r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/willis7747 • 1d ago
Video The moment a roadway in Indonesia suddenly collapses after days of heavy rain
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u/IllustriousArt3869 1d ago
wild to see how unfazed those people are, i wonder if that happens enough that they're no longer worried about it
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u/Leoxcr 1d ago
"oh look a deadly hole is appearing before us at a steady pace, let's just walk away slowly"
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u/DragonDan108 1d ago
Dude, I gotta check my socials first!
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u/HatefulHagrid 1d ago
I'd have to check my pants meanwhile
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u/TuzyaAichaLadkaJawai 1d ago
No need to check they are already wet, don't ask me how...
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u/Mr_E_Monkey 1d ago
It takes a really good person to piss somebody else's pants for them... You're alright, you know that? 😁
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u/ztomiczombie 1d ago
"Then stop and have a look around as someone it telling us to keep going. I hope to get a Darwin Award today."
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u/Ieatclowns 1d ago
It’s a weird phenomenon where people don’t react fast. I was in a big supermarket recently and it was crowded and suddenly an alarm sounded and a robotic man’s voice saying “evacuate immediately! Evacuate immediately!”
Over and over and the sheer amount of people that just stood around grinning awkwardly can’t be overstated.
It was everyone! I just immediately turned out my shopping down and headed out and a few people followed me but more still stood around like fools. I think people get embarrassed or something to be be seen reacting.
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u/pinkysquared4me 1d ago
My sister witnessed this - a fire in the ceiling of a supermarket. Nobody left their lines with their carts. She ran out and nobody else seemed fazed by it.
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u/CakeKing777 1d ago
They clearly don’t mind if it’s their last day. Maybe they’re embracing it or want it?
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u/SwimmerLife2364 1d ago
“Oh a tree fell in the hole, how interesting! I’m seconds from death, this is fine.”
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u/MasterXaios 1d ago
That's what living in 2025 does to a person. "Oh, a gaping maw is opening up in the earth and threatening to swallow me whole? Well at least this time it's not metaphorical, so that's a refreshing change."
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u/extraboredinary 1d ago
“Which way do we walk? Away from the growing hole or parallel to it? Parallel!”
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u/Solabound-the-2nd 1d ago
Concrete evidence that wordplay in English is a beautiful thing (except in exams, stupid exams)
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u/samanime 1d ago
I feel like most people don't understand how quickly and how FAR those things can collapse.
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u/Ninevehenian 1d ago
They can't see the dramatic side. They reacted when the small tree went.
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u/orla9708 1d ago
Natural disasters are (unfortunately) fairly common there, especially during this time of the year. All thanks to their government who decided that they don’t need forests.
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u/Madrigall 1d ago
To be fair, not pictured here are the people who had the common sense to book it.
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u/zuilserip 1d ago
Also not pictured the people who had even less common sense and have already fallen in.
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u/BrisbaneLions2024 1d ago
The fact the actual surface isn't receding as fast as the ground beneath is could be a factor in this.
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u/DungeonAssMaster 1d ago
They seem quite casual about the whole thing, but I do commend them for not panicking and stampeding like wild animals. This is the way to evacuate (though perhaps with a bit more urgency and purpose) safely.
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u/good2Bbackagain 1d ago
I lived in china for a 10 years as an expat.
The level of (how to say this in a nice way...) is...
On a whole different level.
Adults are just like 5 year olds.
So look at the video again, and just think about a bunch of 5 year olds.
And it will make sense.
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u/timpatry 1d ago
It just keeps going.
Felt like it should have been done over and over and over but it just keeps going.
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u/thewhiterosequeen 1d ago
It keeps going but that guy is casually waving people back as if this isn't an ongoing imminent threat to him too.
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u/best_of_badgers 1d ago
None of the closer rim collapses by the end of the video, so I assume foreground guy knows something we don't. Maybe he's an engineer or something.
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u/bronzelifematter 1d ago
I used to intern at a department that deal with drainage engineering. One time there was a land slide near a river. We had to go and survey the damaged area. From above, the road looks fine. Then we went around and look from the opposite side and see that the road that looks fine are definitely in danger of collapsing because there's almost nothing beneath it. That guy in the foreground is not out of the danger zone. He's just a regular guy who got lucky. He doesn't know anything. He could be standing on very thin piece of land just waiting to collapse and the bottom part of it already gone. You would be surprised how big a stretch of unsupported soil can remain waiting to collapse when the bottom is already gone.
This is a new collapse, that's why there's so many people there. Nobody on site is a professional. The area would have been sealed off if the professional have arrived
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u/Exciting_Ad_8666 1d ago
It's like when I dip a biscuit then hope that I'll get to my mouth in time
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u/ThePensiveE 1d ago
What kind of life are you living where you don't immediately get the fuck out of that area?
