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Holy fucking shit explosions and oh jeez

Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLYT O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
edited August 2008 in Social Entropy++
I'm in bed sleeping and there's a sound like fifty china cabinets falling down all at once, walk out of my room to see what it was and it takes me a moment to see that there's been an explosion in Downsview park and the glass is bent out of the frame and there's shit like shrapnel or something all over my floor.

So I grabbed my cat and sat in the lobby, apparently the Bombardier plant is flat and it's all flames all around, all surrounding buildings are flat and its a sea of flames. Aftershocks continue to shake cars and cops are streaming past our building.

This sounds a lot less exciting than it actually was.

Have you ever been shocked and awed by explosions?

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  • DeadlySherpaDeadlySherpa Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    channel 24 says 2 dead at oil refinery on Wilson near Keele, fireball from the scene shot out and so on, not too much detail though, no footage yet, just writing it under their regular programming

    they updated it to 2 hurt

    wtf is going on toronto?

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  • NadsNads Bob Ducca Asleep in a cul-de-sac.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    I blame this on the mob.



    If the mob is reading this, this post is in all good humor. I'll get you your money, I swear, just stop harassing my mother at work. Her boss is getting a bit annoyed.

    Nads on
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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    what? where is this and are you sure its not a dream?

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  • Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Hooly fuck guys holy shit there's been explosions at the airpotrt holy shit

    Bombardier's Tesky building or whatever it';s called is levelled along with anything neartby, the area's covered in fire

    Shiiiiiiiiit

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    holy fuck

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    whoa

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  • guruslothgurusloth Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I like that the first thing you do is make poast about it

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Are none of you taking pictures? The rest of us need to see this.

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  • DeadlySherpaDeadlySherpa Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Are none of you taking pictures? The rest of us need to see this.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    one time three tornadoes tried to kill me
    BOSS

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  • Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    gurusloth wrote: »
    I like that the first thing you do is make poast about it

    No, the first thing I did is grab my cat and run out to the lobby, I've been hanging in the lobby for an hour. I only made poast once cops were surrounding our building to prepare for possible evacuation.

    (p.s. this is actually Cass, shit)

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    where is this?

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    where the fuck are you guys?

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  • ComahawkComahawk Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    big badda boom

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    where the fuck are you guys?

    Keele and Wilson right off the 401. The explosions happened... a five minute drive from us? I don't think we were ever in serious danger because of fast response but fuuuuuck. This was about an hour ag

    EDIT: Toronto, in case i didnt mention that

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  • delphinusdelphinus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    the guys over at neogaf are going apeshit
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    for those who dont know
    the explosion is in toronto and large enough to shake house from across the city

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    dread you guys okay?
    any windows busted etc? animals freaked?

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    im not seeing any news yet?

    (blame russia)

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    what the hell happened

    some sort of factory exploded?

    'bombardier', was it an arms production facility or something

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Barcardi wrote: »
    im not seeing any news yet?

    (blame russia)

    IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA, NEWS WATCHES YOU!

    Indie Winter on
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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    holy piss

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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    so what type of building was it that exploded again

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  • Dely AppleDely Apple Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    what the hell happened

    some sort of factory exploded?

    bombardier, was it an arms production facility or something

    bomby blew up, mully seen fleeing the scene

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    what the hell happened

    some sort of factory exploded?

    bombardier, was it an arms production facility or something

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/member.php?u=1233

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    whoa

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Fallout wrote: »
    what the hell happened

    some sort of factory exploded?

    bombardier, was it an arms production facility or something

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/member.php?u=1233
    Join Date: 12-31-1969

    conspiracy...

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  • NadsNads Bob Ducca Asleep in a cul-de-sac.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    Dely, is your sig from a Bird and the Bee video?

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  • delphinusdelphinus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    what the hell happened

    some sort of factory exploded?

    'bombardier', was it an arms production facility or something

    reports are comin in on twitter that its a shell gas station / oil refinery

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Windows blown out, but not broken - just bent out of the frame. Our cat freaked out for a while but he's just a bit antsy now. Everyone is ok. Evacuation is unlikely for this area - though other parts of toronto may be.

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  • KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    i feel like biking there for the aftermath

    i have way too much energy for five am

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  • SwashbucklerXXSwashbucklerXX Swashbucklin' Canuck Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Yeeah, at Bathurst and Sheppard here. Giant booms woke us up about an hour ago and we've been trying to get news ever since because they just kept happening and happening. 680 News Radio now reports that the Keele and Wilson neighbourhood is being evacuated and that the explosion was an "oil depot".

    I hope any of y'all in the area are ok.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
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  • delphinusdelphinus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Windows blown out, but not broken - just bent out of the frame. Our cat freaked out for a while but he's just a bit antsy now. Everyone is ok. Evacuation is unlikely for this area - though other parts of toronto may be.

    good to hear. ive got family scattered about the region of the explosion, cant get a hold of them though.
    hope theyre okay. theyre probably evacuated by now.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iINf47-cjg


    piece of shit cbc.ca isnt reporting anything

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    This Just In: The plant was bombed by the Franco Canadian Independence Movement (the FCIM), trying to win the freedom of Quebec from the totalitarian Anglo-Saxons. I'm telling you guys, this is an outbreak of war.

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Barcardi wrote: »
    im not seeing any news yet?

    (blame russia)

    IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA, NEWS WATCHES YOU!

    oil war battle fight

    or a fireworks factory explosion

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    was this like any sort of severe loss of oil or blow to canada's refining capability i wonder

    because i mean gas just started going down a bit

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  • DeadlySherpaDeadlySherpa Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    This Just In: The plant was bombed by the Franco Canadian Independence Movement (the FCIM), trying to win the freedom of Quebec from the totalitarian Anglo-Saxons. I'm telling you guys, this is an outbreak of war.

    haha the underground separatist terrorist movement has finally surfaced once again after 3 failed referendums and 30 years of peace

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  • Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    We are right at the intersection of Keele and Wilson. Like, right there.


    This is crazy.

    People have been flooding through the elevators to the lobby, everyone's talking, one woman came in and told us she drove over in the direction of the first explosion to see if it was a house or if anyone was hurt and the second explosion, a weaker one, fucking made the car jump off the ground.

    FUCK.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    This Just In: The plant was bombed by the Franco Canadian Independence Movement (the FCIM), trying to win the freedom of Quebec from the totalitarian Anglo-Saxons. I'm telling you guys, this is an outbreak of war.

    haha the underground separatist terrorist movement has finally surfaced once again after 3 failed referendums and 30 years of peace

    Just when you least expect it. Brilliant!

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