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Wait... What did you mean when you said they don't own the exterior of buildings, just the interior? How could one own a building without owning the exterior. Or did I misunderstand what you meant? And what was up with that woman falling into that manhole, but the guy who clearly had to have watched the whole thing happen simply drives his motor bike right past her without stopping to help pull her out of the manhole. Crazy!
Winston, found "Asia Hot Topigs - NEW" (1.2mm Desert Rabbits - latest). IMO not slopaganda as msgd. on TCS, as well. Kind regards and thank you for keeping us apprised.
"proof" as in anecdotal evidence, stereotype forging, and sensationalism. Thanks indeed for providing counterexamples while I'm learning about logical fallacies
If everyone remembers the Bay Bridge in SF was built with Chinese parts and after 20 years, yes 20, it was finally finished. Within the first week they announced fatal flaws relating to the Chinese steel. As far as I know it has never been completely repaired because if I remember correctly they would have to tear out the underlying footings to replace the failing tension rods.
Totally agree with you on the culture of maintenance in China, the irony of them putting in so much effort just to cheat rather than actually doing the work is baffling. In the end, it poses a serious threat to public safety.
When you’re praised for cheating and finding an easy way out with minimal cost and time and you’re called stupid for being honest and doing the hard work of getting it right.
There's a story of an American paratrooper who was issued a pararachute. Parachutes were required to be inspected for safety and quality before being issued. The paratrooper saw that his parachute was made by a company in his home town. When he looked at the inspectors initials, he knew his mother had inspected the shoot. She checked it over as though her own son's life might depend on it. We should all use that standard.
My sister in-law, being a CEO of a company, mentioned having to put penalties clauses into any contracts made with a chinese company. Then you have to find ways of enforcing those penalties, such as a boycott or having the (non-chinese) bank turn over the money in a joint account to the other company in the event of a breach of contract. Things like that. Blew my mind. "if you do business with china, make sure you've got some leverage to force them to honor a contract.", she said. "Oh.", I said......realizing this was million dollar advice.
I used to work for a medical equipment company. The president was daily on the phone screaming at the chinese reps for changing the contracts. They would literally "hijack" the equipment and force you to pay a higher price. And what choice did he have but to pay it? Since the entire business world had decided that cheap chinese garbage was better than quality products with a higher price??
Yes, a friend of mine had high hopes for a Chinese allied business venture he was planning only to get scammed out of every dollar he had contributed to the venture.
Until I started watching your channel, I didn't realize why international students were so enamored with the sky, birds, grass, cleanliness and safety that we generally have in the States.
People in the US and other Western countries often get so wrapped up in constant self-criticism they forget that compared to most of the rest of the world their countries are wonderful utopias.
I live in Germany. I remember when I was going to school, there were always some lawns with maple trees. And during autumm, these maple leaves falling down looked soooooooo pretty, that when I was a kid, I collected leaves there every autumm. Like, the leaves had blends between green and yellow, green and red, green and orange, yellow and orange, yellow and red, orange and red, and so on, and I just found that so pretty. One day, I saw a bunch of tourists, probably Chinese, they looked Asian, photographing themselves with the leaves. When I was passing by, there was a woman kneeling in the leaves, holding maple leaves to her cheeks, while smiling widely. I was just glad that I'm not the only one who appreciates these leaves. By the way, I continued collecting leaves into my late teens. I was the weird kid during my whole school time, and the bullying for having my own interests got especially bad during my early teens, because I'm autistic.
This is just normal for them and has been, except for a very brief period in the early 20th century, part of their culture. Think about it. That's a culture that, for thousands of years, the peasants were complete serfs and, generally speaking, weren't treated particularly well by their rulers. What are they now? Same thing. There are "The Serfs", and then there are "The Connected" (sort of 'nobility light'), and then there are "The Nobility" (government functionaries in this case) and then there is "The Emperor" (in this case, the head of the Party, you can even throw in the upper echelon of the Party if you like). Fits their culture like a glove. It has always been this way for them. It will always be this way for them. Their one chance was lost.
Watching so much biased content and cherry-picked footage but still believing everything they see, RUclips netizens like you are in a seriously pathetic state
I think most normal people in China, is just like most normal people during Nazi-Germany: Those that knew their own well-being and that of their family, would shut up and say "sieg heil!" and raise their hand in a Nazi-salute...
Keep lying to yourself and following this crazy person. Come to China and see for yourself. China is the best country cleaner civilized way peaceful than any other country in the world. About infrastructure not even USA or dubai is close. And I know what I’m talking about because I’ve been here for 7 years now
I had the title Building and Grounds maintenance. One day the President of the company came up to me and said the place never looked so good. After 50 years I still remember it was a good feeling.
@@r2dad282 That @inkmetal1 guy wouldn't be able to do that good a job because he wouldn't have the maintenance supplies to do so. Nor does he have time on his schedule since the company probably has him on multiple maint jobs, and not accomplishing goals means his salary is docked or he would be fired and replaced. Right now, the economy is so bad, no one wants to risk being fired. So, does that mean the chinese companies are going to do even more shortcuts and tofu dreg simply because the employees and supervisors take shortcuts in their desperation to meet company goals?
I remember as a youngster, asking my mom why people used the phrase "taking a slow boat to China"? She simply said "who`d want to get there fast?" Hmmm - sums it up I guess
I had a elevator loose power for about 30 seconds in Malaysia once, but the catch mechanism kicked in almost instantly, it really shouldn't be hard to make them safe, all elevators in Australia have a mechanical catch like the Malaysian one, it's not normally something that would fail even without maintenance, it's really basic engineering that has been used for over 100 years now. For it to freefall they must be taking massive shortcuts.
when society takes shortcuts like stealing IP instead of developing it themselves, they don't know what they dont know. Prolly standardized on 1960's era elevator and escalator tech.
Being a Commonwealth Country makes a difference. Even in Pakistan, one of the poorest places in the world, elevators run fine and the inside of most buildings are very well-maintained. British efficiency and decency about such things was one of the benefits of being a British Colony. These China videos are horrific. In the USA we have failed cities that look like hell, but they are damn near empty compared to China. And its hard to understand how people can live like that.
It feels like a fundamental lack of solidarity. To nonchalantly and directly neglect the safety of your fellow humans, without comprehending that you're putting everybody at risk, and that everybody includes you.
crane tech here who works with a few retired elevator techs. the reason there are supposed to be two techs is 1, for safety. its one of the most dangerous trades around. and 2, you quite litterally cannot complete certain maintenance check lists and safety checks without two people.
I used to sell Industrial Hydraulics for a LARGE company Parker Hannifin. They had certain pumps and motors that had their own paint color (blue) that was different from their traditional yellow. This means the parts were manufactured in China. Occasionally some of their parts would get mixed into the regular batches somehow and they would immediately go back to the manufacturer. They were NOT FIT FOR SALE under US standards. Garbage tier everything.
The sink hole is seen before and known to happen at random places like your bedroom. Nobody expects an elevator door to open up and swallow people whole@@Dean-wh4mm
There is a video of a disabled person on a motorized wheelchair, who repeatedly slammed into the door of an elevator, untill the door gave up and he fell through. He was upset that the elevator door closed before he reached it. this was in South Korea, and he got the motorized wheelchair free of charge from the government.
I remember when we were kids (I`m from Eastern Europe so imagine soviet panelki) in the building where one of my friends lived there was a note next to the elevator "Please don`t ride more then 3 people or the same thing will happen like last time." :D
Reminds me of when we were in the former Yugoslavia. If you saw a restaurant where the employees were wearing uniforms, you don’t go in. It was state run and the employees would make the same amount of money if they served you or not.
I was there in 1985 and was taken to such a restaurant. We had good service and even food which was not on the menu. The differentiating factor was that the manager was related to the person who took me there.
@@FFM0594we went to a privately owned restaurant and were overwhelmed by the service, the choice the price and the portions. The waiter even had some Pelinkovac with us after the meal.
God I still remember the first time I saw the video of the lady going up the escalator, passing her child to the maintenance guy, then she disappeared as the escalator ate her. Truly nightmare stuff.
After 8:09 I just started to laugh uncontrollably. The concept behind going all the way to have a cardboard cut out with a whole wardrobe instead of solving the actual problem just blows my mind.
