r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/TheBipolarExpresss • Jun 02 '23
Trying to build the tallest human tower
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u/olcatfishj0hn Jun 02 '23
First one to start the spire has insane core strength he’s doing all the work there
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u/HardGayMan Jun 02 '23
Literally just one person holding up like five people in his shoulders hoping his spine doesn't buckle. And the entire row under him acting like a brace. Yikes!
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u/theteedo Jun 02 '23
He was vibrating at the end of it! I was convinced he was going to waver but he stayed true. Looks like someone fell climbing down. Also r/gifsthatendtoosoon
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u/dubiousN Jun 02 '23
Looks like they were climbing down/bailing early because he was failing.
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u/theteedo Jun 02 '23
That’s just like your opinion man…I respectfully disagree.
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u/capron Jun 03 '23
If you slow it down, I think the plan was for the top kid to come down immediately anyway (because they probably knew that's a hell of a lot of weight for Bottom Spire Guy). The guy right above BSG, his leg buckles, maybe from the shaking, or they twisted weird. But I think that's the start of it, exacerbated by the top kid already climbing down and shifting weight. That's my take, anyway
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u/ClutzyCashew Jun 12 '23
Watching the full video, which shows a different angle, it's definitely the guy above BSG. His legs are bent so much he looks like he's almost squatting, with 3 people on his shoulders. My knees hurt just watching it.
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u/CommaHorror Jun 02 '23
Sounds a lot like Connor McDavid on the Edmonton, Oilers.
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u/UncouthPainter Jun 02 '23
A hockey reference outside of the hockey subs? This is a crazy sighting to me
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u/JohnJDumbear Jun 02 '23
Too soon, too soon.
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u/HeyisthisAustinTexas Jun 02 '23
Who’s Connor mcdavid?
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u/screechypete Jun 03 '23 edited Jun 03 '23
He's the best Hockey player in the NHL. Like the Lebron James of Hockey.
EDIT: He's the best player that's currently playing in the NHL.
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u/Burdwatcher Jun 03 '23
No, LeBron makes it to the finals sometimes. He's more like the Mike Trout of the NHL
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u/Danceisntmathematics Jun 03 '23
Tbh single players have a lot less importance in hockey than in basketball where players play like the whole game while in the NHL they play around a third so it's much harder to carry, you need more of a complete team.
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u/Burdwatcher Jun 03 '23
that is definitely true but MacDavid had Draisaitl, who would be a franchise player himself on many other teams, and a good support cast in Kane, Nurse, and others.
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u/AnomalouslyPolitical Jun 03 '23
If you could check in basketball, Lebron wouldn't make finals either.
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u/ktm5141 Jun 03 '23
Lebron is the greatest physical specimen the league has ever seen, him and Giannis would be fine
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u/sil0 Jun 04 '23
LeBron is one of my favorite players of all time. Maybe he would, but he's one of the softest players in the softest time in the NBA. Kobe would do pretty good for sure.
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u/screechypete Jun 03 '23
Had to look up who that was, but using a baseball player is deffs a better comparison. I don't follow baseball though, so I can't speak on this being an accurate comparison player wise. Baseball and hockey are similar in that regard though where you can't just rely on one player to carry the entire team to a championship.
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u/MediocreDungeonMastr Jun 03 '23
Wayne Gretzky has entered the chat
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u/screechypete Jun 03 '23 edited Jun 03 '23
I stand by my statement. Hockey is a team sport where everyone needs to buy in, and one player alone (even the GOAT) can't win the Stanley cup all by himself. When Gretzky was playing for the Oilers, there were a bunch of hall of fame players surrounding him that made the team a juggernaut such as Paul Coffey, Mark Messier, Jarri Kurri and Grant Fuhr who could all easily be the best player on the team if they were playing elsewhere. If you need more proof of this, he never won the cup again for the rest of his career after leaving the oilers to play for the kings from 1988-1997. Wayne Gretzky was a big part of the Oilers dynasty, but to say that he single handily won the cup is simply not true at all.
