2023-10-14T03:58:28UTC
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Peter Jelinek posted in Sep 2023 on mastodon.social an intereting short video featuring a difficult navigation of a wind turbine blade through a mountain road, with text roughly translates to (google translation):
While 15,000 transport applications for wind turbines are piling up at Autobahn GmbH in Germany because, among other things, the route to the destination is "difficult", I watch this video and think: What the hell, Germany...
The video is credited to a post of Michael Houben on Linkedin 1 month ago, who in turn credited a post on the same site by Pareekh Jain from 8 months ago. Jain credited "Credit: Unknown, ViaWeb"... Both did not mention Germany or its labor market.
With the keyword "motorist" (who appeared in the later half of the video), googling suggests that the video started to circulate around Feb 2023. Tom Raftery post on Feb 21, 2023 at twitter with the following text:
If you think your job is challenging, try being this truck driver transporting a wind turbine blade through mountain roads in China!
On the same day, a reddit post in r/interestingasfuck also has one person who commented that it was in China, but did not give their source. Searching in Chinese, an earlier upload can be found on douyin.com aka tiktok, Feb 18, 2023, with subtitles hardcoded in. They credited user Y.J on the same platform whose profile says they work professionally in wind energy sector with an interest in transporation of huge objects.
I do not have an account, so backtrace stops here. However, 1) the user Y.J is highly likely to be the original poster, and 2) the mastodon user, or their not-linked actual source, was intentionally lying.