All things that are made in China are the best. Serpentze misunderstood the crimes caught on tape. Please come to China (as long as you come with a lot of money). You are very welcome, please come to visit China. You could stay here for up to 10 years & we guarantee that no one would be interested in your organs [you know, . . for the market's business] & for (as long as you have enough money with you). Please come to visit. Disclaimer: We do not guarantee that no one from the elevators maintenance, mobile floors maintenance and other related 'operational places' through which you fall down very deep underground in places where your neck gets broken which leads to your organs to be sold to the organ's market, which pays $ tens of thousands. How can we guaranty that the laws are not broken, when there is no country in the world in which some people won't brake the law to cheat with something somehow. In China it happens that is about organs and that is not our fault. Chinese people are the most smart, especially from the CCP, don't you agree ? If you don't agree then we have to prove it to you right now so you could come to visit China, but come to visit only if you have enough money to spend in China. If you don't have enough, you risk it. For example the non-Chinese because are NOT, are not smart and brakes the law by crossing the street on the red light. Or by selling drugs for few hundred dollars or few thousand dollars. But some of the Chinese people especially from CCP, are smarter than your people because ours sell (as you say "illegally") organs more than drugs, because are more valuable than drugs, since are worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. :-) We are open and honest people and we welcome you with your open heart : - ) :-) after all will be your open heart and not ours, right ?. You are so very welcome to visit China. Please don't procrastinate, don't delay. Come on, and become blessed! How you become blessed ? Well, one way is by getting to heaven faster, right ? Come on, come, come, come! and be rewarded. Our economy have slowed down so much, and we could use your health, pardon us, because some of us don't speak English so good, We meant 'help', we could use your help. If you work too hard and have no time to visit us, then put your retirement fund or other money in the funds and stocks which includes China to help our CCP people to have greater wages. After all, remember that you care about other countries ' people's wages. We know that our CCP people have nice wages, but could be a lot, much, much greater wages! So why not? They deserve for working so hard in the committee. After all is your money and your government have no business to tell you where to "invest" your money. Maybe if we get enough of them, we could fix the elevators and the mobile floors, so that no one would fall through them and have their necks broken, and have their organs sold. What do you say ? Are you going to come to China to visit us ? Or at least invest in China ? : - ) :-) See we still welcome you with a smile. Don't trust others who says that we do not welcome you anymore. We really do. Come to visit China please. Pretty please ! Please, please, please !?
The dude spitting on the ground and then immediately slipping on it, follows a great Chinese wisdom. The saliva, the spit disinfects and sterilizes the ground on which he could have a great rest. It is the first great Chinese leader Mao of the CCP who taught such great wisdom. It proves that all Chinese people trusts the CCP, even the most poor and the homeless. The wisdom from the CCP is amazing.
I don't know why, but I have never thought of the "nothing belongs to you so you just don't take care of it" aspect of all these videos until now. Such a profound statement.
it's simply the things can't be eaten or poisonous, those 'advanced' things are only given with the meaning as add-ons while ppl are living well,eating healthy and feeling good everyday You can expect shitty jobs in these shitty environments when giving out shitty salaries that don't even do better than farming, as ppl are more close to nature and fresh food while farming
You see !? China opened the eyes of your mind ! Is very profound, isn't it. Our people are the most caring and heroic, but know that are not supposed to rush to help the crooks that fall through holes made by themselves to try to cheat the State of money insurance. If it were you falling, then most certainly they would have come fast in seconds to help you because you are a foreigner and have money. All things that are made in China are the best. Serpentze misunderstood the crimes caught on tape. Please come to China (as long as you come with a lot of money). You could stay here for up to 10 years & we guarantee that no one would be interested in your organs [you know, . . for the market's business] & for (as long as you have enough money with you). Please come to visit. Disclaimer: We do not guarantee that no one from the elevators maintenance, mobile floors maintenance and other related 'operational places' through which you fall down very deep underground in places where your neck gets broken which leads to your organs to be sold to the organ's market, which pays $ tens of thousands. How can we guaranty that the laws are not broken, when there is no country in the world in which some people won't brake the law to cheat with something somehow. In China it happens that is about organs and that is not our fault. Chinese people are the most smart, especially from the CCP, don't you agree ? If you don't agree then we have to prove it to you right now so you could come to visit China, but come to visit only if you have enough money to spend in China. If you don't have enough, you risk it. For example the non-Chinese because are NOT, are not smart and brakes the law by crossing the street on the red light. Or by selling drugs for few hundred dollars or few thousand dollars. But some of the Chinese people especially from CCP, are smarter than your people because ours sell (as you say "illegally") organs more than drugs, because are more valuable than drugs, since are worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. :-) We are open and honest people and we welcome you with your open heart : - ) :-) after all will be your open heart and not ours, right ?. You are so very welcome to visit China. Please don't procrastinate, don't delay. Come on, and become blessed! How you become blessed ? Well, one way is by getting to heaven faster, right ? Come on, come, come, come! and be rewarded. Our economy have slowed down so much, and we could use your health, pardon us, because some of us don't speak English so good, We meant 'help', we could use your help. If you work too hard and have no time to visit us, then put your retirement fund or other money in the funds and stocks which includes China to help our CCP people to have greater wages. After all, remember that you care about other countries ' people's wages. We know that our CCP people have nice wages, but could be a lot, much, much greater wages! So why not? They deserve for working so hard in the committee. After all is your money and your government have no business to tell you where to "invest" your money. Maybe if we get enough of them, we could fix the elevators and the mobile floors, so that no one would fall through them and have their necks broken, and have their organs sold. What do you say ? Are you going to come to China to visit us ? Or at least invest in China ? : - ) :-) See we still welcome you with a smile. Don't trust others who says that we do not welcome you anymore. We really do. Come to visit China please. Pretty please ! Please, please, please !?
You can have all the "regulations" and "laws" in the world placed on paper and accomplish nothing but to create more of what you'd hope to stop. You can write on stone tiles that the laws of physics say the stone tiles will fly on their own and the stone tiles will not fly on their own. China allows vague definitions of manufacturing and construction materials. China allows tiny cut-corners at every step of every process. By the time you reach the end of line you're off by miles. It's referred to as "death by degrees".
Our family buys plastic utensils which are made in China. I have to make sure to pack my lunch box with at least 3 forks, because when I try to eat my salad, they shatter, and I have to get another. I noticed it is like that for other products that are made in China. I remember the past, when we were able to purchase higher quality products made in the US.
If you've ever seen an escalator operating without the steps, you see it's basically a giant chainsaw. I cringe thinking of someone's legs falling into that.
I've lived in China in 2008/2009 - this all terribly resonates! I desperately wanted to leave but the contracts (at least back then) were designed to not release any expats before fulfillment - breaching a contract in China would have resulted in being blacklisten from China for life. In my one year, I hav witnessed a giant block of residential highrises being erected within just 2 weeks - I thought to myself "I know I'm European and I am used to these things taking an awfully long time, but 2 weeks?! That can't be good!" The following winter the news had reported of a roof collapsing because it couldn't withstand the weight of the snow - it wasn't one of the buildings I saw being erected (at least not yet) but it wasn't difficult to connect the dots - shoddy workmanship. I was only in China for one year and couldn't wait to get out of there - yet, I remind myself to not judge the entire country over the small little place I was in but there I don't want to bomb the entire comment section with recounts of how I lost 12 kg and collapsed after baring my butt at a Chinese (doctor?) in the waiting area! I try not to dwell on past experiences but do talk about incidents when prompted and just the other day, I now live in Malaysia, I was talking about Jack Ma on MS Teams and my connection started glitching immediately - it may have been coincidental but then I received a call from a call-bot rambling on in English with "Chinese Embassy" but the rest was then in Chinese, so I have no idea what that was about. I haven't been back to China since and have no intentions to ever go back - it's just that when I do talk about China online, that these "coincidental" things happen...it certainly doesn't help that, for the uninformed, my name may very well indicate that I am Chinese - I am not. (Being half Asian - it's difficult not to trace my lineage back to China, though)
It's not only a lack of maintenance, it's also shoddy original manufacture of the elevators, escalators, and everything else in China. They copy western designs, for example, elevators in the U.S. are manufactured by Otis or Schindler, but in China, they're manufactured by Chinese companies that have copied Otis & Schindler elevators designs and parts, but they cut corners everywhere they can, so that they still function, initially, but they break easier because the parts are made of thinner low-grade materials. Then, when they're installed by whatever contractor, the contractor does shoddy work, and shorts on the number of bolts required, and the concrete that supports everything is shoddy and crumbles, and rebar is shorted. Then, the last step is maintenance, which is done seldom and poorly. Winston uses the example of them not refilling the lubricant reservoirs. But, even if they do refill the lubricant reservoirs occasionally, are they using the expensive specified lubricant? Or, are they using used cooking oil they obtained for free? If someone has the opportunity to save money anywhere in the chain of manufacturing or providing a product or service, they will do so, which, sadly, can cost lives and injure people somewhere down the line. For example, toothpaste, pet food & baby formula containing some random post-industrial waste chemicals because the manufacturer could save some small amount of money by substituting quality ingredients with garbage. Fake pork, fake tofu, and on & on.
I once had an elevator fall from the 6th to the 1st (here that means 1 above ground) floor in Münster, Germany. There was a safety mechanism that caught it near the bottom but my legs hurt for 2 weeks. It was the student apartment building I lived in at the time (from 2001 to 2006). The place has since been demolished, but that was years later.
"People would rather cheat than do the work" This line describes the impression I got about the attitude some chinese hacker had when they were about justifying cheating in games!!
I’m a lift tech, and I gotta say these incidents are not so much poor maintenance, but more poor quality, and very badly installed, lifts dropping and those doors falling in, very bad quality. It’s very scary.
