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Gas Truck Inferno Kills Scores in Kenya

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CassieM
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http://news.aol.com/article/gasoline-blaze-kenya/324445

I thought I'd post this because it just reminded me of how lucky I am to live where I do. Sometimes it's so easy to forget to take everything that we have to deal with in perspective, and ignore how there's so much else going on in the world. This story made me remember that. So yea....
Feb 1 2009 10:59PM
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Snowcase
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Not to say this isn't awful but a gas truck could just as easily explode when you drive by it.
Feb 1 2009 11:04PM
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skithesprings
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"Hundreds of impoverished people had flocked to the overturned tanker Saturday to siphon fuel when it exploded, likely sparked by a cigarette."

i really hate to say this, but, natural selection much?

Feb 1 2009 11:12PM
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cclan
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its weird what desperation makes people do.

natural selection, i agree
Feb 1 2009 11:25PM
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no_steeze
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having no food, heat, money, water, anything really will make you do very dumb things

although smoking next to a crashed fuel truck is fucking dumb
Feb 1 2009 11:30PM
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wheres_my_snow
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 a lil of topic but i heard this local omish guy in my town went to look in his big farm gas tank he couldent see in so insted of grabing the flashlight out of his pocket it lit the lighter and died of his burns after one day of lighing at his house and two days of  hospitol

im sry but deff natural selection
Feb 1 2009 11:35PM
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WillStart
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off, amish, couldn't, instead, grabbing, lying, hospital. sorry to be a dick but come on
Feb 1 2009 11:53PM
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Mooose...
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i laughed...

thank you charles darwin, for explaining this phenomenon
Feb 2 2009 12:03AM
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*kristi_s*
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it's sad what desperation does to people =[
Feb 2 2009 12:05AM
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gnarlygoodski22
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i laughed, im sure i wasnt supposed to though. the natural selection comment didnt hurt.
Feb 2 2009 12:32AM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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Wow guys.  Over a hundred people die and you just sit at your monitor in your nice suburban home and laugh and post comments that are not funny nor are they appropriate.  Makes me fucking sick.  You have no idea what these people have to do every day to survive.  The guy who lit the cig is obviously a fucking retard, and siphoning gas out of the truck was a bad idea in the first place but please, put yourself in their position.  Poverty and "uneducation," can push people to do things they normally wouldn't do.

If this happened to somebody you knew would that change your reaction?
Maybe next time one of you fuck heads makes a "RIP" or "vibes please" thread I'll come in and make stupid jokes about the deceased and maybe I'll even post a lol picture or a fail picture.
Feb 2 2009 12:52AM
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whattheshit
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natural selection would only apply to the guy who lit the cig.  all the rest of the people were taking a risk but didn't do any extraordinarily stupid that would kill them.  they just didn't consider the 'what ifs' is all.

this happens often though.  people sabotaging gas or oil pipelines and taking the fuel.  the worst are the oil fires though.  skin melting all that nasty shit.
Feb 2 2009 2:53AM
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Static
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lol at all the dead thieves
Feb 2 2009 7:12AM
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PopsicleStand
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seriously? have you ever been hungry? these people were probably just doing something to get some food in their stomachs. a huge risk? yes, but worth it to those hundred people.

very very sad.
Feb 2 2009 10:45AM
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Static
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There's no such thing as a free lunch. Fuck around in a pool of gasoline trying to soak up a water bottles worth of fuel from the dirt for a car you don't own is retarded. But it's not their fault, if it wasn't for an advanced society they would be living safely in their mud huts.
Feb 2 2009 11:02AM
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PopsicleStand
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youre right, it is retarded. but, they were desperate. i dont know, i feel sorry for people in those situations. think about it, your next obama could have been in that crowd, just a different time and place.
Feb 2 2009 11:36AM
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FUUUCK
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I cant believe some people in this thread. Everyone gets there panties in a knot when someone dies in a car crash and a lot of you now are making stupid comments about natural selection when its people you dont relate to. not cool guys.

Feb 2 2009 11:55AM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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Damn thank you.
Feb 2 2009 6:17PM
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whattheshit
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are you serious?  obama?  LMAO 

i feel sorry for what happened to these people but come on.
Feb 2 2009 6:22PM
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JamesR
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Obama is NOT a magical fairy messiah. He is normal person. He is not MLK Jr.

And i have to ask, did you just say that because the people were black. actually.. that would kind of make more sense.

Feb 2 2009 6:54PM
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PopsicleStand
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black, kenyan, whatever im just trying to illustrate what was pointed out earlier in the thread. just because its people you dont relate to, does not make it not sad. us young people can relate to obama. would we be able to relate to his grandfather? who cares, it does not make a difference.

and two posts up, get off obamas dick he is regular guy. smart, educated, well spoken, leader, etc etc? yes. but everybody started somewhere, his ancestors somewhere hunted fucking animals with sticks and worshipped a god that would seem foreign to us now, just as our ancestors did. in fact, his ancestors were probably doing it more recently than ours. does that mean anything now? obviously not. im just trying to make a point. people are people, we all have this in common with each other, third world country or not. its sad when they die.

a hundred some people dead is a tragedy, these people were leaving their good judgement behind so they could try to get ahead.

