Iranian train disaster..

[Reginald]

Terrible.

However one can't help but feel that this was a disaster waiting to happen...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3498851.stm

This has to add up to a lethal combination..

Some sources say the runaway train wagons - which included 17 wagons of sulphur, six wagons of petrol, seven wagons of fertilizers and 10 wagons of cotton wool .....

Certainly not lacking in power...

The blast shattered windows more than 10km (six miles) away and could be heard in the regional centre of Mashhad, 75km from the scene.

Mind you I suppose worse has been around the tracks here, best not to know I suppose.

 

[Ed]

Allah doesn't seem to happy with those folks.

 

[Jon_in_london]

Allah doesn't seem to happy with those folks.

Allah was just having fun smashing up his train set.

 

[Maledict]

*sigh*, Ed beat me to it.

 

[demon]

"Allah doesn't seem to happy with those folks"

Didn`t that Phelps guy say much the same thing about the the 9-11 attack?

 

[Ed]

"Allah doesn't seem to happy with those folks"

Didn`t that Phelps guy say much the same thing about the the 9-11 attack?

Maybe, if he did he was wrong. 9/11 was a wilfullact. These Iranian disasters are the clear work of the almightme.

 

[demon]

"... These Iranian disasters are the clear work of the almightme."

Doesn`t that makes them a willfull act too then?

 

[American]

Bubba saw the "No Smoking" sign. Bubba didn't care.

 

[Reginald]

Bubba saw the "No Smoking" sign. Bubba didn't care.

You must be great comfort to other members of society, demonstrating as you do that brain stem inactivity does not necessarily mean the end.

 

[jj]

Bubba saw the "No Smoking" sign. Bubba didn't care.

You left out the other half:

Bubba lit the ciggy
Bubba isn't there.

But that is an awful combination of stuff on one train.

 

[Skeptic]

I can't imagine who loaded that train.

--"Say, Ahmed, are you sure it's OK to put the petrol tanks next to the fertilizer and sulphur? Isn't there a regulation against that? Sounds dangerous..."

--"Sure! No problem! What's the worse that can happen?"

 

[Hutch]

I can't imagine who loaded that train.

--"Say, Ahmed, are you sure it's OK to put the petrol tanks next to the fertilizer and sulphur? Isn't there a regulation against that? Sounds dangerous..."

--"Sure! No problem! What's the worse that can happen?"

I see, therefore some Government regulations are a good thing? Not sure some of the more anti-gov folks here would like that.

Not sure I like this whole thread. People died in this and Ed, demon and rabbi figure it's time to make jokes. Folks qualifying for the Darwin Award, I chuckle at. A poor man and his family blown to pieces because they live where they can...sorry, I just don't find death worth more than a grim chuckle. Glad some can enjoy it.

 

[Skeptic]

I don't think people are enjoying this at all. It's that this accident is simply bizzare: whoever loaded the train with these sort of things?

 

[Ed]

I see, therefore some Government regulations are a good thing? Not sure some of the more anti-gov folks here would like that.

Not sure I like this whole thread. People died in this and Ed, demon and rabbi figure it's time to make jokes. Folks qualifying for the Darwin Award, I chuckle at. A poor man and his family blown to pieces because they live where they can...sorry, I just don't find death worth more than a grim chuckle. Glad some can enjoy it.

People die all of the time. So?