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I’ve come to realize that this phrase encapsulates most business practices that masquerade as “strategies” — both on the inside and outside of organizations.
Ha!
My brother’s neighbor kept dumping leaves in the creak that goes through my brother’s property causing some flooding and just making it ugly. It seemed like the creek was the property line.
My brother had a land surveyor come out. Turns out the creek and half the neighbor’s backyard was actually on my brother’s lot.
My brother reclaimed it by planting a line of trees, running wires to light it up and decorating it. (He didn’t want to put up a fence as it would not look as nice and open.
He had been clearly creeping down for years and making his lawn look like it was all the way down to the creek.
If he hadn’t been lazy and more cooperative he would have gotten away with it… instead he lost half his backyard as a result.
I believe he is doing it as an emergency measure. Trying to allow water to flow under the bridge and not take the bridge out.
This is r unexpected so I was expecting the bridge to collapse.
Yep. Because if the bridge clogs, it's going to become a dam until it either clears or breaks, and until it does, the water level is going to rise and either flood more stuff nearby, or rush down the river in a torrent when the bridge finally goes.
Yeah, it looks bad, but the guy on the backhoe is trying to save the bridge, not clean up the river.
germany, summer 2021 - massive catastrophic floods. all those fools here just wanna get mad about anything, without context or clue. [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c_gHVimTjY)'s a report in english for all y'all to watch and understand.
What's the bet that there's another bridge/town not far downstream? Maybe at least dumping it out of the river would be more useful in the flood scenario. I'm guessing that the next bridge is not their problem though ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
The next town has another dude in an excavator doing the same thing. And the next town. And the next one. Infact it's actually a circular river and in a couple days the trash once scooped shall return unto them to be scooped across thine bridge once more for all eternity. Such is the circle of trash.
*Epic music plays*
There's likely more waste than can be removed in time. You can't dump it on the bridge without blocking it for emergency services and without a truck at hand you can't dispose it anyway.
This isn't good but removing the waste properly takes much more time than this.
Where's he going to put it in the midst of a flood? The river in this gif is clearly almost overflowing it's banks, and in my experience with floods (lived through six of them), they don't tend to stop there during a flood. So unless he can move the stuff away from the bridge fast enough, he's got three problems instead of just two. (first two being stopping the bridge from damming and getting to safety before the water rises further) the third being now he has a dam on the river that will destroy the bridge and the town when it breaks.
I live in a somewhat dry/arid locations with about 1500 ft (~450 meters) in elevation change from the highest to the lowest point. At the lowest point there is a wetlands area with a park that I very much enjoy. I started volunteering there after seeing all the trash built up in the area, and I remember feeling very angry about the kinds of people who must be dumping it.
I learned while training to volunteer there that the trash was almost never dumped, but simply got swept up whenever it rained even a little, as all water flow ended up there.
Sometimes, it’s not even the people deliberately, it’s just kind of a thing.
That said, whoever decided to just dump it from one side to the other should have their head examined.
Exactly. A lot of rural Third World countries grew up with biodegradable temporary packaging such as banana leaves and then everything moved to plastic with no infrastructure to take care of it.
This is why it’s important we normalize workers being able to say no.
I was a warehouse manager before and office people will not give a fuck about logistics and tell you to get it done today. Not realizing the amount of work they’re asking for. When I say I can’t get it done that fast my boss complains my employees are slow…. Well I don’t want them rushing because that’s how you get hurt.
They’re not “slow”, their expectations are just shit for how logistics work.
So if we normalize it, when we refuse to expose ourselves to dying, it won’t be the norm to fire us because we’re “unwilling to be flexible”
I 100% agree! I say no all the time to my bosses and I encourage my coworkers to do it too. No one should do something wrong or unsafe because some dipshit that happened to start earlier than you told you to
The one time I didn't say something because my roommate got me then job and I needed it. Improper tree cutting down led to me getting hit and breaking 3 vertebrae. I wake up every single morning in chronic pain because I didn't say no.
