ChaozFlame on 23/10/2012 at 19:24
Next time they ask for someone's advice in this situation, the specialists are going to say shit all.
Renzatic on 23/10/2012 at 21:07
Quote Posted by Vasquez
Yeah, I vaguely remember even Berlusconi shushed this guy.
Given the history of the area, I can't understand why people didn't use their common sense and leave anyway when the small rumblings started to escalate. I couldn't find what the scientists had said
exactly, but if they really had assured there's nothing to worry about, I don't think they were being terribly scientific either.
From what I read about it, the reports stated something along the lines of...
"We don't think there's gonna be an earthquake, but hell if we know for a fact. They're kind of unpredictable. Just in case, you better go around and make sure all the houses are up to code in case we're wrong and one does happen".
Of course no one listened to that last half. They just read "no earthquake", then went around telling everyone there wasn't anything to worry about. Then cue earthquake, which would've been nothing more than a moderate inconvenience rather than a large tragedy had the buildings been up to code.
There's a moral here, I'm just not sure what it is.
Muzman on 23/10/2012 at 21:17
On the bright side it is Italy. So it'll probably turn out that the janitor's guild for the building they worked in actually has some jurisdiction, sits as a court for the first time in a hundred years and overturns the whole thing.
(the government then retaliates with a long forgotten statute of lighthouse keepers over the survey buoys. The last surviving member, Alberto Grimaldi, whose signature is needed to bring the charge, is hurriedly roused from his sleep and punches one of the police in the face. Remonstrations ensue. This is because he mistook the state police for the local council police, the current head of which tried to put his nephew in jail for whistling at said policeman's attractive cousin in 1973, which resulted in a knife fight between him and Alberto and a family feud that stands to this day. The local police are suing the state police for horning in on what they say is their jurisdiction. The state police are digging up decades old corruption charges in retaliation.
The Government are still hoping to get the 81yr old Alberto's signature for the charge, as soon as these other matters clear court sometime in roughly 2021)
SubJeff on 23/10/2012 at 21:38
That is so good I'm going to steal it.
If even the Aussies know how ridiiiiiculous the Italians are they should be a least a little bit aware that the world is laughing at them.
twisty on 24/10/2012 at 07:53
Between this and that other act of "justice" in South Africa where the survivors of the mine site massacre got charged with murder, the legal system seems to be going mad in some of these countries.
faetal on 25/10/2012 at 14:42
Quote Posted by Muzman
On the bright side it is Italy. So it'll probably turn out that the janitor's guild for the building they worked in actually has some jurisdiction, sits as a court for the first time in a hundred years and overturns the whole thing.
(the government then retaliates with a long forgotten statute of lighthouse keepers over the survey buoys. The last surviving member, Alberto Grimaldi, whose signature is needed to bring the charge, is hurriedly roused from his sleep and punches one of the police in the face. Remonstrations ensue. This is because he mistook the state police for the local council police, the current head of which tried to put his nephew in jail for whistling at said policeman's attractive cousin in 1973, which resulted in a knife fight between him and Alberto and a family feud that stands to this day. The local police are suing the state police for horning in on what they say is their jurisdiction. The state police are digging up decades old corruption charges in retaliation.
The Government are still hoping to get the 81yr old Alberto's signature for the charge, as soon as these other matters clear court sometime in roughly 2021)
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Shug on 28/10/2012 at 22:24
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
If even the Aussies know how ridiiiiiculous the Italians are they should be a least a little bit aware that the world is laughing at them.
woah
SubJeff on 29/10/2012 at 00:00
yo what up?
