Sometimes older buildings and structures need to be demolished, to clear space for new buildings. Usually demolitions go as planned, but sometimes mistakes do happen. Let's take a look at some structure demolitions gone wrong!
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"The Miami Condo collapsed on its own". Talk about a foreshadowing...
I personally would be more worried after seeing that if I lived in any of the surrounding buildings and wonder if the same company made mine.
Man!!! I immediately ran to the comments after the Miami building.
I know! Sure got my attention fast. That must have been terrifying to witness. I wonder how many of those big Miami beach condo buildings are barely-standing deathtraps.
@@denverdubois5835 I'm sure there's a few ticking time bombs. I just really hope all this has opened their eyes to what such neglect could do. Unfortunately they wouldn't look at the people deceased from their neglect as the most important factor. It would be the possible loss of income they wouldn't be making if the building collapsed as well for their reputation. A damn shame this happened in such a modern age.. Not because of mother nature or a freak accident; rather neglect/greed. Something that could have been prevented if they looked at human life (customers life) as the most valuable thing. No, they're only $$$ signs until their neglect/greed catches up with them. Value money over human life is the motto.
Agreed, I thought of the same immediately when the presenter mentioned that the condo collapsed unexpectedly since the structure was weaker than expected, the implication being that it had such critically minimal structural margin left that normal pre-weakening and drilling for the explosives left it unable to bear its own dead load - so it's possible that in ten years time or whatever it might have collapsed on its own had it been left standing and occupied.
“Thousands of people were left without power for hours.” The power line down the road from me was hit by a tree branch and I was without power for 5 days. I now have a generator.
Wow that is crazy
Which is great if you're rich and privileged enough to own a house!
I saw something like that after a heavy rain
Like many people lose power for a few hours after a big event but I lose power from fire on my line in winter
a tree is stronger than a chimney stack
The St. Petersburg footage is heart-wrenching as you see the worker on top of the building scramble as it collapsed under him. RIP.
That footage was awful... I feel so bad for him...
The fact that only one person died though... Could have been way worse. May or may not have been that person.
The other guy next to him in the crane basket survived as the building collapsed under him and he was hanging in the basket.
They cut supports one by one instead of cutting leaving some behind, that made structure very unbalanced (one side had all supports and other had none) so the roof fell, and because it was very heavy it also made enough force to take down the wall. Tragic event caused not by mistake but sheer stupidity.
5:01 .. terrible also for the man in the basket. what a nightmare to see!
“ they were sampling the product as they attempted to bring down the beer silo “ lmao
I wonder if anyone in that apartment building was woken by the explosions to look out of their window and see the factory rolling toward them. I bet they'd be really surprised.
i'd be terrified
@@user-pb3jj5vw6e I'd*
@@i.dle.k i dont need to have perfect grammar but thx anyways lol
@@user-pb3jj5vw6e yea yea lol
There wouldn't have been a soul in that apartment. They would have been evacuated long before the blast.
Note to self....avoid Miami condos at ALLL COSTS.
Right?!
Lol
I know right
😬
Avoid condos in general...condos suck Dick.cant do shit with them... It's like buying a piece of road and thinking you can do something with it
I expected to see many repeats, but most of these were clips that haven't previously been shown on KZhead. Thank you!
Fun fact: not only was the picture used in the thumbnail not on this video, it wasn’t even a demolition. It is a collapse building from an earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, in 2018
It's called clickbait. Welcome to KZhead.
Welcome to clickbait world!
Ok?
Nice that you caught that too. I lived just a few blocks away from that building, although didn’t move there until the year following the earthquake.
"Its just lucky that no one was there at the time" Are you sure? Don't you think they might have evacuated the building next door in case something like that happened?...
Exactly 👍
yeah
If it's the same one I watched before I heard that people's pets were still in there
Don't they know that fire works better than explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
"Australian Beer Silo" is my new band name.
Already taken
Also the name of my wang
Cringe
Title track of the first album: *Purge the Poison* 🎸
@@stephengrant3926 j.
5:08 - 5:16 dude had to hop a fence on the roof, and run to the basket before it collapsed. Man, poor dude has to have emotional scars from that one.
I have a feeling he was the 1 guy who didn't make it. He never got into the basket, the guy who lifts away from the dome was already in the basket.
He didn't make it.
that was really hard to watch ...i though the made it until i reminded it and seen that there was already someone in there.
Holy shit, I didn’t see there were 2 dudes. Man, guy in the basket definitely is going to have emotional issues from that one, watching ya mate try make it in time and not. Shit.
