From: finfer@optonline.net   
      
   On 5/15/2014 9:05 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > For those of you on Usenet so enamored of the safety record of pipelines   
   > for transportation of oil, you may not want to read about last night's   
   > disaster:   
   >   
   > A ruptured oil pipe near the suburb of Glendale has spilled about   
   > 10,000 gallons of crude oil onto streets; initial reports had the spill   
   > at 50,000 gallons. The leak from a 20 inch pipe was reported as 12:15   
   > am. Thursay, May 15, 2014. It was shut off remotely within 10 minutes of   
   > firemen arriving. Despite the shut off, the spill continued for at least   
   > 45 minutes.   
   >   
   > A strip club had to be evacuated.   
   >   
   > The pipe was under pressure; oil was seen shooting 20 feet into the sky.   
   >   
   > The oil came from Bakersfield. It's a pumping transfer station sending   
   > oil to a storage facility near Bakersfield.   
   >   
      
   It might have been entertaining to watch that evacuation.  Performers in   
   various states of undress and customers hiding their faces like it was a   
   perp walk.   
      
   Michael Finfer   
   Bridgewater, NJ   
      
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