I nominate this spectacular equipment failure as one of the all time best “Oh shit” events. Note the cascading failures continuing further into the background over time.
According to reddit, there were no serious injuries, even for the driver.
Seen any similar videos lately?
That’s very cool. And certainly good that you referred to it as equipment failure - surely this is a design failure, the use of inadequate equipment for the purpose. It’s hardly the forklift driver’s fault.
The classic of the genre is surely the Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge. The only casualty was a dog.
I like this mass crash across a wet finish line in the 2007 Giro (cycling race). What I is unique is that I don’t think there’s contact between any of the crashing and sliding riders. The cascade of falls is caused by successive attempts at evasive action on the slick road.
I remember some clips of early ‘flying machines’. Some were actual attempts by people who did not understand physics or had not done serious examination of the Wright’s work, and some were probably not serious to begin with, but they (1) failed, often spectacularly, and (2) many of them would qualify as art, IMHO.
There are many clips that can be easily accessed, here is one with a variety: Early Flying Failures Stock Footage - The Film Gate - YouTube
More an epic landing rather than an epic failure.
Penske truck winds up on top of house in bizarre crash caught on dash cam
The one at 0:20 where a biplane is flown into a barn looks deliberate. It’s clearly a fake barn constructed for the purpose at a show, and it looks like a proper flying biplane, not some early joke. Not sure what’s going on there.
One of my favorite Youtube videos, Trust me I’m an engineer, has a compendium of epic fails. (Yes, I know a few of them are bogus.)
This reminds me of the Soviet engineering joke from Chernobyl.
(joke starts 20 seconds in)
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This one was replicated last season on “9-1-1”.
Wow, like a bunch of dominoes!
This is an illustration of why
Now if we could just get the newest cart boy at work to stop ramming carts into the Very Expensive Lottery Vending machine…
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I like this mass crash across a wet finish line in the 2007 Giro (cycling race). What I is unique is that I don’t think there’s contact between any of the crashing and sliding riders. The cascade of falls is caused by successive attempts at evasive action on the slick road.
[/QUOTE]Then there’s the crash last year on the Mountain of Hell race in the Alps, which definitely included contact between riders. Skip to 3:00 for the slo-mo view.
When and where did THAT happen? I’m glad nobody was seriously injured, or worse, but millions of dollars’ in merchandise had to have been destroyed.
Dead whale washed up on beach. How do you get rid of it? Dynamite, of course!
The Worst Forklift Operator looks like a scene out of Mr. Bean.
I assume there was an investigation after this event (OSHA or the equivalent, the insurance company, etc.). I wonder what the conclusion was. Should the racks have been bolted to the floor? Were they overloaded? I tried to google it but couldn’t find actual stories about it.
Much much better than the most elaborate domino crash I’ve ever seen.
This one is lovely. Molten metal everywhere
I’ve seen a couple compilation videos of quarantined people trying to work out at home, with slapstick results. Maybe a very low kind of art, but I chuckled. - YouTube
I almost forgot this one, as a concrete buffer takes on a half dozen construction workers as it does an industrial ballet…Concrete Buffer Gone Wild - YouTube
Ooh, pretty!