Can we get Bin Laden / Al Quaeda to do this for free? You know this is costing us millions anyway?

Question

Commuter to detonate DC bridge Monday night

Mon Aug 28, 2:37 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A detested bridge that has plagued generations of Washingtonians will be blown up by a long-suffering commuter on Monday night.

Regional authorities have since 2000 been building a replacement to the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge, which carries the Capital Beltway across the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia just south of the District of Columbia.

The Wilson bridge has long been one of the worst traffic bottlenecks in a region notorious for gridlock. Backups can stretch for miles when the drawbridge is raised 270 times per year to let boats through.

As the midpoint of Interstate 95, the East Coast's busiest highway, the bridge also handles a heavy flow of long-distance traffic.

A local man who has crossed the bridge for 30 years as part of his two-hour commute won a contest to detonate a half-mile section. Dan Ruefly of Accokeek, Maryland, had his hip crushed in an

Answer 1

Wouldn't it be nice if we could get bin Laden to come over for the ceremony, and actually use him to blow up the bridge?





No, I mean it. Tie 100 pounds of C4 to his turban, strap him to an abutment, and pop the fuse. BOOM!



Two birds with one stone is what I say.

Answer 2

Don't think Bin is up to charity work.