🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To 17 MINUTES OF UNBELIEVABLE MOMENTS!

[@adiarainfoster]

16:25 it's salt water. salt water is a preservative. which is why fishing towns have been using wood docks for centuries. It needs upkeep now and then like every man made thing, but wood does quite well with salt water. You can even still find wrecks from the old days of wood sailing ships still at least partially intact.

[@skyepuppy7763]

That Pakistani bridge turned out to be very well built. It never broke, just lost its moorings at the two ends and floated downstream. Impressive!

[@arctan2010]

It’s probably a blessing in disguise because the elephant’s tusks will look undesirable to ivory poachers. 🐘

[@the_dog_says_moo]

Very good point.

[@brandypebler2054]

True

[@charliemiskwaabineshii9001]

Yes he'll have a longer life without his tusks. Quite a few elephants are born tuskless lately too, it's much safer for them. Damn poachers should all suffer.

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

Also not a male elephant they do not live with the herds. It was the matriarch of the herd doing her job and protecting.

[@shotgunbettygaming]

@@charliemiskwaabineshii9001 ALL elephant are born tuskless. They grow in like teeth.

[@anythingyoucando1546]

The extreme cold temperatures that far north and not just the salt water alone would have unique challenges when metal and concrete comes to mind.

[@cyndiagilbert6216]

You usually have to buy more insurance that’s very expensive. If we have floods where I live very few people get flood insurance. They usually count on FEMA to help with costs

[@TwinMama-jv3zb]

There is a road near me that has a railroad crossing, it's such a steep incline to go up over the tracks that the road is all scratched up. There are signs everywhere saying no trucks, but people who aren't familiar with the area still get on the road. Its a very small 2 lane road with nowhere to turn around, so once they are on it they don't have much of a choice but to take their chances crossing the tracks. A few months ago a truck got stuck and was hit by a train, a bystander called 911 and saw the collision. She gave an amazing recount of events, she was a natural storyteller...I felt like I had been standing right next to her watching it all happen. Thankfully nobody was injured...just lots and lots of damage.

[@americansmark]

I know the guy in that train video. His landing gear got stuck because his tandems weren't all the way up due to the local bridge axle weight restrictions. In plain English: our trailer axles slide forward and back for different loads so we can always have a balanced load and make tighter turns. His wet further back to be legal but it meant the middle of his trailer and thus his landing gear (the trailer legs) we're sitting lower than the tracks when he got halfway across. He probably bounced and got wedged in that time despite crossing the same road dozens of times before. I got stuck on a road making a turn. Landing gear grounded out on a tightly baked state route and I had the entirety 9f my trailer's weight resting in the drive tires and couldn't move. Took our tow truck an hour to get me unstuck while the highway patrolman laughed his butt off at the bad luck. As for the county fixing it: they can't. The tracks are owned by a rail network and they refuse to do anything. Same reason why our local rail truss is 11' tall on a us route. There's no other way around and the rail industry refuses to upgrade cuz they're greedy bastards.

[@thomasvlaskampiii6850]

Really, it would turn into a battle of "we both need to join together to fix this, so who's going to pay? I'm not paying to fix it." because it really would take lowering the tracks and leveling out the road in order to truly fix it. Or, you can do the cheap option and put up no truck signs and fine any truck that goes on that road

[@lkayh]

Thank God the train wasn’t derailed. I hope everyone on the train was OK.

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

I mean they don't even give sick days so... I thought maybe it was a case of stopping on the tracks when they should not for a red light beyond. Thanks for informing us.

[@Mvtobebo]

I'm glad you explained it instead of me. I'm not a driver and don't know all the factors to explain fully.

[@tfrowlett8752]

The problem with wind turbines is if their brakes or gearboxes malfunction they can spin out of control, overheat and ignite. Because they’re mostly made from fibreglass and other flammable materials, the fire can spread rapidly and burn out of control very quickly

[@TopNotchStoner]

There are actually two turbines burning in that video though. I wonder what happened.

[@tfrowlett8752]

@@TopNotchStoner multiple turbine failure can occasionally happen from insufficient maintenance or strong winds damaging equipment. I’m guessing the background one failed in a similar way to the main one.

