A WILD clip reveals residents of a small city in Alaska hurling beat-up previous vehicles down a 300-foot cliff as a part of a weird Fourth of July celebration.

The city of Glacier View in Southern Alaska experiences little or no darkness at the moment of 12 months, which means its residents haven’t any probability to benefit from the conventional fireworks seen on Independence Day.

As an alternative, the city has seemingly provide you with a novel various to the colorful explosives – launching autos off the highest of a cliff.

Thrilling footage shared by one proud Alaskan reveals quite a few vehicles painted with enjoyable colors and writing flying off the cliff and being smashed up as they roll all the way down to the underside.

Standing beneath are numerous members of an excited viewers welcoming the crashing vehicles with loud cheering.

On-screen textual content reads: “POV: Alaska doesn’t get darkish sufficient for fireworks on the 4th of July.”

The weird custom, referred to as the Alaska Automobile Launch or the Glacier View Automobile Huck, started again in 2005 when a neighborhood by the title of Arnie Hrncir determined to eliminate his wrecked Volvo by sending it crashing down the cliffside.

Arnie’s automobile reportedly bought totalled after his spouse by chance hit an elk and regardless of restore efforts, he and his spouse in the end determined to place a rock within the boot and push it off the facet of a cliff.

The next 12 months, they organised the occasion and it quickly become a convention working for nearly 20 years that Arnie refers to as “F Day” — freedom, religion, household, meals and enjoyable.

F Day now options nearly all of the motion of a demolition derby, with the vehicles being launched downwards as an alternative of hitting one another.

Though it appears as if there a driver steering, the vehicles are reportedly rigged as much as a uniquely designed rail system that enables them to speed up on their very own.

The vehicles are primarily gifted by locals who wish to eliminate their previous autos and – if they’ve a working engine – Arnie will save them for the grand occasion the place they’ll be destroyed in model.

As soon as all of the festivities are over, the vehicles are eliminated and later recycled.

The video of the unimaginable custom was shared to social media on Wednesday (5 JUL) with the caption: “4th of July Automobile Launch in Glacier View, Alaska.

“No, there is no such thing as a one within the vehicles. That is all completed on personal property and tens of hundreds of individuals attend. The vehicles are donated by companies and communities.”

The clip acquired over 600,000 likes and greater than 2,000 feedback from customers left wowed by the occasion.

One person mentioned: “I’ll all the time keep in mind this occasion. Tremendous enjoyable to expertise. My boys liked it!”

One other wrote: “The indomitable nature of the American spirit proper right here.”

A 3rd commented: “So now I wish to do that greater than something.”

One other replied: “Appears to be like like I’m going to Alaska subsequent 12 months.”