“Because it shouldn’t be about him? Rotterdam is a shipbuilding centre, and the bridge span is removable. If they want to keep being a world-class shipbuilding center, they should probably be able to built tall ships and not let crybullies tell them not to. “

Why put the city in the position to deal with this at all?

You’re talking about Project Pluto. A nuclear ramjet powered missile that would cruise at Mach 3 at 500 feet. Could stay aloft for days, and the shockwave of its passing would kill people on the ground...if one of the 16 nuclear bombs it carried didn’t get you first. And if you survived that, you’d probably be killed…

More specifically, since billionaires clearly don’t like sailing on the stupid ugly things, why not just leave it where it is and have his mega-parties right there in the slip? They could still helicopter in loads of Doritos and Cragmont Cola, and the guests will all be too coked up to notice any difference in the…

Could we put Mar-A-Lago on top of that list?

You assume it’s Bezos who actually was instrumental is this becoming an issue?

Or ya know, at another facility, or in a harbor, or at a dry dock... They don’t have to go out into high seas and try to install 160 foot tall masts.

Usually at least one of the floating bridges across Lake Washington has to shut down for safety reasons, and they’re traffic nightmares on a good day.

Or, you know, install the masts after the ship is out from under the bridge.

*Yawn*. OK, I guess they’ll have to make a slight adjustment. That’s why they do training runs.  Good thing the Seattle Times is all over this with their “investigative reporting”.  I’m pretty sure there are other more important things that actually affect the lives of citizens in the Seattle area that they could look…

I’m guessing Oceano will have to do all that and pay for it, I’m guessing Bezos will be totally unaffected. 

Oh, boo-hoo. Reads to me as if Bezos will have to dismantle the ship to a low enough state that it can squeak under the bridge. And then go to the expense of putting the boat back together on the other side.

No one had ruler that large.

Just put the mast’s on later. So fuckin’ stupid this “Story” has gone on as long as it has.

Did no one have a ruler? 

Tiered driving licenses makes nothing but sense to me.

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At 140 without a HANS device And supporting cage, it’s likely the deceleration trauma did more internal organ damage than one would typically survive. The air bags likely did more harm than good when they blow at speeds so far outside of their design parameters.

This is America, where rich people are rich because they make good decisions, and poor people are poor because they make poor choices!!!

Not the first nasty, even fatal crash from one of these stupid rallies. Years ago another 911 Turbo in one of these rallies (the infamous Gumball) hit and killed a couple in a passing car. The rich douchebags who organize these things for other rich douchebags just get away with it by telling participants “Obey the…