Metal piece clips fan

 

By Christy Arnold

Enquirer staff writer

 

A woman heading to the Bengals game instead went to University Hospital with a bloody head Sunday afternoon after this piece of metal struck her. It apparently sailed off the National City Bank Building.

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A large, heavy sheet of green metal flew off the top of the National City Bank building in downtown Cincinnati Sunday and hit a Bengals fan in the head.

 

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That's frightening; had it hit her differently, it possibly could have decapitated her.

 

In the early 70's, when the Fort Wayne National Bank (now National City Bank) 26-story tower

 

 

was new, seven large plate-glass windows blew out of the upper stories during a storm along with objects like lamps that were near the windows. Fortunately no one was hit; the weather probably had driven everyone inside. The street and sidewalk below were littered with shattered glass, and the window-mounting systems for the entire tower had to be re-engineered and replaced. I think the event was attributed to the mounting systems not incorporating sufficient allowance for the flexing of the building in high winds.

 

It might have been the same storm that did this:

 

 

 

Not only are they ruining our skyline, but now they're trying to kill our citizens.

 

Thanks a lot!

Rob, was that your car?

Rob, was that your car?

 

Nope, but the guy had just bought it and had stopped by his apartment to change clothes before taking it to show his parents. That was just a few blocks from my house.

 

That is my bicycle parked in the street, though. I still ride it, but it's no longer shiny.