Non-political things that make you say...WTF?!?! (Welcome To Florida!) **NOT CV RELATED** NO TALKY!

Hunting pig on Tejon ranch I've used Marlin 1895 GS in 45/70

 

Also called a “passel”.

 

And no natural predators. They can produce offspring up to 3 times a year, it quickly gets out of control

 

...^^^... Most of those smaller bridges just rest on the support columns and end bank support plates for expansion and contraction reasons.

IIRC, the truck was on the interstate and hit the horizontal bridge beam with the extended dump bed.

When hit in the right spot, especially on the end of the small bridge where the expansion plates are ...that's a perfect storm to move the structure.

Today, they disassembled that complete bridge and partially opened the interstate.

About 5 years ago we had a bigger bridge problem where homeless people started a big fire under a main I-85 Interstate going into downtown ATL .... the fire caused a partial bridge collapse and completely closed that large I-85 bridge (a 12 month rebuild project was done with a giant Federal Gov't construction $$ bonus' for a super fast record to completely dismantle and rebuild that 100' multi-lane interstate bridge in 7 weeks).

 

It's not limited to the south. They're here in California too. The biggest problem with them is a SMALL group of hogs can wipe out acres of farm land in a single night. And with no natural predators and the way ammo prices have been this last year, I have a feeling their population has exploded.

 

Check with your county ag extension office. Many offer bounties on them.

 

Another exciting episode of Florida Man

I don't think any meth was involved, do you?

 

Oh that sure was fun…

Though let’s remember that the homeless folks fire wouldn’t have done anything if it weren’t for the large amount of flammable HDPE tubing that DOT decided to store under the bridge….

 

Any relation to the guy who played the kid on Deliverance?

 

joe dirt

 

You mean they stored construction materials in an out of the way spot until they needed them? Out of direct sunlight so that they didn't degrade from UV? Shameful, disgraceful. Lets blame them instead of the tweakers who lit a chair on fire... It's not like they had to go through a chainlink fence or a locked gate to even get near the tubing...oh wait, they did. The truth is this is a very common occurrence. LA see's 2-3 dozen homeless encampments catch fire every day. Many of those burn down the houses and businesses they're next to, and more often than not drugs are a major player in the cause.

 

So... if the losers had broken into your house and set your chair on fire, thus burning your house down... it would be your fault for having a chair in your house for them to burn?

Do you have an issue with placing the blame where it belongs?

Lets not forget... the pipe would not have burned if some losers hadn't went into an area where they had no business going and started a fire...

-Bear

 

I stated fact: A substantial cache of flammable material was stored under a major arterial interstate highway bridge. Had it been stored in some other location, say under a temporary metal building not under an Interstate, the weeks long closure and reconstruction wouldn’t have occurred.

Is some part of that factually incorrect?

As you mention, homeless set fires in all sorts of sheltered places. So it shouldn’t be any surprise they’d do the same in that vicinity. Even breaking thru fences.

Root cause analysis involves looking at all of the contributing factors to an adverse event. This is how organizations and industries learn. Ignoring the involvement the DOT’s storage methodology had in this would be disingenuous at best.

Hopefully they will have learned from The event and won’t store flammable materials where they can cause a major impact if something should happen.

 

I guess the idiot that started the fire is now a hero for exposing the horrible dangers of storing plastic pipe under a bridge...

Geez... what bass-ackwards thinking...

Hopefully, nobody will ever get stoned,break into my house, trip over my coffee table, hit their head on my entertainment center and die. I would be guilty of murder for putting that hazardous coffee table there.

Just... wow...

-Bear

 

...^^^... I remember that there was some type of "hot fuel" under that bridge ... but forgot about the plastic pipe.

I just remember seeing a "ripping azz fire" consuming that I-85 bridge on local and national TV news.

I could not get downtown that way (I-85) without 50 detours and an extra 2 hours ... what a cluster f**k that was.

Hey .. IIRC ... later, the City of Atlanta actually caught the guy who started that I-85 bridge fire ... and then dropped all charges.

And later gave him money, a job and a new life in a ceremony on TV (True Story) ... that was a true WTF moment for me.

 

Currently the accepted practice by way too many folks is to blame the victim of a crime while excusing the perpetrator of the crime.

And folks question my opinion that severe punishment for committing a crime would reduce crime.

 

You appear to think I’ve meant something I’ve not written, and become very worked up over the matter.

I hope you manage to work out whatever is causing such emotion.

 

Are y’all gonna fuck, or what?

 

I apologize.. I just have a very low tolerance for idiocy... like blaming the DOT for storing their materials on their property... while excusing the loser that caused it.

Sorry... maybe I'm old fashioned... I don't understand the whole 'blame the victim, excuse the perp' mentality...

-Bear