Posted on 04/29/2007 9:27:55 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Sorry. I meant “no OTHER casualties,” because the driver’s injuries sound quite severe. And as to the insurance issue, as a fuel hauler, the trucking company could indeed have catastrophic event insurance with very high limits, possibly underwritten by the oil industry (although that’s just speculation).
“The gas station that was his destination was probably on Hegenberger road.”
Why do you say that? H’burger is 20 minutes away.
Be sure to tell the 9/11 conspiracy wackos.
Of course, I guess George W. Bush COULD have sent that tanker there, and COULD have had the bridge already set with explosive to collapse it at just the right time.
” insurance”
This could get interesting.
Arnold? paging Arnold and Garamendi - please pick up the white phone ...
oh - he got it ... http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/6057/
yup, just little George wanting to kill more people/sarc.
All BS aside - went to the site this afternoon - Caltrans was working and Oakland and E’ville’s Finest had the area cordoned off .. looks like it’s going to be a max 24 hr effort.
And as soon as the Warriors do away with the Mavs, Mark Cuban will have plenty of time to make a movie claiming that Bush did it.
Actually, in the movie “Terminator”, the cyborg that was played by the guy that is now Govenor walked out of a flaming gas truck explosion.
Coincidence, I think not.
Just an educated guess.
The driver, James Mosqueda, 51, of Woodland, was headed from a refinery in Benicia to a gas station near the Oakland Airport when the accident occurred, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Well if you can't wait for a H'burger try a H'Dog. With R'lsh!
Cheers!
Prayers for the driver...and all the soon-to-be-enmeshed commuters.
Hey! Hold on here! This can't be so! It's impossible for that to happen. I know because the conspiracy theorists said that it was impossible for the steel structure of the World Trade Center to collapse simply because of the fire from the plane. Naaa, they're not foolin me!
I read that the Oakland FD arrived on the scene and put water on the fire but decided to let it burn out rather than apply foam to put the fire out. The story said that they decided not to apply foam because the foam chemical residue might pollute the Bay. Using foam might have stopped the collapse of the structure and forestalled the nightmare commute that we will suffer for months. I'm sure we will be hearing a lot more in the future about the decision to let it burn out without using foam.
After watching Barron Davis make the Mavs look like they were playing with lead shoes on, I think your right. Mark Cuban will probablly say that Bush and Rove engineered his teams loss to discredit his film.
I agree there is going to be many many heated discussions about that decision, and it should fuel the efforts of Caltrans to make some sort of temporary repairs in the most urgent manner.
At least they will have the experiance from the big quake to repair this quicker than most people think.
Can they do that?
I mean, I saw the picture of the hurricane/election manipulator, so I know that’s real, but the sign didn’t have an NBA logo on it anywhere.
Was it a software upgrade?
;)
Where I work its my job to hire drivers with a CDL, I almost forgot I have to report any to the FBI that cannot or refuse to back up a truck capable of hauling a load that could most definately be used as a bomb, concrete mixers.
In another post there was an article about a person who wanted a Hazardous Material endorsement on his CDL training course, he was only interested in driving foward fast and not to learn how to reverse. Just like the 9/11 terrorists.
Don’t expect you’ll be calling the “I’d hit it” ping list to THAT picture. :-)
Thermite reaction! Thermite reaction!
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