Le Jour où un bus a Sauté le Tower Bridge

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En 1952, Albert Gunter a réalisé un sacré exploit en faisant sauter son bus par-dessus le Tower Bridge à Londres. Je veux dire, parlez de culot ! Il a accéléré avec son bus à deux étages et l'a envoyé voler par-dessus le pont-levis ouvert, avec des passagers à bord et tout le tralala. C'était comme une scène tout droit sortie d'un film d'action ! Toute la ville en parlait après, et Gunter est devenu une sorte de légende locale. Pouvez-vous imaginer être dans ce bus ? Parlez d'une montée d'adrénaline !  Animation créée par Sympa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Musique par Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com   Pour ne rien perdre de Sympa, abonnez-vous!: https://goo.gl/6E4Xna​ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nos réseaux sociaux : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sympasympacom/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sympa.officiel/  Stock de fichiers (photos, vidéos et autres): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Si tu en veux encore plus, fais un tour ici:  http://sympa-sympa.com

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00:00 This is not a movie scene.

00:02 An Imperial bus once jumped over the void

00:05 while the Tower Bridge in London was raised.

00:08 Let's go back to the day when all this happened.

00:10 December 30, 1952.

00:13 It was an ordinary day for Albert Gunther,

00:16 the driver of the 78 train.

00:18 He was driving his bus through the Tower Bridge

00:21 towards Shoreditch.

00:22 Then he noticed that the bridge was opening

00:25 and that his bus was rising with the rocker.

00:27 What do we mean by rocker?

00:29 This is how we call the two sections of the bridge.

00:32 They rise at an angle of 83 degrees

00:35 and each weighs more than 1,100 tons.

00:38 The bus was running at only 20 km/h

00:41 when the rocker began to rise.

00:44 The timing was perfect

00:46 and the other side of the rocker was not yet too upright.

00:49 This is how Gunther managed to make the bus

00:52 bounce from a height of 1 to 2 meters.

00:54 13 people were injured

00:56 but all passengers survived.

00:59 How did the bridge get raised?

01:02 At the time, a guard was ringing an alarm clock

01:05 and closing the barriers

01:07 before the bridge was to be opened.

01:09 However, that day,

01:11 it was forgotten.

01:13 That's why the bus kept moving on the bridge

01:16 thinking that everything was fine.

01:18 Why did we have to raise the rockers of the bridge first?

01:21 Well, because a ship had to pass underneath.

01:24 The bus driver also stated

01:26 that the traffic light was green

01:28 when he crossed the bridge.

01:30 He said he had two options.

01:32 Either stop his bus

01:34 and hope that someone notices it in time

01:36 or jump over the precipice.

01:38 If he had stopped the bus,

01:40 he could have slipped backwards

01:42 and maybe even fallen into the river.

01:44 Our sincere congratulations to this hero of everyday life

01:47 for being able to make the right decision

01:49 in a fraction of a second.

01:51 Not only did a bus reach Imperial,

01:54 but a plane also crossed the Tower Bridge.

01:57 In 1912, an aircraft had to fly

02:00 between the two bridges and the upper bridge.

02:03 The vertical distance between the two was 43 meters.

02:07 The pilot, Francis Maclean,

02:10 was then aboard a modified hydroplane

02:12 capable of taking off.

02:15 That's how his flight was crowned with success.

02:18 He would have been the first person to fly under this bridge.

02:23 For many of us,

02:25 it seems as dangerous as it is frightening.

02:27 But for him, it was like a walk in the park.

02:30 He said to the press,

02:32 "It's not as risky as it seems,

02:34 because the arches of the bridge are huge

02:36 once you get close to them."

02:38 The man was a civil engineer,

02:41 astronomer, photographer and aviator.

02:44 The perfect combination for this kind of feat.

02:47 Why did he only decide to do this?

02:50 The fact is that he had a meeting in town.

02:53 Everything happened on a Saturday morning.

02:56 Maclean thought,

02:57 "Why not go there in a hydroplane?"

03:00 He took off at 6 a.m.

03:02 and two and a half hours later,

03:04 he landed in Westminster Pier.

03:06 Do you want to hear the story

03:10 of a joker who lived in London

03:12 at the beginning of the 19th century?

03:14 Theodore Hook and his friend

03:15 were hanging out together as usual.

03:17 Then, they made a bet.

03:19 Hook bet that he could turn

03:21 the most ordinary house

03:22 into the most popular address

03:24 in less than a week.

03:25 They believed in the power of rumour.

03:27 So they chose a house

03:29 randomly in the city.

03:31 An ordinary woman,

03:32 named Tottenham, lived here.

03:34 Hook wrote many letters

03:36 to the whole city,

03:37 from lawyers to pastry chefs.

03:39 After a week,

03:40 guests as prestigious as

03:42 the Governor of the Bank of England

03:44 and the Lord Mayor of London

03:45 came to his door

03:46 because they had received an invitation.

03:48 Not only guests,

03:50 but also the delivery

03:51 that Hook had been waiting for

03:52 since the morning.

03:54 The whole of London

03:55 quickly began to turn

03:56 around this address.

03:58 Imagine this.

04:01 You wake up at 5 a.m.

04:03 after hearing the doorbell.

04:05 You see a stranger on the threshold.

04:07 He says he's here

04:08 to clear the chimneys.

04:09 You didn't ask for anything,

04:11 so you send him away.

04:13 A few moments later,

04:15 someone else knocks on your door.

04:17 Another ramoneur tells you

04:19 that he was asked to come.

04:21 Poor Mrs. Tottenham

04:22 had to send another 20

04:23 ramoneurs to her.

04:25 Unfortunately,

04:26 the farce didn't stop there.

