[sonick]

OOPS! Hope nobody was hurt! The first video is amusing... "WhooooooooOOOAOOAAAAAAA!!!!"

http://www.citycaucus.com/2010/06/shocking-video-shows-hornby-street-demolition-mishap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKIZk4qAqKU&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvWRKojULbo&feature=player_embedded

[Qmx323]

LOL somebody is gonna get sued

[tool001]

http://www.seiritsu-int.com/contents/Rookie%20TV%20drama.jpg

[sunny_j]

lol rookies

[Greenstoner]

scary

[spades]

Holy fuck, epic fail that street light got knocked over in the second vid.
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[7seven]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VxquVRb-EI

doesn't look like the lamp standard hit anything when it fell, lucky.

[slammer111]

Oh yikes! :eek:

[Gumby]

Woah lucky nobody got hurt! Car in first video probably got damaged though.

Side note, I'd love to take one of these big construction vehicles for a spin. Anybody here used one before?

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

shit that is scary!!!

[slammer111]

Woah lucky nobody got hurt! Car in first video probably got damaged though.

Side note, I'd love to take one of these big construction vehicles for a spin. Anybody here used one before?^ Got to play with an excavator (just like the one you see in the video) once @ 12, helping my dad's friend demolish a house. Those things are seriously fun. :D

The only thing I remember you having to be careful of is to not overextend the arm, or you'll tip over. It doesn't really damage the thing but it's scary when you suddenly go over. Of course you just use the arm to right yourself again.

[alwaysideways]

That is terrible! Would like to know the excavation/demolition company resposible for this accident...LOL their insurance rates just sky rocketed!

[2 n r]

Woah lucky nobody got hurt! Car in first video probably got damaged though.

Side note, I'd love to take one of these big construction vehicles for a spin. Anybody here used one before?


those are called excavators. my dad being an import/export of those types of machinery, recommended that i learn how to use them so a few yrs ago in vietnam i got to tear up a field with one of those.. good times

[hotong]

w0w

[Tegra_Devil]

that sucks haha

[shenmecar]

Who do they hire to do this? Monkeys?

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

somebody is getting fired

[jpark]

^yeah wtf this is just terrible

[nosaj]

fuck...this noob fucks shits up and hes just like oh oops...lets try that again *light pole goes down*....oh eh...i guess i should start looking for a new job

[fliptuner]

Side note, I'd love to take one of these big construction vehicles for a spin. Anybody here used one before?

I run/maintain equipment for a living. 99% of the time it's pretty boring since you're just moving dirt from A to B.

[tacobell]

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say "somebody gonna get a hurt real bad.... somebody"

[mpr]

Never hiring Global Excavating & Demolition.

[quasi]

That is scary shit. When they were building the theatre downtown that is now Scotiabank theatre I believe they had a concrete form fall on a Saturday morning. It went right across 4 lanes on Burrard and by some fluke managed to not hit any people or cars. If it fell during a weekday the results would have been different for sure.

[tonyvu]

holly fuck, glad no one was there when it got knocked down

[Levitron]

http://www.vancouversun.com/Vancouver+building+demolition+goes+awry/3142759/story.html

[orange7]

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

[Noir]

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

[FerrariEnzo]

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say "somebody gonna get a hurt real bad.... somebody"

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

[Not really racist!]

holy fuck
IS THAT GUY RETARDED

so fucking lucky nobody was hurt

[elwell]

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

[satek]

first day? and most likely his last lol

[BlacknJean]

noob

[Vansterdam]

FAIL

[penner2k]

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"

[Hondaracer]

those walls should have been pushed down from the outside

[InvisibleSoul]

The company took all the proper safety precautions before starting the demolition, including closing off Hornby, he said. He noted the incident occurred during rush hour when "it's hard to control traffic and pedestrians."


"No one got injured and no one got hurt," Karmjeet said. "[The media is] making it as if a new movie is coming out ... it hurts because damages have been caused and we're the ones liable.


"You have to expect these things in construction. If we hadn't taken safety precautions there would have been someone hurt."


The demolition company spent Friday clearing debris from the sidewalk and "trying to get everything under control," Karmjeet added. The company is facing costs of more than $4,000 to repair the lamp standard.


"We're trying our hardest to keep everyone safe," he said.

What a load of crap.

[Delerious]

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.

[jtanner_]

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

[Liquid_o2]

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.

[Gumby]

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

[wnderinguy]

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.

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

[b0unce. [?]]

thats gotta be gee gee thats gotta be gee gee

[Amuse]

Two videos without the movie music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-nYq1ujVsw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20kfYOoSu0c&feature=related

[orgasm_donor]

Who do they hire to do this? Monkeys?

Even worse: Towtruck drivers?

[Noir]

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.

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.

[El Bastardo]

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

[goo3]

LOL @ the laughing in the second vid

[chun]

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.

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.

[wnderinguy]

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.

[Noir]

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.

Seemed like an attempt to blame spread IMO.

[Liquid_o2]

Seemed like an attempt to blame spread IMO.

I'm not trying to spread blame. I noted twice in my post that the demolition wasn't done properly. However the City of Vancouver is one of the only major cities in North America where a policy is not in place for the entire street to be shutdown to pedestrian and auto traffic when there is a relatively small building setback along a major street in at downtown core. There should be proper policies and regulations in place, so if an accident does occur, such as this, nobody is in danger.

[fliptuner]

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

Might be the lesser of the mistakes but still a fail on their part. They chose to lighten the traffic load over clearing a potentially dangerous area.

As Liquid_o2 stated, no denying the demo crew could've managed the site better and went in with a better plan but the city should've allowed them more space. Look how close the building is to the street.

[smk]

lol @ the bgm