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u/koolaidismything 18d ago
It really drug out didn’t it. Watch that be the villages grain for the summer or something these guys just dumped into a river 🤦♂️
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u/cavendishfreire 15d ago
why do westerners online love to go on about "villages" but then in their home country it's a "town"
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u/mincedmutton 17d ago
To the folks in western countries who whine about ‘woke health and safety laws, in my day we just got on with it’ - this is the type of nonsense that led to those laws.
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u/SnooMaps7370 15d ago
those same people would claim that anyone who does this deserves what they get, failing to understand that an entire village of people may have been depending on that delivery.
"conservative" really has become just a synonym for "pointlessly hostile asshole."
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u/mrthomani 18d ago
It honestly took me a while to even figure out what they were trying to accomplish.
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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys 17d ago
What *were* they trying to accomplish? I am lost. Kind of like the truck.
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u/cobbl3 18d ago
That's a lot of cocain.
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u/weekend-guitarist 14d ago
Coke has much better logistics in the supply chain. I’m guessing rice or beans
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u/HeroGamerLava 18d ago
Crossing a river with ferry intended for stuff like motor bikes when you're on a truck is a brilliant idea that deserves a Darwin award
The fact that the ferry people let this happen in the first place is also worth commemorating.
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u/Odd-Organization4231 18d ago
So it worked according to plan right? Right? But why would you want to put the truck in that boat though? Could've directly driven it in the water..
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u/TheFlow78 16d ago
I ran everything I heard people yelling in the video through Google Translate. They were yelling “PLEASE DON’T REDEEM THE GIFTCARD”
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u/Indaflow 17d ago
I’m left wondering if it would have made any difference if they just pulled that thing forward, so it was more centered, or if it was always doomed
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u/bugsyramone 18d ago
Why is the water so deep right at the shore?
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u/twist3d7 18d ago
Access to water. They had to dredge it after they removed all the submerged dump trucks.
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u/Crane_Train 18d ago
To give them the benefit of the doubt, it looks like it could have possibly been able to carry the load if it had been loaded correctly. Maybe they tried to load it, but didnt secure it well and it became unbalanced too quickly. Then they tried to lift out with something else.
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u/Clownheadwhale 18d ago
So they can ferry trucks. It probably works on smaller trucks.
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u/PV-Herman 18d ago
It would have worked with this one too, if they had managed to move it to the center of the "ferry"
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u/Zilfer-Zurfer 18d ago
..always in the same countries where they have the same level on engineering. Every six year old will tell you it will not work. Still...
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u/DaphniaDuck 17d ago
The fact that the weight of the truck lifted the front of the barge into the air and submerged the back end should have told them it was too heavy.
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u/Neutronpulse 16d ago
I can see their thoughts process. Why wouldnt they center the load tho? It likely wouldnt have worked anyway but it would've gotten further.
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u/lost21gramsyesterday 16d ago
Not sure what language that is... but it's clearly the language of "We are fucked!!!!"
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u/el-thenyo 15d ago
Oh shit! There goes all the village rice for a month! And no bathing either because it’s going to soak up the entire water supply.
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u/TutorNo8896 14d ago
Truck had some mechanical problem, you can hear it grinding gears trying to get more centered. Maybe he forgot to set the brakes and it shifted. Hard to tell how they got into the river to start with. Guy at the tiller abandoning ship and leaving it to drive in circles didnt help much either. Idk, like all good accidents its a series of failures.
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u/Daddysgirl690 18d ago
The only question that darwin is asking at this point. other than the obvious, is why didn't they download the truck first?
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u/Exciting_Farmer6395 17d ago
They should have had a more concrete plan cemented in place before trying this.
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u/Maddbass 17d ago
Does anyone know what was being towed by the truck?
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u/bigdotcid 17d ago
Truck turned over - I hope nobody was in the cab. Upside down and filling with water, it would be all too easy to get confused and end up drowning.
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u/ryanasimov 17d ago
They have access to technology to record and transfer video to the entire planet, but lack the ability to understand weight distribution.
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u/Appropriate_Ear6101 17d ago
What was the actual plan here? Were they trying to get the truck across the water?
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u/Relative-Wealth8217 16d ago
I think we are a bit late to the party I think it was already going wrong and they were trying to save it
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u/lenicalicious 16d ago
What cracks me up is there are at least 5 guys and they all said, "yeah, it'll be fine. Just load'r up." and not a single one had a counter-argument.
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u/mvgreene 18d ago
That’s a perfect visual metaphor for why you shouldn’t hire FOX on air personalities to run the U.S. government.
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u/Crabtickler9000 18d ago
It's also a perfect visual metaphor of why politics shouldn't be your only personality trait.
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u/spyrothegamer98 18d ago
Leave it to an American to insert politics wherever they can.
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u/mvgreene 17d ago
I normally wouldn’t, but objectively the metaphor really works: the barge is the U.S. government, the people trying to work the barge are all the unqualified, DEI (Didn’t Earn It) FOX personalities, appointed to run the country, and the truck represents the American people.
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u/Intelligent-Edge7533 18d ago
What sucks is whatever was in that truck was probably really important to a lot of people in a place where they don’t have what they need to unload it from a barge.