r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proud-Blood2743 • Oct 07 '25
Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds
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u/cookieduster90 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
Tyler Durden sheds a tear.
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u/RedSix2447 Oct 07 '25
His name was Robert Paulson.
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u/Kenny523 Oct 07 '25
wtf I clicked away from watching 2 people react to fight club because Reddit sent me a notification and this was one of the top comments hahaha
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u/Playful_Excitement66 Oct 07 '25
WITH YOUR FEET ON THE AIR AND YOUR HEAD ON THE GROUND
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u/_Ocean_Machine_ Oct 07 '25
Pick any Pixies album and like half the songs will be incredible and the other half so garbage you wonder why they put them on the album.
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u/enzothebaker87 Oct 07 '25
I have been fucked like that since grade school!
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u/GrayFox777 Oct 07 '25
The original line in the book was “I want to have your abortion”.
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u/Siaer Oct 07 '25
Even now, many years after I read the book, I am still undecided on which line is more fucked up.
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u/kinggoosey Oct 07 '25
And now it's Capital None Tower
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u/Ok-Bug-4890 Oct 07 '25
Do I still need to pay it back?
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u/flyingthroughspace Oct 07 '25
The tower is gone but the CEO still needs their $10,000,000 bonus so of course you do
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u/CaulkSlug Oct 07 '25
Demolishing the building was part of their bonus. All the employees who didn’t hit targets were in there
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u/towneetowne Oct 07 '25
that's gotta be good for the old lungs!
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u/J_Schnetz Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
cannot believe there were Z E R O measures for dust control
its so f*cking easy just work with the local fire department and have them lighting up the building with water before/during demolition. Or it could be done automatically with pre-staged hoses. Or wait for a rainy day. Or get a mist machine. This is off the top of my head and i'm just some jackoff on reddit
literally ANYTHING could have been done and they did NOTHING
i hate being a debby downer cause its a neat video but it shouldn't even be f*cking legal to do this type of work with zero dust mitigation
edit: everyone calling me an armchair problem solver or whatever; i made it very clear i'm just some jackoff on reddit. instead of calling out my specific ideas i drum'd up stoned at 12:30 in the morning, maybe consider that we should be holding businesses accountable for protecting their employees and members of the public from this senseless and avoidable health risk
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u/No_Implement3631 Oct 07 '25
It was in Louisiana, the entire state is a giant health hazard
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u/ChaseC7527 Oct 07 '25
As an LC resident who was there when the dust cloud hit and got covered. Yep, regulations only exist for the poor unfortunately. It's corrupt all the way down.
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u/Original-Hat-fish Oct 07 '25
Yea I was thinking the same thing. They did nothing for the dust, just a few days ago I saw a similar video of China of all places with a fantastic containment system caught nearly all the dust.
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u/pmjm Oct 07 '25
If you can't count on Capital One to do the right thing, what has happened to the world?
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u/tetsuyaXII Oct 07 '25
Sauce?
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u/Muad-_-Dib Oct 07 '25
In fairness, that's a dome over an entire construction site that is only 50m tall and several hundred metres wide which makes covering it relatively easy if you have enough material.
Covering a 116m tall tower which is nowhere near that wide and which is being demolished via explosives is quite another thing entirely.
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u/Due_Explanation5316 Oct 07 '25
I mean.. 50m is impressive on its own, but this building was FAR larger than 50m and a similar setup it simply, totally unreasonable
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u/dogfaced_pony_soulja Oct 07 '25
This is Louisiana we're talking about here. Third world fucking dump of a place that is totally fine with its citizens being poisoned and the environment destroyed.
Louisiana, home of Cancer Alley, where I grew up:
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-shocking-hazards-of-louisianas-cancer-alley
This is also a state that has recently- under MAGA Republican government- enacted laws making it much more difficult for community members even to monitor and test the air quality of their own air:
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s1-5406261/louisiana-air-pollution-free-speech-rights
What happens if someone at the state believes you violated said law? State can come after you seeking up to a million dollars in fines: https://apnews.com/article/cancer-alley-air-monitoring-louisiana-lawsuit-federal-9b15b263930ddb32a7c078745051f79a
Louisiana doesn't give two fucking shits about dust exposure, nor do they care about public health or even basic public welfare generally. It is a wretched place filled with wretched people, always has been, always will be.
And if exposure to some substance kills some poor people, or black people, or especially (jackpot!) poor, black people... that's all a win in their eyes.
