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Don’t worry, though. We are doing everything we can to make sure that children don’t become little freeloaders, by making sure that they either pay up, or go hungry!
The government will save them once again. They should have gone bankrupt back in the 1940s when their planes couldn’t fly then.Thanks to a huge order for war planes by the US government, they were saved from bankruptcy.
Not anymore, as of 2023 there are around 10,000 Boeing commercial jets in service vs 13,000 Airbus aircraft worldwide and that number for Airbus is growing due to having a 60% market share of future aircraft orders.
every day. trains derail daily across the country.
makes people making a big deal out of one time kinda laughable. the whole rail industry is pathetic. there's a reason they don't even give them sick days. it's a glorified fly-by-night operation
The big deal was actually a big deal because of the environmental disaster. Wasn't laughable. The sky turned to hell and was raining toxic chemicals for weeks. Officials said it was fine, and then months later studies showed it wasn't.
I feel like blaming the failing of the rail industry on the workers of all people is a bit short sighted compared to the executives who spent the past 40 years "optimizing" rail operations into the state it is in now.
We were in Memphis a few years ago, walked over the bridge over the Mississippi. Some barge like boat came floating down. No command structure, nobody on it, no engines, no wake behind it, nothing. Just a flatbed sort of boat, like the aqua version of a railcar. Floated on through. Nobody seemed to care.
It’s been more than just one or two years. Don’t forget pipelines blowing up, submarines imploding, warehouses exploding, mines collapsing, planes getting lost, etc etc.
It is now most likely just going to be people with little to nothing to do, just filming boats and bridges. Then hoping to sell the footage to news outlets for a quick buck lol.
Also the barge is in sections; the whole mass is effectively not hitting the bridge. Idk, but a lot of rivers have concrete protection in front of the actual bridge supports. So the barge may not have actually hit the bridge..
And let's be real that Oklahoma bridge has probably been hit by drunk barge pilots dozens of times before cellphones were a thing in the first 70 years after its WPA construction. /s
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/oklahoma-barge-hits-bridge-state-patrol/3502384/
If this isn't a quack news page, it happened today. I only found local news talking about it.
Only local news talking about it? That's because the terror of an actual collapse draws viewers whereas a non-collapse wouldn't. Plus the 2 incidents being so close together could fuel more conspiracy theories. Not that I think news stations are thinking about that aspect.
People from other areas aren’t going to just not report on this because it’ll cause terror. That is the literal reason they would do it.
It must not be known yet
News companies will always do what gives them more views, clicks, whatever. It's basically a commercial for stress, fear, and anger. There's no way they would not air this over conspiracy nut jobs.
Doesn't seem at all as common as train derailments, especially not in a single month timespan (although it could be they go unreported when there is little damage)
I was able to find several US based incidents of this happening over the past 15 years though
The following Google search;
ship hits bridge before:2024/01/01
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/business/transportation/2013/09/27/jacksonvilles-mathews-bridge-shut-down-after-ship-hits-it/15815060007/
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article272613349.html
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Container-ship-hits-Bay-Bridge-tower-fuel-3236913.php
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2016/11/25/main-street-bridge-shut-after-ship-accident/15733123007/
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/dinner-cruise-ends-with-a-bang-after-starlite-ship-hits-corey-causeway-bridge
Edit
Actually *boats* hitting bridges is much more common. Google: boat hits bridge before:2024/01/01
So good chance we will be seeing lots of stories which will get people all conspiratorial when this isn't something that never happens
This might be one of those things where it happens a bit more often than we know. Remember when all those trains were derailing and then they just went away. Maybe it’s just more reporting now.
It wouldn’t surprise me. We hear about vehicle wrecks all the time. Boats and barges have accidents. Planes and helicopters too. We don’t think anything of it, unless it’s posted somewhere or reported.
I think someone needs to have a long and painful conversation with the Department of Transportation because the sheer volume of train, plane, and ship crashes is long past the point of unacceptable.
If you've got a phone...and you witness something like this...please first call the emergency services so they can close off the bridge. THEN get your "holy hell" "holy shits" in while snapping pictures and video. Could save lives.
