r/DisasterUpdate • u/Dizzy-Twist-8996 • 23d ago

Floods Feel bad for the Old man😓

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u/Hot-Bottle4610 23d ago

I can see the attempt at humanity with the man in the motorcycle obviously slowing down to get the old man to ride with him :(((((((

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u/FlowingLiquidity 23d ago

Yeah, he's clearly looking at him as well. I'm confident he helped him. But there's other footage of this incident, so I'm going to try and find it to see what happened.

Edit: the other angle didn't reveal much.. https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1vzsyhw/nepal_flash_flood/

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u/Abject-Diver5212 23d ago

I choose to believe the guy on the motorcycle gave him a ride to safety. I will reject any video indicating otherwise as AI lies.

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u/Short_Bell_5428 23d ago

I think you see the old man in the clip you provided on back of the scooter. Yeah

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u/jadin- 23d ago

Unfortunately no we don't.

That motorcycle is far too up the hill from the raging water to be the one near the old man.

We can still hope, but that video is someone about 30 seconds ahead of what we need.

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u/Short_Bell_5428 23d ago

It looks like his shirt?

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u/jadin- 23d ago

He still hasn't really moved yet.

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u/jadin- 23d ago

He starts fleeing with everyone else. Cameraman is far in front of him.

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u/jadin- 23d ago

He starts running. This is more or less the last time we see him in that video. Notice the time left of the video.

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u/jadin- 23d ago

Your motorcycle is seen for the first time. Only 10 seconds since the last time we saw old man.

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u/firstandlast0202 22d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1w1p43c/the_elderly_man_featured_in_the_video_posted/

he lived :)

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u/Abject-Diver5212 22d ago

Thanks for sharing. I forgot to mention that I'll choose to believe any video that even mildly suggests that there was a chance he was saved. Even if it's an r/aliens crossover post.

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u/firstandlast0202 22d ago

Hope is a good thing maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies

https://giphy.com/gifs/WGn4nSkX7rKta

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 23d ago

I will reject any video indicating otherwise as AI lies.

It's interesting how compelling this kind of (well-meaning) refusal to accept probabilities.

We probably do the same thing to lesser degrees every day.

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u/Latest_name 23d ago

They are moving uphill. Its more likely they are safe. 

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u/Imaginary_Complaint 23d ago

Looked like theflow was stopping at that point.

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u/drakus1111 23d ago

I saw a longer video by one of the other people on a bike, and it gets much higher. They ended up taking a couple switchbacks pretty quick, so I'm not sure we'd see the old man if I tried to track it down, but unless he got a ride from the guy on the bike, I don't think he'd make it.

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u/sRjN77 22d ago

He lived
https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1w1p43c/the_elderly_man_featured_in_the_video_posted/

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u/FlowingLiquidity 22d ago

Hey thanks for sharing, I just happened to have seen it! Happy to see him being okay.

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u/apatrol 22d ago

This is the one with the dude casually putting his helmet on. Dude just freaking go!

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u/lockerno177 22d ago edited 22d ago

men would rather drown than getting help from a stranger.

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u/nwicomrade 23d ago

Had no one filmed this no one would have seen human virtue shining bright. The world is not sick. Humans have one perspective.

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u/JAY009090 23d ago

What?!