Matt Patterson don't be so negative. All things that are made in China are the best. Don't let the video of Serpentze mislead you. The video must be a photo shop trick. Please come to China. You are welcome to China. Don't worry! You are safe here (as long as you got many $ American, Canadian, or Australian (those three in particular), or euros, or British pounds, is good enough. Really, believe us. We will take your money. You could stay here for up to 10 years & we guarantee that no one would be interested in your organs [you know, . . for the market's business] & for (as long as you have enough money with you). Please come to visit : - ) Disclaimer: We do not guarantee that no one from the elevators maintenance, mobile floors maintenance and other related 'operational places' through which you fall down very deep underground in places where your neck gets broken which leads to your organs to be sold to the organ's market, which pays $ tens of thousands. How can we guaranty that the laws are not broken, when there is no country in the world in which some people won't brake the law to cheat with something somehow. In China it happens that is about organs and that is not our fault. Chinese people are the most smart, especially from the CCP, don't you agree ? If you don't agree then we have to prove it to you right now so you could come to visit China, but come to visit only if you have enough money to spend in China. If you don't have enough, you risk it. For example the non-Chinese because are NOT, are not smart and brakes the law by crossing the street on the red light. Or by selling drugs for few hundred dollars or few thousand dollars. But some of the Chinese people especially from CCP, are smarter than your people because ours sell (as you say "illegally") organs more than drugs, because are more valuable than drugs, since are worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. :-) We are open and honest people and we welcome you with your open heart : - ) :-) after all will be your open heart and not ours, right ?. You are so very welcome to visit China. Please don't procrastinate, don't delay. Come on, and become blessed! How you become blessed ? Well, one way is by getting to heaven faster, right ? Come on, come, come, come! and be rewarded. Our economy have slowed down so much, and we could use your health, pardon us, because some of us don't speak English so good, We meant 'help', we could use your help. If you work too hard and have no time to visit us, then put your retirement fund or other money in the funds and stocks which includes China to help our CCP people to have greater wages. After all, remember that you care about other countries ' people's wages. We know that our CCP people have nice wages, but could be a lot, much, much greater wages! So why not? They deserve for working so hard in the committee. After all is your money and your government have no business to tell you where to "invest" your money. Maybe if we get enough of them, we could fix the elevators and the mobile floors, so that no one would fall through them and have their necks broken, and have their organs sold. What do you say ? Are you going to come to China to visit us ? Or at least invest in China ? : - ) :-) See we still welcome you with a smile. Don't trust others who says that we do not welcome you anymore. We really do. Come to visit China please. Pretty please ! Please, please, please !?
The only reason we do not see the really bad stuff over here is because the retailers do some quality control. China makes what you ask for, in any quality they can get away with. If it´s phones for Apple, they can do wonders, if it´s a tool for Harbor Freight, it´ll be halfway decent (at least not instant garbage), but if it´s China to customer - forget even thinking about getting it.
Cardboard employees are the best! They don't take vacation time, they don't call in sick, they don't file grievances with the union, no maternity leave. A supervisor's dream! Maintenance is highly overrated.
We had an engineer at our firm who used to go to great lengths not to do the job, I had to return to one of his sites to put right what he'd done and locate the problem.. He'd disabled and hid the airflow alarm on the PC and unscrewed the lamp for the airflow failed alarm on the main control panel, the problem was that the airflow switch had filled with water which took less than two minutes to replace 🤦
so I keep trying to post a comment about the situation about 1 minute in where the guy in the elevator saves his wife and child before saving himself and how that should be encouraged over the division sown by those in power but it keeps getting deleted.
The people who run youtube care about free speech and expression about as much as the CCP does at this point. I would say shame on them, but people without souls have no shame.
@@TheGreatResist I'm aware it's been bad for a while but I thought they were only deleting "negative" or "politically incorrect" stuff, but apparently now you're not even allowed to be positive. Seriously revoke their platform rights this site is a publisher now.
This bizarre, extremely dangerous and utterly penny-pinching attitude towards maintenance is pretty much the same here in Hong Kong. [perhaps not with public escalators etc - but towards building maintenance it certainly is!] I am convinced it is embedded in the Chinese psyche that you must NEVER EVER spend a single penny on maintaining your property. Unlike in the 'West' where generally speaking most people take pride in their homes [my father never had a paintbrush out of his hand when I was a child and was constantly painting the windows, doors and anything else that was nailed down!] In fact, I can remember that if your neighbour's house wasn't equally immaculate people would think they were mentally unstable! But then this incredibly weird and singularly 'Chinese' behaviour also extends to other areas - such as customer service. Let me explain. When I first came to Hong and moved into my apartment, I needed get some appliances etc. I remember buying this rather expensive CD player but after only using it a few times, it stopped working. I took it back to the shop where I bought it and they offered to have the CD player repaired. I refused and asked for a completely new CD player or for a full refund of my money. [which is law in the UK for defective merchandise]. The shop categorically refused and ultimately, I had to accept losing the CD player for several weeks whilst it was repaired. A similar incident occurred with my internet provider [the infamous PCCW - who at that time had a virtual monopoly in HK!] Despite signing a two-year contract with them and paying a hefty 'deposit' it literally took weeks to be connected and when I was connected - the internet was off more than it was on! Again, I complained to the company with little or no success. I mentioned these events to a Chinese colleague and they laughed and said this is typical 'Chinese' culture. Chinese believe that if YOU buy something that 'property' [be it a washing machine, car or house etc] automatically becomes YOUR responsibility. So, if YOU have a problem with it - YOU need to sort it out not the shop where you bought it! Putting aside the fact that this is totally insane logic - it is also the reason why HK ranks equal worst in the entire Asia-Pacific region for 'Customer Service'!!
2:57 It's rough when you have already seen the videos which are blurred out...that one was quite messy if i remember correctly. R.I.P Liveleak 11 year member here :)
Every time I watch construction quality in China, I find greater respect for the blue collar workers of America. Thank you for your service, hillbillies. 🫡
i think that the main reason why people in china go to such lengths and put so much effort in cheating, rather than doing the job properly, is that in a society where everyone cheats, where cheating is the norm, a person who does his job honestly and properly is the one considered to be the fool.
When Winston mention there wasa almost distain at doing things propperly thats exactly what came to my mind, weird but understandable in a messed up kinda way
@docwhammo No, other corrupt societies have the same issues. Once the Chinese are free of communism, this will change. Once they have pride of ownership, they will maintain their homes. Look at their cars--the vehicles cruising in Beijing are like cars in the west.
I worked in elevators in France, no elevator in the last 30 years should free fall for more than a few centimers before one of the multiple system designed to stop it stop the fall. And this is the case even in "cheap" elevator. There is no sane reason this happens in china, this is purely about being cheap on construction and maintenance and it will kill people.
Here in Germany once a statistic showed elevators as the safest "people transport system" of all - safer than train, bus, car, plane, whatever. Have you ever heard of people who lost their life due to elevator malfunction in France? I doubt it, will be the same as here in Germany. If you die in an elevator, it's because the building is burning down while you are stuck. But then it's not the elevator that killed you...
This is purely about people's lack of ethics and integrity... same reason why most people won't enter heaven. There's repercussions to lack of integrity and values... but when your dead set on selfish causation then this is what outcomes you get. Hopefully people are being held accountable... then again "the dragon" (China) cultured these behaviors and idealogies.
I asked a Chinese friend about it once, and her response was, "Why maintain it correctly when it probably wasn't even made correctly by the manufacturer?"
A colleague of mine once told me how he had to test a generator in China for his company at a newly build power plant. To test it they needed to have a way to draw lots of current from it, but the high voltage lines for transporting the electricity were not yet complete. So the chinese quickly improvized a high voltage line with bamboo supports. As soon as they switched it one, the magnetic field from the current flow in the lines wiggled the cables a bit, the bamboo structure collapsed and a dozend workes below got electrocuted. Seemed like the generator worked just fine.
8:45 an old lady falling into a hole in the street could happen everywhere in a developing country. A guy on a motorcycle witnessing the accident and refusing to help the poor old lady on the other hand could only happen in China..
I was reading the comments to see if anyone had commented, so thanks. It’s really horrifying to know such apathy exists, just goes to show how important governments are in our rearing, but it seems few give a toss. Shame Shame Shame.
I had someone brag to me how great China is at building rails and highways compared to the USA. I told them you will be amazed how fast you can build something with zero worker safety and environmental regurgitations.
I used to work in construction for some time, and once we worked with some Turkish investors and construction companies, and they had some horrible work ethics, don't care about safety at all. Like, once we had some issues with the elevators in a new building, and the Turkish were like" Ah, who cares, an elevator falls only once". I coundn't believe my ears. Never worked with them again. One of the reasons there were so many victims in the earthquake last year in Turkey was the low quality of the buildings. They just don't care about stuff like that.
I am a Turk and unfortunately u r right in Turkey low wage doesnt get respect, has terrible work conditions not to mention TERRIBLE home structures. Trabzon Turk and Kurdish construction companies fcked the sytem to the point no home is safe and this is a EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY. U can literally pay low penalties for everything when it comes to construction.
@@KrisNestor108 real number is 130 k slipped through mouth of goverment candidate for election of Istanbul city counsellor maybe more but there is nothing we can do they have a big lobby lets hope in future it would be better
@@KrisNestor108 "You should try to change things for the better" This sentence in this context is a textbook example of the phrase "easier said than done"
There are many apologists who try to defend these Chinese behaviours. They especially get upset when you compare them to the Japanese. But the truth is, what we see on this channel really is the Chinese national character. Some Chinese may be more decent than others, but overall, they're all like this.
well, I don't know about china but here in the west if you help a woman in need chances are that you will be facing charges for g(R)ape or SA...soo...just keep walking (riding)
serpentza did a video about this. there is a chance you're getting blamed for the injuries if you help people in need. that's the reason most people in china just won't help people in need in order to not risk getting sued
Escalator deaths are the absolute scariest. I remember the story of one of the first clips you showed of the woman and child. Its absolutely wretched that people willfully ignore maintenance on machines that turn into giant meat grinders...
