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Title: CCTV Fire Beijing
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on February 10, 2009, 04:27:47 am

Holy. Frakking. Shit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSPFL2Zlpg

Title: Re: CCTV Fire Beijing
Post by: jaydub on February 10, 2009, 04:51:31 am

If the Chinese continue doing everything bigger than the rest of the world, Texas is going to get a complex.

Title: Re: CCTV Fire Beijing
Post by: pmcd9 on February 10, 2009, 05:00:03 am

We'll let 'em have this one.

Title: Re: CCTV Fire Beijing
Post by: Doc on February 10, 2009, 05:16:54 am

Wow, that's a hell of a blaze. What's the story on this one? Deliberately lit etc?

More pictures, looks like it's falling over in the last one but that might just be the angle. (http://www.chinasmack.com/pictures/beijing-cctv-building-on-fire-news-censored/)
Weird that there's been some attempt to censor news reports about it. Or not I guess, it being China and all. Hard to imagine there's something a government would want to hide there though so it's just censoring for the sake of it.


Edit: Some after pictures. (http://shanghaiist.com/2009/02/10/cctv_fire_suspiciously_absent_from.php) Yeah... someone's probably going to notice that.

Title: Re: CCTV Fire Beijing
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on February 10, 2009, 05:27:11 am

First Australia, now China. TERRISM???

Title: Re: CCTV Fire Beijing
Post by: wombat on February 10, 2009, 01:57:34 pm

From Doc's Shanghaiist link:

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At Netease, the comments have been "harmonized." Though there were 2000 plus comments last night, this morning it's been reduced to around 9.

Wow. But, the 2000 comments did get up there for a while. Fascinating.