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Huge Explosion in St. Petersburg - Mushroom cloud formed

englishrussia.com — People say that the explosion was so loud that it was heard at all the parts of the Russia second most populated city.

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  • jdh24, on 10/10/2007, -13/+56if that's real, why are they making fun of it by photoshopping dumb things into it? and they need to work on their english. but if it's real that sucks and i hope nobody's hurt
    • 7amWDG, on 10/10/2007, -1/+66I don't understand the photoshopping either, but it is real. Turns out it was a Gas Pipeline that exploded.

      Here is the Reuters article....
      http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-28656720070725
      • Rocketbird, on 10/10/2007, -12/+3Sounds like a government cover up to me
        • ShrimpCrackers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6JASON BOURNE!!! We'll get him eventually!...

          But considering the numbers of coverups or half coverups since Putin took over, it won't be surprising. Start with the Russian sub incident where they didn't want anyone elses help and insisted some of the crew made it, and then later on insisted it was a mistake and everyone was dead after their rescue attempt failed and so on.
    • r00tus3r, on 10/10/2007, -15/+8because, it's not serious unless it happens in america duh ...
      /sarcasm
    • hairyballsagna, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13I don't know why they feel the need to 'shop it either, but this has confirmed my suspicion that started from the bug eyes guy- Russians are terrible at photoshop.
    • miketrin, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3To the market speculators and futures investors, yes it was photoshopped, no reason to raise our natural gas or oil prices. Thanks, nothing to see here, move along please.
      • tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1RTFA and you'l know what we mean when we say "photoshop".
    • ozzie252, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6916743.stm
      It's not serious so why don't you remove that broom handle from your....
    • pyry, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2It's called Fark.com.
    • shanevendrell, on 10/10/2007, -17/+1This is the work of the jews
    • DivisibleByZero, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5The new trend, loldisasters.
    • mediatwo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I Made a Mirror ahead of time of Video and Pics... Just not the dumb photoshop ones.

      No Advertisements or branding. Just the pics and video themselves.

      http://franc-design.com/mirror.html
    • zeejay, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2With those cooling towers *right feaking there*, it looks a hell of a lot more like a nuclear disaster to my untrained eye.
    • defectDS, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18In soviet russia, explosion photoshops you!
    • santa7, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1For a second there I was afraid it was St. Petersburg, Florida where my dad lives
    • Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4> "if that's real, why are they making fun of it by photoshopping dumb things into it?"

      I take it you hadn't seen some of the photoshopped images that appeared on September 11, 2001? I don't necessarily approve of it, but it's a coping mechanism for some people (although, in the St. Petersburg case, it's probably because of a total lack of information at the time, which the link points out).
    • Biks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1re: photoshopping images

      What jdh24 MEANT to say is "why do other people have a sense of humor when I don't?"
  • macewan, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12Does anyone know if this is real?
  • blast0x, on 10/10/2007, -3/+133Just another wednesday night in st. pete, those russians sure know how to party
    • vodkasoup, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17actually right after the explosion on some Russian online communities of St. Petersburg guys wanted to go make trance party in order not to loose chance of such rare background scene
      • GawtMilk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1They were celebrating the Simpsons Premiere with a couple of Flaming Moe's, when...
  • happy_prole, on 10/10/2007, -7/+60ZE DOOMSDAY DEVICE!
    • TKn00b, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12Mein Führer! I can walk!
    • bovester, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8"I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."

      A man who truly had his priorities in order
    • texpundit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Ze Germans!
  • mannaran, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Gas pipes to Finland! Not confirmed yet..
  • novakane, on 10/10/2007, -0/+50confirmed. http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Explosion-at-Russian-gas-pipeline/2007/07/26/1185339123120.html
    • Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3uh-ohs.
    • darny, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4FTA: "This will not affect supplies to Russian or foreign consumers of Russian natural gas in any way,"

      Riiiiight.
      • narc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Not a single word about casualities or deaths.
        What a world we live on ...
  • jamesallen74, on 10/10/2007, -19/+19Putin is a wackjob!
    • darkatheart, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18So is Bush
    • Duston, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18While I agree with the comment I fail to see it relevance to the story.
    • Shandooga, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9Why are Americans so quick to accept that other nation's leaders are crazy but they are hesitant to question the sanity of their own? World Domination is crazy too,
      • Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3> "Why are Americans so quick to accept that other nation's leaders are crazy but they are hesitant to question the sanity of their own?"