We don't have this problem in the USA at all, the norm here is one mechanic on site when maintenance is performed. A competent mechanic would check the hydraulic fluid, especially when elevator starts to struggle or make gowning noises. 5:56 Hydraulic fluid was low, 6:00 debris in door sensor. The door sensors could close on people if the aren't cleaned properly or break. Mechanic fill out a maintenance log to show what was worked on normally. Hope this helps.
Wow, the motorcyclist at 8:44 just riding on by and watching the woman that fell into a manhole is just awful. Really chilling. The first time I realized there was something really wrong with china's elevators was years ago in that video with the guy in the mobility scooter that got angry that a woman didn't hold the door for him so he rammed his scooter (not particularly hard) into the closed elevator door, and the doors broke apart and he plummeted to his death.
See in China people won't help if they see someone collapsed and they don't know them because there's many scammers that will say the good Samaritan victimised them or caused them injury when helping and will sue. It's extremely common. So people will ignore, walk passed like nothing happened.
Thank you for posting this. I lived in China for six months and when I describe these types of observations to my friends in the U.S., they don't believe me because they can't fathom such a level of willful negligence. Where more effort is going into cheating than is required to simply do the work right in the first place, with costly and deadly consequences, and absolutely no learning curve, no pride, shame, sense of professionalism, or responsibility. Thanks to your posts, I can prove to people that I'm not exaggerating when I describe this level of incompetence.
And I don’t know which part of China you are living. Either you are a fluent layer like this RUclipsr or u never came to China. I’ve been in China for 7 years, and I can safely say not even USA or dubai have the infrastructure close to china.
@Blasian-Couple I think you are living fluent in CN you forgot the meaning of the infrastructure, more houses are not needed when ppl are not even eating well, the land needs raw nature to produce good food ,and ppl need natural food at least once in a while to stay healthy, not GMOs and pesticides/herbecides in almost all foods have you compared the average weight/size of ppl in CN and ppl in US?
A lot of those videos are rather well known fatalities. Pretty much all of those women who fell in escalators were ground up by the gears. It's horrible.
One of my friends, an engineer, was sent from NZ to Shanghai to oversee the building of a factory there, He hated it. He got some mysterious illness there which he passed onto his wife and baby son when he went home on leave. They were ill for months and took a long time for them to shake it off. They had to stop all visitors from coming. I'd never want to visit China,
This garbage used to make money by touting China in China, but was later blocked by China. He fled to the United States again to slander China to make money.
@@PerpetualWane No, there are just so many strange viruses. He is the nicest most polite guy in the world and he learned to speak Mandarin. Nobody could hate him.
@@KC-rt4hp There's been multiple reports that the 1.4 billion number is most likely incorrect - all signs point towards it being lower. 1.2 is one of the estimates of the true number.
China is at the stage in development where the West circa 1898, it was very dangerous world that was modernizing very quickly. In essence China is about 130 years behind in industrial safety.
I disagree. Thanks to generations of godless Communist indoctrination, China's moral and emotional maturity lags far behind other developed nations. No amount of time will reverse the incredible damage that has done.
8: 21 I spent more than 5 years now trying to understand this psychological phenomena with no result , Chinese spend 10x the effort and cost to achieve the appearance of something instead of doing the real thing with minimum effort and have the appearance as a byproduct !
@@aaftiyoDkcdicurak this is exactly why China was continously conquored by foreign powers in their 5000 year history. Only Han, Song and Ming Dynasties are actual Han Chinese Dynasty. all the others are foreigner dynasties, who were able to conquor china with vastly smaller population.
there is a similar video, where a young man and his girl friend were entering an elevator. as the man steps in the elevator car starts to fall, and the girl grabbed his jacket from the behind. problem was, if she didn't do it, he would probably stepped completely inside the car. but because her grabbing his cloth, his upper body was caught by the falling car, and cut in half.
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Wait... What did you mean when you said they don't own the exterior of buildings, just the interior? How could one own a building without owning the exterior. Or did I misunderstand what you meant?
And what was up with that woman falling into that manhole, but the guy who clearly had to have watched the whole thing happen simply drives his motor bike right past her without stopping to help pull her out of the manhole. Crazy!
Winston, found "Asia Hot Topigs - NEW" (1.2mm Desert Rabbits - latest). IMO not slopaganda as msgd. on TCS, as well. Kind regards and thank you for keeping us apprised.
Everybody needs to know: his wife is a awesome doctor 😊
"proof" as in anecdotal evidence, stereotype forging, and sensationalism. Thanks indeed for providing counterexamples while I'm learning about logical fallacies
@@internet_polymathNow you know how Dangerous China can be
No pride, no integrity, no compassion, no conscience.
All of the above, so tremendously sad and horrific.
That's the CCP core values.
money power money power.
This sounded exactly like the American Democrats.
And Godless
When the cardboard men were discovered by the government, they sent cardboard policemen to arrest them.
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you can actually see a lot of cardboard policemen next to roads, to remind people to drive safe, lmao.
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If everyone remembers the Bay Bridge in SF was built with Chinese parts and after 20 years, yes 20, it was finally finished. Within the first week they announced fatal flaws relating to the Chinese steel. As far as I know it has never been completely repaired because if I remember correctly they would have to tear out the underlying footings to replace the failing tension rods.
Totally agree with you on the culture of maintenance in China, the irony of them putting in so much effort just to cheat rather than actually doing the work is baffling. In the end, it poses a serious threat to public safety.
Literally happens everywhere. and the guy doesn't even show long videos, which means those. shorts might be fake. To be honest, they are fake.
why are you pointing out that you're agreeing; are you Chinese or in China?
You now understand the American government...
this isnt just in china
this is how things are done almost everywhere
When you’re praised for cheating and finding an easy way out with minimal cost and time and you’re called stupid for being honest and doing the hard work of getting it right.
There's a story of an American paratrooper who was issued a pararachute. Parachutes were required to be inspected for safety and quality before being issued. The paratrooper saw that his parachute was made by a company in his home town. When he looked at the inspectors initials, he knew his mother had inspected the shoot. She checked it over as though her own son's life might depend on it. We should all use that standard.
You trying to make me cry 🥲🫡
We are all brothers and sisters, fighting ourselves when are we going to figure that out?
I love this comment so much. Thanks for sharing.
inspector's not inspectors
chute not shoot
Charming story! If you're going to tell it you may as well tell it well-comments can be edited.
Are you for Imprint certain? ~~ That Parachuter, most likely.
My sister in-law, being a CEO of a company, mentioned having to put penalties clauses into any contracts made with a chinese company. Then you have to find ways of enforcing those penalties, such as a boycott or having the (non-chinese) bank turn over the money in a joint account to the other company in the event of a breach of contract. Things like that. Blew my mind.
"if you do business with china, make sure you've got some leverage to force them to honor a contract.", she said.
"Oh.", I said......realizing this was million dollar advice.
I used to work for a medical equipment company. The president was daily on the phone screaming at the chinese reps for changing the contracts. They would literally "hijack" the equipment and force you to pay a higher price. And what choice did he have but to pay it? Since the entire business world had decided that cheap chinese garbage was better than quality products with a higher price??
@@velveetaslingshot Yup. I feel ya. We need more stories like this to warn people who might be thinking of starting a new business with China in tow.
Yes, a friend of mine had high hopes for a Chinese allied business venture he was planning only to get scammed out of every dollar he had contributed to the venture.
And they say Americans are NUTS😂😂😂
Egads! They already have a population shortage, and they're tryna kill off the people that are still alive?! This is terrifying! 😳
Until I started watching your channel, I didn't realize why international students were so enamored with the sky, birds, grass, cleanliness and safety that we generally have in the States.
When I was in Beijing it was so polluted that the smog almost fully blocked out the moon.
People in the US and other Western countries often get so wrapped up in constant self-criticism they forget that compared to most of the rest of the world their countries are wonderful utopias.
@@BiggieTrismegistusWell said.
@@BiggieTrismegistus I've lived over in Asia and South America, just never in a location that it was that bad
I live in Germany. I remember when I was going to school, there were always some lawns with maple trees. And during autumm, these maple leaves falling down looked soooooooo pretty, that when I was a kid, I collected leaves there every autumm. Like, the leaves had blends between green and yellow, green and red, green and orange, yellow and orange, yellow and red, orange and red, and so on, and I just found that so pretty.
One day, I saw a bunch of tourists, probably Chinese, they looked Asian, photographing themselves with the leaves. When I was passing by, there was a woman kneeling in the leaves, holding maple leaves to her cheeks, while smiling widely. I was just glad that I'm not the only one who appreciates these leaves.
By the way, I continued collecting leaves into my late teens. I was the weird kid during my whole school time, and the bullying for having my own interests got especially bad during my early teens, because I'm autistic.
Getting mistreated this much but still supporting their government, the Chinese people are in a really sad state.
This is just normal for them and has been, except for a very brief period in the early 20th century, part of their culture.
