Disaster "Mass casualty incident" declared after Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses

No article yet as this just happened, but could be big. One of the largest bridges in the world according to Wikipedia.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/breaking-news-key-bridge-collapsed

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Boat collisions near settlements can have a huge number of casualties regardless of whether, or not they actually hit shit that's actually in those settlements. The most famous case of this is also the worst one which happened in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1917 when a boat carrying a fuckton of explosives crashed into another one. The resulting blast literally destroyed the entire town, killed over 1,700 people, injured 9,000 more, and was the largest manmade explosion in history at the time.

I'm just hoping that in addition to the people on the bridge being okay, the boat itself wasn't actually carrying dangerous shit like it was back then because holy shit if it was, things could easily get a helluva lot worse.

 

[Boglim Enthusiast]

Man, my whole life bridges have always made me feel uneasy and this seriously does not fucking help, lads.

Bridges are mathematically sound and safe to use, thank thousands of years of architecture.

What isn't safe is (most likely minorities) driving the fuck into them. Hope rescue can save as many people as possible, I can't even imagine how a fuck up like that can happen.

 

[Sneed S. McSneedensen]

I just watched The Wire last year.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

$20 says a nigger was involved.

Won't take that bet, good sir. Think it'll go to the judges.

Wonder how the ship ran into the bridge.

Better footage. Ship clipped one of the supports and it just went down like a house of cards.

 

[Enoch Emery]

So uhhh... is there a betting pool for the Captain's prison sentence?

 

[Racist Trash]

Won't take that bet, good sir. Think it'll go to the judges.


Better footage. Ship clipped one of the supports and it just went down like a house of cards.

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Wow it took out the entire thing? I was expecting like a segment to be gone not all of it.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Won't take that bet, good sir. Think it'll go to the judges.


Better footage. Ship clipped one of the supports and it just went down like a house of cards.

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Fucking hell, that thing just gave way like it was made out of wet tissue paper.

 

[Breadbassket]

Four images to visualize the disaster:

 

[Still Exceptional]

Jesus Christ, how horrifying. What a helluva way to go. RIP to the people who are most assuredly dead from this. Hope it went quickly.

 

[Myrtle the Turtle]

Better footage. Ship clipped one of the supports and it just went down like a house of cards.

What the fuck. The ship hit it head on like it was trying to bring it down.

Who gets sued when this happens?

 

[mlanguishi]

Apparently no communications from ship. Big IF but if this was some weird attack, I'd think they'd pick a time which had more traffic on it.

ETA, may have been 20 construction workers on it at time.

ETA much later. Apparently were calls of mayday and it helped clear bridge. Last I saw only 6 people missing.

 

[PlumpPimp]

this will make a fantastic brick immortar video.

Nice to know I am not the only one who enjoys that guys specific variation of autism.

 

[Cougar Pump]

It looked like they may have managed to stop traffic before the collapse. But it also looked like there was a crew working on the bridge. Here's hoping casualties are minimal.

 

[Merry]

Ship was on fire from the look of that smoke, so it might have just drifted into it with no one at the helm, or with the controls messed up

 

[Edict of Expulsion]

Apparently only ten cars on the bridge according to early reports. I guess it's lucky this didn't happen during the day.

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“Francis Scott Key bridge”. Boy I can’t wait for the “Floyd best nigger that ever lived featuring micheal Obama’s dick and ru paul twerking” bridge to be rebuilt in its place. Half the size though. Nigger cities are all detroit-ing.
White flight to zoom

 

[FILTH Tourist]

And thus begins the game of everyone hunting for any piece of news on who the fuck was at the wheel to settle down the "guess the race" bet.
Im gonna go against the grain and bet on white male, simply because steering a steel container cargo ship doesn't seem like a job that would attract many women and because it seems too high on the competency totem pole to have too many blacks, if im wrong i'm blaming DEI hiring practices

Put me down for yellow. Lots of Asians work as sailors so it wouldn't be surprising if it was a Chinese guy at the helm.

Apparently no communications from ship. Big IF but if this was some weird attack, I'd think they'd pick a time which had more traffic on it.

Honestly I wouldn't want to pick up the phone either if I fucked up this badly.

 

[dustbuster]

$20 says a nigger was involved.

Yeah, all the senior city officials who neglected the infrastructure for a century were niggers.

 

[Nobunaga]

That ship better not have been carrying my trash i ordered from across the world, or chinese heads will roll

 

[Seedling]

Put me down for yellow. Lots of Asians work as sailors so it wouldn't be surprising if it was a Chinese guy at the helm.

Somebody said the ship had singapore flags, and 4chan right ouf the bat called it a chinese terror attack.
Seems like you might be right

 

[Alter Ego]

It looked like they stopped traffic before the collapse. But it also looked like there was a crew working on the bridge. Here's hoping the casualties are minimal.

The four flashing, stationary cars were there well before the ship. Nighttime road workers, by my guess. But I don't think traffic was stopped as there were still cars that crossed moments before impact. The lack of traffic is probably just from this being in the middle of the night.