[@teressareeves5856]

Fixing a railroad crossing can be an enormous boondoggle. The railroad is responsible for the upkeep, & they are very very lax about that. My hometown not only threatened to sue the railroad for dangerous crossings, the city actually started filing the paperwork before the railroad took the threat seriously. The rebuilt crossings were fantastic.

[@Thetequilashooter1]

I’ve been to Ketchikan. It honestly had the best King Crab that I’ve ever eaten.

[@kingjellybean9795]

The tractor trailer didn't die, the trailer bottomed out on the rails. It was on a hill.

[@jeffking4176]

That’s what I was thinking. It does happen. 📻😐

[@NavyCombatCorpsman]

I’m an insurance guy. Here in Texas, it would be covered if he had bought catastrophic damage insurance in addition to his property and casualty insurance.

[@davidstephens6462]

Definitely not the first truck to get stuck on the tracks there. Just caught this one on video. We have quite a few crossings like that in the metro area.

[@josephharrison5639]

6:23 if ya look at the sign it says no trucks allowed to pass over the tracks, they don’t listen is the problem 18:02 the problem here is they’re using a rubber tired backhoe, a tracked one would have no problem in that snow 20:44 those safari vehicles probably have a governor on em so he was probably going top speed

[@lamstar1]

Elephant tusks do not grow back, they’re an extension of their teeth actually so once they snap off, they’re gone

[@brianhixson5357]

Just like adult teeth. Not ivory. ( maybe a gold / filling grown lol)

[@brianhixson5357]

This is a scam. Do not reach him.

[@sadiekincaid5310]

I don't know if you have seen it or not but there is a semi-famous railroad bridge/overpass in Raleigh-Durham North Carolina called the can opener. It is a low railroad overpass that is too low for big trucks/delivery vans ( Loris) to go under and stay intact. If you type 11foot8 in the seach bar on KZbin a whole bunch of videos will come up and they are funny to watch.

[@justanotherwhitegirla7093]

He really does need to watch a compilation of the can opener.

[@littleredwritinghead3781]

Really loved this video. You always react like I do!

[@earl3092]

That train and truck was on KZbin channel Bone Head Truckers . The truck engine did not fail the truck was stuck the landing gear of the trailer hit the ground keeping it from moving forward .

[@christianoliver3572]

OSHA is for all different types of workers here in the USA who deal with different types of equipment, chemicals, biologicals, pharmaceuticals, etc. Basically every employee of every American company has to satisfy OSHA requirements from the janitor to the Physicist.

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

Not a male elephant they do not live with the herds. It was the matriarch of the herd doing her job and protecting.

[@adiarainfoster]

That is a female elephant attacking. Elephants form gender specific herds. males travel with males, females travel with females. they only get together when a female goes into her breeding cycle. The only males traveling with a female herd will be very young ones still needing mother's care. More than likely that is the matriarch of that herd. The guy narrating didn't know much about elephants. Still a great clip though! Honestly it's probably better she lost her tusk. it might make her safer from poachers!

[@lkayh]

A flood with enough water pressure to carry rocks and bridges isn’t going to be stopped by most dams.

[@VerchielxKanda]

One of the most craziest moment I've seen is a tiger chasing a couple of guys on a dirtbike. It was insane how fast the cat was chasing them!! Poor tiger must've been absolutely starving at that point. I'm sure the bridge WAS secure. People forget how much water can lift. Water can carry cars at just two feet depth. Why doesn't the county put in measures? Because they're rich fucks who think a simple cheap sign can deter people and stop the damages. I believe his deck would be covered by the insurance, as long as its stated. I agree! A concrete deck is ideal!

[@MeigetsuNoSeishin]

That may not have been a bull elephant at all. They're matriarchal groups, except in breeding season basically, so those big ones are probably all females. Grandmother's, daughters, Great Grandmother's and such.

[@jaycooper2812]

There are controls in windmills that are supposed to angle the blades so they don't spin too fast. If the blade spin too fast it will burn out the bearings and the heat generated will cause it to burn.

[@Trenton-om9qs]

I don't think the Semi's engine died. The trailer probably bottomed out on the track since it was kinda on a hill.

