Why Did This Brand New Hotel Collapse?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2023
- The in-depth story of the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel Collapse 2019. Three lives lost, dozens injured, and a city left in shock. The New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel became one of the city's worst engineering disasters.
Panic ensues among a group of tourists as a sudden loud rumble shakes their streetcar. They watch as a giant steel structure falls from the construction site directly in front of them. The crash is followed by a massive cloud of dust that engulfs the entire area. Abruptly, a lively street transforms into a chaotic scene..
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Delmer Palma literally tried to save people by reporting what he saw and he fought for their justice afterwards as a key witness, knowing he wasn’t documented. Get that guy some papers. He deserves to be here. He’s the kind of person we should want here. Fuck the people that deported him.
We should give him an honorary citizenship, and deport the others who cut corners and covered it up to the nation of GPGP. (The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.)
@@bentonrp Like the French did with that guy who scaled the outside of a tall building with his bare hands to save a kid from falling. They gave him citizenship for it, because that's the kind of people you want in your country. Good people. Who cares where they are from and about technicalities? They're good people who went out of their way to save the lives of people.
@@TheBaileyandashlyn Yup! 👍
Far from deporting him he should be invited back with the necessary apologies and employed as a building inspector,I think he might just be a BIT more professional than the current 'chancers'
@@busking6292 I'm afraid the way most U.S. or billion dollar companies operate
is with the knowledge that cutting a few corners would inevitably result in certain tragedy, but tragedy so rare that it would see a thousand successfully accomplished projects for every failure.
Calculating the hundreds of billions of bucks in profit they make from these thousands of successful projects that they cut corners on,
compared to the tens of millions they have to pay out in penalties, deaths and damages every time they cause a tragedy,
it is clear they don't care to hire the safest and most thorough safety inspectors, but rather, the ones who will do what they are told by the industry writing their paycheck.
That way they can continue to operate in this manner, and claim ignorance when something goes wrong.
$315,536 is what 3 lives were worth. Disgusting.
Not even surprised the whistleblower faced consequences faster than whatever goblins run this sham of a company lmao
@@ProfVaharrak And goblins is what they are..
You know it's some insecure fuck who needed taller ceilings that wrecked this entire thing.
I think that there should be a clause in all building insurance contracts that says that if damage occurs because people are trying to "Save money", then the insurance is void.
@@spacecadet35 you'd never underwrite a single policy under those terms. if i could, i would quit my job and start doing that instead. "if x happens, coverage is void. you're on your own, thanks for the premiums sucker"
That's so ridiculous / messed up / insulting to the survivors and families / I could go on. And it presents absolutely no kind of deterrent in the future. I bet that amount is much less than what they would have saved had their incredibly risky gamble paid off 😡😡😡😡
This made me look at the buildings I work on more. I found something similar on a hotel I was doing with the company I used to work for. I made the decision to pull my crew out of the building and I reported it. I warned other companies on the site and they pulled their crews out too. We all refused to go back in until it was deemed safe by the state.
Good man
I mean, that just goes with the business. Everyone, everywhere, is trying to save money. From the worker, to the manager, to the manager's wife, to the investors
You can play it safe as long as you want, but the bottom line, its extremely unlikely for something tragic to happen, and people want to get paid.
Most people out there are just not that rich to be able to just say "I dont like your building so I wont work in it until it gets fixed". Not all of us have this privilege
@@artyomarty391 the thing is, if the metal rode where litterally bending it wasn't unlikely at all that the building would collapse, better to be poor and alive than "rich" and dead
@@tueur_au_compasgaming7808 you have hindsight, which is always 20/20. Easy for everyone to spot the problem, once we know whats going to happen
I encounter risky situations all day, every day. Just at a much smaller scale. But the bottom line is, if I wanna get paid, I need to get the job done.
Your "better to be poor than rich and dead" is just irrelevent since the likelyhood of something happening in a persons lifetime is almost zero. I am a cable tech, I know several dozens of techs, and I've only met one guy who injured something serious while on job. Yet, we all break OSHA and company safety rules and procedures on a daily basis because, frankly, we know better. If we were to actually follow the protocol, we would become so inefficient that it would be better to just get a min wage job
If you were so concerned about safety, why not go further and not drive a car? The chances of you being involved in a vehicle accident is significantly higher than becoming a victim of some negligence on a construction site of some sort
But ofcourse you will never stop operating a car, because that would make you too inefficient. Thats my point...
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I've been in industrial and heavy commercial construction all my life, retiring at 66 and still working at 72. Clearly this is a corrupt site all through the engineering and administrative sectors, including the city inspectors. Everyone in that entire group should be indicted on criminal charges.
And yet, the only people you'll see truly upset in these comments are the ones who are disgusted that the whistle-blower who tried to save lives, was an undocumented citizen. 🥴 lol
THAT is what disgusts people more.
Not the rich, corrupt developers who were skirting safety measures, and ended up costing lives. At the end of the day: money & skin color cloud a LOT of people's judgements.
1:19 This implies that more will collapse 😮😮😮
@@SukhdevSingh-ge5rj YES it does as long as they have such a corrupt mayor…..
wow. it’s absolutely despicable that they deported the whistleblower…. its getting significantly harder to not hate this world
I'm with you on this
Just the Western world. I wouldn't mind if they didn't pretend to be better than everyone else.
He should have been given honorary citizenship for trying to protect the citizens that were working alongside him.
I was just going to make this comment...how disgusting.
He, and his family, had lived in USA for 18 years. Didn't want him giving evidence in the upcoming trial.
The guy that tried to do the right thing and report the violations prior to this happening got deported, smh.
EDIT: Since this comment received so many replies, I just wanted to say I’m a born and raised American citizen and I’m aware his presence in this country was illegal if he wasn’t documented, there’s no need to explain that to me. That doesn’t change my mind about it being sad or morally right.
yeah, that will discourage others from speaking up. very sad.
Classic.
THIS SCREAMS HOW USA IS RIGHT NOW.
@@CrackerSmith I think that's the point unfortunately.
Him not having the correct documentation made his presence illegal.
Delmer Palma, your courage may have been punished twice over, but you're a damned inspiration. My country doesn't deserve a man as good as you. I hope you are happy and safe. I'm so sorry.
You're right our country doesn't doesn't deserve people they come here illegally
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Was his information ultimately used though?
to be honest was his bad. if you are undocumented don't do anything public. doesn't matter if he is a good person. authorities need to deport him anyway. cases where being a person with good morals is rewarded are for movies. since at the end on the day this disaster was just a monetary problem for the owners. they will do it again same as others since is always a gamble of how much you can get away with.
