Man. The point at 1:53. I feel so bad for the crew. “Do you think anyone noticed?”
It really pisses me off that they introduced this to youtube, awful UI decision and i wish they’d scrap it entirely. Picture in picture circumvents it but not all devices can do that. Another opportunity to plug NewPipe as well (if it’s working).
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Or sink it. Think of all the jobs it would create salvaging the scrap metal.
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We wouldn’t even be having this problem if Bezos had made it a yacht/submarine like a real Bond villain.
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I’d be mighty pissed off if I had to change my commute because some rich asshole dismantled the bridge I used to get to work for his own convenience.
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It’s no longer used. It was used as a railway bridge until 1993, when it was replaced by a tunnel, and was closed to pedestrian traffic in 2014.
(assuming the accuracy of google translate)
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Millionaire’s yacht going past a billionaire’s yacht:
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That’s correct. It was renovated in 2017 with the promise it would never be dismantled again. Having that promise broken because of some rich asshole’s toy is what mostly pisses people off, I think.
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and couldn’t he lift it over the bridge with one of his fancy rockets 
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Or his monopoly?
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Or his head from his neck?
Seriously, this is a massive failure of both engineering design and engineering process.
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There’s the old engineering adage of “good/fast/cheap - pick two”. That equation gets warped when cost is no obstacle.
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some years ago the bbc reported that a super yacht was travelling by road and some trees got in their way so the trees were just cut down…
apparently some politics got in the way of it going viral
in other news there was this intercontinental magnet thing moved thousands of miles
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You mean that the problem was completely avoidable?
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I have to imagine that the history of the city’s destruction in WWII makes this an especially sensitive issue for the locals. In an effort to crush the Dutch into submission the Nazis bombed the whole city to the point where very few historic structures were left standing. The St. Lawrence Church was the only medieval structure in the whole city center that wasn’t completely destroyed, and there are dramatic photos showing the whole city flattened and burned. The Nazis wanted to make a dramatic example to the Dutch people and the world of what would happen to a city that didn’t surrender, and it worked. The Dutch capitulated shortly after.
So when one of the few historic structures left in the city is getting dismantled (even temporarily) because some rich foreigner wants to take his boat through, it’s got to touch a nerve.
Not to mention the precedent this sets. The shipyards will surely have future customers who want the same special treatment for their ever-larger mega yachts, so this could become routine.
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Hey, can I temporarily take the top off that ramshackle old ruin there? It’s interfering with my gangplank.
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…the middle section of the bridge will be temporarily removed to let the billionaire’s boat out.
A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said “It’s the only route to the sea.” They noted that the yacht created jobs during its construction and that the bridge would be restored (once again) after Bezos’ vessel passes.
Unless this sort of “exclusivity” is built into Bezos’s contract. 
Trillionaire’s yacht passing Billionaires’ yachts:
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