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    Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    Is Zhuzhou the Chinese word for "Minneapolis?"


    I was going to say that dang, those Chinese evidently can build something right, the bridge took it and held up for a while...but no.


    The Chinese evidently make lousy explosives.

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    Image of maximum-sienna maximum-sienna
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    Expect swift government action against the protestors.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    05/20/09

    @maximum-sienna: That is a picture of the Strongest Man in the World.


    I have no idea what was in those shopping bags, but I suspect they were for carrying his balls.


    I will never forget the footage: tanks shift to one side, man moves over to continue blocking tanks. Tanks stop. Repeat.


    After about five minutes of that, people rushed out to drag that guy out of the street. I hope someone gave him a medal. Knowing China though, he probably just got a bullet in the head and dumped somewhere.


    China would be an awesome, inspirational place...if not for her government.

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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    The message that this and so many other stories coming out of China delivers is that human life isn't worth much.


    Those are values worth mocking.

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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    05/20/09

    @Alfisted: I was almost going to say this. That's the reason that people freak out over a plane crash or a missing kid in the US, but don't pay much attention to 100,000 people dying in a Bangladesh flood. We tend to write things off a little more easily when we feel a nation or organization treats human life like a commodity to begin with (ie "They don't even care about their people, so why should we?")


    But in reality, those mothers and fathers and siblings are still suffering just the same as anyone else.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    Obviously the Chinese government has already filtered this news. 9 people and 24 vehicles? That's not exactly believable. 24 vehicles and 250 people is more believable.


    In all seriousness, this is a tragedy and points to the problems with expanding infrastructure too fast and with lax standards.

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    Image of Analyst Analyst
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    To people make fun of this: nine people died. It's not funny.


    And read the article before posting comments. The bridge didn't collapse because it was badly built. It was a condemned bridge, and they tried to level it with explosives. But the bridge didn't implode and idiots allowed traffic to continue underneath.

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    05/20/09

    @Analyst: Since when did people dying preclude finding funny points? And just because you don't approve of the funning, doesn't mean we won't continue looking for the joke.


    You have to laugh to keep from crying.

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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    Overheard after the attempted demolition: "Honorable bridge much stronger than we thought. Just leave it up - it surely won't give in to mother nature after withstanding our demolition experts."
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    Image of dopplerd dopplerd
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    As long as they keep their substandard products and lack of regulation out of the US. If, however, we start getting things like toxic drywall and lead painted toys then the shit will really hit the fan. Wait, what's that you say...
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    05/20/09

    @dopplerd: There is a fine line between sarcasm, wit, and racism. You are on the side that makes me unhappy.
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    Image of bzr bzr
    05/20/09

    @dopplerd: Are you serious? What does that have to do with anything? Piss off.
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    Image of Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    Chinese Blidge Corrapse Kirr nine, Incite Rocal Outlage.


    Fixed that for ya!


    By the way, my handcart to hell leaves this afternoon. Free Parking on the ninth level. I'll see you on the eighth. Thats the party level.

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    Image of jodark jodark
    05/20/09

    @Prawo Jazdy And The Velocity Trumpets: I think you mean your "lickshaw to Herr." I have little Chinaman who know shortcut.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/20/09

    @jodark: He's great, I heard he learned at Wong's Driving School in San Fran.


    "Learn to drive the Wong way!"


    Yes, this place actually exists, though I made up the slogan. Here's a streetview link.


    [tinyurl.com]

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    05/20/09

    @Prawo Jazdy And The Velocity Trumpets: "That's the Communist Party level."


    Fixed!

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    Image of bzr bzr
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    Wow. Cliche jokes aside, my condolences to those who died.
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    "In rapid response to the collapsed bridge deaths, China mobilized its portable death vans to administer retribution on the officials responsible for the situation. However, it was reported that the death vans were unable to access the city of ZhuZhou when the highway ended abruptly at the scene of the collapse."
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    Now, I'm not a fancy big city demolitions expert...


    /pulls suspender straps dramatically away from chest


    ...but how in the name of Mao can you screw up a bridge demolition?!?

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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    05/20/09

    @Cognitive Friction: For starters, you use high spec. explosives, not leftover m-80's and black-cats from the Chinese new year to bring the bridge down.
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    Image of MissingPieces MissingPieces
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    What bridge did they copy when they built it?
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    Image of Analyst Analyst
    05/20/09

    @MissingPieces:


    Read. The. Article.

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/20/09

    @Analyst: The. Article. Doesn't. Answer. The. Question.
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    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    Apparently someone in control over there still has an opium problem. That's the only explanation that works, dude was so high he thought it was a good idea to let traffic keep driving under that bridge.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/20/09

    @OldeEnglishD: Hated chinee/He smoke opium/He smoke it all night long/And boy, it fucks with him!


    --Steve Albini, while in Rapeman. Nobody knows why.

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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    Any word on what kind of cars got crushed? I'm thinking several Buicks, maybe a few Geelys, and a whole bunch of little Daihatsu vans with motorcycle engines.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    05/20/09

    In reply to Chinese Bridge Collapse Kills Nine, Incites Local Outrage
    You could say that they went a "Bridge too Far"


    [instantrimshot.com]

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