Think about it. That's a culture that, for thousands of years, the peasants were complete serfs and, generally speaking, weren't treated particularly well by their rulers. What are they now? Same thing. There are "The Serfs", and then there are "The Connected" (sort of 'nobility light'), and then there are "The Nobility" (government functionaries in this case) and then there is "The Emperor" (in this case, the head of the Party, you can even throw in the upper echelon of the Party if you like).
Fits their culture like a glove.
It has always been this way for them. It will always be this way for them. Their one chance was lost.
Watching so much biased content and cherry-picked footage but still believing everything they see, RUclips netizens like you are in a seriously pathetic state
china is a special criminal company
I think most normal people in China, is just like most normal people during Nazi-Germany: Those that knew their own well-being and that of their family, would shut up and say "sieg heil!" and raise their hand in a Nazi-salute...
Keep lying to yourself and following this crazy person. Come to China and see for yourself. China is the best country cleaner civilized way peaceful than any other country in the world. About infrastructure not even USA or dubai is close. And I know what I’m talking about because I’ve been here for 7 years now
I had the title Building and Grounds maintenance. One day the President of the company came up to me and said the place never looked so good. After 50 years I still remember it was a good feeling.
that is a thing that has never happened, will never happen in china
Thank you for sharing
@@r2dad282 That @inkmetal1 guy wouldn't be able to do that good a job because he wouldn't have the maintenance supplies to do so. Nor does he have time on his schedule since the company probably has him on multiple maint jobs, and not accomplishing goals means his salary is docked or he would be fired and replaced. Right now, the economy is so bad, no one wants to risk being fired. So, does that mean the chinese companies are going to do even more shortcuts and tofu dreg simply because the employees and supervisors take shortcuts in their desperation to meet company goals?
Plot twist, it wasn't really the president, it was a cardboard cutout...
The only equiptment maintained well is their security camera monitoring systems. Keeping track of everyone.
Yeah, they have TWO cardboard cutouts for that,
I remember as a youngster, asking my mom why people used the phrase "taking a slow boat to China"?
She simply said "who`d want to get there fast?" Hmmm - sums it up I guess
I had a elevator loose power for about 30 seconds in Malaysia once, but the catch mechanism kicked in almost instantly, it really shouldn't be hard to make them safe, all elevators in Australia have a mechanical catch like the Malaysian one, it's not normally something that would fail even without maintenance, it's really basic engineering that has been used for over 100 years now. For it to freefall they must be taking massive shortcuts.
Well , China's engineering is 5000 years old
when society takes shortcuts like stealing IP instead of developing it themselves, they don't know what they dont know. Prolly standardized on 1960's era elevator and escalator tech.
I remember what a pain the myth buster guys had making one fall.
Being a Commonwealth Country makes a difference. Even in Pakistan, one of the poorest places in the world, elevators run fine and the inside of most buildings are very well-maintained. British efficiency and decency about such things was one of the benefits of being a British Colony. These China videos are horrific. In the USA we have failed cities that look like hell, but they are damn near empty compared to China. And its hard to understand how people can live like that.
It feels like a fundamental lack of solidarity. To nonchalantly and directly neglect the safety of your fellow humans, without comprehending that you're putting everybody at risk, and that everybody includes you.
They don't believe humans have value.
crane tech here who works with a few retired elevator techs. the reason there are supposed to be two techs is 1, for safety. its one of the most dangerous trades around. and 2, you quite litterally cannot complete certain maintenance check lists and safety checks without two people.
I used to sell Industrial Hydraulics for a LARGE company Parker Hannifin. They had certain pumps and motors that had their own paint color (blue) that was different from their traditional yellow. This means the parts were manufactured in China. Occasionally some of their parts would get mixed into the regular batches somehow and they would immediately go back to the manufacturer. They were NOT FIT FOR SALE under US standards. Garbage tier everything.
I remember Parker Hannifin, they used to be one of my suppliers, good company
man those guys that fell into the elevator. that’s insane
What about the sink holes while shopping?? The elevator is the most plausable one of the lot lol
The sink hole is seen before and known to happen at random places like your bedroom. Nobody expects an elevator door to open up and swallow people whole@@Dean-wh4mm
Nothing is safe in China
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There is a video of a disabled person on a motorized wheelchair, who repeatedly slammed into the door of an elevator, untill the door gave up and he fell through.
He was upset that the elevator door closed before he reached it.
this was in South Korea, and he got the motorized wheelchair free of charge from the government.
I remember when we were kids (I`m from Eastern Europe so imagine soviet panelki) in the building where one of my friends lived there was a note next to the elevator "Please don`t ride more then 3 people or the same thing will happen like last time." :D
Reminds me of when we were in the former Yugoslavia. If you saw a restaurant where the employees were wearing uniforms, you don’t go in. It was state run and the employees would make the same amount of money if they served you or not.
I loved the public self-serve canteens... cheap basic food like sausages, baked potatoes, veggies and gravy.... 😊
I was there in 1985 and was taken to such a restaurant. We had good service and even food which was not on the menu. The differentiating factor was that the manager was related to the person who took me there.
@@FFM0594we went to a privately owned restaurant and were overwhelmed by the service, the choice the price and the portions. The waiter even had some Pelinkovac with us after the meal.
@@alli3219 where?
Pretty scary when the safest route to go downstairs of a building is going to the roof and repelling off the side.
Speaking of laws, they need to pass a law to help protect animals. Ppl are legally torturing animals and posting it to the internet. So scary
Yes: After they torture the dogs and cats, they eat them What a country.
God I still remember the first time I saw the video of the lady going up the escalator, passing her child to the maintenance guy, then she disappeared as the escalator ate her. Truly nightmare stuff.
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Lifts are bad enough as it is. Usually, I'd say: "Take the stairs."
But you can't even trust those anymore.
this is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels
You must love tall tales!
@@annimack1591 boy aint no damn cap on this channel that’s slander
Incredible information, thank you so much for all your time you spend on each video!!!! Great Job my friend!!!!
After 8:09 I just started to laugh uncontrollably. The concept behind going all the way to have a cardboard cut out with a whole wardrobe instead of solving the actual problem just blows my mind.
That one dude spitting on the ground and then immediately slipping on it. 😂
All things that are made in China are the best. Serpentze misunderstood the crimes caught on tape. Please come to China (as long as you come with a lot of money). You are very welcome, please come to visit China. You could stay here for up to 10 years & we guarantee that no one would be interested in your organs [you know, . . for the market's business] & for (as long as you have enough money with you). Please come to visit. Disclaimer: We do not guarantee that no one from the elevators
maintenance,
mobile floors maintenance and other related 'operational places' through which you fall down very deep underground in places where your neck gets broken which leads to your organs to be sold to the organ's market, which pays $ tens of thousands. How can we guaranty that the laws are not broken, when there is no country in the world in which some people won't brake the
law to
cheat with something somehow. In China it happens that is about organs and that is not our fault. Chinese people are the most smart, especially from the CCP, don't you agree ? If you don't agree then we have to prove it to you right now so you could come to visit China, but come to visit only if you have enough money to spend in China. If you don't
have
enough, you risk it. For example the non-Chinese because are NOT, are not smart and brakes the law by crossing the street on the red light. Or by selling drugs for few hundred dollars or few thousand dollars. But some of the Chinese people especially from CCP, are smarter than your people because ours sell (as you say "illegally") organs
more than
drugs, because are more valuable than drugs, since are worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. :-) We are open and honest people and we welcome you with your open heart : - ) :-) after all will be your open heart and not ours, right ?. You are so very welcome to visit China. Please don't procrastinate, don't delay. Come on, and
become
blessed! How you become blessed ? Well, one way is by getting to heaven faster, right ? Come on, come, come, come! and be rewarded. Our economy have slowed down so much, and we could use your health, pardon us, because some of us don't speak English so good, We meant 'help', we could use your help. If you work too hard and have
no time
to visit us, then put your retirement fund or other money in the funds and stocks which includes China to help our CCP people to have greater wages. After all, remember that you care about other countries ' people's wages. We know that our CCP people have nice wages, but could be a lot, much, much greater wages! So why not? They deserve for
working
so hard in the committee. After all is your money and your government have no business to tell you where to "invest" your money. Maybe if we get enough of them, we could fix the elevators and the mobile floors, so that no one would fall through them and have their
necks
broken, and have their organs sold. What do you say ? Are you going to come to China to visit us ? Or at least invest in China ? : - ) :-) See we still welcome you with a smile. Don't trust others who says that we do not welcome you anymore. We really do. Come to visit China please. Pretty please ! Please, please, please !?
The dude spitting on the ground and then immediately slipping on it, follows a great Chinese wisdom. The saliva, the spit disinfects and sterilizes the ground on which he could have a great rest. It is the first great Chinese leader Mao of the CCP who taught such great wisdom. It proves that all Chinese people trusts the CCP, even the most poor and the homeless. The wisdom from the CCP is amazing.
A show like this can influence a person to be very careful how they choose to do things
It's incredible how scooterman saw granny had fallen in an open manhole and just ignored her to do his deliveries.
