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- From: denebeim@brtph254.bnr.ca (Jay Denebeim P025)
- Subject: Re: Soldiers breaking step across bridge
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.015137.29552@brtph560.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research
- References: <1992Nov14.072125.14579@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <1992Nov16.182057.24712@Arco.COM> <BxvGsv.36C@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:51:37 GMT
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- In article <BxvGsv.36C@NeoSoft.com> arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
- >> |> : A hotel (in Texas?) had some sorta christmas party and people dancing on
- >> |> : an overhead walkway caused it to collapse, due to resonance, not weight.
- >> |>
- >> |> I believe the determined that it was weight - not resonance. The builder
- >> |> used substandard materials and construction techniques.
- >
- >I thought this happened in St. Louis.
- >And the second poster is right -- it had a lot to do with building code
- >violations and stuff, so that the walkways weren't strong enough to hold
- >the weight of the people who were unfortunate enough to be on it at the time.
-
- Close, it was Kansas City. My cousin's ex-pseudo-spouse got rich out
- of it. She was at the 'tea dance' (not christmas, it was in the fall)
- with two of her friends. She went to the bar to buy the next round of
- drinks and her two friends got smashed.
-
- By the way, this is not the only time a Marriot structure that was
- pushing the limits of current structural design has fallen down. (it
- was up to code, it just pushed the limit of the state of the art.)
- There was a ramp-like structure in one in Texas, I believe, which fell
- down, didn't kill anyone though.
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