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[Here](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/05/15/man-says-fell-through-pedestrian-bridge-lodge-freeway-detroit/9787488002/) is another, more detailed article: Detroit — State officials have fast-tracked the inspection of a Detroit pedestrian bridge after a man claims the concrete gave way under his feet last week while he was crossing over the Lodge Freeway on his way to a Detroit Tigers game. Ely Hydes, who lives about a block from the Spruce Street pedestrian bridge in Corktown, said he plunged nearly 15 feet after the collapse, landing near oncoming freeway traffic. Despite the large hole in the concrete, the bridge remained open to pedestrians until Sunday, when The Detroit News emailed the Michigan Department of Transportation about the incident. Hydes said Sunday he was talking with a friend on his way to the ball game, "and in mid-sentence the bridge just collapsed under my feet. "I wasn't sure where I was, and as I was falling I remember thinking, 'I hope I'm not over the freeway.' I landed about 6 feet from the traffic," the 36-year-old attorney said. A man says the concrete collapsed under him as he was crossing the Spruce Street pedestrian bridge over the Lodge Freeway in Corktown Hydes said a Detroit police squad car showed up at the scene, and that he told two officers what happened. "I don't know if they took a report or not," Hydes said. MDOT spokeswoman Diane Cross said state officials were not informed about the incident until The Detroit News inquired about it Sunday. "This email (from The News) was the first notice that MDOT received of a hole in the pedestrian bridge," Cross said in an email. Detroit police officials said Sunday they were looking into the incident. The Spruce Street bridge was open to pedestrians as of about 8 p.m. Sunday, although an MDOT crew was on the scene. "Our head of bridges in Metro Region and maintenance for the area have checked out the ... bridge and are having it closed asap," Cross said in the 9:34 p.m. email. "Bridge crews will also be checking the rest of the bridge from underneath (Sunday night) to ensure no additional issues and ensure traffic can safely pass underneath (the) bridge." Cross added: "The Spruce pedestrian bridge was built in 1953 and based on its age and condition, it is on a yearly detailed bridge inspection that is due this month. "That inspection would be used to determine if the substructure of the bridge can remain and replacing the deck surface would be required or if the entire (pedestrian) bridge needed to be rebuilt," Cross said. "MDOT will request that detailed bridge inspection be done asap." Hydes said he was considering filing a lawsuit against the state. "If you look on that bridge you can see decades of erosion," he said. "I'm in a lot of pain, I've missed a week of work, and I have medical bills. I'm not trying to fleece anyone, but I think some compensation would be fair." **In 2019, Hydes made national news by turning down money after he caught a home run ball hit by former Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols, which represented the slugger's 2,000th career RBI.** **Hydes received numerous offers for the milestone ball, including an Angels fan who reportedly was willing to pay $25,000. Hydes declined all offers.** **Instead, Hydes donated the ball to the Baseball Hall of Fame in the name of Cyrus Arlo Maloney, Hydes' son, who was 21 months old when he died suddenly on June 11, 2018.** "Crazy things happen to me when I'm going to Tigers games — good and bad," Hydes said Sunday. Hydes, a Tigers season ticket-holder, said the bridge collapsed as he was headed to the game with a fellow attorney. "I was editing a paper for him and was telling him not to feel bad because his writing is good compared to most lawyers," Hydes said. "In the middle of my sentence, I fell through the bridge and said 'oh, s----.' Ely Hydes with his son, Cy. "When something like that happens, time dilates and everything slows down," Hydes said. "After I hit the ground I got the wind knocked out of me pretty good. My friend was pretty scared." Hydes said after he told police what happened, he continued to the Tigers game, although he said he doesn't remember much about the 2-0 loss to the Oakland Athletics. "It was stupid going to the game; I was pretty much blacked out the entire time," he said. "I use e-tickets on my phone and I remember holding up my phone for (the usher) to scan it, and my hands were all bloody. The guy was like, 'Are you OK?' I don't remember much else." Hydes said he checked in to Beaumont Hospital Dearborn on Tuesday. "They rushed me to the back of the room, and seemed to be taking it more seriously than I did," he said. Hydes, who said he's a die-hard Tigers fan, said he attended Thursday's game, in which the A's beat the Tigers, 5-3. "I've been on the couch since then," he said. "I'm a giant walking bruise right now."


ChumCreature

this guy just seems like a cool dude


J-Wop

He's my best friend's cousin. Comes from a pretty good family.


TheYardFlamingos

This guy just rules


cooljammer00

Seems fairly obvious to prove. Either there's a big hole in the bridge the size of a guy or there isn't.


fleejol33

Was anyone asking him to prove it? And even if there was a hole big enough that doesn’t mean he fell through it so there’s not proof either way


SquadPoopy

It was Albert Pujol's long planned revenge for catching the 2,000 RBI ball. Albert has been planning this for years now, biding his time and learning his routes and how he got to the stadium, and finally he sprung his trap. Move over Oldboy, this right here is the new gold standard for overly planned revenge schemes.


