City Throws Party Celebrating 'big Penny' Bridge's 100th Too Tall Truck Victim

Some debased bridges, for illustration nan 11-foot-8 bridge aliases beautiful overmuch immoderate span connected Boston's Storrow Drive, are infamous for tearing unfastened gangly trucks that thrust underneath them. But nary person arsenic overmuch charm arsenic "Big Penny," a 12-foot span successful Lansing, Michigan's Old Town territory that precocious claimed its 100th unfortunate since 2004. The span is truthful celebrated among nan locals that they threw a statement to observe this motortruck munching milestone, reports WLNS.

Big Penny is simply a railroad span complete Pennsylvania Avenue near Lindbergh Drive and Potter Park Avenue. You tin moreover find it connected Google Maps by its name. It is unsocial among bridges that bask a regular fare of trucks successful that it intelligibly shows its intentions pinch a group of fangs and a brace of googly eyes. These travel courtesy of a brace of anonymous administrators of nan STUPID Lansing Facebook group, reports Mlive. While location are galore stupid Facebook groups, this 1 is an acronym for "Society for Totally Useless Pranks and Immature Dumbassery."

While immoderate places outlaw nan harmless decoration of nationalist property, Lansing has allowed Big Penny's to remain, possibly successful hopes of attracting motortruck drivers' attraction earlier driving nether it aft missing galore signs and flashing lights informing of nan bridge's debased height. This has proved to beryllium successful vain. Big Penny claimed yet different unfortunate little than 12 hours aft its caller look was installed.

The free organization statement featured a giveaway and Big Penny trivia. Ozone's Brewhouse offered themed nutrient and portion specials. Artist Ryan Holmes created a coating of Big Penny during nan party, which was past auctioned off. The stars of nan show were nan section set Deer & Elk, who wrote a opus each astir Big Penny. Even nan charismatic City of Lansing Facebook page sewage successful connected nan fun, announcing a parody logo that made nosy of nan grounded Cracker Barrel rebrand.

I love really Lansing has taken what could beryllium construed arsenic a grounded portion of infrastructure and turned it into a people leader instead. I've ne'er seen a statement connected Storrow Drive during assemblage move-in week, unless you count nan inevitable horn party and traffic jam, which I don't. At immoderate point, nan ever-growing number of motortruck impacts will astir apt require Big Penny to beryllium demolished and rebuilt. That would beryllium nan clip to summation clearance, leaving Big Penny quiet arsenic trucks walk harmlessly underneath. Until then, we tin cheer connected its vengeance connected truckers who disregard nan warnings and thrust consecutive into its toothy grasp.