Francis Scott Key bridge is no more - video

[AKDoug]

Events like this always bring out the conspiracy retards.

They are still retards, and if you buy into the nonsense before investigations and findings are out you’re probably a retard too. Why in the hell do people feel the need to go hunting for overly complicated explanations for events like this, when more strait forward and simple explanations are accurate 99.9999999999999% of the time?

Are people in this country now so friggin’ stupid that they can’t use reason to deduct what is and is not credible? I guess so.

The simple explanation here is that the transportation industry from trucking, railroads, airlines, to maritime maintains equipment to the bare minimum of functional. They will run equipment until it fails, or times out for mandatory inspections. Doing anything more than that costs money and eats into their precious operating ratios. They don’t give a shit about safety of their crews or the public even one inch beyond what they need to show to avoid legal liability.

You guys see a conspiracy, ...... I see a 984’ long 96,000 ton motor vessel with a mixed bag crew that don’t even speak one common language as a native tongue. The crew is also the bare minimum number of bodies required to operate the vessel. This ship is being run hard and maintained to the bare minimums of the flagging nation, the crew is trained to those bare minimums. Better maintenance and training costs money, money the owners are not going to spend. Even when issues are reported by the crew the owners probably tell them to suck a bag of dicks or find a different job. So eventually things break, sometimes they break at a really bad time.

Maybe this time around, when they rebuild the bridge, they'll spend the money on appropriate sized dolphins like the Sunshine Skyway did after it was smoked in 1980. Since 1990, 35 bridges have been destroyed from ship collisions. This one was just bigger.

[Coal Dragger]

Well it’s Baltimore, Maryland. A Democrat city full of tards, in a Democrat state full of tards.

They might not rebuild it at all, because cars use bridges, and that means fossil fuels will be burned rebuilding the bridge and once cars and trucks use it.

Maybe I can write to the Sierra Club or some other environmentalists turds and suggest they sue to stop the bridge being rebuilt. Tie it up in court for 5-6 years.

[AKDoug]

Well it’s Baltimore, Maryland. A Democrat city full of tards, in a Democrat state full of tards.

They might not rebuild it at all, because cars use bridges, and that means fossil fuels will be burned rebuilding the bridge and once cars and trucks use it.

Maybe I can write to the Sierra Club or some other environmentalists turds and suggest they sue to stop the bridge being rebuilt. Tie it up in court for 5-6 years.

A guy can dream right?

[Harpoon]

I bet the new bridge will not be named after Francis Scott Key.

[Coal Dragger]

Hell no.

It will be named the “Dylan Mulvaney NOPE-DON'T Woman of the Year Memorial Bridge”.

Or “George Floyd Memorial Bridge”.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I saw a report on the ‘immigration’ angle on the tragedy since the workers that were killed were all non-US born? Or at least that was the gist I got from skimming. Funny, no sexism angle in that they were all men.

I blame Tom Clancy. He set us up that behind everything there was some big story.

[Diamondback]

I saw a report on the ‘immigration’ angle on the tragedy since the workers that were killed were all non-US born? Or at least that was the gist I got from skimming. Funny, no sexism angle in that they were all men.

I blame Tom Clancy. He set us up that behind everything there was some big story.

"In politics, nothin ever happens by accident. If something happens, you can be damned sure someone planned it that way."--FDR

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

"In politics, nothin ever happens by accident. If something happens, you can be damned sure someone planned it that way."--FDR

People are too lazy and dumb. Far easier to just take what happens, spin it to your advantage, and then your media just repeat it ad nauseum.

[AKDoug]

Looks like they've opened up a shallow draft channel to tug pushed barges and smaller ships going under a span to the north of the wreck.

It also turns out that they have major metal and concrete recycling facilities right in the port that will be able to handle all of the wreckage and damage.