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XO balcony collapses at Berkeley, killing 5 students
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Date: June 16th, 2015 9:39 AM Author: low-t histrionic mad-dog skullcap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28131218) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 9:55 AM Author: low-t histrionic mad-dog skullcap http://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-california-apartment-balcony-collapse/story?id=31795725 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28131295) |
Date: June 16th, 2015 9:52 AM Author: Fishy dog poop I chortled. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28131281) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 9:53 AM Author: boyish stead dysfunction It looks like one of those fake balconies you see in shit construction these days. Sad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28131283) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 10:25 AM Author: Charcoal internal respiration site (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28131464) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 11:39 AM Author: mind-boggling stage well this is embarrassing for california and america - turns out that SHITTY low-quality construction standards killed five international students from ireland and wounded 9 more:
http://www.thejournal.ie/balcony-collapse-california-2164756-Jun2015/
if cali can't even build simple balconies to code, imagine how bad things will be in a serious quake. way to use cut-rate mexican labor for everything, you cheap dumbfucks. |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:02 PM Author: Talented medicated corn cake How do you know it is the balconies fault? How many drunken Irishmen were on it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132026) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:03 PM Author: Charcoal internal respiration site stop victim blaming (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132029) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:04 PM Author: mind-boggling stage a balcony of that size has a code requirement of supporting at least 3Klbs. there were 13 students on the balcony, a mix of males and females. it's unlikely that irish international students would have a mixed-gender average weight of 231lbs each. which means it wasn't up to code. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132038) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:14 PM Author: Talented medicated corn cake (dude who hasn't been to Ireland)
They easily could have had more than 3,000 lbs on that balcony. The Irish consul even said there could have been 14 people on there. It will turn out to be more, no doubt. |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:16 PM Author: grizzly odious fortuitous meteor gas station Building something to a 3000 pound standard does not mean it is supposed to fall off and kill everyone at 3100 pounds. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132136) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:18 PM Author: Talented medicated corn cake It means it isn't designed to hold more than 3000 lbs bro.
And look at you acting all hysterical like a girl. |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:19 PM Author: mind-boggling stage it means at 3K, its structural stability is not as assured if there are additional stressors like a strong wind. the actual plain unstressed loading capacity would be more like 5-6K and possibly quite a bit more before actual structural failure absent other stresses. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132166) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:50 PM Author: ultramarine aphrodisiac ape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132415) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 8:47 PM Author: Violent passionate area cuckoldry (lawyer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28136220) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:23 PM Author: grizzly odious fortuitous meteor gas station If the building code requires a balcony to safely support 3000 pounds, the balcony should not be collapsing at 3100 pounds. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132199) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:49 PM Author: ultramarine aphrodisiac ape CR unless it's subject to other stresses. If it collapses at 3100 lbs under normal circumstances, no way it can withstand 3000 in a quake, extreme weather, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132409) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:20 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Really Tough Guy School Cafeteria If they all jumped at the same time, that could have resulted in a 3klbs of force. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132169) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 2:27 PM Author: slap-happy partner If only they had jumped as it was about to impact.... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28133210) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 11:56 AM Author: boyish stead dysfunction News report says something like fifteen millennials were "partying" on the small balcony when it collapsed. JFC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28131991) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:04 PM Author: floppy corner LOL SO RANDOM (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132044) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:18 PM Author: Bull Headed Potus U mad that those popular chads and beckies have engaging social lives (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132160) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:32 PM Author: boyish stead dysfunction I'm pretty sure they're dead. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132271) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 11:58 AM Author: sable indian lodge DONT FAT SHAME ME MOTHERFUCKER (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132003) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:00 PM Author: comical wagecucks laser beams This problem would have NEVER occurred if they just paid the balcony construction laborers $15/hour. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132015) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:02 PM Author: french avocado rigpig Typical of this joke nation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132021) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:27 PM Author: Thriller cruise ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132222) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:11 PM Author: umber territorial theater where was Ted Cruz? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132091) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:13 PM Author: Shaky market hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132111) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 2:51 PM Author: Shaky market hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28133403) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:13 PM Author: vibrant lay kitty cat Chicago reigns supreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Chicago_balcony_collapse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132119) |
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Date: June 17th, 2015 2:13 AM Author: 180 quadroon pervert (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28138941) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:18 PM Author: dashing copper gaping The Irishmen Who Went Up the Stairs but Came Down a Balcony (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132158) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 1:32 PM Author: Talented medicated corn cake too soon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132741) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 9:09 PM Author: marvelous senate voyeur (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28136383) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:47 PM Author: swashbuckling theatre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpY_ElM4CYk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132395) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:49 PM Author: french avocado rigpig Literally TTT Ireland is LOLING at pathetic fucking America. Nation of fat idiots who can invade other countries but cant maintain proper infrastructure. Euros travel to this shit nation and literally LOL at how pathetic the infrastructure is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132410) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:52 PM Author: Charcoal internal respiration site not really sure this counts as infrastructure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132432) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:59 PM Author: Thriller cruise ship this would never happen in a first world country
