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"Snitch" Bridge
Photos
Overview
There is a "makeshift plaque" on this bridge that states that "Tim Hatcher is a Snitch," thereby giving the bridge its name.
Photo taken by James McCray
BH Photo #233696
Facts
- Overview
- Timber stringer bridge over Commerce Street on the Geneva Walking Trail (an abandoned railroad line)
- Location
- Geneva, Geneva County, Alabama
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- Design
- Timber stringer
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +31.02996, -85.86261 (decimal degrees)
31°01'48" N, 85°51'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/608551/3433477 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Geneva East
- Inventory number
- BH 52700 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 22, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Rail-to-trail"
- June 22, 2012: Added by James McCray
Comments
"Snitch" Bridge
So many questions:
Who is the infamous Tim Hatcher?
How did he earn the dubious distinction of being a "Snitch"?
Who did he rat out?
What did the person that got ratted out do?
Why was it necessary for the offended party to go to such lengths as to take a magic marker or sharpie and write the heading on cardboard and then tack it to an obscure bridge?
This seems to make for an interesting story.
Anyone with answers, guesses, or imagined ad lib stories feel free to post. Remember we are talking deep south Alabama here.
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You should make a "joke bridge" category.