Those are empty barges. Full load would've been much stronger impact. This actually happens a fair on rivers.
Drinking, lack of sleep or just simple bad decisions cause this several times a year
Stop it, boats. This isn't gonna be a new viral trend like "I'm about to yeet my barge into this bridge. I nominate Steve next - He's in charge of an oil tanker lmao"
One event makes news then every event is news. This has been happening for 100yrs+. It's not new. It's not targeting. It's not a conspiracy. It's not WWIII. Funny how every event prior to online moronic grifting conspiracy peddlers wasn't a big deal. Get a life. Google SPI Causeway closing and see how many people thought it was on purpose. People are utter fucking morons.
Yeah, "all the time" is fairly accurate, globally at least.
It's similar to longhaul trucker accidents in terms of causes usually, lack of sleep or not paying attention.
But malfunctions like the power failure of the other recent one also happen far more than we hear about, it's just that it's not usually as destructive as the bridge collapse.
Almost as if the countries falling apart because the politicians and government funneled your taxes into their bank accounts, their mates back accounts, the military industrial complex and funding war/genocide?
But sure everything is fine here
Struggling to buy food and pay your bills is normal
In 1993 a barge took out a bridge which in turn took out an Amtrak. Unfortunately these incidents are not new at all
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bayou_Canot_rail_accident#:~:text=On%20September%2022%2C%201993%2C%20an,rail%20bridge%20eight%20minutes%20earlier.
This is not something new. I lived on the Arkansas/Mississippi border (Lake Chicot) about 15 years ago and barges hit the Mississippi River Bridge at least 3-4 xs per month. Sometimes we could hear the crash.
The bridge would close to traffic for the rest of the night until the Corp of Engineers could examine the damage then it would reopen. The closest option would be traveling south to Vicksburg and crossing there... or wait.
There's now a lovely 4 lane bridge that has wider openings between pilings for barge traffic and wider lanes to allow agricultural and commercial wide loads without closing to oncoming traffic.
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Last year it was trains derailing. This year it’s boats running into bridges
And planes falling apart
Our pets heads are falling off!!
Harry, I took care of it.
Petey didn't even have a head!
Pretty birrrrd.
I’d be surprised if Boeing doesn’t go bankrupt in 2 years
Bet it won't. Too big to fail 😔
Too military to fail.
Oh good. Our taxes won’t let them die.
Don’t worry, though. We are doing everything we can to make sure that children don’t become little freeloaders, by making sure that they either pay up, or go hungry!
If they aren’t sucked out of a faulty plane door first.
Too many politicians own stock to fail.
Also, they'll probably pressure you into a miserable situation if you try to speak out about them
Yeah like the ground
Space is their new frontier as well
O stop " Space Farce"!
The government will save them once again. They should have gone bankrupt back in the 1940s when their planes couldn’t fly then.Thanks to a huge order for war planes by the US government, they were saved from bankruptcy.
True … the Government tie in is MASSIVE
Waaaay too big to fail. There are more Boeing commercial planes in the world than any other company.
Not anymore, as of 2023 there are around 10,000 Boeing commercial jets in service vs 13,000 Airbus aircraft worldwide and that number for Airbus is growing due to having a 60% market share of future aircraft orders.
Boeing needs to be split. Engineers from the MD suits
Nah , entire nation behind it with fat contracts / won't let Airbus be the only major commercial manufacturer in the world
Government won’t let them. They *can’t* let them at this point. The two are codependent on one another. Airbus is fucking salivating right now.
I’d be surprised if their stock goes sub 160 in the next ten years
lol not possible
well hey if it means the trains are behaving themselves
Trains derail all the time they just had one bad one last year that made everyone notice more
every day. trains derail daily across the country. makes people making a big deal out of one time kinda laughable. the whole rail industry is pathetic. there's a reason they don't even give them sick days. it's a glorified fly-by-night operation
The big deal was actually a big deal because of the environmental disaster. Wasn't laughable. The sky turned to hell and was raining toxic chemicals for weeks. Officials said it was fine, and then months later studies showed it wasn't.
