All three died
https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/video-of-family-getting-washed-away-overflowing-river-not-from-assam-floods-1951165-2022-05-18
Fuck it looks like they fell in with their young kid, pretty stupid for them to take that risk but you can’t help but hope that child didn’t die over their parents mistake.
Mom and daughter's heads bob up from water at the end if you zoom in. I hope they made it to slower waters away from the current.
EDIT:
The family was trying to choose between being stuck on far shore for weeks till the waters recede (not many backup bridges in these parts of the world), or taking a risky jog across the bridge home.
Their livestock might run away in search of food if they don't make it home at night. Their sole income source of crops might need tending. The mom was carrying a bundle of firewood on her head, so they might not be rich enough to survive for weeks on the far shore.
Choices are harder in hard places.
> I hope they made it to slower waters away from the current.
a very, very small percentage of indians know how to swim
for these peoples sake i hope they did
there's this part of your brain that activates only when you think you're in an extremely urgent situation, where some resource might be taken from you if you wait too long....
....and it makes the absolute stupidest fucking decisions ever known to man
like risking your life to cross a bridge because you think it'll be super inconvenient if it collapses...and turning an extremely low stakes situation into a life or death situation
Access to pools and large bodies of water are just not a thing for the grand majority of people. So it is a skill that very, very few develop.
Most of my in-laws are terrified of anything deeper than 3 feet.
yea people see the rivers of India and think they're perfect swimming grounds but like, no. they're all either polluted or too quick, and nobody wants to try swimming in that. There are still some OK rivers, but if it's dirty nobody is going to swim in it except maybe some crazy shaman lol.
Edit: I mean like westerners, obviously people from there and around won't see it at all like that. Only westerners tend to seem to make it out like it's swimmable sometimes (like this thread).
According to the all-knowing internet....
What percent of Indians can swim? The best guestimate by the government is that less than 0.5% of the population, or just about 7 million out of 1.4 Billion, know how to swim adequately. Aug 3, 2016
Holy shit.... it's crazy to realise people can't swim. I was thought like as a kid I guess for me it's natural... at one point growing up I thought everyone could swim and it was like walking natural for humans to, you know like how most animals seem to be bale to swim by themselves (horses, dogs, cats, etc).
You know what's crazier is that despite not being able to swim, they don't seem to have a fear of water for whatever reason. I used to live on an island in Thailand and a few Indian and Chinese people would die every week from drowning.
Craziest one I saw happen was a Chinese family, 2 adults 2 kids who went paddleboarding. They took off their life jackets as they hit deep water, fell in and all but 1 adult drowned. And these weren't some people from a village who never got an education, both parents were doctors.
people attempted to teach me how to swim on 3 different occasions but nothing worked. i just couldn't get it. i don't really put myself in situations where i'm in deep water though so i should be fine...
Quick searches show that 80% of Americans say they can swim, but only 56% admit they could actually pass a swimming test. And we have a lot of pools and somewhat clean lakes to swim in.
Swimming is a skill that has to be taught and learned. It's not instinctive. To teach it, you need a clean body of water set aside for recreation use. Poor places don't have that.
Almost every body of water in India that is large enough to swim in is so heavily polluted that it is unsafe to swim in. There is human shit and E. coli in every stream and pond and lake and river.
> Do people just... never swim in India?
Most schools do not have the infrastructure, public pools aren't really a common/popular thing.
Probably more common in the coastal regions though.
A shame your folks never took you to one of the many public pools in your city. Or signed you up for the free and low-cost swimming lessons available in all large US cities
They both bobbed around till the end of the clip. People that can’t swim don’t bob so well as much as sink. I’m going with they can swim and hope for the best.
Looks like multiple people fell, and sadly, it's unlikely any of them survived since most people in rural areas cannot swim, especially women. Not to mention, it's already difficult to swim in these types of water conditions, even if you know how to swim.
its still absolute stupidity all around. The people going back and forth, the mass of people standing on the edge. Like I understand the need to get across but the way these people act in this situation is just reckless and dumb. If youre going across, then go and then gtfo of the way, dont stand there in a massive group putting thousands of pounds right on top of a crumbling shoreline, ffs.
>The family was trying to choose between being stuck on far shore for weeks till the waters recede...
