`New York City building crack near George Washington Bridge`

Brief anecdote — 8-foot weld crack in a 20-story building. Tom uses it for the cocaine-capsule sidewalk joke connected to the Diet Coke punchline of the preceding aquarium case. The technical content is minimal in this lecture.

I had a case like that once, in New York City — one of these 20-story buildings above the approach to the George Washington Bridge — and they had a weld crack. When the cab driver let me off, I didn't know the addresses in New York City, and he dropped me off and there were all these little empty capsules all over the sidewalk, which were basically crack cocaine capsules. They told the homeowners, the condo owners, at a meeting before I was there, that they had a crack in the basement, and after the meeting a bunch of the homeowners wanted to go down there and get some of the crack. True story. I got to see the crack — eight feet long. Had a piece of it in my lab. I didn't eat it.

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