On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:35:10 -0500, Ignoramus547
wrote:
The townhouse that was destroyed by the crane, contained a bar whose
name was "Fubar".
Very good picture here
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/nyregion/18crane.html
e presumably CM lever hoists creatively used, there. (the
article calls them "manual winches").
City inspector charged for false reports
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ase/index.html
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What did they know and when did they know it?
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Inspector arrested in NYC crane collapse
By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer 33 minutes ago
[20 Mar 08]
NEW YORK - A city inspector has been charged with lying about
checking on a construction crane that later collapsed, killing
seven people in a dense Manhattan neighborhood, officials said
Thursday.
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"We will not tolerate this kind of behavior at the Department of
Buildings," she said.
{ I am shocked, shocked...}
A complaint about the crane was logged March 4 to a city hot
line, officials said, and Marquette said he inspected it. It was
later determined he had not.
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The gigantic piece of machinery toppled over when a six-ton steel
collar used to secure the crane to the building came loose,
plunging into another collar that acted as a major anchor.
Without that support, it came tumbling down with terrifying
force.
The collapse followed weeks of complaints by people in the
neighborhood that the crane didn't appear safe.
Bruce Silberblatt, the retired contractor who called in the
complaint, said he was stunned by the arrest.
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for complete article click on
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080321/...JomNCGjkJvzwcF
Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).