Yeah that guy went down with the structure, his coworker was already in the cage.
4:57 Dude!!! Fucking insane! You can clearly see that guy running after the platform for dear life! And he fell! That’s some shit you only see in action movies. RIP.
:(
I saw it too.
Language
And he almost made it, sad.
Any info if hes the one that died? or if he made it?
I remember the Crawford plant. Wasn’t far from where I lived. The twin stacks were a bit of an icon in suburban Chicago (they could be seen from Midway) and it was weird seeing the plant be disassembled bit by bit. Looking at it today (at the time of writing) there’s barely anything left. With Crawford gone, there’s one coal fired plant standing in Chicago (inactive as well) and that is the Fisk Generating Station, standing since 1903. (Current units inside since 1968)
Ok
i dont remeber asking
@@bradentheman1373 bro remember* and nobody asked for ur opinion
Crimea is not Russia and the annexation was and is against international law. Do not sterilize the history of Crimea by acting as if Russia has "jurisdiction". That is spreading Russian disinformation and lies. Crimea is Ukraine.
And Building 7 was perfect without any explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
5:00 if you watch in slow motion, it looks like the guy got to the basket right as the floor dropped out from under him and he JUST missed. It literally almost looks like he has hold of the basket or was even hanging on for a second. Heart breaking. Literally. I hope the survivor who was in the basket for therapy...
Yeah....he didnt make that.
Ya, just 3 morr seconds, he might have gotten a better grip☹ R.I.P
I didn't notice the first time around, until I slowed it down... holy carp... that poor guy in his last moments trying to scramble to that cage lift....
@@Nakira2000 from another commenter with more info on this: "If you go to Fontanka Ru channel, you'll find several videos of this day. The guy was first tied to the cage, but the rope it was too short. He was told then to go without the harness. There is even a video (go pro camera on his partner helmet) where they are talking about going without the rope." The full video without specific frames clipped out here: kzhead.info/sun/YLKNdNKbrWKrl4k/bejne.html
@@worlwr2 so unfortunate for that guy, he should have never overlooked safety.
Did you see that guy at 4:57???? Holy shit dude!😱😰😳😲😲 He was SOOOO close to escaping, he hopped the rail for the cage and you can tell he leaped for the cage where his buddy was and and barely missed it! I can't imagine how that guy in the cage felt watching that guy leap for the cage for deal life, miss it, and disappear into the falling rubble 🥺
This was really intense
16:48 Thanks, Captain Hindsight! What would we do without you?
I live in Pontiac. And I could hear the explosion of the Pontiac Silverdome from my house. I miss going to the Pontiac Silverdome. Great memories there.
10:13 "It's just lucky that no one was there at the time." What crap. It would have been purposely evacuated for the demolition.
True…
I remember reading about #5 in the newspaper. Those reporters had a field day. The former employees who had worked there were by far the most amused by the failure, as they'd tried to stop the plans for demolition. They saw it as the building giving one last middle finger to those who wanted it gone.
lol
It had been closed and empty.... It was also an eye sore. Why would you want to keep it??
@@chadmiller2224 Sentimental reasons, of course.
Don't they know that fire works better than explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
And Building 7 was perfect without any explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
These 15 Structure Demolitions GONE WRONG, gave me the "Gone Wrong CHILLS!!!"
I love watching successful and unsuccessful demolitions and implosions like these. Good video . I appreciate the narrative, too. Kudos!
As long as no one’s hurt it’s entertaining
Don't they know that fire works better than explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
And Building 7 was perfect without any explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
@@SasaSasa-wy9wucar crash compilations:
#4 hits the feels a lot different now 😔
It really do
No kidding
Why?
You're not kidding. RIP lost souls.
I ask again, why?
Thank you for this vid fellas...This one was very entertaining!! 👍🙏
Number 4 is all the more ironic after Surfside recently. Makes me wonder if it was the same company/engineers that built them.
Maybe it’s a combination of many things
4:57 omg you see that poor guy try and grab onto the cage :,(
I couldn't tell, did he make it??
@@brickitect420 no he didn't make
Nice catch. I totally didn't see that. That's horrible. Rest In Peace sir.
Imagine being the guy on the cage forever replaying that day of his coworker running for his life only to fall short and long.
Edit: Looks like did not make it :( There was someone already in the cage. Original: He made it, you can see him grab on! Dude, that guy went into overdrive mode, when the collapse started, you can see his adrenaline kick in, he doesn't stumble, and jumps at the last second. Talk about lucky!
