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BREAKING NEWS: Tanker Explosion Causes Freeway Collapse
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Posted on 04/29/2007 6:40:56 AM PDT by WSGilcrest
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To: muawiyah
Oh, right....they ususally blow themselves up TOTALLY!~
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posted on
04/29/2007 1:55:52 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
(Hillary '08...Her Phoniness is Genuine!!!)
To: L,TOWM
Here’s a peculiarity about that interchange.
(The following is according to Google Earth.)
If you’re in Oakland westbound on 580, there’s no way to get southbound on 880.
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posted on
04/29/2007 1:57:36 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(This tagline on paid leave, pending investigation of its treatment of females and other minorities.)
To: Erasmus
Meaning, obviously, staying on the Interstate and not having to get off onto city streets.
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posted on
04/29/2007 1:58:50 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(This tagline on paid leave, pending investigation of its treatment of females and other minorities.)
To: Lockbar
“Looks like BART better add a few more trains to their schedule.”
They have already started to ... amazing!
To: ThePythonicCow
Why stop?
The running food fight is the most entertaining part of the thread.
To: racing fan
Better yet they tore down the Embarcadero freeway a few years back.
To: csvset
It’s going to be a nightmare for commuters.
207
posted on
04/29/2007 2:54:31 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
("... first time in history the U.S. House has attempted to surrender via C-SPAN TV ...")
To: RGSpincich
That looks an awful lot like a CONTROLLED DEMOLITION to me. I’m gonna rig up a rabbit cage and a slab of concrete in my back yard to prove it.
To: Bushbacker1
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posted on
04/29/2007 3:06:01 PM PDT
by
bad company
(I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous)
To: raybbr
By the way, not everyone knows where the "Bay Bridge" is even if you know they are talking about CA. Assuming they do smacks of arrogance.It's a story from a local TV station. Not everyone writes for a national audience. Most local broadcasters and newspapers don't give a state for local towns and landmarks.
To: ThePythonicCow
To: Old_Mil
Yet another coincidence. Of all the thousands of miles of highway that a tanker could explode on, it does so at a busy interchange.
When there's no one else there resulting in zero fatalities and the only injury being the driver, so yeah... sounds like it really is a coincidence, at least this time.
And if you want to play odds, a busy patch of road is by definition the most likely place for an accident...
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posted on
04/29/2007 3:24:27 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: Lil'freeper
Oakland, CA Tanker truck explosion caused part of the upperdeck of the maze approaching the Bay Bridge to collapse....That's called a dateline. A dateline reflects where the reporter is, not where the story is -- and if the story isn't based on on-the-scene news gathering, many news outlets don't use datelines at all. Almost no local news outlets use the state in datelines in the local area.
If this story was written by someone in a newsroom in San Francisco, based on phone interviews, wire reports, listening to the police scanner and so on, an Oakland dateline would, in effect, be a lie.
To: RGSpincich
There must be some mistake. Rosie says that fire doesnt melt steel. Too late. Halliburton has already been to all the local new outlets and removed the video of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condolezza Rice personally setting the "cutter charges".
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posted on
04/29/2007 3:32:40 PM PDT
by
Stultis
(I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
To: Erasmus
From the
Associated Press:
|
Paul Sakuma |
Aerial view of freeway interchange that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed onto another highway ramp, bottom, in Oakland, Calif., Sunday, April 29, 2007, after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire, authorities said. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) |
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posted on
04/29/2007 3:49:07 PM PDT
by
RonDog
To: HAL9000; Right Wing Assault; Lijahsbubbe; Jeremiah Jr
That explosion caused so much damage, it looks like deliberate sabotage. Perhaps RWA summed it up best [at post 104]:
Maybe the cab driver was a friend who was waiting nearby.
Either that or a critical juncture on a major thoroughfare fell victim to a 4 AM manifestation of Murphy's Law while the lucky truck driver hailed a convenient cab.
To: Syncro; Lazamataz
I think there is a poster on this forum that used to have in his tagling: posting replies since 1999 with out reading the article first or something like that. LOL, at least you could have the courtesy to ping the perp. ;-)
To: Thinkin' Gal
Oh
that's who it was..*cough*
I don't ping Laz, he's scary...
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posted on
04/29/2007 5:36:32 PM PDT
by
Syncro
To: Diver Dave
My non political wife said that Gas Prices would shoot up when this happened.
It will be interesting to see if this happens. She was thinking about increased insurance costs across the board for gas tankers and the oil companies.
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posted on
04/29/2007 5:59:47 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(GW has more Honor and Integrity in his little finger than ALL of the losers on the "hate Bush" band)
To: Leisler
The enemy is here already way before the Presidents Mexican truck agreement. Militant Islam does not need Mexico to get to us.
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posted on
04/29/2007 6:03:57 PM PDT
by
angcat
("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM")
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