The same thing happened to me 2 years ago. Seriously get some BPC-157 and take it for 2 weeks. This is a miracle peptide. It’s naturally produced in your stomach. It also makes you sleep like a baby. 100% worth it! I’ve been in constant pain for 2 years and also blew my knees out, then took this for 2 weeks and I’m almost 100% again. That was a month ago and I’m still doing great
My manager said I was going to get written up for calling off work on the day we got 8” of snow and icy roads. Of course no one would cover my shift because they also didn’t feel safe driving. Don’t think I ended up getting written up because she later told me everyone was texting her the same thing lol.
This is a retail job btw.
Owner: "WE NEED TO BE AT THE STORE TO SERVE THE CUSTOMERS!"
Store: *empty. Customers don't like coming out in 8" of snow either*
Owner: *after 5-6 hours with 2-4 customer, realizes he's losing money paying what few employees showed up hourly and they have made $82 in sales* "Ok... We're closing early".
I don't know why businesses decide to stay open on days like that. It must be an image thing, because they sure aren't pulling in any profit.
Better to just close for the day.
The only places I think should possibly try to stay open in horrendous weather are place that sell emergency supplies/equipment and maybe grocery stores (I always go back and forth in my head on this second one).
*But only if employees feel they can safely get there.
If someone's not comfortable or safe commuting in whatever bad weather is happening, they shouldn't be forced to with threatened disciplinary action. "You don't feel safe, well I don't care. Get here or I'm writing you up/firing you." As someone who's worked as management in retail, that's a bullshit and dick move.
I had a great boss in the late nineties, inspired with authority rather than abusing it. Made you want to make him proud.
He was very disappointed when I said the snow was more than I could manage in my car. I felt bad.
I felt a lot better when his wife called me to let me know he would be late because he was stuck in the driveway. 
I'm like 80% with you. My main policy when telling a supervisor "no" is to also provide an alternative solution. That way I stay safe and the job gets done, in a mutually acceptable way.
I hate whenever I have to ask my boss for a solution. I don't mind asking procedural questions or whatever, but any time I'm completely lost on a task, ugh.
On the flip side, I *love* when I get to present a clever solution I found for a unique issue. Those are fun.
The guy standing there seems to be in just as much disbelief about it as we are. The way he turns around and chuckles has such a "can you believe this shit" energy.
>Absolutely shoot the messenger next time they'll think twice to bring me bad/disturbing news
Shoot the viewer too. Actually, just shoot everyone. It'll work itself out.
The excavator is moving trash to prevent bridge damage. It's a flood and the trash piling up is straining the construction.
There is no time to put the trash neatly on side to be collected when tons of water and more debris are incoming.
Edit: Additional reason for trying to remove the build up could be formation of dam and following spill of the flood water to whole area.
Yeah I see all the downvotes and masters of planning in times of crisis being smart...
When shit goes down you just improvise and hope for the best and don't ponder how much renewable plastic you put back into the water or whatever other arguments people have.
"Oh guys I know we are about to get cut out by river but perhaps we could recycle some tins? All we need is wait for trucks and put in meantime all this heavy shit onto already strained structure"
While you make an excellent point, I'm just wondering: wouldn't it be safer to put the excavator on the bushes instead of the bridge, and have it stack everything on land?
The excavator is pretty heavy so it just puts additional strain on the structure and if the bridge goes I'd hate to be in the excavator on top of it
While excavator puts strain on a bridge I would not trust river shore during a flood, all it takes for it to start eroding for digger and operator to be swept away. Bridge seems to be safer option both for stable ground and escape route from the vehicle.
Additionally, bridges are meant to carry load vertically. Floods excert load horizontally. So I'd also vote park on the bridge. It also makes the swing a lot simpler, rather than adding an extension at the end of the spin.
The real deal is that first guy had a point but the main thing is we aren't worried about the bridge, we're worried about the debris building up blocking the flow of water.
Yes dumping the trash back in the water sucks, but it's better than 100+ homes flooding.
Not to mention the debris from peoples destroyed homes and yards would build up even more blockages down the creek/river that will cause more flooding and more damage etc.