[@leeneufeld4140]

In North America, it is the rail companies responsibility to maintain the part of the crossing that is on the rail easement. This results in conflicts with the city/municipality/state responsible for the rest of the crossing. As a result many crossings are built at too steep an incline, in order to meet the level of the existing roadway at the point where it enters the easement. This has been a problem for truckers ever since there were trucks to get stuck on them. They are usually well signed with warnings that trucks should not use them, but ... In any event, this sort of thing happens way more often than it should.

[@ESUSAMEX]

The wood used decking near water is pressure treated. This wood should last years even near the water. Metal decking would rust, and concrete decking, while good, is known for cracking. The local building codes will dictate what you must do or have in order to build a deck in your area. As for insurance, your policy will tell you what is covered or not.

[@bryonensminger7462]

I don't know but there are 2 of them wind mills burning, I've heard that bird strikes can damage them

[@davidterry6155]

Regular homeowners insurance usually doesn’t cover the water damage like that. You would have Flood insurance.

[@davidterry6155]

Kabir are you sending out links to telegram saying that I won something. Otherwise I delete it

[@yugioht42]

Actually most elephants that are caught in the wild by wildlife rangers have their tusks sawed off to prevent poaching. It’s a good way of making sure elephant ivory isn’t traded anymore. It however excludes antique ivory as it has to a certain age to be considered legal. Artificial aging can’t be done as you can tell with a quick look as ivory that looks old is soaked in tea, coffee, or oxidizer which isn’t that even and leaves patches of white. Real age can show as ivory ages it turns yellow then brown or stays white depending on where it’s being stored as it’s still considered teeth. The explorer’s club has an old skull of a four tusk elephant as it’s only type because it’s a rare genetic mutation that gave it 4 tusks

[@dcoxdon]

ACtually I think there were 2 windmills burning. Look just to the left of the burning one... There are 3 more lined up. The furthest one away looks like it has black smoke coming from it too! You can see it at 13:14.

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

Whether that deck is covered by insurance depends on how the policy was written. I'd expect that a policy covering wave damage to a building right next to the ocean would have very high premiums (if an insurance company was willing to write such a policy at all).

[@bryonensminger7462]

In the states we have OSHA which stands for occupational health and safety administration but even though that I'm a block and stone mason I've seen people killed on the job it still happens there's no avoiding accidents

[@uberXserial]

"Scary but gorgeous." I've definitely met those kinds of people.

[@parsifal40002]

Some people love an adrenaline rush, so much so their safety is ignored. Those people watching a land slide is a good example.

[@sherryheim5504]

That was a female elephant, most likely the matriarch of the herd. She was protecting her herd and the babies. Males leave the herd at about 13 years old and go off to roam with other males. Tusks are used to strip bark off of trees and other such things. In the males, they are used for fighting also. If her tusk broke below the skin, she might not survive without medical attention and even then, infections are common. It is a national park so there are probably medical crews who can tend to the elephants. The calf shown was very young so that might have been what provoked the attack.

[@hifijohn]

Actually there are many videos on youtube of trains hitting trucks. you can do a reaction just on that.

[@WonderGeology]

Vehicles getting caught on the tracks a lot more than you think all over the country. Many of them ignore the cross bars. The way those tracks are built can cause low cars to bottom out. Many train crossings DON'T have cross bars!!

[@calebdaniel1498]

I lived in Ackworth at the time and this was crazy

[@jaycooper2812]

The house in Ketchikan is not able to be insured as it is built too close to the water. The waves in that area can reach up to 20 feet during a storm.

[@bryonensminger7462]

At a certain point you don't recover the vehicles even here in the United States up in the mountains there's cars and trucks down in East Valley some of them valleys that they just leave them cuz they can't get them out

[@littleredwritinghead3781]

I read that elephants think humans are cute. They see us as we see puppies. I don't know how they know that, but it makes me feel bad when we cause them any harm.

[@katw3070]

Stop hawking crap on here.

[@katw3070]

Oh, my gosh! I didn’t mean my comment for you! So sorry! I meant it for “Ariana Victoria”. Someone is always trying to scam people.

