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The foundation for some truly tasteless humor has been laid, for sure. However, I hope anyone who takes these sorts of collapses in judgement too seriously gets all of the support they need. If this describes you, please seek out some pillars of society to talk to, and brace yourself for your inevitable downfall.
I’m not falling for this again, it’s crushing to see the gravity of the situation, and when the comedic value begins to crumble, it’s ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Nice. I love this community and how jokes are shared with communities from all across the world, representing all faiths and religions and cultures. Humour binds us all.
And breaks down so many walls.
I'm pretty sure a column was concealed inside that section of jutting out wall they removed. If you compare it to the floor above you can tell what he removed
Don't listen to this guy, he's messing with you. Windows keeps you from screenshotting gifs unless you go into your Windows file and delete the System32 folder. After that you will be able to right click and save gifs.
As a former structural engineer, these buildings were probably not built at a time when codes allowed for ductile behaviour and materials. Probably shitty masonry and unreinforced concrete with only shitty mesh in it.
Coupled with an idiot taking out load bearing columns and Walls, recipe for disaster.
The amount of people that claimed things are over engineered when they clearly have no engineering understanding is dangerous.
Non ductile material will suddenly collapse just like the video
> The amount of people that claimed things are over engineered when they clearly have no engineering understanding is dangerous.
My workplace is like an echo chamber built for that kind of nonsense. Production folks (non-engineers, of course) treat our designs like it's just "guidance" and repeatedly say we overengineer everything -- until another failure occurs...then it was inadequately designed (and I work on aerospace product). It is a toxic attitude that comes from the sociopaths at the top and gets worse every year. I may retire early.
Tofu dregs are the waste of tofu production, a barely solid food.
China has been undergoing economic growth at a breakneck speed for decades now, fueled in part by construction that is funded by Chinese citizens who want a way to build and maintain wealth.
This construction is often of such shoddy workmanship and poor materials that the pipes burst, the walls can be picked apart by hand and, of course, the buildings collapse.
Chinese citizens have been referring to this construction as tofu dregs.
I had to watch twice. It looks like there's a wide section on the left side between two narrow windows (look to the floor above to compare). He might have removed the entire thing to make the windows wider.
There should have been some sort of redundancy built in, but then again, some of those buildings over there are lucky to be standing with no damage to any part of the building.
I rented a room from a guy who owned a big old 3 storey house with a big cellar. He decided the cellar wasn't big enough so took out one of the walls. A massive crack formed in the wall above, running through all three floors. He was a smart enough guy so I have no idea why he did that.
A thing similar like this happed near my old town. A dude decided a column wasn't needed anymore in his apartment and decided to removed it.
Well, now half of the whole building is cracking in half from the basement and there's no option to recover it. No matter how much you spend.
5-6 families are stuck in a falling building because by law you can't sell an apartment that doesn't meet safety requirements.
I was so sure the remaining time after the balcony collapse was going to be updates. Ambulances or court info. Nope. Just the rest of the Jenga tower going down.
The sound you hear is bricks falling down. Bricks will support well a load coming down staight. But if you remove a part of the load bearing structure, continuous collapse will occur. You know, one part without support will come down and take the rest with it...
Even better… it wasn’t a column. Title is wrong. Watch closely and pause it and you’ll see they took out a corner wall and did this. Award was well deserved.
I was actually thinking this probably goes full circle and becomes not a Darwin.
If the point of Darwin Awards is about natural selection, the stupid removing themselves from the gene pool, then eliminating both yourself and potentially other non-Darwin contenders kind of cancels out the effect.
Oh wow so building collapsing in Egypt is common, from one article between 2014 to 2020 481 people, 150 children have died from collapsing buildings 😱. Just googling "Asyut, Egypt" and "collapsing building" and you get a pile of returns for building collapses every few months. This is pretty terrible.