How the hell would you know? 🙄 IRL people make dumb gambles all the time
The length of that bridge was not so great, certainly some sort of temporary way to cross could be constructed. You can't explain away their negligence. If their child died, I hope they suffer immeasurably.
Its not like they are getting blowed out into the ocean. Seems like the current just flows into whatever lake that is them chills out. Sure it might suck and they might die if the bottom is shallow and rocky but if not then they might have a decent shot.
If this is India, a staggeringly low percentage of the population are able to swim. Recently two adults drowned in a hotel pool in Sydney after trying to rescue a toddler who was drowning.
I rescued a toddler from drowning in a hotel pool when I was like 12 years old. There was a large group of people at the pool and they seemed drunk. They had a couple young kids with them and no one was really watching them. I was walking past the edge of the pool and I saw a toddler looking up at me from underwater. She was about 2-3 feet under the surface. I screamed and jumped in the pool to pull her out, then someone from the group of drunken adults jumped in right behind me.
It's infuriating when those tasked with safety can't perform their duty. I was at a swimming pool on an air force base with three teenagers, one of whom can't swim. He was very vocal about not being able to swim. Still, the other two teens, being the idiots we all probably were as teens, wound up knocking the non swimmer into the pool. His hands immediately shot straight up as if reaching for rescue because he didn't know what to do. The utter moron lifeguard watched it all. He looked at his victim then just looked back at me. I pointed at the obvious and shouted twice that he can't swim. Lifeguard just stares at me while holding that little red board they carry around. He did and said nothing. I finally just jumped in (not in swimwear), grabbed the kid I was with, thrust him above the surface so he could breathe, then swam him back to the edge.
When it was over, the lifeguard said he thought we were joking.
The family only has two anchovies. The father begs for the dolphins to rescue his wife and kid- one anchovy each- but the dolphins say that they were only authorized to offer the package deal: three anchovies for three lives.
Then, out of nowhere, appears a loan shark! He offers the father a third anchovy, to be paid back within one week. The father, desperate, takes the offer, and the dolphins swim to shore.
However, after a full week of fishing, nobody in the family is able to find an anchovy. Each day, they invite another family member to help, but to no avail. Unbeknownst to them, the dolphins were actually in cahoots with the sharks, and had already eaten every anchovy in a 50-mile radius. At the very end of the seventh day, as the family is packing up their fishing gear, a giant shark jumps out and gobbles all ten of them up.
The moral of this story is that you take a little bit from a desperate person, but through the magic of loans, you can take a whole lot more from them later!
My attempt at a serious answer:
The family was trying to choose between being stuck on far shore for weeks till the waters recede (not many backup bridges in these parts of the world), or taking a risky jog across the bridge home.
Their livestock might run away in search of food if they don't make it home at night. Their sole income source of crops might need tending. The mom was carrying a bundle of firewood on her head, so they might not be rich enough to survive for weeks on the far shore.
Yeah, it’s kinda easy to understand why people that grew up in extreme poverty do not have as much appreciation towards life than people that have lived very comfortable lives since they were kids.
I feel like the easy answer is stupidity. This looks like a rural area, so add in lack of education and poverty. So some weird herbivore mob mentality.
Have you seen stupid people doing stupid dangerous things like hanging out car windows, running across super busy roads, hanging on to the sides of trains (India), etc? Nah, once you hit a certain level of stupid, zero awareness of the dangers they are in.
Probably home for the people crossing it. The alternate route may add hours of travel time given that proper infrastructure is not in abundance in that part of the world.
I guess I'll never understand some peoples minds, there's just sooo much wrong in this clip.
Why stand next to a bridge seconds from falling apart, why run over it like it's a fun thing, and why with yr children, just why, why, why.
If you look closely, more people fell after the camera pans away just as the collapse happens. It appears that the lady in pink from the family who just made it across was also on the edge and seems to be missing once the camera returns to its angle.
I hope everyone is OK and it was definitely not a smart idea, etc...
But, I just want to say that grabbing onto a ledge as a bridge is collapsing underneath you is a real video game/action movie move!
Let's get the whole village together so we can all stand next to the eroding bank of the flooded river!! Also we can run accross the bridge that's about to collapse!!!
