Worst Disaster In Your Lifetime?

People of a similar age to myself usually cite Chernobyl in 1986 which was absolutely horrendous. The Bradford City Fire in 1985 being another. When I first did my Offshore Survival Training Course in 1991, 2 days were set aside from the 5 day course for Firefighting and part of that involved watching the whole video of that dreadful day.

The event that always sticks with me is one that hardly ever gets mentioned. Bhopal, India in 1984 and the criminal organisation that was Union Carbide and it's equally criminal Chief Executive who avoided all attempts by India to have him extradited from America. I was only 19 at the time but watching the footage on TV was sickening. Imagine having a plant with toxic chemicals in the heart of the run down slums of a big City.

I got a taxi to get my mind altering vaccination last Friday and the driver came off the Piper Alpha platform the morning of that disaster in 1988.

You never know what's round the corner, unless you have some sort of visual right angled device that allows you to see round corners.

 

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Trees frame a rusting building at the abandoned former Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, on November 11, 2014. On the night of December 2, 1984, the factory owned by the U.S. multinational Union Carbide Corporation accidentally leaked methyl isocyanate and other highly toxic gases into the air, killing thousands of largely poor Indians in the neighborhoods nearby.

 

The Piper Alpha disaster wasn't on purpose it was Occidental.

The Challenger disaster was pretty crazy too.

For natural disaster, it has to be the Boxing Day Tsunamis.

 

Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster, 30 Years Later - The Atlantic

Lest we forget what the pursuit of money and profit does.

Shocking.

 

9/11 Twin Towers. I don't give a f.uck if anyone thinks it was all CGI or a Zionist conspiracy.

That and the time I tried to use a novelty condom on a big burd on the Isle of Man. Emotional scars are the hardest to heal.

 

The Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster too.

 

I wonder if The Manic Street Preachers have dropped that little ditty from their set list?

 

What so you mean? What little ditty?

 

That was carried out by America.

Absolutely no conspiracy there at all.

Fact.

 

That one has obviously "washed over you".

 

I can't say I know any Manic Street Preachers songs, but going by your "washed over you" quote, I assume they did a song about a tsunami?

 

The song was simply called "Tsunami".

 

Ah ok, fair enough. Any good?

 

Yeah, I like The Manics.

"A Design For Life" is a cracking song.

 

I never really listen to music in the house tbph

 

Are you some kind of poof or something?

 

That time Celtic ****ed up the 10 in a row.

 

I wondered who would mention this

 

It was Aldo.