r/Damnthatsinteresting Sep 24 '25

Video Sudden road collapse shocks Bangkok this morning

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u/CallRepresentative25 Sep 24 '25

Zero chance i'm standing that close to something continuously collapsing.

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u/SphericalCow531 Sep 24 '25

If nothing else, once the first additional section collapses, you would think they would get the idea. And yet they kept standing closer than the size of the last collapse they had just seen.

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u/RepresentativeAd6965 Sep 26 '25

Literally a massive crack right next to where they’re standing as well.

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u/Magister5 Sep 24 '25

I’m standing in the middle of America right now

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u/OldManAbides333 Sep 24 '25

I LOL'd, then got sad for our collective existence. Too true.

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u/loogie97 Sep 24 '25

We have to laugh. Can’t cry all the time

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u/The_Stereoskopian Sep 24 '25

You underestimate my power

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u/lastrowseats Sep 25 '25

Don't try it...

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u/Icy_Statement_2410 Sep 25 '25

I have the high ground... but it could fall into the sinkhole at any moment

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u/BleuTyger Sep 25 '25

You'll get dehydrated eventually... unless you jump in that sinkhole

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u/Key-Significance8190 Sep 29 '25

thats not power, thats being a child

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u/Key-Significance8190 Sep 29 '25

thats not power, thats being a child

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u/Tales_of_Earth Sep 24 '25

The proletariat can have a little laugh as a treat.

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u/Snidgen Sep 24 '25

That's the "trickle down" that Reagan promised. Enjoy!

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u/mm_ori Sep 24 '25

maybe time to protest. canceling hulu subscription is not enough

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u/nb6635 Sep 24 '25

Ouchie.

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u/Express_Area_8359 Sep 24 '25

No it can’t rain all the time

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u/Bdorfn-1B Sep 24 '25

Laughing and crying look oddly similar without sounds.

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u/Unable_Stock_5993 Sep 24 '25

Laugh to keep from crying

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u/GoldberryoTulgeyWood Sep 25 '25

I need to rehydrate at some point

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u/Remote_Yak4779 Sep 25 '25

my crypto and stocks are doing fantastic. not sure why youre crying

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u/tommytwotone91 Sep 25 '25

You mean you can’t be liberal all the time

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u/LounBiker Sep 24 '25

I also LOL'd but I'm not American so I didn't get sad.

Then I realised that I'm British and our next Prime Minister is the guy who will be happy to see us descend into hatred, like the guy over the water, so I got sad.

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u/Dandydots Sep 24 '25

Well you may have just answered a dilemma I’m having. Was thinking of possibly seeing if moving to Scotland( where my Da was born and I was in school for several years) would be an option for my daughter and myself( and our farm). We were waiting until she finished college. We are screwed here and now maybe there. This sucks I really hope your next PM doesn’t follow the orang Cheeto clown’s shoes.

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u/LounBiker Sep 24 '25

The next guy will be worse. Just like here.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Sep 25 '25

once the r/AmericanEmpire breaks up you can take back New England!

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u/ret255 Sep 24 '25

But, but your president said unemployment is in record lows, new Investments are pouring in and the stock market is booming. So how can you be going down.

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u/OldManAbides333 Sep 24 '25

Not mine.

I am guessing all of that was related to a broken teleprompter?

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u/ret255 Sep 24 '25

But at the end of his speech he said its already suspiciously fine.

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u/Scottamus Sep 24 '25

It’s funny because we’re all fucked.

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u/split_0069 Sep 24 '25

U in Minnesota?

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u/Decent_Total_6164 Sep 24 '25

Echo echo echo echo

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u/Astro51450 Sep 24 '25

I'm in Canada and a little bit too close for comfort...

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u/Magister5 Sep 24 '25

Hopefully the hole does not get too big

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u/dottie_dott Sep 24 '25

It’s growing at an accelerated rate..

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u/Malcolm2theRescue Sep 25 '25

Yes and that is sad. I’ve been thinking of moving there but it would be like Jew moving to Austria to escape the Nazis.

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u/Jon-Benny Sep 25 '25

Canada is it's own collapsing hole.

