I was going to say fake. But that one chick got hit in the face with a monitor.
I bed that whole rooms stank of adrenaline for a while.

great vid. You can see him take three angry breaths right before he gets going.

This seems too perfect, I'll hold my stars till I see a news story. If it's real neato and 5 stars of glory, if not I hate this kind of "reality" style shit.

I would've been all right with them adding the Star Trek fight music from Amok Time.

The multiple people recording this on cellphone cameras convince me that it's real.

looks like Joey forgot to take his meds again

He had all of his sanity and restraint neatly bound and ordered in that stack of papers.

Neat!
Though I am not convinced that this is legit.
This person is in the centre shot right from the beginning which is pretty convenient. He never really gets off camera until he is somehow restrained/pacified (behind desk). Seems to me that unless choked out/knocked out someone that spazzy would just keep going (but then again we didnt get to see what happened). It could still be viral even if people were filming on cell phones because I am sure marketers have seen Cloverfield/Diary of the Dead. Also whats with cctv cameras in offices? Do the costs of stolen office supplies merit the costs of such high resolution surveillance? Finally, its 1210pm. Lunch time. Why is that office so full.
If it is real then i guess i am just a cynical bastard.

Where is Dwight when you need him?

oh oh. when the actor loses his footing and falls the camera conveniently blanks out for a second. Allowing the director to preserve continuity and to say "oh shit, bob are you okay? Great, keep going ".

There are a few things that make me think this is a fake, but the biggest one - at least to me - is how easily those monitors were ripped out. If connected to a PC and power strip halfway properly, they shouldn't be able to do that. You know?

Weird shit happens in the world; and in an age where there's cameras even up monkeys' arses, sometimes weird shit gets filmed. It's real goddamit!

I'm going with fake because no one in the video acts like a real person.

If this actually happened in a workplace, and I've seen pretty bad meltdowns, no one just hangs out so they can conveniently wind up as part of the incident. People leave the area..they get away. The "injured" woman stays in the same spot for virtually the entire video despite being hit, having shit thrown at her, and the guy coming right at her. She doesn't move or scare away at all.

Most offices have security guards. They would have been called.

No one does carefully choreographed shit like when the guy tries to get the lamp or bar or whatever it is. No one. Except maybe crazy people. If a guy is swinging something like that around, 8-10 people are not going to be hanging out in the area just watching and acting scared and no one is going to do some action movie bullshit of trying to wrestle a metal bar away from a crazy person.

The whole just feels very unreal. It could be I suppose, but it's doubtful. The big tip off on these videos is also the fact that they're security videos, which usually means they're tied to a security console, but yet no security shows up. Surely after almost 5 minutes, SOMEONE would have down up.

Even if the video isn't real, the emotions are. Anybody who's ever worked in an office, and claims not to have felt like freaking out on everybody is a liar.

you know what, the fakeness comes away in the first 2 minutes.... the guy who knocks the paper off the desk is obviously the worst actor in the scene...

Peter Gibbons: Our high school guidance counselor used to ask us what you'd do if you had a million dollars and you didn't have to work. And invariably what you'd say was supposed to be your career. So, if you wanted to fix old cars then you're supposed to be an auto mechanic.
Samir: So what did you say?
Peter Gibbons: I never had an answer. I guess that's why I'm working at Initech.
Michael Bolton: No, you're working at Initech because that question is bullshit to begin with. If everyone listened to her, there'd be no janitors, because no one would clean shit up if they had a million dollars.
Samir: You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities...
Michael Bolton: Samir, you're missing the point. The point of the exercise is that you're supposed to figure out what you would want to do if...
[printer starts beeping]
Michael Bolton: "PC Load Letter"? What the fuck does that mean?

"I am Professor Chaos! Nothing can stop me! Mua ha ha ha ha ha!"

Fake or not. I like how the suits seemed to call in someone working in the trenches to take whatever that guy was swinging away.

"I'm starting a new company and the FISH are coming with me, call me sentimental"

"It seems totally implausible to me that someone, somewhere, in a planet with millions of people, had a really bad day and freaked out in an office; especially since the people in the office did not react the way I THINK I would have reacted if I WERE them. And security took a whole TWO MINUTES to arrive!!! Preposterous! Instead, I'll believe that 20 people got together to enact a perfectly choreographed random violence scene that involves professional stuntmen and destroying expensive equipment all for the simple pleasure of pulling an anonymous prank that will yield them no fame and no financial retribution. Yes, THAT is the TRUTH!"

Jesus, kids are fucking stupid these days.

Fake or not, this is exactly what I needed after work today.

After seeing the second angle, I'm leaning towards "not fake." I'm kind of wondering what set the dude off, though.

Also, people weren't leaving because some douche was standing in the doorway all BUH HAY GUISE WAT'S GOIN ON HURR?

just amazing!

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/06/10/timur-bekmambetov-punks-the- world-with-viral-video/

This phony thing was one of PoeTV all-time highest-rated videos.

GAME OVER