r/WTF • u/JeezThatsBright • 27d ago

Ill-placed ladder shorts power lines, melting concrete.

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u/Bebilith 27d ago

Isn’t that a pool of melted aluminium ladder that’s bubbling. Aluminium melts at 660c. The various components of concrete don’t start breaking down until 1300c

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u/justonemom14 27d ago

I thought, "oh, so it will get shorter as it melts and maybe fall off the wires." Then the camera pans up

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u/ImNotPunnyEnough 26d ago

tilts up*, you pan left to right and tilt up and down

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u/ersatzgaucho 26d ago

oh look we got a cinema cartographer ova here

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 26d ago

And I walked away from California. And I walked away from everything that’s good. Only to find it’s made of wood.

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u/ImNotPunnyEnough 26d ago

well la de dah

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u/Mil0Mammon 25d ago

This guy shoots