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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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That’s crazy. I guess like the monster truck shows I remember as a kid in the 80s. SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!
My first question was about safety.
And was that really so “unexpected” that they exploded?
People were just really dumb about boiler explosions for a long time. Missisipi river boats for example had a period where maintenance was almost non-existant and they were almost always overloaded with passengers/cargo but the inevitable boiler explosions were considered to be acts of god. Huge disconnect between the people making the boilers and the people using them.
One of ever so many indications that idiots had money in earlier eras.