/nypost/status/1400470723571949574\u00a0\u2026— Maricel Rojas (@Maricel Rojas) 1622736463
Clonked https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1400470723571949574\u00a0\u2026— thomasthorburn (@thomasthorburn) 1622736073
Darwinhttps://twitter.com/nypost/status/1400470723571949574\u00a0\u2026— Shea Says (She/her) (@Shea Says (She/her)) 1622735791
Wtf https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1400470723571949574\u00a0\u2026— Mr Dyani \ud83d\udead (@Mr Dyani \ud83d\udead) 1622735297
The bus company responsible for the bus which hit Ribeiro issued a particularly dry statement In which they reminded folks of "the importance of attention to traffic (and) ensuring all necessary care."
Ribeiro was uninjured and no serious action has been taken in regards to the incident.
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