Wasn't he a key witness? @@joewoodchuck3824
What I find surprising is the lack of comments by licensed Structural and Civil Engineers on this. This is a real lesson to anyone going into these professions. I have worked along side a Senior Engineer who was asked, by our boss, to compromise his "professional standards", and he refused to change the design and specifications.
Engineers are scumbags. As a fire inspector, I have no problem telling them off half the time, cause most don't know shit about shit.
Wait, Walt, wait. The guy who reported the safety violations and tried to hold people accountable got deported for his efforts? Ffs.
Yes, because its clear the construction company pays the officials wages :)
and dont forget, they hired him, surely they should be charged for that too right? Of course not, they pay the officials wages remember ;)
Sorry for the sarcasm, and yes, disgusting, and unfortunately true
One right doesn't negate another wrong. He broke the law! Of course he should be deported!
If he wasn't here, they would have had to hire an American for the job. Illegal aliens harm American workers.
Deport all of those illegals. I had to work with them in construction and they are all menaces.
I think American Citizens who can afford this should hound Delmar Palma (the deported whistleblower and key witness from Hard Rock) down and suggest him that he sets up a webpage with a Western Union or other payment credentials and send him donations to improve his life and this way also declare him a virtual US citizenship for his bravery. Further each donation should be listed in name and amount for transparency and encouragement of others, and each donation when happens should be posted with an appropriately shaming comment onto relevant social media pages of the US government, which I think behaved in a toxic way in this case and deserves to be publicly shamed (within the limits of the law of course). I feel ▇▇▇▇▇ towards the US government when they deported a key witness and I think they are corrupt. I think this is beyond contemptible.
For months you could see the rotting leg of one of the workers that had been trapped in the collapsed portion of the building. The sheer negligence of this incident is beyond belief.
The sheer neglience "beyond belief" is a basic, well-spreaded strategy all over the United Shits. Deporting the witness, just for saving the bosstard! There is two nation ONLY where anything can collapse by seconds... They are almost neighbors... China, and the US. In China, because they want to cheap as possible. In US also. That method of planning something needed to terminate.
Oh, they dictating "The Rules"? Shit.
Every construction job I was on I was told I made too much money too.
Holy Chit!! Despicable!!
They have hurricanes flooding and heavy storms in New Orleans that piece of crap wouldnt withstand a strong breeze as tragic as this was What if it decided to go on Grand Oprning night disgusting.
@@craigusselman546 I watched a video about this incident and it’s unbelievable how corrupt the inspectors are contractors were. They were cutting corners and cutting costs so they could make the most money and 3 people paid with their life! Truly disgusting
My mom’s an insurance agent who grew up in New Orleans, and she’s not kidding when she says it’s one of the most corrupt cities in the entire world lol. Anything that costs more than $100k is almost guaranteed to be touched by organized crime at some point.
Hell, it should have been illegal to build New Orleans so far below sea level, but Southern corruption can accomplish some truly astonishing shit.
Unless your mom's work in other cities how does she know? That's like me saying America is the best country in the world but I've never gone to any other country.😂
@@rachelsill79 Uh, yeah. She’s worked in other cities. And other states. And for a while worked in Germany.
@@rachelsill79 What a weird thing to say
Illegal to build under sea level, weelll lets just break out Mr Peabody's Waaaay Back Machine and tell them in the late 1600's, ya know when they established the city.🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
and she's so fucking right! new orleans is so incredibly corrupt and the worst part is, there is nothing the common folk can do about it. we're at the mercy of city officials and their games
I'm from New Orleans and saw the daily news reports for this event. Not only did that collapse mess up a lot of investors, but because of the mess it left behind, the bordering streets - and the businesses on them - were largely unusable for months. Until the building could be completely demolished months later, the Saenger theater was unable to be used. There was a ... shall we say a pi$$ing match between the engineering company, Hard Rock, and the city regarding who would be responsible for demolition costs. It took FAR longer than it should have to get that settled. The use of cheaper steel and fewer support columns doomed the project. Makes you wonder how reliable other similar buildings are. Not to mention that the building inspectors were either on the take or slacking off.
Tofu building
WTH? The dude who knew what he was doing - the dude with integrity who reported the issues - the dude who tried to do the right thing - the dude who provided evidence of wrongdoing....they freaking deported him? WHAT. THE. HECK??? *HE'S* the type of man we need in America! Not the scumbags who killed and injured people.
Julian Assange is in prison for the same thing.
@@anthonyxuereb792 true story
Exactly!
@@anthonyxuereb792 not really. More like Alexey Navalny
@@Sep-jk3vi That makes two.
One of the bodies was visible and they placed a tarp so it couldn’t be seen. As the body decayed the leg separated from the body and the tarp started coming down. It was all beyond tragic and those behind the tragedy should have been charged with manslaughter. Those families waited almost a year for their loved ones remains knowing one of their legs was visible part of that time. 😢
Jfc that is heinous
Omg this is horrible 😞
I remember that and still can’t believe they couldn’t find away to retrieve the body. Most likely there was a way but it wasn’t cheap so they left him there.
I was going to comment this, as soon as the video started I was like “wait isn’t this the one that they left that poor man’s body in view of the public for weeks?”
They even tried to lie about it, until locals called them out too.
I was a Construction Engineer for the city of NY we don’t cut corners here when we build buildings there are building codes and laws in place for a reason
That what happens
When you cut corners it’s sad so sad this could have been prevented 😢
A couple of the workers caught the change to lighter steel and when they complained about it, they were told to go back to work. I remember stuff like that but with machinery, it led to lots of field work to repair it, you say something, it's like "what do you know?". The beams they put in were less than half what was supposed to be used, wow.
Not enough is said about these rescue workers. Heroically rushing into these catastrophes to save the lives of others. True heroes at every turn.
There not HEROS!!.....running into buildings and rescuing people is actually in the job description. Now if a baker or banker did that they would be a hero.
Second and third responders included.
But they were gonna leave the guy die there because he wasn't worth his life to compromise the building.
@@MrWolfSnack true, but saving him may have doomed other people possibly also trapped in the building.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. well tell him that. this is 2023 there is tech to shore up the building and ways to raise the rubble to free him without shifting the structure.
The idea that lives were lost and many injured all to cut costs and pad pockets is extremely disturbing. They all need to be held criminally accountable.
In my country they would be charged with corporate manslaughter
Look to the city and state, who they hire and why. Even now, there are no photos of two of the main "inspectors" who were not really inspectors, but activist in Leftist activities.
