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Things in the news...

steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
edited December 2022 in The potting shed
This is insane.....

How weren't more people injured?

Edited to add: Just listening to Radio 4 and the woman who fell on the tracks at a tube station in London. Bloody hell. Two trains went through the station while she was on the tracks. And I thought I had a bad day yesterday as the clip holding a windscreen wiper on the car broke.
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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    On its website on Friday it said the attraction was temporarily closed and asked visitors to reschedule their tickets.

    Temporarily closed? :/ 


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  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    That’s a lot of dead fish hanging around the city as well. It must have looked like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster when it exploded. 
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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...I wonder how many people turn up to SeaLife centres in full diving gear after reading that?.....
    Apparently some water was running down the road outside the hotel as well. Surf's up. I bet a Ford Capri would surf well.
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  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    steveTu said:
    ...I wonder how many people turn up to SeaLife centres in full diving gear after reading that?.....
    Apparently some water was running down the road outside the hotel as well. Surf's up. I bet a Ford Capri would surf well.
    or swimming in those pools up in between skyscrapers .

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @steveTu Thankfully the tank burst at 5.50 am so there would be few people around.  A few hours later would have been a very different outcome.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Many years ago we were sat in a pub minding our own business when a number of members of the traveller community, who had some kind of beef with the landlord, came in to discuss things in their usual way.  The pub had 3 large fish tanks.  Had being the operative word after these 'gentlemen' threw chairs through them all.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    That's what I thought @pansyface.

    The article doesn't even mention the fate of the fish .... I hope they managed to save a few.

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  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    I once threatened House Of Fraser in Manchester with a visit from the RSPCA and a write-up in the Manchester Evening News. They had a lovely tall tank built into one of their perfume displays (about 6' tall by 5' wide) which I always visited whenever I was in the city. The fish they had were all colourful Lake Malawi cichlids which I keep myself and I could see they were all absolutely starving with concave hollow bellies. The lady in the shop just shrugged and said "someone comes in to look after them". It turns out that nobody had been in for ages. After my email to the manager the problem was rectified but the tank has now gone.
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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    It did say in the papers,they rescued a lot and sent them to different aquariums. My pond pisces have a heater,and they are sitting round it. What about the O2,and 1000 people bursting in, without tickets (talking about the news)
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