150+ killed trying to loot overturned fuel tanker in Pakistan

[Traitorfish]

You guilt-tripped everyone in the thread.


What - people try to take fuel from overturned trucks, some idiot lights a cigarette, everything goes BOOM! and then we're expected to have sympathy for them?

Sorry, no. If the truck had overturned and the fuel caught fire and nobody was doing stupid things like running toward it instead of away, then they would earn my sympathy.

You understand there is a difference between "sympathy" and "approval", surely?

 

[warpus]

So say you manage to flee the scene with a bit of oil in a cup.

Where could you sell that for a profit? Can a cup of oil really be worth anything?

The way the article is worded, these people seemed to think that this was "easy money". But would it really have been?

 

[Farm Boy]

If it exploded in a fireball from a cigarette this was likely diesel or gasoline. One, it's spilling all over anyways and two, gas is expensive and then you need more.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You understand there is a difference between "sympathy" and "approval", surely?

Are you saying I should have sympathy for people who do such an incredibly stupid thing, and bring their kids along as well?

I'm not talking about theft. I'm talking about the act of deliberately putting themselves and their children in danger when they clearly should not have done that, and there was no reason to do that. It's not like they were fleeing some other danger and risking getting caught in an explosion was the easier choice.

 

[civver_764]

It's a pretty cool way to die, at least.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Getting incinerated is "cool"?

 

[Birdjaguar]

It's a pretty cool way to die, at least.

That is about as <snip> up as you can get.

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[Borachio]

If it exploded in a fireball from a cigarette this was likely diesel or gasoline. One, it's spilling all over anyways and two, gas is expensive and then you need more.

I've never heard of diesel going up like that.

 

[Farm Boy]

The 80s are back on their 30 year echo. Bad is good, Cool is hot.

Yeah, I'd guess gasoline.

 

[innonimatu]

"I am not that sure this was driven (only) by poverty.
When there was in earlier times a big storm on the North Sea, all small villages along the Dutch coast were ready for the ships in distress, blown to the lee shore.
For the loot of those foundered ships.
The Church bell rung when it happened, and all the villagers did run to the beach and had the legal right on anything washed ashore.
About two hundred years ago state rescue companies were founded to rescue the sailors, but the looting never went away.

I can imagine very well that the same looting frenzy happens with trucks
After all the insurance pays.

There were even stories about villagers lighting fires to deceive sailors as to where the lighthouses were. Though I always found those unlikely.

 

[Birdjaguar]

There were even stories about villagers lighting fires to deceive sailors as to where the lighthouses were. Though I always found those unlikely.

Similar mythology surrounds the Outer Banks of NC and the town of Nags Head. Legend has it that ships were lured onto the the deadly shoals of Cape Hatteras by lanterns tied around the necks of horses.

 

[civver_764]

That is about as <snip> up as you can get.

Oh c'mon I'm just kidding.

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[Birdjaguar]

Not evident from your post or posting history.

 

[aelf]

Should anybody be surprised that Right-Libertarians display a sociopathic mentality?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

So how secure are fuel tankers, exactly? Should I expect Europe to be ravaged by truck attacks that also burn their victims?

 

[Samson]

So say you manage to flee the scene with a bit of oil in a cup.

Where could you sell that for a profit? Can a cup of oil really be worth anything?

The way the article is worded, these people seemed to think that this was "easy money". But would it really have been?

I have been in a few places where you could buy petrol and diesel at the side of the road in 1 - 2 liter plastic bottles. This is what I thought of when I saw this.

 

[warpus]

Yeah when I was in Cambodia I hired a tuk tuk driver for the day and when it was time to refuel he pulled up to a "gas station". Let me see if I can find the pics

I can't, but it was basically a guy by the side of a road with a wooden shack and a whole bunch of whiskey (and other) bottles full of fuel. Tuk tuk driver pulls up, grabs one of the bottles, and fills up....

 

[bernie14]

Should anybody be surprised that Right-Libertarians display a sociopathic mentality?

Your compliments will have to continue if you want to get on my good side....

 

[Valka D'Ur]

So how secure are fuel tankers, exactly? Should I expect Europe to be ravaged by truck attacks that also burn their victims?

If some twisted terrorist is going to commit mass murder, they have a variety of methods available.

Isn't it more likely that situations like this are the result of accidents and human error/stupidity?

 

[timtofly]

Was it not the person who could afford a smoke to blame? The rest were just trying their best "hunting wild game" to support themselves.