It Took Only 30 Seconds (The Transvaal Park Collapse)

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Being elderly should not be an excuse for avoiding jail time

So he wasn't charged because he was in his 60's? HIS SIXTIES??? LIKE THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A SENILE AGE??????

honestly it's pretty fishy that the architect was made the fall guy. Meanwhile the mayor gets to continue making billions with his wife who was also responsible.

99.9 % of these types of disasters happen because of the greed of someone in charge. Saving a dollar at the expensive of the lives of others. It's sad.

To my children. Don't cut corners. It might seem harmless, but down the road, it usually causes more harm than good.

I never visit swimming pools, but being trapped underwater by a collapsed roof is a new fear unlocked.

... I cant fathom using non-reinforced concrete for a support column...

The next question would be, why the architect had to decide, which typ of concrete is getting used, because this should always be decided by the engineer

corners being cut to save money is never a surprise in these incidents. I guess if one thing is a cultural commonality across the world is there will always be someone willing to compromise safety for some extra numbers on their bank account.

It's ALWAYS the greedy money hoarders who treat the lives of others as nothing of significant of value! Never fails!!!

I feel for the parents who lost their children. They took them for a day of fun and lost them. How awful.

To some, when compared to others tragedies of this scale, 28 lives lost might seem like a small figure. But any number above 0 is not a small figure; every life is precious, no matter how small or old. Waterparks should be safe (I know they're historically not) and I honestly didn't think that an indoor one would be at risk for something like this. Seems no one is safe from shoddy designs and the hubris of men.

Since the roof collapsed right above the children section there were children trapped under it's wreckage. There was an 8 year old girl Sasha that got trapped with a 3 year old girl Masha she didn't knew. Masha didn't know how to swim, so Sasha, who had a broked arm at this point, picked her up and was holding for 1,5 hour until the rescuers found them. Sasha was told to dive under the concrete bloke wich she could do somewhat easy, but she needed to hold the other girls' hand or Masha would get stuck alone in the dark. Thankfully both girls were fine as were they parents. I knew this story since I was very little and it always amazed me. My family lived right behind this park, you can actually see our house in the background on these videos. And we visited this park from time to time, I was about 2-3 years old than. For many years there was only the memorial but at 2013 a new park opened. It is somewhat creepy and it's not crazy popular. Another thing to be noted, two years later fallen dawn the roof of another building (a big market) designed by the very same architect.

"Where I once would fear the cost of truth, I only ask, what is the cost of lies?"

Wow. No justice for the children who lost their lives, because the "engineer" was "too old" to, what, go to jail? Pay out restitution? But not too old to have a career afterward? But if you try to run for president...

THE EMERGENCY RESPONDERS . . . were absolutely amazing. Well equipped and prepared for a huge rescue operation in the dead of winter. Kudos. 💜

Wow, they seriously just dropped the whole case simply because he was 68, as if seniors are entitled to do literally anything without any consequences whatsoever. The corruption in this case is so ridiculously obvious and over-the-top, it seems like it must be a joke. You couldn't even write that into a movie script without critics panning it for being too damn absurd.

Another park was built on the same site 🤦‍♂ Not only an insult to the memory of those who lost their lives, but also a bad omen too.

We literally live in a world where lives are dispensable if you are rich enough, and you are definitely rich enough if you cut corners on safety to have the highest profit margins.