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Woman plunges through UES sidewalk (New York City
NY Post ^ | 1/12/13 | RANK ROSARIO and DANIEL PRENDERGAST

Posted on 01/12/2013 7:58:59 AM PST by jimbo123

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To: Cowboy Bob

When the ground gives way beneath ones feet :-)


21 posted on 01/12/2013 8:44:34 AM PST by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: jimbo123

“The woman was enormous. She had to be more than 300 pounds,” said Daniel Crumity


Ok, I can see how this make for an interesting news story, but I doubt a weight of 300 or even 400 pounds had much to do with the sidewalk collapsing. Otherwise, it would have collapsed when any 2 or 3 full grown adults had walked on it at the same time.

She was probably just the straw that broke the camel’s back here.


22 posted on 01/12/2013 8:46:03 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: wideminded

Yup, that’s right. If it collapsed under her weight, it could have collapsed when 2 people walked on it, or 1 person with a loaded shopping cart, or 4 kids, take your pick. A person large enough to make in an unreasonable load would not be able to walk under their own power in the first place.


23 posted on 01/12/2013 8:49:42 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Cowboy Bob

“At what point does “heavyset” become “obese?”

I am thinking when the ground crumbles beneath you.. you are obese. If the ground just groans... you are heavyset and inching towards obese. Hope that clears that up. (LOL!)


24 posted on 01/12/2013 8:54:38 AM PST by momtothree
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To: jimbo123

Might it have anything to do with all that construction going on under 2nd Ave for the new subway line?


25 posted on 01/12/2013 9:06:59 AM PST by Dilbert56
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To: Boogieman

Perhaps, but a shopping cart or multiple people on that piece of concrete would distribute the weight (load) far more than a single fatty stepping on it. The PSI from the ball of her foot (a single footstep) would be huge.


26 posted on 01/12/2013 9:17:37 AM PST by rashley (Rashley)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Or at least to break their falls.


27 posted on 01/12/2013 9:20:09 AM PST by monocle
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To: monocle

The muumuu is the most appropriately name piece of clothing ever invented.


28 posted on 01/12/2013 9:26:05 AM PST by Signalman
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To: P.O.E.
I was always leery of those store sidewalk elevator panels - I’m not fat, but some of them look pretty rickety

It looks like this one was covered over with slate. Slate is awful brittle, and doesn't have a lot of tensile strength. New York City has incredibly tough building codes and incredibly corrupt inspectors.

29 posted on 01/12/2013 9:26:38 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
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To: P.O.E.
I was always leery of those store sidewalk elevator panels - I’m not fat, but some of them look pretty rickety

It looks like this one was covered over with slate. Slate is awful brittle, and doesn't have a lot of tensile strength. New York City has incredibly tough building codes and incredibly corrupt inspectors.

30 posted on 01/12/2013 9:26:38 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
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To: jimbo123
300 lbs caused it? What happens when a couple is walking together, or a 240 lb man is carrying his 60 lb child?

300 may be big for a woman, but the fat comments here are stupid and misplaced. If a sidewalk can't hold 300 lbs, what happens to hot dog carts, people in electric wheelchairs, Segways, etc?

31 posted on 01/12/2013 9:31:40 AM PST by Teacher317 ('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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To: rashley

Yes, good point, the pressure would be greater. Still, I think that should fall within the acceptable safety tolerances of public sidewalks, unless she was really far over 300 lbs.


32 posted on 01/12/2013 9:41:36 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It was mean to make the woman’s weight a part of the story. It would have collapsed sooner or later because it was poor construction.

This is more herd group-think bully activism. Moochelle pinned the tail on the fat donkey and now all the amoral and stupid goats must bite it.


33 posted on 01/12/2013 9:48:41 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Teacher317

300lbs plus supported by 2,lets say spiked heels displaces much more pressure then say a 240lb adult and a 40lb child hand in hand or even a hot dog cart that may have a “foot” print of 4 feet by 8 feet. Granted there are some structual faults at work here, but come on...this is a funny story.I use to be “fat”.I took the time to watch what I ate and worked out alittle. I’m sure the next step will be to classify being overweight as a disease, Teacher?


34 posted on 01/12/2013 9:50:07 AM PST by midway1 (Inside every liberal is an American trying to get out)
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To: jimbo123

We have to ban sidewalks.


35 posted on 01/12/2013 9:59:02 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Cowboy Bob
At what point does “heavyset” become “obese?”

And at what point does "obese" become "enormous"?

36 posted on 01/12/2013 10:01:53 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Teacher317

The load on a beam (this piece of material was acting like a beam) has a lot to do with how far the load is from the support. Two people will spread the load over a longer extent, meaning the “bending moment” will be smaller. When a bridge fails, it does so when a 40 ton semi rolls over it, not when a Prius does. Heavy loads uncover weak points.


37 posted on 01/12/2013 10:02:27 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
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To: Fresh Wind

I saw that, too. “Heayset”?? Over 300 lb? That is pure LOL. Is NY Post avoiding lawsuits by instructing reporters to not use plain old “FAT”?


38 posted on 01/12/2013 10:08:07 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Dilbert56

Nope..she was “sexting” while waiting there, and well, “the earth moved..”


39 posted on 01/12/2013 10:14:45 AM PST by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: Dilbert56

Bingo. Every time I go to that part of the East Side I am amazed that the subway is still under construction. I think it’s been going on for forty years—the greatest boondoggle of all time.

Of course, there was a big time gap between that last subway before this one and this one. I guess all the tribal memory of how to do a subway tunnel has been lost.

She is lucky she did not end up paralyzed in some way. That is what can happen when you fall through what you’re standing on into a hole. Why I never walk on grates or cellar doors. People wonder why I am not moving over and then they realize.

That sidewalk looked funny to me. A big piece of slate or something rather than concrete? I probably wouldn’t have realized it was hollow underneath either.


40 posted on 01/12/2013 10:16:54 AM PST by firebrand
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