Thursday, June 07, 2007

wouldn't that be funny...

Never before have I genuinely wished death and destruction in tsunami form on a group of down-trodden people. But these Primitives are just asking for it...

some AP story, didn't bother with a link since i copied and pasted the whole thing
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Angry villagers stoned a tsunami warning siren in Aceh province after it accidentally went off, triggering panic in the region hardest hit by the 2004 killer waves, an official said Thursday.

Several false alarms in Kaju district early Monday sent thousands of people fleeing to high ground before they were finally urged by police to return home. Roads were clogged with motorbikes and cars for more than an hour.

When another siren sounded in nearby Lhoknga later that afternoon, frustrated residents threw rocks at its electrical panel, said Syahnan Sobri of the local Meteorological and Geophysics Agency.

"It was too high up, so they stoned it," he said, adding that technicians were being sent to the scene to survey the damage.

The 2004 tsunami killed some 230,000 people in 12 nations, almost half of them in Aceh.

The country is establishing a nationwide tsunami warning system with foreign funds, but not all of its coastline is covered.

Seriously. The world bands together, helps fix the damage from the tsunami, even helps them set up a tsunami warning system.

And they throw shit at it.

I'm sure I won't be the only one in the world laughing if a tsunami sneaks up on them and oopsie, drowns them all. Great googly moogly.



Man, what I'd give for an earthquake early warning system. The way that California is situated in and around numerous faultlines, we have a few seconds at most. Just enough to halt BART trains. Wonderful.

Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith