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An 8-year-old boy from Carlsbad, California is in a medically-induced coma after sustaining a traumatic brain injury in a trampoline accident. Leeland Havensek was...jumping on the family trampoline with his little sister when the two collided. “We gave him ice, he laid down for a bit. We monitored him every 10 to 15 minutes for (a) possible concussion,” said Maggie Havensek, Leeland’s mom. Later, Wednesday night as his mother was making lunches for the next day, Maggie said she heard a loud noise that sounded like a snore. “I ran into the room and my son was seizing and not...

The video is only a few seconds long and I found myself smiling afterwards. Enjoy.

An Illinois trampoline park promising “the best high energy, adrenaline fix in Peoria” became the site of a violent melee on Saturday night. In video of the brawl, dozens can be seen punching, shoving, stomping and pulling hair as even more stand and observe, sometimes toppling over each other as they get to a safe distance, or jockey for a better view of the fray. Most appear to be teenagers.

Just when you thought you had seen it all, Greg Chase a resident of Evergreen, CO observed these elks in his backyard, particular the one in the trampoline. Here's what he had to say about the whole thing. A young elk was stumbling around on his family's trampoline, while other elk were grazing the ground nearby. The young elk quickly realized that getting off the trampoline was much harder than getting on. The Elk's friend on the outside actually looks like he wants to get in and join the fun while the Mom looks on. See the video here.

NASA has awarded the highly-anticipated space taxi contract to Boeing and SpaceX, a move which will end the agency’s reliance on Russian technology to transport U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station. The Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract aims to restore an American capability to launch astronauts from U.S. soil to the International Space Station by the end of 2017. Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, American astronauts have been transported to space on Russian-built Soyuz vessels. …

A Russian official angered over new sanctions that the United States imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis is suggesting that American astronauts get to the International Space Station by using trampolines instead of rockets. "The United States introduced sanctions against our space industry... We warned them, we will reply to statements with statements, to actions with actions," Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Russia's defense industry, said on Twitter, according to Reuters. American astronauts depend on Russian rockets to get to the ISS, but after the U.S. imposed sanctions – which deny export licenses for high-tech items that...

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, a target of U.S. sanctions sparked by the Ukraine crisis, said Tuesday that those sanctions would boomerang against America's space effort and essentially told NASA to take a flying leap ... on a trampoline. "After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline,"

Short but funny. Friday afternoon humor to lighten your load.

This was a one day project, and to tell you the truth, this time the filming was the hard part. It was so hot outside and I had to push myself for around 45 minutes to do my best on the trampoline. Anyways, any video I make like this is because the song inspired me to use this kind of footage. Not the other way around. Also, the intro part was the only part that really turned out the way I hoped it would. The trampoline stuff could've been better, but I decided to keep it simple and not add...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A Fort Collins native who died in a freak trampoline accident is being laid to rest Monday in Loveland. Sarah Comstock, 32, died in the accident last Thursday. Details haven't been released. She was a 1993 graduate of Rocky Mountain High School, and had worked as a server and an accountant at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant since that year. Her manager at the restaurant told the Fort Collins Coloradoan that Comstock was a high energy person who loved her children and who worked hard to get them whatever they needed. She lived most of her life...

A bear wandered into a neighborhood in Missoula, Montana, and got stuck in a tree, leaving authorities with the responsibility of figuring out how to get him down safely. Their brainstorming session came up with this idea: put a trampoline under him and then shoot him with a tranquilizer gun. The bear fell onto the trampoline, and his head went between the springs, nearly hitting the ground. He then bounced into the air and fell onto the grass. The bear was unharmed, and was scheduled to be released back into the wild.