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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

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To: cripplecreek

Kind of like the new Bay Bridge in Oakland too.

It’ll fall down soon.


21 posted on 05/29/2014 8:25:12 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: cripplecreek
“Occasionally this happens, but that’s because we designed it this way,”

Or as we say in the IT world, "That's not a bug, that's a feature."

22 posted on 05/29/2014 8:26:56 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Joe 6-pack

Grand Fool’s Walk!


23 posted on 05/29/2014 8:29:57 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wiley Coyote says it's perfectly safe.

24 posted on 05/29/2014 8:49:53 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
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To: Olog-hai

What a laugh! Lame excuse. And these buildings are supposed to be earthquake-proof?


25 posted on 05/29/2014 8:50:15 PM PDT by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: bigbob

LOL. You have such an elegant way of turning that phrase.


26 posted on 05/29/2014 8:51:23 PM PDT by miele man
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To: Olog-hai
re: Chicago Skydeck on 103rd floor begins to crack under family

Holy Moly! Now that begs two questions.
1: How big is that family?

2: How big are that family?

27 posted on 05/29/2014 8:55:48 PM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: Joe 6-pack

The wife and I went to the Taipei 101 that was enough of those sort of things for us even without the glass floor. If the glass glass had cracked under us, the simultaneous stroke would have done us in.


28 posted on 05/29/2014 9:01:46 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Olog-hai

“they heard the glass flooring on its 103rd floor Skydeck begin to crack Wednesday night”

I’m kinda sure at least one of them saw his/her life flash before their eyes..


29 posted on 05/29/2014 9:07:10 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: max americana

Or as Bill Cosby put it, “First you say it, then you do it.”


30 posted on 05/29/2014 9:09:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

why would a protective coating be designed to crack? wouldn’t that end the protection?


31 posted on 05/29/2014 9:17:36 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: All

Sounds almost as dangerous as ground level in Chicago.


32 posted on 05/29/2014 9:29:05 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: cripplecreek
“Occasionally this happens, but that’s because we designed it this way,”

Reminds me of the "galloping" bridge that ran between Biloxi and Ocean Springs, MS pre-Katrina. Some engineers noted that the spans of concrete tended to sag in the middle after a time of heavy use. They decided to "play the sag" by humping the concrete spans so that when they sagged, they would end up flat. Decades later, the humps were still there and it could make a weak stomach seasick going over it, especially in the heat of Summer when the expansion would increase the humps. Katrina did us a favor when she took that bridge out.

33 posted on 05/30/2014 3:58:27 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Flick Lives

LOL - one of the classic lines in the history of TV!

“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly” - Arthur Carlson


34 posted on 05/30/2014 4:14:25 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: Olog-hai

talk about brown trousers time!


35 posted on 05/30/2014 4:17:36 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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