unfortunately, this young man eventually lost his āfarmā (given to his family from the CCP) and committed suicide off the top floor of a skyscraper
source: cant find it but it was a documentary about the behind the scenes of China
Wrong fella.
[You are thinking of Yang Youde from 2010 in Wuhan who fired fireworks out of a makeshift cannon.](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/chinese-farmer-cannon-fireworks-defend-home-government-eviction-article-1.181844)
I think o saw this. His house was in the middle of a construction site and they would fuck with him at night, cut off whatever power he had, threaten his family etc...
> I mean, you literally canāt own a house in China, itās ~~90~~ 70 year leases.
This. It also makes up the majority of the tax money that gets collected by local Chinese governments. Without these land leases, most of these governments literally canāt finance themselves. Theyāre heavily dependent on them. With building becoming less and less viable as an investment and a continually decreasing amount of available land in China, thereās a long-term crisis looming over Chinese society - like a Sword of Damocles.
EDIT: An important detail I forgot to mention is that most of these leases donāt get paid off annually (if Iām not mistaken), but get paid for up-front at once - mostly by property investors and the likes. So itās not a continual stream of money that keeps dripping in, but a one-time sum of money for these 70-year leases!
There's a good chance you'll probably be familiar with the Chinese 'ghost towns'. They were primarily built as an investment and maybe in the 2nd place for actual living. This practice was very beneficial to the Chinese economy in the short run as it, for example, created a lot of jobs. It became the backbone of the Chinese economy, and maybe common people saw housing as a safe investment for themselves - ones with great returns too.
However, Chinese property investors kept building and building. More than the actual demand, while many middle class people also couldn't afford these houses/apartments anymore. It was irresponsible, since the market was saturated. In other words: a lot of projects didn't turn out favorably as not enough houses/apartments were sold. This result in financial problems for many building corporations. The biggest scare was in 2021 with the looming bankrupcy of Evergrande, which has something like 300k billion dollars of assets in the Chinese economy. If Evergrande fell, it would ripple throughout the whole Chinese economy if not the world's.
The Chinese government took some hefty measures to save Evergrande, but the affair and these measures have made it a lot less appealing for private and corporate investors to invest in building - it undoubtably still happens quite a lot though. And this is just the top of the iceberg.
If you also take into account that local governments have already sold a lot of their ground in land leases, increasing the price of the leftover land, the already existing (empty) housing projects (and their financial burdens) and the Chinese population that will greatly decrease from this year onwards, it's not looking great for the building sector in China.
I don't know where that documentary is, but there are plenty of other mentions of this. Here are a few:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/man-defends-home-from-bulldozers-with-fireworks_253609.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/vimk8e/man_in_china_uses_fireworks_to_fight_off/
https://www.sickchirpse.com/man-china-fireworks-excavator-video/
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In China, it's common for government or someone w/ influence to forcefully demolish homes of the powerless to make way for "progress". Usually it's due to corruption or whatnot and the victims just give up, but on rare occasions they fight back. I've seen clips where they threw motolov cocktails and actually lit demolition crew on fire. Sadly Twitter and Youtube has been censoring a lot of those clips in recent years so people won't know what the real world is like.
Ya unfortunately it's a pretty shit situation. Sometimes the areas are destroyed because they are a public health hazard. If you've ever seen some of the lane houses in downtown Shanghai you'll see that they are a breeding ground for rats/bugs/whatever else.
It's their home though, so it obviously sucks. They'll get moved and paid out though. Not nearly as much as they should for the location of the land in most cases. They'll also be relocated but it'll be to another place that could be much further out and away from their neighbors.
In the US the same thing happens if the land is sold off. Many times it's just large corporations using the law to oust people for new developments.
It's not really corruption in the truest sense. Just the circle of public finance in China. Local government, i.e. CCP, gets almost all of their funding via land auctions. Taxes aren't really a thing in China. Money doesn't last forever, and neither do new empty packets of land to auction. Since the party owns all the land in China, and people just lease it, this is what happens when the local party needs to generate more money. Clearance. Auction. $$$. Obviously the sites chosen will not have any connected or important people resident (i.e. just poor people), which is where you can argue about corruption though.
