another preventable nightclub fire kills hundreds

N&P: Discuss governments, nations, politics and recent related news here.

Moderators: Alyrium Denryle, Edi, K. A. Pital

Post Reply
User avatar
Col. Crackpot
That Obnoxious Guy
Posts: 10228
Joined: 2002-10-28 05:04pm
Location: Rhode Island
Contact:

another preventable nightclub fire kills hundreds

Post by Col. Crackpot »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4136625.stm

this time in Argentina. 169 DEAD SO FAR. You;d think after 100 were killed and 200 maimed in Rhode Island last year the fucking owners of nightclubs would learn not to cover their walls wuth foam insulation. what a waste.
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” -Tom Clancy
Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
Sith Devotee
Posts: 3317
Joined: 2004-10-15 08:57pm
Location: Regina Nihilists' Guild Party Headquarters

Post by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba »

Damn club owners.
User avatar
Stofsk
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 12925
Joined: 2003-11-10 12:36am

Post by Stofsk »

Oh for fuck's sake. This new year is off to a great start...
Image
User avatar
1123581321
Padawan Learner
Posts: 209
Joined: 2004-09-20 11:22am
Location: San Diego, CA

Post by 1123581321 »

And the emergency exits were locked to prevent people from sneaking in. Some fuck better go to a nice South American prison for that one.
1 + 1 = 2; 1 + 2 = 3; 2 + 3 = 5; and so on...
User avatar
CaptainChewbacca
Browncoat Wookiee
Posts: 15746
Joined: 2003-05-06 02:36am
Location: Deep beneath Boatmurdered.

Post by CaptainChewbacca »

Stofsk wrote:Oh for fuck's sake. This new year is off to a great start...
*cough* old year *cough*
Stuart: The only problem is, I'm losing track of which universe I'm in.
You kinda look like Jesus. With a lightsaber.- Peregrin Toker
ImageImage
User avatar
Xenophobe3691
Sith Marauder
Posts: 4334
Joined: 2002-07-24 08:55am
Location: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Contact:

Post by Xenophobe3691 »

The funny part is, I was four blocks from that fire.

And it could easily have been preventable, but somebody had to light a fucking roman candle inside. Idiot.
Dark Heresy: Dance Macabre - Imperial Psyker Magnus Arterra

BoTM
Proud Decepticon

Post 666 Made on Fri Jul 04, 2003 @ 12:48 pm
Post 1337 made on Fri Aug 22, 2003 @ 9:18 am
Post 1492 Made on Fri Aug 29, 2003 @ 5:16 pm

Hail Xeno: Lord of Calculus -- Ace Pace
Image
User avatar
Broomstick
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 28822
Joined: 2004-01-02 07:04pm
Location: Industrial armpit of the US Midwest

Post by Broomstick »

People never learn

It always happens to those people who live far away over there.

Most of the time you lock the doors nothing Bad happens and you save money.

Then one day you're one of those people only now it's happening right here and you can't get the damned doors open. Don't you wonder how many people at that night club had heard about the Rhode Island disaster? (They did get international press, didn't it?)

I don't feel sorrow for the dead, I reserve that for those who are maimed yet will survive, who will have to return to what passes for normal life at some point with their scars and crippling and try to make their way in a world that will have forgotten their tragedy, and likely gone on to generate new ones.
User avatar
Glocksman
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 7233
Joined: 2002-09-03 06:43pm
Location: Mr. Five by Five

Post by Glocksman »

Xenophobe3691 wrote:The funny part is, I was four blocks from that fire.

And it could easily have been preventable, but somebody had to light a fucking roman candle inside. Idiot.
There's two groups of people that need to be prosecuted.
The person or persons who made the decision to lock the emergency exits instead of merely posting a bouncer at each door and the assholes who had to light fireworks fucking indoors. :roll:
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier

Oderint dum metuant
User avatar
Xon
Sith Acolyte
Posts: 6206
Joined: 2002-07-16 06:12am
Location: Western Australia

Post by Xon »

Why werent the emergency exits the type which are locked from the outside but can be opened form the inside?
"Okay, I'll have the truth with a side order of clarity." ~ Dr. Daniel Jackson.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." ~ Stephen Colbert
"One Drive, One Partition, the One True Path" ~ ars technica forums - warrens - on hhd partitioning schemes.
User avatar
Soontir C'boath
SG-14: Fuck the Medic!
Posts: 6844
Joined: 2002-07-06 12:15am
Location: Queens, NYC I DON'T FUCKING CARE IF MANHATTEN IS CONSIDERED NYC!! I'M IN IT ASSHOLE!!!
Contact:

Post by Soontir C'boath »

ggs wrote:Why werent the emergency exits the type which are locked from the outside but can be opened form the inside?
Well, considering it would seem they didn't have "bouncers," people from the inside could easily open them to sneak people in. Thus to the boss, it wouldn't be profitable.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
Post Reply