YouTuber Jake Roper recreated stunts including red hot door knob, swinging paint can and crowbar to the chest filmed using slow motion camera
A HOME ALONE superfan has recreated Macaulay Caulkin’s famous traps from the hit festive film – and discovered they’re more than just child’s play.
Jake Roper used a human-sized rubber dummy, complete with internal organs, before subjecting it to the stunts carried out on burglars Marv and Harry by cheeky kid Kevin McCallister.
During the tests, , the ballistics dummy suffered a punctured heart and lungs, broken ribs and a smashed skull.
Jake, 29, said: “Could you survive the Home Alone traps? Most likely, no. You wouldn’t.”
The first booby trap Jake and his pals reenacted was the scorching doorknob. In the 1990 film, Kevin places an electric BBQ lighter brass knob before Harry attempts to open it.
After heating the knob to an eye-watering 760C, Jake placed a piece of raw pork belly on his hand and pressed it against the red hot handle.
He said: “We held it on the door for three seconds, like in the movie. The burn results were pretty similar and pretty severe.
“More importantly, the interior of the door lit on fire. We could see the some fire coming out of the door knob.”
Jake then threw a 13lbs metal pot of paint over a banister and slammed it into the dummy’s head. In the flick, Kevin ties a pot onto the railings with rope before swinging it into Marv and Harry’s faces.
He said: “As the paint falls, it picks up speed. It works out to about 17mph. If you give it a bit of a shove, you have a 13lbs gallon of paint coming at your face at 20mph.
“It’s like getting bareknuckle punched by Mike Tyson twice at one time.
“It is six times more than the force required to break your nose. Your head would snap back at 266G, which means there is a 100 per cent chance you would get knocked out and a 42 per cent chance your skull would crack.”
Jake added: “The bandits would also experience an unhealthy amount of whiplash, causing even more damage to the brain.”
Finally, Jake acts out the scene where Marv attempts to squash Buzz’s escaped tarantula as it lies on Harry’s chest. He uses a 5lbs crowbar and swings it through the air at 35mph before planting it on the dummy.
“It will deliver four-and-a-half times more the force needed to break a rib,” Jake said. “In this test, it broke through the skin, seven ribs and actually punctured the lungs and heart.”
Jake, from Los Angeles in the US, has shared his findings on YouTube. His video ‘Could You Survive Home Alone’ has had almost 3 million hits.
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