Leo Laporte’s fitness ball bursts

Published on May 20th, 2009

Posted by John C Dvorak in General

Apparently this happened yesterday. Quite amusing.

Found by krush09 via Twitter.

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# 1 Alex said, on May 20th, 2009 at 8:46 am

LMAO!

# 2 Benjamin said, on May 20th, 2009 at 8:49 am

I was thinking of Leo when I heard this news story: cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09196.html

Apparently, some fitness balls were recalled for that reason. I hope he is all right. John, you will have to get him to tell us about it Sunday on TWIT.

Benjamin

# 3 boblement said, on May 20th, 2009 at 8:57 am

I love that clip, but found this one, just a little more entertaining.

The main focus is the same.

# 4 Joe Dirt said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:00 am

Completely staged…

# 5 Adam said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:00 am

Augh! No Arduino was used in this popping.

# 6 Li said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:01 am

Hasn’t this happened once before? I think Leo needs to buy a nice Italian fitness ball next time. . .

# 7 Eideard said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:08 am

Fracking hilarious.

# 8 widgethead said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am

Very funny.

# 9 AdmFubar said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:13 am

what the hell is leo’s ass made outta??? this is the second time he has done this…

# 10 Selvy said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:16 am

Yes, it happened before and he said he hoped the footage from that would never see the light of day.

It’s probably real but it looked like he threw the remnants of the ball into the air after he hit the floor. His fat ass (not to be redundant) should’ve kept it pinned.

No offense, aside from the Calie Lewis debacle I like the guy.

# 11 John C Dvorak said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:18 am

This definitely was not staged. But the plastic used in these balls seems to tear rather easily if breeched. Once it began to leak it was sure to break. Seems like a good way to throw out your back.

# 12 SysAdminDay said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:32 am

Check out this WSJ Article.

# 13 BillM said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:38 am

If Leo insists on sitting on these balls all day, he really must lay off the burritos for lunch. Plastic can only take so much.

# 14 Santa Maria said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:39 am

ROFL!!

Reminds me of Saddam Hussein when he popped out under the bottom of the screem. Glad Leo is a good guy and he is alive and well!

# 15 Joe said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:42 am

lol, poor Leo. I should watch his live video feed more often.

# 16 skunkman62 said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:43 am

i like the keyboard cat version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2TWg5SsH6A&e

# 17 J said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:56 am

LOL. That was hilarious!! If you know there is a hole why would you continue to bounce on it?

Really cheap latex! I thought they were made of much thicker and stronger material.

# 18 akroeze said, on May 20th, 2009 at 9:59 am

Pwned

# 19 McCullough said, on May 20th, 2009 at 10:04 am

Sue the bastards!

# 20 Sean said, on May 20th, 2009 at 10:17 am

LOL It couldn’t have been more perfect if it was staged. (Conspiracy theorists, GO!) His hopeless look of a poor British sailor going down with the ship. “I’m sinking.” then BAM.
HA

# 21 RTaylor said, on May 20th, 2009 at 10:19 am

You should always have a pair of balls, just in case. I heard him say the other day he was riding around Petaluma on a recumbent bike with flags and an air horn. What’s next, clown makeup? Someone needs to post video of him riding that thing and blasting his air horn. Riding a recumbent bike in my town would be suicidal. It’s bad enough for regular bikes. Maybe he could mount a video camera on it.

# 22 The Warden said, on May 20th, 2009 at 10:22 am

IT did happen to Leo before and I thought he bought went out and bought the one’s that are supposedly puncture proof.

But maybe it was pay back for all the times he cuts people off on his podcasts!

And yes, I enjoy Leo’s podcasts but he does cut people off. And so does Dvorak! Must be because of all the alcohol those two drink during TWIT.

BTW John, how did Molly and Becky look with their tops off?

# 23 The Warden said, on May 20th, 2009 at 10:25 am

Leo has been working out. You can tell he’s on the roids because he has the same B*tch t*ts as A-Roid!

# 24 The Warden said, on May 20th, 2009 at 10:29 am

http://chieftwit.jaiku.com/presence/2596023

and

audio of it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c5pcNHez6M

# 25 BigBoyBC said, on May 20th, 2009 at 10:40 am

I too saw this live as it happened, it wasn’t staged. Ever since that report of the cheaper ones bursting, I’ve been waiting for Leo to hit the floor.

It was great, like a magic trick, “Now you see the man on the bouncing ball? …now you don’t!”

He seemed to find it just as funny as we did…

# 26 FRAGaLOT said, on May 20th, 2009 at 10:58 am

I was just a couple weeks a go I saw him getting huge air off that thing bouncing like crazy, while doing “GizWiz” segments.

# 27 ECA said, on May 20th, 2009 at 11:21 am

THATS # 2..
he popped another one, when he first got them..

# 28 jccalhoun said, on May 20th, 2009 at 11:22 am

Just before tapping’s today’s Security Now Leo was talking about it with Steve Gibson. Leo said (and I’ve heard him say this before) that the ball he had was one that had been recalled but he didn’t bother with the recall. Leo also saw that before he sat on it he saw it had a leak and figured it would be funny if it just let the air out and he just sank down. But he didn’t really expect it to burst. So yes it was staged in that he knew there was something wrong with the ball but no he didn’t know it would burst.

# 29 sargasso said, on May 20th, 2009 at 11:39 am

Sell it on EBay, a lot of Twitterino’s would pay serious cash for that flat sucker.

# 30 Mac Guy said, on May 20th, 2009 at 11:41 am

AGAIN?!

# 31 Carcarius said, on May 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Well at least he was prepared for it. He could have been injured had it caught him totally by surprise.

# 32 Joe said, on May 20th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

Well, I for one am shocked: Jaiku is still around?

But seriously someone should send this to Adam; I love that he thought Wolfram Alpha was a conspiracy by Google.

# 33 eggyacid said, on May 20th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

this happened last year, it’s May 19, 2008 not 2009.
lame, old news

# 34 Grandpa said, on May 20th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

There’s a difference between funny and silly. Too often Leo is the latter. This time he was funny!

# 35 5centcigar said, on May 20th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

I love Leo.
I wish John would put pressure on him to do his voices more. They are brilliant.

# 36 AmazingJanet said, on May 20th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

Funny! The same thing happened to me when I was on Skype with my sister.

# 37 NV0U said, on May 20th, 2009 at 6:03 pm

Dang, someone beat me to the keyboard cat video. Oh well, here is mine…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS2btLSYgNM

# 38 Nimby said, on May 20th, 2009 at 7:24 pm

John – Suggest Leo look at this. After having one of the balls things pop under MY big fat ass I’m ready and waiting for this device to be available…

ergoergo.net/product.php

# 39 jccalhoun said, on May 20th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

this happened last year, it’s May 19, 2008 not 2009.
lame, old news

No this happened yesterday. Someone gave him those wooden shoes on the left just the other day and the crystal head vodka is a new addition as well.

He had a ball burst on him a year and a half ago or so but he wasn’t even in that room at the time. He was still upstairs. (I guess I have too much free time on my hands to remember that off the top of my head…)

# 40 peter_m said, on May 21st, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Not the first time. Only the first time it’s caught on video

# 41 Eric said, on May 21st, 2009 at 2:01 pm

I like Leo a lot. Funny, smart guy. Plus he hangs around with that sexy Veronica Belmont. Lucky.

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