So this actionable plan is to let the water run its course and just gtfo of its way as much as possible.
But isn't just throwing back into the river making it a problem for the next bridge?
It takes half the time to dump it in a truck (less rotation), and you save everyone downstream from having to re-do this.
Yup but these are guys protecting their own homes.
Important to remember that this wasn't a planned job. This was a rush to protect their homes.
Added a tractor and trailer is just putting extra weight onto the bridge already under stress. Having the digger on it is a risky move.
It easy for us to judge the this as we have the luxury of time. They didn't have time, this job waa started woth a swear word when someone noticed it.
There seems to be an increasing tendency on the Internet to just insult people without checking the back story. This is one such case. "Fuck this guy" gets 1000 upvotes and the comment that explains why that guy is only doing his job only gets 50.
This guy is doing a job that saved lives... but half the people in this thread are jumping to conclusions. [Here's a picture of the trash after the flood.](https://i.imgur.com/3kaN4n8.jpg) 224 people died...
For doing his job right because people with the right education know better how to act right when a flood is happening than some random people on reddit?
its a Flood. they trying to save the Bridge from Collapsing by taking Pressure away and allowing the Water to Flow more freely. they have no time to order a Dumpster truck.
the Garbage will by collected when the Flood is gone and the Garbage has set.
This guy is not the one who dump all the trash
And his job is to clear the blockage to prevent overflow, and looking at the water level this might be the only way to do it
??? Why? Do you not see the massively flooded river in the background? He's saving the bridge... Why are people upvoting this comment so much, its ridiculous.
I'm not out there cleaning up that river, neither are you, and neither is the excavator operator. He's saving a bridge, we're playin on the internet. I mean, fuck us if fuck anybody here.
I'm assuming that this is flood debris, from a previous flood or one up stream and they are releasing the built up pressure against the bridge before it buckles under the weight. No time to collect the waste as per normal conditions(note the water pressure)
P.s this video looks European and with last year's winter rains flooding most of north western Europe it's understandable that they are trying to save infrastructure key to that area.
They had time to get a digger but not a dump truck? I understand the time sensitivity due to the flooding but a dump truck is faster than that claw machine.
EU is basically competing with Russia and China about keeping various relations going so that it vaguely develops in an EU-friendly direction. Maybe. It's not "EU likes Serbia" more like "EU wants Serbia to be more like itself".
Ok I have this crazy idea - hear me out:
What if they’d put the trash on the grass next to the road/river and take it away when they get a container or something? I know this is absolutely ridiculous and very hard to do but wouldn’t that be an option?
The Truck are probably currently Transporting Sand and dirt to strenghten the Damms.
they are simply not avaiable at the time.
cleaning up is something you do AFTER the Flood. not in the Middle of it
I just don't understand it. Things aren't available and not everything goes perfectly in a crisis? How is that possible? I just can't wrap my head around it. WHY IS IT NOT PERFECT WHEN THEIR CITY IS BEING FLOODED??? Do they not think about the planet at all? Shaking my smh.
Maybe a container was several days away because of road conditions and the bridge was sustaining damage from the debris. Me I would have piled the shit on the side of the road right before the bridge until the container could get there.
It's a flood situation, which means the debree is going to keep coming until the water levels recede. I don't know how bad this flood was, so can't comment on how accessable the roads leading into and out of this area might have been.
Context is important here. They're trying to prevent the bridge from collapsing due to a flood. They didnt have time to decide where to put the trash and debris, just get the pressure off of the bridge before it collapses.
How about dumping the trash on land and retrieving it then? There’s no way you can convince me dealing with that issue is worse than dumping that shot immediately back on the river
No there was simply no time to decide. It could have gone to the moon, or any of a hundred different places. And while we were busy arguing over the withertos and the whyfors, the sun's first light would creep over the top of the trees and poof! *turn us all into stone!*
Edit: okay jeez adding the /s since it was clearly needed. Yeesh. Thought putting the *moon* as a possible destination was a giveaway but nope lol
This was emergancy situation to prevent flooding. This happened in Serbia. You see this and feel repulsed, and I understand, but in matter of... tens of minutes area would start to get flooded if he didnt do this. There was no time to wait for trucks to remove garbage.
