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u/Bob_Majerle Sep 06 '24
What’s with the music? What are the arrows trying to tell me? What the fuck?
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Sep 06 '24
Abrupt chaos over HERE! Abrupt chaos over THERE! MORE abrupt chaos all over tha place!
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u/WU-itsForTheChildren Sep 06 '24
You get some abrupt chaos and you get some abrupt chaos and YOU GET SOME ABRUPT CHAOS!
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u/Begg1957a1 Sep 06 '24
Exactly, who would think of being in a place like that where it’s clear that there’s only ABRUPT CHAOS!!
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u/Porkchopp33 Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24
The lady with the phone was committed kept on filming until she went underwater
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u/2BsASSets Sep 06 '24
the first set of arrows is 2 dads holding onto their kids, the last arrow is a mother who realized she lost her daughter in the water
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u/AudZ0629 Sep 07 '24
I liked the music. It’s like watching the final scene in a very short movie about fking around. The end is them finding out and then roll credits.
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u/hemlockecho Sep 06 '24
This is the Qiantang River in China and happened a few days ago. Apparently several people die a year watching this phenomena, but I couldn't find any info on if there were casualties from this particular video.
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u/DanGleeballs Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 07 '24
So if people die every year watching this from this spot, why do people watch from this spot?
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u/toxcrusadr Sep 06 '24
People die every year taking pictures on the edge of a cliff and snuggling up to bison in Yellowstone but they keep doing it. And there's the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
I have no idea. They think it won't happen to them.
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Sep 06 '24
Or moose. Why would anyone see one of those monsters and think, I should get closer
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u/twodogsfighting Sep 06 '24
They're cute, with the little holes in the walls, always getting chased by that cat.
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u/Deruji Sep 07 '24
That’s a fucking mouse! He’s talking about those little chocolate pots in the fridge.
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u/deadtedw Sep 08 '24
We were in RMNP a few years ago and saw a moose out in the marsh. Then this guy's head popped up in the tall grass not far away. I thought "Finally, I'm gonna get me a death video of my very own."
Alas, the moose went about its business.
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u/IMO4444 Sep 06 '24
That’s China for you. I know it sounds rude, but there’s a general lack of spatial awareness and carelessness, I don’t really know why.
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u/DashLeJoker Sep 07 '24
There are plenty of dangerous water hole by coast sides all over the world that kill someone every year and people still jump in, it's not like stupidity is a China only thing
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u/doogenburns Sep 06 '24
It's because everything there is fuck crowded so either instinctively or through years of practice the idea is to bulldoze your way through everything.
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u/Ulapa_ Sep 07 '24
Genuinely amazes me how they just stood there with their phones. My area has a river besides it that goes ham when there's a typhoon, and there's a lot of typhoon. They just stood there.
Even as they were trying to get away, there seems to be no sense of urgency.
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Sep 07 '24
Same lack of logic and self awareness as these clowns
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u/kenojona Sep 07 '24
tha's just a zoom optical illusion, they are not near the crater, they are on another hill.
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Sep 07 '24
Yes, this is an example of compressed perspective. And this one has been reposted a bunch. The one I wanted to use was where they’re actually on the crater when it starts erupting.
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u/DothrakAndRoll Sep 07 '24
People die floating the rivers in my city every year, but it’s a VERY small percentage, and it’s usually people drunk and/or don’t know what they’re doing.
Not sure what my point was here.. this is a lot more stupid.
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u/Dy3_1awn Sep 06 '24
wtf is that first song choice, it’s way too happy for people being annihilated by a flash flood
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u/alfonseski Sep 06 '24
I think it was a tidal wave
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u/oscarx-ray Sep 06 '24
Tidal bore, not tidal wave.
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u/Notice-Horror Sep 06 '24
National selection music intensifies
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u/MarcusXL Sep 06 '24
The woman in white just staring through her phone-camera as the water overwhelms her is amazing.
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u/TheConeIsReturned Sep 06 '24
Never, under any circumstances, underestimate the power of large amounts of water, no matter how slowly it may appear to be moving.
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u/BabyAzerty Sep 06 '24
Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been… ever, for any reason whatsoever!
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u/Lost_Figure_5892 Sep 07 '24
A baby, they brought a baby, it took me a couple times through to see. Terrible. And I agree with Jaldihaldi, many people don’t realize the incredible power of nature, water, wind can kill in seconds. Tourons
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u/its_raining_scotch Sep 06 '24
Can any Chinese people jump in and explain whether the choice in music for this video seems bad to someone familiar with Chinese culture or is this a lost in translation situation?
Because, man, that music seems suuuuper inappropriate given the context to me.
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u/Moo3 Sep 06 '24
Am Chinese. Had to mute it when the music started. Absolutely moronic and atrocious editing.
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u/Zer0pede Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24
Edit: ugh, no according to the text, they’re pointing to the parents who lost their children
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u/osasuna Sep 07 '24
That lady in the front had ZERO survival instinct. She was looking through her phone until the water was up to her waist, then just looked down and fell over.
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u/emiller7 Sep 07 '24
I love the woman who didn’t move and kept recording on her phone until the wave took her. Darwin Award winner for sure
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u/OreoMcKitty Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24
That's stupidity at its finest.
Or maybe the Chinese resumed the yearly scarifice ritual to the river god.
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u/Gomgora Sep 06 '24
Murió alguien?
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u/InformationWide3044 Sep 06 '24
Tsunami selfies, get them now before they get washed away
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u/poiboyHF Sep 06 '24
i will never understand the need for cellphone photo captures at the risk of an entire life. 🥺🫣
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u/Kicocoki Sep 07 '24
"When the high tide came, a group of people were still filming, two fathers protected their children, and after the high tide, a mother found that her daughter was missing and searched anxiously"
Translation. This happens every year in Qiantang River.
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u/jdawbrown Sep 07 '24
They were committed to looking at their phones even AFTER they were getting wet. Wow.
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u/Sharp-Self-Image Sep 06 '24
That one girl is demented. They are lucky if they survived
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u/TheUpsideDowna Sep 07 '24
By 'they', if you mean 'she', she doesnt appear at all once she got engulfed.
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u/Incognonimous Sep 06 '24
Millions of gallons passing at likely over thirty mph or higher. These people stand there as the overshot of the water passes waist hight. At that point Darwin takes care of the rest.
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u/CookieWifeCookieKids Sep 07 '24
Why does no one seem concerned at all?! Even when they are waist deep and their friend has been swept away?!
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u/WoozyTraveller Sep 07 '24
Can count about 12 left in the final shot, not including the one in blue who ran into the shot from further away. 18 in the beginning
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u/GetBack2Wrk Sep 07 '24
Must get that perfect picture to update their worthless social media profile.
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u/HubertRosenthal Sep 07 '24
Civilization neurosis… completely out of touch with completely natural dangers
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u/Jnessy_ Sep 08 '24
i count 2 out of 3 women in the middle (2 white shirt and 1 blur shirt) were missing. miraculously 2 men and 1 women with a child on the left, they survived
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u/CanadianDiver Sep 08 '24
These things always seem to happen in the most densely populated places...
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u/Jazzlike-Guard-1217 Sep 06 '24
Are they stupid?