Jaunted

According to the New York Times, who spoke with Tom Bellini, the owner of the warehouse, as he loosened the pieces from his rooftop, everyone is thankful that no one on the ground was hurt:

If the debris had fallen a half-hour earlier, 30 plumbers would have been in the parking lot; if it had fallen a half-hour later, clerical workers would have been in danger. [The owner's brothers] patrolled the building’s roof on Wednesday, pointing out the heavy pieces of metal with jagged edges that had stuck into the tar surface like shark teeth. Tom Bellini said they gave officials some 200 pieces. Investigators, meanwhile, milled around the parking lot, painting small circles around spots in the asphalt where other pieces fell.

This follows only two weeks after a warehouse in Jersey City was rained on by a hunk of cast iron, too hot to touch for 30 minutes after its impact. Not cool, airplanes, not cool. We would like to go outside sometimes and not have to worry about planes falling on us, but living in the NYC area with three airports means that these little accidents do happen. Next stop? Bulletproof helmet-ville.

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[Photo: Rob Bennett for the New York Times]