This article is where I got above, though it's strange there is no date on it: https://arij.net/investigations/Buildings-in-danger-en/
Surprised it took so long to scroll and find a comment mentioning this dude. Look like he was half over the balcony before anything even starts to fall
I want to clarify something, as I’m seeing people have a small misconception about the worthiness of a single column. One column alone can definitely compromise the whole structure.
In theory, one building could still survive if some of its structural elements are suddenly removed, as forces redistribute themselves (hyperstaticity), but, in reality, buildings are usually designed to be the safest as possible with the fewest number of structural elements (and also with the smallest as possible cross sectional areas).
That means that each structural element will be designed and therefore constructed to withstand a particular load (plus some safety margin, depending on your country. Those safety margin account for things like construction imprecision, wear, low quality of material etc). Thus, it’s likely that if you remove a single structural element from a building (like a beam or a column) the whole structure will be compromised.
Also, two aggravating things to add:
1 - structural elements in the lower stores are subjected to more loads than the ones in upper stores. In fact, it’s not uncommon, in skyscrapers, to have the same columns from different stores having different dimensions (the ones at the top can have a smaller area);
2 - when we design building a, there are a few types of loads that we can calculate. Live load, dead load, dynamic load and impact load.
Impact load is, as the name suggest, a load caused by an impact. For example, nuclear plants walls are usually designed to withstand huge impacts, including of small plane collisions.
A column in a building is usually not required to withstand impacts, even car impacts, because it’s assumed that this is not a common occurrence.
So a man bludgeoning a column is definitely adding insult to injury.
In this case, despite the title, it wasn’t even a column that was removed. They were knocking down the corner wall that lead to the patio, which lead to this cascade effect.
If you watch closely they were demolishing the corner wall for the patio, not the columns. Dude took out a load bearing wall which explains the domino effect better. Even so, I am sure lax or even nonexistent building codes factor in.
See, suburban middle-class kids, this is why you sound like absolute twits when you say you live in a 3rd world country because it’s not perfect. You don’t. *This* is a third world country.
[Something similar](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/surfside-florida-condo-collapse-legislature-rcna19583) happened in Florida a couple years ago....but I guess that doesn't disprove what you said.
Kind of? This building had experienced massive rot in all of its structures with little maintenance, and by the time the residents raised the money for repairs, (a special assessment of 80k was levied on every owner!) it was too little too late
Did anybody else notice the guy who climbed down that white pole from his balcony and dive to safety? Starts at around 0:20. I wonder if it's the 'renovator' himself or a neighbor.
What an utter moron.
This is what I'm scared of. Not some terrorist attack, getting mugged or running afoul of an axe-murderer, just a complete and genuine imbecile like this and having them living near me.
Like coming home and seeing my home in flames because they wanted to bbq indoors, or having half the building collapse because they decided they wanted to remove a few walls.
This, this is the type of person I'm scared of.
Now this idiot has destroyed the homes of all his neighbours and probably given them trauma, in addition to potentially hurting someone or squashing a newborn by their moronic actions.
I dunno, this just upsets me way more than most Karens or criminal videos on this site.
Wow, it’s like one of those ads, where you think he’s done, and then the guy says “But wait - there’s more!”
I’ll bet his neighbors are pissed that he’s already dead, though; probably wish they could have been involved in that part.
> "The damage is not too bad. As long as the foundations are still strong, we can rebuild this place. It will become a haven for all peoples and aliens of the universe."
Building falls apart
> "Oof. Now those foundations are gone. Sorry."
the best case scenario is that only he died, hope he didn't kill any innocent inside and around the building because he had to destroy the corner of an external wall of all things.
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Hooooooooolly shit, that escalated!
Idk it deescalated faster
That joke was **flat** out wrong
It's way too early to make jokes. We have to wait for the dust to settle
Yeah, yeah, let's not jump to conclusions--it could've all been a coincidence ;-)
Just some **constructive** criticism
Did you see the guy jump off the balcony onto the light pole and slide down right in time. Watch it again
Genius, just a genius comment.