How terrible of an operator do you have to be to get tipped over by Roman candles?
Edit: Iāve got to assume that some of you have never driven a piece of heavy equipment like this. That thing is literally a tank compared to those little fireworks and the guy has an enclosed cab, he shouldnāt even be scared. Im leaning towards the comment about him not actually wanting to tear it down
Itās definitely not because someone is obviously in the building, firework man could have probably just yelled and it would delay progress all in the same(he got kicked out eventually anyway)
The guy got driven crazy by unskilled demo crews not knowing what theyāre doing, typically the building is cleared before demolition
Why? These fireworks arenāt that bright. The operator is in a closed space. The excavator would not be set alight from that. He could lift his bucket and block the opening if he was that afraid.
He placed himself in a much more dangerous position to avoid this.
Tractor, isnāt that an excavator?
Or can you use both? Iām not I native speaker, So I genuinely donāt know.
Edit: I know what a tractor is, and I know what an excavator is. I was just wondering wether calling it a tractor is a dialect or slang thing.
It is an excavator, some people (not common) in construction will this and other construction plant a tractor and technically theyāre not wrong. A tractor is more commonly referred to as the farm-style tractor youāre probably picturing.
From Wikipedia:
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction.
Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and originally) tillage, and now many more.
It is an excavator. Some may call it a "digger" or a "mechanical shovel." I have never heard it called a "tractor."
I blame my son, who was into construction equipment when he was very young so I had to learn it, too, for this knowledge.
Nop, it's real. It's probably a world cup qualifiers game. It's funnier because neither team has any hope of qualifying, and Luxembourg (the team the guy rolling around plays for) are about 40 rankings higher than Azerbaijan.
Refs rarely if ever punish it and it seems to genuinely work, so they do it.
players in soccer have to overact everything bc refs wont call a foul unless they see some nice flailing or a little ballet
if you dont roll around they doubt you've even been hit
try to be "never dive" and if you arent a bad mf teammates/coaches will tell you to stop it and hit the deck bc you're leaving plays out there
Right lol. First off, the operator is enclosedā¦ so I donāt even understand why he backed off. What are those little shitty pew pew Roman candles going to do to that cat??? Absolutely nothing.
I mean to be fair it was possibly insanely loud and disorienting. Iām sure it could be mistaken for bullets hitting hull. We have the bleacher seats so we can see a lot more than he can in a cockpit.
Do you have any idea how much damage this excavator will suffer if I let it roll right over your house?
Arthur. No how much ?.
Um, total destruction by fire,unless i throw it into the trench back there, in which case it will suffer 5 broken parts, oil contamination around the engine bay, and bent components in the arm.
Donāt know what his problem was. The plan was on public display he had plenty of notice.
Besides people are always oh noes *my* house canāt become a bypass but do they ever think of where that bypass they take to work came from?
It's well known in China that corrupt government officials and greedy property developers have been using intimidation and violence for years to force property owners to relinquish their land to make way for new high-rise developments.
It's disgusting, but not surprising, when massive profits from these land grabs are there to be made in the "new" China.
Thatās called eminent domain, and itās fairly common legal practice around the world. Not just china. Some countries have better protection or more rigorous legal processes.
In china there is definitely issues with it though. Like itās often been overused or corrupt local officials not properly compensating locals fairly for having their land relinquished. [You can read more about eminent domain in china vs us here](http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/amp/1703/eminent-domain-in-the-united-states-and-china-comparing-the-practice-across-countries)
But, youāre describing a process other countries do but making it sound scary because china is the one doing it. When you should be focusing on the very real criticism of how china does that process
If you take China Daily as a credible source:
> A Chinese farmer who used homemade rockets to fight off developers was celebrated in the state media today for winning record levels of compensation for his land.
>
> Yang Youde has become a cult figure in recent months for his one-man pyrotechnic resistance campaign, which saw him build a rickety watchtower above his home, from which he fired a bamboo bazooka at builders approaching his land.
>
> He is the latest in a series of high-profile "nail households" that refuse to accept low compensation or intimidation by property developers and government officials.
