Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Fascinating Horror" channel.

  1. I can totally forgive companies for mistakenly thinking that it was safe, given the prevailing wisdom, but I can't forgive the slurring and dismissal of victims. To write that one girl off as having died of syphillis was a really nasty stain on character.
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  2. I try never entrust my life to the integrity or judgement of another human being any more. I drive defensively, don't fly, prefer to ride the back of trains, and try to avoid tall buildings. These owners do NOT have our interests at heart. Not in the slightest.
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  3.  @MikinessAnalog  A large passenger ship that crashed in the Mediterranean. He was showing off to his girlfriend and crashed the ship. He also left early while it was sinking.
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  4. What I took from that, was the fact that she was stubborn, arrogant, and when she could have shouted warnings and saved lives, she didn't.
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  5. Can you imagine being the parents on set and seeing that happening?! This was f***ing disgraceful. Landis' behaviour afterwards screams "Me me me!" He should never have made another movie, and it makess you wonder about the studios that hired him. At least Spielberg comes out of this looking somewhat principled.
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  6. There were 300,000 people there and 63 spectators died. Your chances of dying even if you were there, was minute.
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  7. That boy's courage gained him immortality a way that most of us will never achieve. A tragic way to do so, but he will be remembered long after most of us are forgotten. In the normal course of things, it's doubtful that anyone, even his decendants would even remember his name today.
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  8. The police should all have been fired for that incident. The operator actually didn't believe him, and the poor lad died from positional asphyxia. It was f***ing inexcusable.
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  9. This was appalling criminal negligence to take a group of children out in such challenging country when bad weather was forecast.
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  10.  @sarabachmann2837  Oh wow, that's despicable.
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  11. Yeah, it's completely outrageous how how callous the hotel was with their guests' safety.
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  12. Usually with these stories, I feel like some of the participants were wilfully, callously negligent, but in this case, it feels like none of them comprehended the risk.
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  13. 100%. These bastards should always get life in prison but instead they are rarely held accountable at all.
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  14. It's ALWAYS about money somewhere.
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  15. Is there any rule against owning an armoured vehicle?
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  16.  @foximacentauri7891  The OP said "probably saved our lives." That's what I addressed.
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  17.  @MrArgus11111  Clearly having the instructor in the plane was not sufficient. You say "1 crash in the 70's" but the FAA considered this single incident a serious enough indicator of risk to change air field policy across the nation. It's like saying of the Titanic "1 sinking the early 1900's."
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  18. There are dozens of modern fireproofing materials that I would trust more than baking soda. And where are you supposed to spray it? Every surface of your building? Spraying furnishings with water and baking soda is certainly going to be destructive. If you care about fire risk, keep fire extinguishers and don't keep open flames in a wooden buildng.
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  19. I've always considered technical air demonstrations to be nothing but pathetic dick waving where the audience are the ones that unknowingly roll the dice with their lives. Yet another case where it's lunacy to trust to the competence to so-called "experts." These sort of air displays should be banned world-wide. Seeing the names of children and tots on that memorial is especially heartbreaking.
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  20.  @KaladinVegapunk  Same with asbestos and asbestosis, fibre glass manufacture and lung conditions, coal mining and black lung. So much we didn't know was harmful.
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  21. You'd think that that would be shunted off to extremely quiet rural airstrips wouldn't you?
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  22.  @rustybucket5465  Riiiight - like people didn't die in their thousands in Texas and Florida due to the wilful anti-vax stupidity of their GOP leaders...
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  23. Yeah, same with lead, and tobacco, and thalidomide. Numerous products in fact.
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  24.  @markrichards636  In the early days, the world thought that not only was it safe, but it was beneficial.
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  25.  @173jaSon371  Not quite the same. Lots of people make extremely dangerous products without understanding them. So long as they can follow instructions precisely and have safety measures in place, you'd hope things would be okay. Admittedly, the owner was horribly negligent, but I bet no employee at a fireworks factory understands the properties of what they are creating.
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  26. If there was a God that cared, they wouldn't be dead now would they? 🤣
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  27.  @NucleaRaptor  Not the point at all.
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  28. Risking his life for a thrill, and then not even checking his own equipment. What a fool.
