Dueling Cabbies Bring Down Scaffolding at Broadway and 8th St.

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Downtown Manhattanites were understandably distressed tonight after the scaffolding in front of the Gap and the N/R 8th street subway stop collapsed, seemingly for no reason. But as it turns out, two jerkoff cabbies were playing chicken or something on Broadway and crashed into the structure’s support beams, sending it all tumbling down, so it’s safe to walk under scaffolding again, I guess. |Gawker|

By on November 2, 2009 at 12:51 am
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Unsafe At Any Height

It’s amazing that we can land a rover on Mars and get the thing to patrol around for over a year all while broadcasting images back to Earth and yet we’re unable to invent scaffolding that doesn’t malfunction. Today, two workers were rescued after the scaffolding basket gave way leaving it dangling at a perilous angle, 60 stories above the street. They were eventually pulled to safety through a window in the building. |Newsday|
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By on September 18, 2008 at 3:15 pm
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