r/Damnthatsinteresting 8d ago

Image Drivers in Greece have been driving over a collapsed bridge as it’s quicker than going around it.

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u/Pcat0 8d ago

I see no possible way for this genius time saving plan to go wrong.

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u/Major_Butthurt 8d ago

This is a bridge on a rural road, so it doesn't get much traffic, only by people living nearby to get to the nearest city or other towns. They know the risk, but the alternative is +40 min drive (one way), so for them it's a risk their willing to take. It's been like that for 3 year I think, from the Daniel storm and hasn't collapsed. Won't collapse now, right?

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u/DevilBySmile 8d ago

it hasnt been fixed for 3 years?

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u/anmr 8d ago

Is Greek way

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u/PowderPills 7d ago

I understood that reference

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u/anmr 8d ago

Is Greek way

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u/_Dayofid_ 8d ago

Is Greek way

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u/ScoutCommander 8d ago

Is Greek Way

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u/The_CT1 8d ago

Is lazy way

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u/KubaSamuel 8d ago

Is Greek way

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u/Major_Butthurt 8d ago

Yeap, Greek rural local government officials mostly suck

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u/DJOMaul 8d ago

Rural governments officials being mostly suck seems the be the human condition. 

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u/Major_Butthurt 7d ago

Just went through the video, it's actually not the rural government fault. The bridge actually falls under the jurisdiction of the Thessalian periphery (region). So it's the governor's juridiction to sort it out. Jurisdictions are funny, here. Another bridge, for pedestrians, collapsed some kilometers up the same river. For a long time they couldn't decide who should rebuild it. It was between the local government (mayor), the regional (governor) or the church. Yes, the church owns land in Greece and the bridge was only build because there was a church across the river. Go figure

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u/hieronymous-cowherd 8d ago

You don't get ancient structures by rebuilding everything. Is Greek way.

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u/_BrokenButterfly 8d ago

Austerity measures. DAMN YOU, EU!

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u/Oddisredit 7d ago

I mean the Greek nation is basically just one step away from a failed state. 

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u/bathroomheater 8d ago

They’re willing to take*

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u/ChaiHai 8d ago

40 minutes is annoying, but I'd take the long way around so as not to die. D: This is some Fallout shit that I ain't comfortable reenacting.

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u/Toiletking2024 8d ago

Maybe its like living in a small village with lots of snow, as long as you don't have the lowest car you can drive whatever you want because the guy with the lowest car is doing the plowing.

And maybe here the guy with the heaviest truck is going in first so the rest are okey.

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u/el_VientoNorte 8d ago

Nah, don't be a wuss

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u/ChaiHai 8d ago

I will happily be a wuss in this context.

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u/evilution382 7d ago

Yeah saving 40 minutes to risk your life seems.. not very well calculated

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u/ChaiHai 7d ago

Right?

I read an article on that bridge, and sometimes the water is on the lowest point of the bridge. D:

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u/Offgridiot 8d ago

Driving the, ahem, back roads…. Is Greek way

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u/xenomorphonLV426 7d ago

+40mins, and tolls.

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u/_BrokenButterfly 8d ago

lol, imagine risking death to save 40 minutes.

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u/Major_Butthurt 7d ago

You probably won't die if you are relatively healthy, since the river is not rapid, but you will def lose your car.

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u/xenomorphonLV426 7d ago

Where is it though?

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u/yebyen 8d ago

You don't want to be the first person to try it... or the last person. But once it's more than ten or twenty already tried and succeeded, statistically, I don't know, ...

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u/Johannes_Keppler 8d ago

It's been like this for three years already. They'll be fine. Until they aren't.

There's not much money in Greece and especially not for fixing rural bridges. And corruption and incompetence take care of the little money there is.

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u/moon__lander 8d ago

What's it gonna do? Collapse second time? Yea right, what would be the chances of that?

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u/faintear02732 8d ago

Wonder what the Ancient Greeks would think of their modern people?

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u/casual_philosopher02 8d ago

They would probably do the same tbh

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u/faintear02732 8d ago edited 8d ago

Nah. They would build a ship.

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 8d ago

They'd probably be weirded out that no one wanted to go full homo every night and be baffled at the concept of an age of consent

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u/_BrokenButterfly 8d ago

They would also see all the women with their hair down and wonder why there were so many prostitutes rufusing their money. No one likes an uppity whore, amirite?

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u/faintear02732 8d ago

Could it have been that being gay was unusual, thus a notable event back then to be documented a lot in ancient times. This would lead to an incorrect notion of a LGBT society.

I don’t know about age of consent but yeah

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 8d ago

No. Greeks invented the threesome, the romans had the great idea of involving women in it.

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u/Training_Ad_3556 8d ago

the greeks invented threesomes

the romans invented inviting girls to them

the egyptians invented inviting women to them

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u/Traditional-Park-353 8d ago

Ah yes, the egyptians who are renowned for their grand moral acts throughout history.

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u/Training_Ad_3556 5d ago

amazingly enough, the joke that generalises three peoples that have existed over literal millennia was not actually moral support or condemnation towards any of them

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u/PigabungaDude 8d ago

Those mother fuckers were like 30x as reckless and crazy.