FOX News skybox in Denver flooded by sprinkler system
By SilentPatriot Monday Aug 25, 2008 12:40pm
A sprinkler system partially flooded part of the Pepsi Center Monday morning.
The Denver Fire Department, which has a crew stationed at the center all week, was able to respond quickly before 5 a.m. when the sprinkler went off.
The sprinkler was located on the club level in a skybox which had recently been renovated to host a news crew. It appears the skybox belongs to Fox.
After going off, the sprinkler released 50 to 100 gallons of water per minute and 9NEWS crews estimate it was on for around 5 minutes.
The cause of the sprinkler is under investigation but early reports indicate it was likely bumped or the heat sensor may have been affected by equipment in the room.
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"I can take about an hour on the tower of power --- as long as I gets a little golden shower"
Don't look at me. I'm nowhere near Denver...
monkeywrenching
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
FOX snooze is all wet.
Karma!
Clearly this is excellent news for John McCain
Next come the locusts. Then we go for their firstborn.
Just goes to show how much a bunch of amateurs Fox noise really are about how it really works.
Cleansing the evil spirits.
This is obviously due of the sheer amount of hot air these guys blow at all times.
Cavuto's 6 lbs hot spaghetti plate causing some issues.
must've been practicing their hotair blathering
Shit! Ummm...anyone find a wrench?
Sprinkler systems have a liberal bias.
John McCain spent five and a half years in a place where he couldn't intentionally set off a sprinkler system!
It must be the work of terrorists. They hate our our freedoms and indoor plumbing.
Did they pray for Rain?
Can methane from large quanities of BS set of sprinkers?
5 bucks says this will get more attention from the chickenhawk bloviators than the arrest of the skinheads in Denver does.
He lets rain fall on them whether they are just or unjust, or giant douchebags.
SoCalLib @ 16:
If this were a game, I would award you a teddy bear. Good one!
Heated rhetoric?
john j @ 18:
Good catch.
I forgot all about that moron.
What's the forecast for Denver on Thursday night?
john j @ 18:
lord knows, they tried.
Karma...
AHahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa! [takes breath then...] hahahahahahaha! etc.
I think I love Pepsi right now.
Did you see the video of the marchers chanting fuck fox news??? One of them must have a cigarette lighter.
Somewhere, God is giggling. :-)
The laughs on us. We get a Disney-esque prank suitable for an afterschool special on grumpy assholes needing a lesson, and they control the world ... not a good deal
fare and ph balanced.
All that hot air from the extreme bloviating set it off-it's working PERFECTLY!
john j @ 18:
Hagee has suggested that they start building an ark.
The fundies are dancing in the streets lauding that their prayers were answered.
Fox News executives wish their aim had been better.
Is it me, or did focus on the family get the rain they asked for?
Min @ 29:
Maybe God did get even!
If God is anything like the way George Burns played him this is how he would answer the right wing Dobson prayers .....
The truth: Bill Orally was chasing Anne Coulter around butt-nekkid with a loofa. They had to spray 'em down with a fire hose.
Moments before the accident..."NEIL...put down that sterno!!"
I'm gonna theorize that this was an "inside job" or "false flag", Hannity set off those sprinklers & will be blaming it on liberal media saboteurs trying to shutdown Fox's "freedom of speech" in the tradition of that intern they sent out to harass protesters yesterday.
anyone made a hot air joke because i'm making one now
"OK...who's the moron that ordered the baked alaska?"
I think Faux did this on purpose, but they are probably pissed off because they were hoping it would have caused more damage!
Maybe the Fox News team was dirty
Don't bend over for the soap
And look out for bill o'really with a loofah.
Mick Piobr @ 37:
I doubt that. Orally only likes skinny little boys. Oh, right.....
I wonder if the water used in the sprinkler systems is "grey water" - water direct from the sewer treatment plant.
Jo @ 44:
If it wasn't then, it is now...
sounds like all that rain the nutty reichwingneocons
wanted to come down on obama actually hit its
intended karma spot........
hooray their god has smacked them down.
Good. That booth could use a washing down to drive the stink off it. Maybe the sprinklers were set off by the collective smoke coming out of the ears of Fox pundits trying to wrap their little minds around the idea of reporting the truth. I can imagine most of them passing out from an overload.
oopsies!
Mick Piobr @ 37:
I threw up in my mouth a little.
john j @ 18:
Thank you GOD for making my day.
Also the video of people saying "F**k Fox News!!!"
Haw haw haw!
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of jacknuts!
Mick Piobr @ 37:
Couldn't happen she don't like to do fat old ugly guys and he don't like to do over the hill tranny's ......
I blame karma..
I just have one thing to say.....
