Holy... Chlorine leak in Downers Grove, IL...update 2

[narzy]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
hopefully someone caught my world war reference there

what was the nick name for those french "gas" masks? duckbills or somthing, tho it was quite descusting, and only somthing the french would think up, they were quite effective aparently.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: FallenHero

Originally posted by: MaxDSP

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: jjsole mass casualties???

Ten people were injured-five of them were firefighters. All are expected to be OK.

From the link in the post just below yours.

the original post has got to be one of the best sources of MISinformation seen here in a long time.

Mass casualties my ass

casualty does NOT mean death. It means required treatment and/or recieved medical help. dumbass

In the context of a disaster, "casualties" ALWAYS refers to death. According to <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="[L=http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?casualty" target=blank L] dictionary?casualty?[ cgi-bin www.m-w.com ]http:>Webster</A> it means "serious or fatal" but always refers to deaths in today's media. The injuries in this accident weren't even serious. I think you need to get out more.

Funny all those news stories from Iraq and the middle east where casualties include injured. I used to always think casualty meant death, but it seems the media is loosening up their definition.

Examples?