02-13-2008, 09:53 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Large Explosion Destroys Businesses In Vancouver
Blast destroys Vancouver businesses
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A massive explosion destroyed a Vancouver coffee shop and a taco shop, and damaged several other businesses early Wednesday.
The blast on the 600 block of West Broadway Avenue, about one block away from Vancouver General Hospital, engulfed a Starbucks and a neighbouring Taco Del Mar shop in what witnesses described as a fireball at about 2:30 a.m. PT.
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Police on the scene said they were treating the explosion as suspicious, but fire investigators were also investigating the possibility it could have been caused by a gas leak in the taco restaurant.
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Wow... that must have been pretty frightening for the people nearby.
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02-13-2008, 09:57 AM
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#2
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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A gas explosion at a taco shop? Colour me shocked
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02-13-2008, 09:59 AM
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#3
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Jayems
A gas explosion at a taco shop? Colour me shocked
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But all joking aside... it musta been scary as hell. Hopefully, no one was hurt in that explosion.
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02-13-2008, 10:24 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: North Vancouver, BC
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WOW!! Jesus, traffic must have been a bitch this morning around that area. Broadway is super busy and the main bus routes to UBC run along there.
Good thing it didn't happen during the middle of the day.
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02-13-2008, 10:30 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Burnaby
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I didn't even know we had Taco Del Mar in Canada until just now...
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02-13-2008, 10:38 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: North Vancouver, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 604flames
I didn't even know we had Taco Del Mar in Canada until just now...
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There's a bunch in the Lower Mainland, Hastings, around Willingdon, Kingsway and WIllingdonish are two that come to mind right away.
edit....alright, Im a geek, I looked it up, there's plenty of locations in BC
http://www.tacodelmar.com/locations/...hcolumbia.html
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02-13-2008, 10:41 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
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Theres 5 in Calgary.
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02-13-2008, 11:36 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Burnaby
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Wow I drive past Hastings + Willingdon every day too 
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02-13-2008, 11:42 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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I almost caused a gas explosion last Sunday in Tarington Woods, also due to said Taco Del Mar - never mix onions and blackbeans people!
Last edited by North East Goon; 02-13-2008 at 11:44 AM.
Reason: spelling
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02-13-2008, 11:45 AM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Those bloody tree huggers ... they'll do anything to eliminate green house gasses.
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02-13-2008, 02:11 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan02
Theres 5 in Calgary.
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Since when?
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