Posted on 08/19/2005 10:05:12 AM PDT by Reeses
Big bang near Crocker Galleria in SF, Post St. closed down, smell of gunpowder.
FOXNEWS is now talking about endangered species. Pictures of rhinos. Whatever!
I am on edge, too.
If I remember correctly, the 5th Fleet has been on your radar for a long time now.
Careful, or a jury might declare you caused some aliens emotional distress and give them your home.
Chuck Hagle?
Nah, the sidewalks and strets in San Francisco aren't in that good condition. ;)
Schwab evacuated.
Gas explosion, per people in my company across the street from ralph lauren store.
probably not religion of peace related.
one injured - in critical condition in local burn unit
did the manhole get hurt?
50 Post St.
Actually it is the most pathetic in a while. Before anyone knew how severe the explosion was or wasn't, before anyone knew if people were killed or injured, they were rushing to pop off jokes, lacking any self-control, who are lucky that it wasn't worse lest they be immortalized as immature total a-holes. The first reaction of most normal person to a headline of an explosion in a large city is concern and shock, not wisecraccks, especially after 9/11. And spare me the total bullcrap copout line of resorting to humor to deal with grief. Not applicable in the first moments of what could be a terror act.
Compare this thread to one of the first 9/11 threads, where the only joke on the first page was #41, despite no confirming images of the severity until post #28, and no report of the 2nd plane until #46.
Starkly shows the difference between FR in 2001 and 2005.
Indeed.
Explosion Injures Woman in San Francisco
By PAUL ELIAS
Associated Press Writer
Published August 19, 2005, 12:30 PM CDT
SAN FRANCISCO -- An explosion injured a woman and set a clothing store on fire Friday in the downtown shopping district.
Firefighters and police evacuated several blocks around the store in the Crocker Galleria area, said fire spokesman Peter Howes.
A witness told KCBS radio that a woman was engulfed in flames from the blast which shattered the Ralph Lauren store's windows just before 10 a.m. Another witness said the blast seemed to have originated under the sidewalk.
McCarthy liked homos.
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