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:
| 
Anne Happy Joyously Yuri
IdolMaster: Platinum Stars = “Still Nothing New!”
KanColle Copycat “Victory Belles” Emerges
Titillating Tina Sprout Figure
Netoge no Yome All About Friendship
Temptress Wives – “Older Women Are Better!”
“Is It Really Emi!?” – Amateur Selection Guide 07
Zero Time Dilemma Merrily Murderous
Maki Nishikino’s Birthday Widely Welcomed
Caligula Schools Viewers
Sailor Moon Exhibit Brimming With Nostalgia
Svelte Saber Alter Figure
Onizushi Web Anime & Smartphone Game Surfaces
Marshmallow Imouto Succubus Hits The Beach
Bishoujo Mangekyou Fan Translation Emerges
Samurai Rising – Square Enix: You Guessed it!
Mangaka Pay Tribute to Kyushu
Street Fighter V Enlists Guile
Chinese Death Simulator “Hopefully Won’t Explode”
Re:Zero “In The Nick Of Time!”
Kashiwazaki Sena Ero-Cosplay An Immense Tease
Goddess of 2ch: “What A Cute Hole!”
Alice Margatroid Ero-Cosplay by Hiyo Nishizuku Full of Cheer
Sheryl Nome Bunny Girl Cosplay by Mike Super Scandalous
Marvelous Madoka Mizugi Cosplay by Mashiro Yuki
Marie Rose Cosplay by Mike Undeniably Sexy
Tasha Tracer Cosplay Truly Tantalizing
Witch Craft Works Cosplay by Kagune Intensely Seductive
Kaine Cosplay by Yuricha Flawless
Kasumigaoka Utaha Cosplay Pretty Pure
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
at least the sharks did not explode..that is one thing right?
These weren't native-born Chinese sharks.
Native-born Chinese sharks *would* have 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?
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.
Where's Jesse when you need him?
This is pretty damn hysterical. It's like they don't know what quality is over there.
So how many things have exploded so far?
I bet the glass was made from cheap material, which seems to be the norm there.
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 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.
China what will you blow up next.
you forgot the explosive veggie- i mean melons
and the explosive bottles of soy sauce
Be prepared for exploding vagina folks..
So how long before the government of them explodes?
And so the legend of the street sharks was born.
They exploded instead of mutated
Ah China You make the impossible possible when it comes to explosions.
In Communist China, shark jumps you.
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!
Must USA and bomb plantings.
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.
I can guess the table or floor area the aquarium was on shifted or tilted crushing the case.
Hoshigaki Kisame did that from beyond the grave
^Quoted for truth! XDDDDDDDDD
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?"
Reminds me of the Yellow Pages commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3IieVxTUCo
(Dutch, but the joke is mostly visual.)
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.
Those poor shark...they were innocent.
I wonder when the entire country of china will break off the world or something...
No sharks with frikin lasers attached to their heads?
I'm reminded of this scene from Family Guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWh6fH85fao
Made in china. What can you expect. I wonder can i even survive there more that 3 sec.
mmhh.... what's the point of the video if it doesn't show the explosion?...
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