Raw Video: Demolition in Turkey Goes Seriously Wrong

[Turborama]

:rofl:

Associated Press
01 August 2009
A building demolition in Turkey went seriously wrong on Saturday when, instead of collapsing, it rolled over onto its roof. However, there were no reported injuries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7z-FQUrfhc

[Orrex]

1. MIHOP!

[Renew Deal]

3. lol

:rofl:

[Greybnk48]

8. You caused me to spew!

:rofl:

[anonymous171]

2. Why didn't it fall into itself? I thought "all buildings were designed that way"

[NYC_SKP]

4. No WAY that was "just an accident"!

Seriously, for that building to be able to do that is remarkable, the building shell was incredibly stable.

wow!

[tomm2thumbs]

5. Rolled Turkey Sandwich /nt

[Speck Tater]

6. Wasn't so funny to me after what happened to my barn.

When I bought a piece of property about 25 years ago it had an old barn that was falling apart. It was too dangerous to try to dismantle it. It scared me just to walk inside it, it was so close to falling to pieces. So I hooked a cable to the weakest looking roof supports and figured I'd use the tractor to yank out the supports and then just watch it collapse in on itself. Instead, when I drove down the hill as fast as the tractor would go, the cable pulled tight and the whole 2-story barn rolled right over onto its roof, just like the building in the video. Luckily, about 15 minutes later it just spontaneously collapsed into a pile of rubble.

True story.

[tomm2thumbs]

7. you win the 'best true story of the week' award

uh, there's no prize tho. sowwy, but congrats!

[Vidar]

9. Well, you certainly put the average cow-tipper to shame.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. lol. upside down building

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. You can see the building on the right shake. If the demolished building had rolled one more turn it

would have hit that building.

[IDemo]

12. Solution: change up/down buttons on the elevators and reopen the building

[Orrex]

18. You think you're so clever

What about the escalators? Hmm?



I thought so.

[lame54]

13. that was no tower 7

[Canuckistanian]

14. They should have flown a plane into an adjacent buliding

That way, it would have collapsed neatly into it's own footprint.

[Orrex]

17. It's too bad they didn't have time to plant a tactical nuke in the primary building

[jmowreader]

15. That was some high-quality construction right there

A building that can roll completely over and remain intact...wow.

[Orrex]

16. It's really not such a big deal.

When I was a kid, that happened with my LEGO houses all the time.