Another crane has collapsed in NYC. This is the second crane to collapse in the past several months, and this one is even closer to my house.
Yikes. I would say that I would never walk under these things, but it is kind of impossible.
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I note the typical mayoral grandstanding as Bloomberg immediately pronounces the incident "unacceptable and intolerable" (that's what mayors are supposed to say), but you can't make that judgement before you know what happened. That reaction is coming from the very widespread fallacy that engineering should be able to achieve zero accidents. Sure, probably carelessness and greed were the main causes of the accident, but maybe not, you don't know yet. There will never be such a thing as no accidents at all.