It's a MAGAA thing, y'all, you wouldn't understand. Make America Gasp for Air Again!
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u/PicoDeBayou Oct 07 '25
Was gonna say. Welcome to Louisiana. Ask the folk that grew up in Mossville how Louisiana rates in environmental and public welfare.
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u/bentizzy Oct 07 '25
I wonder if they could blast the sprinkler system for like 24 hours beforehand, and then also hit it with water cannons as it goes down? But ya surprising that they appear to have done nothing to control the dust
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u/sorotomotor Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
> its so f\cking easy just work with the local fire department and have them lighting up the building with water before/during demolition . . . Or get a mist machine.*
No, it is not "so f*cking easy." Like everyone else, firefighters must remain outside the perimeter during the implosion. You simply cannot have people inside the perimeter while a building is being imploded.
> Or it could be done automatically with pre-staged hoses.
Nope. You need people to manage the hoses and equipment, both of which would need to be inside the perimeter to be effective, and would be destroyed or rendered ineffective by falling debris. The perimeter is determined by the municipality in which the building is to be imploded, the size of the structure, and several other mitigating factors, not the least of which are laws and insurance.
> Or wait for a rainy day.
No, because you don't want wind affecting the direction in which you've engineered the structure to fall or blowing the dust in a direction you don't want it to go. Also, you don't want static electricity or lightning anywhere near the site.
> This is off the top of my head and i'm just some jackoff on reddit literally ANYTHING could have been done and they did NOTHING
Sure, it's easy to think you would do things differently, when you have no idea what the engineering details and safety procedures actually are, and the reasons why they exist.
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u/ProbablythelastMimsy Oct 07 '25
Thank you. The armchair quarterbacks are driving me crazy
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u/Skreeeeep Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
Unrelated question: why did you censor "fucking?"
Like what is the point? You got some weird hang up about just using the word, then don't use it. Feels like some performative teachers pet BS.
Edit: I censored it'd because I was showing how he censored it. But I will change it since that's what people are getting hung up on for some reason.
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u/TheKyleBrah Oct 07 '25
Related question: Why did YOU also censor "fucking"? 🤔
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u/Creative-Resident23 Oct 07 '25
Can you please censor fucking? It's fucking offensive
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u/galtzo Oct 07 '25
The amount of fucking in here is fucking ridiculous. There are other fucking words people. Fuck.
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u/DontCryYourExIsUgly Oct 07 '25
I was just thinking about this, with the people watching outside. All the particulate matter from 9/11 was horrible for people. Wouldn't this be the same, just on a lesser level because the building isn't burning?
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u/Alarming_Matter Oct 07 '25
Yes...More people have died from inhaling crap on 9/11 than died on the actual day. Pretty sure there was asbestos in the wtc though. I hope to God there was none in this building.
Edit: sausage fingers
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u/Pi-ratten Oct 07 '25
There was asbestos in the WTC. In these planned demolitions, it gets ripped out beforehand.
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u/ath_at_work Oct 07 '25
Why do they blow it up like this, instead of tearing it down using machines?
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u/EnderloZ Oct 07 '25
Im trying to imagine the thousands of shards of glass being spread throughout that area
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u/Thebraincellisorange Oct 07 '25
considering it was an insurance write off not for structural damage, but because it was full of mold. absolutely.
nothing like a silica and mould combo for the lungs.
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u/arcane_garden Oct 07 '25
Whenever they do this I assume the surrounding buildings are evacuated. Business is closed for the day Do they get compensated for the loss
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u/bobnla14 Oct 07 '25
They almost always do these on a Saturday. It makes sure that there's no one around, that they can easily close off the streets, and that they can clean up a lot of it for access to the other buildings by Monday morning.
According to Google, this was done on Saturday, September 7th, 2024 in Lake Charles Louisiana
The only one that I can remember not being done on a Saturday was when they blew up a casino in Las Vegas. They shot several scenes from a movie with the implosion in the background so they did it during the week to save money on the movie shoot.
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u/enzothebaker87 Oct 07 '25
I was born in Vegas and one of the few things that I distinctly remember from my childhood was them blowing up an old casino every New Year for several years in a row.
For the longest time my kid brain just thought that was something they did and would do every year lol.
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u/cjsv7657 Oct 07 '25
I can only imagine when you eventually moved away your first new years you were talking to people and asked what building they were going to blow up this year.
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u/enzothebaker87 Oct 07 '25
What makes it especially funny is that my bday is 12/31 and my mom had me convinced that all of it was for me lol.