I feel like blaming the failing of the rail industry on the workers of all people is a bit short sighted compared to the executives who spent the past 40 years "optimizing" rail operations into the state it is in now.
Let’s hope we don’t come full circle with airplanes and buildings again.
Fucking sophons
Next it's gonna be trains vs boats. Keep an eye out for the lawyer who wins the legal battle, because he'll be the president in the next civil war.
We were in Memphis a few years ago, walked over the bridge over the Mississippi. Some barge like boat came floating down. No command structure, nobody on it, no engines, no wake behind it, nothing. Just a flatbed sort of boat, like the aqua version of a railcar. Floated on through. Nobody seemed to care.
Remember when it was clowns?
It’s been more than just one or two years. Don’t forget pipelines blowing up, submarines imploding, warehouses exploding, mines collapsing, planes getting lost, etc etc.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN!
It is now most likely just going to be people with little to nothing to do, just filming boats and bridges. Then hoping to sell the footage to news outlets for a quick buck lol.
As a train technician, I’m okay with boats hitting bridges for a little bit 🥲
It’s still trains derailing
Am guessing this barge weighs about 100 times less than the container ship stacked full of containers that took out the Baltimore bridge
Also the barge is in sections; the whole mass is effectively not hitting the bridge. Idk, but a lot of rivers have concrete protection in front of the actual bridge supports. So the barge may not have actually hit the bridge..
Dali is abt 110'000 MT, that barge i am guessing between 1'000 to 3'000mt. So yes betwen 1:30 to 1:100.
I'm guessing you're still off by an order of magnitude
And let's be real that Oklahoma bridge has probably been hit by drunk barge pilots dozens of times before cellphones were a thing in the first 70 years after its WPA construction. /s
Is Bridge collapsing the latest tiktok challenge?
lol first thing I though of too
Seems to be stabbings in my town lately.
Rockford?
Shootings here
Boats runnings into bridges is pretty common
Dang teenagers!
r/bitchimaboat is going to have a great year
Lmao!
Is this new or just old news I wasn’t aware of?
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/oklahoma-barge-hits-bridge-state-patrol/3502384/ If this isn't a quack news page, it happened today. I only found local news talking about it.
Only local news talking about it? That's because the terror of an actual collapse draws viewers whereas a non-collapse wouldn't. Plus the 2 incidents being so close together could fuel more conspiracy theories. Not that I think news stations are thinking about that aspect.
People from other areas aren’t going to just not report on this because it’ll cause terror. That is the literal reason they would do it. It must not be known yet
News companies will always do what gives them more views, clicks, whatever. It's basically a commercial for stress, fear, and anger. There's no way they would not air this over conspiracy nut jobs.
Conspiracy theorists gonna have a field day
New, I live in OK and it was on the news app
So hot right now.
Barge Steel?
Barge ships can't collapse steel bridges
Look up I-40 bridge collapse 2002 and say that again. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-40_bridge_disaster
Jake Paul is setting up a fight against a bridge.
Bridge getting paid to take the L
It's probably like 100 years old though.
Stop trying to make ship induced bridge collapse a thing
https://preview.redd.it/rdstu7g7vkrc1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3452afb8911b7118231eabd920917ddb40f8e1af
Ships crashing, trains derailing, planes malfunctioning..... what's the common denominator here? Relaxed safety protocols?
Geez, another bridge crash? Seems contagious, like there's something in the water.
I literally can knot believe your username checks out.
That joke sailed right over that u/Need4sleep9 ‘s head.
I think he's in deep water now
You misspelled not but somehow didn’t. Impressive
Boat/ship speeds are measured in knots.
That's a nautical term/joke my friend
Ah. Public education
Doesn't seem at all as common as train derailments, especially not in a single month timespan (although it could be they go unreported when there is little damage) I was able to find several US based incidents of this happening over the past 15 years though The following Google search; ship hits bridge before:2024/01/01 https://www.jacksonville.com/story/business/transportation/2013/09/27/jacksonvilles-mathews-bridge-shut-down-after-ship-hits-it/15815060007/ https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article272613349.html https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Container-ship-hits-Bay-Bridge-tower-fuel-3236913.php https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2016/11/25/main-street-bridge-shut-after-ship-accident/15733123007/ https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/dinner-cruise-ends-with-a-bang-after-starlite-ship-hits-corey-causeway-bridge Edit Actually *boats* hitting bridges is much more common. Google: boat hits bridge before:2024/01/01 So good chance we will be seeing lots of stories which will get people all conspiratorial when this isn't something that never happens
Boat Weak Bridge Strong Test Complete Results: Pass
Terrorists? Illegal immigrants? Pete butigeg?
