Another explosion in Boksburg?

[nightjar]

And what if you're coloured blind like Craig?

Same for me; I am totally colour blind, not the common red/green.
Different presenters/news readers at 567 have mentioned nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and nitrogen oxide so not sure what it was.
Laughing gas used to be used as a low level anaesthetic.

 

[Flanders]

Keen to hear from EFF on this

Not sure what's sadder - this or the disaster.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Same for me; I am totally colour blind, not the common red/green.
Different presenters/news readers at 567 have mentioned nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and nitrogen oxide so not sure what it was.
Laughing gas used to be used as a low level anaesthetic.

That's gotta be so weird
I cannot imagine starting up a conversation at a braai with a hot 'blonde' chick Ive just met and instead out of her mouth comes fluent Xhosa

 

[Velskoen]

Yuck!

When it happens to you who will care though.

I'm not so stupid as to play with stuff that can explode/burn/emit noxious gasses etc. They don't care about themselves, why should that suddenly be my responsibility?

 

[nightjar]

That's gotta be so weird
I cannot imagine starting up a conversation at a braai with a hot 'blonde' chick Ive just met and instead out of her mouth comes fluent Xhosa

There are other feature that help so a blonde Xhosa chick is not a danger.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

There are other feature that help so a blonde Xhosa chick is not a danger.

Like that 1 time I never speak of at boot camp when @ShaunSA gave me a 'Reach Around' ?

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

This gas eats away at lung tissue, if you can smell its too late there will be tissue damage, if you breathe in a little more than a smell, you will die
The icy cold night time air and no wind allowed the gas to spread easily

 

[ForceFate]

This is fine. It is in the open, lots of airflow. You are not going to explode a gas cylinder like this by smoking next to/ on top of it.

Not necessarily explode but you can get burnt if there's enough gas trapped underneath the bottles somewhere

 

[B-1]

Like that 1 time I never speak of at boot camp when @ShaunSA gave me a 'Reach Around' ?

I'm glad you never told that story.

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Three children among 16 people killed in Boksburg gas leak | News24

Sixteen people have died in Boksburg after a gas leak at the Angelo informal settlement on Wednesday night.

www.news24.com

The Department of Health has deployed a truck to collect the bodies.

 

[Supervan II]

And the zama-zamas (that are still alive) are still operating as if nothing happened - and nothing will happen

 

[Nerfherder]

I'm not so stupid as to play with stuff that can explode/burn/emit noxious gasses etc. They don't care about themselves, why should that suddenly be my responsibility?

and the people living next door ?

Most of the dead would be completely innocent here. As would you be if your neighbour did this.

 

[rietrot]

and the people living next door ?

Most of the dead would be completely innocent here. As would you be if your neighbour did this.

Absolutely not. These communities are not like your suburb where you don't know your neighbors.

The neighbors would know exactly what was going on.

 

[R13...]

Absolutely not. These communities are not like your suburb where you don't know your neighbors.

The neighbors would know exactly what was going on.

They could still be innocent in the sense that reporting shortens your life expectancy by a huge margin. But yes some are complicit. Zama zamas however tend to terrorise their local communities.

 

[Nerfherder]

Absolutely not. These communities are not like your suburb where you don't know your neighbors.

The neighbors would know exactly what was going on.

That's called a racist assumption.

Added to that, many people don't live there out of choice. Its out of necessity, its the best they can do.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Absolutely not. These communities are not like your suburb where you don't know your neighbors.

The neighbors would know exactly what was going on.

They may know exactly what is going on, but are absolutely powerless to do anything about it. Unless they were actively involved they are innocent.

 

[rietrot]

That's called a racist assumption.

Added to that, many people don't live there out of choice. Its out of necessity, its the best they can do.

How is it racist?

The fact that you life in a bubble and have never interacted with poor people in squatercamps is not necessarily racist.

 

[Nerfherder]

How is it racist?

The fact that you life in a bubble and have never interacted with poor people in squatercamps is not necessarily racist.

I have interacted with plenty of people in townships and informal settlements all over the country.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Illegal mining must be eradicated: Gauteng portfolio committee after gas leak claims 17 lives

Masuku said the committee called on the private security industry and community policing forums to continue working with the police to fight illegal mining.

www.timeslive.co.za

Well the 30% education is really kicking in, you would think the word "illegal" intrinsically means it's banned.

 

[wingnut771]

They could still be innocent in the sense that reporting shortens your life expectancy by a huge margin. But yes some are complicit. Zama zamas however tend to terrorise their local communities.

They may know exactly what is going on, but are absolutely powerless to do anything about it. Unless they were actively involved they are innocent.

This is what happens when you have a school teacher in charge of police.