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Giant Explosion: At Least 14 Injured In Downtown San Diego

nbcsandiego.com — Fourteen people were injured after an explosion at a building being constructed near the San Diego Convention Center.

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  • dyana1, on 05/20/2008, -21/+3wow
  • valejo, on 05/20/2008, -36/+5Why didn't they plan ahead on this and clear out the area around it?!?!
    • DeviantDragon, on 05/20/2008, -1/+30Because people don't usually get a chance to plan ahead for unknown gas leakage and unpredicted and unknown ignition of said gas buildup. RTFA, it's not as if it was a controlled demolition.
    • mixxo, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Why didn't you plan ahead & actually think about what you were typing in that little yellow comment box.......
    • Modulo, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Valejo, after a quick browse through some of your other comments, I have a nice red rubber ball for you to play with instead of spending all this time apparently being confused by the complicated things happening in the world. We will all be better off, and hey! red rubber ball!
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  • The0, on 05/20/2008, -22/+12Oh no, not the Natural Gas Terrorists! Somebody's gonna get bombed for this!
  • SickMonkey, on 05/20/2008, -13/+118Stay gassy San Diego!
    • anti_hax0r, on 05/20/2008, -1/+3I think that is near the Gaslamp district - you were unintentionally correct.
  • TheRealToma, on 05/20/2008, -55/+22Irony. Spend money on a war, and the infrastructure doesnt get maintained and you make your own bombs and disasters. (NYC steam, Bridge collapse, Gas Explosion)
    *Edit: Tho this looks more like someone flicking matches at a gas bottle...*
    • PolishLogic, on 05/20/2008, -3/+32NYC Steam: City's responsiblity, pipes were over 80 years old.

      Bridge Collapse: it was in the process of being refurbished and collapsed.

      Gas Explosion: at a building in the process of being reconstructed.

      How are these things the Federal Goverment's fault? Do you blame the Feds if your toilet backs up, or your car breaks down?
      • twiztidsinz, on 05/20/2008, -16/+14Yeah... I do.
        This country is so full of the governments ***** that the sewers can't handle it.
        You want the poo? You want the poo?!? YOU CANT HANDLE THE POO!
        • fiktionous1, on 05/20/2008, -3/+4thanks! made me laugh
        • diecastbeatdown, on 05/20/2008, -3/+3pity you're being dugg down, it was funny.
      • cdahlkvist, on 05/20/2008, -1/+4Bridge collapse wasn't due to poor maintenance. It was due to poor design.

        Our wonderful Civil Engineers decided to use plates that were too thin and to ignore the fact that they were laying the foundation 120' too shallow in limestone rather than to the granite/basalt below the limestone.

        This was a design that was done back in the 60s/70s.
      • VinceNoir, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5Yes... some people actually do. It's this irrational hatred of large organizations that have a lot of power. I think it's a mental disease called libertarianism.
    • oaktree, on 05/20/2008, -11/+3You are such a moron and are the reason this country is going down the crapper. Go kill yourself.
    • heliox, on 05/20/2008, -4/+9Give it a ***** rest would ya...
    • Wormwood, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1> the infrastructure doesnt get maintained and you make your own bombs and disasters.

      Funny, just like Brazil... never mind all the duct work requiring reams of paperwork to get authorization to fix, but when you categorize repair men as "terrorists" of course the powers that be will blame them for the disrepair
  • fr0ng, on 05/20/2008, -14/+28Oh noes, terror alert orange!
    • bbardlbradd, on 05/20/2008, -12/+3And I bet our government had something to do with it... again.
      • asskicker32, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1I had to digg this ridiculous tin-foil-hat comment.

        Please tell me it was a joke.
  • plimpton777, on 05/20/2008, -23/+2That ***** was the BOMB, yo
  • DekarCorvus, on 05/20/2008, -21/+2osama is that you?
  • guillebravo6, on 05/20/2008, -13/+4This was probably funded by Al Qaeda, haha yea right.

    I feel bad for the guy who got burnt on over 35% percent of his body. Damn
    • fuzzybeard, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Any time you're burned bad enough that it's measured in percentages is bad news in my book.

