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

 

[Pissmaster]

I refuse to believe that cargo ship fuel can melt steel bridges.

Apparently spicy hot curry shits, all blasted out of the asses of 22 pajeets all at once can.

 

[LaxerBRO]

What are the chances of a computer virus on the ships computers that caused the strike while making it look like an accident.

 

[${Sandy}]

I have been on this bridge a few times when I was a teenager and the video is fucking terrifying.

That scallywag is the biggest fuck up to sail the seven seas. Yargh, he ain't even fit to be a landlubber.

 

[mindlessobserver]

What are the chances of a computer virus on the ships computers that caused the strike while making it look like an accident.

It's far more likely the crew of Pajeets neglected basic maintenance.

 

[MeltyTW]

Only you faggots could turn a freak accident of a boat running into a bridge into a fight about current year politics.

are you telling me ben shapiro didnt personally lead a mossad kill team to kamikaze some baltimore niggers to death in the name of israel? i envy your naive sheltered world friend.

but yeah seems like theres very little to actually blame. even the infrastructure point idk if updated infrastructure really is made to handle mass cargo ships railing into it,

 

[Fake News Anchor]

Thus always to the coasts.

 

[Marvin]

Jesus Christ. I've been riding on this bridge a million and one times since I was a kid. This is fucked.

 

[Owlbear]

What are the chances of a computer virus on the ships computers that caused the strike while making it look like an accident.

One pajeet is basically a computer virus. With 22 of them it's a wonder that ship got anywhere at all.

 

[Popper Whiting]

Ideally they'll build a better bridge, but that will still take a lot of time and money. I can't imagine them just washing their hands of a route that long and important.

Dig a tunnel. It will cost more but that way you wont be dealing with the risk of collision caused by Bangladeshi ship pilot driving mutliton freighter while drunk and uneducated. It is a frightening fact that most merchant seamen nowdays are being pulled from the most impoverished and uneducated shitholes because it is cheaper. This is what happens when we offload manufacturing, supply and labor to the 3rd world instead of using our own Cletuses.

 

[Marvin]

Also I know that this is the only thing anyone in town is going to be talking about for the next six months to six years. Everyone is going to be yammering about their cousin's boyfriend who works in the state department of transportation so they've got the inside scoop. It's going to be the Baltimore version of my uncle works for Nintendo.

 

[Dick Mason]

Even if it is a white captain, it shows the failure of promoting competency and meritocracy.

Spoiler: The Captain is in (mildly lewd nsfw maybe)

Say that to my face, motherfucker. I've got more competency in my cotton panties than you have in your entire being.

Who benefits most from the loss of the other, DC or Baltimore?

Whomever gets that sweet billion dollar rush construction contract? A lot of vile people are going to eat fat off of this.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

Null takes a day off, world goes to shit.

Null please come back. I’m going on a flight and I don’t want to die.

 

[Nobunaga]

So, seeing as how dumb shit like this keeps happening due to poo in loos i feel like i need to ask, how far is too far before someone realizes letting those retards touch anything is a death wish?

 

[Anti Snigger]

Spoiler: The Captain is in (mildly lewd nsfw maybe)

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Say that to my face, motherfucker. I've got more competency in my cotton panties than you have in your entire being.


Whomever gets that sweet billion dollar rush construction contract? A lot of vile people are going to eat fat off of this.

I was more asking which city is worse but that's a good point

 

[Kier Starmer]

I wonder how many of those 10 cars were actively doing drug deals.

Also this is gen z 9/11

 

[Lucas Silva #4903141]

The r/news thread about this has such a stupid title:

Maryland's Francis Scott Key Bridge closed to traffic after incident

The bridge collapsed! In fact, I'm pretty sure this title is against the rules of r/news but I guess the mods are asleep.

 

[Grug]

Apparently this unknown man was piloting the ship at the time, and managed to flee the scene after impact.

 

[SmallKiwi]

"Like, all the people on the bridge just died."

I hate so much how young people talk.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

I agree wholeheartedly that infrastructure as a whole needs looked at. I do not agree that poor infrastructure caused this. Some of you guys would see a bomb detonate on a road and blame poor infrastructure for there being a hole in it.
That being said what's more likely is that the ship was being poorly maintained. Unless there was some serious incident onboard that couldn't have been prevented, I'm willing to bet that some maintenance or safety checks went overlooked for way too long. Like that swinging boat ride a while back that was rusted through and they just painted over it. If there was any negligence that caused this accident, it was on the ship, not the bridge.

 

[a terminal posture]

Bridges aren’t designed to be hit by cargo ships, just like buildings aren’t designed to be hit by planes.

hoh boy:

Bridges in navigable water have been designed for vessel impact for decades. It used to be a pretty common mode of bridge failure. This bridge was built before such provisions. Looking at recent pictures, they have installed dolphins but they seem pretty far from the pier. I don't see any structural retrofits to the pier either. I am shocked that better countermeasures weren't installed; the dolphins did not prevent the ship from colliding head on with the pier and I don't think any retrofit will make a pier capable of withstanding that if it wasn't originally designed for it.