Urban explorers breach security to scale 22-storey Birmingham tower. In my time, I have abseiled down a 20-storey tower block as part of an organised charity event, and I have climbed numerous tower cranes as part of my job. Heights do not bother me. But I can’t bare to watch this video that shows “urban…Read moreRead more
Accident
Video – I can’t bear to watch…
Video – Newcastle Odeon topples into street…
Investigation underway after unplanned collapse spills former cinema into street. Parts of Newcastle city centre were brought to a standstill last night after the old Odeon cinema collapsed into the street. The old cinema is being demolished but onlookers told of their shock as the building “crumbled” into the street at around 11pm on Monday….Read moreRead more
Video – Add this to the file marked Holy Crap…
Cameraman captures moment debris hits neighbouring building in catastrophic collapse. The entirely foreseeable collapse of this building (which already looks several decades beyond its sell-by date) is merely the beginning. When the dust settles and the videographer realises that the excavator operator is unharmed, the attention switches to a neighbouring tower block that has been…Read moreRead more
Bosses jailed over fatality cover-up…
Employee “sent to collect harnesses to make it look like accident was dead man’s fault”. Three company bosses have been jailed following the death of 25-year-old father of one, Benjamin Edge, who fell from a roof he was working on, without safety equipment and in windy conditions. Following the incident safety failings were covered up,…Read moreRead more
40-watt Club to open Russian branch…
It is incredible that these people manage to breath without outside assistance. Thanks to countless cartoons, we are all familiar with the image of the man sawing the tree branch upon which he is sitting. Well, multiply that by about 10,000 and you might come close to understanding the stupidity of this dingus. Just days…Read moreRead more
Breaking News – Man killed in London explosion…
North London rocked by explosion at former petrol station. A man in his 50s died in an explosion at a site in north London earlier today, police have said. Emergency services and the London Air Ambulance were called to an “industrial incident” on Swain’s Lane, Highgate, just after 14.00 GMT. The site was once a…Read moreRead more
Scudder fined over lift shaft fatality…
Prosecution over fatal fall more than six years ago. TE Scudder, together with a self employed contractor, have been fined for safety failings after one man died and another was left seriously injured falling six storeys through a lift shaft. Southwark Crown Court heard on 17 January 2011 work was being carried out to decommission…Read moreRead more
Video – Leave it to the professionals…
40-watt club for the terminally dim welcomes first Russian member. There is virtually no need for explanation here. Just take a look at the opening shot of the video below, and you will get a pretty good idea f what is about to transpire. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the oxygen thief hitting…Read moreRead more
Narrow escape as gas canister hits house…
Ohio woman has lucky escape as gas canister travels 1,400 feet and punches hole in her house. A woman had walked out of her room just moments before a 100-pound canister came crashing into her home Sunday, according to Hamilton Police Sgt. Brian Robinson. The compressed air cylinder was accidentally launched about 1,400 feet away…Read moreRead more
Video Exclusive – Maylarch on site of deadly blast…
Demolition contractors aids emergency services after explosion. On Tuesday 14 February, an as-yet-unexplained explosion ripped trough a three-storey residential block at Osney Mill in Oxford. Emergency services quickly determined that a local man – Guido Schuette – had likely perished in the blast that levelled the block in which he lived, and which damaged similar…Read moreRead more
