Shoppers in a Chinese department store have been injured by an exploding shark tank, which spewed water, glass and sharks onto hapless shoppers, injuring over a dozen onlookers and staff.
The huge 7m by 3m aquarium was the first floor showpiece of a classy Shanghai department store, and housed 3 sharks.
The aquarium’s sides were some 10cm thick, but this did not stop an entire side of the tank from suddenly rupturing and spilling glass, water and sharks over the store and even the street outside the premises.
15 people were injured in the incident, with at least one person suffering broken bones, and 3 sharks in the tank at the time died.
The sharks were popular and some locals have been lamenting their loss, though with the amount of water and glass involved there has been relief at the lack of fatalities amongst humans as well.
Just what caused the failure of the aquarium is not known, although with the unforgiving weight of water involved problems with the quality of the tank structure or materials are suspected.
Despite the size of the aquarium, the sharks were tiddlers – thankfully preventing another unfortunate China quality legend from being born:
Everything in China explodes.
Further investigation will reveal that the 10cm thick glass was in reality 8cm thick compressed plastic food wrap sandwiched between two 1cm thick layers of common glass.
well thats fucking comforting, i just bought a 400 liter aquarium that was made in china :/
Hakase is crying!
can we stop with the exploding things in china?? the only reason why they are exploding is because people are sharing these things online, which roots others to cause these explosions to happen, just for the laughs…
Poor sharks
More exploding china.
this is chinaaaaaaaaaaaaa
It’s the sharks that are in danger, not the chinese.
Should have used transparent aluminium for a tank like that.
NOOO! THE SHARKS! D:
Fuck China.
47 failed this time… or has he?
He didn’t fail. His target is the reputation of that aquarium.
all I read was “China Menanced By Exploding Shark” And before I even clicked to read the article… I had lost all hope for China.. I have regained some hope when i noticed the full title was “China Menanced By Exploding Shark Tank.” But seriously… an exploding shark.. eh?
China – making 100% imperfect
Pretty sure if it happenned in any other country than China we would’ve just said the aquarium collapsed :\
Cant they build something properly for once, jeez 😀
Poor Sharks. On the other hand this might be a ploy for them to get free shark fin soup. provided that it doesn’t blows up
Ffffft. They were just lucky neither the water nor sharks were poison. Fucking whiners.
“Hapless” is a great word and pretty much sums up China.
why post that video if it shows nothing…
“Just what caused the failure of the aquarium is not known”
Ever wonder why Aquariums always have signs saying, “don’t tap on the glass”? Now you know.
“Shoppers in a Chinese department store…”
Anyone catch the woman holding the baby wearing ass-less pants at 0:02 – 0:04?
The last few stories were of the less than hygienic hygiene practices of the Chinese… relieving themselves on the Great Wall, subways and buses.
Does that mean this lady lets her baby let loose where ever, when ever it wants?
Is this a common practice in China?
Do Chinese department stores have plexi-glass wizz-guards on the merchandise? Sawdust or cat litter on the floors?
Or is it like shopping in a dog park, a giant Slip-n-Slide?
Are the Chinese just ignorant, self-centered, uncivilized, uncouth savages?
I’m getting really grossed out, and I don’t want to even eat in a Chinese restaurant anymore.
Do you need hand sanitizer just to remove your shoes at home?
Ouch!
I hope all the sharks were safe!
it says they died 😐
*Sir, we got a case of shark-in-a-shop in China!*
“….
( •_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
….Street Sharks.”
YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
China: Giving land shark a whole new dimension.
Wow, I guess Space Ghost isn’t the only one with an exploding shark.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the glass was made from frozen urine or something equally silly and/or organic.
Did they eat the shark afterwards? Fortunately sharks are not large enough for a Yakov Smirnoff joke.
10cm thick glass and it still broke? … Oh right, it’s china, 10cm equals to less than 1cm of actual strength.
Exploding shark is exploding
I knew this day would come.
What’s a “tiddler”?
THAT’s CHINA for ya! where everything explodes, or breaks.
I can just imagine a CM with classic bg music like Beethoven and shows everything breaks, exploded and split, with dramatic slow motion. and at the end, 3 words, …MADE IN CHINA!
What doesn’t explode in China?!
Anything. Even population.
I meant, it have exploded, too.
China quality huh? Kinda like Japanese quality with their tunnels eh? Oh the irony.
The Japanese with their tunnel incident pretty amusing, but stupid things like that rarely happen in Japan. All country have their own share of bad weird incident.
But what so special about Chinese, is it always manage to deliver a WTF incident and accident into a whole new level, like making a bridge out of garbage, or oil out of sewage, soy out of human hair, and things explode on regular basis. They make an unthinkable things become true.
Most people all over the world is shocked, truly shocked to read and know the “creativity” of Chinese. That is why China get a lot of heat in Sankaku Complex.
the collapsing tunnel was built by chinese for sure.