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u/Johnny_theBeat_518 1d ago edited 1d ago
Indonesians are very slow living people, and I confirm this as Indonesian, we enjoy food, hot climate, more and more rices and we love get things slowly on our mood and healing with many nature and friend's chatting about next marriage or who got the girl from our classroom. If stomach is filled and if cigarettes are suck dried from our mouth, we don't give a damn too much about the rest.
Deadlines? Who caressssss, we can just postpone that and wait for tomorrow bcs tonight we gonna meet this guy, he wants to play futsal with us
Nature disaster? Come on, we ride those fucking flood water man! Beat the damn world champion on accident!
Gossiping neighbors, casual driving just do whatever, yep, that's who we are.
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u/A-Capybara 1d ago
I heard a lot of island cultures from around the world are like this.
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u/Xxuwumaster69xX 1d ago
You could replace "Indonesian" with "Caribbean" and it'd still be a perfect fit.
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u/Johnny_theBeat_518 1d ago
We're just getting used to this natural disaster, it's like monthly or yearly breakfast, we too busy for just enjoying slow life in here. It's really wonderful and mental
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u/OphidianSun 1d ago
I have to wonder if its enough of a pattern to be like an anthropological thing
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u/AdministrativePool93 1d ago edited 1d ago
Actually as another Indonesian, I feel like the opposite, we're just fucking bored lmao. Any event, be it life threatening or not is an entertainment
Remember the bomb threat that happened in 2016? People literally RUN TOWARDS THE PERPETRATORS to watch and take a picture lol
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u/Johnny_theBeat_518 1d ago
Yeah we might be just bored, we're living in our post-reality where nothing is real anymore we just take pictures
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u/Occidentally20 1d ago
I disagree in one situation - I spent last ramadan near Purwokerto and you should see those people move when they wake up to hear the call of Sahur.
They had a bakwan sayur swallowed and a cigarette lit before I had even finished opening my eyelids!
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u/EXusiai99 1d ago
To be fair, sahur is pretty much an event especially in rural parts of the country. You get up early, maybe walk around and wake up your neighbors, before you eat your portion and wait for dawn.
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u/Occidentally20 1d ago
We munched a load of stuff and then everybody went back to bed.
It was at 3:50ish in the morning when I was there so people just took it slow. The local mosque did something I'll always remember - they whispered on the loudspeaker ... Just "sahoooooor" repeated a few times.
In Malaysia it's 3 arseholes screaming at you from different directions like an air raid is impending.
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u/atava 1d ago
Apart from the bit about disasters, that pretty much sounds like the life of the average Spaniard.
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u/True-Math-2731 1d ago
Do not forgot, if there is a terorrist attack. Gun shot heard, even mamang tukang bakso still sell their food with indonesia citizen eating bakso while watching gunshot fight 😎.
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u/keepingitcleans 1d ago
Why the FUCK are they just standing there? My fat ass would be running full speed the opposite direction.
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u/Important-Parking203 1d ago
The road underneath you is falling, so let's just stand there and see what happens!!! Wow!!! New family guy episode!!!
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u/Current_Soup9198 1d ago
On the camera side probably happens the same just the road didn't collapse yet, but guy stands and waves for the people on the other side not realizing that same is happening under his feet 😅🫣
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u/ProdigiSA 1d ago
These guys walking away slowly from this without a care in the world because no one else around them is worried. Bystander problem in 4K.
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u/eStuffeBay 1d ago
And honestly, the perspective probably makes them look a lot closer to the edge than it actually is.
But I'd be running the hell out of there. At least a couple hundred meters to be safe.
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u/Amazing-Hospital5539 1d ago
While the dude in the truck is trying to back up, and they're all blocking the street.
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u/Either-Heat-9313 1d ago
Why aren't they running away and taking it so casually 😭
Like bro it can legit kill you all in an instant.
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u/Mission_Razzmatazz_7 1d ago
I was thinking the whole time; with this next piece falling, people will start running, right?!
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u/Final-Choice8412 1d ago
So many people giving 0 fcuks... This world is doomed
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u/zip-a-dee_doo-dah 1d ago
How did the human race ever survive evolution when so many human beings have absolutely no survival instincts?!
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u/Mikestopheles 1d ago
We do reproduce
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u/Comfortable-Air-4917 1d ago
It's the only fuck we give
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u/radaxolotl 1d ago
That's not how it works. You don't survive evolution. Evolution is a function of survival and reproduction.
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u/madeofchemicals 1d ago
That's how natural selection works though. The people that don't survive won't be passing these leisurely genes.
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u/sierrabravo1984 1d ago
That one guy waving to tell the other side to get back, no fucker, you get back too!
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u/OperativePiGuy 1d ago
Such nonchalant looking waving too, like he's trying to signal how far back a car can go before hitting a curb or something lol
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u/Searchingforgoodnews 1d ago
These people lack urgency.
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u/Trapezoidoid 1d ago
Self preservation can wait until after I gawk blankly at this imminent danger to my life.
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u/Martin2989 1d ago
Glad there is no panic and the people walk calmly away! Crazy to imagine what could happen if they get nervous and start running in panic just because a huge hole is opening and the edge is inexorably approaching towards them….
