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Death toll in Mexico pipeline fire reaches 89
KION ^ | Jan 21, 2019

Posted on 01/21/2019 2:36:13 PM PST by artichokegrower

The death toll in a massive fire at an illegally tapped pipeline in Mexico has risen to 89 as more of the injured have died at hospitals.

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The victims were gathering gasoline from an illegal pipeline tap in the central state of Hidalgo on Friday when the gas ignited, littering an alfalfa field with charred bodies.


Wouldn't it be an undocumented pipeline tap? Gotta be politically correct. Anyhow 14,894 pipeline taps in 2018 alone!

1 posted on 01/21/2019 2:36:13 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Pipelines don’t work!


2 posted on 01/21/2019 2:36:47 PM PST by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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Doesn’t gasoline cost like a quarter a gallon there?....................


3 posted on 01/21/2019 2:37:10 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: artichokegrower

The Village Idiots Pelosi refuses to have work on her Vineyard but demands live in our neighborhood.
Makes you wonder about the few pipeline “fractures” which have happened in the USA in the last 10 years.


4 posted on 01/21/2019 2:41:46 PM PST by Zathras
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To: artichokegrower

The video was pretty horrific.


5 posted on 01/21/2019 2:43:48 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: artichokegrower

wow


6 posted on 01/21/2019 2:45:34 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Does gathering gasoline from an illegal pipeline tap happen often in Mexico? If so, another reason to build the border fence.


7 posted on 01/21/2019 2:46:35 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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The inccident was in fact well documented. There is a fairly long video showing the gasoline being streamed into the air and the tbieves with various vessels collecting it.

Then there is a massive fire and people are clearly seen fleeing, many are literally onfire


8 posted on 01/21/2019 2:51:43 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Princess Gray Beaver, for President?)
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The video of this is enough to give you nightmares


9 posted on 01/21/2019 2:52:52 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Red Badger
Like bread in a communist country, it's cheap.

WHEN YOU CAN FIND IT.

10 posted on 01/21/2019 2:53:15 PM PST by null and void (Build the wall, or don't get paid at all.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

According to the source:

almost 15,000 illegal taps into gasoline pipelines in 2018 alone in Mexico

ave 41 per day


11 posted on 01/21/2019 2:55:06 PM PST by BartMan1 (In for penny, in for a pound)
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The video was pretty horrific.

Yes it was, but the freeloaders had to know the risks.

12 posted on 01/21/2019 3:00:22 PM PST by pfflier
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To: artichokegrower

If your gonna do a Hot Tap on a live gas pipeline, it would be be prudent not to smoke.


13 posted on 01/21/2019 3:06:21 PM PST by Captain7seas (UNexit. Make America Great Again!)
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I’m guessing a mere spark of static electricity is what ignited the gasoline or gasoline vapor.


14 posted on 01/21/2019 3:08:43 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: stars & stripes forever
Does gathering gasoline from an illegal pipeline tap happen often in Mexico? If so, another reason to build the border fence.

It sounds like a tactic from Nigeria. Were the tappers toasted golden or burnt?

15 posted on 01/21/2019 3:11:35 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: artichokegrower

Maybe filling trucks with gasoline and joining caravans for the border.


16 posted on 01/21/2019 3:14:30 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: gunsequalfreedom

It is and the comments were not very sympathetic either.

Generally that it was a pretty stupid thing to be doing.


17 posted on 01/21/2019 3:16:36 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: pfflier

These things happen in shithole countries.


18 posted on 01/21/2019 3:17:50 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: artichokegrower

Stealing is bad, mmkay?


19 posted on 01/21/2019 3:21:31 PM PST by jospehm20
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There are no good ways to go, but burn victim may be the worst.

A friend and his brother go to open up the fishing cottage, the older brother goes in and flips a light switch, propane leak, massive burns.

From the hospital bed, he begs the younger brother to go home, use a hacksaw cut off the barrel and stock of a shotgun.
Bring it and a cartridge.
He has to kill himself to escape the pain.

He survived after years or repair work.


20 posted on 01/21/2019 3:28:31 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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