Bridge collapses during ribbon-cutting ceremony in Congo [video]

Reuters ^ | September 7, 2022

[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.

[jimfr]

Like most light weight structures, the primary weakness is the tendencies to buckle and twist. The hand rails sticking up and being restrained by the ribbon resisted twisting which resisted the buckling. Cutting the ribbon allowed the bridge to twist. The celebrating crowd was also larger than the design load. Everyone had to get into the photo for publicity.

[New Perspective]

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.

Succinct wile hitting the truth nerve, very well put.

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China built?

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China built?

[Old Yeller]

Wait till you see their witch doctors perform heart surgery.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Because white people never had an engineering failure...

[outofsalt]

The only video on the link was an ad for Medicare grocery assistance.

[ridesthemiles]

WHO NEEDS TO LEARN MATH ???????

[ridesthemiles]

IMO—You are being TOO GENEROUS

[nickcarraway]

Did anyone see Leopold II?

[frank ballenger]

Ha.

At least with dirt floors the operating rooms have fewer slipping incidents than smooth tile ones.