“verrazano bridge construction buried alive deaths bodies cement accident” (1/19/08)

It’s one of New York’s great urban legends:

“There is absolutely no way that someone could fall into cement and not be fished out,” proclaims Christian Meyer, a professor of civil engineering at Columbia University. First off, cement is only poured in shallow layers. Second, it has a specific gravity of 2.4, more than twice that of a human being, which means that it would be literally impossible for a person to sink in it.