      /burn debridement's a bitch
  • jhirsch4, on 05/20/2008, -10/+15at least the building didnt collapse
    • bbardlbradd, on 05/20/2008, -4/+3Looks like the Feds were late to set them up the bomb... maybe next time.
    • popfrogs, on 05/20/2008, -2/+2It would have if they called it Building #5, and they wouldn't explain it.
      • rspeed, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Huh? I assume you're referring to 5 World Trade Center, which was partially destroyed when 1 and 2 WTC collapsed on top of it. It didn't collapse, it was demolished by wrecking crews a few months later. What explanation is needed?
  • PolishLogic, on 05/20/2008, -18/+7From the AP article: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gHThj6HppxN3_r3 ...

    "It looked like a bomb," McBride said. "It shook the whole building like a bomb."

    Now that sounds familiar. Sort of like 9/11. Where are the conspiracy theorist when you need them. They should be running with this right about now. Failed attempt at a controlled demolition anyone?
    • chanop, on 05/20/2008, -0/+14Natural gas? pssshhhh. George Bush personally put c4 on the side of the building, then sent a small missle into the side of the building. Don't you see how the metal is fragmented? That doesn't happen from natural gas.
      • chanop, on 05/20/2008, -0/+9Also, if you fold a $20 a certain way you can see a construction worker with a burn on his arm.....if that isn't proof, I don't know what is
      • VinceNoir, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Yeah... and I can see the pixels so I know it's a Photoshop.
  • jstohler, on 05/20/2008, -12/+88Time for Bush to invade Mexico.
    • dolby, on 05/20/2008, -6/+5or Canada to make the United States of North America, and Iraq and coming soon Iran.
      • subliminalurge, on 05/20/2008, -1/+5No, definitely Mexico. The beach property is much more appealing.
        • popfrogs, on 05/20/2008, -1/+6Plus, as Bush would say, "tacos rule!".
    • Impeller, on 05/20/2008, -3/+1
      We're wating...
    • heliox, on 05/20/2008, -3/+1Time for you to stop being a douche.
  • Dumbledorito, on 05/20/2008, -9/+15Noooo! Not the ComiCon!!!!
  • Vvolf, on 05/20/2008, -7/+2I guess Rip isn't on line toot anymore!
  • tnoy, on 05/20/2008, -17/+22Fox News headline with "terrorist" in it, in 3.. 2.. 1..
    • rspeed, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Not a headline, but they did quote a guy named Tim McBride who said "Everybody was saying bomb, bomb, bomb, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist."
  • PosedMagnet, on 05/20/2008, -9/+1OMG terrorists!!

    TURN TO CODE ALERT RED!!!

    :D
  • Sogui, on 05/20/2008, -5/+45You could just call it an explosion, I think "giant" just makes this story sensationalist.
    • shirtninjay, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3But then it might have not reached front page without "giant" in the title.

      Diggers will do anything to get their submission popular.