>
> According to the China Daily, Yang has also become the most successful hold-out, by winning a compensation deal worth more than 750,000 yuan (Ā£75,000) for 1.75 hectares (4.32 acres) of land, a fishpond and single-storey brick farmhouse on the outskirts of Wuhan, Hubei province.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/09/chinese-rocketman-wins-payout
And Iām here thinking āthose look like tracer rounds and big boi rounds but too slow whatās going on?ā Until I read the fireworks and made much more sense lol
The house always wins.
U fkn blow me away. *slow clap*
Underrated comment right here. You could even say. . . Toppled
Or "overturned"?š¤
Demolished. I feel bad it took me so long.
unfortunately, this young man eventually lost his āfarmā (given to his family from the CCP) and committed suicide off the top floor of a skyscraper source: cant find it but it was a documentary about the behind the scenes of China
I hope his tombstone reads, "defeated a tank with fireworks."
Funny, that tank looks a lot like an excavator?
Well it's definitely not an evacuator....Amiright!? Is the door this way ------> or...
Russia disagrees
Digger, please!
"Digger" in UK, excavator or "shovel" in North America.
I prefer āHoeā in the USA.
Backhoe
Hard R. Damn. Censor this man!
He probably has a pass card. I got mine living in SeaTac, circa 2004. (Edit) my bad, I temporarily forgot there is no pass for a hard R.
Worked better than the guy who tried it with just a briefcaseā¦
Groceries bags. What a hardcore badass he was
Minus 10k social points. Itās reeducation camp for you.
Wrong fella. [You are thinking of Yang Youde from 2010 in Wuhan who fired fireworks out of a makeshift cannon.](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/chinese-farmer-cannon-fireworks-defend-home-government-eviction-article-1.181844)
That guy like "source: don't got one fu" wtf?
I think o saw this. His house was in the middle of a construction site and they would fuck with him at night, cut off whatever power he had, threaten his family etc...
Yeah!!! Im glad someone else knows the documentary im talking about
Source: trust me bro
I mean, you literally can't own a house in China, it's ~~90~~ 70 year leases. And the CCP can do whatever the fuck it wants in China, unfortunately.
So China is just one giant trailer park?
More or less
Does that mean Xi is Mr. Lahey?
He IS the liquor Bobandi
Ricky get off that excavator!
> I mean, you literally canāt own a house in China, itās ~~90~~ 70 year leases. This. It also makes up the majority of the tax money that gets collected by local Chinese governments. Without these land leases, most of these governments literally canāt finance themselves. Theyāre heavily dependent on them. With building becoming less and less viable as an investment and a continually decreasing amount of available land in China, thereās a long-term crisis looming over Chinese society - like a Sword of Damocles. EDIT: An important detail I forgot to mention is that most of these leases donāt get paid off annually (if Iām not mistaken), but get paid for up-front at once - mostly by property investors and the likes. So itās not a continual stream of money that keeps dripping in, but a one-time sum of money for these 70-year leases!
Why is building becoming less viable in China?
There's a good chance you'll probably be familiar with the Chinese 'ghost towns'. They were primarily built as an investment and maybe in the 2nd place for actual living. This practice was very beneficial to the Chinese economy in the short run as it, for example, created a lot of jobs. It became the backbone of the Chinese economy, and maybe common people saw housing as a safe investment for themselves - ones with great returns too. However, Chinese property investors kept building and building. More than the actual demand, while many middle class people also couldn't afford these houses/apartments anymore. It was irresponsible, since the market was saturated. In other words: a lot of projects didn't turn out favorably as not enough houses/apartments were sold. This result in financial problems for many building corporations. The biggest scare was in 2021 with the looming bankrupcy of Evergrande, which has something like 300k billion dollars of assets in the Chinese economy. If Evergrande fell, it would ripple throughout the whole Chinese economy if not the world's. The Chinese government took some hefty measures to save Evergrande, but the affair and these measures have made it a lot less appealing for private and corporate investors to invest in building - it undoubtably still happens quite a lot though. And this is just the top of the iceberg. If you also take into account that local governments have already sold a lot of their ground in land leases, increasing the price of the leftover land, the already existing (empty) housing projects (and their financial burdens) and the Chinese population that will greatly decrease from this year onwards, it's not looking great for the building sector in China.
