Boston's Big-Dig Fiasco

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney took over an inspection of the Big Dig, Boston's recently completed multi-billion-dollar tunnel highway system, after a collapsed ceiling panel killed a driver. What do you think?

Mindy Wilmington,
Lathe Operator
"Listen, when the government spends $14 billion on anything, you are going to have to accept that an innocent person will die under a concrete slab."

Adam Conklin,
Prosthetic Limb Salesperson
"That's what they get for building it on the site of the ancient Indian burial tunnels."

Brian Laskin,
Pizza Delivery Driver
"How come when I spend day after day in a tunnel it's 'loitering and trespassing,' but when the governor of Massachusetts does it, it's an 'investigation'?"

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