QuoteMecca crane collapse: 87 dead at Grand Mosque - as it happened
We're bringing this live blog to a close tonight, as it is after midnight in Mecca.
Here's how things stand at the moment:
A construction crane has crashed through the eastern side of Mecca's Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia, the holy building at the centre of the annual hajj pilgrimage
87 people are dead and 201 people are injured according to the Saudi civil defence authority's Twitter posts.
Extreme weather is the likely cause of the collapse, authorities said, with heavy rain, lightning strikes and high winds hitting the Muslim holy city on Friday, 10 days before the start of the hajj.
Reconstruction work to enlarge the Grand Mosque had been ongoing for the past two years and was expected to be largely completed before this year's pilgrimage, which begins on 22 September.
The construction work was being led by the construction giant Saudi Binladin Group, but it is not yet known which company the crane belonged to.
Saudi investigators are still ascertaining the identities of the dead and injured, but India said nine of its citizens were among the wounded.
Images from inside the mosque show an enormous crater in the mosque's stone floor, with pictures on social media of bodies covered in debris and blood stains on the tiles.
The governor of Mecca region, Prince Khaled al-Faisal, has ordered an investigation into the incident.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/sep/11/mecca-crane-crash-more-than-50-dead-at-grand-mosque-live
If God exists, he has a sense of irony.
:(
Which poster will ragequit this time?
I hope Vile Wahhabist is okay. :(
Quote from: alfred russel on September 13, 2015, 09:21:21 AM
I hope Vile Wahhabist is okay. :(
His friend got a black eye, a broken jaw and a couple of busted ribs. Not from the crane though.
Lord have mercy.
The will of God be done.
The JEWS did it. :Joos
You really are garbage.
Quote from: Norgy on September 13, 2015, 08:53:28 PM
You really are garbage.
Nothing personal but yeah this is not everybody's finest moment here. A bunch of guest workers got tragically killed. Woooo
What does "FO" stand for? :unsure:
Quote from: Valmy on September 13, 2015, 09:13:34 PM
Quote from: Norgy on September 13, 2015, 08:53:28 PM
You really are garbage.
Nothing personal but yeah this is not everybody's finest moment here. A bunch of guest workers got tragically killed. Woooo
I thought I was doing pretty good not posting. :(
Quote from: Valmy on September 13, 2015, 09:13:34 PM
Quote from: Norgy on September 13, 2015, 08:53:28 PM
You really are garbage.
Nothing personal but yeah this is not everybody's finest moment here. A bunch of guest workers got tragically killed. Woooo
Languish cheering over dead Muslims? Color me surprised. <_<
Quote from: Razgovory on September 13, 2015, 09:19:42 PM
Quote from: Valmy on September 13, 2015, 09:13:34 PM
Quote from: Norgy on September 13, 2015, 08:53:28 PM
You really are garbage.
Nothing personal but yeah this is not everybody's finest moment here. A bunch of guest workers got tragically killed. Woooo
I thought I was doing pretty good not posting. :(
As good as always
But come on Sept 11, crane from Saudi BinLaden Group, kills folks at the main mosque in SA. Too freaky.
Not really.
Noone is cheering dead muslims - I agree with 11B4V that this merits a recognition as a freaky coincidence. When did this forum become a hangout for wet blanket people like this?
Languish used to be more fun and edgy. Now it's mainly depressed lonely misanthropes complaining about stuff.
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:39:35 AM
Noone is cheering dead muslims - I agree with 11B4V that this merits a recognition as a freaky coincidence. When did this forum become a hangout for wet blanket people like this?
Freaky? Things are falling down all the time in that country because they don't give a fuck about safety for their guest workers.
Quote from: Liep on September 14, 2015, 02:43:05 AM
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:39:35 AM
Noone is cheering dead muslims - I agree with 11B4V that this merits a recognition as a freaky coincidence. When did this forum become a hangout for wet blanket people like this?
Freaky? Things are falling down all the time in that country because they don't give a fuck about safety for their guest workers.
The fact that 1) it was on 9/11, 2) the crane belonged to a company owned by Osama's family, and 3) it happens in the holiest place of Islam makes it freaky.
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:41:23 AM
Languish used to be more fun and edgy. Now it's mainly depressed lonely misanthropes complaining about stuff.
A sad revelation to be sure.
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:48:43 AM
Quote from: Liep on September 14, 2015, 02:43:05 AM
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:39:35 AM
Noone is cheering dead muslims - I agree with 11B4V that this merits a recognition as a freaky coincidence. When did this forum become a hangout for wet blanket people like this?
Freaky? Things are falling down all the time in that country because they don't give a fuck about safety for their guest workers.
The fact that 1) it was on 9/11, 2) the crane belonged to a company owned by Osama's family, and 3) it happens in the holiest place of Islam makes it freaky.
