Having a roof over one’s head should give you a sense of security, but in the last two months, several roofs have collapsed for “unknown reasons,” the most recent on February 7^th 2006, at a supermarket in the Bavarian town of Toeging am Inn and this came only a month after the roof of an ice-rink collapsed in Bad Reichenhall, also in Southern Germany, in January.

One month before that, on December 5^th 2005 the roof of the Dolphin Pool in the Urals region of Russia caved in killing at least fourteen people swimming in the pool. Again, on January 29^th 2006 the collapsed roof of an exhibition hall in southern Poland killed sixty people. All of the above tragedies were “thought” to have been caused by heavy snowfall.

But a five-storey hotel in Mecca collapsed on January 5^th 2006 which killed about twenty-three Muslims gathering in Islam's holiest city for the hajj pilgrimage and then a five-storey building also collapsed in Nairobi on Jan.23^rd  2006, where snow could not have been a factor. On the previous day, a synagogue roof collapsed in New York.

The recently repaired roof of a discotheque collapsed in Jakarta on Feb 6^th 2006 and on January 6th 2006, the roof of the Maximum Comfort Pool and Spa in Frisco also gave way. Earlier, in 2004, the roof caved in at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. It was said that there was “absolutely nothing” in the past to indicate a structural problem, but a firefighter described it, “like a scene after an earthquake.”

Could this just be an incredible string of coincidences, all occurring in a couple of months? Heavy snowfall is not a new phenomenon and it does not usually cause roofs to collapse at leisure facilities. There could be something more sinister afoot, after all, it is eighty years since Nikola Tesla claimed to have invented a mechanical oscillator which could bring down buildings with ease. If so, I have no idea of the motive, other than for insurance or to cause mayhem, but as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ it’s my job to be suspicious.
 

Update February 24, 2006: