[Right Wing Assault]

Also the Chesapeake Bay with it's own Bay Bridge.

So do your local papers always call it the Bay Bridge over Chesepeake Bay in Maryland? Of course not. It is a LOCAL story. This one quickly went national due to the internet and FR. Had it been written for a national audience, more details would have been given.

Why are people so fussed up about info that is given in the first 35 words of the story? Do we need to tell people to read the story, not just the first sentence?

[Lil'freeper]

So do your local papers always call it the Bay Bridge over Chesepeake Bay in Maryland? Of course not. It is a LOCAL story

Obviously. How about keep it reeeeeeal simple: Just add the town and state at the beginning of the first sentence. No big deal and it provides instant information to readers of this international forum who might not be familiar with the LOCALe. If I post a story about graffitti on Main St. it is only polite to state which city and state even it if is mentioned further down in the article.

For example:

Oakland, CA Tanker truck explosion caused part of the upperdeck of the maze approaching the Bay Bridge to collapse....

[Syncro]

I think there is a poster on this forum that used to have in his tagling: “posting replies since 1999 with out reading the article first” or something like that.

It’s apparently contagious.