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Author's note: I actually wrote a rather dark end-of-episode tag for Countdown back in the day (called Breaking Point, shameless self-promotion here, I know). This one is … different.
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The internet is a vast, mysterious jungle and like any place beyond normal human understanding it has its phantoms few have ever seen, and legends that tell their stories. The MIASBOANYS-clip (also known as the Man-In-A-Suit-Base jumping-Off-A-New-York-Skyscraper-clip) is one of those elusive phantoms.
It shows or is said to be showing – as the name implies – a man in a dark suit base jumping off a skyscraper in New York. Apparently there are at least four different versions of it, most capturing free fall and opening of the parachute from varying angles but there seems to be at least one excellent filming of the landing (regrettably catching only the back of the very handsome jumper) from the perfect touchdown, over the man nonchalantly handing off a long tube to a short, bespectacled henchman and flipping a hat jauntily on his head, to a couple of kids unobtrusively bundling up the discarded parachute. That one is also known by true connoisseurs as Fastest-FedEx-Delivery-EVER.
Very few have ever been fortunate enough to glimpse a brief moment of the MIASBOANYS on YouTube or private journals. Many are searching for it in vain, seeking to save this prize beyond measure by any means they can … but those in the know will warn you that this famous legend is a dangerous prey.
For like a shadow the clip is followed by a masterpiece of computer virus, slipping through any firewall, fooling any antivirus program, crashing any server, any computer, silently but unerringly erasing any trace of the MIASBOANYS wherever you try to keep it. And it is whispered in the communities and chat rooms that when it does you can – very faintly – hear a short, balding man screaming…