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epicsurvivorTanker truck explosions have occured within days of each other at major highway intersections in San Francisco/Oakland, Houston, New Jersey, and Tampa-St. Petersburg.
I was aware of the Bay Bridge crash, mostly because of the reality check (or comic relief) that it provided for the 911 Truthers (“fire cannot burn hot enough to melt steel, yada yada yada”). The other events have been relegated to local news coverage.
One occurrence: an unfortunate event. Two similar events: another unfortunate occurrence, a coincidence. Numbers three and four might start your spidey senses tingling.
Especially when one of the events involve a tire that had 10 of the lug bolts removed.
In Thursday night’s [Bay Bridge] incident, the trucker was heading south on Park Presidio Drive, on his way to deliver gas to a Shell station at 19th Avenue and Lincoln Way, when the left front pair of wheels on the tanker he was towing suddenly came off.
“He didn’t even know anything was wrong until he saw the wheel pass him on the road,” said Michael Cheney, who happened to be driving the other way with his wife, Dianne, when one of the errant wheels clipped the backside of their Mitsubishi Eclipse.
According to 21-year-old student David Wong, who was just behind Cheney in his brand new BMW, sparks began flying from beneath the tanker as its undercarriage scraped along the pavement. The airborne tire that struck Cheney’s car then ricocheted off the hood and side of Wong’s car — causing $3,500 in damage — before coming to a rest in the middle of the street. The second tire disappeared into the park’s underbrush.
While waiting for the cops to arrive, — Cheney — who happens to be a mechanic for the Municipal Railway — examined the truck and found that 10 lug nuts had come off.Scary enough that a gasoline truck loses control in the middle of the park — but even scarier is that the double size tanker crossed the Golden Gate Bridge just minutes earlier.
Great job, Mick Gregory! As they say….Read it all
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What did Rosie have to say bout this?..snicker*
Same thing happened to SwampMan in his huge crew cab long bed pickup truck. TWICE. After the second incident, I suggested he might want to start buying his tires/having them mounted at a different tire emporium, particularly as we heard it had happened to a number of others, luckily none having resulted in any fatalities.
Twice? Dang.
Helloooooo Swampie.
see yall next time. Long day manana
Yep. First time, he had just turned into a parking lot and his front left tire passed him; second time, he lost a right rear tire. First time, the lug nuts had apparently not been tightened, second time, sheared off.
Hey, N2L! You still soaking up all the rain that we haven’t gotten yet?
I’ve *just* finished removing a splinter from a lil’ sleeping boy’s foot (he vigorously refused to let it even be examined earlier) and he’ll feel much better tomorrow.
G’night, Nuke.
Been dry for a few days now, and should be for a few more.
Y’all still blazing away, I hear.
Yep, life should be exciting for the firefighters in the next few days as the biggest fires have been started by lightning, there are millions of acres of timber just lookin’ for an excuse to go up in flames, and thundershowers with more lightning than rain is in the forecast for tomorrow and Friday.
Yikes!
How’s that new young’un?
Oh, you missed some trollage the other day, on the terrorist next door thread.
He sure had a high opinion of hisself.
I hate missing trollage.
We didn’t visit the new youngun today; I promised a day at the beach with Jake, and a day at the beach he got. I’m still semi-encrusted with sand, and need to hit the shower, but wanted to wait for a time when I could have the shower to myself. We will visit the new youngun tomorrow, however, and hope that Jake will actually look at him this time.
Glad y’all had a day at the beach.
Ol’Jake will get it all straightened out in his punkin’head.
Did you check out Farfur?
Anyway, I’ll make one more comment on tanker trucks before going off to catch what remains of a night’s sleep before chasing a child around all day (23 years since his mama was that age DOES make a difference, after all, whoda thunk?). Tanker trucks are involved in more accidents than is proportional to their numbers on the highway. I would think, though, that tankers carrying hazmats would have sloshing suppressors installed.
Okay, then.
Need to hit it myself.
Night.
Yeah, I have been reading about Farfur. Ain’t that a load of giant rodent droppings.
No wonder those people are incapable of thinking independently.
G’night.
I meant the post I made earlier today about Farfur.
Anyway, night.
Heh, yeah. I expected there would be some trollage there.
No, actually, no hits on it at all.
Now that’s sad. I thought that blackwhatever would be back to enlighten you on the error of your ways.
/Pretentious little prig that it was.
I just finished reading up on the terrorist next door, and noticed that it was speaking for “Iraqis”, and my question was was it speaking for the Shiia Iraqis, the Kurdish Iraqis, or the Saddamites?
Not that any of the other Islamic countries gave any regard whatsoever about any of the genocides going on at any point in time.
Henh.
He half-assed calling me out, and accused me of cyber-muscles.
Oh man. The Shakespeare taunts were too much for his pointy little head.
His mind was made up, and wouldn’t even consider the notion of how ridiculous the Lancet study was. Obviously he is more comfortable with Daily POS or Dhimmi Underground.
He wasn’t speaking for the Iraqi’s so much as he was speaking against the U.S.
Yeah, and it’s not okay for the MNF to kill mufsidun, but it’s perfectly alright for muslims to kill each other.
He probably supports unemployment benefits for Saddam’s grave diggers and rapist.
Really got to go.
Check back with us Swamps.
Maybe tracking a youngblood all day for a while, is the exercise plan you have been looking for.
/henh