It's not the first and it wont be the last. People responsible have the money to avoid long prison sentences.
They got off way too easy for literally murdering people
Only the goverment officials are being prosecuted. The private companies that caused the collapse got off with a small fine. Not so much unsurprising as predictable.
One of the most abhorrent things about this other than the complete disregard for human life is the one guy ringing alarm bells and clearly a great contributor to our construction trade is he got deported? WTF? All of this is disgusting.
RIP to those three souls lost, and condolences to the families. Kudos to Delmer.
It never ceases to amaze me that the people responsible for these types of accidents are never there when it goes wrong. They put all those people in danger while never setting foot in the building. I wonder how different everything would’ve been if they were there everyday.
I doubt that the inspector would have noticed the change in steel gage for the flooring though.
At the very least, the engineers who made and approved of the changes should have had their licenses revoked and never been allowed to practice engineering again imo
Diversity hires, probably.
That's the American way the big companies put other people in danger so they can make money . They do it with the gun manufacturers they do it with everything
@@escthedark3709 Agree!
There were at least 8 people who should have been charged with negligent homicide at the least. That's one of the reasons this keeps happening over and over 😢😢😢
correct, from the inspectors the the construction supervisors and designers who kept changing the original plans.
I agree. The prison sentences should be the first thing we decide on.
What I don't understand is - didn't they have an architect? a construction engineer? a civil engineer? Somebody? Did they really just have idiot "designers" ? And I'm using the word idiot because had they ever built a popsicle birdhouse or played with legos, they would have understood that you need support columns to hold up a building.
@@ae2948 they weigh the cost to likely this will kill everyone to .. that's it Ratio
Maybe the onsite change was made without the engineer or architect’s knowledge. That’s happened in the past
This was a well done and detailed report of the things that contributed to bringing down the Hard Rock on that day. I'm actually extremely surprised that you failed to include one terrible, and frankly morbid situation that became known all over the world. You DID say that there were three deaths. You DID say that the bodies were not immediately removed because of safely issues for the people who were set to retrieve the bodies. One body was actually taken out in the first days of the collapse, but that left two more who were still in there. As time went by, it became known where the bodies were located and it was deemed unsafe to attempt removal of both bodies until some things were changed to make it safer for the retrieval teams. The one thing that was so very horrid, morbid and downright discusting was the fact that one of the dead workers legs were sticking out in plain view of anyone who cared to look!!! This was such an unusual and unheard of thing that nobody really knew what to do about it! So the dead worker's legs, with pants and boots still on stayed in plain sight for quite some time before there were some half way attempts to cover them up from the public's view. Invariably the things they rushed into doing did NOT stay in place and time after time the dead workers legs were again in plain sight of anyone who cared to look. It was finally done right and a huge tarp was placed over a large section of the collapsed part that held the dead worker who's legs and boots stayed there for the better part of a year!!
Now I don't know what most people know about death and the inevitable results of dead bodies, human or otherwise, decompose in a fairly short amount of time. I'm being serious and I am trying desperately to explain and describe all of this without being disrespectful to the families and overly morbid and disgusting. I'm only stating facts about the things that took place here and that the wealthy people who ran the construction companies and were also in charge of design and inspection, did everything to escape paying even a dollar more than they could avoid paying!! So that left that poor man's legs, still wearing his work boots, right there for almost a year!! Knowing what i do about decomposition and the things that take place, it's truly a miracle for the families that he body didn't fall apart and start dropping pieces down for all to see that as well!!!! If you know anything about these processes, then you know that there are certain insects that invade a dead body and the stage they are most known for is the stage of growth that is the larval stage and once started they would consume every decomposing flesh that was there to be had. The only good thing that could, maybe, be said about this is that it made the recovery very much easier because they were no longer recovering a body as such, but a skeleton these larva are very thorough in their search for sustainence, their very small size would allow them full access to every part of the body, even the parts that were under whatever crushed him! That would not stop them from their task.
Everything I'm saying is very public knowledge and everything can be checked out. There are even pictures online and maybe even here in TH-cam, that can easily be researched and seen by anyone. I remember when I first heard the body has finally been recovered and my heart ached for that man's family.
You heard about one of the workers getting deported, but the reality is that a huge number of the workers were poorly paid, illegals in the country that were actually brought here by the wealthy people who were paying for this building and were the ones who were going to earn the greatest reward had the building not had problems and was completed!! It's a dad, but true fact that a huge number of these workers were desperately trying to feed their families on a very low paycheck and no benefits or insurance.
So, i can't say this is "the rest of the story", but I CAN say it's a big part of it not seen or even talked about in this video. We are not a third world country and there are still people treated as slaves and a blind eye is turned to it!!
Maybe my words will help a few people to gain the help to have a better life.
Thank You for posting this I followed this for months after it happened then I could find no more video I gave up and then I came upon this !!
I’m amazing how human greed is the root of most of the disasters on this channel. Thank you for the great vid.
I mean, sadly society rewards it. If you cut a corner and it works out okay, then you earn more money than your competitor, complete projects early, and are more likely to receive future bids because of your low cost and fast times. You can also afford to pay workers more and attract more talent. Thus, until something goes catastrophically wrong (and sometimes even after) people tend to be rewarded for cutting corners and penalized for following safety standards. It takes a large societal change and awareness to change that.
It shouldn't be amazing. It's entirely predictable, because attempting to do more with less is central to improvement in just about every field. I'm not defending what was done in this particular case, but it must be pointed out that the difference between "greed" and a lauded increase in efficiency is ultimately whether one cuts too far. Cutting is good until it isn't. That's why this pattern has always existed and will always continue to exist.
It's the reason why unfettered capitalism would never work. It's why I don't vote Republican.
Also the laziness of the 3 inspectors. They didn't even show up to look.
"The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."
I lived in Nola when this happened, and it was absolutely horrific. It was left in ruins for several years, along with the bodies inside that “couldn’t be removed”. When they tried to demo the first time, it brought the crane down into the middle of the street, where it was left until final demolition. This is a perfect example of the corruption that exists in the city. The money that comes in just goes into someone’s pocket instead of being used for maintenance and upkeep of the city.
Really?? Wow!😢
The Big Sleasy.
Nola is still one of the most corrupt cities in the country. It was shown right after Katrina tried to wipe it off the face of the planet and just keeps getting worse and worse every year. It's as if there is a major plague in the city that feeds on corruption and paid off politicians.
Another corrupt, poorly maintained city and as you would expect it's run by democrats.
New Orleans might even have Detroit beat in corruption
Thank you for your efforts on this awesome video!
