Jul. 27, 2006 - 23:07 MDT

COME OUT

Failure to listen and comprehend facts is often the beginning of tragedy it seems. An "item" hid mid-paper in National Briefing of today's Rocky Mountain News brings something to light. Quoted in full:

BOSTON -- Seven years before falling concrete crushed a motorist to death inside on of Boston's Big Dig tunnels, a safety officer warned that the bolts could not possibly hold the heavy ceiling panels, according to a bluntly worded memo leaked to a newspaper."

John Keaveney wrote the memo in 1999 to one of his superiors at contractor Modern Continental Construction Co., saying he could not "comprehend how this structure can withold the test of time."

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So very often superiors (not because they are superior) fail to listen and heed what expert underlings tell them. What reason ? ? ? Might be money behind the scenes, might be sheer stupidity. Who knows.

But the same things happen over and over in all walks of life. There has been a time or two I failed to heed what some one tried to tell me and thereby caused a breakdown in our system. Fortunately no one got hurt or killed, but oh, what a mess. Seems that human nature tends to ignore common sense observations.

Now the real skinny about the Big Dig begins to COME OUT . . . . . . . . . .

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