Today's fatal blast at an entertainment venue

[yanpa]

Rouen explosion: at least 13 dead after blast and fire at bar in French city – reports

Emergency services pull survivors from Cuba Libre bar where private birthday party was being held

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ty-reports

Might just be your typical gas explosion in an old building's basement though.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Might just be your typical gas explosion in an old building's basement though.

Never mind, ISIS will surely say, it was them; they always do OCD on confessions.

[kurogane]

Either way, some cheap tabloid is sure to say The Party Was Rouen'ed.
It rather saddens me to see how much headline relevance the French have of late. I would prefer we just forgot about them, as we used to do.

[Wage Slave]

BBC is reporting it was a polystyrene ceiling tiles set on fire by birthday cake candles. What kind of candles do they use for birthday cakes in France? Roman candles?

[Russell]

BBC is reporting it was a polystyrene ceiling tiles set on fire by birthday cake candles. What kind of candles do they use for birthday cakes in France? Roman candles?

Maybe their birthday cake was 2 meter high...

[Coligny]

basement low ceiling often vaulted

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Our highschool watering hole "the charly's" had jungle camo netting on wall/ceilling... and empty ammo boxes for seats...

[kurogane]

BBC is reporting it was a polystyrene ceiling tiles

Anticandle-ites attack again. This could positively Rouen my plans for a European vacation. Surely not even the EU lets the surrender monkeys decide how they're going to fuck it up this time? Never mind Brexit, what about Frogvasion? If this keeps up we'll all be subject to Nice Terror Attacks on a daily basis.
How many more comically named French towns are there?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

... and empty ammo boxes for seats...

Super! What a wonderful place to suck on Gitanes and listen to CloClo and Johnny Halliday.
I bet you it must have been a popular spot....must be quite a rarity in France to find an empty ammo box.

[kurogane]

More on that from the Ministry of Too Silly News Service

Rouen fire horror as 'killer birthday cake' starts fatal blaze that claims lives of 13 partygoers

And for those who prefer their news in subliterate:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ay-8573023

I actually don't mind the competition, but I fear they're not even aware they're doing it, and that isn't just sad, it's depraved.

[Coligny]

I bet you it must have been a popular spot....must be quite a rarity in France to find an empty ammo box.

stockpile damaged during the 1910 flood in Paris...

[wagyl]

must be quite a rarity in France to find an empty ammo box.

golf clap!!!!

Made more delicious by the whooshing sound that followed.