re: #218 Cardio (formerly JRCMYP)

Why in the world did that man film a burning FERTILIZER plant from that distance—let along with his CHILD in the backseat. Holy hell.

Ignorance.

Look, most people have no clue how far the effects of a blast extend until they’ve experienced it - and I don’t mean from some stack of firecrackers. Since as a rule experiencing it requires either being near disaster or being in a profession that requires it and both those are uncommon, ignorance dominates.

He thought he was safe. He was outside the property fence, and nobody was putting out any warnings.

As to why his child was along, there’s a decent chance she (I think) asked to go along. They do, when Dad says, “Wow, look at that. I’m gonna go film it.” The other possibility, of course, was that Dad was driving home from Waco after picking up the child from some sort of practice, saw it, and pulled over to film. And during the fire part the child was probably interested - maybe declining to bored, right up to BOOM “Daddy let’s leave let’s get out of here.”