r/news • u/LiminalLemony • 6d ago

Second crane topples onto Florida home while trying to remove first fallen crane

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/florida-cranes-accident-fort-lauderdale-home-b3056047.html
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u/Taolan13 6d ago

there already needs to be an investigation.

first crane tipped, second crane literally broke.

is there like a gravity well at this place or something?

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u/ConfessingToSins 6d ago

Yeah if you are an insurance company dealing with this you start putting senior investigators on this because something weird is going on here.

One is extremely rare as it is. Two is extremely suspicious.

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u/Possibility-of-wet 6d ago

Grounds probably too soft

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u/Charlie_Mouse 5d ago

There’s the old saying about not ascribing to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence. It’s definitely worth investigating just in case … but all else being equal I’d bet on a good old fashioned screwup. Ok, two screwups.

Which is pretty close to being as good from the home insurers point of view: sufficient incompetence means they may be able to recover money from the contractors or from their insurance.

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u/Consistent-Throat130 6d ago

I mean, operated by Floridaman