Thailand Stock Exchange is on fire...couple pics

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

The actual stock market fire, which was put out earlier this afternoon:

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4bf3a6cd7f8b9a7266020600/thai.jpg


Some other pics:
A burning bank:
http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4bf3b8717f8b9a9d05f20600/central-world-on-fire.png


http://i.imgur.com/vAsio.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dd9oa.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rrKPyLm-Gw&feature=player_embedded


Not as much pandemonium as you'd expect, but still quite a lot.

[Glass]

I heard that an 8 storey mall had been on fire for a couple of days and was at risk of collapsing. I wonder if it did and if it fell into it's own footprint when it collapsed?

[Gaillo]

During a day of heated trading... ;D

[keehah]

http://www.th4u.com/central_world_plaza.htm

Central World Plaza (former World Trade Center) and anew branded as CentralWorld has just recently been renovated and expanded. Claiming to be Asia’s largest lifestyle shopping complex and venturing to attract upper class customers with an unrivalled mix of products and services. The revamped eight-story mall promising to provide an entirely new experience of the full day of shopping, dining, entertainment and recreation for the whole family.

CentralWorld Glass Facade

A spectacular brand-new exterior design features a state-of-the-art 400-metre long glass facade, the longest in Thailand. The renewed and swank mall ventured to showcase a huge selection of modern designer shops, international and local fashion...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2m_HxLGtw

[Glass]

former World Trade Center

Amazing coincidence.. I still don't know what these red shirts were all about. Clearly they were not about fixing what ever problem it was they had.

[YukonCornelius]

"Rome is burning" everywhere in the world.

Dominoes I tell ya, one by one...who's next?

[keehah]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/world/asia/20thai.html?ref=todayspaper

Thai news outlets reported that one of the more militant protest leaders, Arisman Pongruengrong, who is also a popular singer, fled the protest zone in disguise. Mr. Arisman made headlines last month when he evaded arrest by climbing from a window as the police raided the hotel where he was staying. He was captured Wednesday evening by the police and taken to a military base outside Bangkok.

Around noon, seven protest leaders announced that they would turn themselves in.

But they left on an uncompromising note. Standing on a stage amid the chaos, just before giving up, one of the leaders, Nattawut Saikua, shouted: “If the prime minister wants to govern the country on the top of this wreckage, he should go ahead and kill us all. But if he wants to do the right thing, he should stop the shooting immediately.”

Soon afterward, the shooting intensified. Soldiers surged and retreated at the booming of grenades. Two protesters were killed, and several journalists were shot or wounded by shrapnel. An Italian news photographer was killed, according to Thai news media, and two foreign journalists and one Thai photographer were wounded...

The soldiers stopped their advance, but protesters ran anyway, leaving behind a scattered trail of personal items: slippers, pots of boiling soup, laundry on clotheslines. They fled so suddenly that the large generators that had powered the sound system and lights for the round-the-clock speeches were still running.

Protesters set fire to Central World, one of the largest department stores in Southeast Asia. On Thursday morning the mall was a blackened, smoldering skeleton. Some people in the area carried boxes of cellphones and other electronics, presumably from the mall.

Looting was also reported in other parts of the city. Protesters attacked several news outlets, which they accused of bias, forcing one television station off the air.

[mick silver]

maybe next they will be burning there leader homes ........ watch a picture that would paint