Broken: Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapsed

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  1. Tuckerfan

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    It's a Singaporean ship, if I were the captain, I'd just make sure I was at the bottom of the river.
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  2. Bailey

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    Awful. At least it didn't happen during the day when traffic was really busy.
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  3. Tererune

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    Holy fuck, Glad it happened late at night because that would have been super crowded and much worse just a few hours later or earlier.



    That is a 4 lane highway. For those who are not aware 695 would be one of the offshoots of I-95 around baltimore. I-95 is the main highway artery of the east coast, and this is one of the massive highways that splits off of it in one of the largest cities on the east coast. If you watch the video that is a lot of important bridge that just went down. This is going to take years to fix.
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  4. Tererune

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    I had to look at the map to remember, 695 is the beltway around baltimore. This is going to push a huge amount of traffic onto the other highways around until they can get that bridge up again.
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  5. Diacanu

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    If Francis Scott Key saw it happen, there'd be a song.
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  6. steve2^4

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    Holy shit!
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  7. Fisherman's Worf

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    Someone take away that captain's Key, he's clearly drunk.
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    Hope the cargo is undamaged.
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    Has anyone heard from @Steal Your Face ? This is up by VA so he might have been drinking again and oooopsie. This is the sort of thing he would do while drunk. You have to watch kids.
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    Stumpy kitchens is still in arkansas on dialysis right. Someone knows he didn't get another job, right?
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    Actually, sounds like the local pilots were in charge at the time. Politico also reported the ship lost power and declared a mayday just prior to impact, so might not have been anything that could be done.
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    Can't wait to hear @Steal Your Face come and present us with the conspiracy theory that's going around Twitter right now that this was an attack by hackers that can control container ships
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  13. Diacanu

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    Are the hackers trans Mexicans?
    Seems like that has to be worked in somehow.
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    It’s obviously Biden’s fault :brood:
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    Yeah, it looks like, from the videos I've seen, the ship was repeatedly losing power, as there may have been a fire, and when they tried to pull it into reverse to keep it from hitting the structural support, one of the props failed, and it essentially slid right into the path of the structural support and nailed it.

    I doubt this is anyone's fault as much as it is equipment failure at the worst possible time.
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    I am curious about that since it seems it just left port. What kind of safety maintenance or mechanical checks are performed prior to its departure?
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  17. Ten Lubak

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    There's a team from Boeing that comes in to inspect
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    This was because of a black transgendered captain from san fransico crashed the boat because she was hingh on milepprestone to kill their imaginary baby she was going to have when she gote her penis transed. Because everyone's doing it now.
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    Why is it that you would think that I would know anything about conspiracy theories on Twitter?
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    The quality control team from Spirit moonlights for them.
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    It was from BlueSky but someone said it was a single screw boat.

    If true it is a good day to be a tug operator as I can see a new regulation that single screw boats need a tug escort in some situations.
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  22. Ten Lubak

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    ........because you're our local conspiracy theory QAnon guy :shrug:
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    Coulda left it there.
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  25. Ten Lubak

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    Maybe this was P Diddy trying to escape the Feds and he just fucked up big time
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  26. Steal Your Face

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    Oh, you're making the same claim that @shootER made and couldn't back up. Okay, if I'm a conspiracy theory guy, what conspiracy theory have I talked about here? Remember, you have to show your work with proof.
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  27. Ten Lubak

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    Why would I need to convince myself that you're our QAnon guy when I'm already convinced of it
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    Well if you can't prove your claim then you just come of looking like a conspiracy theorist.
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  30. Ten Lubak

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    The claim has been proven for some time now, the Hunter Biden thread is literally you doing this:

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    Not our fault you can't or refuse to see it :shrug:
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