Athlone Towers demolition - best footage

[TRAVL3R1]

skip to :55 if your male

[MoominAndThePanda]

RIP Battlefield 2 Map

[MrSkate4weed]

9/11

[EpicTacos457]

The sad music makes it kinda depressing :O

[proaudiohd]

Rather see everything realtime, with raw audio.

[Squarerig]

MovieMad.I'm sorry for I no longer know what I wrote.I hope it was of a profound nature!

[cainman02]

the song makes it sad.

[4lex0akes]

00:55 Kaboom.

[napalm350z]

cool story bro

[CarlMinez]

Anyone can tell me where I can find the music?

[Iainus240]

looks like they melted more then they exploded



[VancouverCanucksRock]

@Iainus240 It's not an explosion either it's called an implosion.

[55chh]

Why did it ignite 4 mins premature? Somebody must have hit the button....was it a mistake? Sounds dangerous, 4 mins, could've still had some workers in the vicinity.

[TheLegomaniacish]

That's what Chuck Norris calls "his average day".

[legofanatic12]

@TheLegomaniacish Thats what Chuck Norris calls a vacation, bro.

[Eclipsinq]

How much radiation was in those towers?

[Tomatoesaretasty]

@Eclipsinq Absolutely None. These are cooling towers. Harmless steam is the only thing ever emitted from these towers.

[JJAB91]

@Tomatoesaretasty Not to mention it as a Coal power plant not Nuclear.

[gunnight09]

it took like 10 seconds or so lol

[2Xensemble]

There's a town in Ireland called Athlone... Could we arrange a demolition of it with its population inside please!!!!

[Sp33dDem0n1]

@2Xensemble Im irish and i find that offensive

[PoppaBlue59]

@Sp33dDem0n1 Cool out dude. I was commenting on the guy who said that a town in Ireland should be imploded. I wasn't talking about your comment at all.

[2mirman]

ooo thought it was in ireland !!!

[TheEnjoi101]

Titacnic music??? Wtf???

[edwina22]

@TheEnjoi101 Wrong that music is not from the titanic film.

[Quinkq]

0:56 left tower ate itself

[sithalo]

wasnt much of a landmark if they tore it down...how sad

[kainj13]

i love the way they flop like melting bottles

[0mitas]

это называется демократия пришла к трубам

[combatmaster1239]

looks like sand castals geting destroyed

[Jerbod2]

At least the horizon will be much nicer to watch.

[SamuelBeakergaw]

They look so squishy.

[QullVideo]

That right tower was just hanging on there, using his last bit of strength to take one last look at the surrounding countryside before giving way to have no base :(

[MrMrSilviu]

nice work, they felt straight down

[adythekiller]

what`s wrong with you people ? These are just 2 towers of concrete.

[SincereDoubt]

looks like the place where top gear filmed the apocalypse episode at

[bukakee1]

Why take these down? Why not leave them up and have artists paint it?

[neXIITem]

@bukakee1 ... money ... new space for new buildings = make more money.

They are all like that.

[doodskie999]

@bukakee1 cause these structures are critically dangerous... but mainly, maybe another developer bought the land and wanted them to go down

[monsieurboucle]

What the music it is?

[Cyclist0623]

Very interesting! At these time and size scales, the disintegrations have real fluid-like effects to them.

[2mirman]

sad to see constat loss of indastry

[kingmigget]

@2mirman sad to see such a lack of education

[2mirman]

@kingmigget you know what i mean as in old 20th centuary buildings dock cranes and stuff (i know that they are being replaced by far bigger more efficent machiens)

[oldfart387]

nice demo

[RPGDestroyer]

Shame, that thing had a lot of memories, like the time it poisoned our water supply and... Uhhh... Yeah you guys probably should have taken it down earlier.

[kingmigget]

@RPGDestroyer steam cooling towers don't poison water... all they emit is steam..

[shoopdawhooperful]

Why don't they just fly a plane into it?

IM FUCKING JOKING.

[Kayaproducties]

1:05 left is a broken cookie :p

[HighrockTendales]

I'm telling you man, open your eyes. There is no fucking way these would have collapsed with controlled demolitions, there must have been planes fly into them

[SnapSunny]

@HighrockTendales If you listen closely, you can tell that the narrator is actually a pilot.

[HighrockTendales]

@SnapSunny HaHA!

