Brick Thieves Die Horribly as Building Collapses

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A pair of ladies who had been stealing bricks from a building were mortally surprised when the building fell on top of them, killing them and crushing a further 13 as it toppled into a neighbouring restaurant.

The thieves, apparently a group of five farmers who had migrated into the city of Liuzhou in China’s southern Guangxi province, had turned to stealing bricks from a derelict building nearby, digging into its walls to extract the bricks for sale.

However, it appears that they stole one too many bricks, for the entire building suddenly collapsed, toppling onto a neighbouring restaurant and crushing 13 of its patrons horribly, though they escaped death.

The brick thieves were not so lucky – firemen picking through the rubble discovered the crushed remains of two women in what was once the building. What happened to the rest of the group is not clear.

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Via Heaven.

You may recall the tale of a Chinese bus company replacing its emergency glass breaking hammers with bricks to discourage theft – this would appear to be a futile expedient…



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    Comment by taz0x
    Comment by Anonymous
    17:00 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    LOL!! Uno Stacko!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:32 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    this is what u get when u use bricks as emergency exit

    Comment by chogiebear
    15:06 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    No, they're not thieves, they are from the bus company that uses bricks as emergency exit bashers.

    http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/07/21/emergency-exit-chinese-style/

    Comment by Cerenado
    15:31 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I'm sorry, but you reap what you sow.

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:21 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    so that's where they get the bricks to use on the buses from

    Comment by Narcotic-Nightmares
    17:35 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    haha, somebody never played jenga as a child :p

    Comment by GHS
    18:32 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I don't think Jenga was really all that popular in rural China... Although, they may have made the Jenga pieces in a factory but not know what Westerners would do with a bunch of rectangular wooden pegs.

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:59 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    We got Jenga in the city. Played it with some Chinese in a bar one night, at an after hours party from my wifes former company.

    Comment by - -
    19:17 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I saw a lot of racist comments for the Chinese.
    Here's my reply to all those coments

    Fuck you.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:50 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    They had a thread in the forums why some people hate Sankaku Complex. This would be one of many reasons; the rampant racism.

    Comment by ranivus
    20:34 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    where the hell have you been living under?

    A fkn rock? its the internet... if want pancakes and rainbow go to mybuddy.com or something. Real internet is real. Ergo, its real racist.

    Comment by Arokan
    14:45 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    So thats where all the busses were getting their bricks from :)

    Comment by mootley
    12:56 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    today's lesson:

    this needs to happen a few hundred million more times in China.

    Chinese are illiterate, thieving greedy scum who don't value anyone or anything except themselves. What the Germans tried to do to Jews and others in Europe wasn't deserved, but it's what should have been done to the Chinese. Now they've got 60 more years of institutionalized ignorance and arrogance under their belts.

    Poisoned baby food, poisoned pet food, defective and dangerous goods.. their greed and stupidity combined with our gullibility will get us killed.

    Comment by 名無し
    18:47 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    "Chinese are illiterate"

    Today's Lesson:

    - The Japanese invented kanji, but the Chinese stole it and renamed it as hanzi.

    All of those written in today's history textbooks are plain lies. Only Dai Nippon holds the truth and we must believe it!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:19 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Are you being sarcastic?

    If you're not, then fuck you

    Comment by Tamago no kimi wo suki des kedo, kimi mo suki !
    Comment by Anonymous
    19:51 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Fuck you

    I can be certain you're some dumbass westerner who doesn't understand anything about Asia who sits at home in luxury masturbating all day

    Comment by takuya13
    11:42 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    looks like the emergency bricks on those buses arent safe either =3

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:18 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Well, looks like i shat the entire brick building this time

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:24 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    great idea.. steal bricks from a building in china.. knowing how they build structures.. XD

    Comment by CanadaMann
    13:51 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    America has gathered most of the world's prosperity.
    It is not "bricks selling well", but "people desperate to get some money even it is no more than some pennies".

    Comment by TeeHee
    13:29 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    There seems to be a shortage of engineers in China.

    Comment by Waterfall Towers
    23:38 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    They shat bricks indeed.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:03 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    thats more ironic than a hitchcock novel

    Comment by jj
    11:07 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Ironic on so many levels...

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:15 25/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    More like, they were MORTARry surprised.