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u/galloots Jun 03 '23
The fact that this is a question tells me how bad the NHLs marketing is.
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u/CampfireGuitars Jun 02 '23
Holy fuck that came out of nowhere. I almost passed out when I read it.
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u/FlyKiting Jun 03 '23
I’m literally avoiding that sub to forget the pain and I still see this message here haha
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u/Freekbot Jun 03 '23
Took Mario Lemieux 7 years. Took Yzerman and Bourque how long? The Stanley Cup is extremely hard to win.
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u/skepticalscribe Jun 03 '23
It’s true. For those not familiar with the sport’s history, the last dynasty is the 80s with the Edmonton Oilers. A friend and I discussed if hockey was rigged, and I plainly said they would have built a “Patriots” by now if it was.
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u/TempleOfDoomfist Jun 03 '23
I hope he doesn’t have permanent problems all because of this. They got too greedy having 5 ppl at the top.
3-4 is amazing enough and they should’ve stopped there.
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u/Rich-Asparagus8465 Jun 03 '23
It wasn't even him that bailed first either. The person's knees above him buckle
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u/wweerrddUP Jun 02 '23
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u/myDogStillLovesMe Jun 03 '23 edited Jun 03 '23
They must have done a second time then, because OP video they don't succeed, but the video you share, the little child makes it to the top.
Edit: I guess my old eyes aren't as sharp as the rest of you redditors, I though it was the same team, two different videos at two different tries. Others inform me that it's the same team, same try, just two different angles.
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u/PeopleAreStaring Jun 03 '23
Literally the same video from a different angle. The child does make it to the top in both.
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u/thelastfastbender Jun 03 '23
The guy above you didn't see the kid make it, because he was likely distracted by the shaky guy at the bottom. Whereas on his 2nd watch, he noticed the girl actually did make it.
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u/LordPennybag Jun 03 '23
What vid did you watch? Kid with the red helmet reaches the top, does a quick wave, and tries to climb down quick.
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Jun 02 '23
And at a glance I knew exactly that’s where it was going to go wrong. No one, doesn’t matter how strong they are, as long as they are human, can hold 300-400lbs on their shoulders like that for long enough.
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u/Twistedfexer Jun 02 '23
Once the third single person climbed up, it was just a matter of when, not if they will fall.
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u/theteedo Jun 02 '23
He was shaking but what I saw was someone falling as they climbed down. That dude didn’t buckle imo it wasn’t his fault.
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u/iLynux Jun 02 '23
Even if he did buckle, it's still not his fault. They knew they needed a support base around the tower, but then decided to stack 1x1x1x1x1 people anyway? The human bracing structure needed to somehow be taller as well to achieve what they wanted.
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u/alienlizardlion Jun 02 '23 edited Jun 02 '23
It’s not that crazy, its routinely done in the circus. If you think this is crazy you should YouTube some Russian state circus acrobats doing this. They will stack like 7 people and then do acrobatic flips across the towers of people.
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u/iLynux Jun 02 '23
Yeah but circus acrobats train 24/7 with each other to pull off amazing stunts.
These are essentially random people engaging in a dangerously fun custom. Also I believe this is somewhere in Spain, right?
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u/whoisthatbboy Jun 02 '23
Not comparable, that guy isn't standing on the floor nor are these professionals.
This tower is also way higher than 7 people..
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u/Slammybutt Jun 03 '23
His shaking definitely helped the fall happen. He was going to buckle in the next 5 seconds just based on his body shakes. Doesn't matter though, dude was a boss.
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u/AdmiralSkippy Jun 03 '23
It was the guy above him that buckled.
There's the guy on the bottom that has multiple people bracing and holding him steady. Then there's the guy on his shoulders. That guy breaks as soon as the last person starts climbing down.→ More replies7
u/arbydallas Jun 02 '23
Yep and also the title and subreddit were a small clue 🤔
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u/Palpatinesmom Jun 03 '23
I was watching it and feeling good for them and then I noticed the sub half way through and thought oh no.
