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Chicago Skydeck on 103rd floor begins to crack under family
Fox News ^
| May 29, 2014
Posted on 05/29/2014 7:24:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A California family visiting the Willis Tower in Chicago said they heard the glass flooring on its 103rd floor Skydeck begin to crack Wednesday night while they were taking in views of the city.
A spokesman from the building said the sound came from the coating on the glass and the family was never in danger, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Occasionally this happens, but thats because we designed it this way, he told the paper. Whatever happened last night is a result of the protective coating doing what its designed to.
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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: chicago; il; skydeck; willistower
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:24:38 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Occasionally this happens, but thats because we designed it this way,
LOL Kinda like Obamacare.
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:25:55 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: Olog-hai
Technicians plan to more fully inspect the structure as soon as building maintenance cleans up the 3” deep layer of human fecal matter.
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:26:55 PM PDT
by
Dick Bachert
(Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
To: Olog-hai
Toronto has it where one can be directly over the Bluejays diamond baseball field. That is something, you are hundreds or thousands of feet above it.
To: Dick Bachert
Did the Chris Christie family visit at this time?
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:29:23 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(Just doing laps around the sun and shaking my head that progressives can believe what they do!)
To: Dick Bachert
Yep. I would have contributed.
I very nearly got killed in a 5' fall, and spent 2 weeks in ICU. I'm not big on heights anymore.
/johnny
To: Olog-hai
And they immediately hit the nearest Target for new underwear.
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:31:25 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
To: Olog-hai
Ri-i-i-i-ight. Take a look at the photos and you’ll see the familiar cracking pattern of safety glass just before it blows out. These folks were lucky, lucky, lucky.
To: Olog-hai
Designed to crack, oh that sounds likely.
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:32:19 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: Olog-hai
If it would’ve happened to me, they would have had to send a cleaning crew.
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:32:34 PM PDT
by
353FMG
To: Olog-hai
Wonder if it's from the same glass company that did the Grand Canyon skywalk...
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:35:46 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: MtnClimber
No but Huckabee’s family did.
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:39:47 PM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: Olog-hai
Why would the glass be designed to crack? Doesn’t it make sense to think that the cracking so high up will scare people witless????? Because visitors to the building won’t think it’s supposed to crack under their feet.
To: Olog-hai
It’s double or triple pane. The only one that cracked was the top pane. Probably by design, over a period of time.
Of course, in collapsing buidings there’s something known as “pancaking”...
...but nah, that can’t happen with panes of glass...
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:46:44 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Talisker
Wonder who the vendor is that has that contract.
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:57:41 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
To: WorkingClassFilth
“For the love of God, I thought tourists could fly!”
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:10:12 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: Flick Lives
Let’s find out, said the owl...
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:10:59 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Olog-hai
The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet above the ground and jut out 4 feet from the building. They're actually more like boxes than balconies, with transparent walls, floor and ceiling. I have absolutely no desire to stand on a tiny piece of glass 1353 feet above splat level.
Is that wrong?
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:18:31 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
To: cripplecreek
It gets worse if we find out it’s made in China.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:24:55 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: Olog-hai
I would have soiled my raiment to be sure
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:25:08 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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