If YouTube had existed in the time of steam trains, we imagine it would have been full of videos like the one above. And people falling off penny farthings. And cats wearing bonnets (so, pretty much like today).
Yes, just click play, sit back and wait for the moment when it all goes horribly, rather beautifully, and very gently wrong for one poor engine driver in Leicestershire.
Where's the Fat Controller when you need him?
(Via Daily Picks And Flicks)