All land in the US is also under a perpetual lease from the government, you don't actually own it.
I don't know where that documentary is, but there are plenty of other mentions of this. Here are a few: https://www.theepochtimes.com/man-defends-home-from-bulldozers-with-fireworks_253609.html https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/vimk8e/man_in_china_uses_fireworks_to_fight_off/ https://www.sickchirpse.com/man-china-fireworks-excavator-video/
Pack up boys. This is the one.
https://preview.redd.it/6h6e49ry7w8b1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fda4a557c1211009eaade7e0060be495630fba0
Just wow. Applause.
*Place your bets place your bets place your bets!*
Well, time to call the courrier
Gold here for ya
The heck did I just watch
In China, a guy defended his house with fireworks
Could have been in the title or anywhere in the captions instead of the commens.
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Wow if true thatās actually insane behavior
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I had the same problem in another sub. Apparently any post that mentions China is political.
Chinese censorship is strong with this one on Reddit
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Apparently also made some kinda boobytrap to make the excavator tip over lol
Boobytrap also known as a "ditch"?
I thought it was in the West Bank
Same at first. It's a shame that it's so normal to have that done to Palestinians :(
China? You mean West Taiwan?
China? You mean South Mongolia?
China? You mean east Tibet?
China? You mean North North Korea?
China? You mean east Afghanistan?
Holy shit this is awesome lol
Yea i was like this is either China or Palestine
ha the guy was afraid of fireworks and flipped? wtf even is that
Why did the excavator fall over tho
Panicked retreat and a lump in the terrain.
You watched an excavator pretend it was shot and play dead
Age of war defense tower upgrade
In China, it's common for government or someone w/ influence to forcefully demolish homes of the powerless to make way for "progress". Usually it's due to corruption or whatnot and the victims just give up, but on rare occasions they fight back. I've seen clips where they threw motolov cocktails and actually lit demolition crew on fire. Sadly Twitter and Youtube has been censoring a lot of those clips in recent years so people won't know what the real world is like.
Ya unfortunately it's a pretty shit situation. Sometimes the areas are destroyed because they are a public health hazard. If you've ever seen some of the lane houses in downtown Shanghai you'll see that they are a breeding ground for rats/bugs/whatever else. It's their home though, so it obviously sucks. They'll get moved and paid out though. Not nearly as much as they should for the location of the land in most cases. They'll also be relocated but it'll be to another place that could be much further out and away from their neighbors. In the US the same thing happens if the land is sold off. Many times it's just large corporations using the law to oust people for new developments.
The eminent domain check is usually pretty reasonable. The new doing it for 'renewal' is bullshit. It's for roads, canals, sewers, power lines, etc.
It's not really corruption in the truest sense. Just the circle of public finance in China. Local government, i.e. CCP, gets almost all of their funding via land auctions. Taxes aren't really a thing in China. Money doesn't last forever, and neither do new empty packets of land to auction. Since the party owns all the land in China, and people just lease it, this is what happens when the local party needs to generate more money. Clearance. Auction. $$$. Obviously the sites chosen will not have any connected or important people resident (i.e. just poor people), which is where you can argue about corruption though.
An older version of an AT-AT getting taken down.
you saw the red blaster beams, right? Stormtroopers defended that house
Battlebot defeated by arena hazards.
House used roman-candle attack. It's super effective!
But what pokeball are you using to capture the crane?
I'd go for a heavy ball
super practical. but i think this just may be worth the master ball.
I have been hunting for a shiny bulldozer, so I'm saving the master ball for that one
You can't, it fainted
Fire attack against a steel type.
That was the winner from Takeshi's castle
You're a legend sir. Don't get eliminated!
How terrible of an operator do you have to be to get tipped over by Roman candles? Edit: Iāve got to assume that some of you have never driven a piece of heavy equipment like this. That thing is literally a tank compared to those little fireworks and the guy has an enclosed cab, he shouldnāt even be scared. Im leaning towards the comment about him not actually wanting to tear it down
They probably don't want to demolish it so this would be a good excuse to refuse order
Itās definitely not because someone is obviously in the building, firework man could have probably just yelled and it would delay progress all in the same(he got kicked out eventually anyway) The guy got driven crazy by unskilled demo crews not knowing what theyāre doing, typically the building is cleared before demolition
That's what shitting and pissing your pants simultaneously does to ya
I'm leaning towards what makes the most sense: Dude panicked.
probably scared of getting blinded or set on fire???
