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Crane collapses at Mecca
« on: September 11, 2015, 02:48:40 PM »
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34226003

....Yeah, the discussion of this is going as well as you'd think at various other places on the 'net.

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At least 87 people have died after a crane collapsed on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, the Saudi Arabian government has said.

More than 180 people were injured in the accident, the country's civil defence authority said on Twitter.

Images from the scene showed part of a huge red crane crashed through the mosque's roof. The cause of the collapse is not known.


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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2015, 02:54:31 PM »
Tons of rainy weather, I'm guessing ground shift.

I was not aware, but from news photos, it looks like the Saudi's are building a ginormous Disneyworld/Stadium sized mosque over and around the existing Grand Mosque, with multiple decks/levels to allow more people to do their 7 shuffles around the stone or whatever.
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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2015, 03:32:10 PM »
Crane faww down go boom and no hole opened to swallow the offending machine?

Thank goodness we have the Appeaser-In-Chief in office.  Can you imagine if any of the Great Satans were sitting in the big chair?

Currently it is 10:25PM in Mecca.  Makes it difficult to determine if the crane fell during Juma (just after local noon) or some other time when there might not have been as many folks packed in.

Loss of life is generally bad.

stay safe.
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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2015, 04:08:05 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on September 11, 2015, 03:32:10 PM
Crane faww down go boom and no hole opened to swallow the offending machine?

Thank goodness we have the Appeaser-In-Chief in office.  Can you imagine if any of the Great Satans were sitting in the big chair?

Currently it is 10:25PM in Mecca.  Makes it difficult to determine if the crane fell during Juma (just after local noon) or some other time when there might not have been as many folks packed in.

Loss of life is generally bad.

stay safe.


Current toll is 87 dead, 154 injured:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mecca-87-dead-154-injured-184336156.html#ThsTsKL

They have had a lot worse even without heavy equipment:

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/03/world/1000-muslims-reportedly-killed-in-stampede-at-mecca-pilgrimage.html
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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2015, 04:59:10 PM »
Quote from: Phyphor on September 11, 2015, 02:48:40 PM

....Yeah, the discussion of this is going as well as you'd think at various other places on the 'net.


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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2015, 06:24:13 PM »
Quote from: fistful on September 11, 2015, 04:59:10 PM

Because bad things are only punishments from God when they happen to those people.
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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2015, 07:01:12 PM »
Obviously,  the (insert total number dead and maimed)  were not pious enough or something.

This is the same bunch of goons that use" In sha'Allah" for every shortcoming, lack of training or straight up laziness they want to cover.

Awful thing to happen to a bunch of pilgrims though.
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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2015, 07:22:30 PM »
I'm really trying hard to find a tear, but dang it, I just can't dredge one up.
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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2015, 08:07:47 PM »
I needed something to cheer me up today...
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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2015, 08:46:39 PM »
If killed by a crane, is it still a 72 virgin party in the afterlife. Or a consolation prize of a porn video, lotion and tissue.
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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2015, 08:51:16 PM »
Knock it off  :mad:

I'm no friend or lover of Islam but rejoicing at a calamity taking innocent lives is unseemly.

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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2015, 09:02:16 PM »
I'd assume that if it weren't for a notable event from 14 years ago,  we'd all be nothing but empathy.  

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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2015, 09:11:36 PM »
Quote from: Ron on September 11, 2015, 08:51:16 PM
I'm no friend or lover of Islam but rejoicing at a calamity taking innocent lives is unseemly.

You crush almost a hundred Muslims visiting Mecca you're still way less than 1% likely to be crushing a terrorist.

Most of them don't ever make it to the city they're supposed to visit at least once.
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Re: Crane collapses at Mecca
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2015, 09:30:20 PM »
Quote from: Ron on September 11, 2015, 08:51:16 PM
Knock it off  :mad:

I'm no friend or lover of Islam but rejoicing at a calamity taking innocent lives is unseemly.



It is and this thread is done.  Some of ya'll should be ashamed. 
Thread locked with extreme prejudice.
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