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Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ
vik writes "According to local media, multiple eye witnesses are reporting that a meteorite crashed into a warehouse in Auckland, New Zealand last night, setting it on fire. The warehouse roof was destroyed but no nearby buildings were damaged and there was only one minor casualty — a man who happened to be inside the building at the time. The fire service have not yet made an official announcement."
Any connection to Palin's church?:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/13/palin.church/index.html
Table-ized A.I.
Perhaps it was a politician?
An illegal alien struck on Earth by a meteorite! That's what I call a justice!
Ezekiel 23:20
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Do insurance companies cover stuff like this?
Depends entirely on the meteorite's composition, actually. For example, if you've got a nice nickel-iron ratio, you're probably good, but you're screwed if the thing had a high iron content. Insurance companies are usually very finicky about their falling extraterrestrial object damage coverage.
Workers compensation officer: How exactly did you get hurt?
Man: God smote me down
Boss: Don't mind Bob he's still a little shellshocked. He was struck by a meteorite. Or is that meteor. Was it a meteorite once it hit the roof or was it only a meteorite once it hit Bob?
Workers compensation officer: Well then if he can't even tell what hit him, we can't pay him can we?
Man: God smote me down, I tell you!
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I'm not dead!
'Ere. He says he's not dead.
Yes he is.
He isn't.
I'm not!
He will be soon. He's very ill.
I'm getting better!
You're not. You'll be stone dead in a few minutes.
Have gnu, will travel.
Thank god for the recession, there might have been more people in that warehouse!
now that's some damn eloquent shit right there. give this man his Pulitzer.
"Will the town be renamed Smallville, NZ?"
No.
The Smallville part isn't necessary as it is in New Zealand.
I reserve the write to mangle english.
"How in the hell do you have a MINOR casualty?"
Under 18.
I reserve the write to mangle english.
Usually, minor means no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops... depending on the breaks
On behalf of all New Zealanders living outside of Auckland, why couldn't the meteorite have been a little bigger?
Like a captain casualty but with slightly fancier stuff on his shoulders.
According to TV, three persons of minor importance work late in warehouses:
1) Janitors: expendable, first to die in alien invasions, zombie infestations, etcetera, the "canary in the coal mine" for unusual events.
2) Accountants: semi-expendable, often targets for bizzare assassination plots because they know too much.
3) Henchmen guarding illegal operation/loot: highly expendable. Usually die at the hands of an action hero.
Since the guy survived he's not a janitor, and the absent tell-tale trail of destruction confirms he's not a henchman either. So he must be an accountant, which means this wasn't simply a random meteor hit but an assassination attempt disguised as a meteor, a feat only possible my an evil mastermind with greater plans afoot.
This could mean the end of the world as we know it! PANIC!!!
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Seriously, lamest first post ever. Some warehouse in New Zealand was just smitten SimCity style by a meteorite. Appreciate the epic-ness of the event.