Brick Thieves Die Horribly as Building Collapses
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jul 22, 2009 07:19 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Architecture, Bizarre, Buildings, China, Crime, Guangxi, Theft
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.
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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EPIC FAIL
LOL!! Uno Stacko!!!!!!!!!!
this is what u get when u use bricks as emergency exit
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/
I'm sorry, but you reap what you sow.
so that's where they get the bricks to use on the buses from
haha, somebody never played jenga as a child :p
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.
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.
I saw a lot of racist comments for the Chinese.
Here's my reply to all those coments
Fuck you.
They had a thread in the forums why some people hate Sankaku Complex. This would be one of many reasons; the rampant racism.
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.
So thats where all the busses were getting their bricks from :)
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.
"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!!
Are you being sarcastic?
If you're not, then fuck you
-1
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
looks like the emergency bricks on those buses arent safe either =3
Well, looks like i shat the entire brick building this time
great idea.. steal bricks from a building in china.. knowing how they build structures.. XD
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".
There seems to be a shortage of engineers in China.
They shat bricks indeed.
thats more ironic than a hitchcock novel
Ironic on so many levels...
More like, they were MORTARry surprised.
Do not forget that we are your BOSS! your motherfucker JAP!
Alchemy: Bricks can be transmutated into a money, but therefore, it needs something of an equavalent matter to be exchanged.
...Their lives! (Women Thieves)
chinese chinese and more chinese, and too russian ¬¬
And the Brick award goes to...
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
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]
crime fighting at its best!
Darwin award goes to...
Wow, talk about a fitting end.
"Oh she's a brick... house"
aw...
1 too many is good enough to kill you. That applies to anything really....
Bricks were shat
again
who would want to buy bricks?
maybe someone who would want to get rid of brick thieves? knowing that they have little brain to think of the consequences
Just think about that for a moment. I'm sure the answer will come to you sooner or later.
It's china they'll sell anything to you ANYTHING
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?
Need a "Brick" tag
JENGA!
Actually the ladies worked for the bus company
I kenw tetris esistet in real live, LOL
Lol, who said noone steals bricks? People steal ANYTHING!
Sounds to me like they have a good chance to get a Darwin award (removing themself from the gene pool with a stupid action).
Janka To The Extreme!!!!
Urgh...don't you mean 'Jenga'...
LOL now I remember what Jenga is....
That's what I call "Divine Justice"
I guess this answers the question of "Where's your God now?"
does that mean that there gonna steal the emergancy bricks also?
I'm sure they'll do it if they need yellow bricks.
Yes, soon to emer-bricks well start disappearing as well.
what is with china with stealing bricks of all things?
dont they have a giant wall thats full of them
They didn't realize the gravity of their crime.
I see what you did there
hahaha oh good one, laughed hard at ur double meaning there XD
they probably steal bricks from that too
In fact, it is no more exactly "full". Though I would not enacct any commentary concerning the due cause :p
win
What silly woman. Lol.
Do bricks really sell that well in China? o.O
Epic fail!
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.
they should have just stolen those yellow emergency bricks...
I bet for some it's like a gold bar. But they can only be sold on the black market.
Today's lesson? Crime doesn't pay. :P
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.
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
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/
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!
10/10
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.
@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.
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
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
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
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
Lol, reading this guys comment just gave me a headache.
GDIF weaboo bitch.
@ 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?
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?
I agree with Heitai.
Do I get raped now, or do I have to serve forced labour beforehand?
i feel flame war.and malaysia sucks? D:
Mmmm.... all this hate. )-p
very educational,TY you ppl for enlightening us
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...
@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.
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.
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.
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.
wtf bulshit are you saying if JPN rules over China that same like big brother lost a fight against his little sister :)
>>they seriously give a horrid reputation for all azns.
>>for all azns
>>azn
1/10
Touche.
real asians dont use "azn" to describe ourselves...
kinda feel bad for the other people tho
Karma... ^^;;
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
You reap of what you sow.
they deserved it =P
well said
Very much so.
darwin awards nominee?
I shat bricks!
Epic China is EPIC!
You said it, comrade ^^
JENGaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA~!
lol good one.
Who would have ever thought that would become an epitaph...
THIS.
+1
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.
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.
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.
And they still think people wont steal the emergency bricks from the buss?
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