Anyone who lives online will know that the latest viral craze is the bottle cap challenge. The premise is easier said than done — you need to execute a roundhouse kick to strike a loose bottle cap off the bottle without hitting anything else — but numerous celebs have already jumped on board since Taekwondo fighter Farabi Davletchin started it on June 25.
This social media dare, which follows previous trends like the bottle flip, the ice bucket, and the mannequin challenge, has seen famous names like Jason Statham, John Mayer, Ryan Reynolds, and Ellie Goulding pull it off successfully. Heck, Ip Man martial arts master Donnie Yen even did it blindfolded.
Then there’s Mariah Carey, who won the Internet with her own, er, version.
Now, it’s spread to our shores as well, with the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) putting its own spin on the #bottlecapchallenge.
A Reddit post on Saturday showed an SCDF firefighter, tricked out in official gear, completing the task with — get this — an actual power saw. The cool trick, which appeared effortless, actually required quite a bit of expertise, as Reddit user u/TaterTortoise, who said he went through his National Service in the SCDF, explained.
“It takes a reasonable amount of skill and finesse to hold the power saw horizontally cuz everyone is only first taught how to hold it upright and with minimal movement due to safety reasons,” he elaborated. “It also takes a whole lot of guts to actually cut horizontally cuz who knows when the blade would fly out of the power saw due [to] it being used in such [an] eccentric way.”
Elsewhere in the comments section, people lauded the dude for his smooth, steady control of the tool. And for anyone wondering whether he’d get in trouble for this, it’s part of a PR stunt by the cool folks at the SCDF, who sure know their viral challenges and memes.
Their social media posts that same day joked that the stunt, carried out at Sentosa Fire Station, was part of their lifesavers’ forcible entry training. But on a serious note, the SCDF warned the public not to try it at home.
Check it out below.
