Explosion in St. Petersburg
It can be real breaking news - just one hour ago a big explosion happened in St. Petersburg downtown. Many local bloggers started posting photos of 16-stored house high fire. People say that the explosion was so loud that it was heard at all the parts of the Russia second most populated city. More updates would follow shortly. No comments from authorities were yet made. More photos and videos:
Here are two videos:
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and some Russian Photoshop lovers started already expressing their view on the subject, it symbolizes probably that in the lack of information any version is possible:
“It has gone.” This silver skyscraper building was planned to be built in historical center of the city and was not appreciated on a larger scale by local population. Also it correlates with a famous phrase by Mr. Putin at Larry King’s show when he was asked what has happened with “Kursk” submarine (sunk, 100+ dead). He answered: “It has sunk.”
And that’s Chumazik (Choomuhzeek), Russian first Internet hero. The predecessor of Glazastik. He appears each time when Photoshopers come to play.
“Allah Akbar” is written in Russian on this one.
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I do hope everybody is alright.
news is reporting gas pipeline explosion.
I just wish there could me more information released about this. Too bad CNN headline news here in the US is more concerned with Lindsay Lohan and her coke problem.
who is lindsay lohan ?
You really don’t want to know.
PS: why is my anti-spam keyword “stalin”?
How long ’til terrorists are blamed?
How long ’til someone claims FSB did it?
How long ’til they realise it was one hell of a gas explosion due to gross negligence?
Well that’s the cynicism over. It actually looks awesome (in the entirely literal sense, not in the ‘I love this band, awesome!’ way). Look at the size of the mushroom cloud, and how close is it to those cooling towers? Did a power-plant just explode?
Ah, it was a gas-pipe.
Go cynicism, yay!
Links to news stories -
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10453941
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22136636-5005961,00.html
i bet it was cheney trying to launch another attack on the american citizens, but he couldn’t read the map correctly
Impeach Cheney
Arrest Cheney and his little sock monkey, too. Then seize all their assets for
the children’s health care.
That is a good start. They have alot to answer for.
Ouch, hopefully no one was hurt. Also, there was another huge oil leak in in Canada just yesterday, but there was no big bang involved.
The British government did it in retaliation to Russia’s actions lately
Britain must be destroyed !
I heard they kissed and made up.
Just a couple days ago a 5 alarm fire wiped out a few buildings on my street. This St Petersburg shit pales in comparison.
“…happened in St. Petersburg downtown.”
- There is no downtown in Saint Petersburg.
- The explosion happened in close proximity to the city border.
should former SS officers be arrested even if there is no proof if they have committed any crimes? Discovery Channel openly interviews former SS members, who often make rather interesting comments like “… every man woman and child that died that day brought us closer to , if not victory, then satisfaction …” or ” .. it seemed that every civilian had armed himself … they had to be killed”; this _is_ irrelevant but please share an opinion;
i also hope that no one got hurt in the explosion; it was an ATS that blew up;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6916743.stm
It’s aproximately 6 km north-east of my 12-floored house (I’m living on 12). Some minutes past 00:00 thunderlike KABOOM banged and electricity blinked (in some houses it went off). When I looked in the window I’ve stared with my jaw fallen down - horizont in direction of explosion was all yellow-reddish and sky blinked of flames, that were higher than other 12-floored houses. At first I thought t’was heat and enrgy station blow, fortunately t’was only big gas pipe.
Perhaps the explosion may be causes by Peter Petrelli’s overheating due to watching so many miniskirt russian girls.
Damn terrorists
Looks like it’s a viral marketing campaign for JJ Abram’s “Cloverfield”. No one else is reporting it, and the person doesn’t seem scared by it.
If it IS in fact real, I sure as hell hope no one was hurt. That looks awfully bad.
Zangief wanted for questioning.
I doubt the transatlantic alliance can do much about this. . . hehe http://www.atlantic-community.org/index.php/articles/view/The_False_Choice_between_Cold_War_and_Warm_Gaslines
Maybe its like when the Chinese shot down that satellite with pinpoint accuracy; a sort of ‘if you needed evidence that we can sabotage _________, here it is’
Looks, bad. Those do look like nuclear cooling towers in the forground og the fire ball.
The picture of the column of fire does remind me of images of ‘86 Czernobyl..
If those are real, I do feel sorry for the people over there.
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