Yeah. And notice how all the riders learned from this by adding absolutely no protection to themselves! It’s like they kept getting stupider and stupider as the tricks got bigger and bigger.
I don’t think anything was staged, based on the style of filming/riding. I remember once when I was the guy in the car. I was pulling into a shopping center driveway at lunchtime. As I’m pulling off the busy street, a kid on the side of the driveway puts his hand out like I’m supposed to stop for him, so I can be rear-ended by the cars coming up behind me. Just as I finish passing by him, a kid on a skateboard comes flying out of the bushes (from a higher sidewalk) behind me. Had I stopped for idiot #1, idiot #2 would have made a big dent in the side of my car. I wanted to hop out and attempt to bitch slap some brain cells into those kids. But I decided against it as a waste of effort.