I don't know why, but I have never thought of the "nothing belongs to you so you just don't take care of it" aspect of all these videos until now. Such a profound statement.
it's simply the things can't be eaten or poisonous, those 'advanced' things are only given with the meaning as add-ons while ppl are living well,eating healthy and feeling good everyday
You can expect shitty jobs in these shitty environments when giving out shitty salaries that don't even do better than farming, as ppl are more close to nature and fresh food while farming
You see !? China opened the eyes of your mind ! Is very profound, isn't it. Our people are the most caring and heroic, but know that are not supposed to rush to help the crooks that fall through holes made by themselves to try to cheat the State of money insurance. If it were you falling, then most certainly they would have come fast in seconds to help you because you are a foreigner and have money. All things that are made in China are the best. Serpentze misunderstood the crimes caught on tape. Please come to China (as long as you come with
a lot of
money). You could stay here for up to 10 years & we guarantee that no one would be interested in your organs [you know, . . for the market's business] & for (as long as you have enough money with you). Please come to visit. Disclaimer: We do not guarantee that no one from the elevators
maintenance,
mobile floors maintenance and other related 'operational places' through which you fall down very deep underground in places where your neck gets broken which leads to your organs to be sold to the organ's market, which pays $ tens of thousands. How can we guaranty that the laws are not broken, when there is no country in the world in which some people won't brake the
law to
cheat with something somehow. In China it happens that is about organs and that is not our fault. Chinese people are the most smart, especially from the CCP, don't you agree ? If you don't agree then we have to prove it to you right now so you could come to visit China, but come to visit only if you have enough money to spend in China. If you don't
have
enough, you risk it. For example the non-Chinese because are NOT, are not smart and brakes the law by crossing the street on the red light. Or by selling drugs for few hundred dollars or few thousand dollars. But some of the Chinese people especially from CCP, are smarter than your people because ours sell (as you say "illegally") organs
more than
drugs, because are more valuable than drugs, since are worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. :-) We are open and honest people and we welcome you with your open heart : - ) :-) after all will be your open heart and not ours, right ?. You are so very welcome to visit China. Please don't procrastinate, don't delay. Come on, and
become
blessed! How you become blessed ? Well, one way is by getting to heaven faster, right ? Come on, come, come, come! and be rewarded. Our economy have slowed down so much, and we could use your health, pardon us, because some of us don't speak English so good, We meant 'help', we could use your help. If you work too hard and have
no time
to visit us, then put your retirement fund or other money in the funds and stocks which includes China to help our CCP people to have greater wages. After all, remember that you care about other countries ' people's wages. We know that our CCP people have nice wages, but could be a lot, much, much greater wages! So why not? They deserve for
working
so hard in the committee. After all is your money and your government have no business to tell you where to "invest" your money. Maybe if we get enough of them, we could fix the elevators and the mobile floors, so that no one would fall through them and have their
necks
broken, and have their organs sold. What do you say ? Are you going to come to China to visit us ? Or at least invest in China ? : - ) :-) See we still welcome you with a smile. Don't trust others who says that we do not welcome you anymore. We really do. Come to visit China please. Pretty please ! Please, please, please !?
You can have all the "regulations" and "laws" in the world placed on paper and accomplish nothing but to create more of what you'd hope to stop. You can write on stone tiles that the laws of physics say the stone tiles will fly on their own and the stone tiles will not fly on their own. China allows vague definitions of manufacturing and construction materials. China allows tiny cut-corners at every step of every process. By the time you reach the end of line you're off by miles. It's referred to as "death by degrees".
Our family buys plastic utensils which are made in China. I have to make sure to pack my lunch box with at least 3 forks, because when I try to eat my salad, they shatter, and I have to get another. I noticed it is like that for other products that are made in China. I remember the past, when we were able to purchase higher quality products made in the US.
If you've ever seen an escalator operating without the steps, you see it's basically a giant chainsaw. I cringe thinking of someone's legs falling into that.
Every elevator maintenance need to be supervised by someone, someone need to basically sit there to see the repairing.
I have never before been so thankful for elevator camera censorship.
I've lived in China in 2008/2009 - this all terribly resonates! I desperately wanted to leave but the contracts (at least back then) were designed to not release any expats before fulfillment - breaching a contract in China would have resulted in being blacklisten from China for life. In my one year, I hav witnessed a giant block of residential highrises being erected within just 2 weeks - I thought to myself "I know I'm European and I am used to these things taking an awfully long time, but 2 weeks?! That can't be good!" The following winter the news had reported of a roof collapsing because it couldn't withstand the weight of the snow - it wasn't one of the buildings I saw being erected (at least not yet) but it wasn't difficult to connect the dots - shoddy workmanship.
I was only in China for one year and couldn't wait to get out of there - yet, I remind myself to not judge the entire country over the small little place I was in but there I don't want to bomb the entire comment section with recounts of how I lost 12 kg and collapsed after baring my butt at a Chinese (doctor?) in the waiting area!
I try not to dwell on past experiences but do talk about incidents when prompted and just the other day, I now live in Malaysia, I was talking about Jack Ma on MS Teams and my connection started glitching immediately - it may have been coincidental but then I received a call from a call-bot rambling on in English with "Chinese Embassy" but the rest was then in Chinese, so I have no idea what that was about. I haven't been back to China since and have no intentions to ever go back - it's just that when I do talk about China online, that these "coincidental" things happen...it certainly doesn't help that, for the uninformed, my name may very well indicate that I am Chinese - I am not. (Being half Asian - it's difficult not to trace my lineage back to China, though)
It's not only a lack of maintenance, it's also shoddy original manufacture of the elevators, escalators, and everything else in China. They copy western designs, for example, elevators in the U.S. are manufactured by Otis or Schindler, but in China, they're manufactured by Chinese companies that have copied Otis & Schindler elevators designs and parts, but they cut corners everywhere they can, so that they still function, initially, but they break easier because the parts are made of thinner low-grade materials. Then, when they're installed by whatever contractor, the contractor does shoddy work, and shorts on the number of bolts required, and the concrete that supports everything is shoddy and crumbles, and rebar is shorted. Then, the last step is maintenance, which is done seldom and poorly. Winston uses the example of them not refilling the lubricant reservoirs. But, even if they do refill the lubricant reservoirs occasionally, are they using the expensive specified lubricant? Or, are they using used cooking oil they obtained for free? If someone has the opportunity to save money anywhere in the chain of manufacturing or providing a product or service, they will do so, which, sadly, can cost lives and injure people somewhere down the line. For example, toothpaste, pet food & baby formula containing some random post-industrial waste chemicals because the manufacturer could save some small amount of money by substituting quality ingredients with garbage. Fake pork, fake tofu, and on & on.
did you notice, the little kids, were already trained, to stay on the ground.... the escalator scene at the beginning.
I've heard about one Chinese rule, called: "Fast money", it's explains a lot
I once had an elevator fall from the 6th to the 1st (here that means 1 above ground) floor in Münster, Germany. There was a safety mechanism that caught it near the bottom but my legs hurt for 2 weeks. It was the student apartment building I lived in at the time (from 2001 to 2006). The place has since been demolished, but that was years later.
I've always thought of your great metaphor for China as that caterpillar that looks like a snake.
Thanks for reporting truthfully
How do you know it's the truth? 🧐
@@annimack1591 I am Chinese and I assure you this is the most basic fact
I had to watch the dude slip on his on spit 5 times, I could not believe what I just witnessed. 🤣😂😂
but *constant danger keeps the mind sharp.*
Paper dolls for corporate executives during working hours and ai dolls when they get home.
Cardboard Man vs. Straw Man? They can't hold a candle to each other. Get it!?
How tragic and scary for the Chinese people. 🤔🤍🙏🏽
I toured a zoo in China years ago. It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen 😢
I live in america today. it is one of the saddest things I've ever seen
The most basic, most fundamental question is: "Why bother?" and they can only come up with very negative answers.
OMG! A cupboard cutout maintenance man?
Are the Chinese lift 🛗 companies playing the paper dolls game? 🤣🤣🤣
thanks Winston
1:07 that was so stupid but it made me laugh so dang hard 😂
Cutting corners only makes more corners. I know a lot of people who work harder at getting out of work.
"People would rather cheat than do the work"
This line describes the impression I got about the attitude some chinese hacker had when they were about justifying cheating in games!!
I’m wondering if China Airways maintains their planes correctly with good quality parts
Just wait until all the EVs start flooding the western markets.
This is how they act when they think nobody's watching. As the Chinese say, "Heaven is high and the Emperor is far away".
watch out, the dangling room is of course the spicy jean!!
I’m a lift tech, and I gotta say these incidents are not so much poor maintenance, but more poor quality, and very badly installed, lifts dropping and those doors falling in, very bad quality. It’s very scary.
Gives new Meaning to the Term, "Made in China." Doesn't it?