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u/mygflovesloads Jun 03 '23
Finally! My moment!
When I was a kid me and my bandmates would do what we called 'The Pirellis' after getting pissed. Outside the pub there was some scaffolding and I used to stand against the wall, our drummer climbed up and sat on my shoulders, our guitarist climbed up and sat on his shoulders, and our bass player used to climb up and sit on his shoulders. When everyone was in place, we would let go of the wall and walk around a bit. Probably to try and impress girls. As far as I can remember, somehow no one fell off or got injured. Or impressed any girls. Also, as if this wasn't stupid enough, this was right next to a road.
We were teenagers, so still scrawny and wiry, but that's still at least 30 stone I was carrying. (For non-Brits, 30 stones = 190.5kg, or 420lbs if you're American).
In unrelated news, I'm 55 now and my back is fucked.
Edit: 30 stones is a conservative estimate. I think only our bass player was 10 stone. The rest of us were heavier.
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u/unreeelme Jun 02 '23
That guy isn’t the one who fell, it was the guy above the guy under the most load.
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u/TesterM0nkey Jun 03 '23
I disagree people have squated 1000lbs so some people definitely can
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u/brakspear_beer Jun 03 '23
Just throwing in that lifting balanced weight is way different then lifting the weight of the moving unstable totem pole of people in the clip
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u/Lobster_porn Jun 02 '23
Oh god look at second person in the spire when they fall, folded over under the weight of 3 people
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u/texansfan Jun 03 '23
I just went back, he wasn’t even the one that buckled, it was the dude on his shoulders.
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u/CringeRedditAdmins5 Jun 02 '23
why would the clip stop at the most interesting part ffs
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u/AmusingMusing7 Jun 02 '23
Especially after a minute of unnecessary pre-amble to the interesting part. So many videos on the internet do this, and its a piss off every time. Make us wait forever before the interesting part, and then right when it happens, cut the video too soon afterwards. Like, what is this? Why do so many people cut videos this way???
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u/trivalry Jun 02 '23
Maybe some of the algorithms out there boost you more if people watch the video all the way to the end? That’s my guess.
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u/LesbianCommander Jun 02 '23
Also forces people to watch again to catch the juicy bits.
Especially on sites with no progress bar (god awful design) or on sites with shitty video players that just crash when you try to drag the progress bar (thanks Reddit).
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u/DystopianAutomata Jun 03 '23
That's exactly why I got bored of tiktok... So much unnecessary time wasting
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u/snowe2010 Jun 03 '23
This is why the Reddit api change is so bad for users. Replays on Apollo and other apps are just vastly superior. Reddit is going to destroy all it has going for it.
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u/elprentis Jun 03 '23
It also gets people to complain about it in the comments, and any interaction is good interaction in most social media algorithms
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u/ZeusBruce Jun 02 '23
It's a trick to drive engagement and get people commenting on how shitty the stupid cut is. I hate it.
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u/Pomodorosan Jun 02 '23
But do comments even matter for engagement on reddit? I thought only points did.
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u/big-klit Jun 02 '23
I think comments do too because I’ve seen posts with low points but a ton of comments get pushed. I guess they’d have a lot of upvotes and downvotes combined though so I’m not sure
Also even if they don’t on reddit the videos will still get posted here
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u/KurnolSanders Jun 02 '23
Hey I've got a really good video of a truck driving into a bollard at high speed, let me find it real quick.
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u/_Enclose_ Jun 02 '23
No! No no no. The most infuriating part is not that there is no pay-off, it's that it took me an embarassing long time to realize it was just looping. I just sat there, waiting for the explosion. Blue balls in video-format.
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u/DeuceyBoots Jun 03 '23
The disassembly is so interesting. It actually looks very controlled. Everyone looks like they were caught and no injuries. Then the lower layers slowing climbing out so people aren’t crushed under crowd density. Amazing.
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u/jarjarsexy Jun 03 '23
Wow the original clip is so much better!
