To: jeffers
While its true that anyone can rent a torch, cutting steel isnt a low profile operation, and you dont just whisk through three quarter or inch thick plates like a knife through butter either. How about if somebody used thermite? (nice video here )
To: PapaBear3625
or powdered magnesium in a paste.
Wouldn't take long to fry a web or flange.
Sabotage or terrorism is way down the list of possible causes, given the real-time conditions.
There was enough going on on that bridge to create a cumlative effect.
Too much stuff in one spot, on a bridge that already had a less than 50% safety rating.
2,487 posted on
08/03/2007 7:29:10 AM PDT by
concretebob
(I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
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