Comments on: Highway Collapse Spurs Bay Area Headache

Burning Fuel Truck Melts Section Of Heavily-Traveled Northern Calif. Freeway

[one_american]

"California Department of Transportation director Will Kempton said intense heat from the flames caused the steel beams holding up the roadway to buckle and bolts holding the structure together to melt."

And yet - nobody will ever be able to convince that lunatic Rosie O'Donnell, or any of the rest of the 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists nutcases that fire melts steel...

[charlemaine1]

God, Allah, whomever..help us when a Crashed Car can TAKE OUT A BRIDGE. Too much nepotism going on in this world. Inept sons in law building bridges and overpasses, etc.

[booyaw_77]

But think about it: No more gas fires. No more explosions. No more planes crash landing and then blowing up and burning. No more Crown Victorias blowing up when someone rear-ends them. No more Pintos. Hydrogen fuel has even more explosive torque to it than gasoline does. Means more horsepower. More efficiency. The future looks bright! And guess what comes out the tailpipe..

Yer not gonna believe this. Guess what comes out the tailpipe?

Water.

[booyaw_77]

Well, we're not going to have to worry about this stuff too much longer. Pretty soon the republicans will be kicked outta office and in jail in Holland. And we'll have hydrogen burning engines running off of "pink gup". Ya think I'm kidding? Fer real! "Pink gup". Ya see, a gas tank in your car right now would have to be 3,000 times bigger than it is now to get the same mileage outta gasoline as it does outta hydrogen. Thats why the "pink gup", see. Automobile (and not just automobile, jets, planes, boats, lawn mowers, name it) fuel is going to be made outta this substance that holds hydrogen atoms inert in a compact stasis. And as it turns out, you could throw a match on the stuff and it wouldn't burn. The cars of the future are going to have this.. well ironically its called a "catalytic converter".. that adds a special catalyst chemical to the "pink gup" and BAM! The hydrogen is released right into the cylinders. And its not going to have to be no tank 3,000 times bigger neither. Its gonna be just the same size. Even smaller..

And even more irony is the fact that this chemical reaction that releases the hydrogen atoms from the pink gup produces a by-product: poop. Our cars are gonna poop again..

[booyaw_77]

Fires not supposed to melt steel. Not real steel anyway. I think this is a vast recycled steel conspiracy.

[sugarmice-2009]

OR perhaps we have more disasters and are used to rebuilding... whatever it may be DON'T see where this has anything remotely close to 9/11 -
sometimes I wonder why some of you get on to post - keep to the original story please - if not, then email each other your gripes. This is NON POLITICAL and NON 9/11....
some guy lost control and slammed a bridge, and we found that fire does melt steel.. but then again - we all know that if you grew up in iron ore mining ares.... it's not top secret...
so we move on - commuters find a different way to get to work, the guys get out there and start cleaning up and rebuilding and in a couple months we'll all be back to normal. As normal as the bay area can get ... GO SHARKS

[charlemaine1]

LOOK....the dang overpass just Shape-Shifted ! (lightening things up with a little humor)

[kevboom]

Well, the people of San Fran can take heart that at least the California department of transportation knows how to rebuild an interstate quickly (60 day repairs following Northridge quake). In North Carolina, our department of transportation run by Billy Bob Bubba's second cousin twice removed can't add a lane to a 7-mile stretch of I-40 through Chapel Hill and Durham in less than 3-4 years time, and the road is completely flat with virtually zero bridges. And I'm not kidding about the 3-4 year thing. Oh, and did I mention they paved it wrong, so after opening the road last year, they're closing it down again this spring to repave the whole thing? Great fun. At least your bridge will be fixed in two months. Inept has nothing on a southern department of transportation. Come to think of it, Chicago is a joke as well. Maybe it's an east coast thing.

[passerby2]

The questions surrounding the collaspe of the twin towers are not conspiracy theories, they are logical question that has been ignored. How can anyone who've seen the 9/11 mystery video, not raise an eyebrow to the events of the 9/11 attack?

[booyaw_77]

Its things like dis dat make me call french fries "piece'a shyyyt taters".

[sugarmice-2009]

this is bad BUT not as bad as Loma Prieta in 1989.. that was something .. and NOT A WARNING.. just shake rattle and drop.... at least with this everyone had advance notice and could make alternative plans - and it isn't a huge section of the bridge like the earthquake caused BUT the bay area is used to disasters and they will recover just like they did before...
Fortunately it didn't happen during rush hour because if it had we'd have a major disaster on our hands.. but we will survive = we also bounce back - that's one of the good things about the bay area...

[booyaw_77]

.. you should see what deyz told me about ***-ed.

[booyaw_77]

This is how they taught me to spell in the "college of Karl Rove Baptist Politics School of Medicine".

[nolalou]

Further information to debunk all the 9/11 conspiracy theories:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=5

[bernieb14]

booyaw_77

You must be from bayou country the way to communicate!! Your not making much sense!!

[booyaw_77]

Hohohohoho.. don't git me started on Katrina. All those vets overseas? Fighting stupid wars? At a lunatic's president's whim? Ya think *** many people woulda suffered right here at home if we had the national guard to keep that chandra levy from breaking? Uh-uh.

"We gotta go to war with Iraq." He said. Right after: "We don't nationbuild."

Great job pissy.

[bernieb14]

booyaw_77

Remember, this is Pelosi/Lib country you're talking about, but I'm sure all you libs will try to spin it in a way that it's Bush's fault. Sort of like Katrina!!

[nolalou]

talkingham,

I don't have to Name One, but I can name ONE F_ING IDIOT WHO BELIVES EVRY HALF ASSED CONSPIRACY THRORY TO COME ALONG.. it's you ******! Just look in the nearest mirror! (and NO, I'm not a Bushie Republican!)

[booyaw_77]

I'll tell ya why that bridge broke: Standards. The supreme court has gotta step in here and do something about this. "STANDARDS!" We have standards we place upon our civilian contractors in their construction. No! Its not a relative of Cheney's. It's a code. A code that says: This is how ya build a road!

Where's Tome Dalay.. SOMEONE GIT TOM DELAY IN HERE! He'll tell yaz..

[bernieb14]

booyaw_77

Go weave a basket or something!!