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Already nobody's buying their gas.
Some actual breaking news. >

That pipeline was SLAMMED >

I'm willing to bet that pipeline is lit. >

Str8 bussin frfr no cap >

ong >

Here's the problem. "Workers" could easily not be workers. We need concrete confirmation the company had people on site working there. >

Put on a high vis vest and you can do whatever you want >

Add a radio and a clipboard and you can tell somebody else to do it for you. >

Add a 6' ladder in your hands and they'll hold the door open for you. >

White hard hat, now you’re going places! >

Funny story, in Latvia an actual historic piano was stolen like that years ago. Two guys came into the castle where piano was, in full worker gear, said to the guard that they are here to pick up piano for restauration works. It was never seen again, to this day they dont know who did it. >

Have they checked the British Museum yet? >

It had to be done.  If the Latvian's were capable of looking after it it wouldn't have been lost.  When you think about it, the fact that it is in a British Museum is good for the preservation of Latvian culture for future generations of Latvians. >

It's now in a place where it will be truly appreciated, stuffed into an underground warehouse where it will sit undisturbed for a few more decades until someone stumbles upon it while doing an inventory update! Then maybe it will join a rotating exhibit so the Latvian tourists can appreciate it while on holiday! >

Where's the red circle to show me where the fire is? >

It's on fire >

/r/Whoosh >

It is just me or is that a weird title. "hit by explosion"
Was the explosion just driving down the road and crashed into the pipeline? >

Nah it fell out of the window. >

The gas facility and explosion were dating for a while, but when explosion gets drunk it gets a little slappy >

Oh dear, i hope the gas facility breaks up with the explosion. Doesn't sound like a healthy relationship. >

When they are together you cannot deny the red hot passion >

No mention of maintenance. Catastrophe happens a lot during maintenance but that left out is scary >

Not really. This is basically an immediate response while someone goes through logs to confirm that people really were supposed to be carrying out maintenance there, and at that time. It will probably be a day or so before the info filters back through to a more accurate press statement, likely going via national security agencies first. >

lol, dafuq? >

Oops I'm in two conversations lol >

Good time to be a pipeline repairman >

Not for the guys who did the maintenance on this one though. They're fired. >

"...no immediate evidence of an attack, Lithuania gas transmission operator Amber Grid said." >

For some strange reason this doesn't seem like a coincidence to me. >

Pipeline explosions are pretty dang common surprisingly. Just the US averages around 30 a year. >

Now that is surprising - I thought these things were super-rare !  Clearly I was wrong with my assumptions on this topic. >

Did you…did you just act like a reasonable, mature, level-headed and logical person, and admit that you were wrong…on…on the internet…for all to see?! 
The hero we need! >

Did you…did you just, without question, believe an unsourced fact on the internet?
We get what we deserve! >

I like turtles >

Source? >

In the world of geo-politics, this is what would be referred to as "unfortunate timing" >

It's to early to say it's Russia, but I'm not ruling it out >

They're NATO members.  Bordering Russia.  The thing that Russia uses as an excuse for invading Ukraine, saying "we can't let a country on our border become a NATO member", except they already did with Latvia and Lithuania (and Estonia), and nothing happened.  Except for those countries not becoming the next Ukraine/Georgia/Chechnya. >

r/NonCredibleDefense is salivating right now. >

By the end of the year no one will have gas pipes anymore.
And by 2024 someone in Russia will complain how no one is buying their gas :/