        Have you actually been paying attention to Americans' opinions on Bush lately?
        • aukxsona, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Nope otherwise he wouldn't have said that.
    • jamesallen74, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Oh I 100% agree Bush is a wa....well more like a puppet to the Vice Prez and neo-con wackjobs. But still, just because Bush's administration is wacked, doesn't mean Putin isn't. Chavez too.
    • BabyWookie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Read this, a very important press-conference by Vladimir Putin that was pretty much censored out of the news in the West and tell me who's the "whackjob":
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17856.htm
  • modad, on 10/10/2007, -15/+144In Soviet Russia, mushroom cloud forms...oh ***** it.
    • TwistedRonin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to make that reference.
    • Alias12, on 10/10/2007, -16/+2Didnt you get the memo that "In Soviet Russia..." isnt funny?
      • j3utton, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16yes it is
      • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Did you get that memo? ... Did you get the memo? ... What, didn't you get the memo?
        • texpundit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10You mean the memo about the TPS reports?
        • thefaithful, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0You forgot to file your ID-10t form.
      • modad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Didn't you get the memo that "didn't you get the memo" isn't funny? Neither did I.
      • asaturn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Yeah. I got the memo. And I understand the policy. And the problem is just that I forgot the one time. And I've already taken care of it so it's not even really a problem anymore.
        • ronh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Ummmmmm yeeeeeaaaaaaah, I'll have them make you a copy.
  • zyl0x, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Too bad the videos aren't loading too well.
  • snotrokit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+81Big bada boom!
    • ubuwalker31, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
  • MrMysterious, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7No sooner than gas prices start to go down....
    • JustinH, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Natural gas is different than the petroleum that goes into your car.
    • asaturn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9"THIS JUST IN: oil companies release a statement that gasoline is going to $5/gallon nation-wide due to the natural gas pipeline explosion in Russia."

      actually, they probably WOULD try that...
  • SevenTwo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Metal Gear?!
  • Eichenator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+70007declines to comment
  • break99, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3Anyone know the cause yet? 'cause there's more things than terrorists attacks.
  • diggmeup, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1the best pictures are at the end.
  • DaedalusX, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.
    • rzurad, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Hmm. I guess no one here likes Strangelove. Wierdos.
  • gcnaddict, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6First Dallas, then St. Petersburg? Who will be next? Dublin?
    • ElwoodHerring, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2England was first with the Buncefield explosion a year or two ago. Apparently it was heard in Holland.
    • ronintetsuro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'm in Ft. Worth, just outside of Dallas... the explosion wasn't as bad as the MURDEROUS TRAFFIC created by the shut down of highways 30 and 35.
    • VegasM1ke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the is St petersburg is in russia smart one
  • edzilla, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7the 2001 explosion of a chemical plant in Toulouse, France, was heard over 50 kilometers away...
    • Ajjah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Was that the one in the Alex Rider book?
  • kunradish, on 10/10/2007, -12/+3The new Russian revolution has began go get your rifles comrades tonight we dine in HELL!!
    • aukxsona, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You are so not Russian or Putin would have arrested you by now.
  • tmarcV2, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3It's a good thing they don't still have their fingers twitching on the buttons, we could be in for a nice little nuclear war.
    • Tweekster, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2are you even old enough to remember the cold war?
  • pavpanchekha, on 10/10/2007, -3/+48Photoshopers? you're kidding me. MS Piant-ers, more like it.
  • ryodoan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4http://duggmirror.com ?
  • kunradish, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2The new Russian revolution has began go grab your rifles comrades tonight we dine in HELL!!!!!!
  • synapseattack, on 10/10/2007, -11/+4Did someone finally let Georgy press that red button he has had a hardon for during the past 7 years? Now all he needs to do is learn geography since Iran is a little further south west
    • Ilich, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Umm, world politics:
      Russia likes Iran.
  • saysomestuff, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3That site is weird - http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=268
    • vammirato, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Because something cool happens daily on 1/6th the Earth's surface....sorry C.H.U.D.S.
  • compgeek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8OH NOES!!!! NOT A MUSHROOM CLOUD
  • Arkonnan, on 10/10/2007, -4/+38Quick, blame it on the brown people so we can invade Iran!!
  • rootstyle, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11in soviet russia, site crashes digg

    oh i just had too, seems to be down tho :)
    • rootstyle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1and now it appears to be working again but slow :)
  • JasonInOregon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11From correspondents in Lavriki, Russia
    July 26, 2007 09:57am
    A POWERFUL explosion which hit a gas pipeline in north-west Russia was not caused by an act of terror and there were no reports of casualties, senior officials said today.

    "It is an explosion on a trunk gas pipeline under high pressure," said Valentin Sedorin, a spokesman for the Leningrad region around Russia's second city of St Petersburg.

