Weston Super Mare Pier Burning

[SilverSnake424]

Lol. Can I just say, I live in Weston and watching the smoke from this fire burn, was quite amusing. And an America insulting the English? lol okay, considering the fact that America's own government arranged 9/11 (:

[matrags]

Fear not fellow Weston fans. I went there today and the new pier is great.

[bobbystar101]

@matrags It aint the same though so many memories of the old one!

Still cannot complain at least it got replaced unlike the one in lazy brighton.

[Animaltricks18]

weston pier is burning down, burning down , burning down , weston pier is burning down , and now its burned down weston sucks! XD i can say this cuz i live in weston XP but yay there rebuilding it! i guess its gonna b ok ... but neva the same as the last pier

[Leylandbasher]

RIP Weston pier. Years of memories gone in a few hours. My great uncle was actually one of the first on the scene because he works as a reporter for BBC radio bristol. Least they are rebuilding it. RIP

[anticenaguy]

it brings a tear to my eye just watching all those memories go up in smoke like that. The thing that pisses me off is that everybody thinks that it was caused by a chip pan or electric fault...you dont seriously belive that a chip pan fire or electric fire could cause that do you? it was obviously planned and it was set on fire on purpose so they could claim money, its happening all over england due to credit crunch.

[Givarius]

@anticenaguy You know what, you are right. They did this on Purpose. It's very clearly.

[bobbystar101]

@anticenaguy Surely if it was they wouldn't have ploughed all the money back in to rebuild it?

[rory9112]

Re opens summer 2010

[Mumblemumble375]

Some blaze

[lolbigdragon]

nice vid paul!!!

[Paulgnewton]

Hey, did Paul Newton Take this video? I dont remember doing it... But I do like to use my english accent, so it must have been me!!

[Icebabe101]

I remember going there when i was little. When i saw this on the news i just sat there looking at it burning down.

[Dogluvva300]

went there today .

stood before the smouldering ruins and realised just how bad it was.

its all there pretty much apart from the amusent bit and the bit on the end is untouched too.

still... just huge hunks of metal, i could make out everything the helter skelter and the rollercoaster... very sad.

[gunda786munda]

Listen to "Fire Water Burn" by Bloodhound Gang. Very suitable. lol.

[vincent7487]

you a pilot or summut?

[katyanything]

i was there a few days earlier and then i went to france and some guy on a coach was talking about it and i turned round and went "It hasnt burnt down! i was there the over day!" and argued with him for about ten minutes about it lol i look like an idiot now :S

[aqibyasin]

its only a god damned building

on day eveery1 is gonna go

[aqibyasin]

get a life i will uze that as some scrap metal

i will do that so i can shove it up ur arse if u cry

[aliceway123]

that could have been saved if the fire cwes got there earlyer they didnt come ut til 5 hrs l8a

[punjab1b0y]

Ah thats a shame but it was shit before anyway. I could use some of that scrap metal though ...

[koolkooks]

Guess what my name is weston

[pemberton1986]

burn mother fucker!!!!! burn!!!!!!

[lightening777]

Cardiff boot boys we are here, doodah, doodah!

We're gonna burn your minging pier, doodah, doodah, day!

[bobbystar101]

@lightening777 cardiff couldnt afford a pier.

[abbi699]

ill really miss the weston pier the first time i went 2 it i wuz 4 and i remember going on the ghost train and my brother wuz 2 scared D:

[vincent7487]

well dont be, they are rebuilding it

[Mink1235]

I was their i saw it all

[CaraBrimleyRules]

To be honest, that pier looks crap. Me and my mates are urban explorers and we've smashed up loads of old places like that. I think burning down was the best thing for it.

[vikesh81]

Burn, Baby Burn !!!

[acidhouse1988]

Thats a sad sight, i was living in weston 2001/2005 and went on the pier plenty of times. Hope they dont replace it with some modern looking junk that wont refelct the original pier.......Bet they do tho !!!

[peterfarrow]

Very good footage of such a sad event...

[lurocks89]

er fuck off mate, our countries much better than yours..and you do realise your "four fathers" were ENGLISH! so everytime you diss our country your dissing your own heritage you spazza...god you americans really need to learn, if it wasnt for us your country wouldnt even exist!!!!

[CaraBrimleyRules]

It's "fore fathers" and "our country is". Also "spazza" is an incorrect word. You mean a "person with cerebral palsy"

It's you who needs to learn, you're a disgrace to the UK.

