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by Gabe Posey

Railroad officials were investigating Wednesday how a runaway chlorine tank car rolled for 20 miles through Las Vegas before train crews stopped it.

Excuse me? A train car full of a chemical that could have killed thousands of Las Vegas residents just rolled its way on through the city today?

This isn’t like a semi jacknifing over median or even a plane crashing onto the strip. This thing could have all but destroyed Vegas not to mention totally ruined our economy.

Davis said there were no immediate indications of foul play in the mishap, which was reported just before 9 a.m. Wednesday.

I suppose they are defining foul play as the presence of hundreds of dead people. Glad we dodged this bullet but, seriously, can we maybe make a little more effort into keeping this from happening in the future?


Posted in General on August 30th, 2007

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