r/WTF 9d ago

Skyscraper swimming pool during Myanmar earthquake

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u/towers_of_ilium 9d ago

Oh my god, imagine being just sloshed over the edge on one of those floaties

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u/seamustheseagull 8d ago

I mean they often say that the safest place to be during an earthquake is in a pool because you're less likely to have anything fall on you.

But clearly they mean a pool outside at ground level. Not one 30 storeys up.

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u/damnatio_memoriae 8d ago

lol who the hell ever said that?

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u/anormalgeek 8d ago

They did.