Crazy Video Shows Indians Risking Their Lives to Cross Collapsing Bridge During Flood

By Jim Jamitis | 12:00 PM on August 21, 2017

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Villagers move past floodwaters with the help of a rope at Katihar district, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. Heavy monsoon rains have unleashed landslides and floods that killed hundreds of people in recent days and displaced millions more across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh. Deadly landslides and flooding are common across South Asia during the summer monsoon season that stretches from June to September. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui) — *Villagers move past floodwaters with the help of a rope at Katihar district, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)*

In recent days the Bihar region in India has been experiencing terrible floods. The death toll has reportedly risen to 253. This crazy video of residents of the region playing chicken with a collapsing bridge may partly explain why.

Bihar Flood continued: I wonder why Bihar is so cursed, year after year, by nature as well as by its leaders pic.twitter.com/x7gz6iW3uS

— OsamaManzar (@OsamaManzar) August 20, 2017

These folks are like the Americans who still assume they can drive through a flooded river safely. It seems people doing dangerous things in the face of natural disasters human nature regardless of country.