They're faint but they're there and they are indeed very haunting. No idea if you can still find it online but sure it's there somewhere.
Jesus. You can only hope Hell is real so that cunt can burn in it forever. Of all of the murderers I've read about in my life, he's up there among the most evil.
Chemicals/ammo dumps going up always make for quite mental reading. Never seen that photo before, although I assume the disaster itself must be somewhere on my tasteful spreadsheet. I'm sure there was a similar explosion in Halifax, Canada, and I know there was one in Staffordshire during WWII.I like reading about some of the older disasters more than the new ones, such as the Oppau explosion. That happened in Germany in 1921, where they had a big pile of ammonium nitrate sulphate which had hardened into rock. They needed to break it up to sell it as fertiliser but they had tested the pile and found that it was insensitive to detonation so they decided to break it up using dynamite. Ammonium nitrate is the stuff that went up in the Tianjin explosions and the rocky stuff turned out not to be insensitive to detonation after all. More than 500 people were killed and damage was done more than 50 miles away. The crater in the below picture is where the big pile used to be.
Shit, I really need to read up on these older disasters. I don't tend to go back much further than the 60s, but there's some fascinating stuff back in the black and white days. Can't remember the name of that one in Staffordshire, I'm sure it was during or just after the war.
Thought you might like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connellsville_train_wreck
And 50% of yours.
I don't normally laugh at children dying, but that tag had me howling yesterday
‘Abba fan crushed by slag’ doesn’t really have the gravitas the situation needs when you hear it out loud.I don't normally laugh at children dying, but that tag had me howling yesterday
Oh yes that was me. They loved it so much.
Jesus, I hope they don’t do the same thing to kids in Italy, they’d be spoilt for choice. ‘Now don’t be naughty or we’ll make you use public transport or cross a bridge’Growing up in Wales we would often get a wonderful retelling of the Aberfan disaster for story time at school every time the class misbehaved.
Omg the GENOA BRIDGE DISASTER! I was there LAST YEAR!
Mrs Roberts was awesome. Our teacher was far too soft, if kids misbehaved she rewarded them with an overnight stay at a fancy guest house in London (the Elms, if memory serves). Most of them liked it so much they never came back!
Was that not the film Threads?I remember when that nuclear bomb exploded over the Tinsley Viaduct up the road in Sheffield
Yes but what they didn’t tell you was that it happened in real life.
Having been to Sheffield a few times I guessed that. Mind you, lovely La Tasca on Eccleshall Road.
Oh I’ve never been there, or indeed anywhere on Ecclesall Road as it’s the opposite end to moi. I highly recommend Cutlery Works on you’re next visit, provided there isn’t a FORK DISASTER before then.
