0:00 [Music] this story is something that happened a little over a month ago it's not new but uh the family of this victim have still not received answers for what happened and it's it's a really sad thing uh we had a lot of dms to the uh jk instagram asking us to cover this at the time but i i i the best i could do then was just kind of put some shed some light using ig stories there was a film student from chapman college his name was peng wang and he had joined up with some other student directors from usc to do a little short film at glamis like in the desert sand dunes oh man glamis is crazy yeah so they went and rented uh why is it crazy so it's imagine like you're in
0:52 the sahara desert but you're in california arizona so it's just nothing but real just sand dunes sand dunes once you're there you're i'm just like am i still in america it looks like that it looks like you're at the beach but there's no beach it's just sand and it's it's mountains it's huge yeah it's like tattooing in dude yeah tatooine and i slid down all the way i was like yeah and i ████ had santa all up in my butt it was nice yeah it's a it's a place uh you have to rent a specific type of vehicle obviously to drive on it uh so they rented a bunch of gear from the school so that meant that the project itself was like a school sanctioned type thing um they rented one of those mavericks you know like this four wheel drive kind of like sand rail things to take and it rolled and then uh penguin was the only guy that didn't have a safety harness on he
1:42 died how i rolled on him oh oh like he rolled on top uh ouch he was partially ejected was what they said like it went like that yeah yeah yeah when you hear partially ejected that kind of probably means that it it rolled he probably fell out yeah i think but you're not gonna die if you fall out onto sand so i mean a lot of times things roll they roll over you if you're if you're going up uh a dune and it's gonna roll back you're not secured so you know a couple people that rolled and got injured well i mean barn gio rolled but they didn't get injured gina wrote and got like a head ████ thing yeah you tend to not really even the company that had leased the vehicle they don't have any incidents of it rolling and someone being hurt ever because as long as you're strapped in it's like a roll it's the rope where your seat belt yeah but uh one thing that isn't really right is they shouldn't have been
2:32 allowed to do that apparently because if this was something through usc film school like everything that you do when you're doing like a student film through a university it's so meticulously permitted you just can't like make decisions like hey let's get it ████ 4x4 like no the school is probably gonna not want you to do that like it's gonna be all these like different red tape you know so uh there's a lot of unanswered things on what happened here worst of all is his family is in china and they were just trying to get his body like back over there but there's i think they're still waiting on just like any kind of details about how this happened and yeah it's really sad and they can't get the body because of like covet or something or just autopsy they're like i couldn't find anything on whether or not they were able to get his body to china or there was a gofundme to bring him uh to bring them here and that's the one
3:23 that i was reposting on the jkig and uh i don't know if they successfully did either of those things but uh yeah it's just a big uh a lot of the families in the dark about it so it's not going well jesus really sad because uh yeah this this kid was like he's not a kid i think he's penguin's like 29 or something but you know student film uh dude that uh came from china to live his dream out here and yeah there's just a lot of things in place that should have prevented this that the school kind of should be at fault for yeah because it seems kind of odd for them to go all the way out there for just a student film right as far as like all the other stuff that comes with it yeah because if you're i think it i know there's a thing where if you're renting equipment from the school for a shoot then that automatically means that like
4:14 you know the school has to sign off on what you're going to do with it you know but that would make sense right so they couldn't be like oh yeah just take it bring it back whenever it's not it's not a time-based thing it's a usage thing it's like oh what's what's it gonna be used for how why where you're taking the sand yeah exactly so someone overlooked it now yeah and even though like you know like student film stuff there they are they do get pretty ambitious of course because you know they're just trying to uh your experience isn't really the highest but yet you're trying to do things that are you know larger than life and in this case you know people do try to do courageous things but still the school sort of has a protocol knowing that that's the culture of student films yeah that's true yeah yeah yeah still happened it still happened to you exactly you said he wasn't wearing a seatbelt he wasn't strapped in what about the rest of the crew what did they have to say they were wearing their
5:04 harnesses yeah three out of four of them were right now they didn't know why he wasn't wearing a harness was he filming that's a thing they don't know but as a photographer i i would absolutely be strapped in if i was yeah yeah but also you look at stunts too like so yeah but i also like what's interesting though is like i always think about like saving the gear first before saving myself yeah what if he was trying to do that if i fall like i'm definitely gonna roll with the gear protected or what if he was trying to get a specific type of shot yeah so he wasn't like i think you just don't have the appointment to do that i mean yeah i've done some things where i probably shouldn't have like right lean out of a drifting car a little too much not wearing anything like that could have gone bad one of the craziest things you've ever done i would probably
5:54 say that yeah yeah i'd probably say that like like halfway out of a car like doing a 180 and then filming another shot though it was worth it though have you ever been in a helicopter before no but i'd like to i mean like eventually i like to take what i do um film wise but do the stunt with the person doing the stunt so this is like i have performance anxiety i don't want to do it on camera but i want to film it but then also do it and experience it so i think that would be a good way to to experience and do the thing that i love has anybody been on a helicopter before yeah i have no what did you have a question about cultural yeah it's dope i did uh i did one of those like helicopter tours of la which i thought was interesting how sick was it how sick