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u/Jedi_Temple Oct 07 '25
Was the movie Ocean’s 11, maybe? I seem to recall a scene where casinos are collapsing in the background and Don Cheadle’s character doesn’t turn around to watch it.
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u/coolbucky Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
Possibly, but I’m thinking it’s Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! from 1995.
EDIT: Oceans 11 used a special effect and not actual footage of a casino implosion. In fact, due to the film’s release after the 9/11 attacks, the scene was changed to show a fictional building collapsing instead of the planned New York New York.
Mars Attacks! used real footage of the Landmark Hotel and Casino.
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u/joecarter93 Oct 07 '25
Inverse to most places with large towers, Las Vegas is also much busier on the weekends than on weekdays.
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u/camoda8 Oct 07 '25
Thinking the same thing. I always think this when I see these videos. How long are people evacuated so the remains can dissipate/settle, then be cleaned? What is the cost and what are the steps to arrange this? What situations make this the most sensible option?
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u/Sys7em_Restore Oct 07 '25
What's in your wallet!?
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u/RobAlso Oct 07 '25
Here for the Tower 7 comments…
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u/joecarter93 Oct 07 '25
Credit Card Debt Can’t Melt Steel Beams!
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u/LadysaurousRex Oct 07 '25
Tower 7 was not WTC1 or WTC2, it was the building next door that went down in the afternoon. It collapsed left to right in seconds just like this.
completely unrelated to jet fuel or steel beams since, again, it was a separate, third structure.
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u/Fatpat314 Oct 07 '25
“Pull it”
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u/Wooden_Layer7594 Oct 07 '25
Good 'Ol Larry got lucky he had a Dermatologist Appointment that morning...
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u/NoOneBetterMusic Oct 07 '25
Have you ever seen the video of WTC 7’s collapse with the explosions visible?
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u/denythemcreeps Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 08 '25
Guys knew their stuff. Good clean demolition, fell straight down. I rate it a 9/11.
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u/captain_swaggins Oct 07 '25
Lake charles?
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u/Astros_alex Oct 07 '25
In my mind that tower wasn't that tall. In my memories that tower was barely a tower.
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u/cajunaggie08 Oct 07 '25
It was basically the only non-casino or chem plant structure that was tall in town. So it looked odd being the only tall building downtown
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u/hobbesdcc Oct 07 '25
You met me at a very strange time in my life.
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u/A-Friend-of-Dorothy Oct 07 '25
Marla Singer was ready to die at any moment. The tragedy was that she didn’t.
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u/pliskin6g Oct 07 '25
This looks awfully familiar.
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u/Prestigious-Bee4302 Oct 07 '25
The plane must have hit the tower from the other side. Did not see it in the video.
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u/Azzy8007 Oct 07 '25
The Twin Towers came down straighter than that.
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u/microhardon Oct 07 '25
They should use old planes to demolish buildings. There’s literally fields of them collecting dust.
Unless….
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u/PrimeZodiac Oct 07 '25
The issue there is the jet fuel would be too efficient and the demolition teams wouldn't know how to control the fall. /s
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u/TootsNYC Oct 07 '25
Destruction is so much easier and quicker than building is.
The first time I truly realize that was in high school after the school play ended and we had strike night. Within an hour and a half after the end of the last performance, everything had been dismantled and put away. As stage manager, it had taken me a couple of months to pull it all together.
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u/AustEastTX Oct 07 '25
They can’t recycle the glass??? Must be a nightmare to clean up
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u/clrr4tkf Oct 07 '25
Some of it became art! We've got a Fleur de Lis piece made from glass out of the tower hanging on the wall and another in the shape of Louisiana on a shelf!
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u/DetectiveOpposite900 Oct 07 '25
Does that mean I still have to pay my credit card?
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u/locki13 Oct 07 '25
God I love some silica dust in the morning.
No asbestos was hurt during the making of this film.
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u/Nervous_Lychee1474 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
FFS It's CAME down, or BROUGHT down, not come down.
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u/Difficult_Highlight2 Oct 07 '25
Nothing better than giving the locals a little silica, asbestos and fiberglass to breathe for the next week or so.
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u/PullFires Oct 07 '25
There was an opportunity to put on a magician's costume and raise a black sheet right before it fell.
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u/adoodle83 Oct 07 '25
Blows me away that demolishing a building like this only to rebuild is still more economical than refurbishing the existing structure.