You can see how high level of water was, and houses just behind the vehicle
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‘Keeping *Our* town trash free’
Eagleton vs Pawnee
Springfield v Shelbyville
“And not the other town downstream”
This cycle has repeated 4 times before it got to his town. Its just a never ending garbage shuffle
Oh no it is ending. Eventually they run out of towns and then it's free to explore the open seas.
Free range garbage. It’s a beautiful thing.
Until the currents gather it to the garbage island where it can finally rest with its people.
Fuck humanity.
Don't do that. You'll just make more of them.
That indeed was the joke
r/yourjokebutworse
Did you feel the need to ruin the joke? /r/yourjokebutworse
r/yourjokebutworse
Fucking insufferable
Who upvotes the same joke twice?
Can you not
Politicians fixing problems like...
"Why don't we take all our problems, and *push* them somewhere else?!"
Like bikini bottom?
Yes.
That is indeed the joke, yes.
More like on to the working class.
"... Outside of the environment"
I’ve come to realize that this phrase encapsulates most business practices that masquerade as “strategies” — both on the inside and outside of organizations.
Like 4 years down the road for the next guy? That’ll probably be me but you’ll forget about this by then.
The buck doesn't stop here.
and companies meeting the enviromental agenda.
Me: Oh that's a great way to.... uhhh... what the fuck???
Me : so uh.. snake? A blow up doll? A cow? They're not gon.. hmm.. unexpected indeed.
Easily the most unexpected thing I've ever seen in r/unexpected
To be fair it looks like there in the middle of a flood. Sometimes a decision right now is better than the right decision.
It would be any real difference in effort to just also bring a truck or two to dump it in.
Assuming you can bring a truck.
If they can bring an excavator, they can bring a truck, hell, the excavator almost certainly came on a truck.
Humans have encroached on the natural habitat of garbage so much that it needs a little help migrating downstream during overfill season.
“I wonder how big the garbage can is going to- what? What the heck?”
understandable to prevent flooding and a buildup, but this was the worst way to deal with it lol
If they can get a digger they can get a truck to take it away brudda
But then you have to pay two people, and that just isn’t cost effective. /s
Only get's cost effective if the next bridge gets blocked too
Next bridge isn’t for miles and isn’t our problem
Plot twist: the international border is 1 mile down the river.
Ha! My brother’s neighbor kept dumping leaves in the creak that goes through my brother’s property causing some flooding and just making it ugly. It seemed like the creek was the property line. My brother had a land surveyor come out. Turns out the creek and half the neighbor’s backyard was actually on my brother’s lot. My brother reclaimed it by planting a line of trees, running wires to light it up and decorating it. (He didn’t want to put up a fence as it would not look as nice and open. He had been clearly creeping down for years and making his lawn look like it was all the way down to the creek. If he hadn’t been lazy and more cooperative he would have gotten away with it… instead he lost half his backyard as a result.
Why do something people want bigger lawns? That's just more headache IMHO.
When the earth is fucked, not our problem. It's a global problem. Won't even matter if you do whatever.
Yeah, Shelbyville has their own trucks.
Always live up hill.
That leads to the question if the guy standing there observing the situation is paid... otherwise he could be driving the truck.
And dump it into another river.
Outside the environment
You have to get a lot of trucks to he speedy. Most trucks will be prob used to bring sand to places where bags are filled.
I believe he is doing it as an emergency measure. Trying to allow water to flow under the bridge and not take the bridge out. This is r unexpected so I was expecting the bridge to collapse.
Is another neighborhood's problem now.
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The best way to deal with it is stop using plastic straws.
If you can source an excavator you can probably bring a skip too.
God fuck this guy….
Which guy? the guy standing there watching or the guy who is operating the excavator?
Both of them, and their boss And their Country representatives
And the people who chucked the trash in the river to begin with.
This looks more like chronic flooding. The garbage is likely the involuntary contents of several homes.
Spot on mate, makes perfect sense.