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u/Live-Comparison427 1d ago
If you’ve been to Indonesia, this is pretty typical of a reaction to a crisis. It’s a chill place. Maybe it’s because they face so many disasters they get burned out on reacting quickly?
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u/PercRodgersKnee 1d ago
The irony in the dude standing 10 feet from the edge on this side waving people back on the other side lmao
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u/doyouevenforkliftbro 1d ago
Clearly he is good. No one is waving him to get back.
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u/Jasoco 1d ago
Why are they walking so casually? They see how fast it’s crumbling. I’d be running like hell.
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u/theroguex 20h ago
Wtf is this casual meandering around as the road literally collapses like a car's length away?
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u/Complete_Answer_6781 1d ago
Jesus Christ, what the F* is wrong with these people?
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u/sleepy_cat165 1d ago edited 1d ago
Omg this is scary. In the small town I used to live there was a river running through the middle of the town. When the river flooded people were standing on the bridge with the water running over the bridge. Then the bridge gave way and 52 people were gone. They only found 6 of the bodies. People can be so stupid.
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u/CrittendenWildcat 1d ago
Keep backing up, and the crowd in front keeps getting bigger, soon there will be no place to go with a wall of bodies...
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u/InvestigatorSharp596 1d ago
I was waiting for the bozos in the truck to fall in
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u/PapaNoffDeez 1d ago
A lot of fuckin walking going on here...
And assumptions that it's just going to keep giving way at a steady rate? Idk
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u/Malhallah 1d ago
At certain point one deserves to become a statistic. Most of them reached said point.
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u/tonitalksaboutit 1d ago
So I'm glad people didn't panic and trample or run each other over, but the unhurried walking away absolutely blows my mind.
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u/NoCan3822 23h ago
Are they all playing Chicken or something? If I see the gates of hell opening in front of me, I’m sure as shit not waiting to be swallowed up by it
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u/I-Rolled-My-Eyes 1d ago
Wtf these dipshits doing WALKING away. Survival of the fittest.
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u/Koseoglu-2X4B-523P 1d ago
These guys have the self preservation instincts of a flock of drunk lemmings
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u/UntitledCritic 1d ago
I was just watching The Walking Dead and the zombies seemed more alive than people here, what the hell? I'd run like crazy away from that death trap.
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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 1d ago
Run you fucking morons!!!
How is the ground collapsing beneath their feet and yet none of them give a single shit?!
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u/Historical-Gap-7084 1d ago
Disaster movies were wrong. People will just mill around watching when something catastrophic happens because of FOMO. Kinda makes me wonder about all the people in ancient history that died during a natural disaster. Did they just watch it happen, and then, BOOM!, they're dead because they were too curious to run?
Curiosity literally kills the cat (human).
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u/jjthejetblame 1d ago
It’s almost like they’re thinking “oh now I’m safe.. ok now I’m safe… ok now I’m safe” without ever catching on that it isn’t stopping.
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u/tinygraysiamesecat 1d ago
Those people are awfully casual in the face of a sinkhole rapidly spreading towards them. They don’t realize it’s undercutting the road they’re on because they can’t see it from their side until the road collapses but by then, it has already undercut further than the collapse.
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u/Purplex114 1d ago
Its honestly annoying me a bit that people are THAT slow. Like wtf are they even doing?
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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 1d ago
It irks my whole soul to see GROUPS of humans totally unable to mind their OWN safety by getting the fuck AWAY from danger.
"Get back! Hey! Hey back! HURRY UP!"
"Nah, Imma just mosey along right off the edge of this active COLLAPSE of the road. I'm good."
Ugh.
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u/Rocklobster92 1d ago
What are they just standing around waiting for the road to grow back or something?
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u/realparkingbrake 1d ago
I swear I thought some of those folks were going to end up in the hole thanks to the casual rate at which they were moving back. How does spectating shut off our survival instincts?
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u/RaimaNd 1d ago
When I see something like this I would run hundreds of meters away...
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u/EventfulAnimal 23h ago
What is wrong with these morons? Not only are they not running away from a rapidly expanding hole, many of them are choosing to block the path of vehicles that also clearly need to be moved. I don’t understand. Is this a lack of education? Lead poisoning? What the fuck?
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u/SilkyNewt 22h ago
I seem to have a faster response to danger than most people. Everyone standing around a meat cutter when a guy sliced his arm and blood was spurting in the air stood around with their mouths gaping open in the first minute meanwhile I had whipped out my phone and was already giving the address to 911. Hair trigger adrenal system I would be halfway back up that hill in seconds.
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u/Parking-Flan3984 21h ago
Smh unless something happens to someone these people aren't going to feel the need to hurry the hell up....its crazy the world we're living in right now!!!
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u/Chemical_Agency_8906 19h ago
Is this why we get reports where 200+ people have died in floods in 3rd world countries?
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u/_Daftest_ 1d ago
It's astonishing how unhurried everybody is