Matt Patterson don't be so negative. All things that are made in China are the best. Don't let the video of Serpentze mislead you. The video must be a photo shop trick. Please come to China. You are welcome to China. Don't worry! You are safe here (as long as you got many $ American, Canadian, or Australian (those three in particular), or euros, or British pounds, is good enough. Really, believe us. We will take your money. You could stay here for up to 10 years & we guarantee that no one would be interested in your organs [you know, . . for the market's business] & for (as long as you have enough money with you). Please come to visit : - ) Disclaimer: We do not guarantee that no one from the elevators
maintenance,
mobile floors maintenance and other related 'operational places' through which you fall down very deep underground in places where your neck gets broken which leads to your organs to be sold to the organ's market, which pays $ tens of thousands. How can we guaranty that the laws are not broken, when there is no country in the world in which some people won't brake the
law to
cheat with something somehow. In China it happens that is about organs and that is not our fault. Chinese people are the most smart, especially from the CCP, don't you agree ? If you don't agree then we have to prove it to you right now so you could come to visit China, but come to visit only if you have enough money to spend in China. If you don't
have
enough, you risk it. For example the non-Chinese because are NOT, are not smart and brakes the law by crossing the street on the red light. Or by selling drugs for few hundred dollars or few thousand dollars. But some of the Chinese people especially from CCP, are smarter than your people because ours sell (as you say "illegally") organs
more than
drugs, because are more valuable than drugs, since are worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. :-) We are open and honest people and we welcome you with your open heart : - ) :-) after all will be your open heart and not ours, right ?. You are so very welcome to visit China. Please don't procrastinate, don't delay. Come on, and
become
blessed! How you become blessed ? Well, one way is by getting to heaven faster, right ? Come on, come, come, come! and be rewarded. Our economy have slowed down so much, and we could use your health, pardon us, because some of us don't speak English so good, We meant 'help', we could use your help. If you work too hard and have
no time
to visit us, then put your retirement fund or other money in the funds and stocks which includes China to help our CCP people to have greater wages. After all, remember that you care about other countries ' people's wages. We know that our CCP people have nice wages, but could be a lot, much, much greater wages! So why not? They deserve for
working
so hard in the committee. After all is your money and your government have no business to tell you where to "invest" your money. Maybe if we get enough of them, we could fix the elevators and the mobile floors, so that no one would fall through them and have their
necks
broken, and have their organs sold. What do you say ? Are you going to come to China to visit us ? Or at least invest in China ? : - ) :-) See we still welcome you with a smile. Don't trust others who says that we do not welcome you anymore. We really do. Come to visit China please. Pretty please ! Please, please, please !?
The only reason we do not see the really bad stuff over here is because the retailers do some quality control.
China makes what you ask for, in any quality they can get away with.
If it´s phones for Apple, they can do wonders, if it´s a tool for Harbor Freight, it´ll be halfway decent (at least not instant garbage), but if it´s China to customer - forget even thinking about getting it.
more like Unmade in China
Cardboard employees are the best! They don't take vacation time, they don't call in sick, they don't file grievances with the union, no maternity leave. A supervisor's dream! Maintenance is highly overrated.
Thank you for making time to help improve life in China.
When you put just as much effort into cheating as it would have taken to do the job normally 😂
In China, the people have always been their most expendable resource.
We had an engineer at our firm who used to go to great lengths not to do the job, I had to return to one of his sites to put right what he'd done and locate the problem.. He'd disabled and hid the airflow alarm on the PC and unscrewed the lamp for the airflow failed alarm on the main control panel, the problem was that the airflow switch had filled with water which took less than two minutes to replace 🤦
Maintenance is so very important!!!
Theres a large portion of people in China purposefully put themselves in bad situations for insurance purposes also
so I keep trying to post a comment about the situation about 1 minute in where the guy in the elevator saves his wife and child before saving himself and how that should be encouraged over the division sown by those in power but it keeps getting deleted.
Welcome to RUclips.
It's been like that for almost a decade.
The people who run youtube care about free speech and expression about as much as the CCP does at this point. I would say shame on them, but people without souls have no shame.
Censorship is completely random in here. I firmly believe censor bot is set to delete certain percentage of comments.
@@TheGreatResist I'm aware it's been bad for a while but I thought they were only deleting "negative" or "politically incorrect" stuff, but apparently now you're not even allowed to be positive. Seriously revoke their platform rights this site is a publisher now.
6:06 The lady in the greenscreen background made me fear for your life. I thought she was gonna assault you.
😅
This bizarre, extremely dangerous and utterly penny-pinching attitude towards maintenance is pretty much the same here in Hong Kong. [perhaps not with public escalators etc - but towards building maintenance it certainly is!] I am convinced it is embedded in the Chinese psyche that you must NEVER EVER spend a single penny on maintaining your property.
Unlike in the 'West' where generally speaking most people take pride in their homes [my father never had a paintbrush out of his hand when I was a child and was constantly painting the windows, doors and anything else that was nailed down!]
In fact, I can remember that if your neighbour's house wasn't equally immaculate people would think they were mentally unstable! But then this incredibly weird and singularly 'Chinese' behaviour also extends to other areas - such as customer service.
Let me explain. When I first came to Hong and moved into my apartment, I needed get some appliances etc. I remember buying this rather expensive CD player but after only using it a few times, it stopped working. I took it back to the shop where I bought it and they offered to have the CD player repaired.
I refused and asked for a completely new CD player or for a full refund of my money. [which is law in the UK for defective merchandise]. The shop categorically refused and ultimately, I had to accept losing the CD player for several weeks whilst it was repaired.
A similar incident occurred with my internet provider [the infamous PCCW - who at that time had a virtual monopoly in HK!] Despite signing a two-year contract with them and paying a hefty 'deposit' it literally took weeks to be connected and when I was connected - the internet was off more than it was on!
Again, I complained to the company with little or no success. I mentioned these events to a Chinese colleague and they laughed and said this is typical 'Chinese' culture. Chinese believe that if YOU buy something that 'property' [be it a washing machine, car or house etc] automatically becomes YOUR responsibility. So, if YOU have a problem with it - YOU need to sort it out not the shop where you bought it!
Putting aside the fact that this is totally insane logic - it is also the reason why HK ranks equal worst in the entire Asia-Pacific region for 'Customer Service'!!
2:57 It's rough when you have already seen the videos which are blurred out...that one was quite messy if i remember correctly.
R.I.P Liveleak 11 year member here :)
Every time I watch construction quality in China, I find greater respect for the blue collar workers of America. Thank you for your service, hillbillies. 🫡
HOLY $HIT not even a minute in and I'm horrified for those people. really gets me when kids get hurt , especially due to negligence by adults :(
i think that the main reason why people in china go to such lengths and put so much effort in cheating, rather than doing the job properly, is that in a society where everyone cheats, where cheating is the norm, a person who does his job honestly and properly is the one considered to be the fool.
Unfortunately true an becoming true in America.
When Winston mention there wasa almost distain at doing things propperly thats exactly what came to my mind, weird but understandable in a messed up kinda way
@docwhammo No, other corrupt societies have the same issues. Once the Chinese are free of communism, this will change. Once they have pride of ownership, they will maintain their homes. Look at their cars--the vehicles cruising in Beijing are like cars in the west.
@@r2dad282 like the Russians?
@docwhammotriggered?
It is disturbing how many people do not care about having blood on their hands
With the power of dawn dish soap, the world is your oyster!!!!
communist dont believe in God so they cant feel compasion or any guilt for not caring...no one to answer too ...they only respond to violence..
NO CHRISTIANITY
@@DavidRodriguez-er4rq no christianity no conscience..no God in there minds
I worked in elevators in France, no elevator in the last 30 years should free fall for more than a few centimers before one of the multiple system designed to stop it stop the fall. And this is the case even in "cheap" elevator. There is no sane reason this happens in china, this is purely about being cheap on construction and maintenance and it will kill people.
Has killed* people.
Here in Germany once a statistic showed elevators as the safest "people transport system" of all - safer than train, bus, car, plane, whatever. Have you ever heard of people who lost their life due to elevator malfunction in France? I doubt it, will be the same as here in Germany. If you die in an elevator, it's because the building is burning down while you are stuck. But then it's not the elevator that killed you...
Thanks for your contribution keeping ppl safe 🙏
Not will but has. It's happened and will continue to happen until society takes accountability.
This is purely about people's lack of ethics and integrity... same reason why most people won't enter heaven. There's repercussions to lack of integrity and values... but when your dead set on selfish causation then this is what outcomes you get. Hopefully people are being held accountable... then again "the dragon" (China) cultured these behaviors and idealogies.
Chinese have been buying rental apt buildings in Canada and you never see maintenance for over 20 yrs.
Wow better ask to see maintenance reports!
I guess Canada is no better than China, then.
I asked a Chinese friend about it once, and her response was, "Why maintain it correctly when it probably wasn't even made correctly by the manufacturer?"
😂😆
This explains all the garbage they've sent to America
😂 so true
Typical Chinese 🇨🇳 attitude 😅
That right there is a sinking ship attitude.
A colleague of mine once told me how he had to test a generator in China for his company at a newly build power plant. To test it they needed to have a way to draw lots of current from it, but the high voltage lines for transporting the electricity were not yet complete. So the chinese quickly improvized a high voltage line with bamboo supports. As soon as they switched it one, the magnetic field from the current flow in the lines wiggled the cables a bit, the bamboo structure collapsed and a dozend workes below got electrocuted. Seemed like the generator worked just fine.
Moral of the story: Don't do anything in China, better yet don't go there.
Sold!
Agreed.. it sounds like a hell hole.
China does everything better than any country in the world
Source: China😂
China sucks
Better yet don't buy from china
8:45 an old lady falling into a hole in the street could happen everywhere in a developing country. A guy on a motorcycle witnessing the accident and refusing to help the poor old lady on the other hand could only happen in China..
Or in the USA, especially in New York.
Never even seen that in my country in 29 years of living there. It's supposed to be shut.
I was reading the comments to see if anyone had commented, so thanks.
