Originally posted by Erika
I hear you, Tim. I have a few friends that live right there. I can totally see this happening to them. I would hope that they would realize the limitations of a wooden porch; unfortunately, alcohol has a way of overtaking common sense.
True...but its one of those things--I doubt everyone on the deck was drunk. Somebody had to realize the danger, but its one of those things a lot of people just dont think about. A few years ago, Walter Jacobsen said something really distrubing. A DePaul student was walking home from the bar after a day of classes. As he walked down the sidewalk, he was struck and killed by a speeding minican driven by the mother of a child who had just broke his arm, on her way to the hospital. Anyway, Jacobsen said that, Maybe if he would have gone back to his dorm after class, instead of the bar, he would have been able to get out of harms way.
Now, granted, this is a lot different, but do you honestly think about a structures integrity all the time? Like the kid killed at the Express a few weeks ago......sometimes, sober or not, things like this do not come to mind.
But, on the flip side, without alcohol, a gathering aon a balcony like that probably wouldnt have happened....just some random thoughts....not trying to change the world here. But Ive been on decks like that before, probably not that crowded, but the thought of the deck collapsing without warning has only occured to me once, at a halloween party, and it did collapse. With no injuries though.
Just some rambling.......sorry.
Boy Chicago sure has been in the news alot lately! 