Instead of 50 secs of useless buildup from 1 camera angle with a cut off ending, you get 3 mins of useful buildup showing how they build the tower, at 3:10 a r/upvotebecausebutt and you get to see the ending in which seemingly no one was injured (which is probably the reason it was cut)
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u/Jeynarl Jun 02 '23
I almost skipped this video altogether since it looked like one of those weird zombie horde mobile game ads I used to see every 12 posts on reddit's official mobile crapp
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u/Firewolf06 Jun 02 '23
in case you arent aware, reddit is (effectively) removing third party apps and forcing everyone to use their crapp (or move off the platform, as i plan to)
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u/kuzlox Jun 02 '23
Nah it's not that interesting. Everybody gets back on the ground and then another colla starts the next castell. The most important moment is when the enxaneta waves from the top.
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u/LordPennybag Jun 03 '23
Is there a rule about only the top one getting a helmet?
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u/BurmecianSoldierDan Jun 03 '23
If you watch the full video you will see a healthy chunk of them have helmets. I would guess it's a personal choice.
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u/kuzlox Jun 03 '23
In another type of castle the two that are right underneath the enxaneta also wear it, but it is because they are the only kids there and their skull is not fully formed. I've never seen any other position wear it.
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u/jbkites Jun 02 '23
I am fascinated by this trend!! When did it start? Why does it happen? We blame the 'algorithm' but is that actually the reason? I recognize the fact that this edit has caused me to engage and comment. But if the video had the ending the we all actually came here to see, would overall engagement be higher?
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u/_Enclose_ Jun 02 '23
Pretty sure it's 'the algoritm'. Or, at least, a algoritm.
My theory, based on absolutely no research at all, is that every social media site has algoritms that favour certain types of content. Some content creators figure out what boosts their performance in the algoritms' ratings and tailor their content and format to it. This leads to trends that other people pick up on and emulate, maybe even regardless whether or not it actually works. Very much a 'monkey see, monkey do' situation. Then throw in the fact content gets recycled across different platforms, often in a format that doesn't necessarily work on the new algoritms of the different platform. Add bots and content stealers that lazily copy and cut from platform to platform and you end up with cancer in video format.
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u/ImDanger420 Jun 02 '23
Best part of World war Z
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u/gideon513 Jun 02 '23
The score can dramatically change the tone of a film. Just add mariachi to WWZ and you end up with this.
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u/Kayzokun Jun 02 '23 edited Jun 02 '23
Fuck yeah, that’s “castellers” a tradition in Catalonia, Spain, they gather somewhere and make towers of people, the trick is they have to do and undo the tower without nobody falling but, mounting it also counts. Every city have a “colla” a group of people who practices this activity, is a very familiar and friendly hobby/sport. The top of the tower is little kid called the “anxeneta” if the kid arrives at the top and raise their hand is considered completed, that’s where everyone goes on rage in the video. Normally they do every “floor” with 1-5 persons and can go to 7-8 “floors” up. It’s pretty cool and the music is great, too.
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u/EmbarrassedStreet828 Jun 02 '23
Castellers are the people building the castell. And it is spelt enxaneta, not "angeneta".
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u/Kayzokun Jun 02 '23
Corrected, I haven’t spoke Catalan for bunch of years now, I’m almost forgetting it lol.
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u/Evaristtt Jun 03 '23
Techically this is not the tallest castle. This is a 9-floor castle, and the maximum has been 10 floor castle. Here you can see one, and you can see all the building process and also they dont fall, just is somebody is curious as how you dismantle a structure like this:
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u/disillusioned Jun 03 '23
Clive Barker's Books of Blood has a phenomenal short story called In the Hills, the Cities and it's basically about two rival villages that compete to build the biggest human tower, but ends... poorly. It's fantastic.
Quick read, too: https://www.e-reading-lib.com/chapter.php/72065/7/clive-barker-books-of-blood-vol-1.html
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u/PhunkOperator Jun 03 '23
Spain? That's a city in Mexico, right? /s
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u/skabassj Jun 03 '23
Lmao! I know you were sarcastic but gimme Facebook and 5 minutes, and I’ll find someone that believes that.
