40 Replies to “Developing… Fire/Explosion in London Underground Elephant And Castle Station”

  8. Re: Ms. Kate
    It’s probably nothing.

    Could’ve happen just like that.
    If it’s those that come to enrich British culture, they are on it.

  9. There’s mention of a fire starting in an auto repair shop. No information on cause, so let’s not speculate.

  10. OK, I won’t speculate, I’ll call it as I see it:
    The MSM will report it as either:

    1. An accident.
    2. The result of mental illness or marginalization or both.
    3. Far-right terror.

    No matter what is reported, it’ll be a tapestry of lies and misinformation.

  11. Awwww,
    I wanted $10.00 on VW coil packs. + $10.00 if it’s a Passat as the accompanying evap. canisters are faulty as well.
    (Public service announcement: Never park any vehicle in a garage attached to a home without pulling the battery cables.)

  12. I’m having a problem understanding why a train station would have a business adjacent that has highly combustible materials located there. Seems like a major cock-up.
    Think in terms of building a condo tower with a gas station on the ground floor.

        1. No. Bubble-wrap mentality. Never been to an auto mechanic in a mall? I guess you think those should be banned, or perhaps you want to give the government more power to “do the right thing” and protect you?

          1. Yes, I have. The Sears Auto shop was SEPARATED from the mall in a freestanding building. Oh! And all the buildings were concrete.

            Guess they don’t have building codes in bumfuck wherever you live.

            Building codes are hardly “bubblewrap” … they are what separate us from the -fragistan mud hut people

          2. lol. Good thing you live in California, where government knows best. We all know that without government, we’d all magically transform into Somalians, oh, and the USA before building codes was just like Somalia, and so on.
            I live in an old building that was once a train station, then a sawmill, now its 7 apartments, each with only 1 exit! **gasp***. People like you would like the government to kick us out of this ***gasp*** death-trap, for our own good.
            The difference between bumfuk Ontario and where you live seems to be fear. You are scared of auto mechanic shops existing without sufficient government oversight, we are not. And you wonder why government gets away with massive over-reach, at the same time as you encourage it.
            The world is a dangerous place, and if you think the government can protect you from it, then you are part of the problem, just like the covid karens.

          4. Yep. The world is dangerous. You want the state to bubble-wrap people. I don’t. I can deal with some danger without having to send goons out to harass people who do things that scare me. You, apparently cannot. Your mentality is the same one that bans folk from climbing trees in cities, because some kid did it and fell to his death. No different than the covid karens, as I said.
            Good thing you weren’t around in the 19th century, when folk put candles on their Christmas Trees; you probably would have formed a lynch mob after the 1st house fire, for the children, of course. As to water-skiing with a bottle of booze in one hand, and a girl on your shoulders, oh the horror. Karens are sucking all the fun and excitement out of life, and you seem to want to help them.

    2. Building codes would require a stringent Fire separation wall … 3hr most likely. However, the building codes don’t address explosive forces (except in very particular building uses). Perhaps all buildings now need explosive protection? Eh M.?

      1. Yes. Lets give government even more control over our lives, FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

        1. There are building codes … and there are political codes. “Life Health and Safety Codes” save lives. As in NOT burning 87 child laborers to death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911. Jerry Browns “building code” requiring solar panels on every home in CA is political bullshit

          1. Ahh yes, the “for the children” virtue-signal as an excuse not to mind your own business.

          2. That’s the thing, Kenji, you give the gov’t the power “to save lives”, then act all surprised when they use that same power to screw you over. Its like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown, but on steroids.

          3. I believe the term you are searching for is … “limited government”. Sorry … I can’t go BIG L Libertarian with you

          4. Yeahwell – I work in mining. Shall we create our own safety factors for tailings dams when there are 10,000+ living downstream of the facility? Or would you rather ban the limited liability company, without which legal risk would prevent anything from ever being built or done? As much as I hate to admit it, there are cases when government oversite and approval are necessary.

            The missing step is that when the government oversite fails (Mt. Polley, Walkerton Ont water supply) those government overseers that failed should be charged with murder or gross endangerment. Personal accountability. If we can’t build without a sign-off, then the signer accepts partial responsibility if we messed up.

        2. OK, pretty clear you have stumbled into a religious argument and do not know it yet.

          Yes, the same people who are legislating a drought for the delta smelt, are the ones who write all the building codes. Simple truths like this, will never be acknowledged by people with the sort of thinking Kenji is putting on display.

          Do not live by lies; it is all you can do. You also cannot insult people into more correct modes of thinking. Always useful to be less certain.

          1. Well, Kevin, I figure you’re right. I figure life is gonna be a big shit-show, with or without state goons going around harassing people. The way I see it, well-funded goons will always make things worse, eventually, they’ll get too big for their britches, and then tell me that my boy is a girl, and threaten me with jail for sayin’ otherwise.
            Defund the goons. Ya can’t freeze the human condition into the ideal mix of state and freedom, seems we’re doomed to keep goin round and round…
            At this point “just leave me alone” is considered “radical.”, a threat to the common good, etc, when all I wanted to do was play with smoke detectors and isolate radioactive metals…the thing is…pre-crime. Don’t bust me BEFORE I poisoned the community by accident. I sort of understand the fear of people, but I cannot condone busting folk who have done nothing wrong, for any reason. If that leads to burning cities, so be it.

          2. Sorry Kev. UDI … you’re wrong. The people who invent a CA drought by dumping reservoirs are NOT the same people who write building codes. Not even close. It’s the difference between REAL science and FAKE science. The consortium of Engineers, and Building professionals who write these codes use STEM to write the codes. The reservoir-dumpers use PR hysteria to push their agenda. Building officials TEST materials and Analyze Failures to write their codes … reservoir dumpers use misleading pictures of “dry” reservoirs to “prove” their claims.

            One group deals in the REAL world … the other …
            Deals in Fantasy-driven hysteria

      2. One of the precepts of “limited gov’t” is private property. Around here, we have unlicensed mechanics shops in wood-framed garages, just some guy who know his way around cars who invested in a lift and a bunch of tools, maybe races on the weekends as a hobby, and they’re on private property, and the state has no business butting in.

        1. A simple wood frame garage, if small and detached, requires NO “building code bubble-wrapping” (your term). You can build it from any materials you want.

          I have a righteous set of tools in my garage and service my own cars. Because my garage is attached to my home, it requires a one hour (equivalent) fire separation between garage and house. No big deal. And an automatic door closer and weatherstripping on the door between house and garage. Hardly bubble wrapping, but if any of the gasoline or other flammable liquids caught fire in my garage … it might just save our lives and home.

          Now … on the other hand … the city of Sacramento has OUTLAWED home mechanics servicing their cars in residential neighborhoods. That’s infringing Rights. That’s government overreach.

  14. Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June. We stood beneath an amber moon and softly murmured, “Someday soon.”

    1. AS, you must be from the US, up here we blame Harper. Of course, as Harper disappears into the memory hole, I guess we should transition to another right wing politician that actually achieved something. OK, up here, we don’t got those any more, so…Trump it is!

      I guess DeSantis will be next.

  16. Not Harper, and not Trump.

    When looking for somewhere to place the blame, there’s only one name to kick around – NIXON!

  17. Hum! 45 years back there was an automobile breaker stripping cars and selling parts from one of the locations under the railway arches. I know this for a fact as was able to purchase bits to restore a Jaguar there. Grease and grime everywhere, no surprise at all that anything in the area might catch fire.

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