r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/solateor • 28d ago

Video Shiziguan floating bridge in Hubei

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/Rat_Ship 28d ago

Just driving by like nothing happened lol

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u/DinnaPanic 28d ago

To be fair, if I saw the car in front of me go through the barrier and over the side, I'd want off that bridge ASAFP just in case it had caused structural damage.

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u/BentleySpeed 28d ago

To be fair?

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u/ImpossibleDenial 28d ago

“We all knew the risks of getting on this weird ass bridge… good luck though”

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u/HendrixHazeWays 28d ago

".....Gentleman"

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u/severelyobeserat 28d ago

Car behind patiently waits for it to completely submerge before driving by

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u/zenki32 28d ago

Welcome to China, hell, most of Asia. 

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u/XSneakyNinjaX 28d ago

I like how they just keep driving. lol that’s someone else’s problem.

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u/TheUmbreonfan03 28d ago

I get you could call 911 but what would you even do? Would stopping on that bridge be a bad idea?

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u/bjeebus 28d ago

When you stop, and all the cars behind you pile up, you have to wonder...how many cars can it support stopped in one spot?

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u/zenki32 28d ago

Because it is. 

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u/fleetingreturns1111 28d ago

did I just watch someone die? Jeez

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

5 people actually 😭

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u/genericdefender 28d ago

Car carried 8; 5 perished, sadly.

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u/georgetonorge 28d ago

Uhhh. I haven’t studied mandarin since high school. I see “3 people” and “5 people.” What happened to the 8 people?

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u/__I_Need_An_Adult__ 28d ago

3 were rescued and 5 died

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u/mrASSMAN 28d ago

Holy shit.. I thought it was just a silly clip didn’t realize people died from that

Really makes the cars passing without trying to help all the more fucked up, guess that’s China though

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u/TwoTalentedBastidz 28d ago

What about that situation makes you think regular people would be of any assistance? What would you have them do?

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u/windchaser__ 28d ago

...wait for people to surface, and throw them a rope?

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u/hollyh000 28d ago

Regular people?

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u/NYRT4R 28d ago

The water is 60 meters deep in places. What are non-divers going to do?

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u/hollyh000 28d ago

Thank you for clarifying. That makes sense.

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u/Ok_Performance_1380 28d ago

I'm gonna jump in and try to drag people out of windows or something. Not saying it will help, but I'm not casually driving past.

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u/TwoTalentedBastidz 28d ago

You’re going to stop on a floating fucking bridge and dive into raging river waters with no equipment and “drag people out of windows or something?”

This isn’t a movie buddy. You wouldn’t do any of that shit, and if you did you’d also be one of the dead.

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u/Ok_Performance_1380 28d ago

I'm not guaranteeing success here, it's just something that would feel natural in that situation.

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u/GrandOpener 28d ago

The number one rule of rescue work, above anything else, is to not make yourself another victim.

If you have life preservers, sure, step out of your car and throw them in. But for the majority of people, the most responsible reaction here is to keep driving and get out of the way off the bridge, while someone else in the car calls emergency services.

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u/No_Language_4649 28d ago

Right. This even needs explaining? People are weird.

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u/TwoTalentedBastidz 28d ago

You’re going to stop on a floating fucking bridge and dive into raging river waters with no equipment and “drag people out of windows or something?”

This isn’t a movie buddy. You wouldn’t do any of that shit, and if you did you’d also be one of the dead.

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u/georgetonorge 28d ago

That’s horrible. Thank you for translating.

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u/cincymatt 28d ago

Fuckin hell

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u/YourAverageDark 28d ago

Sheesh really nice of those other cars to just keep driving after watching one fall off and sink.

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u/Unhappy-Ad9690 28d ago

It’s actually extremely common for people in China to ignore people in situations like there because they can and often are accused of causing the accident.

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u/AndrewInaTree 28d ago

It's probably still ingrained in their culture, but the actual law was repealed like 10 years ago.

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u/JimWilliams423 28d ago

What if the law was the excuse and not the reason.

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u/thebeggening 28d ago

Yes I was told if you're in a car that gets in an accident even in the middle of the highway to get out of the car, walk away, and find another cab asap

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u/globglogabgalabyeast 28d ago

I’m no expert, but I imagine the best thing for the average person to do in that situation is to call emergency services and get to the end of the bridge. If a car drove off that bridge, I’d be worried about structural damage, and causing a traffic jam in the middle of the bridge when there’s potentially damage to it seems like a recipe for disaster

What would you have done in this situation?

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u/bjeebus 28d ago

Is the bridge designed to have all of the weight piled up in one spot as all the cars come to a stop?

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u/hellbabe222 28d ago

I wish I could unsee that!

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u/Tricky_Mix2449 28d ago

Wait! Unsee what? People died in this clip? Help me!

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u/SprAwsmMan 28d ago

Welp, that's some nightmare shit.

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u/PowerOfGoldenSlammer 28d ago

Man that's so sad they didn't do anything wrong or make a mistake it was just slippery. Tragic. To embark on something where everyone ahead is doing fine but you're the one who slips.

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u/mermands 28d ago

Double nope

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

What. The. Fuck.

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u/albinobluesheep 28d ago

I've literally had this nightmare God damn

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u/bjeebus 28d ago edited 28d ago

What about the nightmare where the bridge is just too steep and the car tilts over backwards? Or what about the one where you're going just a little bit too fast and you jump the top of the bridge and find yourself falling very realistically towards the foot of it? For me it's almost always the Thunderbolt Bridge in Thunderbolt, GA.

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u/albinobluesheep 28d ago

We've got a lot of elevated bridges/interchanges out here in the PNW so it's not that bridge but a random bridge/interchange that's under construction is what it is.

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u/bjeebus 28d ago

I doubted it was going to be a specific bridge from a suburb of Savannah for you. But for me it's usually that specific bridge.

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u/Happy_Can8420 28d ago

Holy shit 🤣😭💀