LOL, you guys are the ones making the horrible parent assumption. I just said "Driving towards a burning chemical factory, is definitely not parenting 101." The guy made a mistake, but just because someone is ignorant of the situation, doesn't absolve you them any criticism.
A guy in a windowless 82 Econoline van pulled up beside me at a light today, and asked me where the nearest playground is. "I said two blocks thataway... I just saw 3 kids playing there a couple minutes ago."
Don't criticize me for endangering those children though, he seemed nice, and I didn't see the free Candy bumper sticker until he drove past me.
Whoa, I get you want to get the most hits on YouTube. But taking your kid that close to a white hot, flaming plant where they make stuff, that people make building leveling bombs out of? Definitely not parenting 101.
There's a pretty good chance they didn't know what kind of a plant was that exactly. Plus while hindsight is 20/20, there's a good chance the thought doesn't cross your mind at that moment.I mean it looks like it's kinda far away.
Note that he does say "bomb" but please don't read anything into it... Trimmed the silence out and started with what sounded like mutual aid responders reporting the explosion.
All it takes is a tanker full of gasoline and a psychopath driving the rig to blow up a fertilizer factory.
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Do you really think this was done by some psychopath? I'm willing to bet almost anything some safety precaution wasn't followed and a fire started and then it spread then it blew.
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All it takes is a tanker full of gasoline and a psychopath driving the rig to blow up a fertilizer factory.
Possibly, but very propably it's not that simple.
Based on what I've read, in real life it's usually pretty hard to get things to blow up in simple ways like that, both because preventive measures have been taken and because explosive things are generally not as volatile as people think.
Of course if someone actually knows what he is doing, for example because he has worked at that or a similar factory, then it becomes quite a different matter.
I admit, I'm still kind of expecting this to be a terrorist act, based purely on the timing.
Based on what I've read, in real life it's usually pretty hard to get things to blow up in simple ways like that, both because preventive measures have been taken and because explosive things are generally not as volatile as people think.
Of course if someone actually knows what he is doing, for example because he has worked at that or a similar factory, then it becomes quite a different matter.
I admit, I'm still kind of expecting this to be a terrorist act, based purely on the timing.
Even if it isn't, imagine that conversation when the President is told. Two massive fatal explosions in the country days apart, first reaction would be that the US is under attack again
Found this. There are two red tacks - one is supposed to indicate where the plant is, which I thought was the tack at the top of the picture and then looking at other pictures, it would seem to indicate the plant was at the tack nearer the bottom. The other marked locations are supposed to be areas affected by the explosion. The link mentions a gas leak ? which maybe is the other red tack?
People at an explosion say "a bomb went off" like people after a tornado say "a freight train went through the house". It's very rare that an actual locomotive was introduced into someone's living room.
OOh that building south looks to be a rest home! Wow.
The picture posted earlier, of the apartment looks to be about 150m to the west. Assuming sturdier construction of the apartment, those near-by houses are probably in their foundations.
