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Posted on 08/22/2007 3:32:54 PM PDT by EveningStar
Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed interstate bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: pigeons.
Inspectors began documenting the buildup of pigeon dung on the span near downtown Minneapolis two decades ago. Experts say the corrosive guano deposited all over the Interstate 35W span's framework helped the steel beams rust faster...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Sky Rats are to blame, who’d a thunk it?
What’s brown and sounds like a bell?
Citizens for the Protection of Pigeons Unite!
Ban all bridges.
What a bunch of horse hockey!
Sounds like a job for myth busters.
.....Bob
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