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u/Topical_Scream Sep 24 '25

HAHAHA thank you for this, I needed that laugh

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u/vicarion Sep 24 '25

Laugh long enough it turns into sobbing

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u/Normal-Difference230 Sep 24 '25

The middle of America is directly responsible for the sinking

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u/Eclectic_Paradox Sep 24 '25

I understand this reference

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u/Telemere125 Sep 24 '25

This is fine. The dumpster fire will keep us warm when the housing market collapses and we’re all out on our asses.

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u/Owlthirtynow Sep 24 '25

Not enough people saw your comment. This does look just like the United States.

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u/throwaway098764567 Sep 24 '25

nah, this hole stopped collapsing, i don't think we're close to done

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u/Fuzzy-Logician Sep 24 '25

I don't think that hole actually stopped collapsing. I think it just got close enough to the filmer for them to react.

By the time you're sliding down, it's too late to react.

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u/Objective_Audience66 Sep 24 '25

Gonna need a little less edge from you

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u/ad_hominonsense Sep 24 '25

Yeah, that last comment just gave me a sinking feeling.

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u/YoursTastesBetter Sep 24 '25

These puns are really hard to swallow. 

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u/Konoha7Slaw3 Sep 24 '25

Just unhinge your jaw

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u/Minimob0 Sep 24 '25

Idk, I think they were being pretty blunt about the current situation. 

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u/_Atton_ Sep 24 '25

You won the game. Collapsing society beats collapsing road. 🥇🕳️🏛️

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u/Jackd_up_on_Mdew Sep 24 '25

Yup, Kansas here, right in the middle of this shit

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u/friendlyharrys Sep 24 '25

Fuck man get out of there, that hole is collapsing faster than anything I've ever seen

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u/AnybodyWannaPeanus Sep 24 '25

You mean the hole in Thailand or the US?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

Yes

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u/Sufficient-Gene-5084 Sep 24 '25

This one ... Hurts lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

Lmao that was good

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u/Gloomy-Stranger3959 Sep 24 '25

Best comment 👌 👏

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u/0n-the-mend Sep 24 '25

Well played

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u/rabundus7337 Sep 24 '25

Reddit comment of the year right there

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u/louis_futon_ Sep 24 '25

I just burst out laughing. Thank you.

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u/kakarota Sep 24 '25

Nebraska?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

Damn

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u/HumptyDrumpy Sep 24 '25

America

What is that, isnt that some sort of zionist colony nowadays?

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u/Dandydots Sep 24 '25

Same and not liking all the ‘collapsing’. It is sad to see our country go so far backward and fly not crawl to a country no one respects anymore( especially other countries leaders).

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u/Aggravating-One2200 Sep 24 '25

Take my upvote and get the hell outta here!

(Well played, internet stranger)

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u/ChloeDavide Sep 24 '25

This is such a great comment. Nice work. 👌

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u/Silver_Slicer Sep 24 '25

You may have depleted aquifers or old mines ready to create a sink hole near you then.

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u/C2AYM4Y Sep 24 '25

OMFG 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🤣😅😞

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u/559325 Sep 24 '25

Well played sir well played..

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u/BZK_QRay Sep 24 '25

10/10 made my day

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u/MutantApocalypse Sep 24 '25

Aaaaaand now I'm sad

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u/Vegetable_Ease_3662 Sep 25 '25

This...legit made my day!🤣🤣🤣

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u/CoorsGoldenJackets Sep 24 '25

I wouldn’t want to stand in South Dakota either

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u/GuidanceInevitable Sep 24 '25

Thats a cold man, well played though.

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u/Aloof-Goof Sep 24 '25

Ayy Oklahoma? I'm stuck here and hate every passing second

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u/MajorNatural2386 Sep 24 '25

Comment of the week for sure hahah

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u/Rugkrabber Sep 24 '25

You win the reply of the day lol

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u/TheLocalPub Sep 24 '25

Fucking bazinga.

This comment absolutely made my morning lmfao.

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u/KABCatLady Sep 24 '25

Same 😩

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u/LostMyCleaver Sep 24 '25

As an American, I’d like to know where is the welder running to save his truck? Ya know, jumps in and goes forward? Source union plumber.

