American Mass Shootings / Stabbings / Car Crashes/bridge collapses

[Juhniallio]

@Fagan_ODowd

It could have been me. I went over a bridge on a bus in Baltimore a year and a half ago. On inspection of the maps I suspect it was a different bridge.

Someone should start a ‘it could have been me…’ thread

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Julio_Geordio

@Fagan_ODowd

It could have been me. I went over a bridge on a bus in Baltimore a year and a half ago. On inspection of the maps I suspect it was a different bridge.

A lucky escape

I breathed a sigh of relief

[neilld]

There was a shortage of quality materials post world war 2-anyone going over a bridge built in the 50’s wants their head examined.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

I was in Philadelphia before Christmas when a oil truck crashed into a hiway bridge, exploded and the bridge collapsed.

Would have been me but i went the other direction from the airport and had no need to go that direction

[TreatyStones]

https://twitter.com/manuCH/status/1772552909567213889?s=19

A sped up version of the webcam prior to impact. It looks like the ship lost power on a couple of occasions and was out of control approaching the bridge.

[habanerocat]

@Massey

Or Frank,or the union’s.

I lifted that of course from here.

The Wire

[Screenshot_20210329-085942]

I never laughed as much as I did at that.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

It wouldn’t instantly become see through and the ship would sail away

[Kyle]

Fucking Greeks

[Kyle]

American infrastructure has been in steep decline for years… It’s a huge issue. A dog with a mallet up his hole knows this .

[myboyblue]

This is probably why that wall isnt working out for them.

[Batigol]

But wouldn’t any country that size have near constant infrastructure issues?

[flattythehurdler]

It was quite a bridge though.
Design flaw rather than crumbling infrastructure I’d reckon.

[StoneCold]

@Kyle

American infrastructure has been in steep decline for years

36 bridge collapses alone in the USA since the year 2000.

[Juhniallio]

@Kyle

American infrastructure has been in steep decline for years… It’s a huge issue. A dog with a mallet up his hole knows this .

Hopefully an american made mallet so it just falls apart easily and he can shit it out.

[StoneCold]

@Kyle and @StoneCold vindicated again

The State of U.S. Infrastructure

[LionelRitchie]

CRH look to have timed their US entry well

[Tim_Riggins]

Loads is being spent now but it wasn’t great for a good few years. I wouldn’t be a big fan of the Sagamoee or Chesapeake Bay bridges myself.

Roads always got decent money though.

Plenty going into big rail projects now.

[Tim_Riggins]

Plenty in Europe in the same time period, including a couple of more high profile ones.

Infrastructure decline can imo be traced back to governments substituting capital spending for current day spending.

That said, it’s not like health and safety is ignored. It’s tougher than ever and the US takes roads seriously.

[Kyle]

They haven’t reinvested proper in 90% of the country since the 60s. Thanks in large to corporatism… Anything that’s state owned is run down - public transport, schools, prisons, infrastructure maintenance… Big business magically wins a lot contracts for these things and reduce them to nothing, getting state aid, and take out large profits… This is all aided by the fact that political bribery is legal in America - they call it lobbying . It all goes hand in hand…

The ironic thing is that the huge investment in infrastructure is what kick started American consumerism in the 50/60s - it made America great. It’s now rotting.

[Locke]

I felt the same when 911 happened. I was on the viewing deck of one of the Twin Towers in 1998.

@Fagan_ODowd

It could have been me. I went over a bridge on a bus in Baltimore a year and a half ago. On inspection of the maps I suspect it was a different bridge.