It was built by french.
chinese, french … they both have a funny language and eat weird stuff.
Proof or it’s just another empty remarks
And I can say ‘That moment when you know it’s not made in china’, Priceless….
I watched the video expecting to see th explsion.. but it didn’t explote!
Very Dissapointing!
“Exploding shark tank” <– better than being menaced by "exploding sharks", though apparently still just as bad for the sharks themselves.
China at its best.
Shark didn’t explode, but died nothing the less too.
It should be a low quality material or manufactured process on glass, it would be nice to see a video from the moment it happened.
Next headline: China menaced by exploding explosion
NO no you got that wrong. The only thing in China that doesn’t explode is the explosives.
Today:
Earth menaced by exploding China
circa 12-21-2012
mmhh…. what’s the point of the video if it doesn’t show the explosion?…
Made in china. What can you expect. I wonder can i even survive there more that 3 sec.
I’m reminded of this scene from Family Guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWh6fH85fao
No sharks with frikin lasers attached to their heads?
I wonder when the entire country of china will break off the world or something…
Those poor shark…they were innocent.
To be fair, aquariums hold back a lot of pressure, and enormous ones have a ridiculous amount to withhold. A decent engineer should have the formulas to get it right, but it’s also wise to overdesign things by a certain safe margin, and I’m thinking some corners were cut.
Still… huge aquarium exploding? Not that surprising compared to some stories I’ve heard from China.
Reminds me of the Yellow Pages commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3IieVxTUCo
(Dutch, but the joke is mostly visual.)
Shark Fin Soup, anyone?
Stuff’s delicious. When my finances are more secure i got to go get some.
If you’ve never had any you’re missing out.
I’ve always been more fond of Bird’s Nest Soup. But eh….
I was really just commenting on how someone might just walk off with the dead sharks for more epic Chinese epicurean fare.
“Is that a shark in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”
Hoshigaki Kisame did that from beyond the grave
^Quoted for truth! XDDDDDDDDD
I can guess the table or floor area the aquarium was on shifted or tilted crushing the case.
I watched that video and nothing happens.
I feel cheated!
Much like the quality of the glass.
the video only to show you how big it is
the photo after the explosion cant tell how big is the aquarium
I know, I also was expecting to see a huge crack in the glass and all hell breaking loose
Yeah seriously Artefact, are you stupid or something? Don’t feature an epic disaster article and showcase it with a less than eventful video. There’s trolling and then there’s just being lame.
Must USA and bomb plantings.
Chinese quality never disappoints.
pfffft 90% of the shit in peoples houses is made from china! we are all living in a time bomb!
DUN DUN DUN!
In Communist China, shark jumps you.
Ah China You make the impossible possible when it comes to explosions.
And so the legend of the street sharks was born.
They exploded instead of mutated
So how long before the government of them explodes?
Be prepared for exploding vagina folks..
I just can’t find something as ridiculous as the ones that have exploded so far, I mean a fucking seat, cigarette, money, your floor, a fucking shark tank, I just don’t know.
you forgot the explosive veggie- i mean melons
and the explosive bottles of soy sauce
China what will you blow up next.
I feel like no one taught this Chinese generation how to build things properly, which is why you see stuff like this like happening. Without proper guidance, shit will get build shitty, and then nothing works right and everything explodes.
Nobody taught anyone that either, it’s something other nations learned in the course of industrial development. It’s just in China everything is built as fast and as cheap as possible, and you see the ensuing results.
Japanese used to make crap, but they improved over the years. China is just going through the same growing pains.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/made_in_Japan
made in Japan (not comparable)
1. (literally) Manufactured in Japan.
2. (idiomatic, archaic) [c. 1950s-1970s] Of poor or low quality.
I bet the glass was made from cheap material, which seems to be the norm there.
So how many things have exploded so far?
This is pretty damn hysterical. It’s like they don’t know what quality is over there.
Where’s Jesse when you need him?
at least the sharks did not explode..that is one thing right?
Maybe one of the sharks did explode 😛
maybe one of the sharks eat something that exploded and let the shark explode which let the tank explode.
maybe they had added a local shark before the tank exploded!
Dr. Evil should have those Sharks with freaking laserbeams attatched to their heads recalled and order up some Native Chinese explosive Sharks.
That would truly be some scary shit. Yet somwhere I truly wish for them to be real. Hey we got exploding termites already…who’s to say?
Damn nature, you scary!
How useful would exploding sharks be if regular sharks can kill just fine. And you’re losing a shark
What about shark’ exploding teeth then?
These weren’t native-born Chinese sharks.
Native-born Chinese sharks *would* have exploded.
Explosions, explosions everywhere…
It’s like watching a Michael Bay movie filmed in China.
hahaha i love you guise
China IS a michael bay movie