12:20 i love how you can ses all the different coloured rooms in the exposed block of flats. so many people lived in them
Oh yeah! That's such a cute observation!
I lived close to the silo in Denmark when it became demolished, and it did some damage on the nearby, former building for storing goods. on the harbor. But during the new use for the area, it became a library, far away from most of the people using it!
that poor guy at 5:15 trying to run to the cage where 1 man was already in and just missed it. cant imagine what he was going through. he had a family, ppl that depend on him, i hope the demolition company got sued like theres no tomorrow.
dude i kept watching that part to actually figure out what happened, he had to have been one of the fatalities.
@@jakerogers6366 So damn close to making it onto the lift
Holy shit that guy was one grip away from grabbing that cart
poor worker :( .
a demolition of a powerplant in springfield? sounds like homer screwed up somehow
Cam Doh!
and the controls are for a nuclear plant... in Russian.
that's what I thought
I live in springfeild
I just made 100 likes
Glad to see that Australian one on the list, that one actually got a chuckle out of everyone by the end of it when it happened.
The amount of stock footage in this video is ridiculous.
They used a scene from war of the world when talking about the Canadian power plant lol
stock powers the media universe, WTF else would you do? Decent production, learned stuff.
@@johnwebb4869 well, I would have been happier if they actually showed the destructions they are talking about (more). I don’t need to see stock footage from people pointing at plans ten times in a row.
@@benn.i true
It's good to see Charlie Sheen finding voice-over work during the pandemic.
Everyone says that I am first then I am second 😂.
lol
I'm last
Dude no doubt. I never would of heard that without reading your comment. Ha
That's absolutely crazy that as I was reading your comment my mind just heard Charlie's voice clear as day. Is this really him? I doubt it but it sure does sound like him.
I am in awe of a James Bond style escape made by worker on top of dam wall, ran straight onto cradle hanging from crane as he watches the wall fall drop below 😲
@Bryson Gamblin yes I watched the clip again, heart breaking!😪
If they want a building to come down they should just call up the engineers who built the Champlain Towers
Call the military... They're the ones who turned 7 skyscrapers into baby powder in New York back in 2001.
That flour plant that just rolled over is funny! It wasn't going quietly lol
Simple history voice. Such a nice relaxing voice
@@Potato_WoT The narrator is the same as the one from Simple History.
I find it irritating.
@@Potato_WoT mmm l
Good ear! I love narrating this type of content. 😊
@@eclecticjon1019 Especially when he can't pronounce Dalhousie, New Brunswick correctly, the town in N.B., its university, and port Dalhousie in Ontario are all pronounced Dal-HOW-sie!
Not even a demolition crew can win where the lions call home. 😂
Today at the Port of Long Beach they are disassembling the old Desmond bridge. They lowered the main center section directly to a waiting barge below. Incredible but it went flawless.
Ther only just now getting to that???
I am glad even structures stand up for themselves against bullies.
Don't they know that fire works better than explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
Now we just need “No Commentary Demolitions”
I bet the insurance companies just LOVE these videos.
Osha
Don't they know that fire works better than explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
14:33 Miami condos. looks like Champlain
the narrator's voice is awesome, hi's the narrator for SIMPLE HISTORY !!! love his narrations !
4:57 you can see the man that died he didnt make it to the crane basket.
he was probably fine because he was on top, bigger problem for the people inside. also they would not show it if one of the visibel died most likely.
...it's an animation. That was probably meant to show the person who died.
18:21 ''..why carry out the work during a pandemic?" *People still have to work and eat*
Not everyone needs to work and eat. Jack doesn't. Rose didn't save him. She decided to not share the enormous door she was on and he slipped under the water not even attempting to swim. Rose is worse than Carole Baskin.
Were they not wearing masks anyway? Would that not be better lol?
@ׄlife. It has to do with life.
Stop interrupting the footage! Show the whole video!!
That one guy in the suspended cage at the St Petersburg entertainment complex as it collapsed, was like 'Wah-wah!', to that other dude.
4:54 wow! You can see the guy try to get up and dive for the safety of the crane basket his coworker is in as the building starts to collapse. Unfortunately he waits just a second too long to get running and misses the basket and goes down with the building. Damn that’s rough. Imagine being the guy in the basket too seeing a coworker desperately try to make it and missing.
Damn….I missed that the first time. That is just brutal….he was so close to the basket.
Rip that man that went for the lead of Faith at 5:00. Woulda been a sick movie trailer.
Rip.. so sad :(
We don't know for certain he's the one who died. I mean, I'd be surprised if he survived but remember they said only one worker died and there were workers INSIDE the structure when it collapsed. He may be one of the guys who lived.