[@Merivita9]

Also in the US only the railroad company can do work around tracks. Cities and counties have no rights other than to post signs. It’s a federal level deal the railroads have with the government to ensure local governments don’t cause issues to the tracks and stop commerce

[@tammypilgrim3764]

No mention that two of those windmills had smoke pouring off of it

[@micheleperkins1956]

Poor daddy elephant 🐘. I honestly thought tusks would regrow. I guess I learned something at least.

[@LexyThomas134]

5:22 Not even a scratch, see it all the time and those trains aren't taking damage from a trailor that high winds could rip apart lol

[@LexyThomas134]

Hey you've won something too.....🖕

[@vthokielover8541]

If he has flood insurance yes. That’s normally a separate charge that you can opt into

[@jessicaleblanc-nh1yl]

Water becomes 'muddy' as one sees, do to the immense speed it has. It will dig up the bottom masses of earth within the river bed. It will make the clearer water become muddy immediately. Hope that helps. Thank you for sharing this piece.

[@geraiapowen2]

OSHA isn't just construction but all manufacturing and work places.

[@arkansasrailproductions5507]

The clip of the train vs truck could have been a lot worse. Case in point, several years ago there was a train vs truck wreck at Mer Rouge, Louisiana on the same rail line that goes through my hometown in southeast Arkansas. The truck was hauling a low boy trailer with a large crane on it and it got stuck on the elevated crossing in the middle of town. A northbound freight train struck the truck with so much force that the front of the lead engine lifted off of the rail and the train subsequently derailed, all caught on camera. The crew onboard survived but were taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.

[@jaycooper2812]

Actually the elephant breaking his tusks could be a good thing. It makes him less likely to be killed by poachers because his tusks are damaged .

[@titusmartin9120]

I love the way Kabir thinks he has better solutions after the fact. Kabir woo d is treated before its put into the water. How many piers all around the world built of wood and they stay standing for generations. I love the way, he gets into other people wallet and says, "I would have done it this way", like no one thought of that. There are houses made of that were built in the 1600 and 1700s that are still stand fine. The only reason wood houses are popular in England is only due to the fact that England cut down most of the trees for its navy back in the day. England didn't have a chose after a while, they had to use stone. Mother Nature doesn't care what material a building is made of. Mother Nature moves entire mountains and changes rivers, I don't think a building will survive no matter what materials its made of.

[@xviper2k]

You don't think a building will survive no matter what materials it's made of? You should've told this to the guy who built a deck right on the ocean. 😆

[@austinverlinden2236]

That wind turbine most likely spun up to fast and the brakes that slow it or stop it failed. Overspun the motor that generates the energy and kaboom.

[@bryonensminger7462]

I would say the odds of a trucks engine failing right on the tracks is 100%

[@Drewmisley]

The windmill brakes caught fire and after that its over. The elephant pissed me off cuz they should be charged cuz theyre no better than poachers at that point.

[@jeffking4176]

Cool. 📻🙂

[@lkayh]

Heck with the deck-is the house OK? That water was soaking the foundation and siding as well.

[@yugioht42]

Yeah the whole Chinese stay cool under pressure is on display there. We always do that. It’s just our nature to not let things bother us even if we are panicking internally.

[@louisejohnson6057]

So all 1 and a half billion of the people in China, and those Chinese people living elsewhere act this way? Or are you just employing massive hyperbole?

[@MarkoDash]

i don't know why they act like it's a big mystery why the windmill caught fire, the generators in them have a maximum rated speed, normally they can change the pitch of the blades to control or stop the rpm. if you notice the windmills that aren't on fire have their blades angled edge on into the wind and have stopped turning. the ones on fire for some reason didn't manage to do that, the high winds oversped the generator causing it to exceed it's rated output than it ether shorted or overheated and the whole thing catches fire.

[@russellrichter3473]

Wind generators are hydro dynamical braked so if the brake fails so does the wind tower

[@russellrichter3473]

@Kabir_ConsidersTextOnTelgrm okay

[@grendalnewgod]

That excavator (digger) was on tire, not tracks. If it had been on tracks it would have stayed on the road.

[@robertkramer41]

The landing gear catches, look at the angle. As a pro driver he should've read the sign (you need to read every posted sign, the one you miss may be speaking to you) realistically should've recognized the danger and found another way or stop and raise his landing gear all the way up, nah, find another way.