[bobbystar101]

@CaraBrimleyRules Spazza is called slang you nonce!

Lighten up theres a word for people like you.

Its not a compliment.

[CaraBrimleyRules]

@bobbystar101 So....? How many abandoned buildings have you busted the crap out of? Non I'll bet, you just sit at home all day and pull your todger. Post when you have some experience and something useful to say.

[bobbystar101]

@CaraBrimleyRules Busted the crap out of?

Are you retarded? Urban explorers? I guess you are...

Sit at home all day pulling my todger? Pull the other one you idiot.

I've gone in plenty of abandoned buildings and used them for parties etc

Even one on the edge of my village still had electricity though no one lived there for years. That was good fun.

I probably have more experience than you, and I had been in that pier many times and it was great laugh until i was about 15 many great memories.

[CaraBrimleyRules]

@bobbystar101 Look, New Wave Urbex Smash is not just about "going into" abandoned buildings. It's about selective destruction of redundant massive institutions. I just don't think you get it. Our smashcrew is one of the foremost of the New Wave Urbex genre. We've broken up loads of building interiors ranging from Cane Hill, Hellingly, Severalls etc etc. The only point I was making was that this old pier looked a load of crap. If it wasn't burned as an insurance job, we'd gladly have smashed it.

[gobacktorussia]

@CaraBrimleyRules what is urbex smash? what is a smashcrew? and what does chess2000+ rating mean?

[CaraBrimleyRules]

@gobacktorussia Urbex smash is a subset of the urbex culture. We study history of abandoned institutions

& see if any parts are of historical value or likely to be preserved. Then we infiltrate the buildings and photograph the good parts. Any parts which are due to be demolished or of no value, we may undertake smashing of those parts, knocking holes in floors, walls, roofs, breaking sinks, windows, doors etc. An urbex smash crew is a group of urbex smashers. Chess 2000+ = pretty good at chess.

[bobbystar101]

@CaraBrimleyRules I say post when you have something relevant to say your a complete dumbass plain and simple.

Urban explorer dont make me laugh. My life is certainly much more fun based on what I read of you and at least my head isn't stuck up my own arse with some totally misplaced sense of my own importance/life experience/whatever your problem is..

Looking at your profile kind of cements my opinion of you. Your a dickhead and btw GROW UP!

(urban explorer LOL) Thank god your not rural-based.

[CaraBrimleyRules]

@bobbystar101 Your obviously quite an intelligent person by your posting style but maybe lacking some experience of urban exploration and the New Wave Urbex smash subculture. All I'd say like most other things in life, don't knock it till you've tried it. We do research the places we trash, and wouldn't smash in the areas due to be preserved but most places have large tracts of redundancy which are not going to be suited to any new use.

[OLDBRISTOL]

@lurocks89 Well said Mate.

[vidPRODUCER1]

@lurocks89 as a matter of fact, from a native american point of view,,YES, we would have a country. just one you a**holes didnt get the chance to f**k up! we were here long before your country sent all your dregs of society here. so dont beat your chest too hard, unless your proud of how you totally screwed things up here.

[stratvic]

"Thank god there was no one on there, thank god it was early in the morning", thank god for burning it!?

God really is a shit!

[jameswsparker]

I just thought I would post, I went here everyday in college; and when people make fun of stuff like this (which they probably will), they're also making fun of the great childhoods we've had in such a beautiful place.

[jameswsparker]

OMG This is so terrible, I really loved this place. It'll never be the same, even if they rebuild it. That literally was the key / heart of WSM.

[TeeVeeShowz]

insurence job!

[RUSSHOOP]

omg fuck god were there fuck am i gunna go 2 get drunk now rip weston pier

[BrutusCass]

Wow that view takes me back to my youth, and yes thank god there was no one killed. Another of my memories destroyed! If I ever do visit the place again then it will seem bear ;-((

[MyxChemxRulez]

i woke up to this today, my curtains arent that thick so the blaze woke me up ;\

[clemanthium101]

Hey weston is not a dump i have some of my best memories there so if you dont have anything nice to say then just get lost ok this pier meant something to people including me!! so if your not interested in something like this then dont bother watching if your just gonna laugh and criticize leave this space for people who actually CARE people could of been hurt!!

[1BIGCHEESE]

weston was a dump with a pier now its just a dump...

[AmyLeeBennetOC]

That is soo sad :( ....

[allwight01527]

xboxlive you fucking wanker piece of shit i hope that comment haunts you.