It’s really horrifying to know such apathy exists, just goes to show how important governments are in our rearing, but it seems few give a toss.
Shame
Shame
Shame.
That clip of the guy spitting on the floor and then slipping on it is a profound metaphor.
To be honest, it made me crack up.
He was the crash dummy
Instant karma
I hadn’t laughed so hard in a long time
Timestamp? I missed it😢
I had someone brag to me how great China is at building rails and highways compared to the USA. I told them you will be amazed how fast you can build something with zero worker safety and environmental regurgitations.
helps if you don't mind it not functioning either
see: Tofu Bridges
Is dunk on China here but now thinking about Baltimore bridge collapse
@@kpkp42
Tofu dreg IS regurgitation 🤮
I used to work in construction for some time, and once we worked with some Turkish investors and construction companies, and they had some horrible work ethics, don't care about safety at all. Like, once we had some issues with the elevators in a new building, and the Turkish were like" Ah, who cares, an elevator falls only once". I coundn't believe my ears. Never worked with them again. One of the reasons there were so many victims in the earthquake last year in Turkey was the low quality of the buildings. They just don't care about stuff like that.
I am a Turk and unfortunately u r right in Turkey low wage doesnt get respect, has terrible work conditions not to mention TERRIBLE home structures. Trabzon Turk and Kurdish construction companies fcked the sytem to the point no home is safe and this is a EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY. U can literally pay low penalties for everything when it comes to construction.
@@ozan7427 Yes, I know. It's not good. You should try to change things for the better, so you don't have 40000 victims again.
@@KrisNestor108 real number is 130 k slipped through mouth of goverment candidate for election of Istanbul city counsellor maybe more but there is nothing we can do they have a big lobby lets hope in future it would be better
Both are shit countries
@@KrisNestor108 "You should try to change things for the better"
This sentence in this context is a textbook example of the phrase "easier said than done"
"if you can cheat then cheat" - Modern Chinese Proverb
" Cheat in all aspects of your life is the Greatest Chinese virtue. "
There are many apologists who try to defend these Chinese behaviours. They especially get upset when you compare them to the Japanese. But the truth is, what we see on this channel really is the Chinese national character. Some Chinese may be more decent than others, but overall, they're all like this.
Is that true ? Sounds horrific for their society..
@@trevorgough2286
Check the "Don't learn Mandarin" copypasta
@qianyifan-nl6kd
Because then it will never be dealt with.
Safety and maintenace in China go as well as water and oil.
Which you get as food.
Your reliance on such a poor source implies that your education goes as well as diapers and milk bottles
Do we need to talk about Boeing?
@@PyroMax There's no comparison about the number of incidents in the US vs China.
@@janicewolk6492 Dishwater and gutter oil.
It's amazing how often the elevators here in my 'new' Chinese apartment building have issues. Literally almost weekly.
What always amazes me is the lack of care for each other. Like the guy driving past the lady who fell down the man hole in the last scene…
I found this the most terrifying part of the video.
well, I don't know about china but here in the west if you help a woman in need chances are that you will be facing charges for g(R)ape or SA...soo...just keep walking (riding)
serpentza did a video about this. there is a chance you're getting blamed for the injuries if you help people in need. that's the reason most people in china just won't help people in need in order to not risk getting sued
Or not picking up the bike lol
@@siegfriedschnosel5114 Jesus, what stupid regulations! There is no limit to government stupidity.
Escalator deaths are the absolute scariest. I remember the story of one of the first clips you showed of the woman and child. Its absolutely wretched that people willfully ignore maintenance on machines that turn into giant meat grinders...
Yeah I think the woman even saved the child's life at the expense of her own.
I saw it too, among others as well or babies falling from 2 stories in a mall, which seemed more on purpose sometimes. Crazy.
The guy taking the picture probably expected the cardboard cutout to do the maintenance...
lol
We don't have this problem in the USA at all, the norm here is one mechanic on site when maintenance is performed. A competent mechanic would check the hydraulic fluid, especially when elevator starts to struggle or make gowning noises. 5:56 Hydraulic fluid was low, 6:00 debris in door sensor. The door sensors could close on people if the aren't cleaned properly or break. Mechanic fill out a maintenance log to show what was worked on normally. Hope this helps.
My Dad always told me China is the land of "facade's" but since I discovered your channel, it speaks beyond truths to me!
Wow, the motorcyclist at 8:44 just riding on by and watching the woman that fell into a manhole is just awful. Really chilling. The first time I realized there was something really wrong with china's elevators was years ago in that video with the guy in the mobility scooter that got angry that a woman didn't hold the door for him so he rammed his scooter (not particularly hard) into the closed elevator door, and the doors broke apart and he plummeted to his death.
See in China people won't help if they see someone collapsed and they don't know them because there's many scammers that will say the good Samaritan victimised them or caused them injury when helping and will sue. It's extremely common. So people will ignore, walk passed like nothing happened.
Thank you for posting this. I lived in China for six months and when I describe these types of observations to my friends in the U.S., they don't believe me because they can't fathom such a level of willful negligence. Where more effort is going into cheating than is required to simply do the work right in the first place, with costly and deadly consequences, and absolutely no learning curve, no pride, shame, sense of professionalism, or responsibility. Thanks to your posts, I can prove to people that I'm not exaggerating when I describe this level of incompetence.
And I don’t know which part of China you are living. Either you are a fluent layer like this RUclipsr or u never came to China. I’ve been in China for 7 years, and I can safely say not even USA or dubai have the infrastructure close to china.
@Blasian-Couple
I think you are living fluent in CN
you forgot the meaning of the infrastructure, more houses are not needed when ppl are not even eating well, the land needs raw nature to produce good food
,and ppl need natural food at least once in a while to stay healthy, not GMOs and pesticides/herbecides in almost all foods
have you compared the average weight/size of ppl in CN and ppl in US?
@@Blasian-Couple Yeah, China has lots of infrastructure. Trouble is, it's crap to begin with.
When Chinese immigrate to the West they still have a “ honesty is the best policy”. But will try everything else first
Sounds just like Boeing too to be honest
That opening freaking terrified me. Those poor dudes fell through an elevator shaft. that's no different than falling off a building!
Have you seen the one being cut in half?
A lot of those videos are rather well known fatalities. Pretty much all of those women who fell in escalators were ground up by the gears. It's horrible.
@@Chinoiserie9839 Nightmare fuel.
I'm going to hell for laughing at those two. I couldn't help it. Looked like something out of the three stooges.
@@wobinich2009 That breaks my heart and sends shivers down my spine... Corner cutting truly is committing murder by proxy.
One of my friends, an engineer, was sent from NZ to Shanghai to oversee the building of a factory there, He hated it. He got some mysterious illness there which he passed onto his wife and baby son when he went home on leave. They were ill for months and took a long time for them to shake it off. They had to stop all visitors from coming. I'd never want to visit China,
@@Scifi_Ape Which means they dont trust their own countrymen😅
new zealand mention !! :D
This garbage used to make money by touting China in China, but was later blocked by China. He fled to the United States again to slander China to make money.
Probably an attempt on his life. Locals tend to hate overseas consultants
@@PerpetualWane No, there are just so many strange viruses. He is the nicest most polite guy in the world and he learned to speak Mandarin. Nobody could hate him.
"You finished that quickly".
"That's because I had a helper"!
Imagine in a country of 1.28 billion people, losing your job to a cardboard cutout of Jackie Chan.
1.4 bn
@@KC-rt4hp There's been multiple reports that the 1.4 billion number is most likely incorrect - all signs point towards it being lower. 1.2 is one of the estimates of the true number.
@@predabot__6778
Which reports? CCP's?
China is at the stage in development where the West circa 1898, it was very dangerous world that was modernizing very quickly. In essence China is about 130 years behind in industrial safety.
should talk about America’s pont😂between Washington and New York
but they have access to modern equipment which is about 130x more dangerous
I disagree. Thanks to generations of godless Communist indoctrination, China's moral and emotional maturity lags far behind other developed nations. No amount of time will reverse the incredible damage that has done.
They have a lot of big fancy bridges in China. Did any of them ever get suddenly demolished by a boat?
@@gmw3083 I don't know, but I've seen quite a few videos where the bridges are demolished because vehicles drove over them.
8: 21 I spent more than 5 years now trying to understand this psychological phenomena with no result , Chinese spend 10x the effort and cost to achieve the appearance of something instead of doing the real thing with minimum effort and have the appearance as a byproduct !
They see cheating as a virtue and sign of intelligence.
The appearance of wealth and military strength for two.
So maybe their fleet is shoddily made as well. But maybe not since that's a "government" contract.
This is why I don't care how big China's military is😂
@@aaftiyoDkcdicurak this is exactly why China was continously conquored by foreign powers in their 5000 year history.
Only Han, Song and Ming Dynasties are actual Han Chinese Dynasty.
all the others are foreigner dynasties, who were able to conquor china with vastly smaller population.
that escalator clip is grim
there is a similar video, where a young man and his girl friend were entering an elevator.
as the man steps in the elevator car starts to fall, and the girl grabbed his jacket from the behind.
problem was, if she didn't do it, he would probably stepped completely inside the car.
but because her grabbing his cloth, his upper body was caught by the falling car, and cut in half.
@@davidjacobs8558 thats pure horror.