# Explosion at Vatican **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845 "2017-06-01T16:31:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/1 "2017-06-01T16:31:29Z")
Not sure of any details, but just saw reports of a large explosion at the Vatican [https://twitter.com/ten\_gop/status/870311045595901953](https://twitter.com/ten_gop/status/870311045595901953) ETA: or it could just be a [fire in Rome](https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/870313466468474882) (insert Rome burning joke here) ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/2 "2017-06-01T16:38:22Z")
Thanks for the heads up. Not much info out there yet. Hope it’s less than it seems. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/3 "2017-06-01T16:40:40Z")
BNONews seems to be on top of the story. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/4 "2017-06-01T16:43:45Z")
The Daily News [with news and video.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4563358/Vatican-sky-filled-smoke-amid-reports-explosion.html) ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/5 "2017-06-01T16:44:41Z")
Sky News is saying a fire at a Car Garage outside the Vatican. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/6 "2017-06-01T16:50:43Z")
Someone said [this said](http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/06/01/news/roma_paura_a_battistini_in_fiamme_un_autodemolitore-166989140/) fire at car dismantler. Google translate seems to back that up, though mostly unintelligible. EDIT: And BNO now says fire at scrap yard, too. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/7 "2017-06-01T16:57:27Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > Someone said [this said](http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/06/01/news/roma_paura_a_battistini_in_fiamme_un_autodemolitore-166989140/) fire at car dismantler. Google translate seems to back that up, though mostly unintelligible. > > EDIT: And BNO now says fire at scrap yard, too. I can see that. “Fire” and “explosion” are practically the same thing. Likewise, “scrap yard” and “Vatican.” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/8 "2017-06-01T17:05:02Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I can see that. “Fire” and “explosion” are practically the same thing. > > Likewise, “scrap yard” and “Vatican.” 😕 Apparently the scrap yard is very close to the Vatican. If someone is looking at rising smoke from a few miles away, I could understand the initial confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/9 "2017-06-01T17:16:16Z")
Sort of like those flashing red lights inside the White House a couple nights ago. Turned out to be from emergency vehicles responding to a medical situation in the park across the street. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/10 "2017-06-01T17:30:43Z")
So what color was the smoke? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/11 "2017-06-01T17:39:36Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So what color was the smoke? Orange!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/12 "2017-06-01T18:23:10Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Orange!!! :eek: And we have a new car! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/13 "2017-06-01T19:39:32Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Orange!!! :eek: But… but… that’s the new black! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/14 "2017-06-01T19:43:27Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > And we have a new car! Bob Barker just got elected Pope? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/15 "2017-06-01T23:02:15Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Sort of like those flashing red lights inside the White House a couple nights ago. Turned out to be from emergency vehicles responding to a medical situation in the park across the street. SURE it was! 😉@midnight posited it was Trump trying out a new tanning bed. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/16 "2017-06-02T03:11:37Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Apparently the scrap yard is very close to the Vatican. Now I’m picturing a junkyard full of old [Popemobiles](https://www.google.com/search?q=popemobile&tbm=isch). ETA: Only driven by a little old [del]lady[/del] Pope on Sundays… ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/17 "2017-06-02T20:25:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Bob Barker just got elected Pope? Whose the next contestant on “The Salvation’s Right”? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/18 "2017-06-02T20:31:00Z")
Do we have a press release naming the Anti-Christ yet? ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/19 "2017-06-02T20:34:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Do we have a press release naming the Anti-Christ yet? Or, in this case, the Anti-Chrysler? (Shamelessly stolen from Futurama) ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845/20 "2017-06-03T03:10:00Z")
Are the [cattle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLA1Af0QDHs) safe? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosion-at-vatican/787845.md?page=2)