STUBBORN TRUCKERS (COMMENT). Molly commented about a trucker who took out two different bridges in one day. That trucker reminded me of the story about the trucker who earlier this year discovered his truck was six inches too high for the Lincoln Tunnel and still drove the 1.5 mile length of the tunnel, doing damage all the way.
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You will also recall my “Two-Hours-For-Two-Miles” delay in Queens on the way to JFK because a trucker had gone onto the Cars Only expressway and gotten lodged under a bridge.
That really should be a capital offense
It’s pretty reckless behavior to both ignore signs and then to try to challenge the bridge. If there are thousand of hours of delay for other motorists, in addition to physical damage, the total damages are pretty high. Steven Landsburg, the Armchair Economist, recommends the death penalty for creators of computer worms. However, he uses a figure of $50 billion dollars a year for the damage from computer viruses–much higher than the damages done by bridge-challengers.