Faceplant

A beautiful and warm evening composes the background of the scene as a 7 year-old boy gets home with his mother by bus. As the bus stops and opens its doors, a fire starts to burn in the boy's heart and he jumps off of it, landing perfectly on the sidewalk. The two meter jump feels like a world record on the sparkle from the eyes of a curious little man. This was the first physics experiment of an amateur scientist.

Five years later, the results of that research were all but lost when the now 11 year-old remembers his greatest achievement riding the bus with his mom again. The memory of the thrill comes back to him followed by an unstoppable desire to feel it one more time. On a busy boulevard, trying to save time, the bus driver opens the door a few seconds before arriving at the bus stop. The opportunity is given and the boy jumps from his mother's side towards the freedom of the outdoors! The parabolical trajectory perfectly connects when the jump is done. The young scientist forgot to account for one simple factor: momentum. An object in motion tends to remain in motion and the 20km/h human body connects his face with the asphalt, and continues it's forward trajectory surfing the road with his nose and forehead.

Another experiment with an interesting result: Do not jump off a moving bus.