Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop, as the saying goes. Now imagine those hands are on the throttles and control levers of heavy, wheeled machinery.
A street battle broke out in China’s Hebei province over the weekend, according to the Associated Press, one that saw members of rival construction companies go at it in large, front end loaders.
Going by the video, there’s some clear animosity between the two factions, both of whom were feeling the effects of a construction downturn. A simple knife fight wouldn’t do, so the street ended up littered with overturned vehicles.
An investigation into the incident is ongoing, a state official was quoted as saying.
To quote Ron Burgundy, “Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast.”
You’ve got to wonder about the guys who, at the beginning of the confrontation, considered their options and concluded, “Yes, this course of action is likely to advance my goals”.
What they considered was, Screw it, I can’t quit (by their law) and I’m not getting paid anything and they have these @ssholes from that other commissariat getting in our way.
A man who ain’t got nothing, ain’t got nothing to lose. Now…see how much money they all would have saved, how much property damage avoided, if the Chinese Communists would just let these guys pack Glocks? Just shoot each other to protoplasm, and then they can get fresh slave-labor in there tomorrow.
BTW, those aren’t bulldozers. Those are loaders.
2016 Year to Date
Firearms
Total Number of Incidents 14,954
Number of Deaths 3,816
Number of Injuries 7,657
Number of Children (age 0-11) Killed/Injured 153
Number of Teens (age 12-17) Killed/Injured 834
Mass Shooting 68
Officer Involved Incident 1,387
Home Invasion 632
Defensive Use 464
Accidental Shooting2 725
Yes, letting the Chinese population have guns sounds like a wonderful idea.
It works so incredibly well in the USA.
looks like Charlie Juliet of South Dakota has a new moniker
Twisted Metal 2: Mr. Slam
The China Harbour Engineering Company bulldozers are clearly at fault, while the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation bulldozers are just defending themselves.
Dog! You lie!
The China Harbour Engineering Company are righteous men.
They were beset upon by the China Evil Engineering Construction Corporation who insulted the spirits of our ancestors.
The wumao are split on this one.
I thought I was watching Autobots vs Decepticons! :)
Clearly an internal power struggle among the Constructicons.
God, what kid wouldn’t want to do that?! Especially against America’s Enemies!
I wish I were young enough to be a Tonka Trooper.
Granted, my first reaction was to recall Lloyd George’s comment about clocks and monkeys.
Still my absolute favorite television commercial: Tonka drives a Terex earthmover off a cliff while its toy is also rolled over the edge.
Are you sure this isn’t a promo for a Chinese Game Show?
Coming soon on Spike TV.
And I just want to interject at this point that, technically, this happened in Big China.
Or a video game promotion. I now want to dust off my import PSX copy of Bishibashi Special and play it; one of its scores of minigames involved a heavy machinery fight atop the business tower they were constructing.
Every time I say that I have seen it all in life someone comes along and proves me wrong although I have to say I am honestly surprised you don’t see this happen more often.
Forget wrestling, these are the next gladiators.
cue in the AMERICAN GLADIATORS themsesong.
I’ve heard people wonder about how to make sumo wrestling popular in the US.
This is the answer.
Put the contestants in heavy machinery, and draw a bigger circle. Take bets in Vegas. Done!
Thank you for that. Very funny. Made my day.
“It’s all in the reflexes…”
A new twist on the old Kung Fu vengeance movie storyline. “You have dishonored the Ching Wu School of Construction! I will avenge my construction foreman!”
In true dubbed Kung Fu movie fashion, were your fingers still typing for several seconds after you clicked “submit” on that one?
Which ones are the Wing Kong and which ones are the Chang Sing?
After I saw a lift truck in a carpet warehouse with only a single long tyne on it’s fork attachment I got the idea for a new sport: Fork Lift Jousting. I bet I could sell the idea to the folks who promote monster truck rallies and I’m sure that Spike TV would be interested.
I recall reading several decades ago of a sport known as “destruction football” involving heavily reinforced BOF sedans facing off in squads of 6 to a side for a combination of destruction derby, polo and soccer using a brightly painted steel marker buoy as the ball. The magazine blurb was accompanied by a photograph of 2 late 60s sleds colliding beneath the battered buoy hurtling overhead, captioned “block that kick.”
You could do a lot of damage with a carpet pole, heck I’ve done some good damage with the cardboard tube that got poked out of the roll and it could not be seen.
I used to drive one of those. Our warehouse was small but the forklift was one of those huge machines like the use in lumber yards. It was a trip trying to maneuver that giant pole in that limited space. Fortunately I’m used to that sort of thing…
Once n a while I’d drive our truck up to the carpet supply warehouse. The had about 20 guys whipping around that place on smaller forklifts with the same pole. It was bedlam. How they avoided killing one another on those things is beyond me.
I see what you did there…
I didn’t hear any of those reverse warning beepers. They better install those before someone gets hurt.
It is the a trailer for the new yet to be named Amazon Prime Top Gear show.
This is the best.
Would be better than watching WWE.
Have James Hong officiatepreside and all native Chinese speakers deliberately dubbed badly in English, and I’d tune in to see this every time it aired. Bonus points for the inclusion of a “boss” once a month for a winning team to challenge. Something like a Komatsu 930E.
“Presenting the Marvin Heemeyer Memorial Invitational Heavy Machinery Challenge!”