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u/ossmans Jun 02 '23
Its origins were in Algemesí (Valencia), not Catalonia.
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u/meanjean_andorra Jun 02 '23
Isn't Valencia historically considered part of the Paisos Catalanes ?
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u/Gabiclone Jun 03 '23
not really, both were under Aragon's crown but they were independent, Catalonya was started as several countys by Charlemagne and Valencia was part of Al-Andulus until Aragon conquered it. But separatist in Catalonia want to make it seem like they were together to make the movement gain strength in the rest of Spain
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u/wise-monkeeee Jun 03 '23
yeah, and valencian is not derived from catalan, pp brainwashed people are funny af.
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u/ossmans Jun 02 '23 edited Jun 02 '23
Don't be fooled. The "paisos catalanes" is a crude invention of the separatists, and the annexation of Valencia and the Balearic Islands is their wet dream.
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u/TSmotherfuckinA Jun 02 '23
Kid went 90 percent of the way then nope.
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u/A-Catp Jun 02 '23
What the kid did is exactly how it is done, they just "crown" the tower, they don't need to stay longer than that.
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u/Redditor76394 Jun 02 '23
He could probably feel how close the tower was to collapsing.
Right as he gets to the top you can see the guy at the base starting to shake worse and worse
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u/qning Jun 03 '23
He could probably feel how close the tower was to collapsing.
Dude at the bottom: “hey kid, hurry up I’m dyin here.”
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u/LedParade Jun 02 '23
I’ve seen three people stand on each others’ shoulders, 4 was pushing it, the bottom guy of the column was already shaking and then the 5th?! What the fuck.
5 person column is not a thing as far as I know (not even sure I’ve seen 4) and they tried to do it on top of a human pyramid.
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u/camerontylek Jun 02 '23
we got 5 people in a pool once. My cousin on the bottom was doing all the work
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u/Karaselt Jun 03 '23
2nd from top lady getting choked out by the kid. Having flashbacks from my son's swimming lessons again.
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u/Tomsissy Jun 03 '23
What's cool about castellers is that they can walk with 5 people and carry relics around, I think they did that in Tarragona when they moved a relic into the cathedral once, absolute madmen
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u/caricatural_asshole Jun 04 '23
I did a 5-stories tower as a kid (4-2-1-1-1), with everyone standing on the shoulders of those below. I was on top the first times, then I replaced the guy in the 3rd story while he went to the 2nd as one guy couldn't hold, only to then switch with the guy I had just switched with. Asymmetric load is very hard to hold, but being on top of a 6-meters tall children tower walking down the street is incredible. Picking the 5th-story kid directly from the roof or his 2-stories house is also really funny.
Then we tried 6, 3rd-story guy started collapsing, we kind of did it anyway, and managed to get down without killing anyone. The trick is to build it along a street lamp or something like that, so you don't have to worry about stability until it's all up.
Somehow I survived my childhood.
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u/ysolia Jun 02 '23
Here you can see a 6 people column. It's called pilar de sis in Catalan.
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u/TheBunkerKing Jun 02 '23
Loved the relief on all their faces when they realized they could finally climb down.
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u/alienlizardlion Jun 02 '23
I’ve seen 7 in Russian circus, with them doing flips across multiple “7-highs.” I’ve done a three high but it was skeetch
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u/TakDrifto Jun 02 '23
Coordinator: So we designed this clever plan to make the tallest human tower
Person at the top area of the tower: So how do we get down?
Coordinator: We'll worry about that when we get there
PersonA: ...
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u/demunted Jun 02 '23
yeah weird, a crane with climbing rope type configurations would make a lot of sense in this situation. At least have the top 5 people rope in and leave the line slack for the attempt but prevent grievous injury when/if it topples.
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u/GoGoNormalRangers Jun 02 '23
Have y'all seen that video where it's this but they're building up to a thing dangling from rope and the top lid grabs it, but the the rest of the tower falls.