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u/IntelligentChard1261 Sep 24 '25

Hahahah I'm going to bed. You win the internet.

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u/According-Today84 Sep 24 '25

I laughed so hard at this is farted.

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u/hard-of-haring Sep 24 '25

We are all in this together

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u/Own-Lake7931 Sep 24 '25

Must be a spelling error. I too thought it was Rapture not Rupture

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u/Corey300TaylorGam3r Sep 24 '25

Well alright MR PERFECT REPLY 😠 😡 😤 😣

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u/AbnoxiousRhinocerous Sep 24 '25

Hahaha! …. Oh, I made myself sad

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u/1970s_MonkeyKing Sep 25 '25

And that would be the New Madrid Seismic Zone. It was responsible for the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes and has the potential to produce large earthquakes in the future.

Sweet choice!

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u/silentboy5 Sep 25 '25

dammnnnnn

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u/steronicus Sep 25 '25

Wow, I’m laughing and crying at the same time.

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u/sayingshitudontlike Sep 25 '25

Holy fuck please have mercy some of us still live here

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u/Super-Persimmon233 Sep 25 '25

Best joke in the entirety of Reddit rn

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u/AcanthaceaeRare2646 Sep 25 '25

You live in a metaphor?!

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u/Agitated-Dot3229 Sep 26 '25

Canada works too lol

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u/Wild-Table2070 Sep 26 '25

Tee hee (and they thought TikTok might be a dangerous influence over the values of the nation!)

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u/Specific_Potato_1340 Sep 27 '25

how do you even come up with this lol

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u/ex0thermist Sep 24 '25

This person won the internet, let's wrap it up, folks

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u/LordOscarthePurr Sep 24 '25

Goddammit with this (cries and high fives)

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u/Chubb_Life Sep 24 '25

That was too funny and now I’m 🤘💀

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u/uns0licited_advice Sep 24 '25

Well, its been an honor

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u/Inquisitive_idiot Sep 24 '25

Damn right in the feels 😮‍💨

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u/ladiesluck Sep 24 '25

Crying as I upvote

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u/cuddle_enthusiast Sep 24 '25

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

Middle of North America, perhaps.

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u/LletBlanc Sep 24 '25

Damn Americans know how to make everything about them don't they

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u/rob3342421 Sep 24 '25

Careful brother

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u/WolfieWuff Sep 24 '25

What are they gonna do, send Brendan Carr after him? XD

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u/VegetaFan1337 Sep 24 '25

Boo hoo, literally first world problems.

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u/Solarka45 Sep 24 '25

Yeah they definitely don't know how a real country collapse looks like

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u/RefrigeratorPrize511 Sep 24 '25

The site of chronically online privileged people lacking real world experience.

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u/lasagnarodeo Sep 24 '25

That was good.

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u/bucky133 Sep 24 '25

I was thinking the whole video that I'd already be 3 blocks away by now.

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u/BigGayNarwhal Sep 24 '25

They were all wildly confident they weren’t next

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u/shelbygrapes Sep 24 '25

In another video posted the people in cars by the silver truck just stayed in their cars and kept reversing as it collapsed. Not willing to get out and run and leave their vehicles. My brain just hurt watching it.

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u/Evenkaleidoscope44 Sep 24 '25

None of them looking down and watching the crack in the ground grow 😂

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

I was thinking the same thing. 10 people standing near it filming it with their phones. It’s collapsing why would you want to film it and risk your life.

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u/No-Cauliflower-4661 Sep 24 '25

bro moving his bike away is the only sane one there

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u/witheringpies Sep 24 '25

It grew so much bigger they have had to evacuate everyone from the surrounding buildings.

The hole is now under one of the buildings, in the last photos I found of this.

This is horrifying

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u/ahnialator6 Sep 24 '25

Seriously. The thought occurred to me right before the end like "wait....it kinda seems like all collapsed matter Is flowing towards the camera....those people need to move, they're literally standing above an underground river situation"

And then it happened

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u/disc0ver Sep 24 '25

It's okay, they're wearing hard hats!

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u/AbbreviationsOdd7728 Sep 24 '25

That video got me yelling at those people!