    Comment by Anonymous
    01:18 15/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Do not forget that we are your BOSS! your motherfucker JAP!

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:25 27/04/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Alchemy: Bricks can be transmutated into a money, but therefore, it needs something of an equavalent matter to be exchanged.

    ...Their lives! (Women Thieves)

    Comment by SenseiSyaoranLi
    22:48 25/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    chinese chinese and more chinese, and too russian ¬¬

    Comment by hALOTOO
    09:14 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    And the Brick award goes to...

    Comment by EuropeSugoi
    20:50 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Europe(mother of all colonization)>America, Australia, New Zealand(All colonies of Europe! ppl today call themselves americans but in truth they are europeans that stayed there,the real americans would be the natives)> Japan (one and only 1st world asian country cuz they adopted to the west)> South Korea> China

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:02 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Just because they adopted to the west doesn't mean they're the best. Not everything about the west is something to be proud of.
    [btw i'm not saying that China is better than Japan and S. Korea, just trying to tell you what i just said]

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:19 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    crime fighting at its best!

    Comment by Bill
    19:36 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Darwin award goes to...

    Comment by Kinny Riddle
    23:00 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wow, talk about a fitting end.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:26 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    "Oh she's a brick... house"

    Comment by Metalbunny
    Comment by ARTA8SIMS
    00:37 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    1 too many is good enough to kill you. That applies to anything really....

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:05 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Bricks were shat

    again

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:06 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    who would want to buy bricks?

    Comment by D4RK-PH0ENiX
    08:31 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    maybe someone who would want to get rid of brick thieves? knowing that they have little brain to think of the consequences

    Comment by Kyang
    08:24 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Just think about that for a moment. I'm sure the answer will come to you sooner or later.

    Comment by Toma
    08:24 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's china they'll sell anything to you ANYTHING

    Comment by Interwebz
    07:58 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Removing bricks from a BRICK building to make easy money... without thinking of the possibility of suddden collaspe. -.-

    .... *face palms*

    Ugh, money is truly the root of all EviL and idiotic decisions.

    At least the other 13 survived.

    Hmmm ,now I wonder how much a brick costs in China?

    Comment by Anonyme
    07:53 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Need a "Brick" tag

    Comment by Anonymous
    Comment by Anonymous
    08:35 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Actually the ladies worked for the bus company

    Comment by uber
    08:58 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I kenw tetris esistet in real live, LOL

    Comment by M
    08:33 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Lol, who said noone steals bricks? People steal ANYTHING!

    Comment by Seth
    07:52 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Sounds to me like they have a good chance to get a Darwin award (removing themself from the gene pool with a stupid action).

    Comment by msgundam2
    07:25 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Janka To The Extreme!!!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:55 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Urgh...don't you mean 'Jenga'...

    Comment by Orio94
    11:44 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    LOL now I remember what Jenga is....

    Comment by Lier
    07:26 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    That's what I call "Divine Justice"

    Comment by Anonymous
    01:52 15/09/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I guess this answers the question of "Where's your God now?"

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:28 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    does that mean that there gonna steal the emergancy bricks also?

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:16 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I'm sure they'll do it if they need yellow bricks.

    Comment by kusinga
    07:36 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yes, soon to emer-bricks well start disappearing as well.

    Comment by JoeLuvAnime
    07:25 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    what is with china with stealing bricks of all things?
    dont they have a giant wall thats full of them

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:00 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    They didn't realize the gravity of their crime.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:06 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I see what you did there

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:10 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    hahaha oh good one, laughed hard at ur double meaning there XD

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:04 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    they probably steal bricks from that too

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:56 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    In fact, it is no more exactly "full". Though I would not enacct any commentary concerning the due cause :p

    Comment by Anonymous
    Comment by xSASxZaros
    07:22 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    What silly woman. Lol.

    Do bricks really sell that well in China? o.O

    Comment by Firaku
    Comment by Anonymous
    03:26 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    As a matter of fact, they do. In recent years, China has been experiencing and industrial explosion and building materials have been going for a premium. Especially metals, which are becoming scare do to China's desire to handle all importing at a federal level. There's actually a black market, of sorts, for steel, wood, and brick right now. It's fairly interesting.

    Comment by jaz
    11:37 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    they should have just stolen those yellow emergency bricks...

