Fourteen killed and dozens injured after GIANT Mumbai billboard collapse

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

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A least 14 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a giant billboard collapsed during a sudden storm in the Indian city of Mumbai.

The billboard, measuring 70m by 50m according to the police, fell onto houses and a petrol station in the city on Monday.

Emergency services say a few people are still trapped under it and a rescue operation is under way.

The government of Maharashtra state, where Mumbai is located, has ordered an inquiry into the incident.

Footage on local news channels shows the huge billboard swaying in the wind before giving way and crashing into the buildings near a busy road in the city's eastern suburb of Ghatkopar. Several vehicles were crushed in the accident.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2jdd4xxx94o

[Judi Lynn]

1. What a shame they were killed by something which shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Placing signs hawking products everywhere your eyes may fall outdoors does the human race such a disservice. What a rotten idea.
What a hateful way to die. The only thing which could have made it more monstrous would have been for the sign to have been on fire when it fell.

[LeftInTX]

2. Crazy! That thing was massive and I believe it was recently installed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/1cqxa3u/oc_billboard_falls_over_gas_station_during_storm/

I can't imagine the size of that thing. Those other billboards are huge.

Link to tweet

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. 70 by 50 Meters is more than 11,000 square feet

huge!!

[LeftInTX]

4. That's like 5 of my houses! Or two yard lengths

[LeftInTX]

5. It read it was illegally constructed.

This happened yesterday (May 13th) in a place called "Ghatkopar" in Mumbai, it was a very windy evening and this billboard fell on a petrol pump which is on a main road filled with traffic, crushing around 100 people under it, as per the reports 3 have died right away and total deaths are 8.
74 people are injured and hospitalized. This billboard was illegally constructed (probably by giving extra bribe money to a BMC officer) and BMC (Bombay municipal corporation) has issued a notice to the agency to remove all their billboards throughout the city.

[sl8]

11. It's more than 37,000 sq. ft.

Which means, of course, it's also more than 11,000 sq. ft..





70m x 50m = 3,500 sq. m.

3,500sq. m. =~ 37,674 sq. ft.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

13. you are right. I calculated a different way and got 37K and thought that sounded too big. lol

i did 70m = 229 ft and 50m = 164ft then multiplied 229 X 164 = 37556 and doubted my answer

[Old Crank]

6. When you build like that

You need to do the calcs for wind loading. From the picture it looks like there is no bracing for wind front or back.

[JI7]

7. This is all done illegally and they pay people off

to let it stay. It usually takes people dying or other disasters to do something. But even then I can see all the blame being put on some low level type.

[Old Crank]

17. All regulations are written in blood.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. it looks like a big kite.

[Duppers]

9. So sad and disturbing. This makes me worry for my son.

He's traveling to LuckNow later this yr and will be in Mumbai for a bit.

My husband and I were supposed to travel with hi but I don't think I'll be able to make it because of my health issues.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

14. best wishes to your son. I'm sure he will be ok

[Maru Kitteh]

15. He has so much more to worry about from tuberculosis. Please ensure he is vaccinated

before he goes to Mumbai.

Tuberculosis is rampant, endemic, and antibiotic-resistant in Mumbai. It is a hellish disease that can strike the young and healthy and turn them into living ghosts. Treatment is long, grueling, and sometimes unsuccessful.

[raccoon]

10. I hope the families of those killed and injured can sue the mfs who put up the billboard.

[sl8]

12. Area, as compared to sail area of the largest sailing ship:

I was wondering how the area of this billboard compared to the sail area of a very large sailing ship.

Royal Clipper total sail area (42 sails): 56,000 sq.ft. (5,202.6 sq. m.)

The billboard's area, at 70m x 50m: ~ 37,674 sq. ft (3,500 sq. m.)

Royal Clipper

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2001_Royal_Clipper_Karibik_020.jpg

[...]

Star Clippers claims that she is the largest "true sailing ship" built since Preussen. She is listed in Guinness World Records as the largest square-rigged ship in service, with 5,202 square metres (55,990 sq ft) of sail. Her sails can be handled with a crew as small as twenty using powered controls.[3]

[...]

[yardwork]

16. When people complain about "government regulations" this is what they want.

They want to be allowed to do anything they want, no matter how bad an idea it is.

Except women's health - Republicans don't want women to have any rights there.

[LeftInTX]

18. Rumor from Reddit: This is the sign from March 2024

https://maps.app.goo.gl/k5LKPJ672ToCGzoM8

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

19. that really shows how massive it is

[LeftInTX]

20. Here is the Mumbai overhead compared to a typical US freeway billboard !!

You can barely see the US billboard on satellite view.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

21. insane