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Mick Piobr @ 37:
They'd have to evacuate the convention center because of the putrid smell of damp swamp ass and feet.
krisken @ 49:
Sorry. The truth can be so ugly. You don't even want to know what Brit Hume was doing in there with a bicycle pump, a goose and Michelle Malkin.
This is no lie guys, one of my best friends works for a Denver radio station (yes, it's a Clear Channel station) where Billo, his peers and minions have set up camp in the building to cover the DNC.
My friend said that his first encounter with O'Reilly (who stands about 6'5") was yesterday when Billo passed him in a hallway, smirking like the smug jackass we all know him to be.
I suggested he make eye contact with Billo, then look at the floor and shake his head sadly.
Mick Piobr @ 56:
You watch far too much faux noise.
Clearly, the sprinkler system was triggered by their pants on fire.
Bill O took a lackey up to the box with some luffas
bughunter @ 59:
Tie with SoCalLib @ 16!
Fringe anti-gay religious group prays for rain at Democratic Convention
http://www.topix.com/news/gay/2008/08/fringe-anti-gay-religious-group-prays-for-rain-at-democratic-convention
Clif @ 58:
Nuh-uh...got no teevee. It's why I'm so imaginative. Okay, sick.
Praise the Lord, my prayers have been answered!!! Now if only...
I prayed for rain... on Fox news!
Karma....
Payback for the sub-moronic shots that the Fox Noise camera dip$hits have been doing so far at the convention...
They should have never been included in the feed pool....never.
Wacko in Waco @ 63:
If my prayers had been answered it would have been lighting bolts and not water all over faux.
Spickle @ 50:
Nice clip. So, a bunch of citizens protest the loss of their country to a right wing junta - and that makes them leftists? Buncha cutewhoores.
Clif @ 58:
Come on people...it was meerly the heat created from Limpballs gi-normous ass cheeks as he waddled past.
The good lord knows what he's doing, praise Jesus!
Speaking as a former film Electrician and current rigging grip(local 80), it appears from the picture that there's a light hung awfully close to the sprinkler head. I don't know if the lights were on when this happened, but that would be my guess. There are a few ways to prevent the heat from lights triggering the sprinkler system - Move the light, and/or tape a stryofoam cup over the sprinkler head, or just use a light that emits less heat like a Kino-Flo. The most important thing is to hire Union Grips and Electricians who would probably have the experience to notice such things. Hopefully, the bonehead who hung these lights didn't screw up any other news orgs. boxes with his mistake.
The O'Reilly Factor is on TONIGHT!
*pansy ass finger swing/point thingy*
Did the LIBERAL Democrats sabotage a Fox News station during their coverage of the Democratic National Convention? Why do LIBERALS hate freedom of the press and the first amendment?
Also, in our impact segment: Are nineteen year-old girls making out solely to attract the attention of college guys? We'll get to the bottom of this.
Well, what do you know?, I DO believe in God!
Even the gods don't like Faux ...
bughunter @ 59:
Awesome. I can't believe it took until comment #59 for that explanation.
No doubt Foux Noise wil say this was the work of "far left liberals" and their ilk, who were planning sabotage anyway.
Mick Piobr @ 37:
You should be ashamed to invoke such a horrific image in our minds. How am I supposed to sleep now? *going to fetal position now*
Rusty "One House" Shackleford @ 3:
Uhhhhh.... "I am not nor have I never been a member of the Communist Party." ...Wait... what happened? :)
endanger6@70 Betcha Faux didn't use union people. See how much money it saved them? Of course they'll probably defraud their insurance now.
"heat sensor may have been affected by equipment in the room..."
or by the hot, steaming piles of bullshit produced whenever the FOX "News" crew happens to be in the room.
Speakin o' Faux noose....here's the that Griff guy from another angle...enjoy.
liberalNmoderation @ 82:
Duuuuuh....might help if I actually POST the damn link huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D74Xs1VuYAE
earl @ 1:
Go Bobby Brown! LOL
"Put your spot on the bench for a guy with a wrench!" Fox News!
Perhaps it was simply a Hot Pocket of Mass Destruction unleashed by the obviously homosexual traitor, Poppin Fresh.
Spin: Terrorist attack----code red----vote McCain for complete protection, including temp housing---into the Fox hole, quick!
Couldn't have happened to a better bunch of folks. .
earl @ 1:
Frank Zappa "Bobby Brown" quote FTW!
Maybe Focus on the Family unknowingly misdisrected in their prayer for rain in Denver...
awesome vid liberalNmoderation
Someone installed the kleig lights too close to the heat sensor. The picture shows the problem.
Karma
bateman @ 89:
Thanks :)
Just shows what a bunch of amateur hacks they have working over at Faux. Even their crews are stupid enough to put a light that emits enough heat to cook an egg right next to a fire sprinkler head. Guess they cannot find anybody that knows their ass from a hole in the ground to work for them.
I figured that Rupert or one of his minions left open the secret door to Gehenna a little too long coming back from visiting the 'big boss.'
Actually, I'm curious since Fox seems to be the primary camera feed that this means suddenly we don't get video out of the convention...
Bill O'Reilly's head exploded so naturally the sprinkler system worked... thank god no one important was inconvenienced..except maybe O'Reilly... or the clubhouse crew at Faux.
Innocent Bystander @ 90:
Yeah..I had the same problem in my apartment. But...I digress...
obviously a media false flag operation.
If you have ever worked a sporting event in a stadium with television lights, which are ungodly hot... the end of the night is what you dread most in the press box level because it gets ungodly hot. Or in this case maybe it got godly hot... who knows!
every now and then, it's refreshing to recall the meaning of the word 'schadenfreude'.
The investigation shows that the sprinkler system was triggered by the black candles used in the ceremony to summon the FOX network's dark, forbidden master, the lord of untruth, satan (FTW).
Liberal AND Proud @ 97:
Waaaaaaait one minute!
You had a kleig lights AND a heat sensor in your apt? You elitist bastard!
The first that that came to my mind as well, 'You had better be careful what you pray for'
Too bad it wasn't a Halon Fire Suppression system
liberalNmoderation @ 102:
Yeah and trust me...I wasn't makin' pop tarts or filming pet cat antics. ; 0 )
Remember the preacher who was praying for rain in Denver?
Looks to me that god has given him an answer.
edanger6 @ 72:
I'm a union member as well. I was actually wondering if CO is a right-to-work state or if maybe the geniuses at FOX thought they'd move a light without using the house (union) electricians, and paid the price.
That, or it's a (not so) subtle comment from the union ...
Liberal AND Proud @ 105:
boom chicka wow ow!
Obviously a Liberal sprinkler system...
Why do sprinklers hate America?
THIS THING SUCKS. FUCK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE.
enjoy the moment!
Fox got payback. Since it runs the pool feed, all you'll see are disgruntled PUMAs tonight after seeing yawning Dems last night.
Ha, Ha, LOL, Ha, Ha, Ha, hahahahhaha. rofl, hahahah those clintons, ha ha ha ha, heehee, heehee, hahahaha, LOL, they get me every time. Ha, hahahahahhahahhaha.
Ok I am better now. I shouldn't laugh really but I just get help my self...
ha, ha, ha.
I just CAN'T help my self- see how I get when hysterical?
Fire and brimstone will do that.
Mick Piobr @ 64:
No matter how much Goldschlager you force down a goose he still won't lay a golden egg. Steve Colbert
liberalNmoderation @ 83:
That was great. Thanks.
Old Billy Hussein @ 76:
Me neither. :p
Even the Pepsi center knows when it's been touched by evil. It was just trying to feel clean again. I know the feeling...every time I see FOX Propaganda programming, I fell like I need to bath in disinfectant. Poor thing doesn't know that it will take more than just a short shower to was the stench from itself.
RppPolyp @ 88:
It even comes as a W tribute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IlE8yAmW3E
edanger6 @ 72:
Yep. Fox's problem is they pay their people peanuts, and thus they get what they deserve -
a bunch of non-union morons for a crew. That includes guys not smart enough to turn off
the lights when they leave...
StirFry @ 25:
Yep and ticked God off and received tornados yesterday!!
It's not Karma! It's terrorists, stupid!
Oh, I guess it would actually be Karma if terrorists did it!
SweettP2063 @ 106:
Four twisters touch down near Parker, Castle Rock
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/24/tornado-warning-dougla...
Oh dear. You hate to see that.
McCain fell asleep with a Cuban cigar under the desk because he can't find his mansions.
The last words heard from the Fox Propagandists was---I'M melting--my world!
FLASH NEWS!
Through inside secret sources, it has been revealed that the perpatrator was OSSAMAS BEN SPRINKLING. They found the indisputable evidence when an FBI agent found his completely "dry" passport amongst the severely totally "drenched" rubble at the crime scene.
Agents quickly confiscated all the video tapes, and all the disposable cameras of the nearby working personal, and classified them "national security". In the meantime, the agents have not attempted to arrest nor detain Ossamas Ben Sprinklings entire family, who was dining in their own cafeteria with the entire Bush family, and even went so far as to call them a limo, with a full security escort, to leave the area, and get back home to build solid gold sand castles. The Bushs later, vowed an oath, to "get that man"! Jeb Bush, who was in charge of the Pepsi machines security the day before, was unavailable for questioning.
