"The owner of the cable car company in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was later arrested by police on multiple charges including negligence and endangering valuable lives."

... Are some some lives that aren't valuable?

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From my knowledge of Pakistan, women or anyone not ethnically Pakistani. They would not be valuable lives.

[–] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago

...sheesh. 😬

[–] CaptFeather@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe it's just poor wording that implies life in general is valuable?

[–] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago

Christ - 15 hours like that!

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

Oh wow, that’d give me a heart attack.

[–] MrSangrief@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looking at the overall state of the thing...I think they knew they were rolling the dice hoping for a non-critical failure role.

[–] livus@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Got to feel sorry for them though. At the moment their choices are shitty cable car or don't get an education.

[–] MrSangrief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Indeed. Let's at least hope this incident releases some funds for a proper connection so the choice is easier.

[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, I hope so.

So far the person who owns the cable car has been arrested, not sure how that is going to help.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 2 years ago

It makes safety cheaper than what happened here.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago

Holy shit! 😮

[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why would you ever enter something so obviously underdesigned and unsafe?

[–] 2Xtreme21@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Because the alternative is a 3 hour climb down into the valley and up another mountain to get to school.

But yes, this was a death trap from the beginning. Hopefully they learned some lessons from this and get actually qualified people to build a new one.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I sincerely hope that for people who rely on these cable cars that this doesn't merely bring attention to their issue, but funding and engineers to construct and operate reliable cable car services. I don't know what the costs are, but I cannot imagine they are so expensive that this problem can be neglected any further for the people who endured this or others who have to put up with something similar.

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Misread perilous as "hilarious" first, and the first glance at the photo didn't immediately dispell this.

I'll show myself out.

[–] transistor@lemdro.id 3 points 2 years ago

oh my god

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago

I would look equally scary even it if was hanging on two cables.