that's a lot of rock chips on that black car.

Jeez. I live a block away from there. I hope the clean up doesn't fuck up traffic on my way home. :mad:

"Im not gona say who, I think you know him very well"

holy fuck
IS THAT GUY RETARDED

so fucking lucky nobody was hurt

what a waste of money...
all of those mishaps could have been prevented..

first day? and most likely his last lol

noob

FAIL

I love how as soon as the wall falls the excavator just turns around and drives away..

"wtf you talking about.. I wasnt even near the wall"

those walls should have been pushed down from the outside

What a load of crap.

No kidding... it's like, you knocked a fucking cement wall onto a sidewalk/road, how is that being safe?

Someone's losing their lucrative career in knocking shit down.

Holy crap... so lucky nobody was in the way, probably shit bricks if you were walking past that lol

Just to clear things up a bit here.

I am not saying that how the demolition was executed was done completely properly, because it should have been done in a different way that the final two walls did not go out onto the street... but here is the complete story for those who care.

My dad is a civil engineer with 35+ years of experience who is contracts himself out, and this excavating company is one of the companies that he works with.

He went to the City of Vancouver before the demolition started and told them that the entire street would need to be closed off for the demolition due to the type of materials that were being demolished, and their instability. Typical city, they dismissed his request.

Further, you can't see in the video, but there is a beam that separates the middle of the walls, so when you take the top of the wall down, the bottom is made of unstable cinder blocks which crumbled when the top was taken down.

Again, I am not saying that the demolition was done completely correctly, however the city was warned that it was an unstable demolition, and the entire street should have been closed off.

And just for comparison purposes... Matcon, which is one of the largest excavating companies in British Columbia, was doing a demolition in downtown Vancouver a few weeks ago, hit a water main and sank an entire street from flooding, causing 2 million dollars in damage. It wasn't caught on video so it never made it to the media.

Just food for thought.

Thanks for offering information that the media probably wouldn't have reported. :)

Did they stop digging then or did they then continue on with the work ,almost killing people?

thats gotta be gee gee thats gotta be gee gee

Two videos without the movie music.

Even worse: Towtruck drivers?

You can't make it seem as if The City of Vancouver be the bigger villain on this one.

Failure to shut down the street as a precaution is the lesser mistake than the demolishers failing to contain their demolition.

Props to the crew who made sure that sidewalk was taken care of. Sure it was bad but it could've been much, much worse. Thank god nobody was walking on that sidewalk

LOL @ the laughing in the second vid

He's not trying to make it seem as the city is a bigger villain. He's giving the other side of the story and other information that should've been, but wasn't published with the article.

After they knocked the first wall into the street ,you would have thought that they would have been a little more careful with the second wall.That failure is purely and wholly the Demolition Crews fault.

Seemed like an attempt to blame spread IMO.