      For example, [Pic], (Video), BREAKING:, iPhone, Stephen Colbert, Obama, Clinton, Top X lists and so on...
  • mamboboy, on 05/20/2008, -14/+2OMG ANOTHER PLANE JUST HIT
  • MaxMWood, on 05/20/2008, -3/+28Giant lego ball spotted at the scene of the disaster.
  • crowbar77, on 05/20/2008, -7/+4Someone's getting sued.
  • dolby, on 05/20/2008, -7/+2It looks like no one was killed that is great news. That building is wreaked.
  • zyl0x, on 05/20/2008, -3/+34It's funny how the viewer submitted photos are of higher quality than the ones provided by NBC.
    • TremorX, on 05/20/2008, -2/+3Funny, or SUSPICIOUS?!
    • pcrow, on 05/20/2008, -1/+5The viewer-submitted photos are from multi-megapixel digital cameras. The NBC "photos" are stills from TV cameras, and probably not even HDTV cameras.
      • LordMonboddo, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6Yeah! Let's defend NBC camera-people! Thumbs up!!
  • leerayIG88, on 05/20/2008, -8/+6Giant Explosion?! Must be Iron Man kicking some ass.
    • VinceNoir, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1More like Iron Man's ass kicking out some bad gas.
  • redxninja, on 05/20/2008, -6/+2New Bravia ads?
  • diggydougie, on 05/20/2008, -3/+2I like the slideshow method of getting the news. Not just a few seconds of video or a couple of pictures. I also liked (not really the best word) the drug shooting story on the site.
    • Bodhinature, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Is it just me or were the user submitted photos better than the professional media photos?
  • PseudoThink, on 05/20/2008, -3/+5I live a few blocks from the new Hilton Hotel and jog by that area on a regular basis. The building is rather isolated from downtown, being on the opposite side of Harbor Drive and on the SE side of the convention center. It is far enough from Harbor Drive, the convention center, and the trolley/train tracks that I doubt this would have injured anyone, if construction workers hadn't been on the site working. Painfully obvious it doesn't have anything to do with terrorism.
  • Davage, on 05/20/2008, -7/+2Pretty exciting, when one lives in SD.
    Not enough stuff blows up around here anymore.
  • mprice177, on 05/20/2008, -11/+2It was the work of IRANIAN Terrorists..Go Bush...after them!!!!!!! Nuke them!!!!
  • BridgeBurner, on 05/20/2008, -2/+11Welcome to yesterday...
  • audioscience, on 05/20/2008, -5/+20BREAKING NEWS! Yesterday...
    • shaba1, on 05/20/2008, -1/+3It was submitted almost 20 hrs ago (making it yesterday), but made popular 3 hrs ago
  • mindvise, on 05/20/2008, -3/+7"The arsonist had oddly shaped feet." R. Burgundy
  • malcolmlo, on 05/20/2008, -6/+1So thats where osama's been hiding all along. Go figure.
  • prleet, on 05/20/2008, -7/+0Who cares, its in United States of Mexico.
  • geneticlone, on 05/20/2008, -4/+3Oh noh its them terrorizers again.
  • Larlei, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2Too Many people here. Half would care. The half that actually watches the news.
  • ahalbert, on 05/20/2008, -1/+4looks like the surrounding buildings of Petco Park have more excitement then those last place Padres
  • tmaiden, on 05/20/2008, -6/+1Boy, tons of ignorant assholes on digg anymore. People get injured and diggers use it as a chance to attempt a funny 1 line comment.
  • trollick, on 05/20/2008, -2/+11If it happened in Myanmar it would kill at least 50,000 people.
    • hammerpants, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2I should not be laughing at this. Save me a seat in hell, k?
    • majordickhead, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2***** YOU... do you laugh at Katrina? No... well Myanmar has 20 times the number of deaths and the majority of people there make less that $60 a month.
  • TremorX, on 05/20/2008, -1/+3We are now at Elevated Terror Alert Level Pantone Orange 021C
  • freezerburn666, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2damn nature, you gassy!
  • petebert, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4actual news on digg?, wierd..
  • loneBoat, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2I often wonder when I see reports of numbers of people injured in an incident how picky they are when correlating injuries to the incident. I mean, if I get a papercut because the sound of the explosion across town startled me, do I get to be counted as one of the injured? Or if I get a repetitive strain injury from commenting on Digg about it, can I be counted? Just wondering.
  • wyzzerdd, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2Poor quality photos for the loss.
  • WilliamDecker, on 05/20/2008, -1/+4I don't want to sound like a dick, but 14 people? Why can't we cover something that isn't American about people getting killed/injured? Something that will actually bring some focus on world issues?

    I feel bad for anyone involved that was injured/killed, but honestly fair and balanced I think is the word. News happens in more then just the United States...
  • DanBoodro, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2From the look of those photos, I'm surprised it wasn't a lot worse.
  • MorphicMusic, on 05/20/2008, -2/+1Weird because May 4th there was an explosion at the court, related?
  • etsboy1, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2i have no idea what the is going on or has NBC just decided to tell people of the explosion and let them think it up themselves?
  • missmorgie, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Peter Pettigrew is at it again!
    • counterplex, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Actually I have it on good sources that he died in the explosion. His thumb was all that was left of his body. DAMN YOU SIRIUS BLAAAACK!!!
  • bgolat, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1If you want to know the story: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080520- ...
  • plizard, on 05/20/2008, -1/+1someone's gonna get bombed in the name of justice
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