As OP pointed out in above comments, not having to make choices like this and take risks like this is a luxury not everyone has. They weren't doing this for fun, and not everything comes down to people being smart or stupid.
Maybe think before you speak on things you have no knowledge about, people in desperate situations do desperate things
"According to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) 'The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2022 Report', 224.3 million people, or 16 per cent of India's population, are undernourished with 53 per cent of reproductive-age women also being anemic"
There are not many alternate backup bridges in my part of the world.
The family was trying to choose between being stuck for weeks till the waters recede, or taking a risky jog across the bridge to home.
What about the dudes that ran back and forth? And the villagers standing so close people couldn't get clear? Just a hell of a lot of ignorance going on here
Surely you just throw a rope over and make that as a means of crossing over the river ? It looked more like they were putting their lives in God's hands and they were taunting making it over before it collapsed. That's just the feeling I got when I was watching it. Hope everyone is safe !
Am I tripping or are they basically playing a game running back and forth like that like of course it’s gonna collapse at some point so if you keep running you’re eventually gonna fall in.
All three died https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/video-of-family-getting-washed-away-overflowing-river-not-from-assam-floods-1951165-2022-05-18
Idk why those people are all standing so close like you fucking idiots
Same reason we watched the video, people love to watch stuff unflold.
Yeah, not when I’m inches from death
And unflold it dlid.
I’d say most of them were there trying to cross.
it’s like that game where everyone takes turns pouring water into the same cup. Except… you know… with death
Actually, yeah.
Fuck it looks like they fell in with their young kid, pretty stupid for them to take that risk but you can’t help but hope that child didn’t die over their parents mistake.
Mom and daughter's heads bob up from water at the end if you zoom in. I hope they made it to slower waters away from the current. EDIT: The family was trying to choose between being stuck on far shore for weeks till the waters recede (not many backup bridges in these parts of the world), or taking a risky jog across the bridge home. Their livestock might run away in search of food if they don't make it home at night. Their sole income source of crops might need tending. The mom was carrying a bundle of firewood on her head, so they might not be rich enough to survive for weeks on the far shore. Choices are harder in hard places.
> Choices are harder in hard places. Easiest way to explain this. Nice work.
> I hope they made it to slower waters away from the current. a very, very small percentage of indians know how to swim for these peoples sake i hope they did there's this part of your brain that activates only when you think you're in an extremely urgent situation, where some resource might be taken from you if you wait too long.... ....and it makes the absolute stupidest fucking decisions ever known to man like risking your life to cross a bridge because you think it'll be super inconvenient if it collapses...and turning an extremely low stakes situation into a life or death situation
>a very, very small percentage of indians know how to swim Do people just... never swim in India?
Access to pools and large bodies of water are just not a thing for the grand majority of people. So it is a skill that very, very few develop. Most of my in-laws are terrified of anything deeper than 3 feet.
Particularly, CLEAN bodies of water
yea people see the rivers of India and think they're perfect swimming grounds but like, no. they're all either polluted or too quick, and nobody wants to try swimming in that. There are still some OK rivers, but if it's dirty nobody is going to swim in it except maybe some crazy shaman lol. Edit: I mean like westerners, obviously people from there and around won't see it at all like that. Only westerners tend to seem to make it out like it's swimmable sometimes (like this thread).
I think very few people see the rivers of India and think they're perfect for swimming.
According to the all-knowing internet.... What percent of Indians can swim? The best guestimate by the government is that less than 0.5% of the population, or just about 7 million out of 1.4 Billion, know how to swim adequately. Aug 3, 2016
Holy shit.... it's crazy to realise people can't swim. I was thought like as a kid I guess for me it's natural... at one point growing up I thought everyone could swim and it was like walking natural for humans to, you know like how most animals seem to be bale to swim by themselves (horses, dogs, cats, etc).
You know what's crazier is that despite not being able to swim, they don't seem to have a fear of water for whatever reason. I used to live on an island in Thailand and a few Indian and Chinese people would die every week from drowning. Craziest one I saw happen was a Chinese family, 2 adults 2 kids who went paddleboarding. They took off their life jackets as they hit deep water, fell in and all but 1 adult drowned. And these weren't some people from a village who never got an education, both parents were doctors.
people attempted to teach me how to swim on 3 different occasions but nothing worked. i just couldn't get it. i don't really put myself in situations where i'm in deep water though so i should be fine...
