Baltimore bridge fucked

[idunnosomename]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg

livestream of fucked bridge

looks like its still fucked. Hope they get it fixed for the rush hour.

[shoulders]

Because of dickhead captain who ploughed his big ship into a bridge, 15,000 children will be going without tamagotchis tonight.

[Funcrusher]

Decaying infrastructure of fading imperial power is decaying. Or it's just an accident.

[Dex Sawash]

A second  bridge has hit the ship

[shoulders]

I didn't personally get a hardon but I imagine some of you did.

[Dex Sawash]

*5 decades later* we regret to inform you the bridge was racist

[shoulders]

Reminds me of when that labrador wiped out a Tour De France cyclist then wandered off nonchalantly. But this ship has somehow even more labrador energy than an actual labrador.

[idunnosomename]

*5 decades later* we regret to inform you the bridge was racist

well it is named after a third-generation american, what do you expect

[Senior Baiano]

Didn't the ship sink? My the wire joke doesn't make sense otherwise

[shoulders]

Does the cargo now become subject to dibs?

Imagine going there with a metal detector. It'd be like: METAL!

[Dex Sawash]

They're livestream bamlem-ing Wallenius Wilhemsen now

[dissolute ocelot]

Pleased to see it's already on Wikipedia's List of bridge failures, alongside the 2023 Interstate 95 highway collapse in Philadelphia where a tanker caught fire after a crash, damaging an overpass and killing 1; and such notable events as the 2022 Morbi bridge collapse in India (135+ dead); and I'm sure we all remember the Ponte Morande in Genoa, 43 dead in 2018.

It's not too common for ships to cause serious damage to bridges, although sometimes a ship will try and go the wrong way with calamitous results. There was the Ulyanovsk railway bridge disaster in 1988 where a Russian cruise ship went through the wrong span for unclear reasons, causing 176 deaths, but the ship was OK. And a freighter hit the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Australia in 1977, with 5 deaths - it was foggy and the ship's master allegedly not paying attention. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway near New Orleans was hit in 1966 with 6 deaths and a bus fell in the lake.

There have been several other bridge collapses in the US this century; highway infrastructure is aging and in desperate need of massive repairs, as engineers will tell you constantly, although it's allegedly getting a bit better.

[steve98]

OR TERRORISTS?!!!?!!?!!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!?!? /s

Obv(Obviously) it was Terrorists. Think about it - The bridge was named after the dude that wrote The Spar-Spangled Banner - That's FACT #1... and that's the only fact you need. If that doesn't start alarm bells screamin' in your head, you need your... head examined.

[Psybro]

Ship was from Singapore which is in the eastern hemisphere, just like?  China.  We are at war, people.

[Jim_MacLaine]

Pleased to see it's already on Wikipedia's List of bridge failures,

Classic victim blaming.

[shoulders]

The bridge was a bad faith actor, just you wait and see.

[Wonderful Butternut]

Ship was from Singapore which is in the eastern hemisphere, just like?  China.  We are at war, people.

[sevendaughters]

It is possible to walk from one side to the other using the bridge and the hull of the boat and a shipping container full of Pelotons, that's not failure to me.

[steve98]

Ah now that's a big job; that's not just a bit of tarmacin'...

[Alberon]

The bridge in happier days guest starring in The Wire.

[Psybro]

Possible explanations given this event's location:

- the ship was being driven by cops who didn't like the way the bridge was moving
- the bridge was attending the wrong school on that particular day
- the bridge committed a double murder in the early 90s and had finally exhausted all possible routes of appeal

[Butchers Blind]

Bridge Lives Matter

[touchingcloth]

Good morning, Baltimore
Every bridge like an open door

Uh, oh oh, fucked up by boats

[touchingcloth]

Possible explanations given this event's location:

- the ship was being driven by cops who didn't like the way the bridge was moving
- the bridge was attending the wrong school on that particular day
- the bridge committed a double murder in the early 90s and had finally exhausted all possible routes of appeal

You don't drive a ship, you're thinking of cars. buzby seems to think that the boat was being controlled by a pilot, but he's got confused with planes. Maybe that's the problem here, and the wrong sorts of professionals were in charge of things rather than the ship being filled with seamen.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Too fucked to span

[Urinal Cake]

What does John Waters David Simon Stav think?

[Dex Sawash]

A span has died

[Norton Canes]

A Singapore-based shipping expert who has sailed cargo ships through Baltimore's port many times has been speaking with the BBC.

"The vessel had just departed from berth and made a turn before hitting the bridge".

Having seen the footage, he has said there were a few possible causes:

• Main engine failure
• Steering failure
• Generator blackout
• Possibility of pilot/human error

Yep, all the bases covered there. Thanks expert mate.

[checkoutgirl]

who is gouing to pay for something with no appreciable benefit

Yeah I'm not sure if it's mainly a US thing but politicians don't seem to want to repair or reinforce existing infrastructure. Much better to build something new for a photo opportunity and let what's already there crumble.

Plus if we make sure the tenants are of light build and relatively sedentary and if the weather's on our side, I think we have a strong bridge here.

[Buelligan]

Pleased to see it's already on Wikipedia's List of bridge failures, alongside the 2023 Interstate 95 highway collapse in Philadelphia where a tanker caught fire after a crash, damaging an overpass and killing 1; and such notable events as the 2022 Morbi bridge collapse in India (135+ dead); and I'm sure we all remember the Ponte Morande in Genoa, 43 dead in 2018.

It's not too common for ships to cause serious damage to bridges, although sometimes a ship will try and go the wrong way with calamitous results. There was the Ulyanovsk railway bridge disaster in 1988 where a Russian cruise ship went through the wrong span for unclear reasons, causing 176 deaths, but the ship was OK. And a freighter hit the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Australia in 1977, with 5 deaths - it was foggy and the ship's master allegedly not paying attention. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway near New Orleans was hit in 1966 with 6 deaths and a bus fell in the lake.

There have been several other bridge collapses in the US this century; highway infrastructure is aging and in desperate need of massive repairs, as engineers will tell you constantly, although it's allegedly getting a bit better.

Distinct lack of British Pride in this post.  Lest we forget - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Railway_Bridge#1960_accident

A BRIDGE HAS DIED.