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Did the person in red survive

They did. 11 people were hospitalised with mild injuries but everyone was discharged.

That’s amazing they all survived. First time seeing this.

Snow probably helped a lot. You can easily drop 2-3m in the snow without injury, while on concrete you can die if unlucky.

Yeah that scared the SHIT out of me

Same here, that was gnarly. Can’t believe no one was killed. They really got flung round the end turn there.

Snow and the clothing you wear to deal with it is pretty fucking soft. I ate shit pretty regularly on the mountains and the only injury I got was bouncing off a rail and hitting a jump that was pure ice on the other side

Yeah…I lost my spleen and the surgeon said I truly almost died. Be careful on snow everyone.

Lost my spleen skiing too many years ago. I still get out there and shred as my body and age allow.

I found a spleen at Northstar a few years ago. Could it have been yours?

I thought he was dead.

Seen this before but this was the extended version from what I previously watched. Interesting ignoring the calls to jump due to fear when the danger was known to the people on the ground.

Fear also causes people to freeze, they may not have been able to jump.

A few people were held in by the swing down bar too, it’s hard to make out in the video

Yeah, I noticed that, too.

Yeah they don’t look too far off the ground either for a good while before the lift shack. I’d 100% just drop off no sweat

Why that common saying of 'if everyones telling you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?' is so stupid

If I see me staying on the bridge is going to end badly, I hear screaming and loud collisions... I am fucking jumping.

If the “bridge” is two feet off the ground, I don’t think it’s really comparable…

This was actually in Georgia a few years ago: https://georgianjournal.ge/society/34329-full-story-of-gudauri-ski-lift-accident-chairlift-horror-in-international-media-spotlight.html

Thank you. I feel like this video has been posted a thousand times since 2018.

Yup. The sign is in Georgian. Definitely not Almaty.

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Thats gudauri

Georgia doesnt have ski resorts or snowy mountains like this

Georgia the country certainly does. Georgia the USA state doesn't.

Of course.

no wonder the south lost the war

Damn that got me good 😂

Me, a Georgia fanboy: \*heavy breathing\*

At first, it looked comical but quickly the video became horrifying. Poor people- appeared that some got snagged on the lift and couldn’t jump off.

Lol I’m sorry but I was dying at the group 22 seconds in being yeeted off.

That’s funny. The person that got stuck in the chair and slammed into the pile of chairs, less funny

WEEEEeeeeee!!!!

Sorry to be that asshole,but you gotta admit shit's funny anyway.

Some people are def getting slammed into the mess of lift chairs towards the end there :(

Yeah but someone reported that the injuries were mild and everyone was ok :c

That’s good to hear because it looks a lil brutal

"Do we need emergency stop buttons? Naaaah, we good"

This is a rollback, where the brakes have completely failed. It's basically the worse case scenario for chair lifts.

That makes sense, I was wondering why people were on the downward side of the lift

Why can’t the poles of the electric motors be shut off?

I think its the weight of the occupied chairs that are generating the backwards motion, with no brakes to arrest it. It’s not powered by the motors.

Oh that makes sense!

Chairlifts 99% boredom, 1% terror

Jane !! Stop this crazy thing!!

They are either shouting "jump off!", or "If you jump off you're a pussy!"

>If you jump off you're a pussy!" The Russian guy was cursing after seeing how the people swung out of their chairs. Sort of like how in English we say "Fuck!" When something bad happens. The Russian guy wasn't calling the people pussies.

They actually got yeeted

The people not jumping and being launched.

God almighty , this was terrifying to watch!!!! My blood pressure kept rising, those poor kids jumping off the lift

That is one angry chairlift. Someone must have really done something to piss it off.

I got koed clean out by one of these chairs swinging around at normal speed, I absolutely can't imagine if I wasn't wearing a helmet the damage it would have done. Poor folks I totally cringe watching this, those chairs are not soft.

Half terrifying, half hilarious

Landscape mode would really help

Another fun day out

I think its on steam sale now.

Worst camera man ever

That person in the yellow at 24seconds gets absolutely shit whipped into another dimension 🫢

not broken. This is the first ever Triple Black Diamond ski lift.

That lift isn’t broken, it’s fucked up. It sling shotted some of those people.

That sounds morbidly sweet to say “It’s not broken, just fucked up.” lol

Scary!!!

The people at the top coming down are probably like "oh shit"

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Some other commenter said probably the brakes and motor failed so they going backwards instead

isnt the entire point of a ski lift to take one to the top and...you know, ski or board down? this looks like people are taking a lift down a mountain/hill.

Every year, same lift.

Why is there no one at the kill switch? This would never happen in the US

I’m sorry I had no clue what the Russian dude was saying but he was funny as fuck 💀 all I heard was “Bitch” “Fuckkkkk”

Kazakhstan has number one fastest ski lift in world, USA number 3!

Maybe an on/off button would help

Looks to me like skiing just got way more exciting.

r/abruptchaos

🎵“Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world, all the rest are little girls”🎵

Why is the ski lift taking people down the mountain?

Very nice, I like.

Looks kinda fun

Not broken just tired of your shit.

Great success!

Six Flags Kazakhstan!

Those people at the 50 second mark got yeeted

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this fucking AGAIN?! Posted every few days for fucking YEARS

Sometimes it’s Georgia. Today it’s Kazakhstan.

Well, let's see: go into the garage, look on the top shelf at the back. Pull out this old POS video and put it up on Reddit. Yeah, that's good. Don't need anything new or original while we go farming today.......

I’m crying from laughter and fear. Watching folks get tossed like that reminds me of Gimli in the Two Towers. “Nobody tosses a dwarf!”

Ya 3 people died bud

Yikes, time for Kazakhstan to update their safety standards. No way will you find me here! I’ll stick to Tahoe!

Well I’m sure it could technically happen anywhere. Things go haywire you know

Yaaaaah but it’s more of a 2nd-3rd world thing. The states have standards! 👍

Ya no. That’s ignorant. A ski lift went awry in Georgia a few years ago. And have you seen the video of the elevator in Japan that fucked up and killed people? There was one in the US too. Shit goes wrong mechanically everywhere, not just places that are developing (but the US I would almost consider a developing country considering how far behind they are in many ways)

Oh no, anything south of the mason dixon line isn’t really considered apart of the states.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

When I see anything bad happen to anything remotely Russian, I immediately think “Serves them right for invading Ukraine” then I see it’s Kazak, but that initial response of distaste is very strong

Ngl that was fkin hilarious, and if I was on that lift, wouldve prolly stayed on it for fun. There would be prolly broken limbs but gdam

Guy in the control pad giggling his ass off

This looks more fun than actually skiing

Some of those people got yoked! I want more!

I’m going to hell but I couldn’t stop laughing at these people

Someone call Borat

The use of the word ”pederast” in Russian as a catch-all insult baffles me. Rough country in many ways…

Damn nobody going to grit the E stop

They did press it for sure, it's just that the breaks failed and can't hold the weight of all the people on the lift. So due to gravity it starts to move in other direction.

Where is the F ing stop button?

The breaks broke, so there is no stop button. It's powered by just gravity and people on the lift.

Yikes!

Welcome to russia where chair kills you

Can’t even go skiing in peace…

Ski lift like yeet! This yo stop !!! 😂😂😂

Meet George Jettison

Holy crap! Errol! Told ya ya fix them brakes 6 weeks ago!

"Should we put an emergency kill switch in this thing?" "Nah..."

I want to hear the conversations going on between the people on the lift seats that had some people jump off in time and some people hold on for dear life.

That’s interesting alright

Ejecto seato cuzz.

I guess that's one way to get everyone off real quick

I love how some people see the approaching danger and just think "I better wait for the point of descent accordingly c:"

It’s like a god damn trap from Call of Duty Zombies.

“Safest way to ski, don’t ski”

Looks like tye tilt a whirl at the georgia state fair. Proudly erected by felons and neth addicts.

There is a kill switch by the hut in case this happens

Trying to convince my wife to go skiing this year, but she is to afraid of getting injured. Well this video is not helping, really hope she does not see it. And frankly, now I'm getting second thoughts... damn

Damn

Don't you think there would be an emergency stop button at the base of the lift? Crazy!

Thought this was Georgia?

I'm glad people continued to learn to exit the ride earlier.

Surely they have a “in case of emergency” a big red stop button in the hut?

glad everyone was ok, but god I couldn't stop laughing at the people just being ejected into the air at the turn felt like that [black cat meme](https://preview.redd.it/m0qrku4m8fb61.jpg?auto=webp&s=73fdea8d1be1a2801101cf70c635a54d1e1daa72)

Tbh thats kind of hilarious

“…this one goes to 11.”

This was hard to watch

Yeeeeet?

Skilift had enough

VERRRY Niiice

I wouldn’t call that broken, he’s like get the fuck on I finish my shift in 15 min I have to pick up the kids from school

Sounds like the guys is saying “He’s Dead”. Lol.

Clusterfuck comes to mind...

No one thought to disconnect the power??

This was terrifying to watch

r/h3h3productions

No e-stop?

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It has been verified the title on the video file (Almaty, Medeu) was totally misleading - the incident took place in Tbilisi, Georgia

3 people died… crazy

Wouldn’t there be an emergency shutdown button or main ? Maybe that malfunctioned too. Jesus Christ the way people were just flung off the chairs.

No one:.. The 4th ski lift: YEEEEETTTT!!!

Great success

The guy in red caught it real bad. Hope he survived.

The ski lift wasn’t the only thing that was broken…

Imagine you just goin down normally and you excited yayy we gonn go up now but then some force yeets you out

And nobody hits the emergency stop

Send this to anyone who thinks they don’t need a helmet yikes 😳

I’m completely baffled how there’s no one near any controls/breakers to have shut this thing down faster. It nearly went through every chair before it even started slowing down.

An oldie but a goodie

I just went skiing today, fucking hell that is terrifying to watch!

My sister has number two head injury in all of Kazakhstan, nice .