Making the news personal.

I wouldn’t ordinarily make note of the five guys arrested for conspiring to blow up a bridge in Ohio. Terrorist plots are a dime a dozen these days, and it seems that many of them turn out to be a bunch of losers who couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery without help from undercover FBI agents.

But I’ve noted before that I have family in the Cleveland area. Some of them live in Sagamore Hills, and I’ve driven over the Ohio 82 bridge many times while visiting them.

Here’s what that bridge looks like in Google Maps satellite view:


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And here’s your Google Image Search results for the Ohio 82 bridge. It is a nice looking bridge, I have to admit.

4 Responses to “Making the news personal.”

  1. The linked article fails to mention that our would-be bridge bombers were part of Occupy Cleveland. Because blowing up farm bridges is a good way to advance the cause of liberalism…

  2. stainles says:

    I’m not sure I would call that a “farm bridge”. Perhaps one of my boots on the ground in Sagamore Hills people will weigh in, but I think that stretch of Ohio 82 is a major commuter route into downtown Cleveland.

    Other than that, yes. The LAT calls three of them “self-proclaimed anarchists” but also does not mention an Occupy connection.

    (“Self-proclaimed anarchists”? As opposed to what; those anarchists appointed as anarchists by the Anarchist Central Committee?)

  3. Cheryl says:

    Well, it is a major route, but not into downtown Cleveland, as it runs east/west. It’s a beautiful bridge that runs over the Cuyahoga Valley which is part of the Cleveland Metroparks System.

  4. Cheryl says:

    http://www.roadtripamerica.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=2296&title=route-82-bridge-over-the-cuyahoga-river&cat=628

    When we first moved to the area, the bridge had to be closed for repairs and it was a major pain in the rear to have to detour.