Well color us shocked.

A guy who tried to take a selfie in front of a moving train was kicked in the face by the train's engineer — and the whole thing was caught on video and uploaded to YouTube.

Everyone was on the fence about whether this could possibly be real. After all, it seemed like a Jimmy Kimmel stunt.

The Washington Post has confirmed it's real.

Jared Michael, who goes by that username on YouTube, spoke to the Post's Caitlin Dewey, who wrote:

Michael was, as many a kind, globe-trotting reader emailed me last night, near the tracks of Peru Rail, which runs from Cusco and a few smaller destinations to Macchu Picchu. That goes a long way toward explaining why he mysteriously wasn’t hurt. A lot of tourists walk the route instead of taking the train, which means the tracks are often crowded with people. The route is also very windy. Accordingly, trains go pretty slow: Peru Rail says the leg from Ollantaytambo to Machu Picchu takes an hour and a half, and it’s only about 26 miles. So the train that hit Michael moves at an average speed of 17 mph — way, way slower than the speeds typical of passenger trains in the U.S., and a little more than half the speed of your average flying soccer ball.

Here's what happened:





OK.

If you slow it down frame by frame, you see the engineers foot emerge and kick the guy in the face.









Here's the full video:

H/T @Neetzan Zimmerman and UpRoxx