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(Guardian)   Officials blame Pennsylvania bridge collapse on heavy truck. Or possibly gravity   (guardian.co.uk) divider line 60
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2007-12-07 06:29:51 PM
Gravity. You may not like it, but it is the law.
 
2007-12-07 07:51:45 PM
tbn0.google.com

Damn you Newton.
 
2007-12-07 10:03:01 PM
I blame Bush.
/just wanted to get that outta the way
 
2007-12-07 10:03:30 PM
On Fark, of course, we try to compensate with levity.
 
2007-12-07 10:03:48 PM
no its just because pennsylvania drivers are the worst drivers ever and the concentration of them sucking so much sucked the bridge into oblivion.
 
2007-12-07 10:04:18 PM
And the driver was heard shouting "My Fair Lady!"
 
2007-12-07 10:07:33 PM
Gravity is the tinfoil hat atheists wear to keep God out of their brainwaves.
 
2007-12-07 10:08:28 PM
And this is International news in the UK why, exactly?

/Jersey drivers suck worse than PA drivers.
 
2007-12-07 10:09:50 PM
I blame the fatties.
 
2007-12-07 10:10:15 PM
Any bridge that falls down, cause a heavy truck drove on it, needs to fall down and be replaced with something that will take Oprahs fat times weight.

/Where is that slimming camera?
 
2007-12-07 10:10:20 PM
Dwight_Yeast: And this is International news in the UK why, exactly?

/Jersey drivers suck worse than PA drivers.


No you gotta slide delawhere in there first. I'm not saying Jersey drivers are great. They squeeze in to places they shouldn't and they tailgate, but only because they're used to PA drivers driving slow in the left lanes.
 
2007-12-07 10:10:37 PM
wheres the OM NOM NOM bridge pics?
 
2007-12-07 10:12:16 PM
maybe if they start building them with the heavy side near the water it wouldn't be that bad when they collapse ?

z.about.com
 
2007-12-07 10:12:51 PM
img220.imageshack.us

You asked for it, you got it.
 
2007-12-07 10:14:53 PM
Stumbled across a picture of it.

here (new window)
 
2007-12-07 10:17:06 PM
Mebbe the bridge designers should have used THIS hardware for the CAD layout:

blksuede.tripod.com

\or, hey... mebbe they DID
\\ducks & cracks another 12oz
 
2007-12-07 10:19:41 PM
GreatNOD: Stumbled across a picture of it.

here (new window)


Not how I pictured 116-year-old bridges.
 
2007-12-07 10:19:57 PM
Wow. Of all the reasons for Dysart to be on Fark, "bridge collapse" never made my list.
 
2007-12-07 10:20:25 PM
And the driver was heard shouting "My Fair Lady!"

Clap. Golf.
 
2007-12-07 10:22:04 PM
The Grinch: You asked for it, you got it.

AHAHAHA!
 
2007-12-07 10:22:05 PM
Maybe it just collapsed on its own
 
2007-12-07 10:23:50 PM
El Chode: no its just because pennsylvania drivers are the worst drivers ever and the concentration of them sucking so much sucked the bridge into oblivion.

I'm a Pennsylvanian driving on a bridge in PA right now so I'm getting a kick....

funny, I though Jersey drivers were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked out there.

In the end, if we continue to allow bridges to collapse, the terrorists win.
 
2007-12-07 10:25:05 PM
I am a worn out Bridge and am enjoying your replies.
/got nuthin
 
2007-12-07 10:25:20 PM
One too many ham sandwiches for the truck driver.
 
2007-12-07 10:26:32 PM
Deranger: GreatNOD: Stumbled across a picture of it.

here (new window)

Not how I pictured 116-year-old bridges.


I have about 4 of them within a 2 mile radius of me. Popular round these parts for some reason.

Steel combined with PA winters and lots of salt use = not win.
 
2007-12-07 10:27:26 PM
GreatNOD: Stumbled across a picture of it.

Good find. There are some after pictures in the Johnstown paper. It seems to be in one piece. Can't really see where it failed.
 
2007-12-07 10:28:40 PM
MOPAULY: Deranger: GreatNOD: Stumbled across a picture of it.

here (new window)

Not how I pictured 116-year-old bridges.

I have about 4 of them within a 2 mile radius of me. Popular round these parts for some reason.

Steel combined with PA winters and lots of salt use = not win.


PA and Upstate NY have a lot of those kinda Bridges. So does WV. There must have been some factory that made them up that way back in the day.
 
2007-12-07 10:29:45 PM
MOPAULY
i191.photobucket.com
 
2007-12-07 10:32:26 PM
look, i'm in delaware. the local delawarians, their main fault is that the light turns green and they just sit there. it usually doesn't matter because the the minivan from pa is going slow as it is. but when there's a jersey driver tailgating me, i just pull over, let them pass, and use them as my shield. it works quite well.
 