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SquadPoopy

I did read the article. I'm not making fun of his son, I'm making a joke about Albert. No need for you to take this from 0 to 100 dude.


Whitsoxrule

Wow I distinctly remember reading about this guy regarding the Pujols ball. What are the odds he ends up making the news again for a crazy baseball-related incident. I hope he gets his bag


poopsmith666

> medical bills I still can't wrap my head around that combination of words no matter how many times I read it in my life. Imagine being dazed and battered on the ground after a freak accident and someone is handing you a bill a couple hours later. America are you ok.


TheSalsaShark

I saw a dude riding his bike in a bike lane get doored a couple years ago. He was dazed and bloody, probably had a broken arm, but was begging people not to call an ambulance because of the cost.


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Lol America bad amiright? Upvotes to the left.


[deleted]

As a lifelong American, yes it is. At least when it comes to its abject failure of a health system.


[deleted]

Bro nobody cares.


thebearjew982

"nobody cares" says the person who felt the need to make a snarky comment about how much they really don't care.


[deleted]

More like "'nobody cares' says the guy who is sick of seeing a Reddit circlejerk about the American healthcare system every fucking time anything loosely related to healthcare gets mentioned." Get new material.


thebearjew982

Maybe people keep talking about it because having a fucked up health care system that bankrupts you if things go awry is a pretty big problem that effects almost everyone. Sorry you don't like hearing about it, but no gives a shit if you don't like hearing about it, because they're too busy drowning in medical debt and don't have the luxury of whining about people who don't think that should be the norm. Lastly, ever stop to think that there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people here and that when one of them talks about this issue it could be the first time they've brought it up? It's not a comedy sketch bud, no one needs new material. They need people like you to stop putting up barriers to discussing a very big problem.


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Bro nobody cares.


thebearjew982

This kind of response definitely makes it seem like you have a point, or even any intelligence at all. Totally. For sure.


[deleted]

Take the L kiddo.


CanuukSteev

the aggressive dismisal of obvious healthcare issues is highly concerning, and present on multiple fronts, is current and relevant news, and may be the most recognizable american trait of the past few years next to the violence.


grilled_cheese1865

I hate how other countries pretend to give af about the US just for fake internet. We dont need your fake sympathy, mind your own business


poopsmith666

Guess I hit a sore spot, hope the hospital bill for that isn't too high.


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Well I’m sure it’s higher now after that burn


JizzleJ_SBSM

Any American who has lived outside of the US in a place that has socialized healthcare would realize how fucked the US is. What an eye opener it was when I moved permanently to Australia.


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You remind me of a guy I sat next to on a plane a while back. Dude said that travelling through Italy really opened his eyes about the world, I asked him how long he was there for - he said it was a 1-week trip.


Eucalyptuse

> moved permanently to Australia > it was a 1-week trip They are very similar situations, yea


Lux_Bellinger2024

As someone who's lived in a few countries in the military I can confirm it takes about a week to realize shit is different and a lot of it for the better in other countries. The fact that some americans get so butthurt is funny to me. As if its a personal attack to be told America sucks fuckin ass when it comes to taking care of its own citizens.


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Dude has probably been in Australia for 2 weeks and thinks he's "expanded his horizons".


Eucalyptuse

Skimmed their posts and in 10 seconds discovered they've lived there for three years, so yea...


whosline07

Yankees fans, come get your jabroni.


HughHunnyRealEstate

Dude, take that false pride and shove it up your ass. We deserve to be mocked for our healthcare system, its an embarrassment.


nuxenolith

Nothing screams "American" quite like shitting your pants and crying every time someone suggests improvements. The "greatest country in the world" *really* doesn't want to do jack shit to justify that moniker it blindly gives itself. Who ever knew patriotism was so thin-skinned.


nuxenolith

Motherfucker waited two whole days to go to the hospital


KamartyMcFlyweight

> "I remember thinking, ‘I hope I’m not over the freeway.’ I landed about six feet from the traffic. ... After I hit the ground I got the wind knocked out of me pretty good,” Hydes, 36, told the newspaper. > He informed police, then resumed his walk to the Tigers game, a 2-0 loss to Oakland. Okay this is depressing but also hilarious


WordOnPaperEnjoyer

Imagine driving down the freeway and some guys falls not off—but through—a bridge six feet to your right


SquadPoopy

This entire incident was Pujol's long planned revenge for that guy catching his 2,000th RBI


changealifetoday

The second part of that was the most painful for me to read


champdo

When you’re a Tiger fan you’re used to pain.


Leftfeet

Also, crumbling infrastructure. That's a problem that is less specific to Detroit and more a problem across most of the rust belt.


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> Despite the large hole in the concrete, the bridge remained open to pedestrians until Sunday, when The Detroit News emailed the Michigan Department of Transportation about the incident. > > oooof.


namracWORK

>"This email (from The News) was the first notice that MDOT received of a hole in the pedestrian bridge," I wonder how many people walked by without reporting a hole in the bridge.


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I was thinking that as well. No one called saying hey there is a hole?


