
 
 
 
 A 39 second slow motion video of an Alabama man jumping from a flaming SUV into a lake has been viewed more than 780,000 since it was posted on Youtube on Tuesday. 
 
 The video is titled "most epic vehicle jump ever" but some social media commenters gave the driver, Jed Huie, flack for holding his nose as he jumped into the water. 
 
 "Safety first," he replied. 
 
 "So my buddies and I thought this would be a smart thing to do over Labor Day weekend," one participant in the stunt on Reddit. 
 
 The stunt was performed at a friends farm, a Reddit post stated, and the truck was pulled out of the water with a tractor. 
 
 Updated at 9:23 a.m. to correct the name of the driver. ||||| Published on Sep 8, 2015 
 
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 Crew - https://instagram.com/aguyfromalabama/ 
 
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 This video is copyright protected!! This video is represented by Break.com - For any licensing requests please contact licensing@break.com ||||| Have you seen this? A vehicle jump stunt in Alabama is going viral on YouTube. Video editor and director Jakob Hernig tells News 10 it took a team of friends to pull off the stunt where a Suburban on fire hits a jump and splashes into a pond while the driver jumps from the burning vehicle. 
 
 Hernig said a pair of brothers fixed the Suburban and set up the jump, while Hernig went over safety and explained how he wanted the footage to look. He says the team had a plan for how to help if something went wrong and for removing the Suburban from the water quickly. 
 
 Hernig says the stunt took all afternoon to pull off, but only lasted for three seconds. 
 
 Jed Huie was the driver you see leaping from the blaze. He and his brother Johnny also helped fix up the Suburuban. Huie is enduring some ribbing in the comments section on the YouTube video. People are teasing him for holding his nose before splashing into the pond. 
 
 Hernig says the team is just a group of friends that like to work hard and play hard, and the video was just for a good time and great footage.
– A group of friends in Alabama filmed what they claim is the "most epic vehicle jump ever" over Labor Day weekend, and they may not be overstating that. AL.com reports a 39-second slow-motion video posted to YouTube on Tuesday shows a man jumping out of an airborne and flaming SUV just before it plunges into a lake. As of this afternoon, it was closing in on a million views. Jakob Hernig, who filmed and edited the video, tells WILX-TV the stunt took an entire afternoon to plan but the action only lasted three seconds. He says they had a safety plan in case something went wrong, and the SUV was pulled from the water afterward with a tractor. On Reddit, one of the stunt's participants explains their motivation thusly: "My buddies and I thought this would be a smart thing to do."