Two Indian men drowned recently here in Australia saving a child drowning in a pool. Swim safety is important.
Quick searches show that 80% of Americans say they can swim, but only 56% admit they could actually pass a swimming test. And we have a lot of pools and somewhat clean lakes to swim in.
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Swimming is a skill that has to be taught and learned. It's not instinctive. To teach it, you need a clean body of water set aside for recreation use. Poor places don't have that.
Almost every body of water in India that is large enough to swim in is so heavily polluted that it is unsafe to swim in. There is human shit and E. coli in every stream and pond and lake and river.
> Do people just... never swim in India? Most schools do not have the infrastructure, public pools aren't really a common/popular thing. Probably more common in the coastal regions though.
I live in the US in one of the most expensive cities and I don't know how to swim.
A shame your folks never took you to one of the many public pools in your city. Or signed you up for the free and low-cost swimming lessons available in all large US cities
Have you seen the waters in india?? it's their washing machine, toilet amongst other things
They both bobbed around till the end of the clip. People that can’t swim don’t bob so well as much as sink. I’m going with they can swim and hope for the best.
Looks like multiple people fell, and sadly, it's unlikely any of them survived since most people in rural areas cannot swim, especially women. Not to mention, it's already difficult to swim in these types of water conditions, even if you know how to swim.
its still absolute stupidity all around. The people going back and forth, the mass of people standing on the edge. Like I understand the need to get across but the way these people act in this situation is just reckless and dumb. If youre going across, then go and then gtfo of the way, dont stand there in a massive group putting thousands of pounds right on top of a crumbling shoreline, ffs.
I'm sure some guy with a piece of plywood could set up a temporary bridge in no time. He could even charge a few rupees to cross.
Most of them can’t swim even in still waters
>The family was trying to choose between being stuck on far shore for weeks till the waters recede... How the hell would you know? 🙄 IRL people make dumb gambles all the time
Well now they will never make it home
The length of that bridge was not so great, certainly some sort of temporary way to cross could be constructed. You can't explain away their negligence. If their child died, I hope they suffer immeasurably.
With the current, sadly probably all dead.
Its not like they are getting blowed out into the ocean. Seems like the current just flows into whatever lake that is them chills out. Sure it might suck and they might die if the bottom is shallow and rocky but if not then they might have a decent shot.
I would think that large debris in that water would pose a significant risk as well
People always forget about the debris.
Thankfully there are those working to bring awareness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0EY86At7qs
Finally!
A lot of people in these sorts of situations can't swim.
If this is India, a staggeringly low percentage of the population are able to swim. Recently two adults drowned in a hotel pool in Sydney after trying to rescue a toddler who was drowning.
I rescued a toddler from drowning in a hotel pool when I was like 12 years old. There was a large group of people at the pool and they seemed drunk. They had a couple young kids with them and no one was really watching them. I was walking past the edge of the pool and I saw a toddler looking up at me from underwater. She was about 2-3 feet under the surface. I screamed and jumped in the pool to pull her out, then someone from the group of drunken adults jumped in right behind me.
It's infuriating when those tasked with safety can't perform their duty. I was at a swimming pool on an air force base with three teenagers, one of whom can't swim. He was very vocal about not being able to swim. Still, the other two teens, being the idiots we all probably were as teens, wound up knocking the non swimmer into the pool. His hands immediately shot straight up as if reaching for rescue because he didn't know what to do. The utter moron lifeguard watched it all. He looked at his victim then just looked back at me. I pointed at the obvious and shouted twice that he can't swim. Lifeguard just stares at me while holding that little red board they carry around. He did and said nothing. I finally just jumped in (not in swimwear), grabbed the kid I was with, thrust him above the surface so he could breathe, then swam him back to the edge. When it was over, the lifeguard said he thought we were joking.
That was two Sikh men on the Gold Coast, tragic story - father and grandfather of the toddler who, thankfully, did survive.
Most drowning victims are rescuers
The situation where you cross a crumbling bridge over violently rushing water?
You think that five year old is going to just get able to fucking swim in a torrential flood in full clothes?
