Don't know if its been posted but a neighbor in my complex works at this tranny burger place and she was telling me about some drag queen who apparntly ****ed this lady up with her fake tits and she's suing LMAO IT'S in daytona

May have been an edit after you read the article, but this is telling:

Late Thursday, came the first definitive word from a government official about what was being done on the bridge when it fell. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, said in a Twitter post that: “The cables that suspend the #Miami bridge had loosened & the engineering firm ordered that they be tightened. They were being tightened when it collapsed today.”

If the suspending cables pass through the concrete, makes me wonder if they snapped during the tests & the whole structure was tgen supported by just the concrete.

Great shades of the T-Dance skywalk collapse.

It doesn't look to be a support problem in the sense most think.
It's looking to be a problem of lay construction crew not realizing the consequence of their actions.
This is post-tensioned concrete, and while the tensioning steel was probably well-rated to carry the load asked of it under the construction plan, it had a brittle failure when the construction plan was altered in a way that placed the tensioning steel under unforeseen stress.

The best lay analogy I can think of if you tried to winch your friend's car out of a ditch. Suppose you use the appropriate winch and attach it at the approropriate points, but you don't notice that there is a curb at the edge of the ditch that the wheels have to travel over. Then, when the wheels hit the curb they snag, you're suddenly lifting the entire car off the ground, placing exponentially higher stress on the configuration than you would be simply pulling the car up an incline out of the ditch.

The original plans were for the moving supports to distribute the load differently, and the alteration created a high-stress area in the span while it was being placed. Then they noticed the flexion and sought to correct it by tightening the tension steel. This put the steel into failure range, but the gauges couldn't tell the worker's that, because as the tension steel approaches brittle failure, it stretches slightly so that additional tension doesn't create additional pressure, kind of like a rubber band at the end of its elastic range.

The failure to see the consequence of the change in construction plans is one thing, the decision to attempt to repair while suspended over active traffic is another entirely.

But she is not a whack job.
Florida woman 'marries' tree to protest development
http://www.kcci.com/article/florida-...ve-it/19610399 (cant get video to embed)

All I can say is...YIKES!
A Florida woman reportedly in a “romantic sexual relationship” with her brother was charged after giving birth to his baby, officials said. Pauline Elizabeth Martin, 33, told investigators she and her brother were living as a couple in Groveland when she became pregnant with his child, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Authorities said they began investigating the woman, who is a McDonald’s cashier, after the baby was born Nov. 21 with “severe medical problems.” The newborn was immediately transferred to get specialized care at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, where genetic testing revealed the parents were related, the Daily Commercial reported. Neither parent completed the information .

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/e90cbcd...%E2%80%99.html

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A woman in Florida who was arrested on suspicion of drug possession claimed cocaine found on her must have flown into her purse because it was a windy day.

Kennecia Posey, 26, said she had no idea how the drug was found on her after she was pulled over by Fort Pierce police on March 21, reports WPLG.

“I don't know anything about any cocaine,” she told officers, according to a police report on the incident. “It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.”

Posey was one of two people in the car when it was pulled over by police after it was seen swerving on the road.

The officers searched the vehicle after smelling marijuana as they approached. During the search, officers found bags of cocaine and marijuana inside Posey’s purse.

Posey admitted the marijuana was hers, but maintained she had no idea how the cocaine ended up inside her purse.

The 26-year-old was arrested and was charged with a felony count of cocaine possession and a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession. She was later released on bond.

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In November, two teenage boys in Sydney, Australia, were found with more than 40 bags of cocaine stuffed into their car's doors. They claimed they were just out to go fishing, despite not having any rods.

The 17- and 18-year-old males said it was a "big surprise" when the bags of cocaine were found hidden inside their Mazda 3's door panel and denied they were about to go on a cocaine run.

“We were going to [Sydney suburb] Ryde but came in here instead to go fishing,” the 17-year-old suspect told The Sunday Telegraph.

The pair were later charged with a series of drug offences.

Wood

the thread that never fails.

Florida woman Road Rages against the Short Bus!
http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/...209528859.html

Drugs are bad.....real bad!!!!

St. Pete man on LSD punches 13-year-old girl in face, knocks her out

http://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-co...out/1133767051

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) - Pinellas County deputies have charged a St. Petersburg man with aggravated child abuse after he punched a 13-year-old girl, causing her to lose consciousness.

According to the sheriff's office, the incident occurred around 3 p.m. Saturday at a Race Trac gas station, located at 2551 54th Avenue North in unincorporated St. Petersburg.

Kolbe Smith, 27, allegedly struck the victim in the face, unprovoked.

Smith hit the victim with such a force, she lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

Deputies say the girl's mother witnessed the assault.

Several citizens stood outside of the store and would not let Smith leave after the incident.

The first deputy to arrive tried to put Smith in custody, but he refused.

Deputies used a Taser on Smith, as he would not comply.

The 13-year-old girl was treated at the scene by EMS and was released to her parents, who took her to the hospital.

Deputies took Smith into custody after he was taken to the hospital for a laceration on his head.

When Smith was questioned by deputies, he denied having any recollection of the incident and admitted to taking the drug LSD.

Smith is charged with one count of aggravated child abuse, violation of probation felony battery and resisting arrest without violence.

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A Florida man interested in karate is alleged to have found an elusive and illegal target for his kicks: bird faces. Last week, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Rocco Joseph Mantella was arrested for “practicing karate” by kicking swans in the head at a park in downtown Orlando, and further details of his arrest—which were first published by the Bloody Elbow—are wild.

According to an Orange County (Fla.) arrest affidavit, Mantella was spotted by a few witnesses around 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 26, kicking a bunch of animals. Someone saw him kick one swan in the head and another in the butt while “practicing karate.” His kicks were enough to knock one swan down, and a witness said he was kicking “as hard as possible.” Mantella also apparently targeted a small duck enjoying a morning nap. When one witness saw what he was doing, he apparently began to laugh at her.

Mantella was charged with one count of cruelty to animals, which carries a maximum sentence of six months in Florida.

I blame this on the new Cobrai Kai.

The Crane technique. If do right, no can defense.

Quacks on. Quacks off.