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At least 15 hit by lightning in El Salvador amusement park
Agencia EFE ^ | 6 August 2006 | Staff

Posted on 08/07/2006 3:59:44 PM PDT by Kitten Festival

San Salvador, Aug 7 (EFE).- At least 15 people, several of them children, were injured by the electric shock of a lightning bolt that hit the surroundings of an amusement park in San Salvador, a rescue team said Monday.

Salvadoran Red Cross official Carlos Lopez Mendoza told EFE that the organization attended 15 people, some with burns and others with electric shock, after lightning hit a power-line transformer Sunday night. The lightning caused apprehension among the hundreds of people crowding the "Campo de la Feria," or Festival Field, set up as part of a civic celebration that ended Sunday. EFE cp/cd

(Excerpt) Read more at efenews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: elsalvador; illegalaliens; illegals; immigration; lightning
Another reason to be given to Bush for a mass amnesty.
1 posted on 08/07/2006 3:59:46 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival
Yesterday and today parts of Dallas were out of power because of storms... not even a news story... barely a news blurb locally...

we can take it

2 posted on 08/07/2006 4:02:23 PM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
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To: GeronL

You should post a thread about it and segue into illegal immigration.


3 posted on 08/07/2006 4:03:20 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Kitten Festival

Quite the stretch there sparky. I saw a bird catch a fish today, let's ban Japanese commercial fishing in the Atlantic.


4 posted on 08/07/2006 4:04:07 PM PDT by Normal4me
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To: Kitten Festival
"At least 15 hit by lightning in El Salvador amusement park"

"No, no, no, trust me! Listen ... LISTEN! I've been on this ride before. That was supposed to happen."


5 posted on 08/07/2006 4:05:52 PM PDT by jdm (One week and still no Petronski)
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To: Kitten Festival

And Green Helmet Guy was there on the scene to carry the injured children out.


6 posted on 08/07/2006 4:07:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 1rudeboy
This is me with my sister and my dad at Cedar Point, circa 1977. Awwwwwwww... the good old days!

I really have no idea as to the origins of the photo. :)

7 posted on 08/07/2006 4:21:23 PM PDT by jdm (One week and still no Petronski)
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To: Kitten Festival

"Lightning is striking again",...Lou Christie, the 60's. Great song.

"oo wah ooo"


8 posted on 08/07/2006 4:23:23 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: jdm

Who's the gal with the great butt in the blue shorts?


9 posted on 08/07/2006 4:25:20 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: garyhope

Someone's grandma, now.


10 posted on 08/07/2006 5:49:35 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Kitten Festival

Is that the central american idea of a E-ticket ride?


11 posted on 08/07/2006 7:18:32 PM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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