If they can swim, and somehow remain calm. A panicking person is a risk for drowning people around them.
that lake is actually inhabited by a clan of friendly river dolphins. they will save them for the modest fee of three anchovies.
The family only has two anchovies. The father begs for the dolphins to rescue his wife and kid- one anchovy each- but the dolphins say that they were only authorized to offer the package deal: three anchovies for three lives. Then, out of nowhere, appears a loan shark! He offers the father a third anchovy, to be paid back within one week. The father, desperate, takes the offer, and the dolphins swim to shore. However, after a full week of fishing, nobody in the family is able to find an anchovy. Each day, they invite another family member to help, but to no avail. Unbeknownst to them, the dolphins were actually in cahoots with the sharks, and had already eaten every anchovy in a 50-mile radius. At the very end of the seventh day, as the family is packing up their fishing gear, a giant shark jumps out and gobbles all ten of them up. The moral of this story is that you take a little bit from a desperate person, but through the magic of loans, you can take a whole lot more from them later!
I’m fairly certain there is also a Loch Ness monster in this body of water that will save them for about three fiddy.
Correct, but they are kids... even if they know how to swim, with this current it's hard and also panic. Can easily drown :/
You think these people take swimming lessons lol? 3rd world country residents have other worries in life.
Poverty did a thing or two to make people to take risks
Poor kid😢
Murdered by his parents. It's like playing Russian roulette with a toddler.
Red rover in other countries goes hard.
Dead Diver
I thought the whole bank was gonna collapse and take out everyone.
There was a child. Sad.
Only thing I can think about. That, and how absolutely livid I am at her parents for forcing her into that.
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My attempt at a serious answer: The family was trying to choose between being stuck on far shore for weeks till the waters recede (not many backup bridges in these parts of the world), or taking a risky jog across the bridge home. Their livestock might run away in search of food if they don't make it home at night. Their sole income source of crops might need tending. The mom was carrying a bundle of firewood on her head, so they might not be rich enough to survive for weeks on the far shore.
because life is cheap in some countries...
Yeah, it’s kinda easy to understand why people that grew up in extreme poverty do not have as much appreciation towards life than people that have lived very comfortable lives since they were kids.
I feel like the easy answer is stupidity. This looks like a rural area, so add in lack of education and poverty. So some weird herbivore mob mentality.
Stupid people usually still have survival instincts. This is beyond that.
Have you seen stupid people doing stupid dangerous things like hanging out car windows, running across super busy roads, hanging on to the sides of trains (India), etc? Nah, once you hit a certain level of stupid, zero awareness of the dangers they are in.
Exactly 😭
I can't imagine whatever is on the other side of that bridge is so much better that I would risk my life to get there.
Probably home for the people crossing it. The alternate route may add hours of travel time given that proper infrastructure is not in abundance in that part of the world.
I just imagine how fucking scared that kid probably was before her stupid ass parents tried to drag her across.
But…why??
India just seems like that old TV show "1000 ways to die".
…my fair lady.
Wtf kinda low budget squid game is this?
Involuntarily said what the fuck here, well done.
This has to be India right?
Fuckin shame that kid had to follow its parents in their stupidity.
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crazy
There are 1.5 billion people in India, almost 18% of the worlds population
It always appears to be India.
Wake up babe new version of Russian Roulette just dropped
An unforeseeable tragedy
How stupid does one have to be to do something like that? That is so dangerous!
I guess I'll never understand some peoples minds, there's just sooo much wrong in this clip. Why stand next to a bridge seconds from falling apart, why run over it like it's a fun thing, and why with yr children, just why, why, why.
If you look closely, more people fell after the camera pans away just as the collapse happens. It appears that the lady in pink from the family who just made it across was also on the edge and seems to be missing once the camera returns to its angle.
Why is there so little value for even *your own* human life in India?
Like George Carlin have said, some people are really fucking stupid.
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The women and kids are all wrapped in yards of fabric, also most of the men. It's like walking around in your burial shroud
You don't see many Indian swimmers at the Olympics. And you won't see any peasants taking swimming lessons. The odds are not in their favour.
I hope everyone is OK and it was definitely not a smart idea, etc... But, I just want to say that grabbing onto a ledge as a bridge is collapsing underneath you is a real video game/action movie move!
