[summergal]

Originally Posted by Jammie

Wow, that's a lot of accidents. This is a really sad story and I'm wondering if anyone remembers it. In 1980 part of the St. Pete bridge collapsed and 12 vehicles went into the ocean. I believe there was only one survivor.

You mean the Skyway Bridge? Yes that was terrible. Even today we pull off the road and wait if a barge is going under!

[Jammie]

Originally Posted by summergal

You mean the Skyway Bridge? Yes that was terrible. Even today we pull off the road and wait if a barge is going under!

Yes, that's the name of it. Thank you for refreshing my memory. I've never seen it, but have seen pics of it and some of them were on here. I think Shores posted them. I don't mind a bridge, but that one looks a bit too long for me.

[Muggy]

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway

"...at least 96 people have committed suicide by jumping from the center span into the waters of Tampa Bay."

Also from Wikipedia:

"The southbound span (the one built in 1971) was destroyed on May 9, 1980, when the freighter SS Summit Venture collided with a pier during a storm, sending over 1200 feet (366m) of the bridge plummeting into Tampa Bay. The collision caused several automobiles and a Greyhound bus to fall 150 feet (46 m), killing 35 people.

One man, Wesley MacIntire, survived the fall when his pickup truck landed on the deck of the Summit Venture before falling into the bay. He sued the company that owned the ship, and settled for $175,000 in 1984. [4] He always regretted being the only one to survive the fall, and died in 1989."





Fair use: education/public interest

[sunrico90]

[quote=Muggy;311412]The Sunshine Skyway Bridge

Did you change your location: Bandwagonprognosticatorville, FL

[Edvard]

That was the only day that week I didnt drive the Skyway.
If I remember, a bus load of girls went into the drink

[Jammie]

Edvard, it sounds like someone was looking out for you. That had to be absolutely awful and I have never really heard of the amount of people who passed on that day.

[summergal]

We watched video our friend took when the remaining span was blown up. Alot of emotion when it came down for those in the crowd watching. What is left is now a fishing pier. I have to say, it was very eerie driving across the remaining span right next to the old part with the middle missing.


Link to an in depth look into that day:

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com...ges/skyway.htm

[Edvard]

The old one used to really shake and sway, it felt like it would come down on windy days. The problem, (If my memory serves) was the angle at which big ships had to go through.

The new one is nicer.

The poeple in that yellow Olds Omega probably are still in couseling. I know I would have nightmares. I was due over that bridge, but got a bunch of phonecalls that day and never could get away from the phone.

[Muggy]

Manatee Abuse = x 1,000,000,000

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/11/Ci..._caught_.shtml

[Keikis]

Good link, Muggy. I agree with you that the worst of Florida is the sub-human mentality that thinks that they have the right to treat creatures (one of Florida's greatest attributes) with frivolity, carelessness or out-and-out mistreament. Having lived all over the world and the U.S., and as a FL native, why do we have such a large number of backward, ignorant people in this state?

Sunrico, your posts of the impaled bird and the Christmas display of a bleeding deer are perfect examples of these low-lifes' mentalities. It seems that we have an unusually high number of human cockroaches in the south that have to prove their obvious lack manhood by showing power over defenseless creatures. Disgusting.