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steve2470

(37,456 posts)
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:25 PM May 2013

Minn. prepares to share steel remnants from deadly 2007

Source: AP

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s House of Representatives has voted to give victims, historians and engineers a chance to claim some of the crumpled steel from the deadly 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge before the rest is sold for scrap.

Aug. 1 will mark the six-year anniversary of when the bridge buckled and fell into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour in Minneapolis, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation had to store the steel beams and plates until all the legal claims could be resolved.

The Minnesota House voted unanimously Monday to give the department months to parcel out free pieces to victims’ families, collapse survivors, the state historical society and others. The bill awaits Senate action.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/minn-prepares-to-share-steel-remnants-from-deadly-2007-bridge-collapse-with-victims-others/2013/05/06/37fc0d4e-b68a-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html

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Javaman

(62,439 posts)
2. I find it odd that a piece of something that is a prime example of the failure to
Tue May 7, 2013, 09:21 AM
May 2013

fix our infrastructure is something that someone would want to "cherish" as a memento.

sprinting toward failure.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
3. unless it's engineering professors who want to use it as a teaching example
Tue May 7, 2013, 09:55 AM
May 2013

or case study or something...

Javaman

(62,439 posts)
4. That would be true if it weren't for the fact they are offering pieces to the victims
Tue May 7, 2013, 10:19 AM
May 2013

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and families of the victims as well.

How odd is that to have a piece of something that failed that was the cause of ones injuries?

That's like keeping the bullet that you were shot with to remember the incident, as if the wound wasn't enough.

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