[smackerdemus]

the pier was mint for smoking weed on :(

[LIZIEPOO]

We need to pray for all of this world and whats happening, not fight,

Liziepoo

[ImYourRealDad]

Burn in hell, you Yank prick!!

[DEMONDAY]

such great memories i had on that pier and it all went up in smoke. :(

[phoonominal]

if it was a kitchen fire the fryer would either have been left on ALL night or the fat in it was minging and hadnt been changed for a long time either!simple facts

[FunkiieMunkiie]

Thank god nobody was hurt we still cant believe it has been burnt i loved the pier!! We went there all the time!!!xxx

R.I.P. Weston-Super-Mare Pier

[ukvid]

Why do we always get twats on here making supid comments... tell you what, have a laugh when your own house burns down.. see how funny that is... scum

[Str3ngthz]

bout time never have to go back thank fuck for that

[SummerIsK]

So very sad. Thank god no one was hurt.

[HARRIER1980]

The news reporter said that ' the flames could be seen as far away as Cardiff' what a muppet, Cardiff must be a whole 5 miles away over open water. you could probably see the flame from a lighter from there.

[phoonominal]

hahahahahaha

[phoonominal]

INSURANCE JOB!

[abslesjordchloe]

hi im sooo upset i went on  saturday and did the rock wall which they just built now its all in flames !! i know what caused it i heard it on the news the fry cooker was left on all night !!!! soo sad xx

[drumdemon79]

This could be an inside job. Only changed hands for stupid money recently and one of the owners left the country to go on holiday yesterday. Funny time of day for a fire to spring up too!! Might just be lame conspiracy theories but could hold some truth. WSM is kinda screwed now though, not really much to recommend it beyond the pier.

[tigertron007]

I saw the massive plume of smoke from my bedroom window, I didn't know what the hell it was til I saw the news. R.I.P Weston Pier, it's been apart of my life for 18 years...

[resrudeboy]

i cant believe it, i was only there yesturday. i even (random) took a photo of it on friday when i was messing around with my camera.

If you have any latest vids id like to see it.

Shame its gone, it'll be another tropican situation now, it will take them years to rebuild it, and all the old gits will moan about what should be done with it.

[JoshM1239]

i miss it already:(

[jonerant]

Probably an electrical surge. Cuz they kept on just adding stuff onto it that it probs just got over the top. Or the previous owner probably done something out of spite cuz it has been making more money lately.

[finalfantasychamp]

i think it may av sumthin 2 do with the go karts they put in yesterday...mayb sumthin to do involving the petrol

[LilMissPinkPie]

they said it was to do with a kitchen fire.

[CSSpl4yer]

i was about to go there... so sad its gone, but how did it start?? luckly no one was on, its just like the old pier, well to be honest, theres only better to some, right?

[jonerant]

OMG SHIT WAIT. NO! THE ZOMBIE GAME! NO ZOMBIE BASHING , NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :|

Still atleast. No tourist, HURRAYYYYYYY!

[jessipoo311]

Can't believe it's gone!! i used to go there all the time and my dad worked there for 22 years buildin it!!! all the hard work gone :( can't get my head round it it's so sad

[jonerant]

I live in weston. THANK FUCK NO TOURIST, HURRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[Kylesesh]

was it the peir with all the rides and games.

[Kylesesh]

man i can't belive this at all i remember going there every summer with my friends... now it is all gone.

[Blacksheep2007]

I was there at 7 this morning. Its really shocking...i was waiting for it to open and all i saw was an inferno...truly devestating

[abslesjordchloe]

how conveniant u were there the same time the fire started i bet you'll be getting a visit from the police then !

[Kylesesh]

i know who it was. the fuckin i-r-a.

[9InchWarrior]

Those guys who disbanded a year ago? Yeah...it must be them, since they'd have no reason whatsoever to do this. Who exactly are they striking at?

"I know, lads! We'll come back by striking the...Weston Super Mare pier!!"

[JordanFuckinLee]

Im actually really upset now

[DanSullivan129]

I know how you feel ....I have had a lot of memorys on that place ....and now its destroyed!

[skegy]

Everything British is slowly being destroyed. From the top to the bottom. EU criminals

Wake up!

[ArkTane]

Ahh yes, those EU bureaucrats, coming over here, burning our piers. I mean seriously, I've seen people take quite amazing leaps of logic to blame the EU for something before, but I think this takes the biscuit.

[CamAndJordsFilms]

Oh dear god that place was awsome "Spinny thing inside" =[