Guess what dropped in on the subway riders in the Big Apple yesterday?

Drill Bit Plows Into Subway Tunnel, Grazes Train Car In Queens:

Construction and engineering at its finest. Should have checked the print  and your measurement again fellas.

NEW YORK (CBS New York) — An enormous drill bit plowed right into a subway tunnel and grazed an occupied F Train in Queens on Thursday.

The passenger train had just pulled out of the 21st Street station in Long Island City, Queens, around 11:45 a.m when the riders got an unexpected visitor.

Usually there is a mugging or some gets their pocket picked on the way to work people have to content with but this morning they had a visitor from “up above.”  It was a 10”drill bit that drilled right through the roof of the train and nearly hit some of the passengers.

It is a good thing that the train just started to move when the bit came through the roof. If the subway car would have been go full speed there certainly would have been a different outcome as far as injuries to the passengers and damage to the train.

Thanks to the fast acting of the conductor that pulled the emergency brake quickly that most probably saved a few people from getting injured.

“That could have killed somebody. That could have hurt somebody,” said Trinidad Casas of Long Island City.

“I don’t even know how that’s possible, so yeah, that’s pretty scary,” Anthony Jerez of Long Island City.

Someone should inform the drilling company that there is a new invention out there called “GPS” that will give them the exact “X marks the spot” they need before starting construction.

Before the passenger were out of the train and to safety on the sidewalks above there were already 20 ambulance chaser waiting to sink their hooks into them.

Commonsense should have told the drill operator when he/she drilled into the void in the subway and began drill was going down without any back pressure that there was a problem and he/she should have stopped drilling.

Lack of drilling experience, inefficiency and positioning of the drill rig were the main causes of the accident.

Extra care should have been taken especially if they knew that they were drilling in the proximity of the subway.

A very similar drilling accident happened on November 20, 1980 when Texaco was drilling for oil in Lake Peigneur, misread their drilling information and drilled into the abandon Diamond Crystal Salt Company salt mine that was under the lake.

As a consequence Lake Peigneur completely emptied into the salt mine. The swirl of the funneling water sucked in boats, docks and anything thing else in the lake that got caught in its whirlpool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI

As the old saying goes “measure twice and cut once.”

To the trained eye; do you see anything wrong with this bridge???

JM be careful on what trains you take.