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Parking Garage Collapses at National Institutes of Health Campus in Bethesda, Md.
AP ^ | Nov 29, 2004

Posted on 11/29/2004 8:04:34 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

A six-story parking garage under construction at the National Institutes of Health collapsed Monday, pinning one person in the debris, authorities said. Authorities don't yet know what caused the top three floors of the structure to collapse around 9 a.m., said NIH spokesman John Burklow.

Besides the person pinned in the debris, several people had been trapped, but were being freed, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer said. The extent of their injuries was not immediately clear, he said.

The sprawling campus of the federal agency covers more than 300 acres on the outskirts of Washington.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bethesda; bloodbank; collapse; maryland; md; nih; parkinggarage
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To: rabidralph

Stop wasting govt time on a subversive
website!! We're encouraged to rat on you,
you conservative puke! bwahahahahahahahaha

BTW, have you slapped a libber-al today?

MV


21 posted on 11/29/2004 9:36:41 AM PST by madvlad ((Born in the south, raised around the globe and STILL republican))
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To: madvlad

LOL! I'm surrounded by libber-als and I slap them whenever possible. BTW have you gotten your free AIDS test yet?


22 posted on 11/29/2004 9:39:05 AM PST by rabidralph (That melon is for display purposes only.)
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To: ken5050; FrankWild
Bad concrete...or not cured sufficiently..

And in a city packed with law firms.

To Frank Wild: Earl Scheib.

Which brings to mind my favorite Earl Scheib joke:
"For $29.99 we'll paint your car. For $39.99, we'll tape over the windows and headlights first. And for $49.99, you won't get school bus yellow paint!"

23 posted on 11/29/2004 9:42:03 AM PST by xJones
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To: rabidralph

I'm HIV-free!

And no, I don't take anything free from this
place. 5-6 yrs ago OMS was insisting that
I take their free measles vaccine! I
refused on the grounds that I had been vacced
when I was a child. They persisted. I
refused. They persisted and threatened to send me
home wo/ pay. I produced my official DoD
vacc records. They limped away w/ their
tail btw/ their legs as no judge in the
land would have compelled me to take that vacc!
bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
To think I could have sued some BS libber-al
too!! Ahhhh, to dream.

There are closet consrvatives all over this
place. They just are well-hidden and quiet.

MV


24 posted on 11/29/2004 9:47:19 AM PST by madvlad ((Born in the south, raised around the globe and STILL republican))
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To: oldironsides

There also was a garage collapse under construction somewhere else around here a few years ago...I think it was at Western Maryland University or something, but I'm not sure.

A few others as well. Clearly something flawed about the way these things are getting built, and certainly something valid for OSHA or whatever to look at and solve.


25 posted on 11/29/2004 9:53:05 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
....using COUNTERFEIT foreign 'steel' bolts etc.?

:-(

26 posted on 11/29/2004 9:53:48 AM PST by maestro
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To: madvlad

I'm glad you stood your ground. Fortunately, no one has insisted I get any shots. I have not met any closet conservatives. I did FReep my break room by posting Linda Eddy's "Ah-nold holding the girlie men" picture, behind a snide Mencken quote, saying he was too honest to be a politician. Sour grapes from my filthy co-workers, sore about the election outcome.


27 posted on 11/29/2004 10:06:28 AM PST by rabidralph (George W. Bush, the other Body Hammer)
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To: FreedomCalls

Not so at the Federal level, although minority set-asides are often best-equipped to be the lowest bidder. I do happen to be quite familiar with gummint contracts, thank you.....


28 posted on 11/29/2004 10:46:19 AM PST by tracer (Forrest)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

WARNING: The Federal Government can be hazardous to your health.


29 posted on 11/29/2004 10:49:47 AM PST by Tall_Texan (Let's REALLY Split The Country! (http://righteverytime3.blogspot.com))
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To: tracer

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/books/fulltext/colorline/201.pdf


30 posted on 11/29/2004 10:57:35 AM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls

Thanks for the link to the publication. Also, please forgive my typo (comma) at the end of my last post. I did mean to say "thak you" and inadvertently changed the tone of my post to one of rudeness. Haste makes waste...


31 posted on 11/29/2004 11:43:51 AM PST by tracer (Forrest)
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To: rabidralph

No! There are conservatives throuhgout the
woodwork in the 6B corridor of bldg 10.

I have noticed though that it is ok for the
libber-als to gloat when their folks win but
if our folks win, we had better keep our
mouths shut for fear of offending someone.
There are lots of us here. You just have
to ferret us out.

MV


32 posted on 11/29/2004 11:45:01 AM PST by madvlad ((Born in the south, raised around the globe and STILL republican))
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To: Strategerist
The garage collapse to which you refer, I believe, occurred in 2001 at the Fishers Landing complex in Rockville, MD. The contractor in that case was identified as the James G. Davis Company.

The general contractor for the NIH's Hatfield Clinical Center is Centex Construction of Dallas, which hardly is a minority set-aside outfit.

However, it is not yet clear whether a subcontractor was involved in the construction of the collapsed garage.

No inside info here, just a little leg work through open sources...........

33 posted on 11/29/2004 11:51:48 AM PST by tracer (Forrest)
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To: madvlad

Six-Bravo, Bldg. 10. E-M-P on its way. Stand by! Waiting for clearance from three-five-five, South. Six-one-one-six, sends.


34 posted on 11/29/2004 11:52:47 AM PST by rabidralph (George W. Bush, the other Body Hammer)
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