[HaloHamstur]

All the work they put into building these buildings and they destroy them like nothing when they could build right next to it or use it still? :S

[SnappyPenguins]

I misread the title as 'Alton Towers Demolition'. I'm a theme park enthusiast. ;)

[DoctorRandomnezz]

its weird...i mean demolishing a nuclear powerplant?

doesn't that blast your butt off the planet??

[YukoAsho]

@DoctorRandomnezz Athlone Power Station was a coal station.

[Niceboy3377]

haha what pussy comments crying over buildings

[YukoAsho]

@Niceboy3377 That's a stupid thing to say. I imagine for a lot of people in Capetown would disagree. I imagine a lot of peoplre grew up looking at those things on the way to work or school or whatever and the sky looks strange without them. It's like the world is changing around them, and to a lot of people, that's gonna trigger some nostalgia.

[Niceboy3377]

@YukoAsho but still its just two buildings

[darkmaster943]

in soviet russia tower blast you

[SnappyPenguins]

@darkmaster943 I think that meme died a few months ago! ;)

[applefanXXX]

Ceyrnobyle :D

[TheNiclazA]

i feel sad for that poor buildings :'(

[Squarerig]

This demolition is so sad!

[MovieMad007]

@Squarerig agreed...they stood for what 60 years or something..formed part of the scenery - people would be so used to them on the horizon - then bang they are gone forever in like 6 or 7 seconds! Suppose its all down to progress....but then how have we progressed when Ireland is in the grip of a financial crisis!

[DaSoulSlasher]

1:11 It's like it tried to fight back =(

[mmmbad]

@DaSoulSlasher Oh I know, it looked like the cloud of dust that connected them could have been their "hands" reaching out to each other and while the one bowed her head and cried the other told her to stay strong. The music really was appropriate for this demolition. Anyone know what it's called?

[marshalljimduncan]

2 sisters

[bubblewrappoker3000]

wow

[xRedDeadRedemptionx]

great, now homer simpson lost his job, again

[WhelenVTXR2]

Thats fuckin' nuclear!

[birramorettisuper]

Titanic music

[jimmyjamjar10101]

It's quite interesting how the concrete deformed on the way down

[switzerlicious]

0:50

[haydnr01]

They looked like paper cups!

[SCIFIguy64]

"Hey is the explosive crew still in there?"

"No, they left like an hour ago."

"But thats their car..."

[devgpd]

"dreary winters day" my ass

[praatafrikaanz]

Thanks for posting!

[Nastyproduction]

not the best footage... not the best music your attemt at the end to slow it down shudders, check out "The Best of Athlone Towerssmall extended" by nasty prodcution

[Nastyproduction]

not .. NO this is the best footage thanks... :) better music too

[rainerfilm]

Best footage my fat ass! just look at that shit on your lens at 0:30

[joynozfri]

Excellent footage, indeed. It is amazing how one becomes attached to landmarks, even if they are not beautiful. Next time I am on my way to Cape Town from the airport it will surely seem very strange not to see the towers. However, in another video there was talk of plans being made to use the available space , for the good of the communities, and that is heartening news.

[Kierathestrawberrie]

They just Look like two dusty cardboard cylinders caving in to me, nothing special. The sheer fact that such large structures can be collapsed in seconds gives me weird feling in my gut, like nothing is really of much substance, what a strange thought. I supose were all just a bunch of atoms anyway. This land mark will be missed sorely by my poor navigational skills :)

[ElijahsAba]

Good riddance!

[pietplof]

The question is...how many people will get lost now on their way to the Southern Suburbs?

[sunbeam911]

@pietplof good thing the mountain is still there ;)

[deathofmyheadinmycoc]

@pietplof 8 people

[BlackDragon4716]

@deathofmyheadinmycoc BRILLIANT!

[leahjoy01]

wow the music makes it so much more emotional :(

[001jetman]

Wow...I know they're only two massive ugly towers but I feel sad seeing them disappear. It's strange what familiarity does.

[BruMicable]

Amazing implosion ...

It seems only 'yesterday' that I gave Dad a lift to work to the Athlone power station while his motorbike had a flat tyre - actually it's a loooong time ago, and now Dad will never know the Salt 'n Pepper pots have died too.

[ERSCAUS]

It is sad in a way. All my life I've seen those nasty ugly things sticking up from the ground. Now, they're gone.

[mbrooksify]

idiot pressed the button early

[lookforitcx]

EXCELLENT FOOTAGE!

Someone Please tell me: what is the name of the music used in the video? I'm sure I heard it before and where can I get the music?

[yayastudiosmedia]

it's sad.

[4agteworx]

brilliant video!

[plettemberg]

I'm actually sorry...