Posted on 09/08/2022 9:40:30 PM PDT by grundle
Video at https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1567525597580070913
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Sharply-suited dignitaries gathered to inaugurate a footbridge in the Congolese capital on Monday only for the structure to collapse beneath their feet to the barely concealed delight of onlookers, video verified by Reuters showed.
Just as an organiser cut the ribbon at the ceremony in Kinshasa's Mont-Ngafula district, the bridge buckled, both its handrails broke off, and the central section slumped into the stream a couple of metres below.
Spectators shouted in apparent glee as the VIPs struggled to get off the crumpled wreck. Nobody was reported to have been hurt in the incident.
One of the last people to climb free was a man in military fatigues and dark glasses who was clutching an unopened bottle of champagne, other footage shared widely on social media showed.
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Black supremacy on display...
Clearly, that ribbon should have not been cut.
The ribbon held it together, a great feat of engineering.
Democratic Republic of the Congo—Average IQ 65
They skipped the engineering part of the process of building a bridge.
“Africa wins again”
What’s truly embarrassing is it’s just a footbridge.
A footbridge!!!!(
Our nation is turning into the Congo.
the bridge was racist
Once they get rid of fossil fuels it will be. There won’t be enough electricity, batteries, charging stations, or money to afford electric vehicles. So we’ll all walk or stay home in our un-air conditioned, un heated houses or take public transport to the grocery store to stand in line for whatever they might get in every day. And don’t think about getting sick. Health care will be reserved for apparatchiks. Not that we’ll be able to afford it since wealth as well as income will be taxed away so that we who worked our whole lives can pay our “fair share” of supporting bums, illegal aliens whose only ability is to breed anchor babies,
Meanwhile fat cats like the wookie and her husband and fauxcahantas, Bernie, etc will gorge on wagu beef and lobster, eat ice cream from their custom freezers, Fly in their jets at taxpayer expense, and generally live like le roi. This is the future that Democrats want for us. Somehow the idiot Democrat voters think they’ll be spared and in charge - fools.
The only thing dumber than a Democrat voter is a Republican who thinks we have “common ground” with the leftists who are destroying the country as fast as they can.
The ribbon was a structural element.
Not’ a structural element’ of the bridge! The structural element of the bridge:)!
Lol
Was it designed by that female engineering crew from Florida?
Oops!
Some of those “Equity” architects in action...
Hmmm. I looked for this on See-Span without success.
The ‘bridge’ looks to have been a flat span of wood? It broke in the middle when a sufficiently large number of people stood on it.
The timing with the ribbon was hilarious!
The VIP in the black suit almost got a pair of scissors stuck in his eye.
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