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01-07-2013, 04:45 PM | #1 | |||
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These lanterns must be made Illegal Before the single lantern landed "Smoke rises over the Birmingham skyline earlier today. Smethwick sits on the edge of the UK's second-largest city" Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2XoTRXhFz Criminal Lantern Last edited by arista; 01-07-2013 at 04:45 PM. |
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01-07-2013, 04:55 PM | #2 | |||
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filthy mudblood
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How did they know it was a chinese lantern that caused it?
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01-07-2013, 05:18 PM | #3 | |||
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01-07-2013, 05:21 PM | #4 | |||
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I don't know why they're legal in the first place... it's essentially the same as setting fire to a place miles away. And really lethal to cattle, too.
plus they aren't that pretty.
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01-07-2013, 05:23 PM | #5 | |||
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01-07-2013, 05:25 PM | #6 | |||
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I wanna see the video
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01-07-2013, 05:25 PM | #7 | ||
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Ahh I remember when one of those was in the sky round here and me and gav were pissed and convinced ourselves that it was either a UFO or a plane on fire about to crash
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01-07-2013, 05:27 PM | #8 | |||
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you're thinking of the concorde crash, vicky, and hundreds of people died
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01-07-2013, 05:38 PM | #9 | |||
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01-07-2013, 05:44 PM | #10 | |||
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there's no video of the lantern actually landing there though. On that article anyway.
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01-07-2013, 08:17 PM | #11 | |||
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A Chinese lantern landed on a stable near here a couple of years ago and two horses died in the fire. They're bloody lethal.
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01-07-2013, 08:45 PM | #12 | |||
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yeah one nearly set someones tree on fire next door
scary times
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01-07-2013, 08:51 PM | #13 | ||
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02-07-2013, 06:32 AM | #14 | |||
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02-07-2013, 06:39 AM | #15 | |||
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I'm sorry but I find the idea that a small Chinese lantern could start a fire of this magnitude a little hard to believe. It's a good excuse though but the term inside job or Insurance job springs to mind .
Who knows they may have used the cover of Chinese lanterns but seriously this was probably a well planned insurance job. |
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02-07-2013, 01:47 PM | #16 | |||
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After the fire at the stable I referred to a few posts back, the Fire Brigade found the wire from the lantern in the burned out building. Also, Richard Bacon MP raised the subject of Chinese Lanterns at PMQ a couple of years ago after several farmers in East Anglia had their crops destroyed by fires caused by Chinese lanterns. |
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02-07-2013, 01:58 PM | #17 | |||
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02-07-2013, 02:38 PM | #18 | |||
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Why not its a Flame with plastic around it it lands on the wrong place. As for insurance thats being checked, as normal |
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