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They danced and jumped to celebrate homecoming weekend. Then the floor gave way.
CNN ^
| 10-21-18
| Keith Allen and Eric Levenson
Posted on 10/21/2018 9:59:43 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
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To: BenLurkin
Or someone starts a fight or begins shooting.
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posted on
10/21/2018 1:11:42 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Always A Marine
...the soldiers, who were marching four abreast, felt it begin to vibrate in time with their footsteps. Finding the vibration a pleasant sensation some of them started to whistle a marching tune, and to “humour it by the manner in which they stepped”, causing the bridge to vibrate even more.[8] The head of the column had almost reached the Pendleton side when they heard “a sound resembling an irregular discharge of firearms”.[8] Immediately, one of the iron columns supporting the suspension chains on the Broughton side of the river fell towards the bridge, carrying with it a large stone from the pier to which it had been bolted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge
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posted on
10/21/2018 1:13:04 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(So what!)
To: Windflier
It’s like those Electronic-Ecstasy parties in the early 00s. Give me a ‘sock hop’ or 60s music, instead.
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posted on
10/21/2018 1:14:59 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Steely Tom
I remember reading about that disaster.
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posted on
10/21/2018 1:15:52 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: carriage_hill
“ Jeremy Tester felt something strange beneath his feet”
Years ago i went to an Ikea store for a labor day sale, so naturally the place was packed with people. I went up to the second floor and people were just walking around. But i could feel the floor kind of bending or flexing under the weight of all that people. Made me extremely nervous and i was glad to get back to the ground floor and out of the store. As far as i know, the floor never collapsed to this day.
To: riverrunner
Old, and full of termites.
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posted on
10/21/2018 1:36:47 PM PDT
by
miserare
( Indict Hillary!)
To: carriage_hill
The phrases ‘gravy train’ and ‘hogs at the trough’ come swiftly to mind.
To: carriage_hill
Amish.
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posted on
10/21/2018 2:03:02 PM PDT
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: NobleFree
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posted on
10/21/2018 3:53:31 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: lowbridge
I’ve been in buildings like that, too, and didn’t stay long once I felt the floor flexing.
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posted on
10/21/2018 3:55:58 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: carriage_hill; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; ...
Clemson heavyweights :)
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posted on
10/21/2018 4:01:36 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Definition of a Republican registered to vote but doesn't on Nov 6: A DEMOCRAT!)
To: carriage_hill
Niece’s boy, first year out of Rutgers and making 80K/year for a major accounting firm in DC, went back to their homecoming over the weekend - stayed in his old fraternity - it was “awful” he says - “kids running in and out banging doors, yelling, music blaring all night long - the sort of thing I was doing there just last year” - guess he’s growing up.....
To: ROCKLOBSTER
If they were playing chess, studying, or plotting to resist their Marxist indoctrination....this wouldn’t have happened.
Chess can make your head explode. Marxist indoctrinators could have killed 1000s instead of injuring 30.
Too bad there was not a civil engineering student upstairs to warn the partiers of the dangers of harmonic oscillations and to say, "do you know what is about to happen?"
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posted on
10/21/2018 4:15:12 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
To: carriage_hill
Yes, that's the scene from "It's A Wonderful Life". (However, their floor "gave way" due to foul play, not weighty people!)
To: dfwgator
Reminds me of what happened at that Israeli wedding reception when the floor gave way, I think that was back in the 1990s, it was one of the most horrible things I’d ever seen.
Hyatt Regeny walkway collapse
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posted on
10/21/2018 4:20:32 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
To: Songcraft
The *surprised looks* on both faces is priceless.
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posted on
10/21/2018 5:24:42 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Intolerant in NJ
Sounds like he’s got a good Conservative brain now, instead of just a liberal heart. The “real world” will do that for you, and make you grow-up quickly.
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posted on
10/21/2018 5:28:29 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Fightin Whitey
Two phrases I never thought of in relation to the article. How’d you come to them? Just curious...
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posted on
10/21/2018 5:31:51 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: moovova
Pee-lousy’s working on ‘proving’ Kavanaugh was there, and caused it Heh..
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posted on
10/21/2018 5:36:22 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Jim 0216
I think it’ll be a LOT WORSE THAN JUST A FLOOR CAVING IN.
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posted on
10/21/2018 5:41:04 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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