Hmm. Cranes and bridges. I know who’ll like this one…
But it’s not a happy crane and bridge video. It’s a bit of a disaster…
Look, because of the title of this post and the title of the video, you know that things aren’t going to end well. But it’s the way things happen almost in slow motion and the lack of any sort of discernible panic that makes this so entertaining.
And we can be entertained, because happily (and perhaps incredibly), as this news article with its sub-headings like:
Veel schade (lots of damage),
Puinhopen (heaps of rubble)*, and
Enorme schade (enormous damage)
…also tells us:
Burgemeester: geen slachtoffers ongeval Alphen
Although running it through Google translate, it does appear that he was only talking about humans:
It is believed one man wounded by two cranes and a bridge part topple Monday afternoon and attacked a number of houses and shops in the Main Street. The man was removed from the rubble and had problems with his hip. Also, a dog did not survive the blow.
Oh dear. Damn those attacking cranes.
* Puinhopen is totally going to be the name of my next metal band.