What’s crazy is before the collapse you can visibly see the top floor bowing. I know perspectives are different from up close to a good distance, but how nobody there noticed beforehand is mind boggling.
Guy tried to save the lives of his co-workers and friends, and instead of facilitating citizenship, they kick him out of the country... figures.
The company was trying to cover their asses. I'm sure they hired him knowing that he was undocumented, and then blew the whistle on him when it looked like he'd be a witness against them.
The good ole USA. Shameful.
@@asbestosfibers1325 "they"?
My comment was about the US government, their decision to kick this guy out of the country.
@@asbestosfibers1325 How is that relevant to the deportation?
I'm assuming that his employers were either the company responsible for the collapse, or a sub-contractor working for them.
Either way, employing "cheap illegal work" should be the least of our concerns.
The "cheap illegal work" didn't cause the collapse - upper management caused it.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 I agree, it was management who had all the information of the flaws and should have had the know-how to fix those flaws. It doesn't matter if the workers are illegal or not, it's not their job to know the intricacies of engineering. If anything, the man who was illegal was going above and beyond by reporting the weaknesses in the building to the higher-ups. He got reported as illegal and deported because someone didn't want him to testify.
Kudos to Delmar Palma, the undocumented Honduran worker who reported the flaws to his superiors. That one of the key witnesses was deported tells me that the corruption and back-room shenanigans had something to do with that. Weighing the severity of the broken laws between being undocumented versus corruption in the building industry and city inspectors, it would have made much more sense to let him stay, at least until the trials and all the aftermath has been completed.
Yeah, they had their priorities screwed up
I'm all for deporting illegal immigrants, but the timing of Palma's deportation is indeed very sus. I'd bet the company hired him knowing full well he was undocumented, and only blew the whistle once it looked like he might expose them.
Crazy how him being undocumented didn't matter when they needed his labor, but they suddenly cared about it when he spoke up about their negligent practices.
I thought the same thing. Those sleazy creeps had him deported so he couldn't testify. Hopefully it was after he was deposed and his account was still admissible.
Merica
just found the channel,
good job.
Nice presentation, deep dive on a subject or in this case, Incident. nice amount of info leading up to the event,
yeah, really nice job.
Unfortunately, I can confirm that (at least) in the New Orleans area, mistakes like improper fittings and measurements are still incredibly common. I never worked the construction side of things, windows and doors actually, but we had to work around, fix and have adjusted numerous things on almost every other project we would go to. These construction companies and contractors just don't care and are used to being allowed to make mistakes like this with no actual consequences and the people they hire are more concerned with the speed they finish a project at rather than it being done correctly.
And if it continues, we’re going to have problems
Safety regulations of all manners were written in blood. It's so depressing to see people continuing to cut corners like this, despite *knowing* what will happen if they do. It's disrespectful to those who suffered for us to have the knowledge to do better and to protect our people, and cruel to those who continue to suffer for pure negligence.
Even more so, Imagine what would have happened if it did not collapse during building, but after being put into use.
@@theexchipmunk Yeah :( there'd be hundreds of deaths.
This is the America that the conservatives want: less oversight, less regulations, underpaid and underqualified workers and thus even more profit for the builders and investors. Everything that has been established in the past to prevent incidents like this has been slowly but meticulously broken down by the GOP and its cronies.
Their logic? Builders, and employers in general, are very responsible people who will naturally do everything to ensure the safety and welfare of the workers and other people....... And if you actually believe that, I have a few bridges to sell to you.
Time and again incidents like this prove that there is way too little oversight and that the regulations are blatantly being ignored for the sake of more profit. Yet the conservatives keep pushing their fairytale about "very responsible" employers.
Nobody cares until it happens to them. Just meaningless words until they are the ones paying the price then all of a sudden everyone magically cares. USA is becoming the richest 3rd world country so rapidly it's not even funny.
Agreed. It's really galling.
My great uncle died in a construction accident. The building he was working in collapsed when he was in the basement. He wasn't supposed to work that day. He also had a wife and 9 daughters.
Why he didnt use condoms?
My condolences 😢
He should have stopped at 3 daughters and not being greedy for more kids if he could not afford it. Learn what is called birth control.
@@RogueLawyer666 How are you going to judge someone who died 40 years ago on how many kids they have. He can have as many kids as he damn well pleases. Also how does working construction automatically make him poor and greedy to have more than 3 kids.
@@RogueLawyer666spoken like a true genetic dead end.
that's crazy seeing how bent that pole was like you just know it was going to fail, but hate to mention those 3 inspectors were paif off to stay away
I remember this happening! I was in high school when it happened and we often had field trips to Jackson square, a few months after it happened we went to the city for a field trip and our bus drove past the collapse, it was insane to see, especially with how much we had heard about the collapse.
I lived in New Orleans at the time. It was a very weird and honestly shameful feeling walking around our city looking at that disaster and knowing there’s bodies still in there, even during the Mardi Gras festivities. Then someone died at Endymion one of the biggest parades, right down the street from the building… very dark times
Same. It was a horribly eerie feeling seeing the ruined building and knowing it took such a horribly long time to get the bodies removed. Shameful is the right word for what happened. 😔
Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭. I love the city NOLA I have become a Saints fan. The food is wonderful. I'm sorry this happened.
@@weaponizedglitter69Greetz from Switzerland too🇨🇭
@@JMonique41 not to mention they left the body visible
I lived at the French quarter when this happened. It was just a few blocked away from my apartment. it was surreal to see at the leastSmh.
It should not have taken 10 months and ample discussion before an appropriate way to retrieve the bodies of the 3 men that died, to me that was just torturing the families more. And then to deport someone because they speak up about all the bad practises that took place. All I can do is SMH in sadness.
Yeah that pisses me off. Hope he is doing well now.
We can shake our heads in unison then.
That man should be brought back from Honduras and given his residency. He definitely deserves whistleblower protection. As for not charging the companies responsible, that just smacks of higher corruption. That wasn’t “it’s just a fine” culpable, that was “negligent manslaughter” (or whatever the correct legal term is) culpable. The people responsible should be in prison, not just the corrupt inspectors. They deliberately made unsafe changes without permits.
I sincerely hope the families of all the workers got huge compensation and that the companies involved are all out of business. Same for those investors. If you were told no, I don’t give a rat’s a$$ if you *want*. What you want isn’t safe. If your potential occupants want ultra high, open, airy ceilings, they can go build themselves giant houses that are two stories tall, but only one level.
Hiring illegal immigrants then firing them when in trouble,Good old greed☺
I SMH with you all!
