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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 12:27 PM
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Crane collapses in Quincy, Massachusetts.
developing on www.cnn.com
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 12:30 PM
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1. It's a freakin epidemic!!
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:03 PM
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7. OSHA is asleep at the switch
or being paid to look the other way
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:19 PM
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11. or dead.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 12:30 PM
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2. Not another crane collapse, my god what is going on here?
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 12:37 PM
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5. Un(der)regulated capitalism. nt
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ben_meyers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 12:51 PM
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6. Oh B.S.
It was a 30 year old piece of equipment that was being dismantled, accidents do happen.
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:43 PM
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12. And all the other incidents? Just accidents? That NO amount of proper safety precautions
could have avoided?

Oh B.S.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 12:34 PM
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3. I didn't even hear it...
Although, that's a lil way from my apt. I can see it from my porch though.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 12:37 PM
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4. Gay marriage did it*
Does not apply to other 48 states
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:07 PM
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8. Two collapsed in the Jacksonville area also.
I don't have the link because I came across it when reading something else and forgot what Web site it was. The wind blew one over and it hit the other one and they both collapsed. No one was in the cranes.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:11 PM
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9. I don't see it on the CNN Web site.
This is the only thing that was there.

www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8841572
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:12 PM
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10. all the money we should be using here is going to invasions.
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