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[oneiriad]

I have been pretty busy and not really able to focus on large events in the world and Denmark and places for the last couple of days - a side-effect of trying to make people participate in our user-survey. I only barely had the energy to be properly worried about the American election. And yesterday morning when the radio mentioned that a factory producing fireworks in Kolding was burning (or more accurately exploding) and had been since the evening before, my first thought was that it must have been a fantastic sight - all those fireworks going of in the autumn night. The radio proceeded to mention the death toll (at the time 10 people), the number of people in hospital and the damange to the surrounding area, which was - I suppose it would be called a suburb, if only Kolding was a city and not a town. And I felt terrible, of course (as terrible as I had the energy to feel). And what bits and pieces I have managed to pick up about this whole story does not sound good at all. And still, I cannot help but thinking that it must have been a truly incredible display of fireworks that night... Does this make me a terrible person? Or merely to tired to be serious about anything, even if it deserves it...?

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[quaryn-dk.livejournal.com]

You're not alone... my first thought, before "those poor people" was, "wow, I bet that was a really pretty fire."

[juliet-whisky.livejournal.com]

I saw it on the news on tv, but I only caught the end of it and was thinking "isnt that pretty". Of course then found out that people had died and I felt bad. :(