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For those following the oil spill story -- no apparent explanation for the two holes in the ship's hull.

Rain complicates oil slick investigation, cleanup

12/2/2004, 12:29 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Port officials will restrict the draft of ships moving up the Delaware River until they have more information about what ripped two holes in an oil tanker's hull last week.

The Athos One was floating at a draft of 36 and a-half feet -- just enough to clear the shallowest points of the Delaware's 40-foot channel -- when something punctured its bottom Friday night.

That sent thousands of gallons of oil gushing into the river. But despite extensive searches, investigators haven't found anything on the river bottom or floating nearby that might explain the damage.

Captain Michael Linton, president of the Pilots Association for the Bay and River Delaware, says he's confident that there's nothing dangerous in the channel. But he decided to restrict the river at low tide to ships with a draft of 34 feet or less until more information is available.

Plane engine 'drops' on car
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1630061,00.html

....more loose bolts?....

It does appear that there is someone, "fixing" those bolts, there is no way that all these falling parts of airplanes is normal.

Airplanes are not the only dangerous items with falling parts.

In Las Vegas, they built a fancy high speed train, I think it is in the downtown area.(I think it is elevated).

It opened and in a matter of days, was shut down, something had fallen off it and hit a car.

Shut it down, tightened the bolts and tried it again, same
thing, another part of it fell off.

I first heard of it on Labor Day weekend, that is a money making time in Las Vegas, and the train was down.

Last week, I heard the locals talking on KDWN Radio, they said that every time the train is tested, something falls off. It is still shut down, unless it has started in the last week.

On the KDWN traffic reports this morning, several streets were shut down, as it was a live stand off with the police, the 'young man', was in an apartment building and said he had a bomb.