# I'm sure they know what they're doing..

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**Created:** [September 28, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-they-know-what-theyre-doing/797546 "2017-09-28T21:27:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-they-know-what-theyre-doing/797546/1 "2017-09-28T21:27:49Z")

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… But demolishing a bridge, by using a couple many ton vehicles that are sitting on said bridge, is one of of the things in my _don’t_ do list.

Picture:

> **[I-96 overpass being demolished after crash](https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/livingston-county/demolition-underway-on-i-96-overpass-after-semi-crash)**
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> Demolition has begun on the Pleasant Valley bridge over I-96 in Brighton after a truck crashed into it on Wednesday.

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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-they-know-what-theyre-doing/797546/2 "2017-09-29T05:54:59Z")

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Nah, just removing concrete , it ain’t structural. Does kind of remind you of the old sawing off the limb on a tree, though.

Dennis

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-they-know-what-theyre-doing/797546/3 "2017-09-29T14:37:49Z")

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Okay, I was confused for a minute. I was watching this story and seeing references to Livingston County, Brighton, Wayne County, and 96 - all locations in the Rochester area. And I was trying to figure out where the collapsed bridge was.

I finally saw that this didn’t happen in New York, despite all of the local names. Apparently there’s an area in Michigan that happens to have all of these same names.

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-they-know-what-theyre-doing/797546/4 "2017-09-29T15:58:15Z")

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Yeah, good ol’ Mad Anthony Wayne sure got around the Great Lakes area, and got his name stuck on whole bunches of stuff all over the place.