It reminded me of one of the jumps in Tomb Raider or the Uncharted series.
A) It's "Dal - house - ee" for Dalhousie, New Brunswick. B) There was a power plant near me, at the Loring Development Center, that failed similarly to many of these. The stacks and first floor were blown out, but the rest of the building just dropped straight down, and stayed in one piece, sitting on the rubble of the first floor.
The detailed explanation behind every demolition makes this video so much better than the mindless ones only showing demolitions.
Is it just me or does the narrator almost eerily sound like Charlie Sheen?
4:58 you can see the guy running to try get off the roof, while another guy is in the hanger basket, god bless them all
@@deez5595 I don’t think someone’s gonna copy a comment trying to make it obvious about something..
I remember watching the Pontiac Silverdome being built....however at least I got to catch the bloopers on its demise as well....
When you need a building to be brought down, who you gonna call? Larry "pull it" Silversteinn
Aw! So I have asbestos? Weird way to find out! Thanks for letting me know!
I saw the Leaning Tower of Dallas. It was a popular photo spot for a while.
I wonder how many of these buildings contain asbestos and how often it's 'accidentally' overlooked. Removing the stuff is very expensive and I'm sure oftentimes it's illegally ignored because they know that any illness or death related to it would take years to manifest and would be impossible to trace back to them and their demolition.
In some cases the explosion site is sprayed heavily with water to stop a possible spread of asbestos. Not sure about the US but here all the alarms go off of they find it before demolishing it (blowing up buildings is reasonably uncommon here because the structures in The Netherlands are usually not big enough to do so, but also in the way of to much other buildings to do it reasonably cheaply. We did however try it with a quay somewhere, and screwed it up by using to much explosives, shattering windows and in a couple of cases cracking walls :P
Led me to think
This legit needs a warning that you will see someone die. Heartbreaking to watch someone's last moments alive.
Haha the silver dome all I can thing of is Michael cole saying ahh hogan this is the super dome hahaha
To anyone curious about the thumbnail: It's a building in Taiwan that ended up tilting due to an earthquake. It has nothing to do with demolition fails And for someone who's family grew up in Dalhousie, you didn't say it's name right haha
Thanks for the correction.
the photo in this thumbnail is an apartment building in Hualien, Taiwan that fell like that due to an Earthquake. My friend lived in that building.
Is he still fine
Top Fives: "15-" I'm going to stop you right there.
They made buildings that just would not fall even with several rounds of explosion. And now, the ceilings of the schools are falling without any help.
Frank -"Now I want this building to fall to my right" Bill - "So your right is my left, right?" "Kaboom......Shit!".......
"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off !"
Excellent examples of why they aren't using explosives, to take down the Packard plant in Detroit. It may look slow. But it is less likely to cause damage and pollution to the surrounding area.
Few videos on here are this quality. Nice video
So exhausting to have to be skipping forward to the juicy parts
I’m with u, this guys talks to much
The unrelated cheesy stock footage is not a good choice of illustrating the story.
You guys know you can just get other videos of just destruction compilations
@@felixspaghetti2611 I agree, much more interesting to have some additional information about what is being shown.
I remember that brewery complex just outside of Brisbane that they failed to demolish on the 1st go, there were running jokes that beer fairies were holding it up, as a Nation, we are a bit reluctant to knock down anything beer related.
The most successful demolitions are done by flying airplanes into the buildings above the mid level. There are no need for sophisticated calculations and expensive explosives.
the building in the Tumbnail collapsed not because of demolition. It collapsed because of a strong earthquake. Many people died in there, and it is extremely disrespectful to use it as a thumbnail saying that it’s due to a demolition fail. I truly hope you can change it as it deeply affects many people
Exactly what i thought! I was in Taiwan too when that earthquake happened!!
Thank you for letting people know this. Its really disrespectful to the people that died, and also clickbaity.
Tofu dreg building. May as well be the same 🤷♀️
So ??? Differ kutta
It’s been 10 months and this video owner still hasn’t changed it.
I am from little village and can attest to the smoke and dust. I live on the opposite side to where the building was and the dust reached all the way over to us. It was crazy
Move to Canada, you'll have no problem living here.
Interesting video, very memorizable!
Love it when a building resists destruction.
13:38: Miami Condos Me, in today’s age: Hahoooo he called it guys he called it!!!
They all should have consulted Larry Silverstein and asked him how he brought down his Trade Towers. They did a great job there.
