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'Soldier' has more fun playing kick the can than you ever did

The title of this little YouTube amusement is "When Lithuanian Soldiers Are Bored," and the resulting exhibition suggests the national army has a lot of down time. Possibly they spend it perfecting this entertaining form of kick-the-can taekwondo, or more likely they spend it hunched over a laptop creating CGI-enhanced videos of purported soldiers taking gymnastic target practice on dumpsters. It's easy to be suspicious (the sounds are almost identical, and the trajectory of those rebounds seems a bit much for your ordinary aluminum can), but at least the spin kicks are impressive. Now, if only someone would fix the gravity in Lithuania.