greedy corner cutting developer, criminally negligent management company, plus literal zoo of a city government in berzerkeley |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 1:35 PM Author: Talented medicated corn cake See below. It just happened in London 6 months ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132752) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 4:03 PM Author: french avocado rigpig LJL at blaming govt, the reptiles dont want regulations, they want free market to dictate balcony design, fuck u faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28134167) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 9:52 PM Author: Mischievous onyx volcanic crater This shit happens in #1 infrastructure China every day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28136722) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 1:35 PM Author: Talented medicated corn cake O RLY?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-30148003 |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 2:30 PM Author: slap-happy partner https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=stadium+collapse&profile=default (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28133232) |
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Date: June 17th, 2015 2:13 AM Author: 180 quadroon pervert U got Pwnd by Rudolph. Ur done here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28138944) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:50 PM Author: Lascivious aggressive persian How big of a pussy do you have to be to die from this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132414) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:51 PM Author: boyish stead dysfunction I looked at the balcony on street view, and it's a good fifty feet above the sidewalk. Hard to survive that kind of fall. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132421) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:53 PM Author: Lascivious aggressive persian Unless it flips over and falls on you, there is no excuse to die. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132446) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:53 PM Author: ultramarine aphrodisiac ape Joking? The brain trauma could put you in a coma or worse even falling from 1-2 stories. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132440) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:54 PM Author: Lascivious aggressive persian They had an entire balcony to ride to the ground and absorb the impact. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132452) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:54 PM Author: boyish stead dysfunction The balcony just tipped over and dumped them onto the concrete below. It's still attached to the building. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132459) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:55 PM Author: french avocado rigpig If they had just jumped they cld have MADE it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132466) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 12:57 PM Author: Lascivious aggressive persian That makes it harder. I would just grab onto a railing or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132479) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 1:01 PM Author: umber territorial theater holy hell PEAK EXPERIENCE alert (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132508) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 1:03 PM Author: sable indian lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132530) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 1:16 PM Author: gay place of business RSF's first case? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28132622) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 2:24 PM Author: Maroon painfully honest organic girlfriend elastic band a sixth Chad has perished. RIP (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28133172) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 2:29 PM Author: sable indian lodge why is this an "xo" balcony, again? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28133220) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 2:37 PM Author: Laughsome pistol nursing home Because libs = bad and deserve to die, berkeley = lib, and it doesn't matter that they were just Irish tourists looking to hang out for a summer.
Did I mention that it's LIBS who are mentally ill? |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 2:58 PM Author: Maroon painfully honest organic girlfriend elastic band lighten up, faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28133501) |
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Date: June 17th, 2015 2:14 AM Author: 180 quadroon pervert (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28138947) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 6:04 PM Author: wonderful useless brakes spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28135053) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 2:50 PM Author: provocative obsidian trump supporter stag film normally the maximum load is 0.8 times its real bearing capacity
so 3000/0.8=3750 lbs
but lets be realistic, the way you check for failure in structures is by dynamic action
im pretty sure if 14 people jump and land at once, the force is enough to surpass the shear capacity of the concrete slab, then boom, the connection to the wall cracks and just falls loose and SPLAT, heem sleepy |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 3:28 PM Author: Laughsome pistol nursing home yeah it's more probable that 14 irish people jumped at once and not some cheap slumlords cutting corners when building the thing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28133812) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 3:40 PM Author: Thriller cruise ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28133948) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 3:43 PM Author: Crusty curious temple newt Hyatt Regency for the win...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 3:46 PM Author: vibrant lay kitty cat d%bs suffers from insufficient load capacity as well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28134002) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 4:01 PM Author: boyish stead dysfunction The eyewitness accounts of that one are pretty disturbing. There were mangled bodies everywhere and rescue workers had to cut through corpses in order to reach survivors. To make things even worse, a water main broke and was flooding the scene. And if that wasn't bad enough, several electrical wires were dangling all over the place, showering everyone with sparks and death. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28134154) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 6:01 PM Author: 180 quadroon pervert i hope they were shitlibby as all hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28135028) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 6:18 PM Author: low-t histrionic mad-dog skullcap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28135198) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 8:42 PM Author: low-t histrionic mad-dog skullcap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28136182) |
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Date: June 16th, 2015 8:50 PM Author: Violent passionate area cuckoldry noooooo save me free market! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28136238) |
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Date: June 17th, 2015 2:12 AM Author: stubborn casino crotch Lol at the creeps in this thread claiming they are balcony code legal experts and using this tragedy to decry the supposedly poor infrastructure of the US.
"Berkeley officials said the building code would have required the balcony to hold at least 60 pounds per square foot. Its exact dimensions were not released, but Grace Kang, a structural engineer and spokesman for Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center at Berkeley, said it looked to her to be 4 by 6 feet, or 24 square feet. That would mean it was supposed to hold at least 1,440 pounds."
Not the 3000+ lbs requirement xo lied about.
13 people were on the balcony, so if the average weight was over 110 pounds, they were in big trouble.
As always, XO: A pretty shitty source of news. |
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Date: June 17th, 2015 8:12 AM Author: Spectacular smoky house Pretty fucking outrageous that a balcony isn't required to hold a tight mass of people standing on it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2910314&forum_id=2#28139344) |
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Date: June 17th, 2015 8:09 AM Author: Maroon painfully honest organic girlfriend elastic band Footage of the building, with what looked like rotten wooden support beams where the balcony once was, has imbued a growing sense of bewilderment in Ireland about structural standards in the United States. Many engineering experts have questioned the use of wood rather than steel for such construction, saying that such methods appear more in keeping with developing countries.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/world/europe/berkeley-balcony-collapse-california-ireland.html |
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