The Daily Herald
Less than 24 hours after its grand reopening, the Long Grove covered bridge has been damaged again.
A rented school bus traveling west to east across the bridge on Robert Parker Coffin Road left the bridge damaged at both ends. More
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Well she sure powered through!
Is that what happened last time too?
Do not drive a bus that requires 14 foot clearance under a bridge that only has 12 feet of clearance.
Probably rented it to go to the MENSA convention. The dumbest people I deal with almost daily are the ones with college educations and degrees.
There ain’t no mess up that duct tape can’t dress up.
Been across that bridge on many occasions. One lane traffic. Very quaint with low clearance. What an idiot not to heed the signs. The bridge can very easily be bypassed without much time involved. SMH. Long Grove has lost enough business without this crap. Used to like to visit . . . and it’s not because of the bridge. $$$ and noses too high.
Q. What did you learn in school today?
A. Nothing, but I learned physics while riding the bus.
The driver is a Democrat activist. Regional news has been reporting that the bus mostly fit through the bridge.
Anybody with a grand or great/great-great grandfather who were “bridge engineers” brought their workers, horse/mule-drawn wagons and saws to the site and built these covered bridges from the surrounding trees by the river or stream.
Didn’t know they did this in the Chicago area. My Dad’s father contracted out in Mississippi and died (eventually) from a fall.
Just one American story from 3 to 4 generations back when there were oil lamps and no electricity.
Was it driven by a drunken Kennedy?
Those signs are racist! Those dimensions are racist!! I’m sure the driver felt that the bus would fit. Morons.
If you don’t want your special bridge damaged a heavy steel I-beam ‘sizer’ a hundred feet before the bridge itself will stop that cold. Not difficult at all to strain out an 80,000 lb truck moving at speed.
If it don’t stop it, it will at least reduce the height and width to allowable maximums.
The driver of the buss, said she can’t wait to vote for Biden…..
Obviously that bus was too big for its bridges.
The bus driver thought it was Chasten’s unbleached elastic starfish.
Did they figure out they could remove the bus by letting air out of the tires?
The bus driver proceeded after being “urged on” by the passengers. Ironically the bus was carrying students from the School for the Gifted.
Ok, boys and girls, how much clearence do we need to make this repaired bridge? The bus is under 10 feet not 14′. Scissor trustes anybody?
The bus identified as a car. What’s the problem?
Golfers? On a Saturday? On a school bus? Ignored GPS? Ignored signs?
Everything screams intentional (at least to me).
Have the driver and passengers pay for repairs AND fines!
Now, why were they using a school bus on a Saturday AND what about the damages to the school bus? They going to pay for that as well or will the tax payers be picking up that tab?