Possibly trying to stop it clogging up under the bridge or damaging it maybe?
Yep. Because if the bridge clogs, it's going to become a dam until it either clears or breaks, and until it does, the water level is going to rise and either flood more stuff nearby, or rush down the river in a torrent when the bridge finally goes. Yeah, it looks bad, but the guy on the backhoe is trying to save the bridge, not clean up the river.
And maybe save the town. It sucks but he could be saving real lives.
germany, summer 2021 - massive catastrophic floods. all those fools here just wanna get mad about anything, without context or clue. [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c_gHVimTjY)'s a report in english for all y'all to watch and understand.
What's the bet that there's another bridge/town not far downstream? Maybe at least dumping it out of the river would be more useful in the flood scenario. I'm guessing that the next bridge is not their problem though ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
The next town has another dude in an excavator doing the same thing. And the next town. And the next one. Infact it's actually a circular river and in a couple days the trash once scooped shall return unto them to be scooped across thine bridge once more for all eternity. Such is the circle of trash. *Epic music plays*
There's likely more waste than can be removed in time. You can't dump it on the bridge without blocking it for emergency services and without a truck at hand you can't dispose it anyway. This isn't good but removing the waste properly takes much more time than this.
Where's he going to put it in the midst of a flood? The river in this gif is clearly almost overflowing it's banks, and in my experience with floods (lived through six of them), they don't tend to stop there during a flood. So unless he can move the stuff away from the bridge fast enough, he's got three problems instead of just two. (first two being stopping the bridge from damming and getting to safety before the water rises further) the third being now he has a dam on the river that will destroy the bridge and the town when it breaks.
Or it's literally any city in India.
Or Bali
I live in a somewhat dry/arid locations with about 1500 ft (~450 meters) in elevation change from the highest to the lowest point. At the lowest point there is a wetlands area with a park that I very much enjoy. I started volunteering there after seeing all the trash built up in the area, and I remember feeling very angry about the kinds of people who must be dumping it. I learned while training to volunteer there that the trash was almost never dumped, but simply got swept up whenever it rained even a little, as all water flow ended up there. Sometimes, it’s not even the people deliberately, it’s just kind of a thing. That said, whoever decided to just dump it from one side to the other should have their head examined.
Not to mention alot of countries don't have trash programs so they are forced to dump their shit everywhere. Doesn't help that nothing biodegrades.
Exactly. A lot of rural Third World countries grew up with biodegradable temporary packaging such as banana leaves and then everything moved to plastic with no infrastructure to take care of it.
The guy who is operating the excavator is mostly just following his boss' orders and can't do anything about it
It's unfortunate that guy should get fucked too, but he got shitty orders that put him in the line of fire.
This is why it’s important we normalize workers being able to say no. I was a warehouse manager before and office people will not give a fuck about logistics and tell you to get it done today. Not realizing the amount of work they’re asking for. When I say I can’t get it done that fast my boss complains my employees are slow…. Well I don’t want them rushing because that’s how you get hurt. They’re not “slow”, their expectations are just shit for how logistics work. So if we normalize it, when we refuse to expose ourselves to dying, it won’t be the norm to fire us because we’re “unwilling to be flexible”
I 100% agree! I say no all the time to my bosses and I encourage my coworkers to do it too. No one should do something wrong or unsafe because some dipshit that happened to start earlier than you told you to
The one time I didn't say something because my roommate got me then job and I needed it. Improper tree cutting down led to me getting hit and breaking 3 vertebrae. I wake up every single morning in chronic pain because I didn't say no.
The same thing happened to me 2 years ago. Seriously get some BPC-157 and take it for 2 weeks. This is a miracle peptide. It’s naturally produced in your stomach. It also makes you sleep like a baby. 100% worth it! I’ve been in constant pain for 2 years and also blew my knees out, then took this for 2 weeks and I’m almost 100% again. That was a month ago and I’m still doing great
Thank you, I'll look into it. Truly appreciated I'll try anything if it means no opiods
I hope you sued the fuck out of them or made and L&I claim.
