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aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Vargatron posted:

I'm telling you any time I watch a vid where there's a Russian dude yelling blyat I know things are about to get really hosed up.

There's also an exasperated "yob tvoyu matj" gently caress your mother)

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Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

Vargatron posted:

I'm telling you any time I watch a vid where there's a Russian dude yelling blyat I know things are about to get really hosed up.

One of the most compelling parts of Russian dashcam compilations isn't the carnage going on outside the windshield, it's how blase most of the witnesses are about it- you watch an American or Australian video and it's nonstop babbling about someone cutting them off, while the Russian just had his passenger side and possibly passengers pancaked by a drunk driver in a T90 tank and at best you get a resigned mutter of "blyat" or "bozhe moi"

Vargatron
Apr 19, 2008

MRAZZLE DAZZLE


*meteor falls and crashes in front of dashcam video*

*Andrei hits the windshield wipers*

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Tumble posted:

lol that seems a little risky but what do i know

also, calling flying under a ski lift cable in a jet at 500mph "Passing Under" is the understatement of that year.
I've done it all the time in Lock On and never had any issues :shrug:

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

quote:

Soldiers of the Italian Army who carried the first bodies from the site of the crash described a scene of horror inside the crushed and overturned cable car. Bodies were twisted, they said, and the faces of the dead were described as contorted in terror.




Well then.

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

Vargatron posted:

*meteor falls and crashes in front of dashcam video*

*Andrei hits the windshield wipers*

Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

One of the most compelling parts of Russian dashcam compilations isn't the carnage going on outside the windshield, it's how blase most of the witnesses are about it- you watch an American or Australian video and it's nonstop babbling about someone cutting them off, while the Russian just had his passenger side and possibly passengers pancaked by a drunk driver in a T90 tank and at best you get a resigned mutter of "blyat" or "bozhe moi"
Russians are completely resigned to the fact that they could (and likely will) die at any moment for any reason including none at all.

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

Americans are also notoriously loud as gently caress.

Imagined
Feb 2, 2007
Hey, gotta let freedom ring.

cakesmith handyman
Jul 22, 2007

Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Yawgmoth posted:

Russians are completely resigned to the fact that they could (and likely will) die at any moment for any reason including none at all.

Wouldn't you if Putin was your president?

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Boogalo
Jul 8, 2012

Meep Meep




new angle. amazing nobody was killed

https://i.imgur.com/Fekg1En.mp4

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

That guy in the red jacket and the kid look p dead

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Mar 16, 2018

Vargatron
Apr 19, 2008

MRAZZLE DAZZLE


shame on an IGA posted:

That guy in the red jacket and the kid look p dead

Can't tell from here whether or not his shoes are still on.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Vargatron posted:

Can't tell from here whether or not his shoes are still on.
Does the rule really apply with ski boots as well? Anyway super glad I didn't go skiing there.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

There sure are a lot of people standing in the danger sector.

I’d break left.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Boogalo posted:

new angle. amazing nobody was killed

https://i.imgur.com/Fekg1En.mp4

If I was the guy in the yellow jacket, I'd make that my profile picture on Facebook now that you can use videos.

Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot

aphid_licker posted:

There's also an exasperated "yob tvoyu matj" gently caress your mother)

DEROBOOMINSHY! PEE GROY DEE MINYA!!!

Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Mar 16, 2018

xsuperkidx
Sep 21, 2000

Bread Liar

Vargatron posted:

I'm telling you any time I watch a vid where there's a Russian dude yelling blyat I know things are about to get really hosed up.

Mod please change thread title to "OSHA: there's a Russian dude yelling blyat"

Dr.Smasher
Nov 27, 2002

Cyberpunk 1987

Benagain posted:

I used to be a travelling salesman covering Kansas to colorado to the Dakotas to chicago.

gently caress Nebraska.

Nebraska is great to drive through....

If you like corn. If not, then God help you

neonbregna
Aug 20, 2007

sandoz posted:

this is definitely what happened

there's a video going around of the immediate aftermath, and you can see the crane at the collapsed end, hook still swinging

they dropped it a good long ways from the looks of it too

Like I have personally done activities where there is no known PPE that exists that would protect me from a horrible slow death or a merciful instantaneous death if I was wrong but the blast radius would only have been myself. How do you jump to doing a live load test above unwilling participants?

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Boogalo posted:

new angle. amazing nobody was killed

https://i.imgur.com/Fekg1En.mp4



Tumble posted:

Yea but to land in the snow

Also i am in awe of the level of engineering, normally it costs a ton of money to upgrade a chairlift to be a detachable quad, this is some serious cost-saving

My dude, landing on snow pack sucks rear end. poo poo's nearly solid ice.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Slotducks posted:


That being said - was this open to the public?

