Deck collapses at W.VA. College Party (Byrd neglected WVA building trades, hurts students!!)

ap ^ | 5/10/03 | ap

[Elkiejg]

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - A second-floor deck collapsed at a house where Marshall University students were celebrating the end of the school year Friday night, injuring more than a dozen people, authorities said.

As many as 15 people were standing on the 10-by-15-foot deck that fell at 10:15 p.m., said Amanda Baisden, who lived at the home.

"I was in the parking lot talking to a friend and I heard a big crack. I looked up and saw my best friend's arm flailing, and everything fell," Baisden said.

Thirteen people were taken to two area hospitals, nursing supervisors said. None of the injuries appeared to be serious, they said.

Others were reportedly treated at the scene. As many as six emergency squads responded to the accident.

Friday was the final day of classes at Marshall.

[Elkiejg]

Thankfully none were seriously injured. But the devil made me tie this to KKK Byrd and his many pork items to WVA - guess he missed the constructions unions!!

[hole_n_one]

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[EggsAckley]

What d'ya wanna bet the deck was the "smoking zone?"

[GrandMoM]

As many as 15 people were standing on the 10-by-15-foot deck ....I wouldn't walk on to a deck that looked like that if JC himself were out there!!!!!

[pttttt]

Ouch. Marshall looks like a fine old school with an interesting history going back to 1837 when it was still in Virginia; see http://www.marshall.edu/www/aboutmu.asp.

But stay off the decks!

Also, didn't they have a mass tragedy several decades ago when their football team was killed in a plane crash?

[koba37]

Marshall is a great school. You are correct - the "Thundering Herd" football team was lost while on approach to the airport in Huntington in 1970. Seventy-five people perished.

When I went to Marshall (early 80s) it was pretty conservative politically. The CNDers (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) and the pro-gay student group (forget what they were called) were so few that they "unified" to hold a demonstration - more students showed up to "heckle" than showed up to demonstrate.

I'd be willing to bet $$$ that the earlier post about it being the "smoking area" is correct and probably contributed to the accident..

[cynicom]

Free decks for all WVA residents from Uncle Sap. A crash program is needed.

[MississippiMan]

Also, didn't they have a mass tragedy several decades ago when their football team was killed in a plane crash?

I was thinking about that crash, too. The Rebels played the Herd several years ago in the Motor City Bowl, and in talking to the Marshall fans online, there was a lot of discussion about that horrible tragedy. I'm pretty sure that game was Moss's last college game. Twas a long drive from Mississippi to Pontiac and back.

MM

[green team 1999]

what senator Byrd knew about it and when?

[NWO Slave]

Robert Byrd has soaked the working people of America to rebuild evrything else in West Virginia, I'm surprised that he hasn't provided the money to build a top of the line deck on this house.

If you will take the time to peruse the Citizens Against Government Waste $22.5 Billion in Pork Report for 2003 , you will find the following entries for the old Kluxer, Robert Byrd.

$7,115,000 for projects in the state of then-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)

$75,872,000 for projects in the state of then-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)

$13,589,000 added by the Senate for projects in the state of then-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)

$34,900,000 added in conference for projects in the state of then-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)

$20,915,000 added by the Senate for projects in the state of then-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)

$51,950,000 added by the Senate for projects in the state of then-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)

$39,913,000 for projects in the state of then-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)

The total in pork extracted from the paychecks of working class Americans, by this old geezer amounts to $244,244,000. (just during the current session of Congress)

[Elkiejg]

In 2001, Senator Robert C. Byrd managed to claw $232 million in pork for West Virginia, or $128 for every single resident, using his privileged position as ranking chairman of the Appropriations Committee. After he secured $97 million in fiscal 1999, Byrd became the first person in CAGW's Congressional Pig Book history to obtain more than $1 billion in pork for his state. In honor of this fiscal incontinence, we dedicate this page to Senator Byrd.

Projects Named For Senator Byrd

Sen. Byrd has set a new standard for taxpayer-funded narcissism by convincing the West Virginia Legislature to erect a statue of himself in the state Capitol. The statue's completion violates state law prohibiting statues of government officials until they have been dead for half a century.

Byrd's statue is currently housed in the Capitol Rotunda, and it is said if you stand under the statue the senator's hand points directly at your pockets.

Sen. Byrd sometimes claims that he is in favor of fiscal restraint. However, the senator currently has over 20 public works named after him - seriously undermining his pleas for budget responsibility.

The projects include a Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam (pictured above), Byrd Aerospace Tech. Center, Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope , Byrd Industrial Park, and various other projects proving how he really sees government coffers.

Other Byrd Projects

Robert C. Byrd Drive, from Beckley to Sophia (Byrd's hometown)
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia
Robert C. Byrd Cancer Research Center
Robert C. Byrd Technology Center at Alderson-Broaddus College
Robert C. Byrd Hardwood Technologies Center, near Princeton
Robert C. Byrd Bridge between Huntington and Chesapeake, Ohio
Robert C. Byrd addition to the lodge at Oglebay Park, Wheeling
Robert C. Byrd Community Center, Pine Grove
Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarships
Robert C. Byrd Expressway, U.S. 52 near Weirton
Robert C. Byrd Institute in Charleston
Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing
Robert C. Byrd Visitor Center at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park
Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse
Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center
Robert C. Byrd United Technical Center
Robert C. Byrd Federal Building
Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex
Robert C. Byrd Library and Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center
Robert C. Byrd Rural Health Center
Robert C. Byrd Clinical Addition to the veteran's hospital in Huntington
Robert C. Byrd Industrial Park, Hardy County
Robert C. Byrd Scholastic Recognition Award
Robert C. Byrd Community Center in the naval station, Sugar Grove

Given CAGW's long history of chronicling and criticizing Byrd's prolific spending, CAGW was not surprised when he contemptuously referred to the group as "a bunch of peckerwoods" on National Public Radio in the summer of 2001. Remember, this is the same man who said "you might as well slap my wife as take away my highway money." That must be especially true regarding the Robert C. Byrd Highway.

In an interview with George magazine about loan guarantees for steel companies, Sen. Byrd claimed that "he has no apologies to make" to the American people for the more than $1 billion in taxpayer money he has wasted.

[Ligeia]

Cagle

[jigsaw]

Wouldn't it be sweet justice after Byrd's death if his KKK affilitiation was the reason his name was removed from all his projects?

Just like removing the names of Thomas Jefferson, etc. because they once owned slaves.

[upchuck]

Hmmm... The Robert C. Byrd Memorial Student Deck?

[snopercod]

The building codes on decks were changed a number of years ago after that one in Atlanta collapsed. But his one looks like it predated the changes.

But then what most Americans know about quality construction would probably barely fill a thimble...

[mountaineer]

Did that list include another of his crowning achievements, the Robert C. Byrd Intermodal Transportation Center in Wheeling, W.Va.? (Psst! It's a parking garage - don't let the fancy name fool you).

As for the deck, I don't think Byrd or the building trades have anything to do with it. Probably just another case of college students renting a rundown, poorly remodeled house.

[DD938]

And they still run around in bare feet.