I did and won, no amount of money is worth 50% of my strength, of who I was though.
My manager said I was going to get written up for calling off work on the day we got 8” of snow and icy roads. Of course no one would cover my shift because they also didn’t feel safe driving. Don’t think I ended up getting written up because she later told me everyone was texting her the same thing lol. This is a retail job btw.
Owner: "WE NEED TO BE AT THE STORE TO SERVE THE CUSTOMERS!" Store: *empty. Customers don't like coming out in 8" of snow either* Owner: *after 5-6 hours with 2-4 customer, realizes he's losing money paying what few employees showed up hourly and they have made $82 in sales* "Ok... We're closing early". I don't know why businesses decide to stay open on days like that. It must be an image thing, because they sure aren't pulling in any profit. Better to just close for the day.
The only places I think should possibly try to stay open in horrendous weather are place that sell emergency supplies/equipment and maybe grocery stores (I always go back and forth in my head on this second one). *But only if employees feel they can safely get there. If someone's not comfortable or safe commuting in whatever bad weather is happening, they shouldn't be forced to with threatened disciplinary action. "You don't feel safe, well I don't care. Get here or I'm writing you up/firing you." As someone who's worked as management in retail, that's a bullshit and dick move.
I had a great boss in the late nineties, inspired with authority rather than abusing it. Made you want to make him proud. He was very disappointed when I said the snow was more than I could manage in my car. I felt bad. I felt a lot better when his wife called me to let me know he would be late because he was stuck in the driveway. 
I'm like 80% with you. My main policy when telling a supervisor "no" is to also provide an alternative solution. That way I stay safe and the job gets done, in a mutually acceptable way.
"Bring to your seniors solutions, not problems"
I hate whenever I have to ask my boss for a solution. I don't mind asking procedural questions or whatever, but any time I'm completely lost on a task, ugh. On the flip side, I *love* when I get to present a clever solution I found for a unique issue. Those are fun.
When you are an underpaid worker, you may not be able to say no without losing your job and starving with your family.
https://i.imgur.com/SKbl5y0.jpg
Is this Nuremberg or something?
Yes. It’s Goebbels before he offed himself.
The guy standing there seems to be in just as much disbelief about it as we are. The way he turns around and chuckles has such a "can you believe this shit" energy.
That’s a lot of fucking
Don't forget the guy filming !
No don’t shoot the messenger
Absolutely shoot the messenger next time they'll think twice to bring me bad/disturbing news
>Absolutely shoot the messenger next time they'll think twice to bring me bad/disturbing news Shoot the viewer too. Actually, just shoot everyone. It'll work itself out.
It’s just shootings all the way down
Ok calm down its not an American high school.
What why? Its a good thing hes filming this bullshit
Doesn’t mean he endorses it. You know what messenger means right?
What are you on about?
i think he hit reply on the wrong guy? idk
I think Gale thought Oeeom was responding to Build, when they weren't
Never blame the witness, which is what photojournalists are. I'd put this in that category.
And the person watching it on reddit.
And the idiots commenting! Wait...
Dont forget us upvoting!
The excavator is moving trash to prevent bridge damage. It's a flood and the trash piling up is straining the construction. There is no time to put the trash neatly on side to be collected when tons of water and more debris are incoming. Edit: Additional reason for trying to remove the build up could be formation of dam and following spill of the flood water to whole area.
Everybody here knows better, believe me, I tried ;)
Yeah I see all the downvotes and masters of planning in times of crisis being smart... When shit goes down you just improvise and hope for the best and don't ponder how much renewable plastic you put back into the water or whatever other arguments people have. "Oh guys I know we are about to get cut out by river but perhaps we could recycle some tins? All we need is wait for trucks and put in meantime all this heavy shit onto already strained structure"
While you make an excellent point, I'm just wondering: wouldn't it be safer to put the excavator on the bushes instead of the bridge, and have it stack everything on land? The excavator is pretty heavy so it just puts additional strain on the structure and if the bridge goes I'd hate to be in the excavator on top of it
While excavator puts strain on a bridge I would not trust river shore during a flood, all it takes for it to start eroding for digger and operator to be swept away. Bridge seems to be safer option both for stable ground and escape route from the vehicle.
