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Worker dies when Russian stadium roof collapses
Foxnews ^ | 31 Jan 2020 | Louis Casiano

Posted on 02/01/2020 9:46:10 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

Warning, graphic video: Stadium collapse in Russia kills construction worker Raw video: Russian officials say a worker was killed after a Soviet-era sports complex collapsed during planned demolition work in Saint Petersburg.

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To: DUMBGRUNT

Measure once, cut twice.


21 posted on 02/01/2020 11:00:42 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Nothing in Russia works.”

It was a planned demolition and the stadium collapsed.

The plan worked.


22 posted on 02/01/2020 11:06:53 AM PST by Meatspace
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To: Meatspace
The plan worked.

Russians don't take a dump without a plan!

23 posted on 02/01/2020 11:07:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCgLxg41xaI


24 posted on 02/01/2020 11:14:15 AM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Comment at the site:

the80s4ever
22 hours ago (edited)
The other sad thing is that he was working from the basket at first, then his partner told him to go out and they were attached to each other with a rope(dont know the right word sorry). It is shown on the other video from a go pro camera attached to this poor man’s helmet. A journalist gave it to him to shoot his work from his eyes. That footage shows how some man told them on the radio to go out of the basket and work outside, it was not his idea and it seems like he didn’t really want to do it, he was worried(totally understandable) and asked his partner to attach their ropes together on that video, the basket was much closer to the worker then, and it seems that their ropes were too short for the distance we see in this tragic video. It is so sad that they decided that he should work out of the basket and the basket was so far away from him and they were not attached with ropes anymore. Search Fontanka Ru channel, you can find the videos, 2-53 and 16-03 videos. Sorry for bad English.

They out started almost OK?
The beginning...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5c04Z5YnwQ


25 posted on 02/01/2020 11:39:56 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I wonder if it was a planned demolition and the charges to bring it down were in place and somehow his welding arc set them off?


26 posted on 02/01/2020 12:18:55 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: TomServo

Nuke plant mentality.
Poor man, and his family.


27 posted on 02/01/2020 12:24:56 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: antidemoncrat

Occam says no.


28 posted on 02/01/2020 12:33:37 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: PAR35

thanks for the link.


29 posted on 02/01/2020 12:40:13 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

RIP.


30 posted on 02/01/2020 1:07:05 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: carriage_hill

Yeah. I feel sympathy-he was just a working class schlub like any of us, and his bosses probably told him that what he was doing was just fine.

He did make a valiant run for it...then he disappears in a cloud of dust. A hell of a way to go.


31 posted on 02/01/2020 1:13:48 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPu2zQkWmH8

Miller Park big blue collapsed


32 posted on 02/01/2020 1:26:06 PM PST by UB355 (Slow Traffic keep right)
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To: rlmorel

Poor guy didn’t have a snowball’s chance, any which way he ran. It was all coming down.


33 posted on 02/01/2020 2:31:43 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It could have been worse.

In 27 AD, an apparently cheaply built wooden amphitheater constructed by an entrepreneur named Atilius collapsed in Fidenae, resulting in by far the worst stadium disaster in history. At least 20,000 were killed and many more injured out of the total audience of 50,000.


34 posted on 02/01/2020 3:50:37 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Steven Scharf

Built in 1979. I think it was on some sort of international list as an engineering marvel of the era.


35 posted on 02/01/2020 8:33:37 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

It was built cheap and fast.

Recipe for disaster.


36 posted on 02/02/2020 7:29:03 AM PST by Gamecock (Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. (TK))
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To: Gamecock

I used to tell my boss this all the time: cheap, fast, good. You can only have two of the three. You pick.


37 posted on 02/02/2020 7:31:25 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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