Top comment material right here. It's sad when not one, but TWO skyscrapers come down perfectly inside its own footprint, at near free fall speed but if you dare question anything you get the "conspiracy theorist" label. Can't have you being taken seriously or anything crazy like that!
Especially tower 7
@@brooklynyte I agree. Honestly looking back at that day it makes me wonder how stupid we citizens really are under the government's powers. And now they have us believing that covid-19 really exist this is just another operation for us to believe something they tell us. The end result is to inject poison into our blood so we get vaccinated
We had an old iron bridge that spanned the Mississippi River, called the Marshall Ave./Lake Street bridge. It connected St. Paul with Minneapolis. The "experts" had deemed it too unsafe for more than one truck or bus to pass each other, so they could only cross one at a time, with signs saying, "Buses and Trucks Must Not Meet on Bridge". Well, the big day came when they were gonna blow it up. We all gathered to watch. ka-BOOM! Big explosion. Then nothing. The bridge was still standing there. I guess it wasn't as "unsafe" as they originally thought! 😂
At the 4:56 mark; the St. Petersburg Sport and Concert Complex - the video of it actually collapsing where you can see the people on top doing what ever they need to do to survive. Wow!
Here this method of demolition is never used, and I think there are many reasons for it: - it is a lot of work to remove all dangerous materials (asbestos) - then more work to weaken the structure - then more work and expertise to place the explosives - you need to clear the area for the worst-case fall of debris - there is a lot of dust that has to be cleared afterwards - you end up with a pile of rubble that you still need to separate and move away All in all, it just isn't worth it. Disassembling the building piece by piece is as much work, cleaner, safer, environmentally friendly, etc. Even those destruction balls aren't used anymore. Better to use special equipment with hydraulic claws.
And nobody gives a shit.
Where is "here" ?
regardless of what you think, abatements are done, contaminants removed, firetrucks wet it all down and then machines can rip at it if possible. That is common procedure... Demo company i know never uses explosives, they pull out the supports after damaging the structure
I’m just amazed at how strong some of these buildings are
Strangely they're not using jet fuel to take buildings down. 😉#9/11
Don't they know that fire works better than explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
I am guessing the one person who died was the man seen scrambling for the crane basket in the St. Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex collapse at 4:55 as seen to the left. He missed it and rode that concrete all the way down! Yikes!
I can think of three that went perfectly on the same day!
Buildings built during the "dark" age: lasts literally a thousand of years. Buildings built during the modern age: lasts no longer than 50 years. If so it is proclaimed a cultural heritage.
Thousands of years? The dark ages weren't even thousands of years ago.
@@SerErryk When do you think the "dark ages" were?
so you s*ck at math?
The old buildings that didn't last...didn't last
The demo company for the silverdome said the deadline was too soon and they had to rush to try to make it and missed something
They should have said “no thanks”. If they took the job knowing they’d have to cut corners to meet the deadline, then they’re at fault.
@@asterix7842 it's been abandoned forever also and they had to rush to get it ready for the day it was set. Move the viewing part back I'm sure the people can wait a few more days.
Always sucks seeing the Pontiac Silverdome being demolished. Lots of great memories there with my dad.
Yeah, but man was it an eyesore for a long ass time....
hhaha
I worked in Dallas at the time and drove by the leaning tower every day going to work. It was surprising to see it the first time.
Watching this from Sioux Falls, Was really surprised to hear the Mill mentioned
Sounds like simple history
Imagine having a rickroll on this video
I saw photos of the demolition of the coal stage at Ararat, a massive structure of iron and concrete, the demolition attempt left the building leaning over and stayed that way for a week.
This wasn’t as exiting as expected 😅😂
Watched this after the Architecture fails video... quite the juxtaposition 🤣
The answer to the video's last question: It's Chicago....would you expect anything else?
I went to the Monsters of Rock concert at Pontiac Silverdome in the late 80's. It was the first concert I learned you could sneak an entire fifth of Jack Daniels in doubled up ziploc bags and stay drunk for 10 hours. :)
the Australian beer silo became the leaning tower of beersa XD
Amazing how much money is spent on some of these projects only to be demolished within a generation or two.
Don't they know that fire works better than explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
NO ONE can flawlessly demolish huge buildings LIKE OSAMA BIN LADEN!
Don't they know that fire works better than explosives? kzhead.info/sun/f66JpbuxcKeqpqs/bejne.html
The Pontiac Silverdome implosion botch is just so fitting considering the Lions
At 14:00 is an omen of things to come.
That’s freakish. Should have been a sign and followed up on. ☹️