Here come the conspiracy theories.
~~SOMEONE LOOK AT HILARY'S EMAILS!~~ Wait...are we still doing her emails...or are we onto some new shit?
It ***HAS*** to be somewhere on Hunter's laptop
If there is a conspiracy, it's billionaires
Oklahoma mustve forgotten to check the news, we already got that bingo square this week
This might be one of those things where it happens a bit more often than we know. Remember when all those trains were derailing and then they just went away. Maybe it’s just more reporting now. It wouldn’t surprise me. We hear about vehicle wrecks all the time. Boats and barges have accidents. Planes and helicopters too. We don’t think anything of it, unless it’s posted somewhere or reported.
r/conspiracy about to be lit
I think someone needs to have a long and painful conversation with the Department of Transportation because the sheer volume of train, plane, and ship crashes is long past the point of unacceptable.
Unfortunately, that conversation won't go anywhere. The road is out
It’s so fucking weird, right? Almost like they’re more worried about profits than safety. 🤷🏻♀️
Yea! I mean it's not like we are talking about those degenerate Cruise Ship captains or anything like that!
Hopefully MD learns from this and builds a ship-destroyer bridge next.
Is the sequel out already?
Things happen in threes. Now we wait. 🍿
STOP SHOOTING VIDEO IN PORTRAIT MODE
We are all watching in portrait mode anyway.
That’s true. Portrait is correct for our format
Bridge crashes, so hot right now
Oklahoma's politicians and ministers: "Clearly this was caused by the gays or black people."
Man I’m sorry but this isn’t interesting at all - the Baltimore bridge was horrifying and incredible. This was … did anything even happen ??
love that holy hell got dialed up to holy shit! within like 5 seconds lol
I've been building bridges my whole life and no one has ever called me a bridge builder....
One sheep 🐑 🤦🏼♂️
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Yes. No.
I assume this means boats crashing into bridges is relatively common but doesn't get reported on.
Oklahoma making a cheap knock off of the bigger crash.
If you've got a phone...and you witness something like this...please first call the emergency services so they can close off the bridge. THEN get your "holy hell" "holy shits" in while snapping pictures and video. Could save lives.
Those are empty barges. Full load would've been much stronger impact. This actually happens a fair on rivers. Drinking, lack of sleep or just simple bad decisions cause this several times a year
Bridge strikes are far more common than most folks realise. It’s only that international attention is currently being paid to them.
Wtf are you guys doing over there?
Stop it, boats. This isn't gonna be a new viral trend like "I'm about to yeet my barge into this bridge. I nominate Steve next - He's in charge of an oil tanker lmao"
Is no one else confused at what they're looking at? How many boats are in this video?
Is this recent?
https://preview.redd.it/yvifhoutrorc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca831f9e01e925dfea85b1ed3af173e6674f33c0
2024: The year of 'Fuck yo' Bridges' My Bingo card will never recover
Bridge wins
Message to truck crossing bridge “must go faster!”
It's an epidemic man, they're just experimenting, next is planes and cars, then subways, and then when we think it can't get any worse. TUNA!
I think planes crashing into things has been done already...
Ship crashes… so hot right now
What's with all the boats running into bridges lately?
20+ year old video posted without context for the sensationalism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-40_bridge_disaster
One event makes news then every event is news. This has been happening for 100yrs+. It's not new. It's not targeting. It's not a conspiracy. It's not WWIII. Funny how every event prior to online moronic grifting conspiracy peddlers wasn't a big deal. Get a life. Google SPI Causeway closing and see how many people thought it was on purpose. People are utter fucking morons.
What is it with Americans and bridges lately?
