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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon This one is interesting to me because it's unclear whether or not there even was a perpetrator to begin with.
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Besesoth posted:Just ran across this in my news feed: Oh poo poo, I was just listening to something about this but I didn't think it would ever be solved.
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On the subject of nightclub fires and people getting away with poo poo, have the The Stardust Fire. Basically on valentine's day 1981, a fire broke out at a club in North Dublin, apparently due to a mix of faulty electrical wiring and some unfortunately placed cooking oil. There should have been enough time to evacuate, but in order to prevent customers from slipping in without paying the cover charge, all of the fire exits had been chained shut. About two minutes after the alarm, a flashover occurred, the lights went out the ceiling literally began to melt on top of people. Everyone tried to stampede through the front entrance, but in the confusion, a couple dozen people accidentally ran into the men's toilets and were subsequently trapped there, as there were metal bars and plates attached to the windows. Firefighters did manage to pull some of the plates away though, saving about thirty people. When the smoke cleared, 48 people were dead and 214 were injured. The fire was ruled an arson, but there were never any suspects. It is now widely believed that the arson claim was made so that the owners and local government wouldn't be considered responsible. The Butterly family, who owned the club and the surrounding business plaza were compensated with 580,000 Irish Pounds. The floor plan this original tribunal used was also later deemed to be inaccurate, maybe intentionally so. The Butterly's attempted to open a pub on the premises in 2006 but were met with protest until they agreed to include a memorial to the victims of the disaster. Following a campaign by the families of the victims, in 2009 the government amended the official cause of the fire to be unknown.
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The child submarine somehow catches fire while submerged.
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If every fistfight ended in one of the people involved dying we would live in a stronger society, today.
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