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wolrah posted:There's a webcam set up down the street that has captured a number of idiots who are seemingly incapable of understanding that the train is going to follow the tracks and they need to put their cars literally anywhere else. This is some proper deer-in-the-headlights type of poo poo, especially in the second video. You could go A HINT to the right and be fine, you could go left and be fine, and you could even back the gently caress up WITH EASE and be fine, but nope. Just pump your brakes several times while jerking the wheel, train goes away by itself.
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tactlessbastard posted:My brother in law is trapped in his third floor apartment: Maybe it's the quality of the pic on my phone, but I can't tell what's wrong.
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Tarantula posted:For some reason youtube recommended the love parade disaster. Video maybe The lesson learned in that gently caress-up is a little more than that. The whole incident was basically the perfect storm of political posturing, cutting corners, cheaping-out on safety, lack of communication, nepotism, obscene amounts of organisational negligence and that was just the poo poo that went down before the festival. They were basically begging for any little thing to go wrong that would have caused mass panic and countless deaths in pretty much ANY setting. What's so crazy about this incident is that what happened didn't even come remotely close to the worst case you could have had there. It wouldn't even register on a scale of 1 to 10 of the worst outcomes that could have happened in that setting. Mass brawl, fire, sudden bad change in weather / torrential downpour, literally anything. There was never a real breakout of mass panic, twenty one people were just casually crushed to death with the majority of the mass slowly passing by barely even noticing. Only the people closest to that one tiny confined space were even aware that it wasn't just a bunch of people passing out, but people actually fighting for their lives. Tens of thousands of people were funneled through a total of 1300 feet of tunnel from two directions into a comically undersized on-ramp to the festival area, and at some point, the police even blocked that on ramp, and "only" twenty-one people died. The infrastructure-planning was so batshit insane that only twenty-one people dying was quite possibly the best-case outcome you could have mathematically calculated for that dumb festival. If absolutely anything even minutely worse would have happened to spark an actual mass panic, the death toll would have probably been in the high hundreds easily. The festival wasn't even close to halfway-through when poo poo hit the fan iirc. One of the accidentally-beneficial calls that were made was to keep the floats on the festival grounds running, instead of shutting the music down out of respect for the tragedy, because the on-ramp TO the festival area would have turned into THE ONLY EXIT from the festival grounds, and the "party" continuing kept removing people from the powderkeg-equation. Think two streams of around 40,000 people at the time pushing towards the T-section of the ramp, and then being compacted by a third stream started by the 200,000 plus people already in the festival area trying to leave. And here's the kicker: Three weeks ago, the court handling the criminal prosecution over the past 8 years suggested that the proceedings could be concluded with no verdicts rendered. 
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because there were deaths at the incident.
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I'm late to the party, but I've identified the most OSHA-bit about this vid 
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Icon Of Sin posted:
Considering that they are likely to remain suborbital judging by their efforts, the company is aptly-named.
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Holy Jesus, that counterweight had quite a trip 
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This not having sound is a travesty
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BMan posted:You can't see it, but there's a controller at the end of that hallway I understood this reference and am now reminded how hard I poo poo my pants that time.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Tough day at the sugar mines. Those poor drat tires 
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Humphreys posted:The Pentagon Wars needs to be a permanent sticky on each page as the posterboy for what happens when too many people with different mindsets get involved in a specific task. And Yes the Sequel is going to be about the F35 Excuse me, but the never-to-be-completed airport BER actually needs to be stickied instead of the Bradley as soon as we get a good parody movie about it.
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TorpedoFish posted:For those who don't know, the Berlin Brandenburg Airport is (was) supposed to open in 2011, replacing two older airports and serve as a regional hub for Air Berlin. It still is not open. It is now probably approaching €10 million over budget. Air Berlin no longer exists. It...has not been a particularly successful project, and there's a fair bit of OSHA-esque fuckery. This doesn't quite do it justice. Where regular smoke extraction systems (you know, the ones that work) are designed to vent smoke up and out, generally through the roof, BER had a system of lateral smoke extraction vents leading to ducts that were meant to move the smoke DOWN THROUGH THE AIRPORT and out through the basement. The design was picked because the oversight board was impressed with the engineer's audacity. Oh, and that engineer? Yeah, turns out he wasn't a real engineer. Shocker. I did an effortpost on BER a while back in another subforum, and I'll try to dig that up, but the smoke extraction system beautifully encapsulates the idiocy of that project.
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That is just loving beautiful
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Enkmar posted:reminds me of this classic Ähem, gently caress that dude recording the aftermath, very much. "What? This is a public street!" Yeesh
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Pasco posted:"Oh my god there's a giant hole in the road, I better pull over and block the only other lane!" But he put his hazard light on, he did nothing wrong 
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