Posted on 11/24/2009 6:55:22 PM PST by navysealdad
The boat is the MV Cahaba owned by Warrior and Gulf Navigation of Mobile, AL. The pictures were taken by an amateur photgrapher named Barger. This happened in April, 1979 at Demopolis, AL on the Warrior River. Nobody was seriously injured and the boat continued to it's destination with the barges.
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This is obviously photo-shopped. What happened to the people that were standing on the bridge in the first few pictures? Why wouldn’t they stick around to see the boat go under the bridge (if it really happened)?
Read Snopes. It’s a true incident and the photos are real.
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