10 months is excessive but what happens is the property gets locked down into a crime scene annnnd the government takes over, grinding progress to a halt.
Its also structurally unsafe for anyone to be in so a LOT of time had to go into "planning" on safely deconstructing that mess in a way that didn't cause any more collapse or casualties. What a nightmare!
Dudes probably back home wearing a hard rock tshirt telling tales of how corrupt America is LOL and how he survived an 18 story building collapse just to get deported!
Construction is absolutely insane. The complexity amazes and terrifies me.
I'm so happy for the two families, whose loved ones were stuck in the building, who finally got the bodies back and were able to hold proper funerals. What a totally preventable tragedy. Shame on EVERYONE who told these workers to cut corners and put their lives in danger. They even had workers TELLING them and BEGGING them to pay attention to the pitfalls that were happening early in the construction!
21 in to 10 in beams?! What a massive change
It was so upsetting and being from this area made many upset. Corruption isn't new to us... but the way that these workers were treated... the bodies that were left and then ICE waiting for the workers to be released from the hospital. It was just sickening and it continues to this day.
you can't sue if you are deported! Bazinga!
Diversity Hires!❤😂🖕
My condolences to all family and friends. 😔🌹🌹🌹
I used to live near New Orleans, and worked at a restaurant where the family members of one of the men who died from this incident were regulars at. His poor mother was so sweet, and seeing her get more and more distressed as time passed while his body remained in the collapsed building was heartbreaking.
Imagine had this hotel been complete and collapsed with visitors staying there.
Would’ve had as many fatalities as the Surfside condo collapse.
@@critterc0rner possibly it was behind schedule when it collapsed. It would have been more fatalities if it was opened during Mardi Gras possibly hundreds.
yet no one has been convicted manslaughter yet, how is this even possible, when a person driving can be charged with homicide and manslaughter too just for and accident, yet this scumbags get to walkout free, the City inspectors who were probably getting paid to fild false reports, the construction supervisors and the designers who kept changing the original plants, all are complicit.
If it hadn't collapsed it might have been OK. Concrete increases in tensile strength as it ages. It takes 28 days of curing to reach spec but it keeps getting harder after that. Concrete is actually a crystal that keeps growing. That's why as it dries it holds together. But today time is money and jobs like that are finished as fast as possible. You're on that deck the next day while the concrete is still green working.
Such things do happen. Sometimes it is about a building that used to be safe but that got overloaded by heavy machinery and extra floors added later.
It was traumatic for us to see one of the worker’s body dangling from the debris for MONTHS. That poor man! His upper body was hidden in the crushed floors and all you could see is his lower half, jeans and boots. The city tried to cover his remains but the wind would uncover him 😢😢😢😢😢
They cover him like they covered their greed
And he’s an American citizen.
Now imagine what they did to non Americans across the Middle East and Africa.
The US government should be shut down.
I’m not an American and this documentary made me furious for that man.
This is inhumane
@@slyguythreeonetwonine3172 so when a man fucks up (which would be every single person involved who fucked up, except the one woman), it's not worth mentioning, but that one woman deserves to be singled out with a snarky "diversity hire" comment? Maybe some more diversity hires would have prevented the accident, because clearly the men shouldn't have been left in charge...
@@bahaar5215what?
I think he wanted people to remember him and expose corruption.
So you're talking about somebody being crushed to death and you're putting up cartoon faces ??? I will never understand the yanks
When Designers think they're Architects, it always leads to stuff like this.
This was a Good vid again..
I'm glad OSHA went after these people. The fine doesn't feel large enough, considering the loss of life.
OSHA only deals with the practical side of things, not punitive damages (lives lost). The companies will get dealt with soon as its still ongoing
@@planetaryray7119 yeah unfortunately the dent will probably not be big enough to impact their profits but maybe their business will take a hit with lost clients in the future.
The fines are based on materially what was done, not what happened to be the result in the particular case.
When it's your husband, wife, daughter, or son who's killed in a building collapse, no fine is or will ever be large enough to make it right. But for actual, provable fraud? Well, a 30 year prison sentence will make people sit up and take notice in the future (as long as the convicted ACTUALLY SERVES the time). And the NEXT time somebody wants to erect a shoddy building in downtown N'rawlins, a hundred people will A) say they won't be a part of it because they saw what happens to people complicit in construction and engineering fraud. They might even remember the names, just like everybody still knows Kenneth Lay's and Jeffrey Skilling's names from Enron and how Lay could have gotten a 45 year prison sentence (before he croaked a few months later) and Skilling got over 24 years with a minimum of 20 to be served...people remember that, and they don't want to go to jail for decades, and/or B) a hundred people will report it to OSHA and the city, just to see the @sshole engineer/project management team all go to jail for 30 years. This could be a self-correcting problem, people. We just have to start getting tougher on fraudulent engineering, and we need to get tougher on our politicians, including our judges.
@@Alex632 o😊😊😊😅
i knew a company that went out of business after they got cited a quarter million dollars by OSHA. construction is usually done in stages, getting payments when these milestones are met. this one contractor wanted to hurry up, clipped the tags and locks off of a switchgear connected (backfed) to a brand new high voltage transformer and almost killed a couple utility workers working around it. they only survived because they knew it was dead, not turned on (wasn't even supposed to be), not tested, not commissioned yet, but one guy-that one guy decided, "you know what? I'm just gonna send my beeper up to check if it's off." thankfully, everyone was indifferent to him being extra careful. there was absolutely no reason that thing was supposed to be on
Rule of Thumb in use of Electronic... as long as you were the one to make sure that a device is off; never trust someone telling you it's off.
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Wow that one worker was either really new (safety practices recently drilled into his head) or really experienced (seen/heard some shit and learned better safe than sorry).
@@Tomlar147 *Thumb
I’m an electrical engineer. I always assume everything is ON until I verify that it’s off.
@@electrictroy2010that's not how it works in bulk power. you are given what's called Clearance on lines, cables, equipment. every point of disconnection must be open and visible (i.e., no circuit breakers or metal clad switches count), and also locked and tagged. any violations of this are major Title 8 violations like that contractor found out. if you work on a line that is coming from the other side of town, it's not feasible for you to spend several hours driving to check that everything is still as it was left by others. you're not working in a panel or on a PCB in these cases; you may even hold clearance on a transmission line that's several hundred miles long.
I forget about this tragedy or perhaps I didn't follow it at the time. It's important to have documentaries so we never forget what happened & never forget the lives that were lost. Tragedies like this need their stories told to help avoid future disasters and to teach future generations of what not to do. Very sad story for the families, the victims & their coworkers who have to live with this every day.
