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Bridge collapses in Kentucky after being rammed by hulking freighter carrying space rocket parts
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 01/27/2012 12:02:50 PM PST by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Incredible images emerged of a hulking freighter wearing mangled pieces of a steel bridge on its bow after a collision in southwestern Kentucky Thursday night.

In the pictures, the 312-foot Delta Mariner idles, still partially in the bridge's path, and clearly looks much too large to fit beneath the aging Eggner Ferry Bridge, which crosses the Kentucky Lake Reservoir.

The cargo vessel was carrying space rocket parts for the United Launch Alliance, intended for a vehicle that was scheduled to be shot into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092796/Bridge-collapses-Kentucky-rammed-hulking-freighter-carrying-space-launch-equipment.html#ixzz1kgpuK4pc

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bridgecollapse; nasa
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1 posted on 01/27/2012 12:02:57 PM PST by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Somebody just lost their job.


2 posted on 01/27/2012 12:05:32 PM PST by SlargTarg
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Houston, we have a problem...


3 posted on 01/27/2012 12:05:37 PM PST by stormer
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Look for the union label perhaps?!


4 posted on 01/27/2012 12:05:37 PM PST by Trueblackman (Posting on FR since 1998 and 100% teleprompter free post as well.)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

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5 posted on 01/27/2012 12:05:40 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (kill all the terrorists, protect all the borders, punch all the liberals :^)
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To: SlargTarg

More than one, I think...


6 posted on 01/27/2012 12:06:23 PM PST by stormer
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Gingrich’s fault!!


7 posted on 01/27/2012 12:06:27 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (When the night falls, it falls on me, and when the day breaks I'm in pieces.)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

That’ll buff right out.


8 posted on 01/27/2012 12:06:27 PM PST by thesharkboy (poet, know it.)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Looks like he didn’t go through the nav span...


9 posted on 01/27/2012 12:07:13 PM PST by dinodino
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

I would think accounting for bridge clearances would be SOP.


10 posted on 01/27/2012 12:07:21 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Was the Captain, by any chance, a just hired Italian, and is there a cute blonde in the story...


11 posted on 01/27/2012 12:07:39 PM PST by Quick Shot
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Oops!


12 posted on 01/27/2012 12:09:14 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: dinodino
"Looks like he didn’t go through the nav span..."

Or, maybe he decided they needed a new "nav span" and went to work on it in a spectacular fashion...

13 posted on 01/27/2012 12:09:45 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Now that seems to me one “H” of a screwup.


14 posted on 01/27/2012 12:10:02 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: SlargTarg
Somebody just lost their job.

That may depend on other factors.
15 posted on 01/27/2012 12:10:23 PM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Holy Crap

it doesn’t look like it would have fit under any of the spans


16 posted on 01/27/2012 12:11:05 PM PST by Rightly Biased (Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?)
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He turned left too soon.

He thought it was the Mississippi I’l bet


17 posted on 01/27/2012 12:11:05 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Thinking Don Adams...missed it by that much

Heard on the radio the bridge didn`t have lights

working to warn barge traffic tho I never saw a ship

that large on the river

Bout wiped out the bridge on the ship as well


18 posted on 01/27/2012 12:11:20 PM PST by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: Rightly Biased

Google Maps will do that to you...


19 posted on 01/27/2012 12:11:43 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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“That's gonna leave a mark...” [/TommyBoy]
20 posted on 01/27/2012 12:12:03 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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