How can some people live with themselves?

[sdw]

Nobody that worked on the construction of this building can pretend that they didn't know.

In order to save a little money on concrete, the developer inserted empty cooking oil cans into the concrete forms. This made a structure that was engineered to withstand an earthquake too weak to withstand the quake.

Everyone that worked on the building had to know why the cans were being inserted into the forms. Everyone that worked on the building had to know what the consequence could be.

The form workers chose to insert the cans.
The concrete workers chose to pour concrete without requiring the removal of the cans.
The finishing workers chose to help cover up the presence of the cans embedded in the concrete.

The Bank knew. They had a policy of refusing to lend money to purchasers of units in the building.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/taiwan-earthquake-1.3437545

Chen Yi-ting and her husband bought the apartment in the centre of Tainan city five years ago, having relocated from an outlying district. They had a small hiccup with the mortgage -- the first bank they approached had declined their loan application without stating why -- but they found another lender and moved in with their infant daughter.

Soon after, according to Chen's mother, one of the couple's friends, who had ties to the first bank, told them that it had a policy of refusing loans to residents of the 17-storey Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building, due to its poor construction.

Now, Chen, 35, and her husband, Lin Wu-chong, 38, are in intensive-care in two separate hospitals in the southern city. She has a cracked skull and he has damaged lungs.

Their seven-year-old daughter is dead.

"People from outside of the town, people like them, had no idea what was going on before they moved in," Chen's mother, Kuo Yi-chien, explained as she waited in a hospital corridor outside the intensive-care unit where her daughter is.

The two-decades-old building is at the centre of rescue efforts after the 6.4 magnitude quake struck before dawn on Saturday, with at least 24 known to have died there and more than 100 still missing deep in the rubble.

It was the only major high-rise building in the city of 2 million people to have completely collapsed. Its lower stories, filled with arcades of shops, pancaked on top of each other before the entire U-shaped complex toppled in on itself.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/w...iwan-earthquake-that-kills-at-least-14-people

 

[Squishy]

This is the same country that allowed manufacturers to add plastic resin filler (melamine) to baby formula.

China is several kinds of fucked up.

 

[johnsmit]

And in victoria we are getting the steel for a bride and the bridge components built there
What the fuck are we thinking .
So far it delayed over a year be cause the steel was not up to specks and even the components were not made according to plan ..
We will be lucky if this new bride works as planed let alone does not collaps. ��
And one has to wonder how much of the over 100 million price Tage is for brides and kick backs
And I am not just talking about China end
Right here in old victoria .there is plenty of that too

 

[SFMIKE]

This is not in China. Somebody will surely debate that, but it is what it is.

 

[sdw]

This is not in China. Somebody will surely debate that, but it is what it is.

Yep, it's Taiwan. Which is clearly mentioned in the articles. Through, Taiwan may be "recovered" by China in the not so long term future. One more term by a President similar to Obama would do it. Reagan was good, Bill Clinton was good, George Bush was a disaster and Barack Obama is trying to be even worse than Jimmy Carter. Looking at what's potentially the next President from either the Democrats or the Republicans is scary.

 

[Fnejit]

... worse than Billy Carter...

Jimmy Carter. Billy was the drunk brother.

 

[sdw]

Jimmy Carter. Billy was the drunk brother.

See, he was so bad I don't want to remember his name.

 

[newatit]

Just like the Last government we had in some ways

 

[Squishy]

This is not in China. Somebody will surely debate that, but it is what it is.

Sorry. My mistake. Having grown up in Australia I tend to be highly skeptical about quality across most of Asia (mostly due to greed and corruption). Still feel the same about China regardless.