Pretty bad situation, right? Don't forget that the kid is still up there, hanging on for dear life. And oh, I forgot something. THE KID BELOW HIM PULLED DOWN HIS PANTS TRYING TO HANG ON.
So now this kid is hanging on for his life, 15 meters above the ground, in his undies, IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE ASS CITY!!!!!
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u/pratyush_28 Jun 03 '23
That's an indian festival called Janmashtami. I've seen this video too but cant find it now.
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u/BuscaVR Jun 02 '23
Title it's misleading.
There are a lot of different kinds of towers that you can perform, this in the video it's a tower of 1, been this not very usual, normally we do towers of 3 or 4 (persons per row).
Look for "Castellers" if you are curious about this ancient Catalan tradition.
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u/sadnessucks Jun 02 '23
Crazy what people will do if they don't have access to Internet
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Jun 02 '23
Why is this in "Whatcouldgowrong", as if this is something wrong (and stupid) thing that you can do? As many pointed out, this is a festivity from Spain, Catalonia called "Castellers" and the point is to do the tower and then try to undo it without falling. I would say that falling is a big part of it too!
Y'all should investigate something before talking about it without actually knowing anything.
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u/chalimacos Jun 03 '23
Not the tallest. We make those every weekend in Catalonia. It's called 'Castells', an unique tradition
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u/6laxarienlaxask Jun 02 '23
Remember seeing this sort of thing on TV back when I was a kid thinking "oh that's kind of cool". Now as a 36 year old man with a back as stiff as a priest's prick in a preschool all I can think is "why?"
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u/kuzlox Jun 02 '23
This is a tradition in Catalonia, it's a "castell" made by "castellers". The objective is to get the "enxaneta" to the top and they have to wave. Then they get extra points if they manage to dismount it without falling. The enxanetes are normally 7-8 y/o and now they wear helmets to make sure they don't get injured. Injuries are very rare. Many cities have a group of castellers called "colla". These are the colla of Castellers de Vilafranca.
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u/Sweet_Revenge05 Jun 02 '23
Oh look it’s about to get really chaotic and interesting, time to stop recording.
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u/wildjokers Jun 06 '23
Damnit...another gif that cuts off right when the action starts. Who started this fucking trend and why?
Either way these human towers fall frequently. It is an annual event I believe.
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u/phenagain Jun 03 '23
Visca Catalunya! Way to go els castellers de Vilafranca. Love that little town.
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u/saltyloempia Jun 02 '23
This is a festivity in Spain
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u/Okay_Ordenador Jun 02 '23 edited Jun 16 '23
Fuck /u/spez -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/
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u/Liesthroughisteeth Jun 02 '23
This can never end well.
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u/Leather-Lab4311 Jun 02 '23
Somewhere in the center of that pile, Kyle, stricken with the unmistakable feeling of impending diarrhea, suddenly realized the grande surf and turf supreme burrito was the wrong choice for lunch.
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u/bedheadB188 Jun 02 '23
Why on earth don't they have safety measures in place?
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u/BuscaVR Jun 02 '23
The people under it's the safety measure, also now kids have to wear helmets, that wasn't the case 10 years ago.
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u/Sergnb Jun 03 '23
They do, but their safety measures consist of training insanely hard and practicing how to fall properly to cushion each other.
Surprisingly enough almost no accidents have ever happened in the history of this practice. The worst tragedy is one kid dying once, and ever since then they’ve had to wear a helmet. There’s been no other accidents since
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u/this-guy- Jun 02 '23
Because Catalan people.
I saw a similar display of different groups doing this in Barcelona, it was followed by "devils" setting off fireworks in the crowd The crowd then danced about in the sparks, the whole thing was pure amazing chaos. Happens every year. https://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/events/la-merce/barcelona-la-merce.html
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u/WellThatsJustPerfect Jun 02 '23
OK here's the full clip. Seems that somehow no one was hurt!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygtm6JIqW4&ab_channel=CastellersdeVilafranca