Jesus, even the Simpsons' bus driver isn't that stupid.

Watching this gives me deja vu that I've had this nightmare before but from the perspective of one of the riders.

Amazing, if you pack enough victims in a tight enough space, the become survivors; the quantum state of tragedies.

Bridges are so overrated.

They are all crazy. That doesn't take balls. That takes a whole lot of stupid, and not loving your life very much. If that bus had lost traction, they were all dead.

Significant testicular mass, probably not. Enormous amounts of cheap vodka and/or LSD, maybe.

Think of how much weight is packed in that thing though. It would take a sudden swell of water rushing in to break the tires from the road. It's the steady flow that makes this possible - nothing to rock it loose.

*wheels

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Never underestimate the power(or in this case weight) of stupid people in large groups.

you see the mags on that bus?

There has to be some deep ruts or something else there to prevent it from sliding sideways. I've seen less water easily carry buses away.

Considering the number of people present I'm guessing this is a common event.

The first person to try this was indeed quite insane. I can't see anyone planning a bus route through a river if they didn't think it could reasonably be crossed, though. Unless these people really are insane, of course.

Maybe they just really hate a dirty undercarriage?

--"They are all crazy. That doesn't take balls. That takes a whole lot of stupid"

Sadly, it only takes poverty.


From Wikipedia
Poverty
According to the PNUD, 48% of the population in Nicaragua live below the poverty line,79.9% of the population live with less than $2 per day,unemployment is 3.9%, and another 46.5% are underemployed (2008 est.). As in many other developing countries, a large segment of the economically poor in Nicaragua are women. In addition, a relatively high proportion of Nicaragua's homes have a woman as head of household: 39% of urban homes and 28% of rural homes. According to UN figures, 80% of the indigenous people (who make up 5% of the population) live on less than $1 per day. According to the FAO, 27% of all Nicaraguans are suffering from undernourishment; the highest percentage in Central America.
Infrastructure
During the war between the US-backed Contras and the Marxist government of the Sandinistas in the 1980s, much of the country's infrastructure was damaged or destroyed. Inflation averaged 30% throughout the 1980s. After the United States imposed a trade embargo in 1985, which lasted 5 years, Nicaragua's inflation rate rose dramatically. The 1985 annual rate of 220% tripled the following year and rose to more than 13,000% in 1988, the highest rate for any country in the Western Hemisphere in that year.

Maybe this is normal for them... Maybe they do it every time it rains... It's not so much that they have big balls as it is that we are such pussies.

>> ^Enzoblue:

Think of how much weight is packed in that thing though. It would take a sudden swell of water rushing in to break the tires from the road. It's the steady flow that makes this possible - nothing to rock it loose.


Thats what the two guys on the back were for...

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That's properly mental. Maybe there is a rut or something else they're very lucky each time.

How often can you look at two guys riding on the roof of a bus and think, "those two guys are the safest passengers there"?