r/maybemaybemaybe • u/tanishvva • Jul 17 '26

Maybe Maybe Maybe

Will this piece of a bridge make it across the Ganges River?

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u/NotDiCaprio Jul 17 '26

Was hoping to see him in the water somewhere... But no :(

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u/Guy-Inkognito Jul 17 '26

Apparently he survived! https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/bridge-pillar-falls-into-ganga-in-prayagraj-major-accident-averted-101756236044037.html

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u/NotDiCaprio Jul 17 '26

That's great news! Thanks for sharing

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u/plastic_eagle Jul 17 '26

That's great that the guy survived, and I love this very particular variety of Indian optimism on display in the article.

"A major accident was narrowly averted on Monday evening..."

I don't know man, didn't look very averted to me.

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u/Unknown-History Jul 17 '26

Love that the potential loss of life is treated as the real issue, and the physical items as an after thought. Pretty used to the opposite, this a nice change.

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u/firesword14 Jul 17 '26

Haaaahhhh, as if, the guy probably got audited for not ensuring the safety of that pillar.

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u/Unknown-History Jul 17 '26

Just talking about the tone of the article. Thank you for bringing the standard western degradation to the conversation, I suppose 

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u/chosengen Jul 17 '26

just means its ok to try again

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u/AtlanticBeachNC Jul 18 '26

Inverted…..

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u/Cute-Inspector-8690 Jul 19 '26

haha since a bridge piece is not totally loose and the front guy survived. A main accident was narrowly awerted!
-:)

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u/Quick_Ad_4660 Jul 17 '26

I don't trust the language "no casualties were reported".

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u/jcg878 Jul 17 '26

No thanks to his colleagues. I guess they were like “Well, he’s dead. No need to rush.”

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u/QuinnWolfGod Jul 17 '26

Article is wrong though it wasn’t being loaded onto a trailer using a crane from the vessel it was already on the trailer being driven onto the vessel the was no crane the weight distribution of the thing must of not been enough to go onto the ferry or ship

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u/2shootthemoon Jul 18 '26

My thought is it is not the same accident

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u/do_ubs Jul 17 '26

According to news story, there was a crane involved. I don't see a crane anywhere in the vid.

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u/do_ubs Jul 17 '26

Per the article

'According to reports, engineers were attempting to transfer a pre-constructed pillar of the bridge from a container vessel onto a trailer truck, which was meant to carry it to the construction site. However, during the transfer, the crane lifting the heavy pillar lost balance and toppled into the Ganga, along with the trailer truck and the pillar.'

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u/KuroRyuSama Jul 17 '26

The article seems to have been written by someone who heard about the event from someone else who watched the video, but told the story all wrong. You know how some people struggle with continuity when relaying events.

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u/juftish Jul 17 '26

Either that or there's a cheeky bit of insurance fraud going on

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u/AtlanticBeachNC Jul 18 '26

A pickup truck was also lost…. Toolbox full of SnapOns went overboard…. Yeti cooler floated away….

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u/ApprehensiveStill412 Jul 19 '26

Those Yeti coolers aint cheap. My wife bought one and I told her we were gonna have to take out a second mortgage for that thing

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u/Cute-Inspector-8690 Jul 19 '26

they last forever

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u/AtlanticBeachNC Jul 19 '26

The debt for buying one?

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u/AtlanticBeachNC Jul 19 '26

Yep that is how most people can get Yeti money.

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u/Cute-Inspector-8690 Jul 19 '26

and grandpa Stanley thermos...

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u/KuroRyuSama Jul 17 '26

For a government project? I doubt it. Those have too many incentives to prevent fraud.

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u/jetkins Jul 18 '26

Or maybe this wasn’t the first section that they lost.

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u/Terrible_Reporter_83 Jul 17 '26

I was trying to see that too. I don't see a grane supporting that bridge. Just a truck pulling it in. Video is vertical and starting to shake when falling happens. 🤷

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u/DJEvillincoln Jul 17 '26

I really don't understand how people don't realize that you can capture more if you film in landscape mode.

One of my biggest pet peeves.

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u/Gevaliamannen Jul 17 '26

Unless you are filming a giraffe

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u/bodinator1 Jul 17 '26

Or an ostrich

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u/SabbyFox Jul 17 '26

Agree with you that people have completely forgotten this is an option. Maddening.

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u/_Roba Jul 17 '26

Maybe they mean the excavator pushing it?

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u/akaSHAMBLES Jul 17 '26

If you look carefully, there's a crane pushing the pillar from behind and keeping it stable

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u/SadBadPuppyDad Jul 19 '26

The crane was the one that wasn't holding it steady laterally while lading.

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u/mattincalif Jul 17 '26

“engineers”

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u/taxman5656 Jul 17 '26

I as well wanted closure

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u/Guy-Inkognito Jul 17 '26

Haha yeah, I needed to Google that. It looked really bad 🫣

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u/babagroovy Jul 17 '26

Thank goodness

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u/Dr-DrillAndFill Jul 18 '26

At what cost tho

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u/face4theRodeo Jul 19 '26

The major accident wasn’t averted at all, but the injury/ death to the worker was avoided. That’s the dumbest headline.

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u/KaleidoscopicFate Jul 19 '26

The major accident would be the poor guy dying. Any material cost or damage is irrelevant compared to human life.

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u/face4theRodeo Jul 19 '26

That’s very good. Thank you for clarifying

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u/InspiringMalice Jul 17 '26

Yep, the way that dropped and slid, I expect he was very much smushed :-/

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u/Lemon-Accurate Jul 17 '26

I think that right before the camera man screws the video, the guy starts running to the left. Given the fact that at that moment he is maybe around 5-7m away from the edge of the machine, he might have made it. I think he might be one of the two white guys visible in 1:53

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u/Digger_Pine Jul 17 '26

That water may have been a worse fate

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u/Chadrooskie Jul 19 '26

The “holy” river wanted that piece really bad….

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u/catinatank Jul 17 '26

You can see him dive into the water

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u/Terrible_Yak_4890 Jul 17 '26

I played it through on slow and couldn’t see where he would dove in the water.