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“With approximately two minutes remaining at half time at the Indianapolis Colts vs. Cincinnati Bengals game this evening at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, there was an occurrence with the movement of the retractable roof. The roof was in process of being opened for the second half of the preseason game. A bolt from the fixed structure sheared and dropped into seating section 248 (located in the northwest corner of the lower seating bowl). Once the stadium authorities were notified, the movement of the roof was stopped immediately.
On-site medical personnel deemed all injuries to be non-life threatening. One female and one male were attended to by I.U. Health medical personnel and then transported to a local hospital for further evaluation. The third person was a male who was treated and released on site.”
Now CIB officials release a statement saying a full roof inspection by experts is being performed to ensure fan safety:
"The Capital Improvement Board and the appropriate contractors are assessing the causes of the incident during the roof operation at last night’s preseason game," reads a statement released on behalf of Barney Levengood, executive director of the Capital Improvement Board. "The safety of everyone who attends and works events at Lucas Oil Stadium is our top priority. Once the full inspection of the roof has been completed, more information will be made available."
21 comments:
Pretty stupid to try and open the $1.3 billion ($1,300,000,000.00) retractable roof in the middle of a game.
What building inspector signed off on the roof when it was built? Some engineering credentials should be yanked.
That roof is a design afterthought and unsafe. It can't safely be left in the closed position, as there is a risk of structural collapse. The roof should be condemned and permanently retracted, where it poses the least collapse risk, until such time as the roof can be made safe.
Thank you, democrats, Bart Peterson, and Jimmy Irsay, for stealing our hard-earned tax dollars to built your play palace.
Billion dollar roof, and how many times has it even been opened?
Absolutely, Anons 7:13 & 7:26. And to think we were told almost immediately after the pedestrian looking edifice was completed that LOS was not large enough and we'd soon have to build a grander, even bigger, and more expensive structure... all at taxpayer expense, of course.
Really? At risk for structural collapse while in the closed position?
Is Chase tower going to fall down this weekend too?
Four theories, with #4 being most likely:
1. NFL trying to spice up in stadium experience by feeling violence on field in your seat, to fight losing people to watching gladiatorial contest in comfort of own
2. Irsay's drug dealer sending a message
3. Tom Brady's payback to Colts for Deflategate
4. Downtown Mafia, Irsay, and Unions setting up another stadium shakedown
One bolt falls and now the SKY IS FALLING! Really? It is not that different than any other 8 year old building having some maintenance issues. This one is just VERY public.
Unless the lock the roof open until they prove it's safe to close, Pence is looking at another Sugarland incident.
Here comes the anti police movement. If your a cop, you can be discriminated against. Why? Because you stand for something. And mainstream media such as Advance Indiana ignores it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/arbys-employee-accused-of-denying-officer-service-speaks-out/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17
What amazes me is the engineering incompetency of late--the bridges over I-65 falling down, and this retractable roof that is falling apart. These are things we know about. Who knows what else is failing. The Brooklyn Bridge was built in the late 1800's, over a much more challenging waterway than Wildcat Creek, and yet it's not falling down or having any structural failures. We don't know what caused the roof to rain down debris on fans, but anymore you have to wonder what's wrong with engineering these days.
CIB says if we leave the roof open more money will fall from the sky.
America has needed an anti-police movement for 70 years. Cops have one mission: to destroy all ideas the people have that they are free and the masters of their government.
We need to take the guns and the cars away from the cops and have them back to walking beats, and may they can repair some of their image, and we can start getting what we pay them to do.
Anonymous 11:20 AM GMT-5
STFU. The Arby's thing was a hoax blown all out of proportion. Why would AI cover a non-issue, that didn't even occur, hundreds of miles away.
I am sure there will be a press release by The Mayor with CIB & Irsay forthcoming stating that stadium is just old & outdated and must be replaced at taxpayer expense.
Did they not open this thing and TEST it before the game??? Really, what kind of INSPECTION are they not doing at the stadium.
What is this going to cost us???
Anon 7:26, can you explain your comment? I don't think the fact that a bolt was severed means that there's a structural problem. It means that there was some severe tension while the roof was moving. It probably wasn't sliding evenly and created torque on the bolt. If so, the NFL's solution will be to keep it closed. In fact, I think it's a pretty safe assumption that it will never be opened again...certainly not while people are in the stands. What an epic waste of money.
Taxpayers are injured by the escalating cost of morbidly proportioned "government" & expanded perversions thereof (entertainment or professionally subsidized sports, etc.).
7:29,
They can't keep it closed. Obviously, that would be the most unsafe thing to do. The only way we know that roof is safe is if it's fully retracted, supported by two layers of roof.
It's basic engineering and spectator safety that the roof should never close again.
Oh, my. I can't believe anyone would ever suggest putting those horribly unsafe roof panels on top of spectators. They could collapse onto the field at any moment, and the City and State would have had actual notice of the danger.
That roof has to remain opened.
CIB (figuratively & literally: Ceiling Is Broken
My seats are right above where the people were hurt, I'm in 347,It's a small section, very nice, well this night I took my cousin to the game, we were watching the half time,when suddenly a large bang noise happened, we looked at each other, what was that, then people around use stated look below there are injured people,we heard another bang,we got up from our seats and ran to the concourse to hide under the concrete,we were the only fans to do this, it was the only place to go for protection. After a few minutes we returned to our seats, we knew something was very wrong with the retractable roof, and didn't want to be another victim.
When I arrived at Lucas Oil, I thought it was very strange for the window to be close and the roof to be closed before the game, we even made mention of the fact the place was closed up like winter time! the temperature outside was 82 degrees at game time.
We also noticed lots of guys on the catwalk on the top watching the roof retract.
Bolt from the blue?
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