r/PublicFreakout • u/sakhaliner • 20h ago

😫Chaos Moment🫨 "Danjiri" float overturns at Osaka's annual festival

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u/sakhaliner 20h ago

Two people were killed and 16 injured in two separate incidents across Osaka Prefecture. This video shows one of them.

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u/Jozefstoeptegel 20h ago

Is this something that happens frequently? Because that seemed dangerous even when things were still going well.

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u/sakhaliner 20h ago

Yes, the high-speed cornering (yarimawashi) is part of the performance. The article mentions that too. Here's the wikipedia article about the festival.

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u/Jozefstoeptegel 19h ago

Interesting read. It seems like it's one of those traditions where the risk of injury is somewhat accepted, like bullfighting.

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u/sgtbackpain03 14h ago

Or like the downhill cheese wheel run in England.

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u/awkward_kissser 20h ago

if that's the case, do they have an excuse for not preparing for the rock-back??
did they overload the cart this time and couldn't account for the force?

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u/juggling-monkey 19h ago

my guess is that it's one of those traditions that people risk for fun like running with the bulls or chasing a cheese ball down a steep hill. gathers big crowds and everyone is happy and cheering till someone gets seriously injured or dies then everyone is like "shouldn't they have found a safer way of doing this?"

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u/awkward_kissser 19h ago

i guess a lot of extreme sports and 90s reality TV shows also fall into this category.
i'll stick to poolboarding lol

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u/kynthrus 10h ago

The answer is, they are mostly drunk and the majority of participants aren't engineers that understand the forces they are messing with, otherwise they would design the float for it or prepare the road to assist the turn.

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u/crash12345 4h ago

Is this the first time people got killed and it was two in one day? How are there no other incidents mentioned on the page?

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u/zurper 19h ago

So this video shows one of what? One of the deaths? Looks like someone’s head might have been crushed. Could use a NSFL tag

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u/GarlicThread 19h ago

Jfc one of them nearly got decapitated by this goddamned thing

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u/TejelPejel 19h ago

Two of the guys were crushed and killed from it.

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u/Hextech_Yuumi 19h ago

I know it's a tradition but they should have installed something like air bags each side, like big ones. Or maybe find someway better to control the thing.

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u/Matigari86 19h ago

Yes, but in Japan it is also tradition to keep floats upright. This was outside of their foresight.

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u/Hextech_Yuumi 19h ago

Oh, thanks. I didn't know that. I hope they will find other way to stabilize that.

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u/DrJJGame10 15h ago

They could slow down on turns too 

Turns out taking the corners at a high speed is part of the tradition. 

Sucks someone died 

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u/runarleo 14h ago

A dothraki wedding without at least 3 deaths is considered a dull affair.

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u/Tool460002 11h ago

I don't know. Maybe we keep the dangerous turns but add a spoiler for downforce?

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u/DrJJGame10 10h ago

To turn right you gotta turn left type shi

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u/hexahedron17 2h ago

Spoilers dont work so well when turning also includes leaning. When you lean the 'downforce' becomes force pushing you even wider in the turn (totally relevant for running speeds)

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u/smo_smo 6h ago

Look at the guy in the first clip on the front left. Dude almost had his head popped like a damn ballon.

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u/MrFickless 19h ago

NSFL please. People died in this accident.

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u/KeepItDownOverHere 16h ago

The guys head almost got crushed in the front.

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u/azura099 20h ago

I guess that's one way to take a bow

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u/seamasam 😬Let me tell you of the Twarens🙍‍♀️ 19h ago

Did I just see someone's head get crushed?

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u/juanjung 17h ago

How many dead?

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u/onthebustowork 5h ago

Dumb tradition strikes again

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u/Squirrel_Buster2 14h ago

I've seen these in person and they can be quite scary. Also this (accidental death) basically happens all the time and the only punishment is typically the shrine is banned from doing it for a year.

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u/MagicStar77 15h ago

It couldn’t hand the turn

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u/learsiology 12h ago

someone could’ve gotten impaled there 😳

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u/No_Joke_6177 11h ago

fuck, you can see some guy’s head just get taken half off

edit: i may just be blind

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u/Terrible_Dot6598 36m ago

Where’s subzero when you need him 🧊 Mortal Combat

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u/Tbplayer59 17h ago

There's a town who knows how to festival!

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u/SlamperDamper 18h ago

Next words: "fuck you, gimmie your name and badge number!!"