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Akron police investigating after 58-foot
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Posted By: Ribicon, 12/16/2021 1:18:53 PM

Akron, Ohio—Akron police have investigated the theft of all kinds of valuables over the years, but for the first time in anyone’s memory, detectives are trying to find out who stole a bridge. At one time, the pedestrian bridge was along the Little Cuyahoga River in Middlebury Run Park, which sits in the shadow of Goodyear World Headquarters on Akron’s East End. However, the complete 58-foot long span was removed from the park as part of a wetlands restoration project and moved to a field along Seiberling Street.(Snip)Investigators say they are not sure what the crooks plan to do with the bridge.

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Has anybody seen the bridge? Where's that confounded bridge?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: rocket-j-squirrel 12/16/2021 1:28:58 PM (No. 1009220)
Check eBay.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 12/16/2021 1:36:09 PM (No. 1009235)
Scrappers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Attila DiMedici 12/16/2021 1:50:22 PM (No. 1009256)
The article fails to mention how long this bridge had been sitting in the location from which it was stolen, but it does mention that the thieves had to clear the brush from around the bridge before they began disassembling it. That suggests it had been there for over a year (it may have only been there since spring, but I suspect it has been sitting there long enough that the thieves thought it was abandoned).
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Reply 4 - Posted by: kono 12/16/2021 1:59:11 PM (No. 1009265)
Bridge Loss Mystery.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Maggie2u 12/16/2021 2:02:39 PM (No. 1009268)
Now if anyone tells you they have a bridge to sell, they just might be telling the truth. BTW...In Washington state our bridges don't disappear, they sink. The Tacoma Narrows bridge, AKA Galloping Gertie, collapsed and sank on November 1940. No deaths The Lacey Memorial Floating Bridge(or the I-90) over Lake Washington collapsed and sank during a wild windstorm on November 1990. Fortunately it had been closed for repairs, no deaths. The Hood Canal Floating Bridge collapses during another wild windstorm in February 1990, no deaths. The last bridge to fall was on May 13th 2013, the Skagit River bridge in Mount Vernon Washington, was taken down by a semi-truck that was too high and struck a support beam. This time it put a few cars and people in the river but no one died. You kind of hold your breath(no pun intended) when crossing a bridge around here.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Highlander 12/16/2021 3:16:05 PM (No. 1009351)
I think it’s on its way to the Rio Grande.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 12/16/2021 3:41:14 PM (No. 1009377)
#6, just what I was thinking.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: 504pc 12/16/2021 4:54:26 PM (No. 1009409)
Maybe code enforcement put a 3 day sticker on it and the city hauled it away.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Omen55 12/16/2021 6:57:21 PM (No. 1009509)
Really! This is a bridge too far!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: CivilServant 12/17/2021 9:32:36 AM (No. 1009977)
Kwai did they take the bridge? Kwai oh Kwai?
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