Rain­ing cats and dogs and blokes in high-vis vests

Crane crash at Melbourne Uni

A cherry-picker invest­ig­ates a tree from the inside. Click for a lar­ger ver­sion on the ABC web­site. Photo credit: ABC News: Karl Hoerr

See the open win­dow at the top? That’s my office. Read the full story here:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/27/2256870.htm

The boom arm on the cherry picker, which is essen­tially a steel I-beam about 80cm square, bent in half on impact. It all happened about 20 minutes before I got to work. The driver was saved from being turned into a windscreen-mosquito on the build­ing to the left by the tree.

Cli­mate change skep­tics take note: you may not care that trees suck up your car­bon diox­ide, but you’ll miss them next time you drive heavy con­struc­tion machinery off a tall building.

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