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destrekor

destrekor

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Nov 18, 2005
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are those latter shots real? for some reason, I wanna say they are photoshopped. I dunno...
 
Aharami

Aharami

Lifer
Aug 31, 2001
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last 2 are pchopped

look at the people in the last photo and people in the 3rd photo from last. they are in the same exact position.
 
destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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Originally posted by: Maiora
C'mon guys!

I bet you fall for those chain mails too! :rollo;
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that's what I was guessing. The first photos looked real but sketchy after that, and the final image (of the version in the OPs link), where it was just different colors pasted on an altered version where the red crane was already in.
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

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Feb 26, 2006
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That's not a crane accident mate... THIS is a crane accident...


I spent over 30 years as a crane operator and have seen all kinds of accidents, from "simple" oh-shits to those that killed several people. I was involved in one as an apprentice when I was working with a crew of carpenters setting forms. Another crew had rigged in the boom for a MUCH larger crane not far from where we were working. When they were done, they boomed the crane up off the ground and started to swing it over to go to work. They had forgotten to put a couple of pins in that held the mid-point penant lines and the boom buckled and came crashing down on me and my crane, pinning me in the rig for several hours. It broke my arm and in general, beat the hell out of me. Minor concussion, lots of cuts, bruises, and contusions, but nothing too serious. I spent a week in the hospital over that.
I was one of the lucky ones however...I survived. 2 of the carpenters I was working with were killed, as was one of the Ironworkers who had helped assemble the crane.
As you'll see in the video I posted, crane accidents happen in a split second, and often, you don't even have time to react...one minute, everything's going along fine, the next minutem CRASH...everything has gone to shit and there are people hurt and/or dead.
 
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akshatp

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Originally posted by: BoomerD
That's not a crane accident mate... THIS is a crane accident...


I spent over 30 years as a crane operator and have seen all kinds of accidents, from "simple" oh-shits to those that killed several people. I was involved in one as an apprentice when I was working with a crew of carpenters setting forms. Another crew had rigged in the boom for a MUCH larger crane not far from where we were working. When they were done, they boomed the crane up off the ground and started to swing it over to go to work. They had forgotten to put a couple of pins in that held the mid-point penant lines and the boom buckled and came crashing down on me and my crane, pinning me in the rig for several hours. It broke my arm and in general, beat the hell out of me. Minor concussion, lots of cuts, bruises, and contusions, but nothing too serious. I spent a week in the hospital over that.
I was one of the lucky ones however...I survived. 2 of the carpenters I was working with were killed, as was one of the Ironworkers who had helped assemble the crane.
As you'll see in the video I posted, crane accidents happen in a split second, and often, you don't even have time to react...one minute, everything's going along fine, the next minutem CRASH...everything has gone to shit and there are people hurt and/or dead.
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Holy F!!! Just watched that video... Crazy shit... That happened FAST!!

And your story sounds even worse!!!
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I'm quite a bit younger than the internets so new to me. BTW, that can't be real can it?
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no not at all, crane operators never make mistakes.

Crane accidents happen.
 
Jeff7

Jeff7

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Jan 4, 2001
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I'd only seen the first part before. I didn't see the part with the second crane falling in, too. It seems that there's a good reason, too.;)

They did it a few more times, but after enough cranes had fallen in, the pile was high enough that no more could fall. That's when they just poured concrete over the whole mess, and declared it some sort of memorial to concrete workers who died in the line of duty.
 
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MisterJackson

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Jun 19, 2004
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I'm quite a bit younger than the internets so new to me. BTW, that can't be real can it?
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no not at all, crane operators never make mistakes.

Crane accidents happen.
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Actually smartass, Snopes said the last part of that is photoshopped.
 
Hyperlite

Hyperlite

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May 25, 2004
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Originally posted by: BoomerD
That's not a crane accident mate... THIS is a crane accident...


I spent over 30 years as a crane operator and have seen all kinds of accidents, from "simple" oh-shits to those that killed several people. I was involved in one as an apprentice when I was working with a crew of carpenters setting forms. Another crew had rigged in the boom for a MUCH larger crane not far from where we were working. When they were done, they boomed the crane up off the ground and started to swing it over to go to work. They had forgotten to put a couple of pins in that held the mid-point penant lines and the boom buckled and came crashing down on me and my crane, pinning me in the rig for several hours. It broke my arm and in general, beat the hell out of me. Minor concussion, lots of cuts, bruises, and contusions, but nothing too serious. I spent a week in the hospital over that.
I was one of the lucky ones however...I survived. 2 of the carpenters I was working with were killed, as was one of the Ironworkers who had helped assemble the crane.
As you'll see in the video I posted, crane accidents happen in a split second, and often, you don't even have time to react...one minute, everything's going along fine, the next minutem CRASH...everything has gone to shit and there are people hurt and/or dead.
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:shocked: :shocked:
 
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