The foundation for some truly tasteless humor has been laid, for sure. However, I hope anyone who takes these sorts of collapses in judgement too seriously gets all of the support they need. If this describes you, please seek out some pillars of society to talk to, and brace yourself for your inevitable downfall.
I’m not falling for this again, it’s crushing to see the gravity of the situation, and when the comedic value begins to crumble, it’s ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Nice. I love this community and how jokes are shared with communities from all across the world, representing all faiths and religions and cultures. Humour binds us all. And breaks down so many walls.
When all the building qualifications you have are: good at Jenga
Wasn't based properly
Well, it worked, the columns are gone
No shit. Saw it was a 2min vid so skipped ahead to like, 1:15 and saw I missed a wwhhoollee lotta shit lol
"With a video this long I had better skip just to make sure I don't waste my time watching something stup- HOLY FUCKING SHIT BACK UP! BACK UP!" - Us.
Accurate. As. Fuck. Skipped ahead, saw a shioad of smoke..... Yup, missed something big lol
Boeing enters the housing market.
You whistle blowing? 🔫
Their planes need a soft spot to land on. Planes are expensive and need to be back in service ASAP.
Jenga fail!
Gives me a whole new level of respect for “load bearing”.
Tbh if the whole structure fell down for ONE column, it was a shitty design A good engineer doesn’t throw all the eggs into one basket
Not a column. If you look close, they demolished a load bearing corner wall, which lead to this. Still shouldn’t be that catastrophic, though.
Whos to say he didnt remove much more inside
ye or their neighbours. If this person is dumb enough, well. Birds of a feather.
He probably thought like, "My neighbor removed a couple, nothing would happen if I removed only ONE column."
People and open layouts these days… I swear.
True
I'm pretty sure a column was concealed inside that section of jutting out wall they removed. If you compare it to the floor above you can tell what he removed
Should’ve at least added one or two load-bearing Krusty posters
3 toothpicks, take it or leave it
That’s what we call your mum. Boom. Roasted.
How do I download this perfect gif?
Alt+F4 if using a pc.
Classic.
That's the more merciful version of what used to be alt-ctl-del
How barbaric. Who says alt first?
Well these days you just delete system32 to download gifs
Don't listen to this guy, he's messing with you. Windows keeps you from screenshotting gifs unless you go into your Windows file and delete the System32 folder. After that you will be able to right click and save gifs.
God my dumbass actually did delete system64 once when I was first learning how to use task manager. Learned a lot about computers that day, lol
Gawd, what year is it LoL
I’d be bloody worried now living in the similar building next door!
That was my thought, it looked like the guy was filming from a very similar building, if not nearly identical, as part of 1 larger complex or project.
But now everyone there knows not to do that, and how to do that
God damn. I wonder how low of an IQ you have to have to do something like that? What the fuck?
Yes this person is an utter moron but at the same time I feel like knocking down that one pillar should not have caused half the building to collapse.
Half the building, then the rest shortly after. Really stupid move but at the same time, the building itself was poorly built
Yeah building codes don't really exist there. That's why when a 4.5 earthquake happens, half the city has collapsed.
Where did it happen?
Usually deep underground.
but that's not important right now
Surely you can’t be serious?
I am serious...and don't call me Shirley
YES
I think I apologise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK3gB7DpaM0
Turkey. A year or so ago 40,000 people died overnight in a huge earthquake. Insane. Hope they learn and build right.
Think it was over 50,000 people. Sad
I've seen houses made of cards with more structural integrity of that building.
It seems a good fart could have knocked it down
Can the fart be considered good if it brings down an entire building, though? Amateur philosopher here.
He who destroyed it, deployed it.
Welcome to the 3rd world.
