March 29, 2007: Sewage Tsunami in Gaza

This is from a BBC image gallery of a disaster in Gaza yesterday. It killed at least 5, injured at least 15, and left 70% of the village, of 3000 residents, buried in raw sewage.



Bleh.



They also had to clear out their livestock. Some goats made it...



And some didn't.

another full story

Talk about being buried in shit...

WoW!!! I wonder how big the fan was!

Shoot, i wonder how it happened, but i dont have time to click the link.

Just goes to show - shit happens

I'm in ur sewerz
Spewin' forth shitz

It turns out to have been the result of dirt farming. I shit you not!

down Shit Creek -- no paddle

Ah...dirt farming. Thus is the fate of unrestrained enterprise. Idiots.

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Originally Posted by Dypok Ah...dirt farming. Thus is the fate of unrestrained enterprise. Idiots.

Had five people died, fifteen people been injured and a town for the most part destroyed in the good ole USA i wonder how many of you jokers would still find amusement in it.

All of us?

All but 5.

I don't find amusement in it. But I totally respect the right of other people to make light of an awful situation.

How do you think people keep going in a world where revolting and tragic things happen globally on a daily basis?

Dude with the beard and hat in the second picture has his mouth clamped damn tight there.

This tragedy reminds me of robbing the pillars in coal mining. Stupid greed. Plain and simple.

We need to explore the "putting your finger in a dyke" angle, but I can't think of a good one.

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Originally Posted by Snapple Had five people died, fifteen people been injured and a town for the most part destroyed in the good ole USA i wonder how many of you jokers would still find amusement in it.

Between humor and apathy, I'll take humor every time.

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus Between humor and apathy, I'll take humor every time.

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Originally Posted by Flint We need to explore the "putting your finger in a dyke" angle, but I can't think of a good one.

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Originally Posted by Flint We need to explore the "putting your finger in a dyke" angle, but I can't think of a good one.

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Originally Posted by Snapple Had five people died, fifteen people been injured and a town for the most part destroyed in the good ole USA i wonder how many of you jokers would still find amusement in it.

Life is like a shit sandwich
The more bread you have,
the less shit you have to eat

Up Shit Creek *STOP*
Send *STOP*
Money Guns and Lawyers *STOP*

Where's the cane toad? I'm very hungry.

Maybe we could send 'em some condoms.

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Originally Posted by Dypok Ah...dirt farming. Thus is the fate of unrestrained enterprise. Idiots.

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Originally Posted by DanaC Idiots? Nah, people struggling to make enough money to feed their families in a country whose economy and infrastructure has all but collapsed.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 Maybe we could send 'em some condoms.

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Originally Posted by Flint Maybe, as Forrest Gump's Mama said, "Stupid is as stupid does." IE if your actions cause sewage flood that destroys your village (the same one where your struggling, hungry family lives) then you are an idiot.

I know I'm insensitive in the matter, but people who have to farm dirt (DIRT--the whole freaking world is made of dirt on some level) probably aren't going to have much success raising a non-starving family. I was making this point because the point was made that they were dirt farming in the first place to feed their families, in the process destroying what little they had. To me, tampering the need or desire to procreate only makes sense, and seems much less selfish.

Then again, one of them might be the kid who invents a machine that makes the future of dirt farming a much safer undertaking (insert angels and harp sounds here.)

I didn't know that...I guess I figured somewhere down there it's dirt. Anyway, the idea of farming dirt was a completely foreign concept to me. I'm no geologist, or even a homeowner.

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Originally Posted by Flint IE if your actions cause sewage flood that destroys your village (the same one where your struggling, hungry family lives) then you are an idiot.

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Originally Posted by Snapple Had five people died, fifteen people been injured and a town for the most part destroyed in the good ole USA i wonder how many of you jokers would still find amusement in it.

I see humour in tragedy. I just don't see much humour in life-endangering poverty and the casual arrogance of priveleged westerners who can stoop to judge what the desperate do to survive.

The idea of dirt farming isn't without its humour. But dismiss them as idiots? Suggest they can solve their problems by just not having so many children? The privileged have ever thus rationalised the suffering of the less fortunate.

See what I mean?

Oh, for Christ's sake...they weren't dirt farming, they weren't farming at all. they were stealing the soil that held the retention ponds. Duh
Doesn't anyone on this board know what dirt farming is?

Wuh-oh, I take full credit for this one

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce Oh, for Christ's sake...they weren't dirt farming, they weren't farming at all. they were stealing the soil that held the retention ponds. Duh Doesn't anyone on this board know what dirt farming is?

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Originally Posted by Undertoad Wuh-oh, I take full credit for this one