President George W Bush alloted 2.3 trillion dollars for the cleanup, but for some unknown reason, THEY CAN'T FIND IT! It was reported to be carefully wrapped up in cellophane wrap, in easily "handling" bundles, on pallets marked with 'HALLIBURTON". One eyewitness was reported to be saying, just before the catastrophic incident occured, he saw an individual, who remarkably looked like Dick Cheney, peering through an underground sewer grate, barking out something to effect, "IT'S JUST A GD #*@$ DRILL!!"
Stay tuned to FOX NEWS only. They "exclusively" have the full video reports, they've been showing for two hours before it even happened. They also have the complete details of the presidents "pre-planned" retaliations, on the electricians unions, for the water pipes bursting. The attack on the electricians union is going to be called "SHOCK & AWE", and they are already starting to put up new "Mission Accomplished" banner logos on the new Pepsi machines.
The question is, ARE YOU GOING TO DRINK PEPSI, OR ARE YOU GOING TO BE WITH THAT VILE, EVIL, NO GOOD ELECTRICIANS UNION, PLANNING TO PUT DANGEROUS HIGH VOLTAGES IN YOUR WATER PIPES,...RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, IN THE VERY HOMES,....YOU USED TO OWN?
FOX NEWS!! BE THERE!! THEY DO IT LIVE!!
Hmmm. This is the first I've heard of water coming TO the lemmings:)
DONT WORRY FOX....... FEMA is on the way....... heck of a job brownie!!!!
are you certain it wasn't one of those prankish things they do on FOX... or Comedy Central... i get the two so confused in my mind
StirFry @ 12:
I was going to suggest it was from all the friction created when those wankers are off camera, watching X-tube!
liberalNmoderation @ 70:
Was he wearing corduroy?
Ha Ha! that's exactly what Faux News gets. I cant believe they actually think they're fair and unbiased.
oh come on folks, you pack too much methane into an enclosed skybox, one spark and phoom! instant sprinklers. it don't take der rocket scientists to figure it out.
It wasn't the heat sensor that tripped, but the B.S. sensor.
It would seem the saying is true.
God Moves in a Mysterious Way.
Karma, baby.
A spokesman for the local T.O.O.L. association said, "Our contractor, Brown and Root, has denied all implications that shoddy workmanship akin to similar structures it had constructed in Iraq was the cause of this malfunction. In those buildings," their press agent asserted, "soldiers were electrocuted. No fox reporters were harmed in this incident." Millions mourned the lost opportunity.
self-induced immolation???
did the odor of sulfer prevail?
Where dick cheney or karl rove nearby at the time????
Karma's a bitch. Only would have been more appropriate if it covered them in bullshit. ;)
PAYBACK IS A BITCH, AIN'T IT???
I suspect the Fox News team was taking a prayer break. The sprinklers were set off by the fire being prepared for the virgin sacrifice. I'm guessing Jonah Goldberg.
Did any of those rotten bastards drown? Just asking.
Could it be Divine Intervention?
So the hot air they spew triggered the heat sensors, eh?
That's what you get when you pray for rain.
=ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!= There is a God, he does answer prayer, and he has an absolutely diabolical sense of humor! His timing is a little off, though. He should have made it happen in prime time. :-)
Several have said it was a "false flag media operation".
I doubt it was just a media op. Sure, this could have been designed to make Foques a martyr at the lib'rul convention -- but look at what might have happened if the fire had broken out and actually spread...!
The convention would be delayed/hampered/disrupted. If it was big enough, it would be a "terrorist attack"; more reason for McCain to be our new 'Murrikun Prez'nit.
Not only would Foques have been "smoked out" of giving "the only fair and balanced" report from the convention, they could also use it from then on as an excuse:
Protesters: "F#@& Fox!" "Fox is rascist!" "Fair and balanced, my @$$!"
FOX: "A lot of people say we're not fair or balanced. Well, it' wasn't very fair when we were
in the Hanoi Hiltonforced out of our media skybox!"The picture is not clear, but if the sprinkler head is above the location where the spray apparently is, I'd say the bunch of high-wattage (read: lots-of-heat-producing) lights overheated the light. In other words, they did it to themselves and have no excuse. Anyone who sets up in commercial buildings either knows not to do this or deserves to get the damage.
Oh, yes: the water is fire sprinkler systems is plain city water, but it sits in the steel pipes for years, until it produces a fine mud of rust in the bottom of the pipe. When it goes off (the Pink Panther notwithstanding) this is what mixes with the first several hundred gallons of water discharged.
The estimate of the flow is utterly absurd. A Skybox would have nothing larger than a 1/2 inch orifice head, which only gets around 50 gpm with 100 psi or more in the pipe. The likelihood of this being true of pipe at the top of the stadium is between slim and none, and Slim just left.
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