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Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ

Posted by timothy on from the creative-excuse-for-the-late-night-set dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Minor? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    An illegal alien struck on Earth by a meteorite! That's what I call a justice!

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    Ezekiel 23:20
  2. Re:It's these meteorites killing our economy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. How unlucky is that man? by syousef · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
    1. Re:How unlucky is that man? by retech · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know what they say... "Unlucky with meteorites, lucky in love."

  4. Re:Minor? by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  5. Re:Riiiiight by MarkRose · · Score: 5, Funny

    [citation needed]

    What? Do you think this site is part the Wikimeteor Foundation?

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    Be relentless!
  6. Re:Minor? by aaron+alderman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank god for the recession, there might have been more people in that warehouse!

  7. Re:Dang, at least it was better than... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Fire Service is not saying yet whether it suspects the blaze was suspicious.

    now that's some damn eloquent shit right there. give this man his Pulitzer.

  8. Auckland by robvangelder · · Score: 5, Funny

    On behalf of all New Zealanders living outside of Auckland, why couldn't the meteorite have been a little bigger?

  9. Re:hahahahahah by Kagura · · Score: 5, Funny

    Warning: To those looking to read the comments on this story below, don't bother. 75% of the comments below this line are about their use of the word "casualty" and whether it refers to "deaths" or "deaths and wounded". After a huge discussion on it, we finally get a couple comments, but then a new thread picks right on up and people start talking about it again!

    There are very few interesting comments on this story. :(