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Old July 16th, 2009, 11:29 PM
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Default Madonna's Stage Collapses, One Dead.

BREAKING NEWS: Madonna?s Stage Collapses; One Person Dies | RadarOnline.com
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Wow, what a scene. Thoughts and Prayers to our French Brethren.
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Scary, any other word from anywhere else? I'm curious to see what happened.
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Wow. That's bad.

Can anybody translate the key points of that video for us?
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I'm not fluent in french but I've been taking it for 6 years, they pretty much re-iterated everything in the article, I didn't catch anything new of interest in the clip.
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From the video it looks to me as if the "Roof" was actually the grid, and possibly the cranes were going to be holding the grid for the duration of the concert. I could understand how someone would interpret it as a "roof".
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I think explains it in better detail
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Firefighters said the accident occurred when the roof of the stage became unbalanced as it was being lifted by four cranes.
It toppled one of the cranes which fell crashing onto the structure below.
Well that's interesting. It could be a problem with the rigging of the roof or it could have nothing to do with the stagehands and be a failure on one of the cranes or a crane operator operators. Not really a stage collapse either... it's really more crane falling over and taking out everything in it's path.


How sad. Hopefully the two critically injured make it.
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Here is the PLSN article on it.
My sympathies to all involved in this tragedy.
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A crane collapsed while lifting a large metallic truss into place, Lt. Thierry Delorme of the French Navy told CNN. In Marseille, the Fire Department is a part of the Navy.
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The Fire Department is part of the NAVY? Oh those wacky French.
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