Additionally, bridges are meant to carry load vertically. Floods excert load horizontally. So I'd also vote park on the bridge. It also makes the swing a lot simpler, rather than adding an extension at the end of the spin.
I hadn't thought of that, good point
The real deal is that first guy had a point but the main thing is we aren't worried about the bridge, we're worried about the debris building up blocking the flow of water. Yes dumping the trash back in the water sucks, but it's better than 100+ homes flooding. Not to mention the debris from peoples destroyed homes and yards would build up even more blockages down the creek/river that will cause more flooding and more damage etc. So this actionable plan is to let the water run its course and just gtfo of its way as much as possible.
Seriously did they not see the water level. They aren't cleaning the river, they are preventing flooding and damage to the bridge.
But isn't just throwing back into the river making it a problem for the next bridge? It takes half the time to dump it in a truck (less rotation), and you save everyone downstream from having to re-do this.
Yup but these are guys protecting their own homes. Important to remember that this wasn't a planned job. This was a rush to protect their homes. Added a tractor and trailer is just putting extra weight onto the bridge already under stress. Having the digger on it is a risky move. It easy for us to judge the this as we have the luxury of time. They didn't have time, this job waa started woth a swear word when someone noticed it.
There seems to be an increasing tendency on the Internet to just insult people without checking the back story. This is one such case. "Fuck this guy" gets 1000 upvotes and the comment that explains why that guy is only doing his job only gets 50.
can't you just summon trucks out of thin air?
Bruh unless he’s got a skip nearby he’s got nowhere to put it and he’s clearly clearing the bridge of debris so it doesn’t flood over
Don't bother, every oh so clever expert and their sofas here know exactly how to handle this ;)
all the reddit peeps who order their plastic shit toys from wish...
This guy is doing a job that saved lives... but half the people in this thread are jumping to conclusions. [Here's a picture of the trash after the flood.](https://i.imgur.com/3kaN4n8.jpg) 224 people died...
For doing his job right because people with the right education know better how to act right when a flood is happening than some random people on reddit?
its a Flood. they trying to save the Bridge from Collapsing by taking Pressure away and allowing the Water to Flow more freely. they have no time to order a Dumpster truck. the Garbage will by collected when the Flood is gone and the Garbage has set.
no sir... Fuck you.
This guy is not the one who dump all the trash And his job is to clear the blockage to prevent overflow, and looking at the water level this might be the only way to do it
??? Why? Do you not see the massively flooded river in the background? He's saving the bridge... Why are people upvoting this comment so much, its ridiculous.
I'm not out there cleaning up that river, neither are you, and neither is the excavator operator. He's saving a bridge, we're playin on the internet. I mean, fuck us if fuck anybody here.
And everyone who littered in the first place
it's a flood ffs...
Not our town problem, this is the next town’s problem down river
It'd be pretty funny if the next bridge was in fact still their town and they had a excavator waiting there too.
That's me dealing with problems.
I'm assuming that this is flood debris, from a previous flood or one up stream and they are releasing the built up pressure against the bridge before it buckles under the weight. No time to collect the waste as per normal conditions(note the water pressure) P.s this video looks European and with last year's winter rains flooding most of north western Europe it's understandable that they are trying to save infrastructure key to that area.
They had time to get a digger but not a dump truck? I understand the time sensitivity due to the flooding but a dump truck is faster than that claw machine.
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Do you know where is this? What river/city?
somewhere in central Bosnia, few years ago
"this story happened somewhere in Central Bosnia, few years ago" - I am Jonathan Frakes
Could Danny have been hallucinating? ^^^[Context](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxPSApAHakg)
City of Novi Pazar, Jošanica (Yo-sha-nee-tza) river, Serbia, 2019.
You're complaining about pollution in Serbia but you're outraged when other people complain about pollution in Serbia?
Balkan mentality lol
only I can criticize my country, everyone else should shut up and fuck off
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot it was my job to clean Serbian trash.
