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Indiana Jones anyone??

1.5K views 18 replies 13 participants last post by  MEJ684  
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I think this is what he was trying to post:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World.../news/World/Wrecking-ball-breaks-loose-three-hurt/2007/07/10/1183833503720.html

A 680-kilogram wrecking ball has broken loose from a crane cable in Pennsylvania, smashing into cars and injuring three people.

The incident occurred in Meadville, north of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, with the ball coming to rest in the boot of a car at an intersection.

The ball, about 90cm across, was being used on Monday to demolish part of a library at the town's Allegheny College when the cable snapped, police said.

The crane operator tried to stop it, but it rolled more than one kilometre downhill, damaging more than a dozen vehicles as it bounced from kerb to kerb, police said.

Most of the damaged vehicles were parked, but the ball slammed into the rear of a car stopped at an intersection, causing a chain reaction accident with two other cars at the traffic light, police said.

The ball finally lodged in the boot of a car, pushing the vehicle about six metres.

"I got out of my car and couldn't believe it when I walked back and saw this giant wrecking ball sitting in the trunk of the last car," said police Officer Brian Joseph.

Meadville is about 145 kilometres north of Pittsburgh.

© 2007 AP DIGITAL
 
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or FIFA soccer.
 
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My friend was driving on the other side of the street when it happened. He called me & i thought he was bs'in me until the local news showed. He said the first car it hit the chick looked like Alison Doody from the Last Crusade and I thought mmmmmm hawt milf...:D :thumbup:
 
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I had to work with solid steel like that in my old job. 3 foot cube of steel and it weighs more than a truck...

It's funny watching something that heavy getting picked up by a tiny looking chain

We had 50,000lb slats of steel we'd crane with a cable that looked no bigger than the cable I use to pull cars out of snowbanks in the winter.