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January 8, 2007
A Crane Falls in Williamsburg
At about 9:30 on Friday morning, a crane at a worksite on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg lost a fight with the laws of physics, toppling over under the weight of its sheet-metal lode and miraculously not injuring anyone on the scene. According to some comments on Curbed, this particular site has been your run-of-the-mill nightmare for the past several months, prompting multiple calls to 311 by frustrated neighbors. Did any readers happen to pass by during the aftermath of the accident? What's the status now?
A Crane Falls in Williamsburg [Flickr]
Williamsburg Crane Goes Tippy: The Photos [Curbed]
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This just proves my theory that hipsters shouldn't operate heavy machinery
Posted by: Anonymous at January 8, 2007 10:59 AM
too bad there weren't any hipsters beating bongo drums below.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 8, 2007 1:12 PM
Actually, hipsters were the cause of this tipster. They were slightly overweight as they forgot to leave their ipods at Gorilla Coffee. It's part of their Community service for abusing their digital cameras capturing these moments as well overloading the 311 system
Posted by: Anonymous at January 8, 2007 3:12 PM
Actually - if you look closely you might see a Hasidic guy waiting near where the load was being Delivered.
He is the Owner and they were trying to deliver his ill gotten gains up to him when the Crane tipped from the weight of his wallet.
Posted by: MrK at January 8, 2007 4:45 PM
Shit, I thought they were filming a hipster flick where they go ballistic on developers
Posted by: Anonymous at January 8, 2007 7:30 PM
And this was a stunt gone right, except that the stunt double was a developer and not the pre-madonna hipster
Posted by: Anonymous at January 8, 2007 7:31 PM
you're all wrong - this was another case of a developer being cheap and cutting corners. Instead of having a heavy weight crane on the site, they were using a lightweight portable vehicle and loading it beyond it's capacity so it tipped! It seems to be impossible to build anything without damage or injury!!
Posted by: Anonymous at January 8, 2007 9:12 PM
kewl, we got to bash hipsters and make anti-Semitic comments. my initial reaction, since I direct most of my hating towards my own kind, was that this looked like something you'd see in Freemont, in Seattle. couldn't they have just left the truck where it was and built around it?
Posted by: Anonymous at January 8, 2007 9:14 PM
Anon 9:12pm, you're a party pooper
Posted by: Anonymous at January 9, 2007 8:13 AM
anon 8:13 you're right and it's no party for the folks adjacent to the site in question either
Posted by: Anonymous at January 9, 2007 3:22 PM
This is a very old picture--it wasn't raining yesterday.
This building has already been completed....
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 9:12 AM
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