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simpleminds · Joined: 04 May 2006

khyner, that's awful, poor kid.

I was in Phuket when the tsunami struck. Heard the thocking, and thought somebody was throwing furniture around. Only, there wasn't any yelling. Then the locals were yelling and flapping their arms. Which is odd, because Thai people don't yell. We didn't feel the EQ because our hotel was on a granite hill.
My hotel was a two minute walk down a steep hill to the beach. Man, there was mangled debris everywhere, and cars 100 meters out into the sea. Good thing the continental shelf was shallow there at Karon Beach; Patong north and Kata south of us got a bigger blitz than we did...there were no TV cameras, only army people cleaning up the wreakage and towing cars from the sea.

Good thing it didn't happen the night before, cos my friend and I were on the beach front, and wouldn't have seen it coming.

Was there on 7/7; the day before, London had gotten the Olympics. I was using the transport the next day.

manlyboy · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

East Timor in 1998. The day I arrived in Dili I got some murderous looks from the Indonesian soldiers patroling the streets. The locals were understandably not keen on associating with me either. I turned around and got out of the place as fast as I could.

nicholas_chiasson · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok

-I saw the Russian government in Petersburg crack down on protest marchers...by use of APC.
Never want to see that again, it was scary.

seoulsucker · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject:

Thailand for the Tsunami, large mudslide and an attempted coup in the Phillipines, Spectrumgate in Korea. What can I say...I'm a f'n survivor, man.

nicholas_chiasson · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok

-Isn't starcraft2 going to launch in Korea soon? It should be like being in Bethlehem in 4BC.

koon_taung_daeng · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Location: south korea

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

I was on a train going alongside the freeway when a pile up happened while I was looking out the window. It was surreal. I was comfortable and nice while people were screaming as their cars smashed into one in front, then one in behind, repeating that phase till seven were crunched together.

I was on the same sh1tty United aircraft that the door blew off on out of Hawaii, and wouldn't mention it if it wasn't that I was sitting in the seat one month before that was one of those sucked out into the skies. What would it be like freefalling from 30.000 feet?
Bloody United and their crappy maintenance.

I nearly became a statistic riding my Yamaha 110cc around the streets.

RedRob · Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Location: Narnia

I was sitting on my porch in Auckland looking over the motorway, got off work a bit early that day, so I was idly having a beer watching a red car stalled in the fast lane thinking poor dude, what a place to break down at 5:00.
There was a radio station 'eye in the sky" and a copper chopper circling the situation....the wee plane flew through the blades of the chopper, wings went spiralling off,metal flying everywhere, chopper went down and exploded, huge fireball just like Mr Willis would make. I just sat there like a stoned guy saying farking hell, farking hell, farrking hell.

paquebot · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Location: Northern Gyeonggi-do

While I was only one month old at the time, my family only lived a couple hours away from Mount Saint Helens when it erupted in 1980. My parents had actually been invited to visit a family friend at his cabin on the mountain that day but declined -- probably a good thing, given that he was found dead under a ton of ash. Sad

I was also 10 miles or so from the epicenter of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake back in 2001. The whole downtown area for my hometown is built in a dip in the landscape; roads leading into town sunk into the ground and the bridges connecting the west side of town to downtown started falling apart. I was at college when it hit and my first thought was "hey, I should see how this shows up on the school's seismograph!"

All part of living in a subduction zone, I guess.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

I was in Thailand when the Cambodians burned down the Thai embassy.

legalquestions · Joined: 25 Mar 2007

I was sleeping with a young news reporter in Innsbruck, Austria, when she received a phone call "tip." She left me in bed and returned several hours later talking about some old body being found in the mountains nearby.

Turns out she had been out gathering info/reporting at the site where what later became known as the "Iceman" hunter/gatherer had just been found.

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject:

I was there when Jean Chretien was elected leader of the Liberal party, in the Saddledome (Martin second, Copps third). I shook Trudeau's hand as he entered the lower bowl area. I still remember Chretien's acceptance speech mantra:

"We have work to doooo!"

"We have Work to doooo!"

Gamecock · Joined: 26 Nov 2003

I was in Jerusalem when Rabin was assassinated, and Bill Clinton's motorcade passed me on the way to the funeral...I was also sitting in a Sbarro's in Jerusalem when a suicide bomber blew up a bus 2 blocks away... I'll never get the image out of my head of the Orthodox Jews scraping the "flesh" from the sidewalks and buildings hours later so as to provide a proper Jewish burial. About a year later, after I left Israel, I saw on the news that a suicide bomber took out that same Sbarro's we regularly hung out at.

prettyinscarlet777 · Joined: 29 May 2007 Location: masan

I was in Toronto when 911 happened. I couldn't get a flight home on time. When I was in the Toronto airport I was walking next to a Palestinian zealot. He was saying loudly that the time for Palestine to rule had come and he was very happy about 911. There was a gleam in his eyes. He got kicked off the plane.

My flight went to chicago where I missed my connection. I had to take a bus home. But in chicago at the airport were some muslim airport workers who did the same thing. They were laughing and were excited it had happened. They were working in the airport. I was shocked.