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On 12/4/2012 9:52 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:51:34 -0500, JustWait
wrote:

On 12/4/2012 7:14 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:03:19 -0500, GuzzisRule
wrote:

On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 05:13:22 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

This train trestle have stood its ground for the last 100 years.
This fact doesn't deter some drivers from challenging the bridge about
once a month. all of them fail. All footage courtesy of 11foot8.com

http://www.prochan.com/view?p=da1_1351183858

And, I'll bet the folks with the travel trailer didn't realize the problem until they got to the
campground. Hope it didn't rain on them!

We saw a lot of steel meets aluminum and plastic. What happens when it
is steel vs steel like a big excavator?

It does make you wonder why they don't have one of those warning
trestles in front of the bridge.

We have a bridge here in Willimantic CT (I think it's still there) that
catches several trucks a year. The thing is clearly marked, but still
idiots hit it. We had a bridge over I-95 closed for a few days when one
of those big dumpster haulers drove into it after dropping a dumpster
and not putting the body down... Threw him right out the front window of
the truck, he lived, walked away in fact. Fortunately, he had just come
on the highway entrance ramp so he wasn't up to speed yet.

We had a bridge under I-75 get hit by a big excavator in a flat bed
and it was seriously damaged.
The original estimate was they would need to replace about half the
girders but they managed to patch it up somehow without doing all of
that. I went by there the other day and it looks line they just
patched up the girders with site applied concrete.

Probably just reclassified to stand a bit less, and let it rip

You stupid fool!!!!