Tubby was an allegedly three legged, paraylized Cocker Spaniel dog who bit potential rescuers shortly before plummeting to his death inside the only car on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 shortly before it’s dramatic collapse. Tubby was the only casualty in an unusual disaster which is possibly the the only example to date of a bridge collapse due to torsional mechanical resonance of the 2nd mode in civil engineering history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge#Tubby_the_dog
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