Doh! Tie down your load, know the length, know the height! Obviously this story happened in 2006, but breaking S#!$ is cool any time. Check out more photos of this whoopsie on Snopes.com.
While we’re on the subject of bridges, when was the last time you watched a video of the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse? Structural failures, machinery failures, tool failures — Toolmongers usually arrive on the site before anyone else, either containing or cleaning up the mess. And sometimes a Toolmonger pulls a Tim “The Toolman” Taylor stunt.
Let us know in comments about the failures and mistakes you’ve seen.
Hoe Down [Snopes]
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How many people lost their jobs?
I once heard about a famous Rochester NY based company, that made little yellow boxes filled with silver halide coated strips, that commissioned a pool to be built in one of its buildings,…but never had it filled.
Because the designers didn’t account for the weight of water.
Simple! Let the air out of the…
Oh, wait.
Last summer I came upon a similar scene on US 29 in Virginia, in which a very large backhoe had been towed on a trailer behind a dump truck. In this case, the bridge survived, but the impact so unstabilized the truck/trailer/backhoe combination that the backhoe left the trailer and the full-size construction-site dirt truck rolled at highway speed.
The driver did not survive.