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Old 06-11-2010, 05:12 PM   #1
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Default Vancouver Demolition Goes Bad

No one hurt but this is scary. Hope it's not a fata

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...n-failure.html



And the scecond wall too!

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Old 06-11-2010, 05:14 PM   #2
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Man they are Lucky nobody was hurt. Pathetic.
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Old 06-11-2010, 05:14 PM   #3
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What the hell was that guy thinking? No **** a 2 story concrete wall is gonna tip over when you shake it.
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Old 06-11-2010, 05:16 PM   #4
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Nobody even reacted to it, which isn't really surprising. They see that same thing happen 160 times a year whenever someone skates through Luongo's crease.
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idiot, take out the door frame that is bracing the lower half of the wall that you are trying to pull towards yourself first!
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Old 06-11-2010, 05:19 PM   #6
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I like how it wasnt apparent that they should be changing positioning after the first wall collapsess onto the street
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Old 06-11-2010, 05:22 PM   #7
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Give him a break guys, it's different than East Vancouver where a stiff wind would knock over a building.
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Old 06-11-2010, 05:50 PM   #8
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Talk about a crumbling infrastructure.
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Old 06-11-2010, 05:58 PM   #9
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Some well placed 2x4's on the outside walls for bracing, with nothing reinforcing the inside would have gone a long way here.

I LOL'd at the second wall. You'd think they'd shut down and rethink their plan, especially after damaging private and public property. But nope, lot's go for it, what could happen?

I wonder if the operator said "Hey Bob, watch this!"
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Sounds like Luongo is doing their press releases with the "it could always be worse" line.
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Seriously cutting corners, there would not be 1 person who would approve this method or allow it, these guys will face criminal charges without any doubt.
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I wonder if the operator said "Hey Bob, watch this!"
That made me laugh out loud or for short lol.
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Seriously cutting corners, there would not be 1 person who would approve this method or allow it, these guys will face criminal charges without any doubt.
It looks pretty much exactly how they successfully demolished Penny Lane.
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Old 06-11-2010, 06:46 PM   #14
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Even before seeing either video, I knew what was going to happen. And I have little experience in structure. Dangerous company, they should not be doing that kind of work. Even worse, they allowed basically the same thing to happen twice. Unreal.
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Was that a Vancouver Canuck operating that equipment?
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My questions is who is mixing the audio for these videos?
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My questions is who is mixing the audio for these videos?
Yeah, so dramatic.
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Should have gone with the dynamite.
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Yeah, so dramatic.
Dramatic? thats the last word i would associate with that music.
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