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Crazed_Insanity
August 1st, 2014, 12:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxyjGNq0y5U

This seemed crazy. CA had experienced broken gas line that caused huge fires, but not explosions like this. This turned a southern city in Taiwan into like a war zone overnite. I'm not a civil engineer, but wondering if the city or gas company overlooked certain safety precautions...

Hope this won't happen again anywhere else in the world. Natural disasters or wars are one thing, but this really should not have happened... :(

speedpimp
August 1st, 2014, 01:37 PM
Holy crap.

Sad, little man
August 1st, 2014, 02:17 PM
I'm not a civil engineer, but wondering if the city or gas company overlooked certain safety precautions...
Safety precautions overlooked!? In China!!!?

I call bullshit.

MR2 Fan
August 1st, 2014, 03:30 PM
Safety precautions overlooked!? In China!!!?

I call bullshit.

You think Taiwan is part of China? you commie bastard!

Phil_SS
August 1st, 2014, 04:06 PM
Good lord! I guessing they don't have safety valves.

Yw-slayer
August 1st, 2014, 05:05 PM
*Waiting for LHutton to come by and pretend to know everything about the subject due to internet searches as part of his usual awkward, but ultimately unsuccessful, attempts to be accepted.*

samoht
August 2nd, 2014, 02:06 AM
Looks awful, like something out of a particularly unlikely disaster film.

I guess the Lac-Mégantic oil train crash is probably the most comparable, also caused by transporting oil through residential areas, although by train rather than by pipeline.

Sad, little man
August 2nd, 2014, 02:51 AM
You think Taiwan is part of China? you commie bastard!

I am an idiot. :o

MR2 Fan
August 2nd, 2014, 08:06 AM
I am an idiot. :o

no worries...we all know YW is the true commie bastard ;)

Jason
August 2nd, 2014, 09:03 AM
Holy shit. That was straight out of some movies I've seen. :o

Rare White Ape
August 4th, 2014, 08:22 PM
Only communist countries get to have cool things like that ):

overpowered
August 4th, 2014, 09:23 PM
You think Taiwan is part of China? you commie bastard!The official name of Taiwan is actually the Republic of China, and they consider all of China to be theirs.

Of course, the People's Republic of China considers Taiwan to be one of their provinces.

International recognition is a bit inconsistent to say the least.

Yw-slayer
August 4th, 2014, 10:46 PM
I think it's likely that he knew all that and was joking.

MR2 Fan
August 5th, 2014, 01:41 AM
I think it's likely that he knew all that and was joking.

;)