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Title: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Nick on August 05, 2020, 06:03:59 AM
Fvck moi. Did they say 200 tons of explosive in Beirut eeek: eeek:

Even BM couldn't destroy half a city with the stuff in his garage!!
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Barman on August 05, 2020, 06:53:28 AM
Fvck moi. Did they say 200 tons of explosive in Beirut eeek: eeek:

Even BM couldn't destroy half a city with the stuff in his garage!!

Amazing videos!  eeek:

Just like the explosion in Cyprus that destroyed the power station - seize a load of explosive material and then dump it somewhere for years...  noooo:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Nick on August 05, 2020, 07:01:57 AM
BBC has just said "thousands of tons"  eeek:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Uncle Mort on August 05, 2020, 07:15:27 AM
SS Richard Montgomery a WWII transport is still lyingin the Thames with over 1400 tons of explosives on board.  eeek:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Nick on August 05, 2020, 07:43:17 AM
 eveilgrin:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Steve on August 05, 2020, 07:56:14 AM
SS Richard Montgomery a WWII transport is still lyingin the Thames with over 1400 tons of explosives on board.  eeek:
Oh yes

I suppose they think 'well it's only Sheerness that we'd lose'
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: apc2010 on August 05, 2020, 09:27:32 AM
Firework factory ........ rubschin:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Nick on August 05, 2020, 09:35:29 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/04/beirut-explosion-huge-blast-port-lebanon-capital (https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/04/beirut-explosion-huge-blast-port-lebanon-capital)

 eeek:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Steve on August 05, 2020, 09:37:29 AM
Firework factory ........ rubschin:
Looks more complicated than that

It's looking like an idiot welder set off a fire in a warehouse of idiotly stored fireworks that set off this idiotly stored cache of what might or may not have been fuel loaded Ammonium Nitrate that had been there 6 years since the idiotly managed Moldovan-flagged cargo ship MV Rhosus went to Beirut in distress.  Did I mention 'idiotly'
  
And that big building next to the blast centre seems to have been Lebanon's main grain elevator, just great in a country already suffering severe food deprivation
 
(https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/2fe14d7bba2567e30636d9e634feef89)

Somewhere else in the world someone else is making idiot decisions on welding, fireworks storage and maybe even explosives storage - maybe somewhere near you dear reader facepalm:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Uncle Mort on August 05, 2020, 09:53:16 AM
Those who rail against "Health and Safety" ans "Risk Assessment" should have another think.
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Steve on August 05, 2020, 10:05:29 AM
Those who rail against "Health and Safety" ans "Risk Assessment" should have another think.
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Steve on August 05, 2020, 10:21:28 AM
jeez does this video capture just how horrible events like this can be

It's not graphic and the BBC say she is alive and recovering but it does stun somewhat

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsPR/status/1290912417774477312
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: apc2010 on August 05, 2020, 10:36:19 AM
Firework storage ... rubschin:   redface: redface: redface:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Barman on August 05, 2020, 10:37:55 AM
Firework storage ... rubschin:   redface: redface: redface:

 lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: apc2010 on August 05, 2020, 10:43:19 AM
Firework storage ... rubschin:   redface: redface: redface:

 lol: lol: lol:

I had thought about letting a couple off ..to watch reaction ......... eveilgrin:

I can do it from 50 metres ... whistle:
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Nick on August 05, 2020, 10:46:52 AM
You want to go 50 metres outside your house and set them off inside?  whacky115
Title: Re: The all new impressive bangs thread!
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 05, 2020, 11:13:11 AM
You want to go 50 metres outside your house and set them off inside?  whacky115

Is that the voice of experience talking?  rubschin: