OMFG! A construction crane just fell over right in front of my building.
 

unreal. i mean the really big... really tall... super huge cranes.

the thing hit 3 buildings. it looks like it fell into a larger building (about 15 stories or so) ... then kinda buckled and hit the building next to it which was about 3 stories... and totally smashed about 30 - 40 feet of the end of it right to the ground and the end of it (the boom) went all the way across the street and into an apartment building. rescue crews are still trying to find out if anyone was hurt.

the weird part is that it was late at night... i dont think anyone was working or that they were lifting anything when it happened., it appears that it just fell over. no wind. no bad weather... nothing going on.

anyway... i snuck past the fire dept and police to come in and check my stats.. haha. gotta go.

take a pic?

wow, get pics

hrmph, dam ghosts

i tried taking some with my phone. they won't let anyone get close enough... anyway... gotta run. i'll take some in the morning.

thats nice... go urinate on it and scream "I LOVE AMEDICKA!"

Any pics?

by the way, where does Pleasure live? i would drive 60 miles to see this.

unusual huh!!!

wow we definitely need a pic
i want to see

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ebcrane16.html



A giant construction crane in downtown Bellevue tipped over tonight and smashed into an apartment building, killing at least one person.

The crane, which was several stories tall, toppled from a construction site about 7:45 p.m. It fell across 108th Avenue Northeast, a major downtown north-south thoroughfare, and sliced through an apartment building across the street, according to firefighters and witnesses.

At least three downtown buildings sustained severe structural damage: the Plaza 305 building, the Civica Office Commons and the Pinnacle BellCentre, a mixture of commercial stores on the ground level and luxury apartments above.

Also damaged was an adjacent restaurant, the Melting Pot.

Fire officials said they were "red tagging" the buildings, meaning they were not safe to be occupied. The crane was being left suspended over the street pending the arrival of investigators from the state Department of Labor and Industries.

The crane was located at the construction site of Tower 333, a 20-story office building under construction at the corner of Northeast Fourth Street and 108th Avenue Northeast.

The crane operator, who was not identified, was trapped in the control cab of the yellow crane nearly 30 feet off the ground. Firefighters used a ladder to reach him, and he walked from the scene, according to fire officials. Police said he "rode the crane down" nearly 200 feet.

"We're told he's going to be okay," said Bellevue police Officer Greg Grannis.

Bellevue Fire Chief Mario Trevino said the crane operator reported he was securing the crane for the night when he "heard a noise" and the crane toppled. Trevino said the accident is being blamed on "a catastrophic failure" of the craine.

One woman who witnessed the accident said it "sounded like two waves of thunder" as it came down, bouncing off adjacent structures on the way down..
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Firefighters were going through the buildings one floor at a time late Thursday, looking for residents.

Officials said the person killed was living in a fourth-floor apartment in the 248-unit Pinnacle BellCentre. His identity was not immediately available.

Ryan Peach, 28, a trained emergency medical technician, was working a second job as a waiter at Melting Pot when the crane came down. He said he helped the first police officers on the scene search the apartments on the fourth floor.

Peach described a scene of terrific destruction. The ceilings had come down, along with wires and pipes, and there was nearly a foot of water on the ground from a broken water main. In one apartment, the crane had sliced through the walls and was lying across a couch.

"We were screaming in there," trying to locate survivors, Peach said. "We couldn't go in. It was just too dangerous."

The Tower 333 building is being constructed on the site on which the late developer Eugene Horbach planned to building the Bellevue Technology Tower. Horbach's plans ended when he lost the property in foreclosure 18 months before his 2004 death.

The Seattle office of Hines, an international real-estate firm, and Washington Capital Management, announced plans for Tower 333 in March. The firm said the new tower would rise 20 stories and comprise approximately 400,000 square feet.

this is the base part of the crane... the boom is pointing straight to the left in the pic, reached across the street and killed a guy in his apartment :(

the damaged building in the pic is a 3-4 story building where the crane smashed the end of it completely behind it is a taller building and you can see where it hit the side of that building at about the 10th floor maybe, smashing into a couple offices


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABP...2003434924.jpg

damn thats nuts.

holy shit you're in Bellevue?

yeah :)

haha... might be moving soon. 29 buildings going up in downtown area. 13 hi-rises... lots of fucking cranes everywhere.

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damn . cranes are kinda scary.

for the really big ones, the operators have to take a bucked up to shit into

Holy shit !! That's nasty... :Oh crap

whoa thats nuts

Well ... ain't this interesting

Some of you know that I was building an eMarketing team at a Bellevue consulting firm last spring. I worked in that building before heading out in May.

http://kindtimes.com/img/Old_Office.JPG

What a difference a few months makes, LMAO

omg...that's fucking scary!!

WOW! Thants crazy. Lucky you weren't hurt!

BE careful TaDow, they say life catches up to you, and that might be a sign that is way too close.

Damn..scary shit.

sweet jebus