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I had to look it up. Happened in Russia, 8 people injured, no deaths. There were people in the middle, but it was over a lake and didn’t look crazy high, so they just kind of fell into the lake. Cause was worn out cables.
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Worn out cables? It looks like it was more with the anchoring on the turnaround.
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If anything those cables looked too damn strong.
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Petition to weaken the cables!
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We’re weakening the cables, folks, and the results will be absolutely beautiful, so beautiful. People said it couldn’t be done, the fake experts, the weak leaders, they had no idea. But we’re doing it, and everybody’s talking about it. Nobody weakens cables better than us, believe me. And when you see it, you’re going to say, ‘Wow, that’s the best weakening of cables we’ve ever seen!’, tremendous results.
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I curse you for making my mind read that in his voice
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It’s the most amazing voice
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Deepthroat the boot
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I specifically read it in Steven Colbert doing a Trump impression voice
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2/10 – no mention of Biden or “previous weak administration”
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Let’s be honest folks. Those cables, the whole incident, total disaster. Absolute disgrace. They caused it. Everybody knows it. Everybody is saying it. And now we are the ones cleaning it up. We are fixing it. We are making things right again. Better than ever before. Believe me.
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Also should’ve worked in someone walking up to him with tears in their eyes. “Sir, those are the weakest cables I have ever seen.”
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Didn’t even thank me for my attention in this matter
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Don’t listen to those far leftist lunatics trying to indoctrinate us all with their fake scientists paid off by the paedophile ring cable cabal, George Soros and Bill gates by saying that we need stronger cables. Stronger cables means weaker men. Back in the day using hemp ropes was fine and the men were strong. Coincidence? I think not. We are all so tired of cabal cable. These demonic Satanists need to grow up! Fuck I could actually keep going for ages. How can all these people be fucked coming up with this backwards ass rubbish.
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“Nobody’s ever done this before”
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That’s like saying the engine block came flying out the front of a car because the tires were worn out.
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Well some of them are build so the front doesnt fall of at all.
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Worn out as in tired of doing the job and ready to ragequit
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Maybe there was like a cable pully system holding the mechanism back and holding tension?
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I know nothing about this incident but it is common for these systems to keep tension by having a very heavy counterweight holding back the main pulley (big round thing the cable goes around to reverse direction). The counterweight applies tension backwards on the pulley at the height of the pulley. If the counterweight support cables failed, the pulley would fly forward the way it did in this video. You can see it ride forward on rails (as it probably is supposed to) for a bit. This is to take up slack as the cable length changes with temperature. When it reaches the end of the rails (which it is NOT supposed to) it is now restrained at the bottom and being pulled at the top by the main cables so it tumbles over and the cable releases. Any chairs on their way up would fall down but hopefully, the friction and inertia in the system would cause the cable to slow the chair’s fall to the ground.
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I have worked for a ski resort, and yes. They commonly have a large counterweight on one end. [Heres a photo of the giant counterweight we used at the my side of the lift](https://i.imgur.com/P1VxVlX.png). It is suspended via a cable system. Lifting it up applies tension to the ski lift cable system, lowering it releases it. These lifts were not chair lifts but the amount of tension in the line is incredible. It’s also why you will get chewed out for swerving/slaloming when going up one. You do NOT want to have it derail above you under tension. One of my duties throughout the season was to keep it clear of snow. Unfortunately when I was first informed, it was completely surrounded and once it freed up, I was stupidly between it and the foundation of the lift. You could pull diamonds from my ass after it swung towards me but luckily didn’t touch me. The stupid shit I did when I was young because people just told me to do things and didn’t show me how to do it correctly.
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The laziness of the people who should be responsible is staggering. So many incidents and accidents just awaiting to happen because they failed to explain it the right way.
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Back in my Navy days we had arresting gear to catch the jets landing on the Carriers. Just these thick cables under incredibly heavy tension. One day a jet came in and the cable snapped. Whipped around so hard it tore chunks outta people. Brutal fucking day. I still remember my friend sending me a press release about the whole thing years later. It talked about how the cable failed and caused the jet to fall off the ship, but thankfully both of the pilots survived. Didn’t even mention all the people that got torn up by the cable.
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Pretty sure that giant blue bar was sent on a mission.
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That double tap on the dude it hit was deliberate!
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There’s an iPhone setting he should have disabled to avoid that.
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🤣
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It’s off by default on Android.
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In case anyone is wondering what is a turnaround : https://youtu.be/2gCk9yBBOUo?si=IkuUML-iv1m04aN_
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my god that’s a healthy set of lungs …
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I watched it twice.
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Definitely the best corporate video I’ve ever seen.
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8.7M views…lol
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If this lift was built in 1968, it most likely had a counterweight system to keep the lift-line at the correct tension. I’d wager that suspended under this station is a heavy block of concrete, attached to this movable station / bullwheel by a wire rope. The first bang that was heard would be the cable attached to this concrete block snapping, dropping the block, and causing all of the weight of the lift line (chairs, rope, people etc) to pull the station forwards like this. While this station flipped thusly, all the passengers and chairs would have been pleasantly lowered to ground level. Modern lifts are tensioned by hydraulic cylinder systems, with anti-burst valves. Older lifts with concrete block tension systems can be retrofitted with these cylinders.
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Do you know where can I find an animation to explain it?
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> so they just kind of fell into the lake. Damn… I want to be this lucky… altough with my luck I would get stuck with the thing and drown.
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“This happened in Russia.” Of course it did.
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I was trying to figure out how it happened. You can see the one chair jerk to a stop a fraction of a second before the mechanism lunges forward.
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> Happened in Russia, You don’t say…
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For Russia, the safety protocol performed by the operator is outstanding. The extra seconds of repositioning the backpack to the front saved lives. You can tell he’s well trained by how fast he vacated the death trap.
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But mechanical safety doesn’t seem very outstanding.
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Homeboy almost got decapitated by that beam before it bounced and landed on his shoulder.
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Yup. If his reaction was to freeze instead of duck, it would have been ugly. That thing was coming straight at his head with a lot of momentum. He also bounced back from that hit super fast, I’m impressed.
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Adrenaline boost!
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Absolutely. Brain coming in clutch to save your life
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That vid freaked me out because I thought he was wearing a baby bjorn
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Adrenaline is actually produced in glands above the kidneys and pumped into blood in less than a second.
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Yeah but your brain tells it to make it
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Fair point, let’s give both organs some credit
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Completely on adrenaline. I would be shocked if he didn’t come out of that with A LOT of stitches.
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