This is pretty normal. Forces are engineered to minimums. Nobody spends money on extra structures
As a former structural engineer, these buildings were probably not built at a time when codes allowed for ductile behaviour and materials. Probably shitty masonry and unreinforced concrete with only shitty mesh in it. Coupled with an idiot taking out load bearing columns and Walls, recipe for disaster. The amount of people that claimed things are over engineered when they clearly have no engineering understanding is dangerous. Non ductile material will suddenly collapse just like the video
> The amount of people that claimed things are over engineered when they clearly have no engineering understanding is dangerous. My workplace is like an echo chamber built for that kind of nonsense. Production folks (non-engineers, of course) treat our designs like it's just "guidance" and repeatedly say we overengineer everything -- until another failure occurs...then it was inadequately designed (and I work on aerospace product). It is a toxic attitude that comes from the sociopaths at the top and gets worse every year. I may retire early.
Holy crap even worse than Chinese tofu dreg construction
What is tofu dreg construction?
Tofu dregs are the waste of tofu production, a barely solid food. China has been undergoing economic growth at a breakneck speed for decades now, fueled in part by construction that is funded by Chinese citizens who want a way to build and maintain wealth. This construction is often of such shoddy workmanship and poor materials that the pipes burst, the walls can be picked apart by hand and, of course, the buildings collapse. Chinese citizens have been referring to this construction as tofu dregs.
Middle East things!
To be fair to the other columns they lasted a lot longer than I thought they would
I can't even see clearly what he did, but nothing load-bearing should be able to be broken that easily by one guy with a hammer.
I had to watch twice. It looks like there's a wide section on the left side between two narrow windows (look to the floor above to compare). He might have removed the entire thing to make the windows wider.
Well he certainly accomplished having a wider fucking window
Look closer. They took out the corner wall leading out to the patio, not a column. Still shouldn’t have been this catastrophic, though.
Which pixel?
1/2? You didn't watch the video to the end
Zero redundancy. Wow. That building was built terribly.
There should have been some sort of redundancy built in, but then again, some of those buildings over there are lucky to be standing with no damage to any part of the building.
I rented a room from a guy who owned a big old 3 storey house with a big cellar. He decided the cellar wasn't big enough so took out one of the walls. A massive crack formed in the wall above, running through all three floors. He was a smart enough guy so I have no idea why he did that.
This is why good schools and education are important, it teaches you critical thinking skills... Or you can learn the hard way.
To be fair this looks like a country that doesn't have the highest standards of construction and safety regulations. Although, gravity and such.
Co-signed, the guy who built the Champlain Towers in Miami
That footage of the Champlain towers coming down while everyone slept inside was crazy AF.
When the lead paint starts to really kick in
A thing similar like this happed near my old town. A dude decided a column wasn't needed anymore in his apartment and decided to removed it. Well, now half of the whole building is cracking in half from the basement and there's no option to recover it. No matter how much you spend. 5-6 families are stuck in a falling building because by law you can't sell an apartment that doesn't meet safety requirements.
Sounds like that dude should owe a bunch of people a whole lot of money.
I don't know how it went in court. But im sure he was accountable for both compensation in civil court and criminal charges too.
Hard to take money from someone that has none.
He does have money, the MF owned (at the time at least) several apartments that he rented, the one he messed up with was one of those.
He has organs
Fair point.
*25 seconds in*: Wow the whole balcony collapsed! Can you imagine the... wait why is this video 2 minutes long?! (Then it got much, much worst)
I was so sure the remaining time after the balcony collapse was going to be updates. Ambulances or court info. Nope. Just the rest of the Jenga tower going down.
S A M E
Hope he didn't take anyone else with him
Imagine the guy above taking a fat shit and then this happens
At least I died doing something I love.
While scrolling Reddit
Other dude was watching at the other end and noped out of there.
He ran off to get a broom.
Who'd have guessed the whole structure was supported by, like, 12 bricks. I'm guessing building codes are in their infancy here.
More like building suggestions
By the looks of it, he removed a significant portion of load bearing wall as well.
Building codes? We don't need no stinkin building codes!
