China Menaced By Exploding Shark Tank
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Dec 20, 2012 06:38 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Animals, Bizarre, China, Fish, Made in China, Shanghai, Shopping
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:
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I watched that video and nothing happens.
I feel cheated!
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.
the video only to show you how big it is
the photo after the explosion cant tell how big is the aquarium
Much like the quality of the glass.
at least the sharks did not explode..that is one thing right?
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.
Maybe one of the sharks did explode :P
maybe they had added a local shark before the tank exploded!
maybe one of the sharks eat something that exploded and let the shark explode which let the tank explode.
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
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!
Hoshigaki Kisame did that from beyond the grave
^Quoted for truth! XDDDDDDDDD
Explosions, explosions everywhere...
It's like watching a Michael Bay movie filmed in China.
China IS a michael bay movie
hahaha i love you guise
"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?
And so the legend of the street sharks was born.
They exploded instead of mutated
Ouch!
I hope all the sharks were safe!
it says they died :|
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.
Exploding shark is exploding
China: Giving land shark a whole new dimension.
"Hapless" is a great word and pretty much sums up China.
Wouldn't be surprised if the glass was made from frozen urine or something equally silly and/or organic.
*Sir, we got a case of shark-in-a-shop in China!*
"....
( •_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
....Street Sharks."
YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Did they eat the shark afterwards? Fortunately sharks are not large enough for a Yakov Smirnoff joke.
Wow, I guess Space Ghost isn't the only one with an exploding shark.
10cm thick glass and it still broke? ... Oh right, it's china, 10cm equals to less than 1cm of actual strength.
Poor sharks
More exploding china.
this is chinaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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...
Hakase is crying!
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 :/
It's the sharks that are in danger, not the chinese.
Should have used transparent aluminium for a tank like that.
China - making 100% imperfect
Pretty sure if it happenned in any other country than China we would've just said the aquarium collapsed :\