It's because this is a failure of government regulation. And government regulation will never be exposed because the government controls the mass media. If this was privately regulated, this would never happen. Nobody at OSHA lost a penny of their salary for their negligence
Realizing this took place on my golden birthday (October 12th 2019 I turned 12) makes this feel oddly a lot more personal to me. R.I.P to all the victims of this tragedy.
The body of Jose Ponce Arreola, a 63-year-old construction worker, was recovered almost a year after a Hard Rock Hotel under construction collapsed. The body was within view of people walking by, and they complained until they covered the body.
If the body was in view, it was recoverable. He may have even been alive for a time and just left for dead by so call rescuers who were too afraid of a secondary collapse to actually do their jobs....as per the video. Shameful …whether the victim died instantly or later, it was a disgrace to the supposed rescuers for not attempting to reclaim him.
@@maggiesatterfield2402 was he the wrong colour to be respected? Damn those city officials are filthy
Diversity Hire!😂😂😂😂😂
Glad they Antigone'd his ass.🖕
@@leeoshea2290😂😂😂 blah blah blah victim blah blah blah victim blah blah blah victim
@@maggiesatterfield2402 rescuer evaluate risk. while there is plenty of examples of heroic rescues that should not have been given a try. there is also plenty of examples of recuers diying trying to get someone out. not to mention for a dead body any real level of risk to the rescuers life is not worth it. at the end of the day is a job people intend to do it for years, not play russian roulette for a paycheck.
As a now disabled sheet metal engineer, to hear they dropped the q-decking to 22 gauge from 18 blows my mind. Being that I was union and only worked with union/college-trained/educated workers, safety was above any boss or architect's authority. If a worker filed a complaint of potential issues, it HAD to be fully reviewed by at least two engineers working separately.
The problems come when the contractor hires union and non-union subcontractors... that's when you get the boss-man who cuts corners that end up falling on the ones who don't cut corners.
report it to the city if supervisors wont listen, but everyone can be bribed
Yup especially cheap labor hires of illegals!
@@monkeyoperator1360 What's shocking is hearing that the city inspectors just totally blew off the job and filed false reports. Yikes. Makes you wonder how much of the modern world is really running that way?
@@jamisonr i've heard local inspectors say not going to site you for this but it needs to be fixed
@@monkeyoperator1360Yikes. Unfortunately sometimes something like that needs to be done. That can make people think it's not a big deal or put it off tomorrow.
I’m sorry to those who lost their lives. It’s a miracle it happened as soon as it did, can you imagine a fully packed finished hotel collapsing at peak hours when it’s full of people and workers and the street is packed with cars and more civilians!? It was a good thing it collapsed during construction and not fully packed with people.
The fines (a total of just over 300K for all involved companies together) is like a bad joke.. it don't even do in a symbolic way
The man who reported the issues and got ignored still getting deported to Honduras was deeply upsetting.
In current day? I don't think getting deported is really that bad of an idea. Honestly I'll have people are fighting to leave the United States
@@MickeyMishra ok sir let’s ask the guy who got deported and see how he feels about it
@@DoingStuffWithDiana But all the Libtards says America Sucjks! They can't be wrong! That would be Anitsemtic!
Surly, Our lord and Master Gretta Thrumburg can't be WRONG can she?
@@funzy101 ew go away
@@funzy101 there’s never going to be an understanding between you and I. I prioritize humanity versus legality. Our priorities our different and I truly think my priorities are better than yours. Maybe reflect inwardly as to why you think legality is better than caring about the well being of fellow humans. How sad. I feel sorry for you.
Dude I remember waking past the building after it collapsed and thinking about how weird it was because there we’re still bodies inside and it had been like a while after it collapsed so it was kinda freaky to think about.
Roku runs the city government and that's all you need to think about and why it was kept that way for so long.
Democrats running cities into the ground
I remember this. I walked on this exact sidewalk 2 hrs before this happened. I made a stop for a rest and to check out the casinos and play poker as well as grab some food. Saw it in the news next day and was shocked.
Delmer if you're reading this you're a hero. Thank you legend
Imagine how under designed this must have been before they even moved in Windows, Flooring, Fixtures, Pluming, Wiring, Furniture and People. Absolutely INSANE and UNACEPTABLE CORRUPTION
It’s common in New Orleans and Louisiana sadly
exactly, it collapsed with probably only 1/3rd of the final weight. So it was probably under-engineered by 3-400%.
Its what they voted for...
@@MickeyMishra Building inspectors are not elected positions. Why does everyone want to make everything political? Get a life
@@hsimpson7267 Its what they voted for.
DAMN I thought they were gonna give a raise to the guy who constantly reported problems in the construction, NOT DEPORT HIM TF
He should have been promoted to head in charge
I think American Citizens who can afford this should hound Delmar Palma (the deported whistleblower and key witness from Hard Rock) down and suggest him that he sets up a webpage with a Western Union or other payment credentials and send him donations to improve his life and this way also declare him a virtual US citizenship for his bravery. Further each donation should be listed in name and amount for transparency and encouragement of others, and each donation when happens should be posted with an appropriately shaming comment onto relevant social media pages of the US government, which I think behaved in a toxic way in this case and deserves to be publicly shamed (within the limits of the law of course). I feel ▇▇▇▇▇ towards the US government when they deported a key witness and I think they are corrupt. I think this is beyond contemptible.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The powerful never face justice 😮
17:19 LOL
That's ironically funny
300,000 seems like an incredibly small fine for such a catastrophic failure.
Bizarre that the company responsible only got fined 315k and they continue to work in the industry and still deny responsibility. Those people should be in jail.. not awarded with more corruption
"no one knows what happened" is one of the most cursed sentences, its terrifying how building you are in right now could just collapse any moment
Yep and if u cant handle such things thinking of them while in a building is gonna cause u to have panic attacks
I dont try to think about it to much and im not afraid of it since life is life
Usually it’s the very tall buildings that collapse, not 1 or 2 floor buildings. Also there’s usually a hint, like seeing rusty metal or cracking concrete. (As was case with Miami condo collapse.)
Delmer is an honest and hardworking man whom I hope now has 3 angels watching over him, ensuring him and his family do well in life ❤ I can’t believe how poorly he was done by his higher ups and consequentially, the US.
Seeing people running on the roof as it collapsed is so, so horrifying. I'm so sick of hearing about money forcing architecture plans to change and the actual structure not being changed to accommodate safely
Only in North America do we deport the dude who raised safety concerns that cost too much.
