Apathy & Assumptions: The Katowice Trade Hall Collapse

The Snow Covered Roof Collapse of Washington DC's Knickerbocker Theater: https://youtu.be/N4P7qHjp3nE Here's a link to my ongoing Collapse Series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiAs3qpTmQD1ZcWs7qMZp5x…

I live in Katowice! On a positive note, over a thousand pigeons were rescued from the building, and local pigeon fanciers from around Silesia cared for them until the could be reunited with their owners. Two pigeons were found alive after spending more than 20 days buried under the rubble.

“Rarely is the stability of a structure of any real concern...” Me whose binged watched several channels of building collapse videos in the past week: “NOW it is. “

Few phrases inspire such an immediate reaction of rage and disgust as does "locked emergency exits."

Engineers - this is the ONLY WAY this will be built safely BUSINESSMEN - LAWWWWLLLLoL i can save money by cutting corners.

"corner cutting and negligence" always precedes all the "Collapse" videos.... Im starting to see a preventable trend here....

I remember this day so well. I was a student living in nearby Bytkow, about 10 min walk from the scene. On that day we went to the nearby Chorzowski park with friends to warm up our spirits with some wine. It was freezing! Snow was very deep and heavy, covered with about 2 cm of ice from freezing rain. you could walk on it and suddenly fall into 50cm. ''snow hole'' . Later on we could just hear helicopters... Very well spelled Katowice btw!

This channel slaps, I'm glad fascinating horror gave him a shout-out!

Almost everyone in Poland still remembers this catastrophe and every winter people are seriously side eyeing all flat roofs with more than 15cm of snow. They changed the law so you HAVE TO mantain the roofs after snowfall and roof inspections are more serious and frequent now.

I love how technical these videos are, it always intrigues me on how things like buildings and airplanes can catastrophically fail even when it might look completely fine on the outside.

Can I just say I love your voice? It's so soothing and easy to understand. Keep up the good work!

i was there, on the spot taking part in a rescue effort right after the collapse... It was considered a real catastrophe in the area, because of Silesia being traditional hot-spot for pigeon enthusiasts and therefrore most of the victims being local... I have to say - those buildings were known for years as being in very poor condition and even poorer maintained (or not maintained at all) for everyone who once set foot inside and looked around.... It was a disaster brewing for years on end (like in very many similar cases around the world)... Worst part is - i wouldn't be suprised at all if it wasn't the last time when something like that happens in the general Silesia area....... I sincerilly wish i'm wrong tho...

Hi Sam! I'm a long-time fan of your videos, but somehow I've only found this one today. I'm from Poland and I just wanted to say how impressed I am with the accuracy and the conclusion of this video. In the first part you've summarized the 90' wild capitalism in Poland just perfectly. Sadly, "that will do" was often the case with this unregulated, freshly formed laws and let to many situations like this tragedy. To be honest, there was so much said about this even in Polish media over the years, but this plain truth - that at a time, we as a nation were ok with this rushed sloppy way of doing things in the post-transition period - is often omitted in the summaries. It's a hard and sad truth, so I guess that's why it's easier to narrate it in Polish media as a more isolated event. At least many safety laws were born from this incident, slowly correcting the wild-west-style building laws of the 90's. I can confirm that the smaller building you've shown at the end of the video is the one that the 2007 event took place in (it was hosting the 2005 edition too, I've checked on the Polish event page) - the whole huge square is the trade quarter and multiple buildings are part of it. That's probably why the address is the same. We have a similar layout in my home city of Gdańsk, where you have one address for AmberExpo facilities, but it contains multiple buildings and it's quite a large area. Lastly, I how it's just a small detail compared to the huge amount of research you had to do for the video, but I just HAVE to point it out. Your pronunciation of Katowice, especially for a non-Polish-speaker, is just spot on and BEAUTIFUL! :) Thank you for this great video and all the other ones. All the best!

The architect gets 9 years but the businessmen who were cutting corners get less than 2 or nothing, seems like someone was turned into a scapegoat.

Part of me is wondering if any of the pigeons made it out and flew home, only to find no one left to feed them. Poor little birbs. I'm sure they were as scared in the disaster as the people.

An interesting video of a collapse I’d never heard of. Particularly impressed by the research on a non-English subject matter - that couldn’t have been easy.

I just subbed to you last night. I couldn’t sleep and youtube recommended your channel to me. They rarely get it right but I must say, spot on. I really like the way you handle the topics in your videos. The hard work of research is apparent and the videos editing quality are excellent. I like your voice as a narrator, as well. All around, excellent channel and content and I know the content to come will be just as good. Anyway, I talk to much just to say I like your work and cheers to you! 😝

Is it weird that my only takeaway from this story is that there is a trade show for racing pigeons?

Sounds a lot like collapse of the Hartford, Connecticut Civic Center in the USA, or the walkways in the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Shoddiness in design, safety checks, deviance from original plans without approval.

It’s insane how literally everything can kill you at any time. Also...pigeon racing? There’s an audience for everything I guess.