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Space Shuttle Collides With Bridge In New York

Posted by timothy on from the all-this-to-avoid-the-tunnel-toll dept.

First time accepted submitter AbrasiveCat writes "While transporting the space shuttle Enterprise to its new home at the Intrepid Museum, a gust of wind caught the shuttle and pushed a wing tip into the South Channel Subway Bridge. With any luck it was just the protective covering that was damaged. Ah, New York traffic."

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  1. Blast. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    We were hoping that Britain would provide something of a buffer; but it looks like metric wind is making its way from the EU after all...

  2. Oblig Tasteless by stevegee58 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ready for throttle-up.

    1. Re:Oblig Tasteless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ready for throttle-up.

      Well, as long as we're all going to hell today, 2001 called, 1986 can have its tasteless humor back:

      This just in: A SECOND SPACE SHUTTLE HAS JUST CRASHED INTO THE SECOND PIER OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE!

  3. Re:Ease up on the hyperbole please. by Tanktalus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod parent up to +10. There's NOTHING worse than hyperbole. If I had a nickel for every time I saw unnecessary hyperbole, I'd be a BILLIONAIRE by now. If I could jump as over the top as these headlines get, I could out-leap Superman over tall buildings! Excessive use of hyperbole is worse than SATAN rising from the DEPTHS OF HELL, spewing HELLFIRE on everyone!

    Or, maybe, just maybe, you need to take a valium. Not sure.

  4. New Yorkers... by Sez+Zero · · Score: 5, Funny

    THIS is why you CAN'T have nice things!

  5. Re:It was on a boat by htnmmo · · Score: 1, Funny

    I agree. Still too soon to be publishing stories with sensational headlines about aircraft crashing into things in NY.

    I'm not trying to be funny or sarcastic.

  6. So, by hackertourist · · Score: 5, Funny

    these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise?

  7. Another accident ... by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. and again, there were no survivors among the shuttle crew.

    --
    Have gnu, will travel.
  8. Re:It was on a boat by Baloroth · · Score: 4, Funny

    A priceless relic collides with a heavily used piece of transportation infrastructure?

    Thank God the relic wasn't damaged, and the Shuttle should be pretty easy to fix.

    --
    "None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
  9. SHIELDS! SHIELDS! by ebinrock · · Score: 3, Funny

    [Scotty]: What, she didna' have her shields up?

  10. Re:It was on a boat by BobNET · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's funny, the damage doesn't look as bad from out here.