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| 2003-02-08 |
| A 7-year-old Vietnamese boy was killed and five children were hurt after a U.S.-made shell exploded in Quang Tri province while they were playing with it, state media said yesterday. The accident happened Monday, the army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan reported. It raised this year's death toll from unexploded ordnance to at least eight. "Nguyen! Don't play with that thing! You'll put somebody's eye... BOOM!" Nostalgic note: Quan Doi Nhan Zan ("People's Army") used to have the most turgid commie prose in existence. With articles like "Emulate Meritorious Actions!", there were times when it made the Chinese look lively and witty. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 why can't we just use ethanol to power cars? It's a whole lot easier, we already use it in race cars, so it wouldn't be hard to modify production of consumer cars to take ethanol. Then you just make ethanol by growing corn or non-THC hemp! A closed carbon cycle that will satisfy the greenies, and we no longer have to buy oil from Islamist fantatics! Let them go back to the stone ages where they belong. |
| Posted by: anon 2003-02-08 15:37:45 |
| #1 Regardless of the circumstance, the accidental death of small children are tragic. Remember, the French still have a very active government service branch called Deminieurs (sp?) who are pulling out tons of unexploded ordnance every year. Mostly WWI, some WWII, some Chemical Warfare. I think the same is true for areas around St. Petersburg, Russia and obviously Afghanistan. Unexploded ordnance will be a problems for decades to come. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2003-02-08 13:36:14 |