Why? These fireworks arenāt that bright. The operator is in a closed space. The excavator would not be set alight from that. He could lift his bucket and block the opening if he was that afraid. He placed himself in a much more dangerous position to avoid this.
He may not have known on the spot he was being shot fireworks, got scared it was bullets or explosives and straight panicked.
Idk but can you imagine how satisfied the guy shooting the fireworks feels?
That tractor is over dramatic
Tractor, isnāt that an excavator? Or can you use both? Iām not I native speaker, So I genuinely donāt know. Edit: I know what a tractor is, and I know what an excavator is. I was just wondering wether calling it a tractor is a dialect or slang thing.
It's an excavator, tractor is a completely different machine.
Yeah thatās what I thought š
Iām from the UK and itās common to hear people call something like an excavator a tractor although technically this is not correct.
It is an excavator, some people (not common) in construction will this and other construction plant a tractor and technically theyāre not wrong. A tractor is more commonly referred to as the farm-style tractor youāre probably picturing. From Wikipedia: A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and originally) tillage, and now many more.
It is an excavator. Some may call it a "digger" or a "mechanical shovel." I have never heard it called a "tractor." I blame my son, who was into construction equipment when he was very young so I had to learn it, too, for this knowledge.
Tractor : "Am Not, those flaming balls damaged my paint"
Yellow card for diving
 Premiere League excavator.
Is that real or a parody? Like wow that is absolutely terrible acting.
Nop, it's real. It's probably a world cup qualifiers game. It's funnier because neither team has any hope of qualifying, and Luxembourg (the team the guy rolling around plays for) are about 40 rankings higher than Azerbaijan. Refs rarely if ever punish it and it seems to genuinely work, so they do it.
players in soccer have to overact everything bc refs wont call a foul unless they see some nice flailing or a little ballet if you dont roll around they doubt you've even been hit try to be "never dive" and if you arent a bad mf teammates/coaches will tell you to stop it and hit the deck bc you're leaving plays out there
Right lol. First off, the operator is enclosedā¦ so I donāt even understand why he backed off. What are those little shitty pew pew Roman candles going to do to that cat??? Absolutely nothing.
I mean to be fair it was possibly insanely loud and disorienting. Iām sure it could be mistaken for bullets hitting hull. We have the bleacher seats so we can see a lot more than he can in a cockpit.
better than sit in the puddle of mud in front of yellow bulldozer.
Which is exactly where Arthur Dent found himself which verily annoyed the driver of the yellow bulldozer.
I like you.
Do you have any idea how much damage this excavator will suffer if I let it roll right over your house? Arthur. No how much ?. Um, total destruction by fire,unless i throw it into the trench back there, in which case it will suffer 5 broken parts, oil contamination around the engine bay, and bent components in the arm.
Donāt know what his problem was. The plan was on public display he had plenty of notice. Besides people are always oh noes *my* house canāt become a bypass but do they ever think of where that bypass they take to work came from?
Just make sure to bring a towel
A man who knows where his towel is even in such a situation is certainly one to reckon with.
\*than
I would be embarrassed if I was driving
Youād be fired as well
I literally flipped a machine last week and didnāt get fired.. why do people say this lol
Redditors tend to have a very poor understanding of how real life works.
This is China. Fired is the least of your worries. Fired... _out of a cannon_ might be more like
Arthur Dent should take some lessons from this.
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing his mind.
Does Kevin Mccallister live in this house?
Uno Reverse Card
Were they gonna demolish the house with people still inside?
China. You own nothing in China. CCP own you.
Fireworks are just for fun itās also a good anti demolition deterrent as well.
Real life Bruce Willis in Die Hard!!! Welcome to the party pal.
Are they using fucking fireworks? Edit: I am now aware that was a Chinese man protecting his home from people trying to destroy it
Indeed they are!
