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Old 12-June-2007, 02:03 AM
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My favorite disaster movie cliche. The evil contractor/politician/businessmen who downplay the danger from the impending disaster be it a waking volcano, or improperly installed wiring and then while cowardly fleeing the disaster they helped to create are killed in some gruesome manner by it. Dante's Peak and The Towering Inferno come to mind.

Let's see, the "downplaying danger of poor safety precautions" one is pretty real-life. The cowardice is so/so, since many real life high executives leave their employees in the lurch whenever there's financial or legal danger, but might not respond the same way to physical danger. The coincidentally karmic death? Very uncommon.
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