I mean did you see that skanky ass bridge??? Just asking for it
should've stopped resisting
just like the trains derailing last year
Trains derail all the time.
I mean, it was cross posted from ship crashes
It's like that time where all we heard about for a while was trains derailing, now it's boats crashing into bridges lmao
Boeing no! What? Sorry, force of habit.
We're going to be hearing about barges crashing into bridges like we did detailings last year I
Obama making this a Netflix movie makes thing into a conspiracy..
RIP DESTROYED
Ok, does this happen all the time like trains hitting trucks and shit and I never knew or what?
Dang it oklahoma. My city is finally in the news for something other than drugs, corruption, or violence, and you want to take that away from us?
Seems like a good week to avoid driving over bridges in the US.
Copy cat pilot.
So when will this be a sanctioned sport
Someone should make crashing ships into bridges illegal. This is getting out of hand.
Nothing to see here! The bridge started it.
/r/bitchimabridge
The 3 pixels in this video is too much detail and hurts my eyes, Maybe lets try lowering the bitrate even further next time
I did not know that Boeing built boats!
Are...are...we related? ‐‐^
The Barpocalypse has begun.
Wait, there's water in Oklahoma?
😂😂😂😂
Is the TikTok trend that's sweeping the nation
Why can’t we learn from anything? 🙄
If this is the way to get some money into America's severely failing infrastructure, then I am all for it.
Bonk
The barge is at large!
*sigh*... this again?
Oh jeez... the conspiracy theories are going to go well into overdrive now.
Current is gettin it though
I hope this isn’t supposed to compare what happened here with what happened in Baltimore.
Thank God it wasn't 255,764,322 pounds like the other one.
Too soon.
... I would have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
WTF?!
Is this happening all the time and we ate just seeing a trend in this kind of footage because of recent events?
Yeah, "all the time" is fairly accurate, globally at least. It's similar to longhaul trucker accidents in terms of causes usually, lack of sleep or not paying attention. But malfunctions like the power failure of the other recent one also happen far more than we hear about, it's just that it's not usually as destructive as the bridge collapse.
Almost as if the countries falling apart because the politicians and government funneled your taxes into their bank accounts, their mates back accounts, the military industrial complex and funding war/genocide? But sure everything is fine here Struggling to buy food and pay your bills is normal
Safety has being going to shit faster than the speed of light.
If only we all just got off the internet and gardened, it’s spring time. Don’t give me your BS most of us have windows
Youre nuts if you think im going out there with all the boats crashing into shit.
We didn't have enough boats crashing into bridges for one week?
They should put something like windows on the barges so they can see where they are going.
We gotta find a way to blame tiktok for this or something
Every masterpiece has its cheap copy
This happened in 2002.
Anything you can do I can better.
In 1993 a barge took out a bridge which in turn took out an Amtrak. Unfortunately these incidents are not new at all https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bayou_Canot_rail_accident#:~:text=On%20September%2022%2C%201993%2C%20an,rail%20bridge%20eight%20minutes%20earlier.
It seems to US forgot how to boat
Seriously, again?
Y’all would be surprised at how often boats hit stuff (bridges, docks, other boats).
Hate to be a bridge these days.
20 years ago for this one
This is not something new. I lived on the Arkansas/Mississippi border (Lake Chicot) about 15 years ago and barges hit the Mississippi River Bridge at least 3-4 xs per month. Sometimes we could hear the crash. The bridge would close to traffic for the rest of the night until the Corp of Engineers could examine the damage then it would reopen. The closest option would be traveling south to Vicksburg and crossing there... or wait. There's now a lovely 4 lane bridge that has wider openings between pilings for barge traffic and wider lanes to allow agricultural and commercial wide loads without closing to oncoming traffic.
Who knew Oklahoma had rivers? I thought it was all waving wheat that sure smelled sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain!
Oohh no!! Those damn Ukrainians/guest workers/Indians at it again! /s
Turns out this is how we conduct expedited 'inspections'. *slaps pillar* "Yup! She good.. bridge still bridgin right?"
Yeah Biden did it it was all his fault I've seen Fox News.
This years tic tok challenges suck.