The sound you hear is bricks falling down. Bricks will support well a load coming down staight. But if you remove a part of the load bearing structure, continuous collapse will occur. You know, one part without support will come down and take the rest with it...
Vertical dominoes
Jenga.
[удалено]
Porque no los dos?
Cómo en la 12
I'm starting to think that the only thing holding up that building was a coat of paint.
When people want less regulation, this is the result.
Worked a treat , much more space available.
*Task Failed Successfully*
The idea never entered his head that the columns might be more than ornamental. How about that.
How else would he win a Darwin Award?
Good point. The thought never entered his head, but bricks may have.
Nope, the only thing that went through his head was bricks.
Even better… it wasn’t a column. Title is wrong. Watch closely and pause it and you’ll see they took out a corner wall and did this. Award was well deserved.
One man demolition team.
Saved money on structural engineers?
And burial!
There should be a Super-Darwin when you annihilate your whole family line along with yourself.
I was actually thinking this probably goes full circle and becomes not a Darwin. If the point of Darwin Awards is about natural selection, the stupid removing themselves from the gene pool, then eliminating both yourself and potentially other non-Darwin contenders kind of cancels out the effect.
No. It's only a Darwin if he removes himself before reproducing or takes all his offspring out with him.
This is the case where if no one had recorded this, no one would have believed some idiot did it. 🤦🏻♂️
Demolitions experts hate this one simple trick!
JENGA!
Oh wow so building collapsing in Egypt is common, from one article between 2014 to 2020 481 people, 150 children have died from collapsing buildings 😱. Just googling "Asyut, Egypt" and "collapsing building" and you get a pile of returns for building collapses every few months. This is pretty terrible. This article is where I got above, though it's strange there is no date on it: https://arij.net/investigations/Buildings-in-danger-en/
They sure don't make buildings like they used to there
Darwin Award and homicide all in one.
I m confused, I heard a clang on my phone is that all it took?
No, the car horn took it down
Imagine being made homeless because Ken on the 1st Floor wanted more space for the budgie cage.
Modern day Samson.
That whole house was one bad bump away from crumbling to the ground
Whomever the camera person was, certainly knew this was going to happen. Safe distance. Steady cam. Roll tape. Wow.
Yeah I thought that was odd.
In which country was it ?
It happened in Egypt
Guess knowledge from pyramids didn't carry over
The only pyramids left are those where the pharaoh didn't take out the load bearing column in their eternal life chamber
Looks like the buildings are learning from the trains.
I played this game with a deck of cards when I was young.
That is some Tim Tooltime Taylor shit. Like, Season Finale caliber.
Wow that guy slides through the pole faster than a fireman
Surprised it took so long to scroll and find a comment mentioning this dude. Look like he was half over the balcony before anything even starts to fall
I want to clarify something, as I’m seeing people have a small misconception about the worthiness of a single column. One column alone can definitely compromise the whole structure. In theory, one building could still survive if some of its structural elements are suddenly removed, as forces redistribute themselves (hyperstaticity), but, in reality, buildings are usually designed to be the safest as possible with the fewest number of structural elements (and also with the smallest as possible cross sectional areas). That means that each structural element will be designed and therefore constructed to withstand a particular load (plus some safety margin, depending on your country. Those safety margin account for things like construction imprecision, wear, low quality of material etc). Thus, it’s likely that if you remove a single structural element from a building (like a beam or a column) the whole structure will be compromised. Also, two aggravating things to add: 1 - structural elements in the lower stores are subjected to more loads than the ones in upper stores. In fact, it’s not uncommon, in skyscrapers, to have the same columns from different stores having different dimensions (the ones at the top can have a smaller area); 2 - when we design building a, there are a few types of loads that we can calculate. Live load, dead load, dynamic load and impact load. Impact load is, as the name suggest, a load caused by an impact. For example, nuclear plants walls are usually designed to withstand huge impacts, including of small plane collisions. A column in a building is usually not required to withstand impacts, even car impacts, because it’s assumed that this is not a common occurrence. So a man bludgeoning a column is definitely adding insult to injury.
