What I want to know if why the video didn’t include the beginning of the event. That camera would likely have been on the whole time. Why on earth wouldn’t we get to see it start earlier? Even if it doesn’t show the actual section where it started, it seems odd that the released video begins after the event does. What are not supposed to see?
Also, if you notice at the very end of the collapse, there is a section across the river that was still standing after the rest went down. Then it collapsed as well, beginning with the part closer to the other shore. I’m not an engineer, but that seemed odd to me as well. Then you have several different witnesses describing a large “boom” just before it went down. Lastly, this happened in Minneapolis, home of the flying imans.
I guess I should put on my tin foil hat because this all seems kind of suspicious to me.
Thats because it fell from it's own weight, once the adjacent supporting elements fell.
This bridge was a single unit, with each span supporting the ones on either end.
It was basically a balancing act.
Change the weight distribution, and down it goes.
I believe this footage was from a security camera and not the MNDOT camera. Is what they keep saying on the local news anyway.
Judging from the apparent angle and height of the camera, it looks like an ATM security camera - the Liveleak hosted video DOES start a split second before the collapse.
If it is an ATM camera, perhaps someone was getting cash from the machine right before the bridge collapsed and they don’t want to put the person’s face in the video?
Any one of you locals able to tell us if there’s a bank or ATM at the indicated location?