I wonder how many people would be killed in an Internet collapse.

it sounded like a chimney collapsing

Skwidd: I wonder how many people would be killed in an Internet collapse.

At least it isn't a dumptruck.

/B,b,b but republican run congress in 01

Sweltering heat and humidity, hah.

/Houston

partial collapse, deserves partial attention
/I see what you did there
//captain obvious hands me a note...

FTFA:Officials say the building was in the process of being demolished when a large portion of its interior came down on its own.

Sounds like they just got a lot of free work done for them.

I heard someone saw a kite crash into the building. All kites have been grounded until further investigations are complete.

This happened in Harlem? Really? I was expecting Park Avenue.

OMGTHERMITE!!!!11111

This just in, someone in New York City passed gas. More at 11.

a vacant four-story building under construction...
the building was in the process of being demolished...

MAKE UP YOUR MIND!

Barone Construction?

/Still in withdrawl...

OMGTRRSTS9ELEVENTY

I find it ironic that the building was already in the process of being demolished when it collapsed. The problem here is that the people were surprised that it collapsed as they were demolishing it.

/RTFA

It was the earthquake

Ok, now this is exciting.....oh well I guess not.

Damn the Demoncratic Congress keeps spending insane amounts of money on a war that they have yet to get us out of. It could be better spent giving congress another raise, more tax breaks and bigger tax breaks for the struggling oil companies.

From TFA: "four-story building under construction"
Also FTFA: "in the process of being demolished "

Is this a scam?
I get it ... the building "under construction" never gets finished because it's being demolished at the same time!

[dammit, I made a nice ASCII art of a building being built on one side and the wrecking ball swinging in on the other, but the filter ate it ... just imagine some awesome ASCII art inserted here]

I blame Clinton... no, fark it, I blame Carter.

The crash on 116th a few months ago was way cooler.

is "Al Qaeda" arabic for American Construction?

toonz: is "Al Qaeda" arabic for American Construction?

i'm going to S Myself TFU on that one. didn't RTFA.

so they were demolishing it and it collapsed unexpectedly.
might be the first time I've EVER seen a construction job move ahead of schedule. The Union's gonna have their overachieving asses for that!

Inside job.

offtopic, but are there *any* internet news sites that aren't arranged as to look as ugly as possible and make it nearly impossible to navigate around?

Jesus Christ that was one ugly website!

If this were in Minnesota, it would have been submitted with a News Flashiatag.

Oh filter, is there any legitimate post you can't screw up?

i just moved to east harlem, does that mean i'm a target of terrizs?

Man has always loved his buildings. But what happens when the buildings say "no more!"?

When Buildings Collapse on Non-Stop Fox!

/take that House of Usher

Urban decay FTW!

We won't hear anything more about this because the only likely victims were brown skinned people.

// Building collapses while being demolished? Isn't that called GRAVITY?

Where's Bush? Shouldn't he be out there wearing a tool belt? Shouldn't he have his bull horn, and be standing in front of a "mission accomplished" sign?

N. S. Radieaux

This happened in Harlem? Really? I was expecting Park Avenue.

Actually, it was on Park Avenue, but in East Harlem. Park and 131st :-)

Gridlock: Building collapses while being demolished? Isn't that called GRAVITY?

We will seek out this new "G.R.A.V.I.T.Y." terrorist cell and obliterate it, no matter where its members may hide.*

* - Countries ending in "stan" may be excluded from this list.

srtpointman :I heard someone saw a kite crash into the building. All kites have been grounded until further investigations are complete.

Seinfeld?

"New" Democratic Congress? What is this, December '06?

Taliban are very busy lately.

Storms in NY .. bridge collapse .. mine destruction ... Earthquake!

Now the question is could this collapse been prevented?

Dun, Dun, DUNNNNNNNNN!

Why is that always the question? Who the hell cares if it could have been prevented. Lots of things could have been prevented. We don't go around preventing them, usually because the probability of failure times the cost of failure
Why is it that our society is nowadays so focused on removing all traces of risk from daily life? I swear, some people won't stop until we're all walking around in germ-free plastic safety bubbles. Life is risky. Don't try to mitigate it away! Relax and enjoy yourself. A piano could fall on me today as I walk outside. Should I be worried? No.

nice. HTML ate my "less than" sign. Oh, well, I didn't have a point anyway.

You mean the Democrat congress that changes the vote rules on the fly to get the results that they want?

Link (new window)

Execute them all.

Detroit_Bob

Be less obvious... it works better.

jesus christ everything's collapsing everywhere these days

turquoise70: jesus christ everything's collapsing everywhere these days

Things fall apart.