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  29. Every single story on your channel simply confirms my absolute belief that in a disaster, you should NEVER entrust your survival to other people; other people supposedly taking care of safety precautions, or other people to rescue you. So-called experts are massively incompetent, reckless, careless, and fantastically stupid. The idea of simply sitting in a room while an inferno of that degree rages around you is simply incomprehensible to me.
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  30. "Stay where you are" Advice I would never heed when a ship is listing. My mother scarred me as a child by telling me to always obey adults. It did not serve me well with the creeps in her church. These are examples of why I never trust other people with my safety if I can help it any more. At best, they are incompetent, and at worst they are outright cowardly and evil. SOOO much incompetence in this case. All of that said, if the safety training budget was just $2, and the captain was off duty when it went down, why the hell did HE receive a life sentence? The people going to prison should have been the ship's owners, not any of the crew. He was a sacrificial lamb to sate public anger.
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  31. This is why you need regulatory bodies. Course, now you all voted for Trump, there will be far less oversight. The idea that the owner was allowed to get away with it because her was an FBI snitch is appalling. 15 years in prison was a gift.
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  32. It amazes me that so many lives are in the hands of a single person.
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  33.  @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823  It's disgusting. There is always a compromise between safety and utility, but the more lives are affected, the greater that should err towards safety. The slapdash way that Fukishima plant was run, as well as the Windscale plant in Britain, and the entire nuclear weapons arsenal of the USA is appalling.
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  34.  @janicesullivan8942  In a train crash, I always consider that the further you are from the bit having the direct impact the greater your survival chances. I do try to avoid large crowds although I LOVE people, especially tourists in London. I hate the thought of my exits being restricted by bodies though. The situation in Israel this week (and Hillsboro) attest to the dangers of crowds.
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  35.  @tonykrizan3641  Yeah, but judging by all the comments, they KNEW that the chemical she'd worked with caused it so...
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  36. Ahh loving Christians and their imaginary friend failing them utterly.
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  37. "[the next quake] should be nowhere as destructive as the quake that changed the face of the city in 1906" The population density is way higher, the buildings are taller, and if this channel has taught me anything, it's that building codes and lives mean nothing when there's a nickel to be saved by construction companies. Also can we stop and consider the immensity of the land moving 6 meters in under a minute.Not sure how ANY building on top of that, or the resulting sinkholes could possibly survive.
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  38.  @Walamonga1313  Given that the computer KNEW that radium was problematic by that stage, it would have been most prudent to at least withhold speculation until a definitive answer could be demonstrated, especially when the speculation was so scurrilous.
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  39.  @sudonum3108  Yes, he talked about that in this video. Seems like an insane justification - like removing lifebelts from a pier because they might tempt people to swim.
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  40. It enrages me beyond expression to see the total contempt (as with the Titanic) that these owners have for human lives; especially the working class. And then the sc*m get away without punishment.
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  41.  @SteRDLK  Go away.
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  42.  @thegriffin88  100% That's why there's such a high mortality rate among teens and early 20 - a sense of immortality. First serious injury cures that.
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  43.  @LittleKitty22  Awww, dida little kitty not like the disagweeing words? I'm sure you can find a nice fluffy safe space to hide in. I guess not mature enough for an adult who calls herself "Little Kitty" huh? 🤣🤣🤣
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  44.  @Lie-wr7bq  My comment was supportive of Spielberg. Your explanation only makes me like him more.
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  45.  @kam2894  I don't expect to be fully safe, but I simply prefer to take as much control over the things that affect my safety as possible.
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  46. 🤗
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  47. Let's just stop and note that Ford declined to recall dangerous vehicles that had just killed two dozen people. :-(
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  48. It blows my mind that they would place a runway that aims directly into heavily crowded residential or commercial areas.
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  49.  @colemarie9262  Yes Cole, that's EXACTLY how I perceived it.
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  50. Me too - I mean, ginger, what a huge set back! ;-)
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  51.  @kimifur  No. You'd have to deliberately go out of your way to misinterpret his meaning to take that interpretation. And no, it was 67 INCLUDING 3 pilots.
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  52.  @DON666  Put your flapping hanky down Don. The OP melodramatically claimed that s/he had a brush with death as a away to inject themself into the story. This is not a question of empathy but honesty.
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  53.  @volvo09  Yes, I can understand a difference in weather at different elevations. I was surprised that the weather could catch them by surprise is all. After all, they predict the weather on Everest, and that's high.
