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And here’s how the Wall Street Journal wraps sensationalistic video in the mantle of investigative journalism. [Thanks to clutchcargo for the link.]
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Slow news day? What exactly was the point of that?
Four months of planning? And the truck was already there, all they had to do was get it over the edge? What did they do in school? Someone studying crochet could get that over in three minutes. And the WSJ considered it worthwhile to record the event …
The US is so effuukkd.
“Thas right. This is the D thing!”
Bunch of worthless NSFWs. The only saving grace for this trash would be a vandal-splattering money shot.
Perhaps a better use for the Stimulus money would be to level thousands of acres of former Detriot and return it to farmland.
Well, I enjoyed it. I can’t believe it took more than one afternoon to do it – 4 months?!? These guys suck. Maybe it took that long to get the WSJ to send a crew out to watch it.
It says a lot about the state of Detroit, too. There aren’t too many major American cities where you could do this. If your city looks like something out of Mad Max, people are going to be more likely to do things like this.
This is the kind of nonsense we saw on the news 20 years ago from a third world country and laughed at. Well, its here. Things look bright for America, dont they?
I like how it sparked when it hit the ground.
I wonder, will bored kids in China be doing this in 50 years?
I would say the “Motown Vandals” were really Rick Wagoner and other brain dead managers who drove an industry to the point where all that was left was an empty 5 story factory with a mostly assembled dump truck on the 4th floor.
Seeing the dump truck fall from the 4th floor cliff was a perfect analogy of GM… By 2005 all they had left were trucks… and when those fell out of the window… All was that left to do was pack up your tools and go home.
Now that you have read this far, there is something much more interesting going on around Detroit to think about.
http://www.newgeography.com/content/001171-detroit-urban-laboratory-and-new-american-frontier
Don’t worry, Murdoch’s WSJ will never carry that story.
That is a very interesting story. Thanks for the link.
Too bad these punks can’t actually set their minds to enterprise and do something good for their futures and Detroit. I’m sure they’ll clean up this mess. (sigh)
Four months?!? Was it union vandalism?
I saw it first on the detroitfunk.org photoblog….
http://www.detroitfunk.org/?p=2323
http://www.detroitfunk.org/?p=2329
Might have been interesting if one of the Mensas filmed it while sitting in the cab.
“This dump truck’s demise is symbolic of the fall of Detroit, and yes, AMERICA under the Obama Administration” – Rupert Murdoch (naw, just kidding, he wouldn’t say something like that)
Anyway, nice update to the site!
I found it interesting the truck landed on its feet (er…wheels). I’m hopeful that it’s symbollic that there’s hope for Detroit yet.
Last time I checked it was George Bush who bailed out Detroit and created this mess not Obama.