A Black Hole of Happiness

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I heard, but have not read, of people in cars falling down into the river then swimming to safety. Have you seen that confirmed?

After 9/11 some people here were talking about our connections to Canada and how they would make good targets. there is a tunnel under the Detroit river and a bridge over it. One guy said he'll start taking the bridge because if you're in the tunnel and a bomb goes off, you have no way out, you'll drown for sure. He felt he had a chance on the bridge because he'd hit the water but have a chance to swim away. I figured if your car fell that far and hit water the impact would knock you out and maybe kill you, so I didn't agree with him.

did people really swim out of cars that fell into the river?

How would cutting off a few of the bazillion connections to Canada be a worthy target?

Driving over bridges scares me more than driving through tunnels. This makes me exactly the opposite of my BFF, who is fine with bridges but hates hates hates underwater tunnels. I don't worry about collapse, I worry about falling off the edge. Yes, I am irrational.