El Alto Public University in Bolivia
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Shows them falling
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holy fuck I actually felt bad. In north america we take construction standards for granted and never wonder why our buildings and roads take longer to build than most other regions. At least they saved that one girl
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I think one guy got lucky and fell onto the second floor too
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funny part is, that he pulled the blue sweatshirt guy, and then swung on him to get onto the lower level, and then the blue sweatshirt guy fell. blue guy was far from the edge before he got pulled. nasty unconditioned reflex
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wow thats right!!! shit poor blue sweatshirt guy
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We need to edit a blue sweatshirt guy music tribute.
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he pulled the blue jacket guy killing him but in return saving himself
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Could you catch a manslaughter charge for that? It's a uniquely fucked up predicament.
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It's a unique situation and he operated purely on instinct. In the US this would be difficult to prosecute, but I'm not sure about Bolivia. They may be more likely to arrest him for participating in this protest, the Wikipedia article has more info: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidente_en_la_Universidad_Pública_de_El_Alto_de_2021
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Possibly but in some states the Jury might rule it off as an accident and you'd be let off scott free but it depends
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Yes and cute fanarts btw.
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Seriously. Appreciate American safety standards. Best in the world. You watch these videos and you may hate a lot of things about this country but you have to appreciate our safety laws.
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Not the best - it's a draw with a few other countries, but still. The fact that I can only say "few" is disappointing. A lot of it comes down to if the country values life, has basic education, and uses common sense. Most of the world doesn't give a shit.
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US, EU, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the European countries who are not part of the EU, like Switzerland and Scandinavian countries - you can almost guarantee these countries will have Health and Safety laws when it comes to construction (and everything else from food preparation to the installation of gas and electricity into the home). Usually, a tragedy like this only happens once in the Western world, then laws immediately come into effect to make sure it doesn't happen again.
I don't know why other countries don't have the same safety standards - if it's down to corruption, ignorance, apathy, laziness etc - but it seems to be a huge difference you see between first world nations and 2nd or 3rd world developing nations.
Sometimes I really hate the amount of seemingly pointless bureaucracy we have in the West, but it probably all that boring filing, note-taking, forms and signatures that stop tragedies like this happening to kids who are just starting to make their way in this world.
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It's true what you said about the other western countries method, but it's not a good idea to learn from errors when your structures should be engineered to prevent xyz undesirable events, and then the accidents are easily predictable, how many different things can go wrong in a building that we built? We know it becuase it's been made by us. So aside from third world/second world countries where security measures are inefficient, even in first world countries you know that if you make a railing, automatically there is the possibility that the railing will be faulty, so why you should try to make the best railing you can in one way, until one accident happens and you have to change laws and the way you make the railings? Make the railings in the better way from the start.
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oh, certainly American safety standards are better than Brazil's XD
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That "one girl" started the whole fight that caused this
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Pro tip: Avoid relying on any safety measures in these type of countries
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There's always some idiot making these dumb "3rd world safety standards" comments even on videos where that's completely misplaced. It's so exhausting...
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Misplaced? I can guarantee you if this was a country with enforced building codes this would of likely never happened. It was definitely overcrowded in the video but any well built railing will bend a ways before it shears. But nope that mf fell apart the minute it hit its critical point
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just seppos being seppos
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Faulty railing my ass! Do you see how many people are being pressed into that railing? Im surprised more didnt die.
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This video is fucking nuts, both clips are like movie scenes. Crazy
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Overcrowding on a higher floor is obviously going to end badly.
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Faulty or overpressured?
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Both. From the Wikipedia article about the incident (with some wording corrections):
Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidente_en_la_Universidad_Pública_de_El_Alto_de_2021
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Take it to a publisher.
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:( No publisher wants my wikipedia edits
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I really sympathized with that blue jacket guy. he is dead because of that dick in the black jacket pulling him down. lol
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Not only did they pull him down and get him killed, they fuckin' lived! I never realized thats who fell to the floor underneath them.
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im sorry but the pipe falling sound effect at 0:09, i dont find that "meme" funny but its so ingrained in my head
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Made me chuckle a bit when I heard that sound but, RIP to those students in all seriousness.
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not an expert, but I don't think that railing was ever rated to hold that much weight, chief
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Look how many fucking people there are all pushing on the railing and squeezing up against eachother and pushing through, honestly not surprised the railing fell. Sad incident nonetheless
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Faulty railing? I say over population!
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idk how that girl in the blue has the abs of a god to hold herself up
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Third-worlders not cramming as many people as possible into one place until bad shit happens challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
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Amazing.
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Oh I remember watching this on BG. Good times.
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Btw "faulty railing" my ass. You had way too many people leaning on it with the added force of the crowd shoving them into it continuously. I dare you to find a school railing that would withstand that for however long that went on.
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True. When something fails doesn't always mean it is faulty. There is always a limit to everything
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is it still faulty if dozens if not hundreds of people are there and multiple are leaning? /gen
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Depends on the standards. Sure it wasn't made to hold 1million people
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Probably a repost, but a fun one!
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Construction foreman here.
The problem is obvious to me: upon completion of this railing, nobody remembered to smack it and say “That's not going anywhere.”
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What's the white sheet that looked blood soaked? Did someone head get popped out from pulling?
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Anf the railing wasn't faulty. They were thronging against it like dumbasses.
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Considering how dumb you'd have to be to get involved in that bedlam, no big loss.
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That's four floors. Horrible, either way. Can't imagine how scary that would've been.
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You'd think after seeing that, people would back the fuck away from ALL the railing instead of leaning on it even more to see the aftermath!
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Yes, fuck them.
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