Tragedy in SE Asia

[spitfiremkv]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Dunno, but the sadest thing ive seen on the tube today is that alot of kids are wakling around without knowing were their parents are. The travel agent people have found some that are just walking around not knowing were to look for their parents or what to do.

the saddes thing I saw was a place where dead kids-small ones, looked like dolls, were laid in a neat row, some covered, some not, and a woman(probably mother) was coming out of it crying.

this is ****ing terrible!

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Far to clever to have come from me Masherbrum... must have been GS  

A total & complete honest mistake Nilsen, I meant G's name to be in there.  I apologize sir.  How was your Xmas?

Karaya

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
A total & complete honest mistake Nilsen, I meant G's name to be in there.  I apologize sir.  How was your Xmas?

Karaya

Christmas was good for me even if it was the fist one that i gave more than i got. My first one as a dad and no longer on the bottom of the gift chain

and yours?

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by GScholz
They're defending themselves against spitfiremkv who made a quite unreasonable accusation. Still, as usual they tend to go a little overboard, but I don't blame them.

I kind of figured that out, but my irony is sometimes hard to get

Anyways..... i can go abit overboard myself from time to time

[Gunslinger]

I guess the UN is saying that almost 1/3rd of the victims are kids....made me cry...EDIT ok maybe not cry but upset me none the less

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6759554/


CUDDALORE, India - The buzz of grim conversation in the darkened morgue was broken by a man’s shriek as the small body was lowered on a bed. “My son, my king!” wailed Venkatesh, hugging the limp shrouded bundle


Thousands of miles away in Indonesia, farmer Yusya Yusman aimlessly searched the beaches for his two children lost in Sunday’s tsunami. “My life is over,” he said emotionlessly.

On the day disaster struck, Malaysian Rosita Wan recalled watching in horror as her 5-year-old son was gulped by the sea while he swam near the shore at Penang.

“I could only watch helplessly while I heard my son screaming for help. Then he was underwater and I never saw him again,” said a sobbing Rosita, 30.

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by Gh0stFT
there is no one to warn all the shores around the indian ocean,
nothing exist and nothing was build to warn if an undersea earthquake happen.
sad indeed.

it looks different in the pacific, there is a tsunami warning station
to warn the shores.
God only knows why its only exist there.

R
Gh0stFT

99% of those that died wouldn't have a clue what a tsunami is, nor what to do, and are likely not to believe it. Some of the footage showed a pile of people down at a beach to take photos after the first wave, only to get wasted by a second surge.

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Christmas was good for me even if it was the fist one that i gave more than i got. My first one as a dad and no longer on the bottom of the gift chain

and yours?

Pretty good, the wife and I blew our "$250 budget" on our 3 year old son.  All told he made out with over $400.   These first several are "his".  

Karaya

[Creamo]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
I guess the UN is saying that almost 1/3rd of the victims are kids....made me cry


Really? Can't say I shed a tear, but that was one badass disaster. What's worse, is like 30,000 people die every day from starvation, the greater percentage children, or was my google search wrong? If I'm right, you guys pick newsworthy stuff to weep and grandstand about. Fine if you do, just don't hate me for not giving much more than my tax dollars or a rats ass.

[jigsaw]

Originally posted by Creamo
Originally posted by Gunslinger
I guess the UN is saying that almost 1/3rd of the victims are kids....made me cry


Really? Can't say I shed a tear, but that was one badass disaster. What's worse, is like 30,000 people die every day from starvation, the greater percentage children, or was my google search wrong? If I'm right, you guys pick newsworthy stuff to weep and grandstand about. Fine if you do, just don't hate me for not giving much more than my tax dollars or a rats ass.

From an ethics class discussion... there is a faction who holds the logic of feeding/aiding a people that can't support themselves makes the problem worse.  If you feed the starving kids, they grow up and have more kids, which multiplies the problem.  Better to let them starve off so the ecology balances itself out.

Not saying this is my standpoint, but I did think it made for an interesting point of view.

[FUNKED1]

Originally posted by TweetyBird
Understand this board is in no way typical of Americans.  It's really just a school yard clique. No offence intended, but really, its more of who you are than what you say. Its a cliique. Don't get too upset if the rat pack doesn't post to a certain topic.

Hey avacadotybird I thought you quit.  Happy Holidays.  

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Creamo
Originally posted by Gunslinger
I guess the UN is saying that almost 1/3rd of the victims are kids....made me cry


Really? Can't say I shed a tear, but that was one badass disaster. What's worse, is like 30,000 people die every day from starvation, the greater percentage children, or was my google search wrong? If I'm right, you guys pick newsworthy stuff to weep and grandstand about. Fine if you do, just don't hate me for not giving much more than my tax dollars or a rats ass.

“My son, my king!”

Yusya Yusman aimlessly searched the beaches for his two children lost in Sunday’s tsunami. “My life is over,” he said emotionlessly.


“I could only watch helplessly while I heard my son screaming for help. Then he was underwater and I never saw him again,”

I'm not usually an emotional person but I am a father of 2 and this tore me up when I read it.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by jigsaw
From an ethics class discussion... there is a faction who holds the logic of feeding/aiding a people that can't support themselves makes the problem worse.  If you feed the starving kids, they grow up and have more kids, which multiplies the problem.  Better to let them starve off so the ecology balances itself out.

Not saying this is my standpoint, but I did think it made for an interesting point of view.

kinda like give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day.  Teach a man to fish and you'll feed him forever

[NUKE]

Originally posted by spitfiremkv
can't believe nobody comments on that...typical american attitude: **** the rest of the world, we don't give a damn!

Almost non-stop coverage on the news here in "**** the rest of the world" America.

[Gunthr]

A tremendous amount of grief and suffering over there. Its horrible.

I read about some scuba divers at 50 foot depth off Shri Lanka that were picked up by the tsunami and deposited inland, on the side of a hill!

It seems the receeding tsunami is far more devastating than when it is incoming, due to it pulling people out to sea ...

[NUKE]

The death toll is more than 44,000 now.