“Unsafe For Morons But Safe For Everyone Else”: 40 Examples Of Architecture And Design That Don’t Prioritize Safety

Wyle E. Coyote must love this place.

This is beautiful

My eyes are screwed up enough as it is.

Dude, i'm blind from my left eye which means i have no depth perception, which causes me vertigo, in sum, i would probably die of broken neck syndrome on these stairs....

Forget about walking on them while drunk, I couldn't do it if I was sober.

On the one hand, this is really cool. On the other, maintenance and changing water must be hell, and stupidly wasteful.

it´s still there an you can take bus trips on it

Nop, and i'm a pretty goog driver, but still no

It's not as bad as it looks. It's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct - Trevor, Wrexham, Wales. Search for pictures and you can see that the sides are actually a bit higher than the angle makes it look. No way you could row your canoe over the edge.

Did they make these ladders specifically for this?

Yikes

Well this actually makes sence If you want to cover all your bases, off you fall down a flight of stairs you may brake your neck and die but its not a sure thing, but here it is, even if you don't die from a broken neck, sure as f**k you Will die from brain trauma, after hitting those boulders with your head...

I've visited several of them. Truly fascinating places. One was famously used in a Bond film. Most of them now have some kind of access. This one would appear to have a "cable car" - you can see the wires and terminus right by the Greek flag.

This is beautiful, don’t think this belongs here.

Fresh air,.. check. Sunshine,.. check. Pigeon droppings,.. check. Lifelong acrophobia,.. check.

Slip n slide.

Again?!

Whoooo Action Park!

For Superman?

Guys I know we just arrived, but I need to pee.

Ok, I own up. I love this but it would have to be on a part of the floor where no one walks.

Do not attempt if drunk.

Every day is leg day.

I will probably be gripping on to the handrail like a baby koala riding the back of a cat walking across a tightrope upside down while having fire being thrown at it while being 500.00000000000000001million metres above a pool full of dolphins and skinwalkers.

I'm getting vertigo just looking at it!

"why are there footprints on your window?"

I actually like this a lot. I would fall and die the very first time I used the stairs, but I do like the aesthetic

the Rakotz-Bridge was not intended to be used - stepping onto it is prohibited. It was only built to look nice as a garden architecture highlight.

The way I'd step in every wrong spot and plummet down the stairs

My big concerne would be : how to clean under it with all of the dusty Peebles ?

To infinity and beyond!

If there's a fire or anything you just have to do some parkour! Super easy when there is impending doom! :D

Baba Yaga?

These stairs are great. Instead of each tread using up the width of the staircase, you can fit in two steps. This is wonderful for confined spaces. It takes up about the same space as a ladder, but it's steps instead of rungs. The photograph has been taken from the top of the stairs, looking down. The steps are flat triangles. Start of with your right foot, then left on the next step down, continue until the bottom of the stairs.

Yeah, so? I would certainly stand on that balcony.

Why is it closed? Do I want to know?

Who needs kids when you can have... ✨Fancy stairs!✨ Now with even less railing!

Nothing to see here. move along.

It was closed because shrapnel from the explosion struck the statue, and caused damage to the arm. Visitors were putting undue stress on that part of the statue anyway, and the decision was made to close it off. You can visit the original torch (replaced in 1986) in the museum.

Wow that is rather steep for a zip line

Going up there would definitely make me suddenly feel the need to get religion.

There are not enough "nopes" in all the world for this scenario.

Well you'd be huffington and puffington by the time you got to the top!

Well, you wouldn't have them for long!

Ohh there was a park by my house with one of those... Scared the c**p out of my 8yo self lol

Beautiful

Actually theres much more to this. Ask a mortician (Caitlin) on YouTube did a vid on this and goes into what kind of places people choose to commit suicide, responsible architecture and the general social ramifications of that structure and the project around it

Is this photoshopped? Perspectives look off...

That's quite common in Victorian worker's houses in the UK. Saves a lot of space.

This ones actually not that bad, they built the largest trampoline in the world and if you look at a video in which they use the trampoline the rails are actually pretty high. (it's Drew Dirkson's trampoline btw if u want to look it up)

I worked in a office in the UK in the early 80s and there was one of these. It covered 5 or 6 floors. Never remember anyone getting hurt using it.

People really are afraid in this post with all the "knee high" bridge photos. You go your whole life without giant walls around you. It's this weird thing called walking

That is pretty cool. It looks like you could take an old mine cart from top to bottom!

Is it a house or a business? Way back it was pretty common to unload goods to a second-floor warehouse above a store. They would already be on a wagon or truck 1/4 of the way up and it was easier than hefting them down to ground level and then back up stairs.

Not as bad as some of the stairs on here. At least you have poles to hold onto.. And it looks so beautiful and neat.

Looks like my 3 year old's Lego towers that cause him angst when falling over immediately after construction.

Actually, this looks kinda cool.

Old trains in Croatia still have windows like this.

Burning Man? 🤔

This was standard for years in the UK.

Why would you need guard rails on a bridge like this?

Well that is not entirely true. There are lots of places where a speed limit is in place (the part shown in the pic is 100 to 120 km/h), we just don't have a general speed limit (yet). But yeah, you better look before pulling into the left lane.

What‘s so bad about this? Are you all really so scared? Don‘t you have common sense anymore?

What’s wrong here?