Skip to main content

WATCH: Man does pull-up on water pipe that burst on GMU’s Arlington campus

By Tadiwos Abedje
GMU water pipe bursts after being used as pull-up bar

A man has admitted to doing a pull-up that busted a water pipe at George Mason University’s Arlington, Virginia, campus in late March.

Police said that on March 23 around midnight, the Arlington County Fire Department got a call to go to the Mason Square campus on 3300 Fairfax Drive about a broken pipe and water flooding the parking garage.

After an investigation by George Mason University’s police, video footage showed the man doing a pull-up on the pipe and breaking it. He, along with a group of people, were seen dancing before the incident took place.

The man turned himself in to accept responsibility for the incident, a spokesperson for George Mason University police told WTOP.

“Moral of the story is ‘if you mess up, you fess up!’ and he led with that in doing the right thing,” said Emily Ross with George Mason University police.

House approves aviation safety bill based on deadly midair collision near Washington

By The Associated Press
An aviation safety bill seeking to address lessons learned from last year’s midair collision of a jet with an Army helicopter near the nation’s capital was approved by the House Tuesday, but key senators and the families of the 67 victims think the bill still needs to be strengthened. The House bill, called the Alert Act, has the backing of key industry groups, but lawmakers will now have to try to find a compromise that will satisfy the Senate. The National Transportation Safety Board recently said that the legislation, since amended, now addresses its recommendation to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems that let pilots know more precisely where other aircraft are. The NTSB has been recommending the new technology systems since 2008, and Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy has said such a system would have prevented the collision of the American Airlines jet and Army Black Hawk helicopter that sent both aircraft plunging into the icy Potomac River. Two key House committees unanimously advanced the bill last month. The bill was brought up for a full House vote under rules that didn't allow any amendments. But victims’ families said before the vote they want to make sure the bill has strict timelines to guarantee the reforms will be completed. And they worry the House bill would allow military flights to continue flying without broadcasting their locations on routine training flights and not just secret missions.
Read Next Story