[@PoppiMorrison-nk6kw]

Brown water is dirt filled water.

[@mattlovell4213]

Your solution for everything is always the same “but can’t the government just come in and fix it” (in British accent) to answer your question, no. They’re incompetent.

[@bryonensminger7462]

That hill it's on could be to steap and the trailers landing gear could bottom out if it's not jacked all the way up

[@jaycooper2812]

The truck shouldn't have been there in the first place. The trailer high centered on the tracks because the tracks are higher than the surrounding area.

[@chrisdef15]

I don’t get the tusk thing. They grow throughout the elephants life. So while they won’t magically go back to how they were they would still keep growing.

[@kingbrutusxxvi]

Unbelievable is such an odd adjective. We use it all the time to describe things that are amazing (good or bad) but it actually means "not believable." So, basically, a lie. To quote Bzermikitokolok, "Humans are so weird."

[@louisejohnson6057]

Your comment is unbelievable.

[@Elevatedzebra96]

So dumb about calling that elephant “papa elephant” bulls don’t travel with the females and young.. that’s probably a sister or the mother matriarch of the babies mom we see chasing the truck..

[@bryonensminger7462]

No that bridge way probably as secure as any of them it's just that the power in water is unbelievable I have seen pictures of ocean liners with their Solid Steel Bridges just smashed and folded into pieces from the power of a wave one single wave

[@kathryndunn9142]

Have you seen mountain truckers same thing happens there too

[@leeneufeld4140]

Faulty electrical wiring in two wind turbines at the same time? Get new maintenance.

[@eddyhernandez5869]

CNN reporter," firery but mostly peaceful protest". Now that's a funny play on words.

[@robertjohnson3128]

I feel like safari cars should be armoured lol

[@katw3070]

I feel like humans should leave wildlife alone.

[@robertjohnson3128]

@@katw3070 Same. It’s so dumb. Like wow look a elephant. Big deal. Leave the damn thing alone

[@Pronoobgodhacker2468]

Cuz....Merica..... (Toral sarcasm. God forbid we invest in infrastructure. )

[@shotgunbettygaming]

No...elephant tusks don't grow back. Sadly this means he will likely lose his standing in the herd as he will not be able to spar with other males successfully for position should they come along. Losing them, particularly the length, actually endangers his life in a couple of ways and they were beautiful tusks as well. This also means he will not be able to debark fallen trees for nutritional purposes any longer. It makes me angry that the driver allowed him to catch up like that, causing the loss of his tusks.

[@tombowers6713]

But, is it coming home? 😁

[@WhodatLucy]

11% of Louisiana is underwater

[@jeremywilliams1835]

Instant karma police edition

[@rockymtn1291]

Interesting fact is that one "green" windmill requires 80 gallons of crude oil/per year to be properly lubricated. The average windfarm has 150 turbines.

[@casey.rob.]

So glad I don’t live in those developing countries and countries with lower or no safety standards.

[@marcieharreld286]

The county is probably out of money...like everyone else.

[@marcieharreld286]

@Kabir_ConsidersTextOnTelgrm is this for real?

[@chaspullen3544]

Scary yet beautiful I've been with 2 of them women The digger and the car I get the biggest bulldozer I could find And some 1 1/2 --- 2" cable Be careful out there!

[@gamerforever4837]

I don't understand the tools who live at the water's edge, lake ocean or river, and then they play the victim when their house and etc float away.

[@davidlionheart2438]

Dude, salt water preserves wood. Salt is a preservative. Think about it.

[@donaldkersey9416]

It's not that it's the crossing its the low clearance of the trucks trailer there is always signs. It's called high centering you trailer truck drivers are forever getting high centered because they don't pay attention.

[@troyyonally3681]

KABIR COME HERE WHEN YOU ARE WATCHING THE ROCK SLIDE IN CHINA AND YOU KEPT SAYING WHY DON'T THEY MOVE WHY DON'T THEY MOVE DIDN'T YOU HEAR THE GUY SAY IT WAS A TRAFFIC JAM YOU EVER TRIED TO MOVE IN A TRAFFIC JAM