04:28 Repeated deliveries

04:29 of large quantities of coal

04:31 and wedding cakes

04:32 were also addressed

04:33 to her house.

04:35 While these deliveries

04:36 and these workers

04:37 rushed to her door,

04:38 always other people,

04:40 like doctors and priests,

04:41 went to this house

04:43 explaining that they had been called

04:45 to assist someone.

04:46 Hook and his friend

04:47 rented a small room

04:48 nearby

04:49 to observe

04:50 how far the challenge would go.

04:52 A crowd of people

04:53 showed up

04:54 and allowed Hook

04:55 to win the bet.

04:57 Rick Buckley

04:59 is another farce lover,

05:01 but he is also an artist.

05:03 In 1997,

05:05 he modeled his own nose

05:07 and displayed it

05:08 in various places in London

05:09 with glue.

05:10 Excuse me?

05:12 Yes, his goal

05:13 was to protest

05:14 against video surveillance.

05:16 A creative mixture

05:17 of humor and art.

05:19 At first,

05:20 he glued his noses

05:21 around 35 monuments

05:23 across London.

05:25 Among them,

05:26 the seven Soho noses

05:27 are quite famous.

05:29 I imagine he doesn't like

05:30 people to stick their noses

05:31 in his business.

05:33 It's time to jump

05:37 from the roof to the roof,

05:38 to place our noses

05:39 in incongruous places

05:40 in the city.

05:41 Let's move on

05:43 to the oldest place

05:44 where people

05:45 used to get their noses

05:46 in the face of harmful cosmetics

05:47 out of love for good taste.

05:49 We have to mention here

05:50 a pioneer of her time,

05:52 Queen Elizabeth Prime,

05:54 who had a major influence

05:55 on fashion.

05:57 Not only the women's clothes,

05:58 but also the male style

06:00 was influenced

06:01 by her wardrobe choices.

06:03 But here,

06:04 we will talk more

06:05 about her emblematic white look.

06:07 It was obtained

06:08 thanks to a white foundation

06:09 called Ceruse,

06:10 which was designed

06:11 by mixing white lead

06:12 with vinegar.

06:13 At that time,

06:14 people also wanted

06:15 to whiten their redness spots

06:17 and hide their imperfections.

06:19 This type of cosmetics

06:20 contained ingredients

06:21 such as sulfur,

06:22 terebentine

06:23 or mercury.

06:24 And as you can imagine,

06:26 these ingredients

06:27 are extremely harmful.

06:28 They end up

06:29 leaving the skin gray

06:30 and wrinkled.

06:31 Not to mention

06:32 the other health problems

06:33 caused by these

06:34 magical cosmetics.

06:36 Michael Holmes

06:38 is a professional skydiver

06:39 as well as a parachutist.

06:42 And no,

06:43 he is not related to Sherlock Holmes.

06:45 He is on our list

06:46 because he survived

06:47 against all odds.

06:48 One day,

06:49 he was busy

06:50 training new skydivers.

06:52 It was for him

06:53 a day like any other.

06:55 He was on the plane

06:56 with 16 students

06:57 who had to jump

06:58 from a height of 400-500 meters.

07:00 All this was quite simple

07:01 on paper

07:02 and would allow them

07:03 a free fall

07:04 of about one minute.

07:05 Their parachutes

07:06 had to open

07:07 at 1500 meters.

07:10 That day,

07:11 things did not go

07:12 as planned.

07:13 Michael opened his parachute,

07:15 but he did not know how to deploy it.

07:16 He then spent

07:17 several seconds

07:18 trying to get rid

07:19 of the main parachute

07:20 to be able to open

07:21 the emergency parachute.

07:22 As he was struggling,

07:23 he was also turning

07:24 on himself

07:25 in the middle of a free fall.

07:27 He described this fall as follows.

07:29 "I was turning so fast

07:30 that I almost fainted

07:31 because of the acceleration."

07:33 He had found himself

07:35 in a similar situation

07:36 before

07:37 and had to release

07:38 the cords

07:39 between the harness

07:40 and the sail.

07:41 He knew

07:42 he had a rescue system

07:43 and that this system

07:44 would save him

07:45 from the fall,

07:46 so he did not panic.

07:47 At least at the beginning.

07:48 This time,

07:49 he could no longer

07:50 get rid of the main sails.

07:52 While he was

07:53 at about 1200 meters,

07:54 he decided

07:55 to open the second parachute

07:57 and nothing happened.

07:59 He was doing his best

08:01 to stay calm

08:02 and find a way

08:03 to land safely.

08:04 The cords

08:05 were still stuck

08:06 and the main sail

08:07 was still in place.

08:08 He could not

08:09 reach his small harness

08:10 either

08:11 and he had to

08:12 cut the lines.

08:13 Worse than

08:14 spinning,

08:15 it was that

08:16 time was running out.

08:17 He was starting

08:18 to run out of options

08:19 while getting closer

08:20 to the ground

08:21 at a speed

08:22 of about 130 km / h.

08:23 He also had

08:24 a camera on his head

08:25 recording the incident

08:26 in continuous.

08:27 After trying

08:28 all the options

08:29 and nothing worked,

08:30 he said goodbye

08:31 to the goal.

08:32 Fortunately,

08:34 his story

08:35 did not end here.

08:36 Remember

08:37 what we said

08:38 at the beginning.

08:39 Our man

08:40 miraculously survived

08:42 by landing

08:43 on a wall

08:44 about 3 km

08:45 north of the Lake

08:46 Topo of New Zealand.

08:48 He was only

08:49 slightly injured.

08:50 This means

08:51 that a person

08:52 can fall from the sky

08:53 and survive

08:54 if the right conditions

08:55 are met.

08:56 What would you do

08:58 if you found yourself

08:59 in such a situation?

09:00 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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