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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. 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.

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

    THIS is why you CAN'T have nice things!

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

    these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise?