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Oil Depot in UK go boom!
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:56 pm
by Sugami
This is a day old but meh think some of you may be interested.
Any UK residents (besides myself) would have heard an oil depot in Hemel Hempstead blew up and caught on fire. Some of you people in other places may have heard this too but I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't.
This happened in a town called Hemel Hempstead (just north of London) and guess what... I live there! Below is a picture which I took on my phone looking out of my parents' window. Enjoy
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:30 pm
by Cyndari
What the hell are you still doing in that town!?! I saw this on Saturday and CNN was reporting that the surrounding towns were being cleared because they were unable to control the explosions. In any case i hope that all is well
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:51 pm
by Sugami
It's under control, or so they say but only people pretty close to it (one section of town) were being evacuated
I heard lots of warehouses near me took structural damage from the shockwave, Golden State Foods are missing a roof hehe
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:54 pm
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
WOW
Here in the land of the free and the home of the lied to, we hardly ever get news from other countries.
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:08 pm
by Sugami
That's not surprising in the least, America only really cares about stuff that effects America
Re: Oil Depot in UK go boom!
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:04 am
by Tangrax
Sugami wrote:Some of you people in other places may have heard this too
Supposedly it was heard in holland
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:28 am
by Ambrey
Bet the air smells lovely over there...
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:56 am
by Sugami
Hehe I think holland is lying and the smoke is blowing away from me so I'm fine
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:26 am
by Tangrax
Thats what i thought cos i didn't hear it, and im a damn sight closer than holland
Re: Oil Depot in UK go boom!
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:12 pm
by Shirai
Tangrax wrote:Sugami wrote:Some of you people in other places may have heard this too
Supposedly it was heard in holland
Orly
I have heard it on the news, but where I live...
I heard no bang or what so ever.
As for a little crashcourse Dutch.
Hemel is the dutch word for heaven
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:44 pm
by Jadus
Sounds scarey ~.~ but yea the americccan media is funny
about certain things
liek when that building company dynamited and
dislodged some structures and killed a couple animals
butnobody heard about that on the news nuh uh
lol and the company continues the blasting
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:58 pm
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
Sugami wrote:That's not surprising in the least, America only really cares about stuff that effects America
No, Americans only care about what our so called liberal media puts in front of them. For instance, the so called liberal media SCREAMED for Slick Willy's impeachment over lies about where he hid his willy. So the American public cared about that. Our current liar in cheif, a devout right-to-lifer, lied about why well over 100,000 people have died. But as our so called liberal media seems to think this is all right, so do our shee... errr populace.
The lack of foreign news is part of a campagin to keep us isolated and ignorant and it works well.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:47 pm
by Tangrax
Tangrax wrote:Thats what i thought cos i didn't hear it, and im a damn sight closer than holland
Um... actually holland is closer than i am
my geography blows
Re: Oil Depot in UK go boom!
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:33 pm
by Kahvi
Shirai wrote:Tangrax wrote:Sugami wrote:Some of you people in other places may have heard this too
Supposedly it was heard in holland
Orly
I have heard it on the news, but where I live...
I heard no bang or what so ever.
As for a little crashcourse Dutch.
Hemel is the dutch word for heaven
And here i thought it was closer in translation to Sky than Heaven... but then again i was reading it more as a mistyped Himmel which is german...
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:35 pm
by Kahvi
Tsybil wrote:Sugami wrote:That's not surprising in the least, America only really cares about stuff that effects America
The lack of foreign news is part of a campagin to keep us isolated and ignorant and it works well.
The only real news we get here from outside the americas is from public broadcasting in my area... and they just show BBC at goddess-forsaken hours in the morning.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:48 pm
by Cyndari
Yeah foreign news is very sketchy it is either the Shiny Happy People version (the good) or The Evil Enemies version(the bad). but it is only what they want us to see.
A perfect example is last month there was a fire in the building I work in and they evacuated everyone. A bunch of firetrucks, cop cars, ambulances, and other vehicles showed. Then 5 news helicopters flew and hovered overhead. The fire which was internal couldnt be seen so after 10 min all the choppers left. The fire was extingusihed and we went back to work. The point here "No fire huh? Nobody maimed or injured? Well this is boring lets go"
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:15 am
by Sugami
Well~ think what I said still stands. There wasn't much on this explosion over there because the media people didn't find it interesting enough and believed the masses wouldn't either, which is most likely true.
Hence the not caring about anything that doesn't involve themselves
Fire still there, quite cool to look out the window and see it. My ISP was blaming the explosion for crappy connections (also their TV signals) but it was fine the past 2 days
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:15 pm
by Losfuin
Sugami wrote:Well~ think what I said still stands. There wasn't much on this explosion over there because the media people didn't find it interesting enough and believed the masses wouldn't either, which is most likely true.
There was nothing to link it to terrorism. I remember waking up mid-day on Sunday to be greeted by the TV going "OMG Terrorists blew up oil dep0t!!!11!11eleven". Then came the reports of "oh, an accident..." and everyone stopped being interested. And they'll wonder why petrol prices go up this week
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:07 pm
by Tangrax
Losfuin wrote: And they'll wonder why petrol prices go up this week
Pushbikes FTW
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:43 pm
by Yukira
I'm tired.....I first read: 'Gil Depot in UK go boom!' and was like WTF?
Too much FFXI perhaps......naaaah!
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:08 pm
by Sugami
Losfuin wrote:Sugami wrote:Well~ think what I said still stands. There wasn't much on this explosion over there because the media people didn't find it interesting enough and believed the masses wouldn't either, which is most likely true.
There was nothing to link it to terrorism. I remember waking up mid-day on Sunday to be greeted by the TV going "OMG Terrorists blew up oil dep0t!!!11!11eleven". Then came the reports of "oh, an accident..." and everyone stopped being interested. And they'll wonder why petrol prices go up this week
LOL so true!
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