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  54.  @beatbasher  Wow really? That makes it all the more unforgivable that these people took inexperienced children to such a place when the weather forecast was already bad, and even worse that the pursuit centre allowed it. They should all have been up on manslaughter charges.
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  55. Never trust your safety to a minimum wage employee...
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  56.  @Alex-cb2gf  Oh I hadn't heard of that one!
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  57. It makes a change for the cause to be simple oversight rather than shameless cost cutting or wilful negligence.
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  58. Smart kid - I like him a lot. But he was dangerously obsessed. And of course, they destroyed what they couldn't control.
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  59.  @mtadams2009  Odd post. "I am fine just knowing he is ok." and telling strangers about it. This wasn't about you, but ok.
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  60.  @173jaSon371  Yes, I totally agree.
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  61. Did the cow recover?
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  62. I genuinely do have sympathy for the gas company in this situation, after all, they couldn't be expected to account for chemical reactions with someone else's pipework. However, I absolutely blame whoever authorised a gasoline pipeline under a city, and I absolutely blame the firechief who wilfully mislead the citizens for what? Convenience?
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  63.  @midgie1166  Prove it.
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  64. Those three who jumped into the pool were total idiots. They worked in a park famed for its scalding geysers and springs, they had accommodation IN the park, they ended up jumping INTO the scalding water, then Buchi had the front to try to sue the park for not marking trails off-limits at night, as though employees LIKE HIM should rush around putting up cordons every night over thousands of square miles of park. Buddy, it doesn't matter how idiot-proof they make it, idiots like you will always find a way to f*ck up.
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  65.  @knife-wieldingspidergod5059  Just Lance Buchi. The case was rightly thrown out of court. I feel great sympathy for them - ebullience of youth and all that, plus, he is expected to have lifelong medical issues, but you can't sue other people for your stupidity.
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  66.  @kimifur  I stand corrected. I did look it up before posting, but I must have gotten the numbers mixed up.
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  67.  @kimifur  👍
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  68.  @marcwilliams9824  😁
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  69. How on earth can the forecast change from clear to extreme that quickly?
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  70.  @beatbasher  Agreed, and they should have done too!
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  71.  @jfangm  Yeah, my thought exactly. How these people thought that REMOVING the existing shelters was improving matters, I can't fathom.
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  72.  @ADDrecords  If you don't understand how "lesser of two evils" works, and you don't understand probability, you'd be better off staying away from grown up conversations.
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  73. In the early 1970s in fairly rural Essex, I remember several days going to school when the fog was so thick I literally could not see my own outstretched hand in front of me.
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  74. Adding extra landing delay to a plane in chronic distress seems moronic. I'd sooner take the gamble of landing with too much fuel, or a sea landing.
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  75. Yet again, greed caused it. They should have got life sentences.
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  76. What I take from this, is the fact that Japan turned DOWN US assistance that could have saved dozens of lives. Goddamned ego.
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  77.  @alansteel  Yeah, horrific. Even now, I imagiine hearing about must be excruciating.
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  78. All those deaths over goddamned working conditions? I hope every second of their lives in prison has been excruciating.
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  79. There's only so many times you can watch exactly the same "Greedy/lazy/incompetent builders/owners and/or corrupt officials/architects/politicians - lots of people died horribly" stories before you develop contempt for the human race and stop watching. Stories of man's misfortune against the elements, or against unpredictable forces are more interesting. These hotel/store/apartment fire/collapse stories all blur together after a while.
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  80. He was a total idiot whose recklessness ultimately cost two other lives. They should have crushed the bus and discarded the steel rather than making it a mecca for other idiots.
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  81. Annnnd yet again, some bastards trying to save money costs lives.
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  82. The woman abandonded her children in the first place?! The "Snowdrop inn" because the "People crushed to death Inn" is not quite as welcoming huh?
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  83.  @Nazareth69420  Nobody wants to die on the roads either, but carelessness, badly maintained vehicles/planes, faulty parts, bad design. There are a million things that can go wrong beyond the pilots' control.
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  84.  @mwebb1495  Yes, it's appalling. And over 30,000 gun deaths. The tools we make to make our lives easier of safer have a high cost.
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  85.  @majungasaurusaaaa  "The silly ones are the ones walking around feeling entitled to everyone ensuring their utmost safety " yes, I agree 100%
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  86. Exactly trhe reason I don't fly. I hate placing my life under the control of other people.
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  87. Poor sods, sitting there, looking forwards to seeing their loved ones, and then their lives violently and unexpectedly snuffed out.
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  88. You may wish to report on the Mangatepopo canyoning disaster as well.
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  89. They're not lessons that stick though because there will ALWAYS be some dick construction or engineering firm willing to cut corners and risk lives for the sake of $100. The Florida University Skywalk collapsed in 2018!!!
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  90.  @mikeymike9926  Yeah, I saw that at the end of this piece. Appalling lack of thought by the planners.
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  91. It seems grossly irresponsible to assign a driver in charge of 60 lives to be running a new route without first having been showed it. I think the company should have shoudered the blame for unsafe practices. To say nothing of a bridge that could simply be driven off while open.
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  92. These greedy, arrogant bastards risking people's lives is bad enough, but the cover ups are what truly disgusts me.
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  93.  @StAlphonsusHasAPosse  Yes, I'm here for all the Christian hypocrites. I see your name on my list.
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  94.  @Skills4J00  Awww did I hurt your pwetend fwiend's feewings?
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  95.  @eadecamp  No you're right, a fight breaking out in church - just like Jesus taught right? 🤣
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  96.  @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823  Absolutely.
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  97. But seriously, who the hell entrusts their life to a wooden platform that has been exposed to the elements for years over a 100 foot drop?!
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  98. No, the ride should have been massively over-engineered, and adequate security. Kids will be kids - dumb as they are.
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  99.  @IN_THIS_DAY_AND_AGE  The security has to be sufficient to stop people exceeding the engineering. Given that they had pulled this prank repeatedly, the fact that the park was not prepared was unforgivable.
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  100. ROFL!
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  101. Contrast this captain who presided over an orderly evacuation, checked the plane twice before leaving last and continuing to orchestrate the safest possible evacuation with no fatalities, to the captain of the Concordia cruise ship, who CAUSED the crash while showing off to his new girlfriend, was one of the first off the ship, where, thanks to his ineptitude, 32 people died.
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  102. At least Deacon's death was comedy gold. He should have prayed for help :-/
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  103. @BOWIEof HORSES Thank you. It's nice that youu recognise your betters.
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  104. It disgusts me that such an obvious precaution as not driving a lorry fully of high explosive through a densely populated area were not absolute common sense. Greed, and as long as the company was allowed to get away so lightly, where's the incentive to others to do better?
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  105.  @pootispiker2866  Exactly.
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  106. "The department of conservation" apparently not.
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  107. Interesting side note: the actress who played Alex Kintner's mother in Jaws just died of Covid-19. Alex Kintner now owns a seafood restaurant.
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  108. These are such a ludicrous form of transport. Went on one in Tignes France, and a small plane flew UNDERNEATH the car while it was ascending. Almost zero survivability in case of a disaster.
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  109.  @c0c0asauce  I don't think that they should be expected to consider the misinstallation of other people's pipelines.
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  110.  @c0c0asauce  Not quite sure how you would inspect the full length of an underground, gasoline filled pipeline weekly?
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  111.  @c0c0asauce  They DID smell gas and immediately launched an investigation. But what if that gasoline was simply seeping into the ground 6 feet down rather than into the sewers? There might never have been an outwards sign. It seems to me that sniffing for gasoline is a very imprecise and imperfect solution. I thought you might know of something a bit more dependable.
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  112.  @c0c0asauce  That's a fair question but if the leak occurred over months, perhaps the pressure drop was imperceptible?
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  113.  @c0c0asauce  Yes, I understood what you were saying, but what if the pipe is pushing ten thousand gallons a minute, and the margin of error for measurment is +/- 1% - that's still a lot of misplaced fuel over 3 months.
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  114. French people "We love our departed so much their corpses must be buried close by." Also French people "Let's make candles and soap from their decaying corpses".
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  115. Any time you see a ride like this, remember, you are literally placing your life into the hands of people who are propbably paid minimum wage, probably bored or disgruntled, usually young, and definitely disinterested. Compound that with the fact that the primary motivation of the owners is money not your safety. How many times do we see such cases and it's down to negligence, arrogance or greed.