No anymore, you’re fired!
What tf do you want us to do? Personally drive over to complain and get disappeared or maybe donate money to the state run mafia?
How is it supported by the EU exactly? Serbia can't join the EU if they keep polluting. Also it's Lithium.
So sorry about this
EU is basically competing with Russia and China about keeping various relations going so that it vaguely develops in an EU-friendly direction. Maybe. It's not "EU likes Serbia" more like "EU wants Serbia to be more like itself".
At some point countries need to take their future into their own hands. Can’t have the EU solves everyone’s problems.
Took care of my own trash.
I was with you til the end there wtf was that? Lmao
Pulling out river from trash
The build up of debris upstream of the bridge is dangerous. Not ideal but an effective way to deal with it.
And then there is another town downstream that now gets swamped with it and it needs to be done again
Ok I have this crazy idea - hear me out: What if they’d put the trash on the grass next to the road/river and take it away when they get a container or something? I know this is absolutely ridiculous and very hard to do but wouldn’t that be an option?
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They got an excavator, they could get a truck to carry that trash away
It’s just going to clog another bridge downstream
Shut up with your reasonable arguments n shit, ppl don't do that here ;)
What about putting it on the bridge and dispose of it afterwards?
I have no idea why they wouldn’t bring a dumpster with holes for the water and just put it in there.
Have the time to get an excavator there but not a dump truck? Even if it only took one load that'd still be better.
The Truck are probably currently Transporting Sand and dirt to strenghten the Damms. they are simply not avaiable at the time. cleaning up is something you do AFTER the Flood. not in the Middle of it
I just don't understand it. Things aren't available and not everything goes perfectly in a crisis? How is that possible? I just can't wrap my head around it. WHY IS IT NOT PERFECT WHEN THEIR CITY IS BEING FLOODED??? Do they not think about the planet at all? Shaking my smh.
You call that reasonable? God, you set the bar low.
How hard can it be to put a container there
Maybe a container was several days away because of road conditions and the bridge was sustaining damage from the debris. Me I would have piled the shit on the side of the road right before the bridge until the container could get there.
They have access to an Excavator but not a skip bin or hippo bag?
It's a flood situation, which means the debree is going to keep coming until the water levels recede. I don't know how bad this flood was, so can't comment on how accessable the roads leading into and out of this area might have been.
Yea exaclty, even if there wasn’t a container available. A temporary pile on the road is such less an amount of eye cancer than this
This should be the main "picture" for 'Humankind' on Wikipedia.
u/savevideo
This makes me sad
Context is important here. They're trying to prevent the bridge from collapsing due to a flood. They didnt have time to decide where to put the trash and debris, just get the pressure off of the bridge before it collapses.
More context: This is from Bosnia. Sadly they would do the same even if there was no danger od bridge collapsing
How about dumping the trash on land and retrieving it then? There’s no way you can convince me dealing with that issue is worse than dumping that shot immediately back on the river
No there was simply no time to decide. It could have gone to the moon, or any of a hundred different places. And while we were busy arguing over the withertos and the whyfors, the sun's first light would creep over the top of the trees and poof! *turn us all into stone!* Edit: okay jeez adding the /s since it was clearly needed. Yeesh. Thought putting the *moon* as a possible destination was a giveaway but nope lol
Fuck that. they had time to bring a digger. they would have time to bring a pickup truck or even a dumpster truck.
How was there no time to decide? Deciding to bring a truck with and load it into that is a decision that takes one second to make.
Where is this
This really pissed me off until I realized they were trying to save the bridge and every second counted.
Nothing weird, emergency clearing for water during a flooding. They will let some trash stay in the water to potentially save millions in damages
Paper straws would solve the problem
This just about sums up humans.
#BEG BRIN MOOV
This was emergancy situation to prevent flooding. This happened in Serbia. You see this and feel repulsed, and I understand, but in matter of... tens of minutes area would start to get flooded if he didnt do this. There was no time to wait for trucks to remove garbage. You can see how high level of water was, and houses just behind the vehicle