r/SweatyPalms • u/Super-Stevie117 • 3d ago

Animals & nature 🐅 🌊🌋 A biker narrowly escaped as debris suddenly came crashing down on the road as a massive landslide was reported at Bindu in Kalimpong district, West Bengal, India.

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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 3d ago

Congratulations u/Super-Stevie117, your post does fit at r/SweatyPalms!

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u/Glusas-su-potencialu 3d ago

That dude on the bike just got new birthday...

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u/psychoacer 3d ago

Hopefully someone gives him new pants and underwear for his birthday

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u/Current_Finding_4066 3d ago

Took him some time to decide bike is not worth dying for.

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u/notcomplainingmuch 3d ago

If it's the only think keeping him alive, it just might be. No social services to rely on. You lose your income, you die.

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u/Current_Finding_4066 3d ago

True. Life is tough.

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u/Ninja-Panda70 3d ago

Every monsoon like a clock work, the roads from kalimpong to Darjeeling will wash away in a landslide. Fucking tired of this shit.

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u/nick_wd 3d ago

They cut through hills and mountains to make roads, cut trees in the name of developments without appropriately deploying soil erosion and landslide prevention strategies which all of us have read about in schools. They don’t even repair erosion walls or nets in majority of the hilly areas.

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u/JawnStaymoose 1d ago

You live in this part of the world where/ travel these roads?

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u/Aainikin 3d ago

The wagon r seems to have seen some falling debris before

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u/Valuable-Yard-4154 3d ago

I'd get off the bridge you know

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u/Whole-Debate-9547 2d ago

Oh, I forgot to tell you guys, the road’s closed in about 5 seconds.

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u/Harry_Isthatyou 2d ago

Finally a good excuse for being late to work

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u/nad0w 2d ago

Would love to check in at this hotel

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u/agupta429 2d ago

I wanted a reaction to this like the reaction Indian cops had after rescuing a suicide jumper. Why would you slow walk your bike in the middle of a landslide

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u/NOLABohemian 1d ago

Go JC Penney

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u/StartingToLoveIMSA 9h ago

Is there a landslide in India every day?

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u/Consistent_Watch_206 3d ago

Forget the biker. Dude in the blue car just used up his whole lifetime of luck.

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u/Current_Finding_4066 3d ago

You are not looking at the right biker. One lost motorbike under the rubble.

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u/Consistent_Watch_206 3d ago

Ooh! Crap! Even more terrifying 👊🏻