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  116.  @andyrob3259  I take responsibility for my own and the safety of dozens of other people. But please tell me how a 10 year old boy was supposed to take responsibility for the water ride that launched his boat into the air and decapitated him due to the owner's unqualified calculation of downwards velocity. Tell me why it's reasonable that a legless man should be expected to read the fine print before embarking on a ride? Tell me how people in a haunted house ride could take responsibility for the fact that the ride caught fire? Also, I was suggesting that you DO NOT embark on these rides - the ultimate example of risk assessment and responsibility taking! Your comment really was breathtakingly ill considered.
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  117.  @awesometwitchy  That's excellent to know. So why do people die on them routinely? Doesn't matter how good the automated systems are, if people are not strapped in properly, maintenance is incorrectly or irregularly performed, or the staff fail their due dilligence in a dozen other ways. This case LITERALLY refutes the counter comment that you just made.
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  118.  @arturoaguilar6002  I don't blame untrained staff for panicking under extreme pressure.
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  119.  @marcwilliams9824  Absolutely spot on Marc!
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  120.  @ohauss  Please cry harder for me. 😭😭😭
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  121. If two 6 foot fences and multiple signs are not enough deterrent, what else could be? Machine gun emplacements and electric fences? The last thing a park wants is a memorial to all the fools who died breaking the rules.
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  122.  @j_gibbon  Oh yes, I completely believe you. I just find it inconceivable that weather that takes hours to form can catch people totally by surprise. But from what you're saying this is fog rather than clouds that caught you out?
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  123.  @j_gibbon  Wow!
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  124.  @vladivosdog  He deleted his comment.
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  125. Whoever designed these safety systems should be shot. This was utterly predictable. I hate riding the funicular at Tignes, but then halfway up you switch to a giant superhigh gondola, and I've witnessed goddamned small planes fly UNDER the cables. The whole resort is a disaster waiting to happen.
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  126. I thought the Isla Bublar incident involved a T-rex and velociraptors?
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  127.  @ianstoyan  Absolutely Ian!
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  128. What I take from this, is that absolutely not a single person gave a damn about choir practice. If I was the choir master, I'd quit.
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  129.  Noodle Danger  And more if he crashes into another vehicle and causes a pileup.
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  130. Vince Coleman - a true hero.
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  131.  @slyguythreeonetwonine3172  Perfect description.
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  132.  @Island_Line_Rail_Productions  Not in 1978
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  133. So Carrington was the first to identify the event that shared his name. What are the chances huh? ;-)
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  134. It's f*cking appalling how casual these professionals were about protocols affecting people's lives.
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  135. At least the driver was imprisoned. It was not remotely "paying for it" - he should have been executed - but it's better than nothing.
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  136. "The worst poem ever written" 😆 What a bizarre thing to mention in context of this story!
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  137.  @alisonwilson9749  😄
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  138.  @alisonwilson9749  Just read it. It is pretty awful!
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  139. One of the more poignant pieces of history because of the bodies, but I prefer the paleolithic footprints in British mud, which speak of a happier past.
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  140. The saddest part about this, is that people are trying to make something beautiful. Trying to make a tiny part of the world nicer. I never, EVER mess with electricity.
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  141. What the hell were these morons thinking? They've never wondered why buildings have deep foundations?
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  142.  @janicesullivan8942  Perhaps so, but at least it's going the same direction!
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  143.  @Nazareth69420  You're right of course, your odds of dying in a plane crash is tiny compared to a car, but you can drive defensively, take evasive action, avoid heavy traffic or busy periods in a car. In a plane that goes wrong, your only option is spreading your body parts over a field or feeding fish.
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  144.  @mr.blackhawk142  Absolutely. I've been driven off the road from behind. Never again.
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  145.  @jadedheartsz  I feel you on that.
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  146.  @lasagnakob9908  Their workers who were licking radium brushes coated in it?
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  147.  @cosmicnixx7658  Yeah, repugnant.
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  148.  @shaymorcormick8743  The people who made those decisions should have hung for them.
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  149.  @shaymorcormick8743  OMG that's horrific. And just bear in mind that almost every major corporation today is precisely as immoral. Most of them are contributing to the extinction of life on Earth for goodness sakes!
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  150.  @lisaswinson8187  It's utterly despicable!
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  151.  @chaosoutoforder2969  Yeah, despicable.
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  152.  @melisentiapheiffer3034  I don't think it's that deliberate - I think they simply didn't give a damn.
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