    Comment by DarkFader
    06:24 24/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I bet for some it's like a gold bar. But they can only be sold on the black market.

    Comment by Violet
    08:08 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Today's lesson? Crime doesn't pay. :P

    Comment by viewtiful
    07:25 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    no... ppl from china are just cheap that way. they seriously give a horrid reputation for all azns. well u cant blame them caus they had only enough education to survive. im so glad they got what they deserved lol.

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:29 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Every country has bad things happen to them
    and apparently sankaku has a lot negative news of China
    i hope you're not asian and making this comment
    because the Chinese had only recently started industrializing. Many people say the Japanese are awesome and stuff its because they started everything right after the war with America's help. the Chinese been through a lot in the last century with all the wars and communism with the retard mao zhedong. it only started industrializing in the late 1980s
    believe me in 30 year's time China will dominate the world and kick all your asses

    Comment by Anon
    22:50 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You´re not trying to say that new Chinese buildings are better, are you now?

    http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/06/28/construction-chinese-style/

    Comment by sexynewbie
    12:00 12/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yea man! that contttuuracccction is gWUUrate! I now no longer need to fear heights living in this ex-apartment! You see, tay Chainezeeeee planned it to fall so people can live in these space occupyyyying horizontal square buildings for mentally impaired faggotorys who can only live in houses that are flipped on its side! like i get confused how to pee in a toilet thats flipped onto the wall!

    Comment by Holy Anon Batman
    07:54 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    10/10

    Comment by K
    08:44 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Fuck you, stop blaming rep on Chinese. Tt's not our fault our country's goddamn poor other than the seaside and just so happens that we can use the internet and post random shit like this.

    Actually, withith such grammar I'm glad you're not Chinese, so double fuck you.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:14 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    @Heitai Heitai
    if the technology had allowed it i would personally drag your fucking sorry ass back in time to experience the shit the Japanese use to do in their colonies.
    and fyi japan bitched about Western technology and culture also until Perry trained his guns on the capital.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:42 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yeah I totally agree with you. Sorry ass losers like Heitai should totally get a load of lead in his guts before pulling shit like that out of his guts

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:43 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yeah I totally agree with you. Sorry ass losers like Heitai should totally get a load of lead in his guts before pulling shit like that out of his ass

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:47 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Narcissist:
    And you're most likely the pathetic bitching fag with zero length of cock and shat on in bars for the sheer faggotry of appearance, and who lives solely on the comfort that he was born in a superior civilisation and can pretend to understand and freely express his spite for COMMUNISM

    Comment by Hentai Heitai
    14:14 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Korea fucked itself over, once the Japanese left the country degenerated back to its primitive state and erupted into civil war, causing the deaths of millions. The Japanese occupation at most killed the occasional dissidant and Nationalist, which was rare considering how good they had it.

    Under Japanese rule Korea became the second most industrialised nation in Asia. The Formosa Island became a haven of agriculture. Before, they were backwards Chinese tributary states, with slavery and foot mutilation.

    Indeed, Imperialism allowed for India to progress, North America to be established, and it is only Africa and the Middle east, whom were only colonised for less then a century that is left primitive and barbaric in the world.

    The woes of the world is due to the incapability of savages to accept the superiority of Western civilisation. It is only a pity that the British Empire collapsed

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:31 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Lol, reading this guys comment just gave me a headache.

    GDIF weaboo bitch.

    Comment by ReviMac
    14:41 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    @ Heitai Heitai:
    Certainly a very knowledgeable westerner from a civilised society aren't you. Any thoughts on having you and your family getting pathetically owned and pumped lead up your asses by a bunch of civilised folk so they can illuminate your country for a betterment of civilisation?

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:43 24/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's funny how the bitches whine about what Hentai Heitai wrote, but didn't counter his claims in any way. Because even they know it's true.
    Korea was a primitive hermit nation where people lived in mud huts and the women went topless around in town until Japan came and cleaned the place up.
    And then we have Manchuria, a state in China that was under Japanese control. Why do you think there are voices in Manchuria who say they want to become an independent state and in fact pair the Manchurian with the Japanese flag?

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:30 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I agree with Heitai.
    Do I get raped now, or do I have to serve forced labour beforehand?