    Witnesses spoke of a massive explosion that shook buildings 5km from the epicentre and caused traffic jams as people jumped in cars and fled from the area.

    Mr Sedorin said the incident had been contained.

    "We do not have any reports of any casualties. We are not ordering an evacuation of homes in the vicinity. There is no danger to peoples' lives," he said.

    Emergency officials were unable to say what caused the explosion, but Vladimir Kudryavtsev, head of the regional emergencies ministry department, said: "I personally exclude a version that this was caused by an act of terror".

    Sergei Gustov, head of the Gazprom gas company's local subsidiary Peterbuggaz, said the accident would not affect supplies to foreign consumers.

    "This will not affect supplies to Russian or foreign consumers of Russian natural gas in any way," Gustov told Reuters at the scene outside Russia's second largest city of St Petersburg.

    A Reuters reporter at the scene said the air was thick with smoke, making breathing difficult.
    He said roads were clogged with vehicles heading away from the fire, while hundreds of people leaving on foot.

    The explosion was at a point where the pipeline ran close to a power station on the northern outskirts of St Petersburg.

    Emergency services officials said windows at the power station had been blown out by the blast. It had destroyed a 50m section of the 80cm diameter pipeline.
    • Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11When the Soviet, erm, Russian authorities say there is no danger to your life, it's time to run as fast as you can.
    • volonix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Is POWERFUL in all caps really necessary in that article?
  • TheMeatball, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Wow. I hope everyone's alright. Sounds like quite the explosion.
  • Chewie67, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Here's what CNN has to say -- gas line.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/07/25/russia.pipeline.reut/index.html
    • viviwanu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Who gives it a ***** what CNN thinks!
  • Brian47126, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0RAMBO part 6, this time he is bringing it to the peeps!
  • JasonInOregon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9EXIF info from one of the top photos says it was taken 2007:07:26 01:39:49.
  • rmany2k, on 10/10/2007, -1/+43Santa strikes back, defends the North Pole. More at 11.
  • ColoursInMyHead, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Is this tonight? Why isn't it in the news yet?
    • dmunkey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6who wants to hear about this when lyndsey lohan is in crisis?
  • ali1979, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Site is down. found it here too. http://idblogthat.com/wp/?p=22
  • Thequestion, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Cartman: Damn, Ken!
  • obsoletepower, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1The cloud is fake but and there really is no need for it.
  • ampmob, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1"Mushroom cloud"? Which nightmare are we on? Is this the cold war? Is this the war on terror? Images collide.
    • davidkeithjones, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Nice attempt at making an intellectual statement, too bad you tripped and fell flat on your face.
      • GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Intellectual statement"? Which cut down is this? Is this 2nd grade? Is this how adults criticize each other? Minds boggle.
  • roberto_deneero, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1BREAKING: Just moments ago people thought they saw what appeared to be a mushroom cloud only to discover that it was actually just the tip of Ron Jeremy's penis being projected into the night sky. Expert mushroom head correspondent Hugh Jardon is live on the scene with more. Hugh...?
    • JustinDavid86, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3You would like it if Ron Jeremy's junk was projected into your face wouldn't ya?
  • Darren07, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It was S.P.E.C.T.R.E.!
  • deutscheBag, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3That Mad Max truck had something to do with it. In Soviet Russia, Mad Max watches you.
  • PFrost, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0Raaar. Deutschebag
  • Van3ck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7SOUL FINGA!
  • The_Dude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Might as well eat meat and drive gas combustion fast because we're all gonna die!
  • ChefJRD, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Reminds me of another massive gas pipeline explosion. Back during the Cold War, the US discovered widespread KGB operations to steal Western technology. In one particular case, we let the Russians steal the software with a few lines of "special" code just for them. The resulting explosion was about 1/4 the strength of the Hiroshima bomb.

    http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=829

    Beware of industrial espionage these days: China is the big one, and Russia is making a comeback as well.
  • XxModestMousexX, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Xenu is upset with Tom Cruise.
  • Falldog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19It's really just another Cloverfield trailer.
  • brandonvan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6JJ Abe pulls another marketing stunt
  • zeejay, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Gas pipeline? Interesting.... it sure looks like nuclear cooling towers in those photos...
    • enigma487, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0
      "The explosion was at a point where the pipeline ran close to a power station on the northern outskirts of St Petersburg"
    • BoonieHat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Nuclear power plants do NOT blow up. Meltdowns do NOT create mushroom clouds. Nuclear bombs and plants are TOTALLY different. The article posted above says it was near a power station. That's why you see a (duh) power plant in the picture.
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