6:45 i think it was decently sick you want to do one there's one that goes from vegas to the grand canyon and at the end of it uh we don't have to do this but if you want to they have a picnic and then they they bust out sandwiches for you and stuff i love picnics you don't want to go you've never been on a helicopter i've never been on a helicopter before but but i always have trouble it's cheaper to do that in nevada and there's a romantic dinner uh or lunch for two that they set up at the end of the you land in the middle of the grand canyon and then they have a picnic table ready you should take nicki to do that but make her pay for it oh i want to celebrate though she's gonna have to pay for it because i can't probably get four a.m i mean that is a big thing skydive filming skydive filming yeah what's the craziest thing you've ever filmed where you're like oh ████ i was about to die i think i did a lot of those and i just don't remember because i mean you you edit my vlog too but like
7:35 i just i think i in the moment you're just like i gotta get this shot and then later i'm like man that was so stupid i think one of them was um on a forklift when we were going up yeah and i was on top of the forklift and then they were using the forklift to help me get on top of a roof and then i was walking on the roof and it was like made out of the um aluminum sheet metal sheet metal and i was like man this feels like it's a soda can like i could fall right through right now and then i had to jump back on a forklift to get and i was just like i don't know no safety lines no nothing the craziest thing i saw you film when i was editing your vlog was you climbing this gigantic rock with darien and i was like that ████ looks dangerous because if you slip that's it yeah it's always much harder because it's like the person's climbing without the gear oh you have to climb with the gear like yeah
8:25 i'd say you climbing things is probably the most dangerous that's true yeah it's just a little hamster that's that's kind of what makes it sad it's like we've all done jackass like things for the shot but like this dude was supposed to be a lot safer because he's with this it's like a school sanction thing and he's in film school we had no ████ reason to film what we were doing it just makes it all the more like oh man that's unfortunate you know i try i trust other people less when they drive so like i wouldn't want to film too much like that yeah but then when i drive it's okay if people are like doing crazy ████ because i know like what i'm doing like i'm not gonna yeah it's like yeah i'm like all right i gotta make sure that you know they're not gonna die but when they're driving i could see that people are like trying to still be in the fun too like they're not focusing on the driving
9:16 we're like in a truck bed like recording and i'm just like pay attention ████ or like they're like going a little too fast and hard and i'm like we're filming dude like you don't have to be a part of the action like right yeah when i was 15 there's a video of me i i wanted to um be one of those cool stunt guys i had my friend on my street drive and i wanted to like roll over the car like as he like drove and then uh he of course like we it's almost like we had an unspoken role that like we all were gonna go a little too far to make something even crazier happen so we went faster and i was like yes and then like it was so fast that like i didn't roll in time and i hit my head on the windshield and did a backflip off of the car and i landed on top of the car like on my stomach and i was like that is the coolest ████ ever did you get it yeah i got it yeah yeah i'll show it to you guys but the sucky thing is that like it's like ████
10:07 i wasn't rolling that's the sucky thing is that of course a guy like me would ████ live and like a dude like this you know just so happens like there's so many people that are being careful and you know always living and also having people looking out for them were supposed to be and yet still yeah ████ could just go bad you should never ████ know that's why right now we don't know yet who is going to take responsibility we don't know yet if it'll go to the driver of oh yeah because they're investigating that too if that guy did something yeah if he did a maneuver thing like it could go in so many directions maybe they weren't allowed to even i know that they um they already found out that they shouldn't have been allowed to get the vehicle oh really and the school uh were the ones that were like yeah they wouldn't have been approved for that it's just so interesting there's so many like levels that they had to complete to even
10:57 get to that point yeah like so many opportunities for it to be stocked yeah just yeah you can't rent stuff under 21 right um oh he's 29. he's 29. yeah i think it's not that like they couldn't rent it from the uh rental company it's that as a school-sanctioned project the school wouldn't have allowed them to do oh god it would not be very lit it would not be green light exactly yeah yeah like they wouldn't be able to take the equipment then they would have been like all right nope not doing any of this yeah so they just didn't tell them so we'll see what happens with that but it is really sad that you know uh for anybody looking at this and going yeah well they should have been more careful it's like really you're gonna tell entire industry and people to be careful like yeah you know i mean of course everyone's gonna try to be careful but that's not the history yeah accidents happen regardless and any ████ you've ever saved you know i've never
11:47 been on a set where everyone was being as careful as it could have been no way no only this one here we're pretty careful dude yeah very comfortable the most careful but joe should be more of a careful boy if you're ████ bouldering ████ bud yeah yeah yeah don't be boldering with just your shorts and ████ slippers yeah yeah because you know he has a spear on him he has a ████ stick for some reason yeah yeah [Music] you
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