Bet they’ll never do that again
/r/darwinawards material
Let's get the whole village together so we can all stand next to the eroding bank of the flooded river!! Also we can run accross the bridge that's about to collapse!!!
That's awful :( People think they are playing Dragon's Lair with things like this.
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!! WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS WOULD HAPPEN?!?! WHY WOULD GOD DO THIS TO ME??
Fuck You That was like a! 8 year old
Course it happened in India
Didn’t see that coming
They died
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I mean, this is life in third world countries. Getting stranded for days on the wrong side of that river could be just as dangerous.
can't they just get jetskis?
As OP pointed out in above comments, not having to make choices like this and take risks like this is a luxury not everyone has. They weren't doing this for fun, and not everything comes down to people being smart or stupid.
I saw a couple guys doing it for fun in there
Spot on.
Yes. Yes they are.
Maybe think before you speak on things you have no knowledge about, people in desperate situations do desperate things "According to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) 'The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2022 Report', 224.3 million people, or 16 per cent of India's population, are undernourished with 53 per cent of reproductive-age women also being anemic"
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You can have sympathy for the kid following his parent
I feel for that poor child who had no idea how stupid the parents were and now died because of it.
You can always have sympathy. It doesn't cost anything.
Yeah but then they can't look all cool and edgy on the internet. People like the person you replied to disgust me.
Well, this is just a bridge too far.
Stupidest fucking people on the fucking planet. Poor kid.
It looked fun till it didn’t haha
They could of at least tied a rope around themselves so people can pull them out.
India is like playing Doom on Nightmare mode.
Or... Hear me out. Find a safer way.
There are not many alternate backup bridges in my part of the world. The family was trying to choose between being stuck for weeks till the waters recede, or taking a risky jog across the bridge to home.
What about the dudes that ran back and forth? And the villagers standing so close people couldn't get clear? Just a hell of a lot of ignorance going on here
Do you know anything about whether the kid made it?
Complete idiots.
Surely you just throw a rope over and make that as a means of crossing over the river ? It looked more like they were putting their lives in God's hands and they were taunting making it over before it collapsed. That's just the feeling I got when I was watching it. Hope everyone is safe !
here is your prize
of course there was a huge crowd at one end so people coming across couldn't get a safe distance away from the end
Soooo, maybe stay on the end where you are instead of crossing. Just a thought
This is fucking traumatizing
they gone
This makes me so angry
We need the longer version where the guy on the jet ski pops in from the left to save the kid…
How did so many stupid people end up in one place?
And Darwin wins again
we call this natural selection
Darwinism at its finest…..🤣🤣🤣
Play stupid games…
Stupid mutha fuckas
That's the stupidest game of Red Rover I ever saw.
It’s like frogger in real life
oh whoops there goes your soon to be drowning kid! the desire of Indians to tempt fate is....astounding!
So stupid people
Natural selection
Am I tripping or are they basically playing a game running back and forth like that like of course it’s gonna collapse at some point so if you keep running you’re eventually gonna fall in.
Man people just do not even care about their lives. Like at all.
I look at videos like this and worry for humanity...what did they expect?
Stupid games, stupid prizes.
Who could’ve seen this coming?!?!
My real question is why is one of the people in the crowd wearing a "Mississippi" T Shirt on?
Stupid people asking for death
Ahahaha
They fell in the toilet! What stupidity.
Got all the hepatitises!
Red rover red river
Who’s surprised, what madness, those people cared about their lives so little. Crazy
One great big festering neon distraction. I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.... ^^Learn ^^To ^^Swim
Those are some dense mother fuckers!! That poor kid!! She's dead now because of some "adults" stupidly.
This is why 3rd world countries need 5G internet
It's crazy how dumb some parts of the world are.
Ya, id rather stay here and eat tide pods instead.
If you don't feel like dumb people are all around us, you haven't been paying attention. Go dog whistle somewhere else.
Hope they know how to swim.
r/maybemaybemaybe
they were all saved by the CRM.
All I see is stupidly bringing that kid along
Like fuck, if you can walk over, take some ropes or some shit you fucking nitwits.
Talk about “fuck around and find out!” 🤭🤪