In most other places he wouldn't have been permitted to get that far. They actually enforce their laws.
Nice job ignoring the supervisor that quit over the situation. Just because this guy took one video it does not make him a hero.
@@johnyewtube2286 I'm sorry, didn't realize I needed to write an entire essay talking about all the points of the video just to comment! I'll try harder next time to hit on every single idea imaginable while watching! No wait, no I won't. Find a new hobby if you have nothing nice to say, man.
@@TJRune no
I worked for 30 yrs in the Architecture & Engineering business, mostly as a CAD Drafter & Designer. Many times in my career I designed & sized wood & structural steel members, though on much smaller projects than this. The Architects & Engineers were the ones who signed & sealed the drawings, yet I seen the way some of them look over (or NOT look over) the drawings, after I did my job. Often, I'd go home at night, worrying that projects I worked on would collapse into situations like what we just saw. Even with that in mind, I often remember having to re-size structural members, in or to make more room, or meet some other desire the building's owner was seeking. Fortunately, I can truthfully say that no project that I ever touched, had any kind of accidents, like what we just saw. In 2008, when our country's economy went very sour, I worked for the last time in the A&E business. After 30 yrs, I had enough of the worrying, and the grey hair I was getting from that business. The pay was good, but I think that business was killing my insides. I am near retirement, not making anywhere near the money I once made, but atleast I sleep much more peacefully & easily at night.
Shame on their inspectors never showed up and said she did. She should’ve been prosecuted!
The sole fault of this still lies with the City. Mayor failed to know whats happening under his watch. Considering that massive buildings are important, and the lack of interest of everything realated to the City mega projects is just plain stupid.
@@JohnSmith-wg7yf To be fair, if mayors had to overlook and micromanage everything that happens in their cities (including private building) at that level, days could have 200 hours each, they would never see the end of it. The engineers should have been criminally charged.
@@JohnSmith-wg7yfhow is a single person, the mayor of a large city, supposed to keep up with every single construction project in their city? Especially in New Orleans. The number of construction & repair projects post-katrina is utterly massive. A single project is teams of people, experts. The mayor who had just left office before this happened was in politics for the majority of his life & is a part of a Louisiana political dynasty. Where was he even supposed to have experience to even micromanage a hotel construction? The current mayor, who was inaugurated some months prior to this incident, is a sociologist who was a part of planning the rebuilding of a neighborhood post-katrina and a city council member. She isn't an architect or engineer, where is her experience to micromanage a hotel construction? Make all the arguments you want against whichever mayor, the actual planning and construction of a project isn't in their job description.
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These buildings are supposed to be over engineered yet it collapsed before it even finished, it’s absurd that no one was arrested.
Excellent presentation. I lived there just short of 20 years, and left the year before Katrina. Bought an auto repair facility on Oak and Leonidas "uptown". Was told by the seller it would be a good idea to give the building inspector $25. Business as usual, in the Big Easy. The inspectors who didn't show and filed Hard Rock certification reports will have a hard life mentally, if they live it out to their natural end. Corruption never totally sears the conscience. We got 3 dead blue collars, just like blue collar me, but alive to write in their behalf. Disgusted at the deportation to Guatemala. Those involved in that will pay. Trust me. The good Lord is watching all of this.
(17:20) I was ready to hear he recieved a prize or medal for reporting the incident, but wasn't ready for what actually happened :|
Well he was here illegally
@@paulrasmussen8953oing a job working hard and calling out dangerous behaviour.
America was built by immigration and now some want to pull the ladder up. I'm sure there's immigrants that get in and commit crimes etc go after them.
All this anti immigration BS is a way for authorities to turn the lower classes against each other instead of blaming the wealthy and powerful ,(both individuals gov and corporations) for the many problems in this world.
Immigrants aren't the problem corruption, greedy, power mad, rich idiots are and they have a very successful policy of making people blame the "foreigners"
Me too 😑 ;|
@@paulrasmussen8953 This is actually a good point. If the Boarders were not wide open, maybe this sort of stuff would not happen as often. ?
He lived and worked in the USA for 18 years. It's a shame what happened to him
One additional debacle with this disaster: the two cranes left teetering over the site had to come down, and the city decided to use explosives. A week or so after the initial collapse, they blew up the cranes. One collapsed straight down through the street, and through a sewer line. The other was left dangling on the side of the half-collapsed hotel.
Also the dead body that was exposed
World famous CDI did the crane demo. City however specified how they were to do it (bureaucracy at play). Result: tower crane nearest the origin of collapse became a lawn dart into the street narrowly missing gas main. The other tower crane instead of falling straight over toward the rear of the building fell slightly sideways with the boom perched slightly over the street.
Stupidity + Stupidity = Disaster
@@nomenclature9373 I would walk away from that job fast!
@@nomenclature9373 I don't think it missed. Remember that gas leaked on a French Quarter street shortly afterwards, blowing up a parked car. I think the city narrowly escaped even worse tragedy.
As for the demo company, remember all of Lyin' Latoya's press conferences where she kept flipping her story of how the building was going to be handled. Demo, no demo, demo again. I can't remember the precise order but she shot her mouth off with such certainty immediately afterwards about what was going to be done, and then the story kept changing. I laughed each time, wondering who was going to end up paying her the most money to get what they wanted.
Time and time again, greed ruins lives
Omg the fact you can see the workers running on roof, is terrifying.
I feel like "creative solution" is a phrase I don't want to hear from a structural engineer. I'd rather stick to the tried and true methods, especially if their "creative solution" is to make everything less structurally stable.
One man was stuck outside the rubble, visible to anyone passing by. They covered him up with a tarp for months before they finally recovered the last two before demolition. I believe Mardi Gras came and went twice with them still in the rubble. We tend to avoid the city these days.
So the criminal negligence of the builder wasn't prosecuted. Unbelievable.,
We went to the hard rock resort in Cabo San Lucas in January. The resort was only 4 years old and had huge cracks all the way up 3 story walls. Things were built on sand. My husband does commercial foundations for a living and he could not believe they thought it was safe.
The level of negligence was astounding. I can't imagine what it was like for the grieving families to look up and see that tarp put over the body you could partially see, the leg sticking out, wondering it that's what's left of your lost loved one. How macabre.
This was NOT about negligence. It was due to unadulterated greed, lies, and money. Corruption and evil at its finest.
@@lisamarieashby2523 Louisiana is notorious for corruption
It could have been better to simply cut off the leg and put it in a freezer for the time being. Still a resonable reason for letting the bodies be where they are is the risk of another collapse caused by attempts to retrive the bodies.
