Wrecking Ball Runs Amok In Pa. Town

1,500-Pound Ball Rolls Nearly 1 Mile, Bouncing From Curb To Curb


...and winds up in the trunk of a car! Chuck Jones would be proud.
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HT: Kate, who thinks it's more of a Hanna-Barbera moment.
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MEADVILLE, Pa. -- A wrecking ball wreaked havoc on a small college town in northwest Pennsylvania on Monday.
The 1,500-pound, 3-foot-wide ball broke loose from a crane cable and rolled nearly a mile downhill, smashing more than a dozen vehicles and injuring three people as it bounced from curb to curb.
The ball finally slammed into the back of a car stopped at an intersection, pushing it nearly 20 feet and causing a chain reaction with two other cars at the traffic light. The driver, an Allegheny College junior, said he thought a car had hit him when his back windshield exploded.
Workers had been using the wrecking ball to demolish part of a library at Allegheny College when the cable snapped.

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