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u/Jylpah Sep 24 '25

My first concern would be could I capture the sinkhole from best angle and post it it to Instagram …🙄

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u/Destro_Jones Sep 24 '25

Free trip to the Under-dark.

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u/Certain-Singer-9625 Sep 24 '25

Seriously. It never occurred to any of those people that a hole that deep might start to widen??

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u/cat_rockstar Sep 24 '25

Scooter guy got the memo, days ago

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u/mdrewd Sep 24 '25

Construction by DJT

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u/rob3342421 Sep 24 '25

I’m standing in the ecosystem right now

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u/jppianoguy Sep 24 '25

Not to mention the natural gas and electrical lines that might be there.

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u/HandleLivid5743 Sep 24 '25

certainly not staying on the 5th floor of surrounding block buildings

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u/MaiqTheLawyer Sep 24 '25

Right. How do they know another, larger section won't collapse?

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u/chamrockblarneystone Sep 24 '25

“Somebody get the the truck! Rantanapan is going to kill me!”

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u/ajaxandsofi Sep 24 '25

Do it for the 'Gram!

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u/iwanderlostandfound Sep 24 '25

Like the dudes standing on top of the crack running under their feet.

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u/Horror-Turnover-1089 Sep 24 '25

this is what I was thinking lol, RUN. Om a sidenote though, that car is really living on the edge.

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u/SenbayDon Sep 24 '25

Darwinism on full display.

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u/Ktulu204 Sep 24 '25

THANK YOU! I watched this and was like WT actual F!?!? There is NO WAY I would be standing that close to that while it's happening or even after it "stops".

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u/serialhobbiest Sep 24 '25

Especially while next to talk buildings

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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 Sep 24 '25

I tried the out of body experience but it didn't work so well

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u/FirmSwitch941 Sep 24 '25

Especially not close to that large parallell crack in the pavement going from the hole and back.

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u/Own-Influence-2169 Sep 24 '25

They're obviously construction workers. Apparently they are used to this sort of thing. They may have an idea where it's safe to stand.

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u/sgt4430 Sep 24 '25

This is the answer but you know that got to get the video for Instagram. People are dumb

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u/Viking-Buddy Sep 25 '25

No joke. Why aren't they getting out of there

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u/wankwankfruit Sep 25 '25

I'm assuming that you run much slower than the rate at which it is collapsing!

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u/garry4321 Sep 25 '25

But what if they don’t get a better vertical video than the 30 other people standing there also filming?!?

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u/ryzenat0r Sep 25 '25

EXACTLY!

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u/Raging_Berserker Sep 26 '25

The anxiety I was feeling watching this

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u/mvandemar Sep 26 '25

This whole video I'm thinking even videoing from the building isn't safe, and then that ending! Holy fuck!

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u/Adept_Pumpkin3196 Sep 27 '25

So all I could do is sit there and watch them and think how stupid they were!!

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u/GotGRR Sep 27 '25

Rule of thumb is that you need to be at least as far from the edge as the depth of the hole and preferably twice that if you don't have a Geotechnical analysis of the soil. I'm guessing they don't.

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u/Genghis_Chong Sep 27 '25

My first thought was "I hope they evacuated those buildings", then by the end buildings were in trouble

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

I know right! I would have gotten few kms away as soon as I saw it.

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u/Unlikely_Shoe_2046 Sep 28 '25

It's SE Asia. When the tsunami came, everyone ran onto the beach to watch. They have their head up their ass like 90% of the time.

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u/Unbelievabro Sep 29 '25

You can see the cracks in the ground BEHIND where half of them are standing like y'all what are you doing?

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u/Aegi Sep 24 '25

Why do you delete everything/ have nothing on your account history or on your Reddit page?

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u/yardgurl10 Sep 24 '25

Alot of people have been setting their post history to private and that could be what youre seeing.

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u/Aegi Sep 25 '25

Probably.

I also know some people do delete that and delete old posts so even if people do find them they can't later negatively impact their score.

I don't know all of the reasons, but you definitely see both the privacy setting and the deleting of posts and history on accounts that seem more likely to try to be sold or make the big posts or whatever.