Boats wrangle runaway barge

From: Capital (Annapolis) | Date: March 15, 2006| Author: SHANTEE WOODARDS, PAMELA WOOD and ERIC HARTLEY Staff writers | Copyright information

The runaway barge didn't look so intimidating wedged against two pilings of the Severn River Bridge - until it started moving again.

Loaded down with tons of wood and rock to be used in a nearby jetty, the unmanned vessel could have been mistaken for a harmless, if giant, hunk of junk, not something that shut down two major bridges near Annapolis yesterday morning and tied traffic in knots for hours.

But then it somehow dislodged and began to float downstream, buffeted by winds o...

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