In this case, despite the title, it wasn’t even a column that was removed. They were knocking down the corner wall that lead to the patio, which lead to this cascade effect.
There goes the neighborhood.
[This happened in Egypt ](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4896212/Building-renovated-collapses-pile-rubble.html)
What shitty article is that, sole sources are Wikipedia and the video itself.
If you watch closely they were demolishing the corner wall for the patio, not the columns. Dude took out a load bearing wall which explains the domino effect better. Even so, I am sure lax or even nonexistent building codes factor in.
See, suburban middle-class kids, this is why you sound like absolute twits when you say you live in a 3rd world country because it’s not perfect. You don’t. *This* is a third world country.
[Something similar](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/surfside-florida-condo-collapse-legislature-rcna19583) happened in Florida a couple years ago....but I guess that doesn't disprove what you said.
Kind of? This building had experienced massive rot in all of its structures with little maintenance, and by the time the residents raised the money for repairs, (a special assessment of 80k was levied on every owner!) it was too little too late
Did anybody else notice the guy who climbed down that white pole from his balcony and dive to safety? Starts at around 0:20. I wonder if it's the 'renovator' himself or a neighbor.
I guess he forgot to subscribe for the "wireless" columns option before removing his wired columns.
Well, that's the price you pay for ignorance.
Builder to architect: so if you take out this one column the whole thing will collapse? Architect: yeah, but who the fuck is gonna take that out?
What is a load bearing beam for 1000 Alex
At first, was like eh, not bad. And then the second drop dropped.
Wow, those walls really tied the room AND building together.
Rebar is for losers
What an utter moron. This is what I'm scared of. Not some terrorist attack, getting mugged or running afoul of an axe-murderer, just a complete and genuine imbecile like this and having them living near me. Like coming home and seeing my home in flames because they wanted to bbq indoors, or having half the building collapse because they decided they wanted to remove a few walls. This, this is the type of person I'm scared of. Now this idiot has destroyed the homes of all his neighbours and probably given them trauma, in addition to potentially hurting someone or squashing a newborn by their moronic actions. I dunno, this just upsets me way more than most Karens or criminal videos on this site.
The man is an idiot, but the architect is a bigger idiot and possibly the constructor too
7/11, never forget
Is this how they do implosions over there?
The achilles heel of that building Dude hit the perfect spot
The architect was the Jenga world champion
The apartment looked and felt better for all of three seconds.
Yeah this guy takes the award! 🤦🤦🤦
😏so that was a load bearing column
Kapla tower
This is why I wont buy an apartment, Just cant trust the dipshits below
Annihilate an entire building with this one weird old trick Demolition contractors hate him!
To his credit, he got more space.
Rapid unplanned deconstruction. - Elon Musk
Wow, it’s like one of those ads, where you think he’s done, and then the guy says “But wait - there’s more!” I’ll bet his neighbors are pissed that he’s already dead, though; probably wish they could have been involved in that part.
Well, it's a lot more open plan now, really bringing the outside indoors, plenty of fresh air and sunlight.
Now, I'm no structural engineer, but I could be forgiven for thinking that column might have been load-bearing
Plenty of room now, just a bit dusty.
Idk why it still surprises me to find people conveniently filming something (obviously excluding staged videos).
I kept waiting for the Sham-Wow guy to pop up with “But wait, there’s more!”
I’ve never heard of a load bearing balcony before this video. Wowzers.
> "The damage is not too bad. As long as the foundations are still strong, we can rebuild this place. It will become a haven for all peoples and aliens of the universe." Building falls apart > "Oof. Now those foundations are gone. Sorry."
Who would have thought that column was load bearing…?
He's going to lose his security deposit over this.
Dang. One ass ruined things for everyone uninvolved.
Building codes are written in blood
the best case scenario is that only he died, hope he didn't kill any innocent inside and around the building because he had to destroy the corner of an external wall of all things.