2007-12-07 10:37:35 PM
stuntperformer.co.nz

I think it was some kind of stunt
 
2007-12-07 10:38:22 PM
Hey thats funny... we all think that Del. drivers are the slowest flapdoodles on pa roads....

maybe you just notice out of state license plates more...

/its always someone else
 
2007-12-07 10:39:28 PM
i love the nom nom pic.
 
2007-12-07 10:40:53 PM
El Chode: no its just because pennsylvania drivers are the worst drivers ever and the concentration of them sucking so much sucked the bridge into oblivion.

MOPAULYI'm a Pennsylvanian driving on a bridge in PA right now so I'm getting a kick....

Typing and driving. Yep, the defense rests.

/not the worst...Virginians are the WORST.
 
2007-12-07 10:43:51 PM
And they just cleaned it. Pity.
 
2007-12-07 10:45:45 PM
Wow. Of all the reasons for Dysart to be on Fark, "bridge collapse" never made my list.


I'm trying to think of other reasons why Dysart would make Fark.
 
2007-12-07 10:46:44 PM
T-Luv

Maybe it just collapsed on its own

We can't take that chance
 
2007-12-07 10:46:50 PM
MOPAULY: funny, I though Jersey drivers were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked out there.

El Chode: look, i'm in delaware. the local delawarians, their main fault is that the light turns green and they just sit there. it usually doesn't matter because the the minivan from pa is going slow as it is. but when there's a jersey driver tailgating me, i just pull over, let them pass, and use them as my shield. it works quite well.

How quaint. Bring all your beginner-failure drivers up here to Eastern Mass... our rotaries, cow-path roads and general MY ROAD insanity will Darwinize them right out of existance.
 
2007-12-07 10:48:24 PM
So a small, seldom used bridge with no one on it fell down. Well deserving of a news story.

"In other news, the corpse of a pigeon was found in the park today. It is unknown of the death was the result of fowl play"
 
2007-12-07 10:49:32 PM
Oldiron_79: PA and Upstate NY have a lot of those kinda Bridges. So does WV. There must have been some factory that made them up that way back in the day.


Uh, yeah, ever hear of Carnegie? The steel trust? They owned the entire industry. That construction style was universal for 50 years. Basic, modular truss and beam construction, goes together with only a few men and fits every need just about. Could be packaged and shipped by rail and horse cart. The golden Gate Bridge was almost built this way. The entire country has bridges just like this. Nobody who had any hand in the design or manufacture of these ever envisioned them being loaded with more than a few tons at the most.

Hell, the bridge lasted this long.
 
2007-12-07 10:54:46 PM
Total bridge existence failure?
 
2007-12-07 10:56:24 PM
Gravity is a bunch of atheist, left wing rhetoric.
 
2007-12-07 10:56:29 PM
Gravity is only a theory
therefore, God must have hated someone on that bridge
 
2007-12-07 11:04:10 PM
Ay, the amish know better than to go around blaming a fall like that due to some invisible force. The problem is that you've abandoned the horse and buggy, which na caused a bridge collapse.
 
2007-12-07 11:10:48 PM
edenza: Wow. Of all the reasons for Dysart to be on Fark, "bridge collapse" never made my list.

I've seen that bridge. Weird.

/been to Cresson
//been to Coupon
///even been to Tunnel Hill
 
2007-12-07 11:21:16 PM
img149.imageshack.us
 
2007-12-07 11:31:45 PM
There's a Calvin and Hobbes strip for this. Something about how load limits are set by driving heavy trucks until the bridge collapses, then weighing the last truck and rebuilding the bridge.
 
2007-12-07 11:34:20 PM
MOPAULY:
In the end, if we continue to allow bridges to collapse, the terrorists win.


Its not like we can throw ourselves under the collapsing bridges and save them. I hope we have some sorta backup plan for beatin those dadburned terrorists. A plan that doesnt include saving every decrepit old backwoods bridge over ever crick in the sticks.
 
2007-12-07 11:38:49 PM
Mad-n-FL: Total bridge existence failure?

If only that were true there would be a lot less demolition and cleanup and investigating needed before a replacement bridge could be erected.
 
2007-12-07 11:41:14 PM
So is it Pres. Bush's fault because...

A. he eliminated salt truck weight limit inspections at all bridges and sent truck inspectors to Iraq to inspect snow removal trucks at bridges there?

B. he sent US military to Iraq instead of letting them do their usual job of spreading salt on roads with salt shakers?

C. Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq
 
2007-12-07 11:42:13 PM
Remember that people say Evolution is only a theory, so it is not true? Well, Gravity is only a theory so it is not true. If the Theory of Gravity is not true, then this 40-tonne Monty Python weight that is about to be released over me will not completely flatten me! Take that, Atheists Darwinists!

AUGGH! SPLAT!!!

Crushed completely flat by the 40-tonne Monty Python weight
 
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