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Monday Afternoon Diversion: Bridge Work, Ukrainian Style

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 14, 2013 8:00PM

If you were to take YouTube videos as law it would be easy to see why the former Soviet Union is nothing but a land of insurance fraud, krokodil casualties, base jumping stunts and poor workplace safety practices. Here's an example of the last one: a welder outside Cernobyl cutting into an old bridge with an oxygen-acetylene welding torch.


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