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Duck and Cover Cameraman..I'm warning ya...

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Edited by - thebigthug on Nov 21 2003 4:56 PM

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Damn!



Edited by - tritonal on Nov 21 2003 5:45 PM

Damn! is right. Knowing myself, as some do. It'd be entirely possible I would of been laying down on my stomach before the first big explosion. But would of crawled to the edge, closest to the fireworks.

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One of my girlfriends' relatives (a cousin I think) died in a fireworks factory "incident". She said it wasn't too pretty. Don't remember the details though.

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Anybody speak German (I'm assuming that's what it was) well enough to translate the bit at the end? My guess is that it's something to the effect of:

"<i>And as you can see from the amateur video here, this final explosion was indeed a large one. However, the dumb motherf&#$er taping the incident did not learn from his previous mistake, getting knocked down only a minute earlier from a similar one. After the tape was turned in and viewed, some of our interns beat the man severely with cane poles. Back to you, Heinrich.</i>"

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Edited by - kingfrogger on Nov 21 2003 11:38 PM

It's not German, but Dutch..

Ah, I gotcha now. Well, anyone speak Dutch around here?

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Well, I speak dutch and I'll translate it for ya



<i>"You see the images in slow motion. You can see clearly how powerfull the last explosion was. The roofs are blown of the houses"</i>

Thats all ...

This explosion happened a few years back in Holland.

Here are a few links
http://www.emergency-management.net/enschede_pic.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/05/13/netherlands.explosion.02/

If you close your eyes it sounds a lot like small-arms fire interspersed with arty.

Too bad the vid wasn't at night. Woulda been a much cooler light show.

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...at night filmed with an NV lens... or infrared camera.

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If you close your eyes it sounds a lot like small-arms fire interspersed with arty.

Too bad the vid wasn't at night. Woulda been a much cooler light show.

<img src="http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/sigs/snipersig.jpg " border=0>
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Overkill??? I'd kill a fly with a howitzer if I had one.

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Frogger you make it to easy on me.... but I'll be nice this time <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>

Overkill??? I'd kill a fly with a howitzer if I had one.

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Anyone know when this incident occurred?

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You're probably lookin' for something a bit more specific... of which I have no knowledge.

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For that matter, who needs to think?

I prefer the "mindless zombie" approach myself. It's gotten me further in life than rational thinking ever would... <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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How about rational thinking...when everyone <i>thinks</i> your a mindless zombie?

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Anyone know when this incident occurred?

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it happened May 13. in 2000.
13?!?!

22 people died, about 800 injured, heres another link
http://www.itc.nl/personal/hofstee/firework.html

a satellite-pic:
http://www-imk.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/ ... tsp106.htm

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