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:38 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    i feel flame war.and malaysia sucks? D:

    Comment by Interwebz
    19:28 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Mmmm.... all this hate. )-p

    very educational,TY you ppl for enlightening us

    Comment by Narcissist
    10:53 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    And you, Anon Nr. 3, are probably the bastard spawn of a couple of fools that voted for Truman and there by let the communist regime take control over both China and North Korea.

    Oh cursed be thy soul...

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:12 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    @Hentai Heitai

    Cool story, bro. =)

    Foreign-thrash weeaboos like you should be given a privilege to join any rightist groups available in Dai Nippon and fight your way up to suck Tennou Heika's god-like cock. I salute you really well.

    Comment by Kortaku
    10:58 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    if you think Japan's occupation of Korea did it more good than bad, youre blind. Korea was modernizing fairly well and i wont say more because most of you dont care. But, its not cause of Japan that Korea is the palmtop tiger of asia.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:35 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I'd say those two nations are doing well because they didn't turn into isolationist Communists. This would explain the condition of Korea's northern half, which was also under the thrall of the Empire of Japan. There actually wasn't any significant industrial growth in Taiwan or the Korean Peninsula until after the end of Japanese rule. Imperialists learned well after the American Revolution not to turn their colonies into fully self-sufficient nations.

    There are a lot of other things in your comment that make me facepalm (sort of unbelievable seeing at how short it is), but I'll just stop here.

    Comment by Hentai Heitai
    09:24 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yes it is, you could have let the Japanese Empire taken you over and industrialised you as a Colonial power, instead of letting yourselves rot in a 3rd world communist regime, making Shoes for the first world whilst having illusions of economic power for doing the type of work nobody of sane mind would do for pennies a day.

    Indeed, the reason Japan is the only 1st world Asian nations is the fact that they understood the superiority of Western technology and culture, and thus willingly learned and invited them, unlike the rest of the world whom bitched and got turned into outright colonies as they deserve.

    Look at South Korea and the Republic of China (Taiwan to you commies), both were Japanese colonies, and thanks to it, they are doing well.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:45 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    wtf bulshit are you saying if JPN rules over China that same like big brother lost a fight against his little sister :)

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:30 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    >>they seriously give a horrid reputation for all azns.
    >>for all azns
    >>azn

    1/10

    Comment by Wuuhuu
    12:19 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Touche.

    Comment by Kortaku
    10:56 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    real asians dont use "azn" to describe ourselves...

    Comment by anonymous
    11:04 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    kinda feel bad for the other people tho

    Comment by Storm Wing
    Comment by Anonymous
    23:16 14/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    dont be so hard on them... they were just a couple of stupid guys trying to make an honest living stealing breaks out of buildings...lolz

    Comment by The Beast
    07:35 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You reap of what you sow.

    Comment by King of Hentai Gods
    12:33 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    they deserved it =P

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:20 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    well said

    Comment by jj
    11:06 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Very much so.

    Comment by borderline psychotic
    05:34 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    darwin awards nominee?

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:20 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I shat bricks!

    Epic China is EPIC!

    Comment by Storm Wing
    11:02 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You said it, comrade ^^

    Comment by Table-wanna-be
    11:03 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    JENGaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA~!

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:29 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    lol good one.

    Comment by Kitsune9Tails
    13:43 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Who would have ever thought that would become an epitaph...

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:51 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    THIS.

    Comment by Lost
    03:37 23/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    +1

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:37 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    bricks are expensive and reusable. an autoshop near my place had a buss run into its side last year. they kept and reuse every brick.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:26 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Brick thieves are commonplace in the countless dwindling, derelict towns and cities in America. Their presence has increased since the beginning of the current housing and financial crisis, with people forced out of homes and businesses and many neighborhoods looking more like ghost towns as a result.

    So no, it's not just China.

    Comment by Rob
    09:25 30/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Link one story describing US citizens stealing bricks from a standing structure for something besides vandal or novelty reasons.

    I see tons of used bricks dumped in landfills constantly so I find your claim hard to believe.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:58 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    And they still think people wont steal the emergency bricks from the buss?

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:56 22/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I know that this might sound really ironic but wasn't there a post earlier today that said that china was going to put "emergency" bricks in their buses so that people wouldn't steal them like they did with their hammers?....wow





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