“More than 1,000 people had gathered at 6 a.m. in a nearby parking lot to watch the planned implosion at the plant owned by Pacific Gas and Electric in Bakersfield. After structures on the property came crashing down, a police officer at the scene heard a man screaming for help and saw his leg had been severed, police said.”
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I don’t think it necessarily makes you an idiot if you like to watch stuff get blowed up.
I don’t know, the police didn’t even close down traffic on the near by road. This looks like an incident where the safety radius was somehow not accurately estimated or the explosives were improperly used. It’s not like the guy was walking around the building.
Sounds like the demolition crew done fucked up.
You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
What makes these people idiots, exactly?
being up at 6 AM.
What are they all farmers?
A case where something similar happened (and a person was killed) happened in 1997 in Canberra. I don’t think the 100,000 spectators then were idiots, though the demolition contractors didn’t know enough about how to implode a building.
People who stand where authorities and alleged experts tell them is a safe spot are not “idiots”. An “idiot” would be someone who deliberately got closer than the alleged safe zone.
Latest news I heard the man mentioned in the OP might also lose his other leg.
It blowed up real good!
Sounds like that guy was really blown away by the demolition. Swept off his feet, you might even say.
Sorry that folks got hurt. They should have gone to the quarry and thrown stuff in there instead.
Dear God that is the stupidest fucking thing to happen on the internet since goatse. “Pull my finger” is more creative and funny.
I guess they didn’t know about this implosion that killed a girl across a lake. Note the shrapnel into the lake amongst the boats. And the number of “idiots” there.
Idiots? Jeez :rolleyes: aren’t you superior?
Tragic.
Spectators have been hurt (and killed) in 'controlled" explosions for over 100 years.
Like, the famous Crush, TX staged train wreck.
I was one of the spectators this morning, though in a different parking lot a bit further away. A friend of my husband’s, however, was next to the man who lost his leg. The friend has video of the shrapnel ripping through the chain link fence & the video cuts off just as the screaming starts. 
A de-construction worker was killed last year at the same power plant. Fell to his death, ugh.
Damned uppity bipeds.
The structures dropped straight down as planned. A typical controlled implosion. The structure didn’t explode outward.
It seems like a freak accident that a small bit of shrapnel went flying. It probably could have easily traveled another half mile. Very bad luck that it hit somebody.
I’d’ve gone and watched. The chances of losing a leg must be a thousand to one.
1,000 idiots watching a plant start to fall.
1,000 idiots drinking beer,
One gets blown down, ambulance’d downtown
999 idiots watching a plant start to fall…