Sauerkraut factory collapses in Ohio

Previously: Man dies, then his mom, then both get eaten by cats

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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jdk998

FTA: “one dead, three injured.” Why is this amusing?
LovelyAndroid

It’ll be sad when the kitteh becomes jaded and can no longer be shocked.
PeaceNerd

Nice, now can we get one in front of the double rainbow?
- The Mudshark
  
  You got it.
  
  http://picasaweb.google.com/110706540575476994521/DoubleRainbow#5491445850523791058
GeekMan

It was on its last legs for years, but when the German football team didn’t make the finals, it couldn’t take the shock.
usagizero

Wow, “one dead and three injured” sure is funny. WTF??
Vidya108

This shocked-cat meme is even better than the just-look-at-it banana meme.
vanvalkenburgh

Shocked kitteh pics!

I did BP
http://bit.ly/98vzT6

Make your own with cropped png template! do it now…
http://bit.ly/cV3v57
- Anonymous
  
  I think I am in love with you.
  
  P.S. It is sad that people died in this incident, I must have a black shrivelled heart to hear that news and yet giggle insanely over a picture of a kitteh.
bardfinn

It’s funny because it’s pickled cabbage.

That stuff is funny, I don’t care /what/ the IRS says.
WoRN808

I’m really disappointed that Boing Boing would run a story about a saurkraut factory collapse that killed 1 and injured several others as if this were just too funny. If you’re so hip and think you’re so “all that” that human life doesn’t mean a thing to you anymore, you’ve got serious problems.
- Anony Mouse
  
  IAWTP. If it had been a transwoman trapped in the rubble, it would have been SRS BIZNESS.
apoxia

Why does shocked cat have to mean funny? Shocked cat could mean just that – shocked. If you find the shocked cat image funny then that’s your own interpretation I guess.
- IamInnocent
  
  You win the prize of hyper-rationalization for the whole year: nobody can beat you now.
  
  No, this was in extremely poor taste. Xeni does sense of humor gravitates around that a lot. It is just a fact of Xeni being who she is. Live with it.
  - mdh
    
    sauerkraut is ALSO in extremely bad taste.
Anonymous

How many thousands of people die every day? Only one died? Yes, it’s terrible for that person, their friends, and their family, but in the larger scheme of things, we can be amused by the idea of a sauerkraut factory at all.
cjp

Please, someone do shocked cat at the G20 for me. Picasa has bested me tonight.

http://www.trendhunter.com/photos/79744

And, for the record, it’s just sad about the crushed workers, not funny.
vanvalkenburgh

G20 Shocked Kitteh done (and Animated GIF!):

http://bit.ly/b6rmLX
- cjp
  
  THANK YOU! You have made my day.
- proletariat
  
  G20 Shocked Kitteh can’t unsee the human rights abuses.
pilcrow

A kraut factory collapsed? This is the wurst news I’ve heard today.
- Notary Sojac
  
  …the wurst news I’ve heard today…
  
  We’re fortunate to have the web so that we can easily link to the topic.
G144

Mel Brooks defined comedy v. tragedy this way: “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when a man falls down a manhole and dies.” I think this would be much more worthwhile story if there was a description of a LOT of sauerkraut in the mess.
middleclass

This is god’s way of saying “No” to pasteurized sauerkraut.
Brett Myers

Shocked kitteh is weak. I’ll be disappointed in the internets if shocked kitteh becomes a meme. It’s just a LOLCAT without the LOL.
- freshacconci
  
  Oh nertz to you.
PeaceNerd

I can haz relish insted?
endymion

Firmly in the “not funny” camp.

There was a previous post from almost exactly a year ago (7/8/2009) about a factory worker dying in a vat of chocolate. Also submitted by Xeni (who I generally like, of course). Also not giggle-inducing; same reason.

What’s up with the similarity of dates? A coincidence?
agnot

Perchance a horror motif has begun?
Anonymous

Kapustastrophe!
Anonymous

I’m just bummed they ran this but passed over the guy who threw a puppy at a bunch of Hell’s Angels, then successfully escaped from them on a stolen bulldozer.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65E39Q20100615
bja009

Shocked kitteh is now a meme.
- mdh
  
  just look at him