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Bridge collapses in Kentucky after being rammed by hulking freighter carrying space rocket parts
Daily Mail ^
Posted on 01/27/2012 12:02:50 PM PST by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Incredible images emerged of a hulking freighter wearing mangled pieces of a steel bridge on its bow after a collision in southwestern Kentucky Thursday night.
In the pictures, the 312-foot Delta Mariner idles, still partially in the bridge's path, and clearly looks much too large to fit beneath the aging Eggner Ferry Bridge, which crosses the Kentucky Lake Reservoir.
The cargo vessel was carrying space rocket parts for the United Launch Alliance, intended for a vehicle that was scheduled to be shot into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092796/Bridge-collapses-Kentucky-rammed-hulking-freighter-carrying-space-launch-equipment.html#ixzz1kgpuK4pc
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bridgecollapse; nasa
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Somebody just lost their job.
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:05:32 PM PST
by
SlargTarg
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Houston, we have a problem...
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:05:37 PM PST
by
stormer
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Look for the union label perhaps?!
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:05:37 PM PST
by
Trueblackman
(Posting on FR since 1998 and 100% teleprompter free post as well.)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:05:40 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(kill all the terrorists, protect all the borders, punch all the liberals :^)
To: SlargTarg
More than one, I think...
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:06:23 PM PST
by
stormer
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:06:27 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(When the night falls, it falls on me, and when the day breaks I'm in pieces.)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:06:27 PM PST
by
thesharkboy
(poet, know it.)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Looks like he didn’t go through the nav span...
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:07:13 PM PST
by
dinodino
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
I would think accounting for bridge clearances would be SOP.
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Was the Captain, by any chance, a just hired Italian, and is there a cute blonde in the story...
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:09:14 PM PST
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: dinodino
"Looks like he didn’t go through the nav span..." Or, maybe he decided they needed a new "nav span" and went to work on it in a spectacular fashion...
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:09:45 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Now that seems to me one “H” of a screwup.
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:10:02 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: SlargTarg
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:10:23 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Holy Crap
it doesn’t look like it would have fit under any of the spans
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:11:05 PM PST
by
Rightly Biased
(Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?)
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
He turned left too soon.
He thought it was the Mississippi I’l bet
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:11:05 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
To: skinkinthegrass
Thinking Don Adams...missed it by that much
Heard on the radio the bridge didn`t have lights
working to warn barge traffic tho I never saw a ship
that large on the river
Bout wiped out the bridge on the ship as well
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:11:20 PM PST
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: Rightly Biased
Google Maps will do that to you...
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
“That's gonna leave a mark...” [/TommyBoy]
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posted on
01/27/2012 12:12:03 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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