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4 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

 

TLDR: Port authority wouldn't let a Russian cargo ship that made an unscheduled stop leave without paying $100k. So the crew abandoned it. It's been sitting there for 5 years. The port authority knew the danger and has been asking the government what to do with it and the government has not responded. Then blooey.

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1 minute ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

TLDR: Port authority wouldn't let a Russian cargo ship that made an unscheduled stop leave without paying $100k. So the crew abandoned it. It's been sitting there for 5 years. The port authority knew the danger and has been asking the government what to do with it and the government has not responded. Then blooey.

 

So the likely outcome is the government will pin this on the Port Authority.

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1 hour ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

TLDR: Port authority wouldn't let a Russian cargo ship that made an unscheduled stop leave without paying $100k. So the crew abandoned it. It's been sitting there for 5 years. The port authority knew the danger and has been asking the government what to do with it and the government has not responded. Then blooey.

 

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Lebanese customs officials wrote letters to the courts at least six times from 2014 to 2017, seeking guidance on how to dispose of the highly combustible material, according to public records cited by a Lebanese lawmaker, Salim Aoun.

 

Solutions proposed by the officials included exporting the ammonium nitrate, which is used in fertilizer and explosives, or donating it to the Lebanese Army. But the judiciary failed to respond to the letters, the records suggested.

 

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12 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

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It's now believed that a fire broke out at the warehouse—possibly due to careless welding performed as an anti-theft measure—which caused the stockpile of the chemical, often used as a fertilizer, to explode catastrophically.

 

Sparks from welding that caused the initial fire actually did spring to my mind yesterday.

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I wouldn't read anything into that other than it's the same kinda thing as when he has to make a statement ahead of a hurricane hitting and he'll actually sort of half-brag about the strength of the hurricane, like, "It's a category 5, I'm not sure anyone's ever even heard of a category this high,  actually." When he's just kind of rambling and doesn't really know what he's talking about one of his go-to moves is to just talk about how big some numbers are, and it doesn't really matter if they're numbers that indicate something good.

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