@@lisamarieashby2523 it was still negligence due to the greed
BUT it’s Democrats that run the cities. In every collapsed building of the last few years, the blame falls on Democrat mayors and city councils
How come no one is in prison for this level of incompetence?!
Money
Prison is only for peasants. Enough money can buy literally anything.
Welcome to Louisiana
@@lvil2295 that happens everywhere, not just Louisiana. Money gets rich people out of trouble, whether it's drunk driving or rape or murder
@@candice_ecidnac Yes, very true. There's a special kind of corruption and lack of care for workers (a great preportion of whom are immigrants, illegal and otherwise) that lives in Louisiana. And i say that as a native Louisianian, we regularly rank last in many metrics.
Such a sad story. Sorry for the loss of life.
Crazyness. I can only imagine what was going through the minds of those workers as they ran away from the collapsing floor(s).
I live in New Orleans, the city actually left some poor guys dead body in the elements for months. His family could pass by and see his legs sticking out the structure. Until some othwr workers finaly draped and tarp over the site.
The inspectors should have faced manslaughter charges.
I didn't even knew 0.7 mm floor decking was a thing. The steel on my computer case is thicker. Any steel decking should have 2 mm or more.
The worker who reported the flaws was detained and deported.
Sure. Punish one of the only ones who did the right thing.
That's not a punishment. He's safe at home, away from American racists and murdering police.
Because he did the wrong thing first
@@paulrasmussen8953 your parents did the wrong thing not using protection, mate, we don't see us wishing bad on them tho' 😩
@Angstbringer seriously. Wiw dude, how pathetic. I will aplaud the guy for trying to save lives but he still broke tge law just like the companies did.
American Citizens who can afford this should hound Delmar Palma (the deported whistleblower) down and suggest him that he sets up a webpage with a Western Union or other payment connection and send him donations to improve his life and this way also declare him a virtual US citizenship for his bravery. Further each donation should be listed in name and amount for transparency and encouragement of others, and each donation when happens should be posted
with an appropriately shaming comment onto relevant social media pages of the US government, which I think behaved in a toxic way in this case and deserves to be publicly shamed (within the limits of the law of
course). I feel ▇▇▇▇▇ towards the responsible government agencies in the US when they deported a key witness and I think they are corrupt.
I'm working on becoming an architect and to see stuff pisses me off to an absurd degree. Not only was nothing done to solve the issue with the support, but it cost the lives of 3 people all for the sake of selfish gains. To see support in THAT bad of shape doesn't require knowledge about construction or anything. The lack of common sense is aggravating.
Feet sad about those who lost their lives.
Learned a lot
If there is a blessing here, it is that it was so weakly built that it collapsed before occupancy. Imagine what would have happened if it had been just 10% stronger.
I can only hope the "investor" insisting on the high ceilings lost said investment in it's entirety.
Went to school with a guy who died in that building when it collapsed. It was very sad seeing someone I hadn’t seen since the 90’s all over social media that morning 😢
Another deadly screw up of this sort happened back in 2016 in Sioux Falls, SD. In a nutshell, a LLC with a known poor safety track record finally got one of the men working for it killed in a tragic and utterly avoidable building collapse. Cost cutting was what led to the disaster.
In the end, a deeply embarrassed city strenuously denied any and all wrong doing, the LLC immediately filed for bankruptcy to avoid paying out a penny, and the survivors (a family living in the upper floor who survived the collapse, and the family of the man killed) were essentially told to piss off, too bad, so sad, by the state Supreme Court. Supposedly the city had a code requiring an inspector to periodically check on the progress of work on remodeling the old Copper Lounge. It appears it wasn't happening. The city complained that following its own code requiring an inspector to make timely visits was too onerous and unfair. And the state essentially agreed.
I can't find the OSHA report online, but the report wasn't very kind to the LLC, the city, or the state from what little I've gleaned. I believe there were payouts in the end, but the most important thing, that people in charge taking public responsibility and apologizing, never did so.
It turns out all we need to do to endlessly tell the same tragic story is swap out the names of locations, companies, and the properties involved. Then *Presto!* we have another tragedy with lots of finger pointing while more workers die and their families suffer pointlessly.
During a protest the leader of our group took us to see the collapsed hard rock and talk about the failures etc. I had driven by a few times, it was a nightmare. But there was something truly shocking about being able to see the bodies from the road. I feel nothing but anger and heartbreak for those workers and their families and friends. Preventable. Reckless.
The George Floyd Protests?
BODY: you cannot remove a body if there’s 100,000 pounds of unstable rubble laying on top. You need to start at the top & gradually dismantle the mess
@@electrictroy2010 you copied and pasted this on another comment too… are you a bot?
I feel very sorry for the 3 people who died and their families but its amazing that "only" 3 died. This couldve been so much worse..
Especially during Mardi Gras season when it was completed
That female inspector got promoted that lead to this. Really looking forward to impressive Future is female perspective the city has. 😑
It was really a deep research. Wery few can do this.
My ex brother-in-law used to be a construction worker in Miami and he finally quit because he couldn’t stomach all the greed and corruption in the business. It’s truly sickening what people will do for money. Builders have absolutely ruined SoCal by building so densely you can barely move. It takes 30-40 minutes (depending on time of day) to get to a place it once took 10-15 minutes. We are packed in like sardines now. Disgusting!
An accident is defined by Merriam-Webster, accident noun: an event occurring by chance or from unknown causes. This was no accident.
I caught that too.
It's really upsetting that the one guy who totally did the right thing, reported the issues, and collected documentation got deported after all of this. If his superiors had listened to him no one would have died. And if he didn't present his evidence then no justice would have been served at all. That man should be given free citizenship for that, that is the kind of person we need more of here. Maybe deport the people who refused to listen and skirted the process meant to keep the project safe. Or exile them, whatever you;'d call it.
He didn't do the right thing or his illegal ass wouldn't have been illegal.🖕
Why shouldn't he be deported? He was an illegal alien. It doesn't matter that he was helpful in this instance, he shouldn't have been in the country and once discovered was rightfully removed. Citizenships aren't meant to be awarded like that.
@@MrJoeyWheeler Or Maybe we should Revoke the Citizenship of the Architects and Contractors who Caused this tragedy by their "All-American" Greed and the corrupt "building inspectors " who let them get away with it!
@@wayneraynal8487that'd fall under cruel and unusual punishments, which is unconditional.
What other crimes do you think people should get away with if they do a good deed? Murder? Rape? Theft?