Pigeons took toll on failed Minnesota bridge
Thursday, August 23, 2007
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed interstate bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy:~ The problem with the birds is one of many factors that dogged the structure.
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