Monday, 02 November, 2009

1. By Chris Weagel. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @08:10am:

   I like J-Walkblog becoming a repository for silent, security camera calamity videos. Each seem to stem from slippery accelerator pedals. I love how long the video holds in stillness right after the collapse.
   
   This one will be hard to top.
2. By Mean Jean. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @08:29am:

   Somebody got in trouble? Yeah. The person who leaked the video.
3. By Big Tom. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @08:33am:

   Just another day at the Amazon warehouse.
4. By Shel-tone. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @09:18am:

   Hilarious!
   I guess the guys underneath died, (suffocated from the gas released from the bottles of what I assume is poisonous chemicals or they were simply crushed from the weight of the boxes and initial impact...) but if you are going to die, let it be spectacular, hilarious and viral.
   RIP unknown fork lift drivers. Your pain is the internets entertainment.
5. By south. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @09:36am:

   Shel-tone, you are under the impression that two people died in this accident and you think it's "hilarious"?
   
   Odd.
   
   I doubt that they died. They have roll cages to protect them from just such an event.
6. By Shel-tone. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @09:52am:

   It's monday and I'm feeling morbid. I apologize.
   
   (but what If they did die?)
7. By south. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @10:00am:

   If they did die that it is a tragic accident and I don't have a problem watching the video and being amazed at how little it took to bring it down but the last thing I would describe it as is any kind of funny. Unless they lived then it is hilarious.
8. By cesar. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @10:13am:

   the forklift vendor or who ever maintanis should get in trouble. Also, who ever built the warehouse with sticks.
9. By Shel-tone. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @10:13am:

   Here is a translation of what the caption says on the website it comes from:
   "Our reader, who requested not to call its name, sent to us scandalous video. This is the storage of one large network, which deals in alcohol. One incorrect motion by hand and firm became more poorly by 5 millions. In the boxes there was the cognac and vodka. After the selection of obstructions the sum of damage was evaluated approximately into 5 million rubles. No one of the workers suffered. The driver of lift loader was finished by the injury of foot. Beginning of action approximately on 30 seconds:"
   
   Vodka and Cognac was spilled. I am upset now.
10. By wally the duck. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @10:14am:

    They message I take from this is that working in a toilet paper warehouse is better than working in a cast iron bathtub warehouse.
11. By ElMoney. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @10:17am:

    Morbid Monday, so fun to see,
    Morbid Monday, the viddy was all I hoped it would be
    Oh, morbid Monday, morbid Monday couldn't guarantee
    That morbid evening would come and bring more glee!
12. By major_danny. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @11:14am:

    This would never happen in the USA. Every warehouse I've worked has steel five times thicker than what's seen here.
    
    Regardless, they're dangerous places to work. A man died in one warehouse I worked. It didn't happen on my shift, thankfully. I myself narrowly escaped injury at least twice. Both times were my own fault.
13. By mare. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @11:15am:

    Yet another case of not studying the instructional video on how to operate a forklift:
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DMyAHhwWIA
    
    (Not necessary to know German to enjoy it.)
14. By Phos..... Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @11:19am:

    The fault rests with whoever designed the rack shelving system &/or whoever installed it, &/or the person/company responsible for allowing it to be used at far higher weight than it was designed for.
    
    I've run big forklifts into racks at far higher speed than that—racks 20 feet high bearing the weight of skidloads of antifreeze, chewing gum, chocolate bars...VERY heavy stuff—with barely a dent in the upright. Proper design and deployment also should include reinforced guards in possible impact areas.
    
    Ain't no way it's the forklift driver's fault.
15. By Don Coyote. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @11:29am:

    That was pretty funny, mare, which is unusual for Germans.
16. By Doug. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @12:35pm:

    That shelving can't be up to code. Plus they are using gasoline forklifts -not electric- indoors. You can see them belch black smoke when they start up.
17. By . Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @01:40pm:

    Somebody got in trouble over this

    
    Ya think?
18. By karl. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @04:02pm:

    I once witnessed a similar accident, but with hair oil. The driver was careless, but the system was faulty. And the job student had to cklean it all, no special gloves or overalls provided. You could smell me coming for weeks in a row.
19. By jmnorthcutt. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @04:30pm:

    Cleanup in aisle nine!
20. By . Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @04:36pm:

    It's Russia, guys. Things have really gone to pieces over there since the overthrow of Communism. No the thugs in charge are those free-entriprise Russian and Chechen Mafiya guys.
21. By . Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @04:37pm:

    Whoops. Now the thugs in charge... enterprise
22. By Omar. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @07:11pm:

    mare (#13), just when I thought that video couldn't get more ridiculous...
    
    Goes to show, you need to ban women with high heels from walking in warehouses in Germany. Yes, that's it. Better make another law about safety footwear.
23. By The Sallow Thing. Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @04:30am:

    My dad used to be a forklift operator when I was a little kid. He would go to work with various types of alcoholic beverages hidden in his clothes and drink all day long while driving around the forklift. In a store running into old co-workers even all these years later they will fondly remind him of how they could always get a drink off my dad during a rough day. He never did anything like this though.

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