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Have you ever waited ages for a vital parcel to arrive, only to be met with dismay when your package turns up looking like it has done tens rounds in the ring with Tyson Fury?

Have you often wondered what sort of painful journey your package might have been on for it to look like it has been through a pulping machine?

Well, a video has surfaced on social media that gives an insight into the sort of ‘bumpy’ journey your packages have as they make their way through the delivery system.

In a video uploaded to social media, what appears to be a Hermes worker can be seen lobbing parcels into the back of a Hermes truck.

We have to say “appears to be a Hermes worker” because he could be a sub-contractor etc. etc.

But damn, you have to feel sorry for anyone who wants to send a fragile item through the post only to have their valuables turn up looking like they have been through a mincer.

The worker scans the items before launching them into the back of the truck. The video itself has been viewed millions of times and has been shared just under 120k times.

Some of the parcels appear to have ‘fragile’ stickers on them as they are hurtled over the ever-increasing mountain of packages.

Maybe it is best just to courier valuable items yourself!? Let us know what you think in the comments below

If you are a fan of the gym, then you have probably found the last few months incredibly hard because your gym has been shut for so long.

I am reasonably sure that most of us now have added at least a few pounds to our waistline as we buy tonnes of fast-food from our local restaurants as a way of ‘supporting’ local businesses.

All those years of going to the gym and now we have to watch as our once toned bodies become just a shadow of their former selves.

If you are fortunate, then you probably have a treadmill at home as well as some weight-training equipment.

But several months of using the same pieces of fitness equipment over and over again probably means that you are getting bored of your home ‘mini-gym’.

Well, one lad has thought of a novel way of using his treadmill for some home-based entertainment as well as fitness.

It involves sitting in a washing basket and setting the treadmill to various speeds before hurtling yourself off of the back of the treadmill.

In a 30-second clip that has been uploaded to social media, over 95 people have shared their thoughts on the idea via the comments which they have left on the post.

The video has been ‘liked’ nearly 9k times and has had 31k shares.

Would you try this at home (assuming that you had a treadmill)? Let us know in the comments below!

Translink Northern Ireland has shared some dramatic footage of the moment when a beach lifeguard frantically waves at a train driver to warn him about two walkers who decided to use a train tunnel as a shortcut.

The 33-second clip (below) starts as the train hurtles along a single track next to the beach.

Three seconds into the video, you can make out the distinctive yellow uniform of a lifeguard as he frantically waves his arms above his head, to warn the driver.

Eleven seconds into the video, the train enters the pitch-black tunnel.

By this time, the train driver undoubtedly knew that something was amiss, but he could not be sure of what the danger was.

Fourteen seconds into the clip, you can see two people (as the camera in the cab automatically switched to infra-red mode) as they run along the tracks to try and get out of the trains way.

Just at the train approaches them, they jump out of the way and into the darkness.

Having hit the emergency brakes, the train comes to a stop on the other side of the tunnel.

A spokesperson for Translink said: “Never use the railway as a shortcut. Trespassing on the railway is extremely dangerous and could lead to a conviction”.

Nobody was injured during this near-miss.