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Cranes
« on: May 30, 2008, 01:09:05 PM »
What's with cranes lately this is the second collapse this year in NYC and they had another big on fall in Miami

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NEW YORK - A construction crane collapsed Friday on New York's Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-story apartment building as it fell to the ground, killing two construction workers and seriously injuring another
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Re: Cranes
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2008, 02:03:54 PM »
They just don't make them like they used to.
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Re: Cranes
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2008, 02:46:15 PM »
They fired a building inspector over the last one and said they would make inspections more rigorous
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Re: Cranes
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2008, 04:21:00 PM »
Quote from: parts on May 30, 2008, 02:46:15 PM
They fired a building inspector over the last one and said they would make inspections more rigorous

Maybe the inspectors need to get closer to the risky ones? :zoinks:
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Re: Cranes
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2008, 09:04:12 PM »
Quote from: odeon on May 30, 2008, 04:21:00 PM
Maybe the inspectors need to get closer to the risky ones? :zoinks:

 :laugh: Yeah, that'll solve it nicely.
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Re: Cranes
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2008, 10:24:08 AM »
At first I thought oyu meant those nasty long necked birds.
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Re: Cranes
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2008, 08:07:18 PM »


We have a couple of cranes near where I live. If they fell, that would be half of the town gone.
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Re: Cranes
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2008, 08:08:40 PM »
Quote from: renaeden on June 09, 2008, 08:07:18 PM


We have a couple of cranes near where I live. If they fell, that would be half of the town gone.

Pretty small town you live in there... ;)
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