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OMG ! It fails too much to be real.
wow…I hope nobody drives over that!
“Well if you think it looks fine then why don’t you go first?”
That river is the county line between Courage County and Foolishness County.
Why a ‘bridge is out’ sign? That looks perfectly safe…ish
That’s a tad scary.
Teddy’s version of what happened is still hard to support.
Oh come on, they have all those barriers to keep you from going off the road into the water.
About 20 years ago, we had a farmer that routinely went over bridges with his loaded trucks at harvest time so he wouldn’t have to detour and take a longer route to avoid the “Weight Limit 3 Tons” bridges. It finally caught up with him one day when he was following one of his trucks and he nearly got dropped into one of the local rivers. The only reason he wasn’t fined and sued for the price of the bridge repair/replacement was because nobody could prove it was one of his trucks that preceded him. One *very* lucky guy considering he was in his late 80′s at the time…
I hope there is something like this on the left side of the bridge… if not, the bridge might fall… =o
Gives new meaning to the word “piling.”
Where is Dr. Suess today? Stopped writing books and became a bridge repairman, I guess.
dono, as always, thanks for the laugh!
It looks like it’s just the guard rail that’s supported by the rubble stack.
This looks like trouble over bridged water to me.
I think this is in DC, near Rock Creek Park or maybe on the other side of the Capitol. They do have the worst roads in the nation.
Where I come from, we’d fix that by drivin’ an old school bus (sans school kids, o’ course) just fast enough so that when the bridge gave way under it, the front of the bus would be stuck on one side, and the back on th’ tother. Open both ends with a cuttin’ torch and, voila, you got you a covered bridge.
@D.
Also known as a bus pass.
The bridges of Madison county aren’t holding up as well as they usta..
Looks to me like the bridge supports itself and the stack of rubble is someone having a laugh. I wouldn’t drive across it though!
Another KBR job in Iraq!
….se souber nadar, sem problemas….
@Claudio
Hah, if you can swim you might as well just skip the bridge altogether. I don’t know if I can swim under metal.
If I were him, I’d have used Lego.
I was recently on Mackinac Island MI where no cars are allowed just bikes and horse drawn carriages, there are very few places like it, but I could imagine this bridge being part of the landscape…….
@jim har
…and as soon as this kludge fails, part of the seascape.
The bridge is already caving in on the far side of the “fix”.
Is this the bridge over trouble water?
LoL i need to show my friends this pic!
The presumption is that the middle kludge is holding it up. When it’s not. It’s probably “art” or something.
Looks like the “Big Dig” in Boston
Apparently everyone missed seeing the huge concrete block on the far side of the bridge. I assume that it is supposed to stop any traffic from crossing over the bridge. There’s most likely one on the near side also.
lol, the concrete block might just be… another support that’s holding down the blocks tightly… and yes, its blocking, but couldn’t you just shoot that thing with a rifle and it would go boom and then see if the bridge falls/somebody drives over it and then it falls? lol it looks like a bridge from the bay to he pier(a.k.a. the fire leading into the frying pan). >=D>
I am 98% sure that this is on a walking path or golf cart path. The actual bridge itself isn’t nearly fit to hold a car.
@Badgirl
Badgirl! That was awesome – I never saw the Simon and Garfunkel comment coming! LOL!
Don’t they have something more productive for WALL-E to be doing?
I love how most of the answers to the “Do it Yourself’s” are either
A) Zipties
B) Tape
or
C) Stacking Things in a dangerous manner
It’s in the San Francisco Bay Area. No worries, CalTrans shut down the Bay Bridge. It takes a hella long time to get around.
The Corps of Engineers is broke!!!
It wouldn’t surprise me if there was duct tape holding some of that together…