UPS truck smashes into Hirshhorn Museum

WTOP.com ^ | May 11, 2010 | Staff report

[SvenMagnussen]

WASHINGTON - A UPS truck jumped a curb and broke through a concrete barrier, crashing into the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on the National Mall Monday night.

The truck loaded with packages sheered off an ornamental light pole and plowed through a row of flower pots. It went into the plate-glass window of the museum's lobby about 8:30 p.m. The window, which is punctured at its base, is a spider web of cracks.

[SvenMagnussen]

Brownshirt rampage.

[SvenMagnussen]

When the Brownshirts arrived ...

I thought somebody should do something to stop them. They did not stop.

[SvenMagnussen]

This is no accident. It's a wreck.

[SvenMagnussen]

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Time to start using Fedex! Non-union as well!

[decisis]

All those concrete barriers surrounding the building really did the job.

[Steely Tom]

What was the driver’s name?

[UnChained]

“What was the driver’s name?”

No name published yet from what I see. The driver reportedly had a seizure which caused the accident.

An Obama spokesman said that the driver was a “lone wolf”

[maine yankee]

I’d bet a quarter he was disgruntled with obamacare or mentally deranged.

[tenthirteen]

I’ll bet two quarters he lost his job.

[pas]

I didn’t know Toyota made UPS trucks.

[reagan_fanatic]

Must have been an express delivery.

[Pollster1]

Someone needs to do a followup series on UPS

Walead Beshty - Fedex large Kraft Box FEDEX 330503, Standard Overnight, Los Angeles-Washington, DC Trk #79747/60286, April 3-6, 2009 Standard Overnight Washington DC-London Trk #323852740456, September 24-October 2, 2009 (Thomas Dane)

Walead Beshty’s safety glass cubes are built to the dimensions of the boxes meaning the stresses and pressures of the work which moves them are directly applied to the cubes and create shattering patterns. Because of trading rights only Fedex can use containers of that exact size so the work represents a unit of space owned by a corporation. Every showing requires new shipping and movement and thus the shaping of form continues.

[silverleaf]

NEITHER SNOW NOR RAIN NOR HEAT NOR GLOOM OF NIGHT STAYS THESE COURIERS FROM THE SWIFT COMPLETION OF THEIR APPOINTED ROUNDS.

nor concrete security barriers, either...

[silverleaf]

What was the driver’s name?

NEWMAN!

[Ezekiel]

The truck loaded with packages sheered off an ornamental light pole and plowed through a row of flower pots.

UPSie daisy or ROPMA pole plow plot?

[hemogoblin]

They need to just rope off the site and call it another piece of modern art. ;-)

[Moose4]

RACE THE TRUCK, DALE!

}:-)4

[x]

Everybody’s a critic ...