And that it happened 14 years after 9/11/2001! :o
:rolleyes:
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:41:23 AM
Languish used to be more fun and edgy. Now it's mainly depressed lonely misanthropes complaining about stuff.
Odd given how insensitive you and B4 were in this thread.
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:41:23 AM
Languish used to be more fun and edgy.
I just want to point out the last time we had a thread like this one of our posters rage quit and has never been seen since.
QuoteNow it's mainly depressed lonely misanthropes complaining about stuff.
Speak for yourself. -_-
Quote from: Valmy on September 14, 2015, 07:06:31 AM
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:41:23 AM
Languish used to be more fun and edgy.
I just want to point out the last time we had a thread like this one of our posters rage quit and has never been seen since.
Who was the poster and what was the thread?
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 07:08:08 AM
Quote from: Valmy on September 14, 2015, 07:06:31 AM
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:41:23 AM
Languish used to be more fun and edgy.
I just want to point out the last time we had a thread like this one of our posters rage quit and has never been seen since.
Who was the poster and what was the thread?
Vikings thread about a ferry that went down where the joke was how Iran (or whomever) was going to spin it about being the fault of Israel. Tuna then ragequit. Good times.
Man, that's ancient history. Surely we have had threads since then about freak accidents and people dying and not all of them were commented on exclusively in hushed voices and somber tones.
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 07:14:03 AM
Man, that's ancient history. Surely we have had threads since then about freak accidents and people dying and not all of them were commented on exclusively in hushed voices and somber tones.
Man, if the shoe was on the other foot you'd be giving us hell for how callus we are to talk about how freaky it is that a bunch a gays died on the anniversary of the Stonewall riot.
Could've commented on the coincidence without crossing the line into actively cheering a whole bunch of people dead. Stay classy, fuckers. <_<
Quote from: DontSayBanana on September 14, 2015, 09:46:13 AM
Could've commented on the coincidence without crossing the line into actively cheering a whole bunch of people dead. Stay classy, fuckers. <_<
Could you point out to any of my posts that could be interpreted as "actively cheering"? Saying that God has a sense of irony is hardly that to me.
Relax, people. :wacko:
Quote from: DontSayBanana on September 14, 2015, 09:46:13 AM
Could've commented on the coincidence without crossing the line into actively cheering a whole bunch of people dead. Stay classy, fuckers. <_<
I posted about it in OTT 2 days ago, I now find my tone rather cold, but not intentionally so at the time I mentioned it:
Quote from: mongers on September 11, 2015, 10:02:25 PM
Odd imagery today, 9/11, a giant crane topples over onto worshipers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca; the main contractor is the Bin Laden construction company.
I didn't realize that not laughing at the deaths of innocent people made one a wet blanket.
Quote from: Jaron on September 14, 2015, 01:02:50 PM
I didn't realize that not laughing at the deaths of innocent people made one a wet blanket.
Freaky.
Quote from: garbon on September 14, 2015, 02:31:36 PM
Quote from: Jaron on September 14, 2015, 01:02:50 PM
I didn't realize that not laughing at the deaths of innocent people made one a wet blanket.
Freaky.
Stop hitting on Jaron.
:P
Quote from: mongers on September 14, 2015, 02:38:00 PM
Quote from: garbon on September 14, 2015, 02:31:36 PM
Quote from: Jaron on September 14, 2015, 01:02:50 PM
I didn't realize that not laughing at the deaths of innocent people made one a wet blanket.
Freaky.
Stop hitting on Jaron.
:P
Stop hitting on me. You know that isn't what I like.
Quote from: mongers on September 14, 2015, 11:43:24 AM
I posted about it in OTT 2 days ago, I now find my tone rather cold, but not intentionally so at the time I mentioned it:
Quote from: mongers on September 11, 2015, 10:02:25 PM
Odd imagery today, 9/11, a giant crane topples over onto worshipers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca; the main contractor is the Bin Laden construction company.
You're not one of the two that comment was directed at.
Quote from: DontSayBanana on September 14, 2015, 09:46:17 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 14, 2015, 11:43:24 AM
I posted about it in OTT 2 days ago, I now find my tone rather cold, but not intentionally so at the time I mentioned it:
Quote from: mongers on September 11, 2015, 10:02:25 PM
Odd imagery today, 9/11, a giant crane topples over onto worshipers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca; the main contractor is the Bin Laden construction company.
You're not one of the two that comment was directed at.
I know that, I was just highlighting how late 11B4V and Marty were to the news. Plus noting my own tone wasn't very sympathetic, which I find somewhat odd.
Quote from: Martinus on September 14, 2015, 02:41:23 AM
Languish used to be more fun and edgy. Now it's mainly depressed lonely misanthropes complaining about stuff.
I try to save my complaints for a more sympathetic audience.