The bridge was not open, but the road underneath was open.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Facebook Aunt posted:

The bridge was not open, but the road underneath was open.

Open the bridge, close the road?

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

Boogalo posted:

new angle. amazing nobody was killed

https://i.imgur.com/Fekg1En.mp4

Crossposting from schadenfreude thread: it looks similar to when the clutch mechanism breaks on an escalator, probably exacerbated by the fact that the chairs are getting clipped off reducing the amount of counterweight on the upward leg of the cable.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3-q9lg21Q
Oh man this video shows how lucky the guys that got tangled up in the chairs were. Knocked the hell out but the chair fell over and protected them.

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Crossposting from schadenfreude thread: it looks similar to when the clutch mechanism breaks on an escalator, probably exacerbated by the fact that the chairs are getting clipped off reducing the amount of counterweight on the upward leg of the cable.



lol at the guy on the steps who pauses, hah suckers and goes on his way

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry

Benagain posted:

I used to be a travelling salesman covering Kansas to colorado to the Dakotas to chicago.

gently caress Nebraska.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gJ9yc6MTk

Crappy 80s pseudo-folk.

Imagined
Feb 2, 2007
100% thought that link was gonna be Springsteen and we'd have to fight.

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


https://twitter.com/ScottGustin/status/974834804821807104

Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot

Now known as “Exhibit A”.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Synthbuttrange posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3-q9lg21Q
Oh man this video shows how lucky the guys that got tangled up in the chairs were. Knocked the hell out but the chair fell over and protected them.

Thats proper hosed up.

Also, having only touched snow once, why are they riding backwards and down? Isn't the point of skiing to actually ski down the hill?

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal
What was that crane holding? Geez it's all over really fast.

Jeremiah Flintwick
Jan 14, 2010

King of Kings Ozysandwich am I. If any want to know how great I am and where I lie, let him outdo me in my work.




:stare: It's like it got stepped on by an invisible Godzilla.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Humphreys posted:

Thats proper hosed up.

Also, having only touched snow once, why are they riding backwards and down? Isn't the point of skiing to actually ski down the hill?

Are you suggesting that the chairlift was somehow not working correctly?

jamal
Apr 15, 2003

I'll set the building on fire

Humphreys posted:

Thats proper hosed up.

Also, having only touched snow once, why are they riding backwards and down? Isn't the point of skiing to actually ski down the hill?

If the drive system breaks so the pulley suddenly starts freewheeling, which way do you think it's going to go?

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007


Oh so that's what caused it, the tiny little man jumping up and down on that point.

quote:

A lead engineer responsible for a pedestrian bridge that collapsed near Miami left a voice-mail message for a state transportation official warning of “some cracking” two days before the structure crashed, state officials said Friday night.

The engineer with the private contractor FIGG Bridge Engineers did not consider it a safety issue, he said in the call. The message was not retrieved until Friday because the Florida Department of Transportation official to whom the voice mail was directed was out of the office on assignment, the state agency said. The message about the bridge being built to connect Florida International University with a neighboring city was left on a land line.

“Hey Tom, this is Denney Pate with FIGG bridge engineers. Calling to, uh, share with you some information about the FIU pedestrian bridge and some cracking that’s been observed on the north end of the span, the pylon end of that span we moved this weekend,” the engineer said, according to a transcript of the call released by the Florida Department of Transportation.

“Um, so, uh, we’ve taken a look at it and, uh, obviously some repairs or whatever will have to be done but from a safety perspective we don’t see that there’s any issue there so we’re not concerned about it from that perspective although obviously the cracking is not good and something’s going to have to be, ya know, done to repair that.”

lol

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Humphreys posted:

Thats proper hosed up.

Also, having only touched snow once, why are they riding backwards and down? Isn't the point of skiing to actually ski down the hill?

One half of the chairlift has a bunch of weight on it (people wanting to go up) and the other half does not (no one wants to ride a chairlift down).

So when the one-way gearing for a chairlift fails (and the three different brake systems), gravity wants to pull everything down. If the chairs were empty or there were as much weight going down as going up, it wouldn't do that. You can see the chairlift slow down considerably after it loses all the weighted people on it.

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.


Same video, zoomed in a bit and keeps going a few seconds longer:

https://i.imgur.com/MZXTnhF.mp4

Warms my heart to see all those people instantly jumping out to help.

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Mr Shiny Pants
Nov 12, 2012

Powered Descent posted:

Same video, zoomed in a bit and keeps going a few seconds longer:

https://i.imgur.com/MZXTnhF.mp4

Warms my heart to see all those people instantly jumping out to help.

The guy dropping.......

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