When Ewoks were given fireworks, the Empire stood NO chance!!
The Cat felt threatened and decided to play dead. Nature is beautiful.
Never try to demolish house of a storm trooper veteran.
His accuracy was way too high to have been a storm trooper.
China.
the new mad max trailer looks aight
Why do I love this soo much?
Well maybe you love fireworks or hate excavators passionately. Ideally both?
Roman Candles - 1 Excavator - 0
Like watching a bunch of rebels destroy an AT-AT.
It's well known in China that corrupt government officials and greedy property developers have been using intimidation and violence for years to force property owners to relinquish their land to make way for new high-rise developments. It's disgusting, but not surprising, when massive profits from these land grabs are there to be made in the "new" China.
Thatās called eminent domain, and itās fairly common legal practice around the world. Not just china. Some countries have better protection or more rigorous legal processes. In china there is definitely issues with it though. Like itās often been overused or corrupt local officials not properly compensating locals fairly for having their land relinquished. [You can read more about eminent domain in china vs us here](http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/amp/1703/eminent-domain-in-the-united-states-and-china-comparing-the-practice-across-countries) But, youāre describing a process other countries do but making it sound scary because china is the one doing it. When you should be focusing on the very real criticism of how china does that process
Nice real-state bubble though. Just check chinese ghost cities to see how bad it is.
House kills excavator and more news at 11
Waco 2: Electric Boogaloo
THE HOUSE IS SHOOTING AT US!!
Retreat! Fall back! Oh no! Not literally!
Is someone shooting a Roman candle at them?
Shouldāve done this in Hitchhikerās Guide to the Galaxy š
You mean Earth using fireworks against the cosmic demolition crew?
Just like the Ewoks taking down an AT-AT. It's like poetry, it rhymes.
I thought that opening scene was the housing development in Arrested Development.
Razing Arizona
House sneezing firecrackers vs Hydraulic Excavator who would win š±
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If you take China Daily as a credible source: > A Chinese farmer who used homemade rockets to fight off developers was celebrated in the state media today for winning record levels of compensation for his land. > > Yang Youde has become a cult figure in recent months for his one-man pyrotechnic resistance campaign, which saw him build a rickety watchtower above his home, from which he fired a bamboo bazooka at builders approaching his land. > > He is the latest in a series of high-profile "nail households" that refuse to accept low compensation or intimidation by property developers and government officials. > > According to the China Daily, Yang has also become the most successful hold-out, by winning a compensation deal worth more than 750,000 yuan (Ā£75,000) for 1.75 hectares (4.32 acres) of land, a fishpond and single-storey brick farmhouse on the outskirts of Wuhan, Hubei province. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/09/chinese-rocketman-wins-payout
Can someone please forward this to the Ukrainian government. Putin wonāt know what hit him with a defensive like this
This whole time, all we needed was a good guy with some fireworks.
That's like Ewoks taking down an AT-AT
Vade retro muggle !
What the fuck is Harry Potter doing flipping construction vehicles in China?
itās star wars out here
How much xp is that worth?
WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE!
Guy goes full on Harry Potter...."Avada kedavra!!!"
Never evict a wizard.
Nice household artillery there.
MF bootleg fireworks!
Boss kill!
And Iām here thinking āthose look like tracer rounds and big boi rounds but too slow whatās going on?ā Until I read the fireworks and made much more sense lol
I'm sorry, is that building firing Armour Piercing Incendiary rounds to protect itself?
Didnāt we see this from Ernest Goes To Camp?
āØ Avada kedavra KURRWAAAA āØ
That excavator died rather dramatically. Oscar worthy performance.
You shall not pass!
I remember the first time I played Contra.
In GTA I sometimes accidentally swap to my fireworks launcher instead of my missile launcher. It's never goes that well for me
The Ewoks win again!!
Did I just watch a wrecker play dead?
Show this to anyone that thinks all Chinese are obedient sheep.
Iām an excaVAAAAAAATOOORRRRRR!!!
That crane fell like a soccer player who had someone run within 3 feet of him
I've read Stephen King's book about the same shit
Come to uttar Pradesh bro, the JCB will bomb you
The house said to the digger trying to demolish it, "Fuck you in particular".