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2022-11-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

One person is dead and at least 16 people are injured after SUV plows into Apple store outside Boston at 'high speed' and leaves building on verge of collapse

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-21 13:24|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 One dead, up to 14 injured after driver crashes into Massachusetts Apple store

Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-21 13:39|| 2022-11-21 13:39|| Front Page Top

#2 daily Mail pics are helpful. No skid marks on the curb, and the impact on the huge store glass window suggests virtually a direct 90 degree impact angle almost centered on the window, suggestive of an intentional act.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-11-21 15:25|| 2022-11-21 15:25|| Front Page Top

#3 They wanted the new iPhone before there are no more.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-21 16:04|| 2022-11-21 16:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I've been in some of the stores there on Derby Street (basically a high-end strip mall) - there's no fuckin' way that building is 'on the verge of collapse' unless the SUV obliterated a good part of the supporting walls or, God forbid, these dumb fucks made the huge front windows load-bearing ones.

Posted by Raj 2022-11-21 16:37|| 2022-11-21 16:37|| Front Page Top

#5 raj you know how it is, these reporters have to dramatize every aspect of everything. Ya know kind like any thin in the military with armor on it is a tank.

Posted by Chris 2022-11-21 16:58|| 2022-11-21 16:58|| Front Page Top

#6 God forbid, these dumb f*cks made the huge front windows load-bearing ones

Those windows aren't 'load-bearing', Raj. There's most likely an I-Beam or bar-joist roof deck support and a steel lintel that supports that whole storefront window system.

They build 'em cheap, but not that cheap.

Besides, Massachusetts has some fairly strict building codes and, as a newer building, those would have been enforced during construction.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-11-21 18:35|| 2022-11-21 18:35|| Front Page Top

#7 SUVs hate Apple.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-11-21 20:15|| 2022-11-21 20:15|| Front Page Top

#8 There's most likely an I-Beam or bar-joist roof deck support and a steel lintel that supports that whole storefront window system.

Thanks for the explanation, Mullah. There's an Apple store on Boylston St. in Boston, near one of my clients. It's the same obnoxiously massive windowed storefront as this place is. I walked by the Boylston St. one years ago and was interested in how they did the massive window thing, so I looked at it for all of two seconds. Because Apple is the one company on Earth that I hate with a burning passion, it all of a sudden kicked in and I walked away not wanting to give the pricks the satisfaction.

Posted by Raj 2022-11-21 20:31|| 2022-11-21 20:31|| Front Page Top

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