Only in America

[Monkeys Fist 44073]

5 hours ago, ohhh_yeah said:

 

    

 

 

 

4 hours ago, ewerk said:

Shit, I thought the bridge collapsed some time after being hit and had been closed but clearly not.

 

 

Fucking hell!

 

Those kinds of bridges are designed to be under tension, they’ll be able to withstand a small fault in certain struts, but if the main support is taken out, as it is here, that’s it. 
 

As well as the loss of lives, and what a horrific way to go, this will cost billions, as it’s going to be blocking the port by the looks of it. 

[ewerk 32062]

4 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

this will cost billions, as it’s going to be blocking the port by the looks of it. 

 

Frank Sobotka is not going to be happy.

[Alex 36065]

1 hour ago, ewerk said:

 

Frank Sobotka is not going to be happy.

[wykikitoon 21926]

 

Good old Jess.

Fuck me.

[wykikitoon 21926]

Joking aside.  About 15 years ago I did some work on that and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.  

[Gemmill 48064]

Chesapeake on RED ALERT.

[Kid Dynamite 7399]

That's a massive ship to squeeze under the bridge btw. I'm surprised a collision with one support can bring the entire structure down and that's it's taken so long for it to happen 

 

Edit - 

 

Turns out some other bridges have safeguards against this happening 

 

Edited March 27, 2024 by Kid Dynamite

[wykikitoon 21926]

[Monkeys Fist 44073]

 

 

[ewerk 32062]

I always knew that lad was a liability.

[Alex 36065]

11 hours ago, Kid Dynamite said:

That's a massive ship to squeeze under the bridge btw. I'm surprised a collision with one support can bring the entire structure down and that's it's taken so long for it to happen 

 

Edit - 

 

Turns out some other bridges have safeguards against this happening 

 

Yeah, I thought it was odd that it didn’t have those (which was mentioned when the accident was first reported). Even the Gateshead Millennium Bridge has them. Them was some minor controversy about if spoiling the aesthetics at the time, as some people deemed it overkill. When you consider it was deemed necessary there, you’d think it would be in place for a bridge carrying traffic over such a busy waterway / port of that size. Probably missed out the original design and thought too expensive to put right in the age of massive container ships. Fucking mental in retrospect 

[MMXXVIII 1295]

[Monkeys Fist 44073]

I can’t remember where I saw it, but I definitely recall reading an article about the treacherous state of bridges in the US. 

It essentially said “ soon, one or more of them will collapse”. 
It may been around the time that bridge in Italy had a lie down. 
 

I used to do a lot of contract work for a firm whose business was the installation, and subsequent monitoring, of movement meters on road and rail bridges and other structures. 
One job we had in Dewsbury, they brought over a team of rope lads from a partner business they had in the US, to work with us and see how things were done here. 
It was a small, single span rail bridge over a canal

These lads were amazed that something so small and insignificant was

1- Metered in the first place

2- Those meters were maintained. 
Said that would rarely happen back home. 
 

It was a railway bridge, with regular passenger trains going over it ffs 

 

 

[strawb 4512]

3 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

I can’t remember where I saw it, but I definitely recall reading an article about the treacherous state of bridges in the US. 

It essentially said “ soon, one or more of them will collapse”. 
It may been around the time that bridge in Italy had a lie down. 
 

I used to do a lot of contract work for a firm whose business was the installation, and subsequent monitoring, of movement meters on road and rail bridges and other structures. 
One job we had in Dewsbury, they brought over a team of rope lads from a partner business they had in the US, to work with us and see how things were done here. 
It was a small, single span rail bridge over a canal

These lads were amazed that something so small and insignificant was

1- Metered in the first place

2- Those meters were maintained. 
Said that would rarely happen back home. 
 

It was a railway bridge, with regular passenger trains going over it ffs 

 

 

It goes further than large structures like bridges mate. If any of your family live in social housing, get shit boiler checked. The landlord should do it but fuck me what I saw in london would make a hooker blush

[ohhh_yeah 3002]

 

 

[ewerk 32062]

 

Fucking hell.

[RobinRobin 11984]

 

[Gemmill 48064]

 

This is wild. American police are mental. 

[Alex 36065]

Imagine what they’re like when the press aren’t there 

[Dazzler 11106]

2 minutes ago, Alex said:

Imagine what they’re like when the press aren’t there 

Or imagine if she was black. They are scum the coppers over there.

[Toonpack 10705]

I follow a parent of one of the Uvalde kids on twitter, there were similar scenes at a Uni in Texas, he posted "how come the police weren't so keen when schoolkids were being murdered".

[RobinRobin 11984]

Lovely person. Seems ideal Trump VP. 

[Kid Dynamite 7399]

 

[Monkeys Fist 44073]

7 hours ago, RobinRobin said:

Lovely person. Seems ideal Trump VP. 

Someone should take her to her a gravel pit and shoot her, she seems nasty and untrainable. 

[The Fish 11173]

21 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Someone should take her to her a gravel pit and shoot her, she seems nasty and untrainable. 

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