im calling that the worst rant ever, because i could not get my thoughts together. you guys need to go to a third world country for yourself to hear, see, smell, taste, FEEL suffering. it will change your life. you think thats fluffy bullshit, its not. you will never forget it, and it will motivate you to think differently.
Feb 4 2009 10:48AM
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CassieM
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Exactly. That was supposed to be the point in making this fucking thread. What I don't think a lot of people on here understand is that those people have absolutely nothing, and were simply trying to survive. The devastation that they live in to begin with is something that you can't fully comprehend unless you've been there. Something like this happens, and the people now have no idea what to do; whole families have been destroyed, and yet you guys are sitting here laughing about how it has to be natural selection. Seriously? Come on guys.
Feb 4 2009 11:04AM
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whattheshit
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okay your post about obama and hunting with sticks and stones is borderline racist.  not in the traditional sense of the word, but because you see blacks as a lesser being and you're talking like its fucking amazing that obama a black man is where he is today.   i also feel that you think affirmative action is essential for the equality of blacks, but are to naive to see the racist nature of it.


and don't preach about third world suffering because unless you spent a considerable amount of time in the peace corps in some third world country instead of looking out at it from behind the glass in your suv as you're chauffered from the airport to your luxury hotel then you really have no right to lecture us on whats suffering.
Feb 4 2009 4:22PM
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wheres_my_snow
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wow asshole
Feb 4 2009 4:36PM
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Static
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yay! no spelling errors!
Feb 4 2009 8:30PM
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Scott~
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They forgot to multiply the number killed by 3/5~
Feb 4 2009 8:33PM
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Static
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Get off that big black cock and grow a pair. If you can't admit that the black race is the lessor race on the planet then you're blind and retarded. It's not about racism, it's about the history of the world and modern society. The achievements of black people are few and far between. And please keep in mind Obama is only half black, his black half abandoned him and his mother (A practice that's common amongst African American men). Also keep in mind if white people were as racist as black people, and voted 97% for their own race he wouldn't stand a fucking chance. Hundreds of Africans dyeing trying to soak up some free gas is just further proof of their inability to reason. Thanks for the diamonds tho! (& and the free work)! suckerz......
Feb 4 2009 8:43PM
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neon1peace
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+ k

i was waiting for someone to say something besides "haha natural selection, dumb poor people"
Feb 4 2009 8:59PM
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PopsicleStand
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i told you my thoughts didnt come together right.

im half pakistani and have spent considerable time (over a year) in both 3rd world cairo and islamabad, as well as visits to sao paulo, and time spent in rural texas (with people who are just as poor as those in third world countrys).

i understand you want to defend what you perceive as ill will. dont be misled though. i was not chauffered or anything of that nature. i got sick off the water, was kidnapped with my dad in pakistan (not as gloriously as you would think), lived in fear, and lived off of little. im not comparing my experiences to those who live like that with no way out, nor am i saying that you have not experienced similar.

however, i AM trying to protect the reputation of a group of people that i have 1 1/100th of a morsel of understanding for. in case you are aiming for the same thing, then im sorry we went down this path. i am not racist though, and am certainly not ill informed. do not assume things about people you dont know.

and i do apologize about the lecture tone, but have you read any of the posts? seriously. a lecture was required.
Feb 4 2009 9:01PM
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whattheshit
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that ignant
Feb 4 2009 9:03PM
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PopsicleStand
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and this i dont agree with.

you can talk about prison populations, crimes committed, those in offices of power, etc for days. its not an issue of lesser race, is a systemic thing. and then thats debatable in many ways till the cows come home.

they are not a lesser race.
Feb 4 2009 9:06PM
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neon1peace
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oh my god... you didnt just go there
Feb 4 2009 9:09PM
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EastScratchSkier
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it is really sad and all, but regardless, all i could think of when i heard how it was lit was this:
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Feb 4 2009 9:12PM
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Static
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ok, lets talk about scientific achievements.


*crickets*
Feb 4 2009 9:36PM
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pianoman
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thanks soooooo much. this really hits the nail on the head. i just recently started living in kenya, and i already had one experience volunteering to feed people in the worst slum here, and just in the 45 minutes i was there i couldn't believe how desperate people were, it was really incredible, even after having lived in other third world places for 8 years of my life. so many of you guys are such douchebags in the way you react to incredibly unfortunate things on the internet, whether it be a gnarly crash (see ski gabber's snowboard crash for example) or this kind of tragedy. grow up please. thank you.
Feb 18 2009 1:35PM
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Sewardo
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dumb and dumberer??


Horrible accident tho, I'm glad I don't have to deal with such anenvironment
Feb 18 2009 1:38PM
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Ski1erman
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.................
Feb 18 2009 1:52PM
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Static
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lol, that's what my skateboard says

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Feb 23 2009 11:57PM
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EastScratchSkier
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seriously?




no, really?
Feb 23 2009 11:58PM
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inactive
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yeah man every couple years someone in my town dies from drunk driving. no one mentions natural selection.
Feb 24 2009 1:47AM
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iamthegreenwall
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you are a fucking idiot :-)
Feb 24 2009 8:09AM
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