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The crew from Ludlow have engineered a design to replace the Brent Spence with a rope swing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four gentlemen behind the plan are neighbors, and concocted the idea while drinking beer on a local curb. \u201cSome of my best ideas come when I\u2019m having a few on the curb,\u201d said the group\u2019s spokesman Mike Dyas. \u201cThe rest of the world is whizzing around too busy to have any common sense, but me and the boys do things different. When you\u2019re sitting on a curb drinking beer, the world slows down and that\u2019s when inspiration is most likely to strike. One time we figured out how to cure the ebola, but we ended up getting too tanked to write it down. From then on, we always make sure someone has a napkin and a marker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan calls for a rope to be hung from a very high tree. \u201cThe tall tree part is important,\u201d said another group member Don Houston. \u201cThat\u2019s why I made sure to write it down on the napkin. Once you get a rope up there, things will come together by themselves. It\u2019ll be a perfect time for the boys and I to take a break and enjoy a few pops while we watch the cars go rope-swingin\u2019 across the river.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Civil engineer Robert Benston is not sure that the plan will work, but is hopeful. \u201cI only had a few minutes to look over the napkin,\u201d Benston explained. \u201cBut it seemed reasonable to me. The taxpayer money that was going to go to the bridge will still get thrown around to the crooked politicians and their friends, and a few people might actually be able to cross the river. Plus, these Ludlow boys are really fired up for the project, it\u2019ll keep them off the meth for a while. 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