Man in a Shed: Channel tunnel fire

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Channel tunnel fire

According to Sky a Lorry carrying Phenol has caught fire and turned over in the channel tunnel.

Now Phenol is nasty stuff, get more than about a hand and a half on your skin, and untreated your future is going to be very short.

This emphasises a clear choke point in the UK's infrastructure. Not that our government will be able to think much about that .....

2 comments:

James Higham said...: Always was a question of when something like this happened. Dear oh dear.; 6:12 pm
Anonymous said...: Maybe nuking the Chunnel isn't the only way of regaining control of our borders after all...

Alfred of Wessex; 9:40 pm

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