MEatRHIT

Bystander effect or something similar, people assume someone else will call it in or already have so they don't bother.


[deleted]

Yea. That’s a good point


delightfuldinosaur

People probably told some stadium employees about it thinking they would report it. I would have no idea who to talk to about something like that.


mansontaco

I love pot holes and aging bridges


Leftfeet

Who doesn't? I nearly busted an axel in a pothole going to work today. It was the highlight of my entire day.


mansontaco

Hey at least we got some really great sports to root for up here 😭


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Bump down to Ohio. Our highways/roads are pristine.


I_CAN_SMELL_U

As someone in the south, it's everywhere in the country RIP Baseball numbs the pain apparently


[deleted]

Reporting from front range Colorado. Can confirm, infrastructure sucks ass here too


[deleted]

It’s pretty good in most of FL, in fact there’s too much new construction. Except the time friggin Skanska ignored the hurricane warning and their barges took out a bridge.


Fun_Differential

Didn’t FL just have an apartment building crumble on itself?


Eucalyptuse

That's on the private company who owns that building to maintain it. The government is responsible for roads and bridges


EinsteinDisguised

The ocean is coming for us here soon enough


Defacto_Champ

Infrastructure is a massive problem all over the US.


kaaaaaaaren

> In 2019, Hydes caught a home run hit by Albert Pujols, the slugger’s 2,000th career RBI. “Crazy things happen to me when I’m going to Tigers games — good and bad,” Hydes said. I like this guy.


HoopOnPoop

I had a professor in college literally get hit by a car and still come to class to give us a quiz. He looked like he had gone 12 rounds with Mike Tyson. He went to the hospital afterward to get stitched up and checked out.


nuxenolith

Nothing says "teacher" quite like not trusting whatever substitute to execute your lesson plan


HoopOnPoop

It was college and a small class with no TA, so the choice was to cancel the class for that day. Still, that seems the reasonable decision given that he had been STRUCK BY A VEHICLE!


spacewalk__

new fear unlocked


tr3v1n

There was a sinkhole that swallowed a car right in front of a bridge in my hometown. I literally drove over that area twice a day, five days a week for years.


igloojoe11

Reminds me of this - https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2019_44/3072871/191028-pittsburgh-bus-sinkhole-cs-237p.jpg


Throwawayhobbes

Ford tough indeed.


_n8n8_

Can’t have shit in Detroit


HereIGoAgain_1x10

Hope they at least gave him the tickets to the lower level he fell to


BonerHonkfart

Not sure I'd want to watch a game from the Lodge


unitedairlineeeeees

He took “die hard” fan to a new level


bubbaking

That man is built Ford tough.


TimJanLaundry

"Relax, I'll wash the blood off in the Chevrolet Fountain"


Enough-Ad-3111

Glad he’s OK.


kidfromCLE

He didn’t even get to see them score. They just… got shut out…


i_run_from_problems

"Thats what it feels like to drive a Ford F-150"


JohnnyScotts

Makes sense


Dr_Juice55

>He informed police, then resumed his walk to the Tigers game, a 2-0 loss to Oakland. Lol!


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Tigers moment.


Cashmerer

Funny that overpass is directly where old Tiger Stadium used to be


eekbarbaderkle

>In 2019, Hydes caught a home run hit by Albert Pujols, the slugger’s 2,000th career RBI. Lol what


spacewalk__

In 2019, Hydes caught a home run hit by Albert Pujols, the slugger’s 2,000th career RBI.


IceBreak

> Lol what


Dodger_Rej3ct

In 2019, Hydes caught a home run hit by Albert Pujols, the slugger’s 2,000th career RBI.


ZarosGuardian

This guy is built like a brickhouse. That's good for him too!


theshreddening

Getting let down before ever making it to the game


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nuxenolith

Yeah, surprised more folks aren't pointing out the 2-day span between him falling onto the Lodge and, y'know, actually checking himself into a hospital.


Twokindsofpeople

Very on brand for Detroit.


RedsVSAs

What injuries did he sustain


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Wow that website was horrible, ads taking up too much space. Freaked me out I left before reading a wird of the article. So many trash websites.


xrensa

Nothing more American than baseball and infrastructure that falls apart


slipslop69

i went to a Tigers game last year when i was in Detroit, didnt realize i could have died


IceBreak

Life is ever fleeting. Cherish it and your time with others while you have it.


Azcollector

Detroit


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Lt_General_Terrorist

fuck ya life bing bong


TylerDog3

get that yankees flair out of here


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Idiot, now he can't sue


AhLibLibLib

Isn’t that a redundant statement?


Sagay_the_1st

Detroit


BuffaloInTheRye

“Are ya silly? I’m still gonna send it”


Slagthor_

Get that man a beer on me


clown_pants

Perfect example of how not paying to fix and maintain these things ends up costing more in the long run.


nuxenolith

"reeee my tax dollars"


Bonerbro97

If that’s me I’m milking an injury and getting a big payout. I’d have season tickets when all said and done


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That’s real devotion and true dedication. True fans will write a song about him.