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Old 16-05-2012, 02:30 PM   #1
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Default loud bangs in Brisbane

Anyone else just hear that?

I'm in Kangaroo Pt at work and trying to work out what that noise was. Was a series of loud bangs 10-15 or so. To loud for fireworks as you could feel the pressure change in the air as well as the reverb off of the cities buildings. Sounded like it was coming from the south? Maybe tunnel blasting, I even though a supersonic jet going over

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Old 16-05-2012, 03:45 PM   #2
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Clem 7 collapse?

J/ks, have no idea, I'm on the other side of the city.
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Old 16-05-2012, 03:50 PM   #3
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nevermind....
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Old 16-05-2012, 04:27 PM   #4
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Zee Germans?
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Old 16-05-2012, 04:31 PM   #5
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Gun salute at Kangaroo Point for the parliament I believe.
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Old 16-05-2012, 05:55 PM   #6
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Gun salute at Kangaroo Point for the parliament I believe.
ahh makes sense, bloody loud guns
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Old 16-05-2012, 05:59 PM   #7
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Nuh! It's the funeral director blasting a deep, deep hole to bury Anna Bligh in.
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Old 16-05-2012, 06:31 PM   #8
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Musgrave park solution????

No it was Parliament being sworn in.
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Old 16-05-2012, 06:35 PM   #9
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I had one of those in 1992.

Can't remember her name, though.
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Old 16-05-2012, 06:35 PM   #10
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No it was Parliament being sworn in.
Oh you naughty boy, That was so politically incorrect
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Old 16-05-2012, 06:43 PM   #11
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They way Brisbane is going, it could have been anything...
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New speed camera strategy perhaps, a bang to go with the flash to really scare the bejeebers out of people?
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Old 16-05-2012, 07:49 PM   #13
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I was at east Brisbane just near the story bridge and didn't hear anything
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Old 16-05-2012, 09:08 PM   #14
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I had one of those in 1992.

Can't remember her name, though.
I was thinking the same, but didn't know to ummmmm...eloquently word it ;)

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Old 16-05-2012, 09:28 PM   #15
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Gun salute at Kangaroo Point for the parliament I believe.
Ahh the old 21 sun galute - most of us would like to fire cannons at the Parliament sometimes but you guys actually do it - Well Done!!!
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